History, B.A.

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A History B.A. provides the skills needed to succeed in any job, public history, archive and museum work, law, education, business and more. Skills mastered include critical thinking, multi-perspective analysis, and written and oral communication.

University Studies Program Requirements

The University Studies Program 2015

FYS- First Year - Seminar Credits: 3
COM 1 - Communication 1 Credits: 3
ENGL 1010
COM 2 - Communication 2 Credits: 3
COM 3 - Communication 3 Credits: 3
Q - - Quantitative Reasoning Credits: 3
PN - - Physical and Natural World (1) Credits: 3
PN - - Physical and Natural World (2) Credits: 3
H - - Human Culture (1) Credits: 3
H - - Human Culture (2) Credits: 3
V - - U.S. & WY Constitution Credits: 3

College of Arts and Sciences Core

D - - Diversity Credits: 3
G - - Global Awareness Credits: 3

History Requirements

The History major requires a minimum of 36 credit hours in History courses or approved substitutions and an additional 12 hours of a single foreign language or equivalent credit by examination as determined by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. All courses used to satisfy major requirements - including the language requirement - must be completed with a grade of C or better. To complete the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in History, all University Studies Program (USP) and college requirements must also be satisfied.

Language

Students must complete three semesters of a single foreign language or the equivalent as determined by the Department of Languages - Modern and Classical . This requirement may be satisfied by American Sign Language.

Two Required Courses: 6 Hours

HIST 3020 - Historical Methods Credits: 3
AND
HIST 4030 - Senior Capstone Seminar Credits: 3

Elective: Any Level: 3 Hours

One additional History course at any level.

Lower-Division Electives: 12 Hours

Lower-Division courses are 1000 and 2000 level courses.

HIST 1101 - FYS: Hamilton’s America: Beyond the Musical Credits: 3
HIST 1110 - Western Civilization I Credits: 3
HIST 1120 - Western Civilization II Credits: 3
HIST 1210 - United States History I Credits: 3
HIST 1211 - U.S. to 1865 Credits: 3
HIST 1220 - United States History II Credits: 3
HIST 1221 - U.S. From 1865 Credits: 3
HIST 1250 - History of Wyoming Credits: 3
HIST 1251 - Wyoming History Credits: 3
HIST 1290 - History of the U.S. West Credits: 3
HIST 1320 - World History to 1500 Credits: 3
HIST 1330 - World History since 1500 Credits: 3
HIST 2020 - American Military History Credits: 3
HIST 2030 - History and Environmental Science Credits: 3
HIST 2040 - Imperial China Credits: 3
HIST 2041 - Modern China Credits: 3
HIST 2050 - Introduction to Public History Credits: 3
HIST 2060 - Topics in History Credits: 2‑3
HIST 2080 - Holocaust Credits: 3
HIST 2105 - Medieval Europe in Film Credits: 3
HIST 2120 - Ancient Greece and the Near East Credits: 3
HIST 2130 - Ancient Rome Credits: 3
HIST 2225 - History of Christianity Credits: 3
HIST 2230 - The History of Russia to 1855 Credits: 3
HIST 2240 - The History of Russia Since 1855 Credits: 3
HIST 2250 - American Religious History I (To 1865) Credits: 3
HIST 2252 - American Religious History II (1865 to 1945) Credits: 3
HIST 2280 - Introduction to European Studies Credits: 3
HIST 2290 - History of North American Indians Credits: 3
HIST 2315 - History of Non-Western Religions Credits: 3
HIST 2320 - History of Islam Credits: 3
HIST 2360 - African-American History Credits: 3
HIST 2370 - Chicano History: Origins to 1900 Credits: 3
HIST 2380 - Latin American History 1500 to 2000 Credits: 3
HIST 2385 - Chicano History : 1900 to Present Credits: 3
HIST 2389 - History of Women in the American West Credits: 3
HIST 2390 - US West Between the World Wars Credits: 3
HIST 2460 - Traditional Japan Credits: 3
HIST 2461 - Modern Japan Credits: 3
HIST 2470 - Civilization of India Credits: 3‑4
HIST 2500 - The Impact of the Union Pacific on Wyoming History Credits: 3
HIST 2600 - Forgotten Africa: Intro to African Civilizations Credits: 3
HIST 2700 - Introduction to Museology Credits: 3
HIST 2705 - Museology II Credits: 3

Upper-Division Electives: 15 Hours

Upper-Division courses are 3000 and 4000 level courses.

HIST 3000 - Plains Culture and History Credits: 3
HIST 3020 - Historical Methods Credits: 3
HIST 3050 - Athenian Democracy Credits: 3
HIST 3110 - Modern Germany Credits: 3
HIST 3160 - “What Killed Socrates?” Credits: 3
HIST 3220 - History of the Modern Middle East Credits: 3
HIST 3230 - Early Christianity Credits: 3
HIST 3235 - Medieval Christianity Credits: 3
HIST 3240 - Reformation and Enlightenment Christianity Credits: 3
HIST 3275 - World Christianities Credits: 3
HIST 3300 - Secret History of Science Credits: 3
HIST 3400 - Mongol Empire Credits: 3
HIST 3500 - Colonial America Credits: 3
HIST 3670 - African Diaspora Credits: 3
HIST 3880 - Comparative History Credits: 3
HIST 3900 - Historical Archaeology Credits: 3
HIST 4000 - Indians of Wyoming Credits: 3
HIST 4020 - The Black West Credits: 3
HIST 4030 - Senior Capstone Seminar Credits: 3
HIST 4055 - Archival Research Methods Credits: 3
HIST 4060 - Independent Study Credits: 1‑3
HIST 4077 - Book History: Topics Credits: 3
HIST 4100 - Early Medieval Europe Credits: 3
HIST 4110 - The High Middle Ages Credits: 3
HIST 4112 - History of the Medieval City Credits: 3
HIST 4113 - Medieval Religious Dissent Credits: 3
HIST 4120 - Europe During the Renaissance Credits: 3
HIST 4130 - Europe During the Reformation Credits: 3
HIST 4140 - Europe During the Age of the Baroque Credits: 3
HIST 4150 - Europe During the Age of the Enlightenment Credits: 3
HIST 4170 - Europe in the Nineteenth Century Credits: 3
HIST 4174 - Judaism from Ezra to Jesus Credits: 3
HIST 4175 - Judaism at the Dawn of Christianity Credits: 3
HIST 4180 - Europe in the 20th Century Credits: 3
HIST 4270 - France: Old Regime and Revolution Credits: 3
HIST 4290 - History of the Soviet Union Credits: 3
HIST 4305 - Global History Credits: 3
HIST 4310 - World War II in Europe Credits: 3
HIST 4315 - History, Politics and Memory of the Holocaust in Europe Credits: 3
HIST 4320 - Memory and National Identity in Twentieth Century Europe Credits: 3
HIST 4340 - The Social History of American Women Credits: 3
HIST 4380 - International History of Human Rights Credits: 3
HIST 4400 - Internship Credits: 1-12
HIST 4405 - American Encounters to 1850 Credits: 3
HIST 4406 - American Encounters from 1850 Credits: 3
HIST 4410 - America in an Early Modern World Credits: 3
HIST 4412 - Global Environment History Credits: 3
HIST 4415 - Entangled Worlds, Entangled Lives: Indigenous People and Colonizers Before 1850 Credits: 3
HIST 4425 - Britain’s Global Empires: 1558 to the Present Credits: 3
HIST 4450 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Credits: 3
HIST 4460 - Post-Civil War America: The Gilded Age Credits: 3
HIST 4462 - American Indian History to 1783 Credits: 3
HIST 4463 - American Indian History 1783 to 1890 Credits: 3
HIST 4464 - American Indians in the Twentieth Century Credits: 3
HIST 4466 - American Indian Ethnohistory Credits: 3
HIST 4468 - American Indians in the North American West Credits: 3
HIST 4470 - The Birth of Modern America, 1890 to 1929 Credits: 3
HIST 4475 - American Environmental History Credits: 3
HIST 4480 - Growth of Modern America, 1929 to 1960 Credits: 3
HIST 4485 - U.S. Latino Diaspora Credits: 3
HIST 4490 - Modern America, 1960 to Present Credits: 3
HIST 4492 - Revolutions in Latin America Credits: 3
HIST 4494 - The U.S. in Latin America Credits: 3
HIST 4495 - Borderlands in Latin America Credits: 3
HIST 4496 - History of Mexico Credits: 3
HIST 4505 - The Old South, 1820 to 1861 Credits: 3
HIST 4510 - Modern East Asia Credits: 3
HIST 4515 - American Legal History Credits: 3
HIST 4530 - 19th Century American West Credits: 3
HIST 4535 - History of Oil Credits: 3
HIST 4540 - 20th Century American West Credits: 3
HIST 4545 - The Multicultural West Credits: 3
HIST 4560 - American Social History in the 20th Century Credits: 3
HIST 4582 - 20th Century U.S. Foreign Relations Credits: 3
HIST 4610 - Seminar Topics in the History of Wyoming I Credits: 3
HIST 4620 - Seminar Topics in the History of Wyoming II Credits: 3
HIST 4965 - Senior Thesis Credits: 3
HIST 4990 - Topics in _____ Credits: 1-6