BS in History - University of C

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Start Date

Medium of studying

On campus

Duration

Program Facts

Program Details

Degree

Diploma

Major

History | Political History

Area of study

Humanities

Education type

On campus

Timing

Full time

Course Language

English

About Program

Program Overview

The degree of Bachelor of Science, with a major in history, requires successful completion of 120 hours, including (1) the UCA Core: complete 38 hours to meet lower-division UCA Core requirements and complete upper-division UCA Core requirements using designated major, minor, or elective courses (2) degree requirements; (3) major and related course requirements as indicated below; and (4) a minor as worked out with the student’s minor advisor or two twelve-hour areas of interest. Students interested in the social sciences, public history, information systems, environmental sciences, museum curation and archival preservation should pursue this degree.

Abbreviation Key – UCA Core Program

LD = Lower Division

UD = Upper Division

C = Effective Communication

D = Diversity

I = Critical Inquiry

R = Responsible Living

Z = Capstone Experience

Program Outline

Major in History and Related Requirements (45 credit hours)

History Core courses are used to satisfy lower-division UCA Core requirements in Critical Inquiry and Diversity, and students can choose history courses to fulfill the upper-division UCA Core requirements in Diversity, Critical Inquiry, Responsible Living, and Communication. Students will take HIST 4300 Seminar as the required UCA Core capstone.

Mathematics Pathway: First-time, first-year students majoring in History enter the Quantitative Literacy Mathematics Pathway and must enroll in MATH 1360 during their first year of study, unless they have been awarded credit that completes their 1000-level mathematics requirements.

Foundational Survey Courses (select any three from the list below: 9 credit hours)

HIST 1310 From Mummies to Mongols: World History from Ancient Times to the Early Modern Period (World History I) [ACTS: HIST1113]
HIST 1320 From Galileo to Gandhi: World History from the Early Modern Period to the Present (World History II) [ACTS: HIST1123]
HIST 1330 Introduction to African and African American History
HIST 1399 A History of Today: The World Since 1945
HIST 2301 The Making of America: US History to 1877 (American Nation I) [ACTS: HIST2113]
HIST 2302 America in the Modern Era: US History Since 1877 (American Nation II) [ACTS: HIST2123] Upper-division US history hours may be substituted with departmental approval.
HIST 2310 Introduction to Asian History
HIST 2360 History of England to 1688
[3.2.1.2] Research Methods and Writing (9 credit hours)
HIST 2390 The Historian’s Craft [See Note 4.]
HIST 3390 Historiography: Reading and Writing History [See Note 5.]
HIST 4300 Seminar [UD UCA Core: Z] [See Note 6.]

Note 4

HIST 2390 The Historian’s Craft is a prerequisite for any history major to enroll in HIST 3390 Historiography: Reading and Writing History.

Note 5

HIST 3390 Historiography: Reading and Writing History is a corequisite/prerequisite for any history major to enroll in any 4000-level course that counts toward the major.

Note 6

A grade of C or above in HIST 4300 is required to graduate in the major.

History BS Electives (21 credit hours)

Please note: The following HIST courses are specific to the BSE in Social Studies (History Emphasis) and may not be used to complete requirements for the BS in History: HIST 2304, 3310, 4310, 4351, and 4T90.

History electives chosen must include at least 3 hours from United States History [UD UCA Core: I] and—selected from the World History courses listed below—3 hours from European history, and 3 hours from African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern history [UD UCA Core: D]. All elective credit hours must be upper-division. These electives may also satisfy the UCA Core requirement in Communication, Critical Inquiry, Diversity, and Responsible Living (see designations in the electives lists). Students must also take 6 hours from the Science-Focused History courses category.

History BS Related Course Requirements (6 credit hours)

Students must select 6 credit hours from the following: CISA 3300, CISA 3335, CISA 3339, CISA 3343, CISA 3366, CSCI 1470, CSCI 1480, CSCI 2310, CSCI 2320, GEOG 2330, GEOG 2345, GEOG 2475, GEOG 3306, GEOG 3403, GEOG 3404, GEOG 4309, MATH 1360, MATH 2311, MATH 2441, MATH 3311, MATH 3381, PHIL 3310, PSCI 2312, SOC 2321. Some of these courses have prerequisite requirements Credit will only be granted for one of the following courses: GEOG 2330, MATH 2311, PSCI 2312, SOC 2321.

History BS: Minor or Areas of Interest

Students may select either any existing minor or two 12-hour elective course groups that best match their interests and desired career goals.

BS Interest Area 1: Information Systems and Digital Humanities (careers in public history, consulting, business and marketing, or library science)

Introductory statistics: CISA 2330, MATH 2311, PSCI 2312, SOC 2321 (credit will only be granted for one introductory statistics course)
CISA 1300 Business Computing
CSCI 1300 Introduction to Computing
CSCI 1470 Computer Science I
CSCI 1480 Computer Science II
CSCI 2310 Introduction to Data Science
CSEC 2300 Introduction to Cybersecurity
ECON 2320 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 2321 Principles of Microeconomics
GEOG 2331 Research Methods
GEOG 3403 Geographic Information Systems
MATH 1395 Applied Mathematics for Business
MGMT 2341 Basic Management
PRLS 4308 Social Media Management
STEM 3300 Project Based Instruction

BS Interest Area 2: Environmental Sciences (careers in environmental consulting, environmental law, certain nonprofits, parks, or a broader medical profession)

BIOL 1401 Exploring Ecology and the Environment
BIOL 3403 General Ecology
CISA 2330 Business Statistics
COMM 2311 Business and Professional Speaking
GEOG 3301 Conservation in Environmental Science
MATH 1491 Applied Calculus for the Life Sciences
PRLS 2305 Introduction to Public Relations
PRLS 4310 Nonprofit Public Relations
WRTG 3310 Technical Writing
WRTG 4308 Writing for Change: Advocacy Writing

BS Interest Area 3: Parks, Recreation, Land Management (careers in parks, agriculture, public lands, or public history)

ANTH 3340 Environmental Anthropology
BIOL 1401 Exploring Ecology and the Environment
BIOL 3403 General Ecology
ECON 2310 Global Environment of Business
ECON 2320 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 2321 Principles of Microeconomics
FINA 3323 Real Estate
GEOG 2330 Quantitative Methods in Geography
GEOG 3403 Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 3325 Urban and Regional Planning
GEOG 4313 Recreation and Tourism
MGMT 2301 Business Communications
MGMT 2341 Basic Management
PRLS 2305 Introduction to Public Relations
PRLS 4310 Nonprofit Public Relations
PSCI 2312 Statistical Methods for Political Analysis
THEA 1300 Acting for Non-Majors

BS Interest Area 4: Curation and Preservation (careers in museums, archival preservation, conservation, museum security, maintaining/archive objects against pests and environmental damage, or archeological/anthropological museum issues)

ANTH 2325 Approaches to Archeology
ANTH 3350 Museum Anthropology
ANTH 4310 Myths and Moundbuilders
ANTH 4V80 Field Archeology
BIOL 4440 Entomology
COMM 2311 Business and Professional Speaking
CSEC 2300 Introduction to Cybersecurity
MKTG 2350 Basic Marketing
MKTG 2376 Business Innovation and Creative Thinking
MGMT 2341 Basic Management
PRLS 4308 Social Media Management
PRLS 4310 Nonprofit Public Relations

History Elective Lists

United States History

HIST 3340 Introduction to American Indian History: 1500-Present [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 3353 African-American History Before 1868 [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 3354 African-American History, 1868 to Present [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 3381 American Military History [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4301 American Environmental History [UD UCA Core: C, R]
HIST 4302 History Of Witchcraft [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4304 Material Culture: Finding History in Everyday Things
HIST 4305 The United States and the Middle East, 1776 to the Present [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4307 Queer History of the United States [UD UCA Core: I, D]
HIST 4308 Gender in American History [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4311 American Colonial and Revolutionary History [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4322 Early National History, 1783-1848 [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4324 Topics in American History [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4327 The American West [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4330 The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877 [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4333 United States Immigration and Ethnic History from Colonial Times to Present [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4335 Diplomatic History of the United States [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4336 Work, Wealth, and Power in United States History [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4338 American History Through Film [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4339 History of Science in America [UD UCA Core: R]
HIST 4340 Robber Barons, Radicals, and Reformers [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4341 The Vietnam War [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4345 The South to 1865 [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4346 The South Since 1865 [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4350 America in Depression and War, 1920-1960 [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4355 The Role of Arkansas in the Nation [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4356 Nets, Reels, Bows, and Bullets: The History of Hunting, Fishing, and Conservation [UD UCA Core: R]
HIST 4358 Recent American History [UD UCA Core: I]
HIST 4359 Civil Rights Movement History [UD UCA Core: I, C]

World History

HIST 3312 Comparative History of Developing Countries
HIST 3320 History of Christianity I [UD UCA Core: R]
HIST 3321 History of Christianity II [UD UCA Core: R]
HIST 3351 Ancient Civilization [UD UCA Core: C]
HIST 3360 Pre-Colonial African History [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 3365 Modern African History [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 3368 Tools of Warfare: A Study of Global Military Technologies [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 3383 Modern China [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 3384 Modern Japan [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 3385 World Military History: A Survey of Global Conflict Patterns [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 4306 Atlantic Slave Trade [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 4317 Age of Wonders: The Natural and Supernatural in the Early Modern World [UD UCA Core: R]
HIST 4328 Modern Latin America [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 4334 Topics in European History
HIST 4343 History of Mexico [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 4344 Topics in World History [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 4347 Ideas and Society in Modern Europe
HIST 4360 The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 300-900 AD [UD UCA Core: C]
HIST 4361 The Mediterranean World in the Medieval Period, 900-1400 AD
HIST 4362 Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1690
HIST 4365 The History of Imperialism: A Review of World Colonial Systems [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 4369 Victorian Britain
HIST 4370 Europe, 1815-1914
HIST 4372 Pan-Africanism, Anticolonialism, and African Unity [UD UCA Core: D, R]
HIST 4374 The European Renaissance and Reformation
HIST 4376 Europe, 1914-1939
HIST 4377 Europe in a Global Era
HIST 4385 French Revolution and Napoleon
HIST 4390 Roman Civilization [UD UCA Core: C]
HIST 4394 Germany Since 1918
HIST 4397 History of Ireland, 1500-Present
HIST 4398 Gender and Sexuality in East Asia [UD UCA Core: C, D]

Science-Focused History Courses

HIST 3368 Tools of Warfare: A Study of Global Military Technologies [UD UCA Core: D]
HIST 4301 American Environmental History [UD UCA Core: C, R]
HIST 4302 History Of Witchcraft [UD UCA Core: I, C]
HIST 4317 Age of Wonders: The Natural and Supernatural in the Early Modern World [UD UCA Core: R]
HIST 4339 History of Science in America [UD UCA Core: R]
HIST 4356 Nets, Reels, Bows, and Bullets: The History of Hunting, Fishing, and Conservation [UD UCA Core: R]

Minor in History (18 hours)

(1) Select two from the following list:

HIST 1310 From Mummies to Mongols: World History from Ancient Times to The Early Modern Period (World History I) [ACTS: HIST1113]
HIST 1320 From Galileo to Gandhi: World History from the Early Modern Period to the Present (World History II) [ACTS: HIST1123]
HIST 1330 Introduction to African and African American History
HIST 1375 FYS: Diversity in World Cultures
HIST 1376 FYS: Historical Perspectives on Responsible Living
HIST 1399 A History of Today: The World Since 1945
HIST 2301 The Making of America: US History to 1877 (American Nation I) [ACTS: HIST2113]
HIST 2302 America in the Modern Era: US History Since 1877 (American Nation II) [ACTS: HIST2123] (Upper-division US history hours may be substituted with departmental approval.)
HIST 2310 Introduction to Asian History
HIST 2360 A History of England to 1688

(2) And complete 12 hours of upper-division history electives, excluding HIST 3310, 4310, 4351, 4T90.