History, BS
Utah State University’s History program offers a reading- and writing-intensive program. Courses in this program are offered online and via interactive broadcast, allowing students to maintain full-time employment while pursuing a degree. The history program prepares graduates to gain a better understanding about the past and enhance crucial work skills in research, analysis, communications, and collaboration.
The program also offers a history teaching emphasis, which qualifies students for licensure to teach in secondary schools in Utah. For information about the Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) and required coursework, please see the STEP– Secondary Education brochure.
Availability
This program is available at the Uintah Basin Campus via the following Instruction Type(s):
Courses are delivered via state of the art video conferencing technology. Students meet at a designated time and location.
Admissions
Students must be admitted to Utah State University. For admissions requirements and information, or to complete an online application, visit www.usu.edu/admissions/applyonline.
New freshmen accepted in good standing by the university may apply for admission to the History Department. Students transferring from another institution or another major will be admitted if they have a minimum 2.5 GPA in history courses and an overall minimum GPA of 2.5. A minimum 2.75 GPA is required for entry into the Teacher Education program.
Requirements
Candidates for a degree must earn a grade of C or better in all history courses used to meet the requirements for a history major or minor, a history teaching emphasis or teaching minor.
A minor is a requirement for graduation in the History program.
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The Department of History offers a flexible program to accomplish the following objectives:
- Train undergraduates to research, analyze, synthesize, and communicate reasonable conclusions about the past by using the historical method.
- Inculcate cultural literacy and provide the knowledge necessary for informed decision making by citizens of Utah, the United States, and the world.
- Provide students with crucial work skills in research, analysis, communications, and collaboration, while enriching their lives.
- Contribute to the liberal arts curriculum of the university through general education, general interest courses.
Courses:
In addition to fulfilling General Education requirements, students should work with an advisor to select from the following courses:
- HIST 1060 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
- HIST 1100 Foundations of Western Civilization: Ancient and Medieval
- HIST 1500 Cultural and Economic Exchange in the Pre-Nineteenth Century World
- HIST 1110 Foundations of Western Civilization: Modern
- HIST 1510 The Modern World
- HIST 2700 United States to 1877
- HIST 2710 United States 1877-Present
- HIST 4860 Teaching History (History Teaching Majors)
- HIST 4990 Special Topics in History (History Majors)
Electives (21-24 credits)
- HIST 3130: Greek History
- HIST 3150: Roman History
- HIST 3220: Medieval European Civilization
- HIST 3230: Early Modern Europe
- HIST 3240: Modern Europe
- HIST 3250: Renaissance Europe
- HIST 3730: United States: The New Nation
- HIST 3740: Jefferson & Jackson
- HIST 3750: Civil War & Reconstruction
- HIST 3760: The United States, 1900-1945
- HIST 3670: Slavery in the Atlantic World
- HIST 3850: History of Utah
- HIST 4250: The Reformation in Britain
- HIST 4290: Europe and the French Revolution, 1700-1815
- HIST 4600: The History of the American West
Other HIST 3000 or 4000 level history courses.
Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) - For students wanting to teach History
- INST 3500 Technology Tools for Secondary Teachers
- SCED 3100 Motivation and Classroom Management
- SCED 3210 Educational and Multicultural Foundations
- SCED 3300 Clinical Experience I
- SCED 3500 Teaching Social Studies
- SPED 4000 Education of Exceptional Individuals
- SCED 4200 Reading, Writing, and Technology
- SCED 4210 Cognition and Evaluation of Student Learning
- SCED 4300 Clinical Experience II
- SCED 5500 Student Teaching Seminar
- SCED 5630 Student Teaching in Secondary Schools
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