History, BA, BS

Degree Requirements

Students can earn a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree with this major

Major Requirements: 11 courses, 41 credits

Core Requirements (2 courses, 5 credits)

CAS-201	College to Career: Explore Your Options And Find Your Path	1
HST-200	Gateway to the Past The Historian's Craft	4

Introductory Elective (1 course, 4 credits)

Choose one of the following:

HST-100	Introduction to Asian Studies: Culture, People, Ideas	4
HST-103	Cultures and Social Transformations in Asia	4
HST-121	World History I	4
HST-122	World History II	4
HST-140	Empire of Our Things: How We Became Consumers	4
HST-181	American Life to the Civil War Era	4
HST-182	American Life Since the Civil War Era	4

Advanced Electives (3 courses, 12 credits)

Choose three History courses at the 200-level or above.

Capstone Experience (1 course, 4 credits)

Choose one of the following in consultation with the major advisor:

HST-522	History Internship	4
HST-530	Senior Applied Learning Project	4
HST-H555	Senior Honors Capstone	1

Concentration Requirement (4 courses, 16 credits)

Choose one of the following areas of concentration:

1. United States History
2. Regional and Global Histories
3. Public History

Advanced Placement Credit: Students who scored a 4 or 5 in A.P. American and/or European History may count these toward the Introductory Electives requirement.

Residency Requirement Policy

In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.

Concentrations

United States History Concentration: 4 courses, 16 credits

Choose four of the following, at least one must be at the 400-level:

BLKST-226	The African American Experience in Literature and Film	4
HST-227	Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Movement of the 20th Century	4
HST-271	African-American History 1619-1860	4
HST-272	African-American History from 1860	4
HST-288	Presidents We Love to Hate	4
HST-289	Hamilton: The Seminar	4
HST-290	19th-Century America	4
HST-292	Modern American Foreign Relations	4
HST-319	The History of Black Music in America	4
HST-333	Age of Reform, Depression, & World Wars, America: 1898-1945	4
HST-334	Cold War America Through the Tumultuous 1960s	4
HST-335	Recent America: From Nixon to the Present	4
HST-359	The Age of Franklin	4
HST-361	Native America 1832 to Present	4
HST-371	U.S. Women's History Colonial to 1865	4
HST-372	U.S. Women's History: 1865-present	4
HST-374	Jefferson to Jackson: Culture and Politics in the New Nation	4
HST-381	American Colonial History	4
HST-483	Death, Disease, Healing-U.S. History	4
HST-494	Politics and Protest	4
UES-325	Environmental History of the U.S.	4

Regional and Global Histories Concentration: 4 courses, 16 credits

Choose four of the following, at least one must be at the 400-level:

BLKST-225	West African History Through Film and Literature	4
HST-218	Sl- Walls & Bridges: Immigration in Global Perspective	4
HST-251	Modern East Asia	4
HST-256	Exploring Asia	4
HST-260	Asian Peoples and Cultures	4
HST-266	The British: History & Popular Culture Since 1945	4
HST-268	History of the Mediterranean	4
HST-274	Women in 19th-Century Europe	4
HST-275	Women in 20th-Century Europe	4
HST-278	The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and Spain Today	4
HST-304	Imperial Rome	4
HST-312	Renaissance and Reformation Europe	4
HST-313	Cities of Early-Modern Europe	4
HST-321	History of Islam	4
HST-336	Fifth-Century Athens	4
HST-337	Nazi Germany	4
HST-340	Europe in the 20th Century	4
HST-347	The Rise of China: Through Films, Media, and History	4
HST-348
HST-356	World War II: the Global War	4
HST-357	History of Spain I	4
HST-358	History of Spain II	4
HST-362	History of Piracy	4
HST-H362	Honors History of Piracy	4
HST-375	Inequality	4
HST-396
HST-426	Politics and Culture in Europe, 1919-1939	4
HST-484	History of the Emotions	4
WGS-330	Furies to Femi-Nazis: A History of Modern Anti-Feminism	4

Public History Concentration: 4 courses, 16 credits

HST-236

Public History in Practice

4

Choose three of the following, at least one must be at the 400-level:

CJN-2355	Production I	4
HST-228	African American Experience and Public History in the U.S.	4
HST-239	Getting Started With Oral History	4
HST-240	Doing Local and Community History	4
HST-241	Narrating the Past With Digital History	4
HST-296	Building Urban America: City Design and Architecture From 1700-1880	4
HST-366	Introduction to Archives and Archival Practices	4
HST-369	American Objects: Materials, Meaning, and History	4
HST-383	Boston: Heritage of a City	4
HST-465	Monumental Women: Female Public Space	4
HST-469	Research Seminar: African American Life in Slavery and Freedom- Reconstruction And the Freedman's Bureau Papers	4
HST-489	Germany: Film, Politics, Memory Since 1945	4

Note: CJN-2355 has the following prerequisite:

CJN-152

Visual Aesthetics

4

Honors

To complete requirements for honors in the major, a candidate must:

1. Graduate with a major GPA of 3.7 or higher
2. Graduate with an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher
3. Complete HST-H555 and either a senior thesis or a public historical project that is approved by the department
4. Pass a thesis defense or pass a presentation of the public historical project
5. CAS Honors Program students only: Present work from the senior honors experience at the Honors Symposium or Pecha Kucha event

To become a candidate for honors in the major, a student must:

1. Have a major GPA of 3.7 or higher
2. Have an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher

CAS Honors Program students only: CAS Honors program students who fulfill the GPA requirement above declare intent to the honors coordinator in the spring of junior year, when attending an honors thesis orientation session and completing an honors contract and a declaration of topic/advisor form for the thesis, which must be signed by the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the project

All other students: Consult their academic advisor and/or the department chair in the first semester of junior year

History Major Learning Goals and Objectives

Learning goals and objectives reflect the educational outcomes achieved by students through the completion of this program. These transferable skills prepare Suffolk students for success in the workplace, in graduate school, and in their local and global communities.

Learning Goals	Learning Objectives
Students will...	Students will be able to...
Understand the discipline of history	- Communicate how and why historians frame questions on human experience - Recognize that history is an interpretative account of the past, which historians create in the present from surviving evidence - Explain the origins of historians’ different interpretations of the past - Describe and apply the ethical standards for historical practice as defined by the profession
Understand a body of historical knowledge pertaining to a society, nation, and/or region	- Communicate how historical actors shaped and were shaped by their historical period - Interpret historical ideas and actions in their social, cultural, and political contexts - Analyze the histories of a society, nation, and/or region within the context of global developments
Understand the sources and methods used by historians to interpret the past	- Distinguish primary and secondary sources and their uses in explaining the past - Analyze sources for their credibility, context, perspective, and bias - Describe quantitative and qualitative research methods and their uses by historians
Know how to create credible historical arguments and narratives	- Articulate open-ended, clear, and interesting research questions about historical actors, events, and/or developments - Design a research strategy that comprises academic databases, archival collections, and digitized sources - Explain historical phenomena chronologically and in terms of historical continuities, discontinuities, and cause and effect - Identify the characteristics of a focused, reasoned, and valid historical argument - Communicate the significance of the research findings
Understand how to apply historical knowledge and historical thinking to contemporary issues	- Describe how history shapes their lives and contemporary society - Explain the value of historical thinking for lifelong learning and engaged citizenship