History

www.linnbenton.edu/history

The Associate of Science in History is for students interested in completing a bachelor’s degree at Oregon State University in History. Students interested in this option are strongly encouraged to enroll in the Degree Partnership Program (DPP) as there may be lower division courses required by their chosen discipline that are only offered at Oregon State University. Students interested in the general transfer degree, the AA(OT) should follow the guidelines for this degree of this catalog. If you know the college/university you will be attending, you should work with an advisor from that school to be sure you are taking appropriate courses at LBCC.

An Oregon State University Bachelor of Arts degree requires that students take two years (six terms) of a college-level foreign language.  While this is not a requirement for the Associate of Science, it is highly recommended that you do this coursework during your time at LBCC, or after transfer using the Degree Partnership Program.

Students who focus on history develop strong reading, writing and critical thinking skills, and the ability to organize seemingly independent information into a unified whole (synthesis). These skills are required in order to research and analyze historical events and to apply past lessons of history to today’s problems. They are also general skills valued by employers in a wide variety of fields, so a history degree can be a pathway to a wide variety of occupations. Depending on the area of history studied while in school and whether or not a student pursues post-graduate education, career opportunities for students majoring in History currently include the following: teacher/faculty, archivist, writer/researcher, and museum curator/administrator.