History emphasis, Associate of Science
Students who successfully complete all History emphasis, Associate of Science degree requirements will be able to:
- Demonstrate broad based historical literacy.
- Develop both inquiry and narrative based approaches to understanding the past.
- Recognize the provisional nature of historical knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity that the study of History requires.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a range of tools and techniques historians use to analyze the historical record which accounts for its complexity, incompleteness, and its often contradictory nature.
Program Course Requirements
See the graduation requirements for the Associate of Science degree. For information on the advised sequence of program courses, see the History emphasis, Associate of Science Program Map.
Liberal Arts Core Courses
See the degree requirements section for a list of Liberal Arts Core courses. OSU does not allow students to take courses in their chosen discipline to meet these requirements.
| | Liberal Arts Core I: Fine Arts | 3 |
| | Liberal Arts Core II: Humanities | 3 |
| | Liberal Arts Core III: Non-Western Culture | 3 |
| | Liberal Arts Core IV: Social Sciences | 3 |
| | Liberal Arts Core V | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Core Courses
| HST 201 | US History: Origins to 1820 | 4 |
Select 3 courses from the following list:
| HST 101 | History of Western Civ: Ancient World to 1000 AD | 4 |
| HST 102 | History of Western Civ: 1000 to 1789 | 4 |
| HST 103 | History of Western Civ: 1789 to the Present | 4 |
| HST 202 | US History: 1820-1920 | 4 |
| HST 203 | US History: 1920- the Present | 4 |
| | Electives | 15 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 31 |
General Education Courses
OSU does not allow students to take courses in their chosen discipline to meet this requirement.
| MTH 105 | Math in Society | 4 |
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| MTH 111 | College Algebra | 5 |
| PE 231 | Lifetime Health & Fitness | 3 |
| WR 121 | English Composition | 4 |
| | Communication | 3 |
| | Biological Sciences | 4 |
| | Biological/Physical Science | 4 |
| | Cultural Diversity | 3 |
| | Difference Power & Discrimination | 3 |
| | Literature & the Arts | 3 |
| | Physical Sciences | 4 |
| | Social Processes & Institutions | 3 |
| | Western Culture | 3 |
| | Writing/Composition | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 44 |
MTH 111: Four credits apply toward general education requirement; one credit applies toward program.
Total Credit Hours: 90