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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.

General Education Courses

 
MTH 105ZMath in Society

4
PE 231Lifetime Health & Fitness

3
WR 121ZComposition I

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
Any higher level course with a MTH prefix will also meet the math general education requirement.

Liberal Arts Core Courses

See the degree requirements section for a list of Liberal Arts Core courses.

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 201US History: Origins to 1820

4

Select 3 courses from the following list:

HST 101History of Western Civ: Ancient World to 1000 AD

4
HST 102History of Western Civ: 1000 to 1789

4
HST 103History of Western Civ: 1789 to the Present

4
HST 202US History: 1820-1920

4
HST 203US History: 1920- the Present

4

Electives

15
Total Credit Hours:31

Total Credit Hours: 90