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
| HST 201 | US History: Origins to 1820 | 4 |
| MTH 105Z | Math in Society | 4 |
| WR 121Z | Composition I | 4 |
| WR 227Z | Technical Writing | 4 |
| Arts and Humanities - Global | 3 |
| Communication, Media, and Society | 3 |
| Difference, Power, and Oppression Foundations | 3 |
| Scientific Inquiry and Analysis | 4 |
| Scientific Inquiry and Analysis | 4 |
| Social Science | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 36 |
HST 201 and WR 227Z: Three credits apply toward general education requirements; one credit applies toward program.
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 |
Program Courses
Complete 15 credits 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 104 | World History I: Ancient Civilizations | 3 |
| HST 105 | World History II: Middle and Early Modern Ages | 3 |
| HST 106 | World History III: The Modern and Contemporary World | 3 |
| HST 202 | US History: 1820-1920 | 4 |
| HST 203 | US History: 1920- the Present | 4 |
| Electives | 24 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 39 |
Total Credit Hours: 90