{"id":10303,"date":"2015-03-17T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/academics\/?post_type=program&p=10303"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:44:08","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/academics\/program\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduates in history enter a variety of professional fields and work as historians in government agencies, archives, museums, libraries, and non-profit institutions. Those earning degrees in political science understand the governing process and its relationship to complex issues arising in a modern society. Political science graduates are also prepared for many professions and find employment in both the private and public sector.<\/p>\n

The department also provides a curriculum for history or political science majors who plan to enter law school following graduation.<\/p>\n

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Learning Goals<\/h3>\n
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  1. Our graduates effectively communicate a written historical argument.<\/li>\n
  2. Our graduates examine cultural, social, or political aspects of the history of a nation other than the United States.<\/li>\n
  3. Our graduates plan, organize, and resolve historical problems, questions, or controversies.<\/li>\n
  4. Our graduates demonstrate familiarity with the sources of information, methods of analysis, digital tools and contextual literature necessary for the research of historic events, developments, and issues.<\/li>\n
  5. Our graduates demonstrate a broad and sophisticated knowledge of major historical epochs and of developments unfolding across time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Graduates in history enter a variety of professional fields and work as historians in government agencies, archives, museums, libraries, and non-profit institutions. Those earning degrees in political science understand the governing process and its relationship to complex issues arising in a modern society. Political science graduates are also prepared for many professions and find employment… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10721,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_genesis_title":"","_genesis_description":"","_genesis_noindex":"","_genesis_nofollow":"","_genesis_noarchive":"","_genesis_canonical_uri":"","_open_graph_title":"","_open_graph_description":"","_twitter_title":"","_twitter_description":"","_social_image_url":"","_social_image_id":"","redirect":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"college_department":[18317,18304],"delivery":[255],"types":[28854,28853,28850],"class_list":{"0":"post-10303","1":"program","2":"type-program","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"college_department-history-political-science-and-geography","8":"college_department-college-of-liberal-and-performing-arts","9":"delivery-on-campus","10":"types-major","11":"types-minor","12":"types-undergraduate","13":"entry"},"acf":{"department_college":"History, Political Science, & Geography<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0College of Liberal & Performing Arts<\/a>","Number_of_Hours":"120","Catalog Entry":"

    University Requirement (2 hours)<\/h4>\r\nGSTD 1002 - Freshman Seminar\r\n

    General Education (26 hours)<\/h4>\r\nNote: 3 hours of fine arts\/humanities and 6 hours of social science requirements are included in the major.\r\n

    History (36 hours)<\/h4>\r\nHIST 1003 - World History I\r\nHIST 1013 - World History II\r\nHIST 2013 - United States History I\r\nHIST 2023 - United States History II\r\nHIST 3133 - Research Methods\r\n6 hours upper-level U.S. History electives\r\n6 hours upper-level Non-U.S. History electives\r\n9 hours upper-level History electives\r\n

    Other Requirements (15 hours)<\/h4>\r\nPSCI 2003 - American Government: National\r\nHIST 4353 - Senior Paper Research or 3 hours of upper-level non-creative writing\r\n3 hours of Geography electives\r\n6 hours of Foreign Language (may be fulfilled by freshman-level courses in the same language or a satisfactory score on a language proficiency exam)\r\n

    Electives (41 hours)<\/h4>\r\n13 hours of upper-level electives\r\n28 hours of unrestricted electives","minor_requirements":"

    Minor in History<\/strong> (18 hours)<\/h4>\r\nHIST 1003 - World History I\r\nHIST 1013 - World History II\r\nHIST 2013 - United States History I\r\nHIST 2023 - United States History II\r\n3 hours of upper-level U.S. History electives\r\n3 hours of upper-level non-U.S. History electives","Degree Plans":"