Academic Program
The Department of History offers courses designed to help students meet cultural, intellectual, and professional objectives. The department's program includes courses in American, European, Latin American, and church history, at the base of which is a core course in world civilization. The history courses provide students with a fundamental understanding of other times through an evaluation of individuals, institutions, movements, and societies and their historical impact. History students encounter a diversity of teaching styles, learn about the methods of the discipline, and gain a greater awareness of their Christian heritage. In the program's capstone course - the senior seminar (HIS 498) - history majors demonstrate their mastery of the tools and methods of the discipline by writing an in-depth research paper. The geography courses provide students with knowledge about the relationship between geographical elements and man's life on earth.
Major in History Curriculum
Required Courses
- World Civilization to the 18th Century
- World Civilization From the 18th Century
- The United States to 1877
- United States from 1877
- History and Historians
World History Courses
- Ancient History
- Modern Britain and the Empire
- The French Revolution and Napoleon I
- Latin American History
- Twentieth Century Europe
- Russia Since 1547
American History Courses
- Colonial America, 1607-1776
- American Revolution and Early National Period, 1776-1828
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- African-American History
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1920
- America and World War, 1914-1945
- The United States in the Cold War Era, 1945-1991
Church History Courses
- American Church History
- History of Christianity
- Renaissance & Reformation
2025-26 Catalogue: Major in History 2025-26 Catalogue: Teacher Licensure for History 2025-26 Catalogue: Minor in History