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Department of History at Union

Meeting Core Curriculum Requirements

As the gatekeeper of the history requirements (HIS 101 and HIS 102) in Union University's General Core Curriculum, the history department has adopted the following guidelines for use by the university registrar, history department members, and others in determining which courses will be accepted for HIS 101 (World Civilization to the 18th Century) and HIS 102 (World Civilization from the 18th Century) credit and which ones will not.

Entering First-Year Students

  1. Students who have completed the Advanced Placement Test in World History with a minimum score of 3 have met the 6-hour history requirement (HIS 101-102) in Union's General Core Curriculum.
  2. Students who have completed a year-long high-school dual-enrollment course in the history of world civilization have met the 6-hour history requirement (HIS 101-102) in Union's General Core Curriculum.
  3. Students who have completed the Advanced Placement Test in European History (1450-present) must take both HIS 101 and HIS 102 to meet the 6-hour history requirement in Union's General Core Curriculum.
  4. Students who have completed only the Advanced Placement Test in American History must take both HIS 101 and HIS 102 to meet the 6-hour history requirement in Union's General Core Curriculum.
  5. Students who have successfully completed a high school dual-credit course in American history must take both HIS 101 and HIS 102 to meet the 6-hour history requirement in Union's General Core Curriculum.
  6. For International Baccalaureate exam credit in history, students will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine if their IB history course may be substituted for a history of world civilization class (HIS 101 or HIS 102) at Union. Students who take the appropriate examination must make a score of 5 for consideration.

Transfer Students

  1. Transfers who have completed Advanced Placement tests in history will be subject to the same requirements listed above for entering first-year students at Union.
  2. Transfers who have taken no history must take both HIS 101 and HIS 102 to meet Union's General Core Curriculum requirement in history.
  3. Transfers who have taken only United States history courses and not completed a college degree program, such as an Associate of Arts, will generally be required to take both HIS 101 and HIS 102 to meet the 6-hour history requirement in Union's General Core Curriculum.
  4. Transfers who have taken 6 semester hours of world history, i.e., courses of a broad scope and chronological character, will have met the 6-hour history requirement in Union's Core Curriculum. Courses that are limited in chronology or subject matter (a national or cultural history course, for example, and/or one with a restricted time frame, such as Modern Russian History) will not be accepted as meeting any part of Union's core requirement in world history. The same standards apply to students who wish to transfer in 3 semester hours of history credit as a substitute for one of Union's world civilization courses in the university's General Core Curriculum.

Union University Students

  1. Union University students must secure the approval of the registrar before taking a world civilization course off campus to meet part or all the history requirements in Union's General Core Curriculum.
  2. The transfer of western civilization or United States history courses taken by currently enrolled Union University students at another institution to serve as substitutes for HIS 101 and/or HIS 102 will not be approved.
  3. Students may not use a passed CLEP exam in western civilization as a substitute for HIS 101 or HIS 102 in Union's General Core Curriculum. The one exception will be students in Union's BSOL program who may substitute one successfully passed CLEP exam in western civilization for the HIS 101 or HIS 102 course that corresponds chronologically to the exam they have taken to meet a BSOL requirement in the social sciences.
  4. Because of teacher licensure regulations set by the State of Tennessee, HIS 211 (The United States to 1877) and HIS 212 (The United States from 1877) fulfill the 6-hour history requirement that students in the elementary education program must meet in Union's General Core Curriculum. Students seeking an elementary education license may substitute one successfully passed United States history CLEP exam for the equivalent HIS 211 or HIS 212 course at Union. These students must take the other half of United States history (HIS 211 or HIS 212) in a regularly scheduled class. Elementary education students with a score of 3 or higher on the Advanced Placement Test in American History will also meet the general core history requirement.
  5. Students who have successfully completed HON 225 (Justice) may substitute that course for the HIS 102 requirement in Union's General Core Curriculum. On the other hand, history majors and history minors who have completed HON 225 must still take HIS 102 or have met the requirement through a dual enrollment course in the history of world civilization or through the Advanced Placement Test in World History with a score of at least 3.

- Last Updated Jan. 2019