History Major
Bachelor of Arts

Core Courses:
I.   Three courses, with one course in each area, from the following:

1. History 103, Roots of the Western World
   History 104, Europe and the Modern World
2. History 105, America to 1877
   History 106, America since 1877
3. History 107, Understanding the Premodern World
   History 108, Understanding Our Contemporary World
   History 110, The History of Modern China
   History 112, Introduction to Latin American History

II.   History 200, Workshop for Historians

III.  Two courses at the 200 level from the following:

History 203, The American Civil War
History 210, History of American Foreign Relations
History 213, Women in American History
History 224H, The World since 1945
History 227, Tudor - Stuart England
History 254, Topics in Medieval European History
History 291, Topics in History
Other pre-approved courses

IV.  Two courses at the 300 level from the following:

History 301, The Forging of a Nation: The Colonial and Revolutionary Experience
History 305, Recent America
History 328, The Modern British Experience
History 329, The German Experience
History 391, Topics in History
Other pre-approved courses
All 300-level classes are conceived as research courses in which the major focus will be on research methodology and utilization of primary sources to produce a work of serious scholarship.

V.    History 499, Capstone: Senior Seminar for Historians
       Note: HIS 499 requires students to submit a portfolio of written work. History majors should keep copies of papers and                 projects from their other classes for this purpose.

Required Support Courses: (Required for primary majors only)
Completion of a Modern Language through 202

History Minor (24 credits)
I.   Three courses, with one course in each area, from the following:

1. History 103, Roots of the Western World
   History 104, Europe and the Modern World
2. History 105, America to 1877
   History 106, America Since 1877
3. History 107, Understanding the Premodern World
   History 108, Understanding Our Contemporary World
   History 110, The History of Modern China
   History 112, Introduction to Latin American History

II.   Three additional courses at the 200- and 300-course levels. One of those three courses must be a 300-level research course and not all of them may be taken in United States History.

Teacher Certification
The department recommends that students majoring in history who seek certification to teach at the early adolescence through adolescence (formerly 6-12) level complete the requirements for the Broad Field Social Studies license. Please contact a history faculty member regarding these requirements.

The state of Wisconsin requires content area examinations (Praxis II) in order to receive certification to teach at the early adolescence through adolescence level and to adequately demonstrate competence. For this reason, students seeking to teach history at this level are urged to take History 103, 104, 105, 106 and 108.