History

Arts and Sciences Degree/A.A.

Career Opportunities: About 20,000 people are full-time historians in colleges and universities. Historians also work in archives, libraries, museums, historical societies, historic preservation societies, publishing houses, large corporations, and state and local governments. The federal government employs historians in the National Archives, Smithsonian Institution, and the U.S. Departments of Defense, the Interior and State. Other historians work in politics, journalism, business, and nonprofit management.

Requirements for Graduation

In order to earn an Associate of Arts Degree in Arts and Sciences with a major in History, a student must complete a minimum of 61 credit-hours of required and elective course work.

Recommended Two-Year Sequence

FIRST YEAR

First Semester

 

Hrs.

ENGL

101

Composition and Rhetoric

3

Foreign Language 101 or 203*

3

HIST Elective**

3

GEC Electives

 

6

WVUe

191***

First-Year Seminar

(1)

Total

 

 

15

 

Second Semester

 

Hrs.

ENGL

102

Composition and Rhetoric

3

Foreign Language 102 or 204*

3

HIST Elective**

 

3

GEC Electives

 

6

Total

 

 

15

 

SECOND YEAR

First Semester

 

Hrs.

Elective or Foreign Lang. 203 (if needed)*

3

HIST Elective**

3

Mathematics 121 or 126

3

Laboratory Science

4

GEC Elective

 

3

Total

 

 

16
       

 

Second Semester

 

Hrs.

Elective or Foreign Lang. 204 (if needed)*

3

HIST Elective**

3

GEC Electives

 

9

Total

 

 

15
       

Total Hours: 61

*Students who present more than two or more units of high school credit in a foreign language may satisfy this requirement by taking courses 203 and 204 (see Second Year above) and six hours of electives. Students who do not have adequate high school credit must take four semesters of study in one language.

 

**History electives include 101, 102, 106, 152, 153, 179, and 180.

***Required of first-time, first-semester students; not required for graduation.