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Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2015-2016 
    
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

History, B.A.


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Objectives


The study of history is integral to Loyola Marymount University’s mission as a university in the Jesuit/Marymount, Catholic, and liberal arts traditions. It contributes to “the encouragement of learning” through intellectually demanding courses that cultivate an understanding of both familiar and unfamiliar pasts and cultures. It educates “the whole person” by focusing on a multiplicity of perspectives and experiences, and by attempting to understand the lived, bodily experience of the “whole person” in the past. History courses ground discussions of “the service of faith and the promotion of justice” by putting these ideas in context, showing change over time, and emphasizing how today’s world evolved out of the contingent actions of and interactions between individuals and groups of people. The study of history enables the student to examine cultures, religions, and the interconnections among peoples and societies as complex historical phenomena, human structures open to historical interpretation and analysis. Historical perspective thus provides insight into the sequence of events, into the relationship between events at diverse times and places, and into the dynamism of structures and beliefs that can otherwise appear fixed or predetermined. The study of history therefore also leads to greater sensitivity to and awareness of cultural differences and similarities, as well as conflicting interpretations of events. As a discipline, History is open to and inclusive of multiple different methodological approaches to the study of the past. The History curriculum thus emphasizes the potential for human action, showing how an individual’s actions can change the world even as it examines the structures necessary for that action. The Department of History at LMU seeks to educate students to become global citizens engaged with the world around them and sensitive to our ties to the past. The Department sees History as supporting the creation of “contemplatives in action,” as the contemplation of the past and the present is an essential part of students moving into the world as agents in their own right.

History Student Learning Outcomes


  1. Introduce students, through a balanced yet flexible curriculum, to the breadth and depth of historical experience through the study of past and contemporary societies and cultures, enabling them to understand broad narratives and periodization as well as to examine the relationships between the shared and the distinctive across time and space.
  2. Foster the creation of informed citizens able to participate in public life, by teaching them to communicate effectively in writing and in speech, to think critically and analytically about the past, and to develop and defend persuasive arguments.
  3. Introduce students to history as an intellectual discipline by enabling them to develop an awareness and understanding of conflicting interpretations of the past. Courses examine how historians debate both historical narratives and the practice of historical research so that students should eventually be able to situate their own research in this broader historiography.
  4. Provide students with a fuller awareness and understanding of many vital issues of human experience and to value the diverse experiences of individuals in the past and present.

Major Requirements


Lower Division Requirements:


16 semester hours, distributed as follows:


  • Three lower-division history surveys:
    • 1 Europe (10xx, 11xx, or 12xx)
    • 1 US (13xx or 14xx)
    • 1 World Regions (15xx, 16xx, 17xx, or 18xx)
  • One methodology and historiography course, HIST 2000 What Is History?  

Upper Division Requirements:


24 semester hours, distributed as follows and chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor:


  • 1 Europe (31xx, 32xx, 41xx, 42xx)
  • 1 US (33xx, 34xx, 43xx, 44xx)
  • 1 World Region (30xx, 35xx, 36xx, 37xx, 38xx, 45xx, 46xx, 47xx, or 48xx)
  • 2 additional upper-division history courses (3xxx, 4xxx, or 5xxx)
  • 1 Seminar (5000-5899)

Note:


An average grade of C (2.0) must be obtained in the courses included in the major.

Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Science (History)


For information on this program, see the Secondary Teacher Preparation  Program section in this Bulletin.

History Model Four-Year Plan


The normal course load is 16 semester hours (4 classes). By following the model below, a student will complete all lower division core requirements by the end of the sophomore year as well as HIST major prerequisites. Note that core areas are suggested to provide a distribution of various disciplines every semester. Please be flexible implementing these suggestions, given your own interests and course availability. In four years, this plan meets all common graduation requirements.

Freshman Year


Fall Semester


  • HIST Lower Division 4 semester hours
  • 3 OR 4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
Total: 13-16 semester hours

Spring Semester


  • HIST Lower Division 4 semester hours
  • 3 OR 4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
Total: 13-16 semester hours

Sophomore Year


Fall Semester


  • HIST Lower Division 4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • Elective 3-4 semester hours
Total: 13-16 semester hours

Spring Semester


  • 4 semester hours
  • HIST Upper Division 3-4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • Elective 3-4 semester hours
Total: 13-16 semester hours

Junior Year


Fall Semester


  • HIST Upper Division 4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • Upper Division Elective 3-4 semester hours
  • Elective 3-4 semester hours
Total: 13-16 semester hours

Spring Semester


  • HIST Upper Division 4 semester hours
  • HIST Upper Division 4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • Upper Division Elective 3-4 semester hours
Total: 14-16 semester hours

Senior Year


Fall Semester


  • HIST Upper Division 4 semester hours
  • University Core 3-4 semester hours
  • Upper Division Elective 3-4 semester hours
  • Upper Division Elective 3-4 semester hours
Total: 13-16 semester hours

Spring Semester


  • HIST Seminar 5000-5899 4 semester hours
  • Upper Division Elective 3-4 semester hours
  • Upper Division Elective 3-4 semester hours
  • Upper Division Elective 3-4 semester hours
Total: 13-16 semester hours

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