Program Details
Department: History
Modality: In-Person
Semester Hours: 18
History is the study of the human past as it is constructed and interpreted with human artifacts, written evidence, and oral traditions. It requires empathy for historical actors, respect for interpretive debate, and the skillful use of an evolving set of practices and tools.
As an inquiry into human experience, history requires that we consider the diversity of human experience across time and place.
As a public pursuit, history requires effective communication to make the past accessible; it informs and preserves collective memory; it is essential to active citizenship.
As a discipline, history requires a deliberative stance towards the past; the sophisticated use of information, evidence, and argumentation; and the ability to identify and explain continuity and change over time. Its professional ethics and standards demand peer review, citation, and acceptance of the provisional nature of knowledge.
The LMU History Department’s core competencies and student learning outcomes are adapted from the AHA Tuning Project: History Discipline Core (see https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core).
Minor Requirements
A minimum of 18 semester hours, including at least 3 upper-division courses: HIST 3xxx courses, HIST 4xxx courses, and HIST 5xxx courses. History minors have a choice of two tracks: the Generalist Track or the Specialist Track:
- Generalist Track: At least one course per geographical region:
- Europe: HIST 1000-1299, 2001-2299, 3100-3299, 4100-4299, and 5100-5299.
- US: HIST 1300-1499, 2300-2499, 3300-3499, 4300-4499, and 5300-5499.
- World Regions: HIST 1500-1899, 2500-2899, 3000-3099, 3500-3899, 4000-4099, 4500-4899, 5000-5099, and 5500-5899.
- Specialist Track: At least 3 courses in one of the concentrations described above (see History Major Specialist Track requirements).
History Minor for Education and Learning Sciences Majors
LBST students with a HIST concentration who wish to complete a HIST minor must fulfill all of the requirements of the LBST major and the HIST concentration and must also take one additional upper-division HIST elective. The History minor for Liberal Studies majors is 28 semester hours, including:
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Semester Hours |
| HIST 1010 | Premodern World History | 4 |
| HIST 1050 | Modern World History | 4 |
| or HIST 1060 | Modern Global Environmental History |
| 4 |
| Becoming America | |
| American and the Atlantic World 1450-1850 | |
| The United States and the Pacific World | |
1 lower-division World Regions course (HIST 15xx, HIST 16xx, HIST 17xx, HIST 18xx, HIST 25xx, HIST 26xx, HIST 27xx, HIST 28xx); HIST 4412 History of California; and 2 upper-division electives.
