B.S./B.A. in History: Curriculum

This course is an introduction to the field of history. We will examine the kinds of sources historians explore, the approaches they take when examining those sources, and the different interpretations they might develop.  The course also examines the typical output of historians, from book reviews to essays to museum placards.  The topic of the course will vary by professor, but the ultimate goal of the course is to better understand what the field of history is about and how historians think about the past. This course is the same as the previous HIST 203 Investigating the Past*AEH at EOU. 

This one hour immersion course provides experiential learning through hands-on practice in historical inquiry. Students will engage directly with primary sources, such as documents, maps, and images, honing important skills necessary to successfully study history.  This course can be taken 4 times total.

This skills-focused course trains students to recognize source types and cite them accurately across major styles (APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian). Students will practice building footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies for books, articles, archival materials, images, and digital sources with an emphasis on Chicago/Turabian for the discipline of History. This course can be taken 4 times total.

Major research paper demonstrating mastery of historical methodologies, use of primary as well as secondary sources. Students must have at least junior standing to register for this course. Honors students must have faculty approval for registration and will complete a capstone that is both longer and more in depth than traditional 403 students. The same UWR criteria that apply to HIST 403 will apply to HIST 403H.

15 credits of US History coursework
15 credits of Non-US History coursework

Survey of North America and United States history to the early 1800s: Native America, European colonization, colonial development, origins of slavery, American Revolution, early Republic, and Market Revolution.

Survey of United States history from the early 1800s to the early 1900s: Jacksonian era, expansion, Industrial Revolution, slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age, Populism, Imperialism, the Progressive Era, and the First World War. This course is the same as the previous HIST 202 US History at EOU.

Survey of United States history from the 1920s: Depression and New Deal, the Second World War and Cold War, Civil Rights movements, Neoliberalism, Globalization, and the United States and the world.