2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

History, Social Studies, BA


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This major does not require a minor.

Total number of hours required for this degree:
120 semester hours

Total number of hours in major: (includes core and supporting work)
51 semester hours

Total number of advanced hours required in major:
33 semester hours (24 hrs. in History; 9 hrs in Supporting Work)

*Supporting Work: at least 3 semester hours  from each of these areas: Economics, Geography, Political Science; Anthropology or Sociology; 
a total of 9 advanced hours chosen from Economics, Geography,
 Political Science, Anthropology or Sociology.  
 

Suggested Sequence of Courses:


Fall - Year One


SOCIAL SCIENCE 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

FOREIGN LANGUAGE/MULTICULTURAL 4 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 16 hrs


Spring - Year One


MATHEMATICS 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

ORAL COMMUNICATION 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

FOREIGN LANGUAGE/MULTICULTURAL 4 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 16 hrs


LITERATURE 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

NATURAL SCIENCE 4 hrs


General Education Requirements  

FINE ARTS 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 16 hrs


PHILOSOPHY 3 hrs


General Education Requirements  

Total: 15 hrs


Fall - Year Three


Total: 15 hrs


Spring - Year Three


Total: 15 hrs


Fall - Year Four


Total: 15 hrs


Spring - Year Four


Total: 12 hrs


Note(s):


* Supporting Work: 15 hours (9 must be advanced):

Chosen from Sociology, Economics, Geography, Political Science or Anthropology; at three semester hours from each area: Political Science, Sociology, Economics and Geography.

The following components are required in all degrees:

General education, major, and validation of completion of:

  • overall semester hours - 120
  • institutional semester hours - 45
  • overall advanced hours - 36
  • institutional advanced hours - 24

Required General Education courses:
POLS 1301 , HIST 1301 , MATH 1301  

SPAN 1411 , SPAN 1412  or any two semesters of the same foreign language

Acceptable minor fields:

None required

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