History Major

Along with completing required courses in secondary education, students electing a major in history must complete the following courses with a minimum grade point average of 2.75:

Requirements

History

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
HIST 200	The Nature of Historical Inquiry	4	Offered fall and spring.
HIST 201	U.S. History to 1877	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
HIST 202	U.S. History from 1877 to the Present	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
HIST 362	Reading Seminar in History	4	Offered fall and spring (as needed).

ONE COURSE from U.S. History at the 300-level

ONE COURSE from Western History I:

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
HIST 300	History of Greece	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 301	Alexander and the Hellenistic World	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 302	The Roman Republic	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 303	The Roman Empire	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 304	Medieval History	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 305	The Age of the Renaissance	4	Offered fall.
HIST 306	The Age of the Reformation	4	Offered spring.
HIST 307	Europe in the Age of Enlightenment	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 311	The Origins of Russia to 1700	4	Offered alternate years.
HIST 312	Russia from Peter to Lenin	4	Offered alternate years.
HIST 315	Western Legal Systems	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 318	Tudor-Stuart England	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 352	Colonial Latin America	4	Offered spring.

ONE COURSE from Western History II:

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
HIST 308	Europe in the Age of Revolution, 1789 to 1850	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 309	Europe in the Age of Nationalism, 1850 to 1914	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 310	Twentieth-Century Europe	4	Offered as needed.
HIST 313	The Soviet Union and After	4	Offered alternate years.
HIST 316	Modern Western Political Thought	4	Offered fall.
HIST 317	Politics and Society	4	Offered spring.
HIST 353	Modern Latin America	4	Offered fall.

ONE COURSE from Non-Western History

Certification Courses

To be certified to teach history in Rhode Island secondary schools, students must also complete seven of the certification courses listed below. Upon completion, students may be eligible for Rhode Island endorsement to teach economics, geography, political science, and social studies. Students may also be eligible for endorsement to teach anthropology and/or sociology, if they take two of the designated anthropology courses (see below) and/or two of the designated sociology courses (see below). Only one course in these disciplines is required if endorsement in these disciplines is not sought.

Courses

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
ECON 214	Principles of Microeconomics	3	Offered fall, spring, summer.
ECON 215	Principles of Macroeconomics	3	Offered fall, spring, summer.
GEOG 400	Regional Geography	3	Offered fall and spring.
POL 202	American Government	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.

ONE COURSE from:

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
ANTH 101	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	4	Offered fall and spring.
ANTH 205	Race, Culture, and Ethnicity: Anthropological Perspectives	4	Offered odd years.
SOC 200	Society and Social Behavior	4	Offered fall and spring.
SOC 202	The Family	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
SOC 208	Minority Group Relations	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.

ONE COURSE from:2

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
GEOG 101	Introduction to Geography	4	Offered fall, spring, summer.
GEOG 303	Historical Geography of the United States	4	Offered as needed.
GEOG 307	Coastal Geography	4	Offered as needed.
GEOG 337	Urban Political Geography	3	Offered as needed.

ONE COURSE from:

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
POL 208	Introduction to the Law	3	Offered fall and spring.
POL 337	Urban Political Geography	3	Offered as needed.
POL 357	The American Presidency	4	Offered as needed.
POL 358	The American Congress	3	Offered every third semester.

Total Credit Hours: 56-57

Note: To enroll in SED 411 and SED 412, students must have completed at least 24 credit hours of courses in social science/history, including ECON 214, GEOG 400, HIST 201 and 202, and POL 202. Students must have completed HIST 200 and one 300-level course in Non-Western History, Western History, and U.S. History. (General Education courses may be counted to meet this requirement.)