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Oct 04, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
History, B.A.
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History
615-898-2631
Aliou Ly, program coordinator
Aliou.Ly@mtsu.edu
Students majoring in History must fulfill all the requirements for the B.A. degree (see Academic Policies and Procedures ), to include a foreign language and a minor. History majors are to see their departmental advisors at least once per semester.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
39 hours* |
| Foreign Language |
6 hours |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
16-28 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:
- 6 credit hours from HIST 2010 , HIST 2015 , HIST 2020 , HIST 2025 , HIST 2030 , HIST 2035 , HIST 2040 , HIST 2045 , HIST 2050 , or HIST 2065 (HCL)
- 6 credit hours from HIST 1010 , HIST 1015 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , HIST 1115 , or HIST 1120 (CCE)
- 3 credit hours from foreign language 1010, 1020, 2010, or 2020 (NWC)
Major Requirements (39 hours)
Foreign Language Requirement (6 hours)
- Students must successfully complete 2010 and 2020 or any courses numbered above the 2000 level in a single foreign language.
Sophomore
- HIST 1110 - Survey World Civilization I 3 credit hours OR
- HIST 1120 - Survey World Civilization II 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression/Elective 3 credit hours (HIST recommended)
- Foreign language or electives 6 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Minor courses 6 credit hours
Senior
- HIST 4985 - Senior Seminar 3 credit hours
- Minor course 3 credit hours (if necessary for 18-hour minor)
- Global history elective 3 credit hours
- History elective 3 credit hours
- General electives 16 credit hours
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