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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

History, B.S.


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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.S. degree (see Academic Policies and Procedures ). History majors are to see their departmental advisors at least once per semester.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

History, B.S., Academic Map  

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirements 39 hours*
Minor 15-18 hours
Electives 22-34 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 will 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:

Major Requirements (39 hours)


Minor (15-18 hours)


Electives (22-34 hours)


Curriculum: History


Freshman


Subtotal: 32 Hours


Sophomore


Subtotal: 30 Hours


Junior


Subtotal: 30 Hours


Senior


  • 3 credit hours
  • Minor course 3 credit hours
  • History elective 3 credit hours
  • General electives 13 credit hours
  • Global history elective 3 credit hours
  • Minor/elective courses 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 28 Hours


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