Department of History

Gerald J. Prokopowicz, Chair, A-315 Brewster Building

Students may choose between the BA in history and the BS in public history. Students may also minor in either program.

Faculty

• Department of History Faculty 

History Honors Program

A student desiring to enter the honors program in history must be a second semester junior majoring in history; possess a minimum cumulative and major 3.0 GPA; and have a minimum of 20 s.h. in history (exceptions may be made at the discretion of the dept chair). Furthermore, a student engaged in the history honors program shall be enrolled as a part of the regular curriculum in HIST 4550  and HIST 4551 , starting the sequence the spring semester of the junior year and concluding at the end of the first semester of the senior year. Upon completion of the two courses, the student will receive 6 s.h. credit in advanced history.

Each honors scholar will carry out an extensive program of carefully supervised reading and research in one of nine areas of history: Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century America; Twentieth-Century America; Ancient and Medieval; Europe, 1500- 1815; Europe, 1815 to Present; Asia; Latin America; Africa.

A history honors award is given annually to the history honors program student who completes and defends the most outstanding honors paper.

Programs

• History, BA
• Public History, BS

• History Minor
• Public History Minor

Courses

• HIST 4946 - Internship in Historic Site Administration
• HIST 4947 - Internship in Historic Site Administration
• HIST 4948 - Internship in Historic Site Administration
• HIST 5005 - Selected Topics
• HIST 5122 - Social and Cultural History of the United States Since 1865
• HIST 5130 - Comparative History of New World Slavery and Race Relations
• HIST 5135 - Problems in North Carolina History
• HIST 5140 - The Old South
• HIST 5141 - The South Since 1877
• HIST 5220 - Selected Topics in US Women’s History
• HIST 5230 - Themes in African American History
• HIST 5300 - Comparative History of Non-Western Civilizations
• HIST 5340 - The Ancient Near East
• HIST 5350 - The Renaissance in European History
• HIST 5360 - The Reformation, 1450-1598
• HIST 5440 - Twentieth-Century England
• HIST 5450 - Tudor-Stuart England
• HIST 5470 - History of Soviet Russia Since 1917
• HIST 5480 - Weimar and the Rise of Hitler
• HIST 5505 - Maritime History of the Western World to 1415
• HIST 5520 - Maritime History of the Western World Since 1815
• HIST 5530 - Field School in Maritime History and Underwater Research
• HIST 5555 - Constitutionalism and Kingship in Early Modern Europe
• HIST 5660 - Imperialism in Theory and Practice, 1800 to the Present
• HIST 5670 - Diplomatic History of Europe, 1815 to the Present
• HIST 5680 - Diplomatic History of Modern Asia
• HIST 5765 - Latin America, 1492 to the Present
• HIST 5910 - Introduction to the Administration of Archives and Historical Manuscripts
• HIST 5920 - Techniques of Museum and Historic Site Development
• HIST 5921 - Techniques of Museum and Historic Site Development
• HIST 5930 - Field and Laboratory Studies in Museum and Historic Site Development
• HIST 5931 - Field and Laboratory Studies in Museum and Historic Site Development
• HIST 5950 - Introduction to Quantitative History
• HIST 5951 - Directed Readings and Research in Quantitative History
• HIST 5960 - Introduction to Oral History
• HIST 5970 - Living History
• HIST 5985 - Historic Preservation Planning

• HIST 3030 - Economic History of the United States to 1865
• HIST 3220 - Continental Expansion of the United States, 1800-1848
• HIST 3486 - Constitutional History of England
• HIST 3910 - History of Science
• HIST 3915 - History of Western Medical Thought
• HIST 4450 - History of Eastern Europe