Major Requirements in History for the B.A. degree
for students who entered Miami University
in the 2000-01 through 2004-05 academic years.

Students must complete the Miami Plan for Liberal Education Requirement, the College of Arts and Science Requirement (CAS), and the major Requirements in History. Please consult the appropriate edition of the General Bulletin for detailed information on university and divisional requirements.

Students must earn a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 (a "C") in all courses taken in the major department. History majors may not apply work taken "credit/no credit" to History Major Requirements. Students should be advised that national surveys have suggested that "credit/no credit" work on a transcript may have a negative effect upon one's chances for admission to graduate or professional schools.

History Majors must take a minimum of 30 semester credit hours as specified below. The department recommends but does not require that students take a year-long course sequence in chronological order. For example, HST 122 may be taken before HST 121, or HST 308 before HST 307.

1. Introductory Surveys. You must take 12 semester hours from these. One of these must be HST 121 or HST 197 (formerly numbered HST 297).

HST 111, 112 (3, 3), Survey of U.S. History
HST 121, 122 (3, 3), History of Western Civilization
HST 197, 198 (3, 3), World History (formerly numbered HST 297, 298)

2. Advanced Hours. All undergraduate majors must complete satisfactorily at least 15 advanced hours (200 and above) of undergraduate history, distributed as follows. Only six of these hours may be at the 200-level; the remaining hours must be at 300- or 400-level. HST 297 and 298 may not be applied to upper-level hours in the major.

a. Geographical fields. Each major must complete at least 3 upper-division history hours (usually one course) in each of three fields:

1) U.S. History
2) European History (includes Greek and Roman history)
3) Non-Western History (includes ancient history other than Greek and Roman, as well as Latin American, Asian and African history)

Some courses will fit more than one of these areas, but a student may apply a particular course to only one of the three fields. Note: See the list of upper-division history courses coded for these requirements. The annual History Course Offerings list also notes the specific requirements filled.

b. The remaining 6 upper-level hours may be in any field of history.

c. One of the advanced three-hour courses must deal with a pre-modern time period. See appendix for a list of courses that fill this requirement.

3. HST 400 (3), Senior Capstone in History. All history majors must take a Senior Capstone in History, preferably in their senior year. The several sections offered each semester deal with specialized topics which are described in the annual History Course Offerings booklet. This will fulfill the Capstone Experience requirement in the Miami Plan.

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