History and University Honors Program, BA

University Honors Program  students  may earn a history major by completing one of the three University Honors Program tracks and taking an additional 35 credits in history including one 5-credit 3000-level course on non-European history. The remaining 30 credits can be any combination of the following: HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or any 3000 or 4000-level HIST courses. 

The University Honors courses that count towards the history major include:

Intellectual Traditions

• HONR 1210 - Polis, Republic, and Empires  
• HONR 1230 - The Worlds of Medieval Europe  
• HONR 2210 - Early Modern Culture and Global Expansion  
• HONR 2250 - Human Rights in the Modern World  
• HONR 2510 - Capitalism and Its Discontents  

Society, Policy, and Citizenship

• HONR 1210 - Polis, Republic, and Empires  
• HONR 1220 - From Polis to Subject to Citizen  
• HONR 2240 - Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World  
• HONR 2250 - Human Rights in the Modern World  
• HONR 2530 - 18th- and 19th-Century Social Theory  

Innovations

• HONR 1210 - Polis, Republic, and Empires  
• HONR 1240 - Catholicism and Its Global Reach  
• HONR 2220 - History of Revolutions  
• HONR 2510 - Capitalism and Its Discontents