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Undergraduate Programs of Study(Majors, Minors & Requirements)

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History Major Requirements

History Major Honors Sequence

History Minor Requirements

History Major with concentration in Social Studies

Social Studies Concentration Requirements

Introduction

"History teaches everything, including the future" – Lamartine.

Historical awareness grows from the study of the past, a study based on the realization that the present world is a product of the past. If you have a fundamental curiosity as to how and why things got to be the way they are, then studying history is for you.

The History Department at Manhattanville provides a general framework through which all human life may be sharply understood. Our major program will also prepare you for careers in virtually all fields. Manhattanville’s History majors have gone on to graduate programs as well as careers in business, journalism, teaching, law, historic preservation, local government, archival research, museum work, librarianship, documentary film-making and non-profit management.

Degree

Bachelor of Arts. Students can choose to major or minor in History at Manhattanville. We also offer a Social Studies concentration within the History major for students whose career goal is to teach social studies and who are enrolled in the Five-Year B.A./Masters Plan through the School of Education.

Optional Minors

Students can minor in History

Career Ideas

Archivist, Foreign Service Officer, Government Service Executive, History Professor, Historic Site Administrator, Historian, Librarian, Lobbyist, Museum Curator, Newspaper Editor, Public Relations Specialist, Social Welfare Administrator, Sociologist, Writer/Author

Program Administrators

Colin Morris, department chair, 914-323-5144, Colin.Morris@mville.edu (Fall 2014)

Gregory Swedberg (Spring 2015)

Faculty and Staff

DEPARTMENT CHAIR

Colin Morris – Early America; intellectual, political, history of place

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Lawson Bowling

, PhD. (Columbia)

– United States 20th-century, sports history, Italy, economic history

David Gutman, Ph.D. (Binghamton)

– Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, North Africa

Mohamed Mbodj , Ph.D. (Paris)

– African and African American Studies, Islam

Gregory Swedberg – Latin American, the Caribbean, women and gender

Irene Whelan – Britain, Ireland, modern Europe, nationalism

Overview

The History department offers courses from all geographical areas across the globe including Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, and has faculty members with professional interests in those areas as well.

If you decide to major in History at Manhattanville College you deepen your social and cultural understanding and sharpen the analytical skills required for success in any future endeavor you choose. The faculty members in the department have published scholarly books, essays, articles, and reviews, have presented papers and served on discussion panels at prominent professional meetings and conferences, and are active members of national and regional professional organizations.

History Major Requirements

Ten courses (30 credits), including the following:

HIS 1034: World History I: Before 1500
HIS 1036: World History II: Since 1500

One course in each of any three of the following regional areas:

Africa
Asia and the Middle East
Europe (includes Russia)
Latin America and the Caribbean
North America
Two upper-level seminars (3000-level).
HIS 3160 Senior Colloquium (guides seniors through completion of a senior evaluation research project or thesis, to be supervised by a member of the department; Fall semester, 3 credits). NOTE: In special circumstances, HIS 3998 Senior Evaluation (3 cr.) may be taken as an alternate equivalent on permission of the department.
A maximum of one independent study project (3 credits) and one internship project (3 credits) may be counted toward the major.
All courses must be taken for a letter grade and must receive a grade of C- or better.
Transfer or Advanced Placement credits counting toward the major are limited to two courses (or 6 credits).

History Major Honors Sequence

The History Major Honors Track includes an additional required course, History and Historians (3 cr.) [offered in alternate Spring semesters], and requires the completion of the Senior Honors Thesis during the Senior Colloquium for a total of 33 required major credits. The Senior Colloquium and the required thesis complete the Senior Evaluation major requirement. Honors History majors must complete the Honors Track sequence for eligibility for Departmental Honors at graduation. Honors are awarded to graduating majors who have earned a G.P.A. of 3.6 or higher in their required courses and who have completed an outstanding Senior Honors Thesis.

History Minor Requirements

Five courses (15 credits). Specific requirements:

One course from each of any two of the following regional areas:
Africa
Asia and the Middle East
Europe
Latin America and the Caribbean
North America
One upper-level seminar course (3000-level)
Courses must receive a grade of C- or better
AP or Transfer credit is limited to one course (3 credits)

History Major with concentration in Social Studies

This concentration is intended for students preparing to be teachers of Social Studies in middle and high school. A co-major in Education is required.

HIS 1011	Development of America I
HIS 1012	Development of America II
HIS xxxx	Europe
HIS xxxx	Africa
HIS xxxx	Asia and the Middle East
HIS xxxx	Latin America and the Caribbean
HIS 3160	Senior Colloquium (or HIS 3998 Senior Evaluation as equivalent on department chair’s permission)

ANTH 1050	Cultural Anthropology
POS 1031	Introduction to American Government

INS 2050	Environmental Geography
ECO 1011	Principles of Economics I: Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECO 1012	Principles of Economics II: Introduction to Microeconomics