History

History
BA
Hours45 - 62 Credit Hours
MAPMajor Academic Plan

Program Requirements

The History Department requires a minimum of 24 hours of history credit to be taken in residence at BYU's Provo campus for this degree program. BYU Independent Study courses do not count toward residency. These hours may also go toward BYU's 30-hour residency requirement for graduation.
requirement 1 Complete 1 course
Complete one of the following courses in fulfillment of the University Core First-Year Writing requirement. NOTE: Waivers based on Advanced Placement (AP) or other test scores do not apply to this requirement. Students with AP credit for Engl 115 are encouraged to take Wrtg 150 or Phil 150.
requirement 2 Complete 1 course
Complete one course from the following in fulfillment of the University Core Languages of Learning requirement. If a foreign language other than those listed below is taken to fill this requirement, please see the college advisement center. NOTE: These courses, and their prerequisites, impart linguistic or quantitative skills advantageous to historical research.
AFRIK 202 - Second-Year Afrikaans 4.0
ARAB 202 - Intermediate Arabic 4.0
ASL 301 - Advanced American Sign Language and Culture 4.0
BULGN 202 - (Not currently offered)
BULGN 330 - Cultural History of Bulgaria 3.0
CANT 202 - Second-Year Cantonese 4.0
CHIN 202 - Intermediate Mandarin 4.0
CHIN 301 - Third-Year Mandarin 4.0
CZECH 202 - (Not currently offered)
CZECH 330 - Cultural History of Czech Republic 3.0
DANSH 202 - Second Year Danish 4.0
DANSH 340 - Danish Literature 3.0
DUTCH 202 - (Not currently offered)
DUTCH 340 - Introduction to Dutch Literature 3.0
FINN 202 - Second Year Finnish 4.0
FINN 340 - Finnish Literature 3.0
FREN 202 - Intermediate French, Part 2 3.0
FREN 340 - Introduction to Literary Analysis 3.0
GERM 202 - Second-Year German 4.0
GERM 330 - Cultural History of German-Speaking Peoples 3.0
GREEK 301 - Classical Greek Poetry: Homer's Iliad 3.0
GREEK 302 - Classical Greek Prose 3.0
GREEK 411R - Synoptic Gospels 3.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
HEB 202 - Second-Year Modern Hebrew 2 4.0
HEB 431 - (Not currently offered)
HONRS 250 - (Not currently offered)
HUNG 202 - (Not currently offered)
HUNG 330 - Cultural History of Hungary 3.0
ICLND 202 - Second-Year Icelandic 4.0
ICLND 429 - Old Icelandic Language and Literature 3.0
ITAL 202 - Intermediate Italian 2 3.0
ITAL 340 - Introduction to Italian Literature 3.0
JAPAN 202 - Second-Year Japanese 4.0
JAPAN 301 - Japanese Reading and Culture 4.0
JAPAN 302 - Readings in Japanese History and Culture 4.0
KOREA 202 - Second-Year Korean 2 4.0
KOREA 301 - Third-Year Korean 1 4.0
LATIN 301 - Classical Latin Poetry 3.0
LATIN 302 - Classical Latin Prose 3.0
NORWE 202 - Second Year Norwegian 4.0
NORWE 340 - Norwegian Literature 3.0
PHIL 305 - Intermediate Formal Logic 3.0
POLSH 202 - Second-Year Polish 4.0
POLSH 330 - Cultural History of Poland 3.0
PORT 202 - Fourth-Semester Portuguese: Reading and Comprehension 4.0
PORT 315 - (Not currently offered)
PORT 345 - Portuguese Civilization 3.0
PORT 355 - Brazilian Civilization 3.0
ROM 340 - Introduction to Romanian Literature and Culture 3.0
RUSS 202 - Second-Year Russian, Part 2 5.0
RUSS 330 - Cultural History of Russia 3.0
SPAN 205 - University Spanish 3 4.0
SPAN 321 - Third-Year Spanish Reading, Grammar, and Culture 3.0
SPAN 345 - Iberian Civilization 3.0
SPAN 355 - Spanish American Culture and Civilization 3.0
SRBCR 202 - (Not currently offered)
SRBCR 330 - (Not currently offered)
STAT 121 - Principles of Statistics 3.0
SWED 202 - Second Year Swedish 4.0
SWED 340 - Swedish Literature 3.0
UKRAI 202 - (Not currently offered)
UKRAI 330 - Cultural History of Ukraine 3.0
requirement 3 Complete 1 course
NOTE: For majors, Hist 200 should be completed prior to elective courses. It must be completed no later than the sophomore year or in the first semester/term after the major is declared. Hist 200 and 490 combined satisfy the University Core Advanced Written and Oral Communications requirement.
requirement 4 Complete 2 options
Core Courses:
option 4.1 Complete 4 courses
NOTE: University Core Civilization courses (201/202) offered by other departments are not equivalent.
option 4.2
Hist 220 and 221 must be completed as college/university courses and cannot be fulfilled with AP or other test scores. Contact your academic advisement center with questions.
requirement 5 Complete 21.0 hours from the following course(s)
Complete seven electives (21 total hours) from the approved list. Seek faculty advice in choosing electives. Students must not present all their preparation in a single region. Complete three electives (9 hours) by taking at least one course in three of the following areas of study: Asia, Europe, Latin America, Near East, United States, Africa, or the world. (Course regions are identified on the approved list.) Majors are urged to focus their remaining four electives on a single theme, region, or period. NOTE: No more than 6 combined hours of 199R, 495R, and 498R will count toward elective credit.
HIST 190R - Thetean Publication 2.0v
HIST 190R - Thetean Editing 2.0v
HIST 190R - Thetean Production 2.0v
HIST 199R - Academic Internship 3.0v
HIST 217 - The Family Historian's Craft 3.0
HIST 225 - In Quest of the American Character 3.0
HIST 231 - Introduction to East Asian History 3.0
HIST 232 - Introduction to the History of Christianity 3.0
HIST 238 - Ancient Near East to 330 BC 3.0
HIST 239 - Ancient Near East, 330 BC - 640 AD 3.0
HIST 240 - Middle East History to 1800 3.0
HIST 241 - Middle East History from 1800 3.0
HIST 242R - (Hist-NES 347R) Arab and Islamic Civilization 2.0v
HIST 243R - (Hist-NES 349R) Jewish Civilization 2.0v
HIST 244 - Jewish History: A.D. 70 to the Present 3.0
HIST 247 - (Hist-ClCv 304) Greek History 3.0
HIST 248 - (Hist-ClCv 307) Roman History 3.0
HIST 250 - Europe 1500 to the Present 3.0
HIST 251 - Conquest and Colonization of Latin America 3.0
HIST 252 - Modern Latin America 3.0
HIST 261 - Modern Africa 3.0
HIST 280 - Northern US Family, Local, and Social History Research Since 1790 3.0
HIST 281 - Southern US Family, Local, and Social History Research Since 1790 3.0
HIST 282 - Colonial US Family, Local and Social History Research 3.0
HIST 290 - Nature and History: The Earth's Environmental Past 3.0
HIST 292 - Food and History 3.0
HIST 293 - World War II in History and Memory 3.0
HIST 294 - The Age of the French Revolution 3.0
HIST 295 - Latin America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 3.0
HIST 300 - The Early Middle Ages 3.0
HIST 301 - The Late Middle Ages 3.0
HIST 302 - The Italian Renaissance 3.0
HIST 303 - The Reformation: Age of Turmoil 3.0
HIST 304 - The Expansion of Europe, 1400-1800 3.0
HIST 305 - The Age of Enlightenment 3.0
HIST 306 - Nineteenth-Century Europe 3.0
HIST 307 - Europe Since 1914 3.0
HIST 308 - The Mediterranean 3.0
HIST 309 - European Revolutions Since 1500 3.0
HIST 310 - European Economic History 3.0
HIST 311 - The History of Film, Radio, and Television 3.0
HIST 312 - History of Ideas 3.0
HIST 313 - Strategy in Peace and War 3.0
HIST 314 - Fascism and Nazism in Europe, 1914-present 3.0
HIST 315 - European Jews and the Holocaust 3.0
HIST 317 - The Family and the Law in American History 3.0
HIST 318 - European Women's History 3.0
HIST 319 - The Family in Europe 3.0
HIST 320 - Society in Europe 3.0
HIST 322 - Pre-Modern Britain 3.0
HIST 323 - Modern Britain 3.0
HIST 324 - France 3.0
HIST 325 - Spain 3.0
HIST 326 - The History of Mexico 3.0
HIST 327 - Italy in the Modern World Since 1848 3.0
HIST 328 - Modern Germany 3.0
HIST 329 - The City in Brazil: An Urban History 3.0
HIST 330 - Tsarist Russia 3.0
HIST 331 - Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia 3.0
HIST 332 - Scandinavian History 3.0
HIST 334 - History of Ancient Iraq 3.0
HIST 335 - Crusades 3.0
HIST 336 - South African Liberation Movements 3.0
HIST 337 - Pre-modern Korea 3.0
HIST 338 - Modern Korea 3.0
HIST 339 - African Social Change 3.0
HIST 340 - Traditional China 3.0
HIST 341 - China Since 1200 3.0
HIST 343 - Early Japan 3.0
HIST 344 - Modern Japan 3.0
HIST 347 - Chinese Cultural History 3.0
HIST 348 - Modern South East Asia 3.0
HIST 349 - History of Asian Religions and Thought 3.0
HIST 350 - British Family, Local and Social History Research 3.0
HIST 351 - Germanic Family, Local, and Social History Research 3.0
HIST 352 - Scandinavian Family, Local, and Social History Research 3.0
HIST 353 - Southern European and Latin American Family, Local, and Social History Research 3.0
HIST 354 - Slavic Family, Local, and Social History Research 3.0
HIST 355 - History of Argentina 3.0
HIST 356 - Brazil 3.0
HIST 357 - The Indian in Latin American History 3.0
HIST 358 - Gender and History in Latin America 3.0
HIST 359 - Inter-American Relations 3.0
HIST 360 - American West to 1900 3.0
HIST 361 - The American West Since 1900 3.0
HIST 363 - The Spanish Frontier in North America 3.0
HIST 364 - Utah 3.0
HIST 365 - American South 3.0
HIST 366 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa and the Atlantic World 3.0
HIST 367 - Slavery in the United States 3.0
HIST 368 - Sport, Society, and American Culture 3.0
HIST 369 - History of Travel and Tourism 3.0
HIST 370 - Colonial America 3.0
HIST 371 - Revolutionary America 3.0
HIST 373 - Civil War Era, 1848-1877 3.0
HIST 374 - U.S. History from 1890 to 1945 3.0
HIST 375 - Joseph Smith in Mormon History and Historiography 3.0
HIST 376 - U.S. History from 1945 to 2000 3.0
HIST 378 - History of American Families 3.0
HIST 379 - U.S. Religious History to 1860 3.0
HIST 380 - U.S. Religious History Since 1860 3.0
HIST 382 - Mormonism in the American Experience 3.0
HIST 383 - African-American History, 1865 to Present 3.0
HIST 384 - United States Women's History 3.0
HIST 385 - Latinos in the United States 3.0
HIST 386 - Nineteenth-Century American Indian History 3.0
HIST 387 - Twentieth-Century American Indian History 3.0
HIST 388 - Indians in Colonial America 3.0
HIST 389 - Mormonism Among Christian Theologies: A Comparative History 3.0
HIST 390R - Family History Research in Ireland 3.0v
HIST 390R - Advanced British Family History Research 3.0v
HIST 390R - Special Topics in History 3.0v
HIST 390R - Family History Research in the Netherlands 3.0v
HIST 390R - Native American Family History Research 3.0v
HIST 390R - Family History Research 3.0v
HIST 390R - Advanced Southern European Family History Research 3.0v
HIST 391 - U.S. in Vietnam, 1945-1975 3.0
HIST 392 - U.S. Constitutional History 3.0
HIST 393 - U.S. Foreign Relations 3.0
HIST 394 - Scripture in American History 3.0
HIST 395 - Technology in America 3.0
HIST 396 - Historical Narrative: A Writing Workshop 3.0
HIST 397 - Historical Literacies in United States History 3.0
HIST 398 - 20th-Century American Economic Policy 3.0
HIST 399 - Democratic Classroom Design for Social Studies 3.0
HIST 420 - Latin Language Handwriting and Documents 3.0
HIST 421 - English Language Handwriting and Documents 3.0
HIST 422 - Germanic Language Handwriting and Documents 3.0
HIST 423 - Slavic Language Handwriting and Documents 3.0
HIST 424 - Romance Language Handwriting and Documents 3.0
HIST 425 - Scandinavian Language Handwriting and Documents 3.0
HIST 430R - Classical Historiography 3.0
HIST 430R - Rome and Etruscans 3.0
HIST 430R - Imperial Rome 3.0
HIST 430R - Augustan Rome 3.0
HIST 430R - 4th Century Greece 3.0
HIST 430R - Early Chrisitanity 3.0
HIST 430R - Archaic Greece 3.0
HIST 430R - Hellenistic World 3.0
HIST 430R - Rise of Rome 3.0
HIST 430R - Roman Politics 3.0
HIST 430R - Archaic Greece 3.0
HIST 430R - Late Roman Empire 3.0
HIST 430R - Julio-Claudians 3.0
HIST 430R - Greek City-State 3.0
HIST 430R - Greek Political Thought 3.0
HIST 430R - Roman Revolution 3.0
HIST 430R - Roman Religion 3.0
HIST 430R - Athens: Rise and Fall 3.0
HIST 430R - World of New Testament 3.0
HIST 430R - (Hist-Clscs) Topics in Greek and Roman History 3.0
HIST 431 - Public History 3.0
HIST 433 - Writing Narrative Biographies 3.0
HIST 434 - Computers in Family Historical Research and Publication 3.0
HIST 439 - Seminar on Professional Family History Research 3.0
HIST 476 - Student Teaching - Social Science 12.0v
HIST 477 - History and Social Science Teaching Methods and Instruction 3.0
HIST 478 - Practicum in Secondary Education 1.0
HIST 481R - Directed Research in Family History 3.0v
HIST 482 - Capstone Seminar: Writing and Professional Paths in Family History 3.0
HIST 485 - Topical Readings Seminar 3.0
HIST 487 - Philosophies of History 3.0
HIST 495R - Directed Research 3.0
HIST 496R - Academic Internship--Social Science Teaching 12.0
HIST 496R - Academic Internship: Family, Local, and Social History 6.0v
HIST 497R - Honors Readings 3.0v
HIST 498R - Directed Readings 3.0v
requirement 6 Complete 1 course
Capstone course:
Recommended Complete 1 course
Majors are strongly encouraged to minor in a field that further enhances their preparation for employment or graduate school. Consult with faculty.
Program Outcomes

Historical Knowledge

Gain a historical consciousness by demonstrating a knowledge of major developments in American and world history and understand key historical terms and theories. (For course-specific application of this learning outcome, please see:

History Course Learning Outcomes

Historical Analysis

Acquire the ability to analyze historical questions and issues clearly, assess historical information accurately, and distinguish between questionable and valid historical assertions. (For course-specific application of this learning outcome, please see:

History Course Learning Outcomes

Effective Historical Research

Demonstrate proficiency in using the historical method of research effectively by skillfully and honestly using primary and secondary sources. (For course-specific application of this learning outcome, please see:

History Course Learning Outcomes

Data Integration and Effective Communication

Skillfully integrate data into a coherent argument expressed through a clear, well-written style and through oral communication. (For course-specific application of this learning outcome, please see:

History Course Learning Outcomes