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Bachelor of Arts in History

Develop interpretive and communication skills while gaining a broader, more critical understanding of civilizations present and past.

BA in History Program Overview

By embracing the study of history, you can cultivate interpretive and communication skills and a profound humanistic insight. History majors at The University of Texas at Dallas delve into the annals of past civilizations, honing their abilities to reconstruct and interpret historical narratives with precision. Coursework includes the required Historical Inquiry class and a senior capstone project.

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Career Paths with a Degree in History

Aside from the mainstream career paths of teaching or working in archival and museum settings, a history degree can lead to employment in government, nonprofit or business organizations. Many history majors successfully complete law school, thanks to the solid writing and critical thinking foundation they receive in their undergraduate studies.

History Careers

Archivist, business analyst, business executive, congressional aide, corporate historian, curator or museum professional, education, documentary editing, historic preservationist, lawyer, professor, records manager, research analyst

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Undergraduate History Program Options

Teacher Certification

Students interested in teaching in secondary schools can achieve Texas Teacher Certification in English and/or History and/or composite Social Studies as part of their majors in either Literature or History. Immediately after being admitted to the University, interested students should meet with an advisor in the Teacher Development Center to receive a certification plan and with an Arts, Humanities, and Technology advisor in Literature or History to receive a degree plan. Further details may be found in the Teacher Certification section of the Undergraduate Catalog.

Fast Track

The Fast Track program is designed to permit exceptional undergraduate students in Arts, Humanities, and Technology majors to begin work on the master’s degree before graduation.

Qualified seniors may take up to 12 semester credit hours of approved graduate courses in the Bass School during their senior year and apply these semester credit hours to their undergraduate degree plans as either major and related courses or electives. The Fast Track courses also will be used to satisfy up to 12 graduate semester credit hours towards the master’s degree.

Minors

Related Minors

Minor in African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS)

Minor in Asian Studies

Minor in Ethnic Studies

Minor in History

Minor in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights

Minor in Medicine, Arts, Science, and Humanities (MASH)

Minor in Philosophy

Minor in Religious Studies

To minor in the Arts, Humanities, and Technology, students must take a minimum of 18 semester credit hours for the minor, 9 of which must be upper-division semester credit hours. Students who take a minor will be expected to meet the normal prerequisites in courses making up the minor, and should maintain a minimum GPA of 2.000 on a 4.00 scale (C average). Core courses offered by the school may count as lower-division semester credit hours toward the minor. Students may choose to minor in any of the following fields of study:

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Undergraduate History Courses

As a history major, you can focus on a particular time or place, a significant theme, topic or problem or an approach to learning such as literature, the arts, ideas, science and technology or the social sciences. You also can choose from courses designed around historical themes, issues and ideas in American, European, Latin American, African, and Asian studies.

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Student Organizations

Get real-world experience and leadership opportunities by joining our History Honor Society (Phi Alpha Theta).

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History Faculty

Rosemary Admiral
Assistant Professor
Rosemary.Admiral@utdallas.edu

Anthony Chaney
Lecturer I
abc062000@utdallas.edu

David Channell
Professor
channell@utdallas.edu

Paula Cuellar Cuellar
Assistant Professor – History
Paula.CuellarCuellar@UTDallas.edu

J. Michael Farmer
Associate Professor
farmer@utdallas.edu

Anne Gray Fischer
Assistant Professor
agf@utdallas.edu

Pamela Gossin
Professor — Literature and History
psgossin@utdallas.edu

Kimberly Hill
Associate Professor of U.S. and African American History
Kimberly.Hill@utdallas.edu

Pia Jakobsson
Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies
pia.jakobsson@utdallas.edu

En Li
Assistant Professor — Modern East Asian History
En.Li@UTDallas.edu

David Patterson
Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Professor — Literature and History
david.patterson@utdallas.edu

Monica Rankin
Associate Professor
mrankin@utdallas.edu

Natalie J. Ring
Associate Professor — History
nring@utdallas.edu

Nils Roemer
Director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
nroemer@utdallas.edu

Eric R. Schlereth
Associate Professor - History
schlereth@utdallas.edu

Jeffrey Schulze
Clinical Associate Professor — History
jeffrey.schulze@utdallas.edu

Whitney Nell Stewart
Associate Professor of History
Whitney.Stewart@utdallas.edu

David Weiland III
Lecturer I
djw108020@utdallas.edu

Daniel Wickberg
Professor
daniel.wickberg@utdallas.edu

Michael Wilson
Associate Professor
mwilson@utdallas.edu

Ben Wright
Associate Professor — History
bgw@utdallas.edu

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