College of Arts and Sciences
Departments
History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religious Studies
History
Major in History-B.A. (ONLINE)
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a breadth of knowledge of both Western and Global regions in both modern and pre-modern time periods. This will include historical geography, historical actors, events of significance, and social movements with emphasis on exploring historical themes that span multiple places and periods.
- Formulate historical interpretations that effectively make use of such interpretive tools as historical context, historiography, multiple perspectives, as well as continuity and change over time.
- Demonstrate an understanding of diverse human cultures by describing cultural variation within and between nations. Perceptions of diversity may be expressed through a variety of factors such as race, gender, age, sexuality, language, religion, ethnicity, class, region, or beliefs and values about politics, nationality, economy, and social organization.
- Produce work that exhibits critical thinking through the creation of theses, the synthesis and analysis of primary and secondary evidence, coherent paragraphs, smooth transitions, and the logical sequence of ideas.
- Search and retrieve relevant primary and secondary historical sources from a variety of repositories such as libraries, archives, museums, digital archives, etc, and use historical methods to analyze the data produced.
- Integrate and synthesize primary and secondary sources to craft historical interpretations, narratives, and arguments.
Degree Requirements
To earn the IU Online collaborative B.A. in History, students must complete all the standard campus- and school-specific degree requirements, including general education, and the 36 credit History major comprised of the following requirements:1) Complete a two-part History Foundations course sequence (6cr) to be chosen from:
a) HIST-H 105 American History I and HIST-H 106 American History II;
b) HIST-H 108 Perspectives on the World to 1800 and HIST-H 109 Perspectives on the World 1800 to Present;
c) HIST-H 113 History of Western Civilization I and HIST-H 114 History of Western Civilization II.
2) Complete two additional introductory level History courses selected from the list below (6 cr). Courses used to satisfy the History Foundations requirement cannot be applied towards satisfaction of this requirement.HIST-A 100 Issues in United States History
HIST-E 100 Introduction to African History
HIST-F 100 (Issues in Latin America)
HIST-G 100 (Issues in Asian History)
HIST-H 101 The World in the Twentieth Century
HIST-H 105 (US to 1865)
HIST-H 106 (Us from 1865)
HIST-H 108 Perspectives on the World to 1800
HIST-H 109 Perspectives on the World since 1800
HIST-H 113 History of Western Civilization I
HIST-H 114 History of Western Civilization II
3) Complete HIST-J 216 Sophomore Seminar in History (3 Cr).
4) Complete six History courses at the 300/400 level (18 cr). These six courses must include classes in 3 different regions as denoted by the course prefix. Upper-level History courses the following subject code-prefix combinations to identify regions:
HIST-A = U.S.
HIST-B = Western Europe
HIST-D = Russia/Eastern Europe
HIST-E = Africa
HIST-F = Latin America
HIST-G = East Asia
5) Complete HIST-J 496 Proseminar in History