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Dec 03, 2024
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Undergraduate Bulletin 2024-2025
History, B.A.
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Kate McCarthy-Gilmore, Ph.D., Associate Dean
| General Education |
36-39 credits |
| Major |
36 credits |
| General Elective |
45-48 credits |
Student Learning Outcomes - History
- Demonstrate the ability to understand historical discourse, including the ability to understand and evaluate competing interpretations of the past and theoretical and methodological approaches that have informed historical writing.
- Demonstrate educated familiarity with multiple societies.
- Demonstrate research skills, especially the ability to identify, collect, and sort out primary sources for a research project.
- Demonstrate skills in critical thinking by analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing information from multiple historical sources and developing a persuasive argument supported by evidence.
- Demonstrate strong skills for written communication.
- Demonstrate strong skills for oral communication.
- Demonstrate ability to cite sources in a manner consistent with professionals in the discipline of history.
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General Education Requirements
Requirements for the major in History (B.A.):
Students in the first year are advised to select from among 100- and 200- level courses (introductory level courses). Majors, in consultation with a faculty advisor, design a curriculum suited to their particular interests and professional needs. Division approval is required for acceptance as a major, for course distribution within the major, and for graduation. To complete the major, a student must complete L.HIS 288 , L.HIS 489 and L.HIS 490 and maintain at least a 2.300 GPA in 33 credits of history courses taken for the major.
L.HIS 175 , L.HIS 288 , L.HIS 386 , L.HIS 489 and L.HIS 490 must be taken at Loras College. History majors may apply up to 12 transfer credits toward their Loras degree.
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