Jul 22, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin

History, B.A.


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Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the undergraduate program in history will:

  1. Historical Comprehension
    a. Analyze the literal and contextual significance of a historical passage.
    b. Identify the central questions in historical narratives.
    c. Articulate historical perspectives.

  2. Historical Analysis and Interpretation
    a. Compare and contrast opposed and/or multiple sets of ideas, interpretations, values, personalities, behaviors and/or institutions.
    b. Assess competing historical narratives.
    c. Hypothesize the impacts and significance of past events.
  3. Historical Research Capabilities
    a. Articulate historical questions.
    b. Acquire and evaluate historical data.
    c. Compose a sound historical interpretation and argument.

Tulsa Curriculum and First Year Experience


Core Curriculum and First Year Experience


General Curriculum


Some major required courses may be double counted to fulfill a quad requirement.

 

Major Requirements (33 hours)


A minimum of 33 credit hours in history courses is required for the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in history.  No more than 39 credit hours of history courses may be credited toward the degree.

Core Courses (9 hours)


Three courses at any level selected from three different fields below:  

  • Ancient (Mediterranean, East Asian, the Americas)
  • Modern Global and Comparative (Asia, the Atlantic World)
  • U.S. (U.S., Native America, U.S. and the World)
  • Europe and Mediterranean (Medieval and Modern)

Upper Division Requirements (24 hours)


  • (This course must be taken soon after declaring the history major.)
  • Seven courses at the 3000- and 4000-level. Of these seven courses, at least three different fields must be represented. Majors are to select three fields from the list above.

Required Minor (12 hours)


General Electives (22-24 hours)


Total: 120 hours


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