Students who major in History must complete thirty-six semester hours in History, including:
Courses
- HIST 1301 ;
- HIST 1302 ;
- HIST 2311 , HIST 2321 , or HIST 3379 ;
- HIST 2312 , HIST 2322 , or HIST 3380 (or their equivalents) and
- at least 18 advanced semester hours:
- at least six advanced semester hours must be in United States history
- at least six advanced semester hours must be in areas other than United States history
- At least 6 of the 18 advanced semester hours must be at the 4000-level and include one of the following from this capstone course list:
- HIST 4301 - Issues in Feminist Research
- HIST 4303 - Women in the Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 4306 - Antebellum Social Reform
- HIST 4315 - Slavery and American Society
- HIST 4317 - Health and Healing in Africa
- HIST 4322 - Environment in U.S. History
- HIST 4325 - Houston Eats!: Research in Food and Public History
- HIST 4327 - Europe 1930-1945
- HIST 4336 - A History of Histories: Capstone Course on Historiography
- HIST 4337 - US History Through Biography: Methods and Approaches
- HIST 4340 - Philosophies of History
- HIST 4347 - Century of Revolution: Stuart England, 1603-1714
- HIST 4348 - Society and Culture in Early Modern England, 1500-1700
- HIST 4349 - British Empire-Capstone
- HIST 4350 - Alexander the Great
- HIST 4355 - Topics in the History of Law and Society
- HIST 4365 - Women in Latin America
- HIST 4373 History of the US-Mexico Borderlands
- HIST 4375 - The Atlantic World since 1450: Slaves and Capitalists, Rebels and Zombies
- HIST 4384 - East Asian Women in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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With the permission of the Director of the Undergraduate Program (DUS), students may substitute the requirement of the 3-hour capstone course by completing a faculty-directed internship or by completing a 6000-level graduate seminar. Any graduate level hybrid course (4XXX/6XXX) can only be used to fulfill this requirement if 6000-level seminar is a research seminar.
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With the permission of the Director of the Undergraduate Program (DUS), students may also fulfill the requirement of a capstone course by writing a Senior Honors Thesis which requires to take two courses (six credit hours). For further information about this capstone substitute option, see the website of Honors College.
Other Requirements
- Students majoring in History must also meet:
- the University of Houston’s core curriculum requirements
- the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree
- Students must complete at least 12 of the advanced hours in History in residence.
- Students must earn at least a 2.0-grade point average on all work attempted in History at the University of Houston.