History, BA

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is a broadly based liberal arts degree in history. Students who pursue the BA degree must satisfy general requirements and take courses to satisfy Northeastern's university-wide core curriculum (NUpath), in addition to required and elective history courses. These requirements help students develop their historical knowledge and skills within the contexts of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences that together comprise the disciplinary sources of historical knowledge. They enable historical understanding to be culturally and linguistically sensitive to the subjects of historical inquiry.

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

Universitywide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.

BA Language Requirements

All BA students are required to complete the BA language requirements.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

History Major Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Introductory History
HIST 1000	History at Northeastern	1
HIST 1200	Historical Research and Writing	1
HIST 1201	First-Year Seminar	4
Complete two of the following:		8
HIST 1100	Law and History
HIST 1120	Public History, Public Memory
HIST 1130	Introduction to the History of the United States
HIST 1150	East Asian Studies
HIST 1170	Europe: Empires, Revolutions, Wars, and Their Aftermath
HIST 1185	Introduction to Middle Eastern History
HIST 1190	Picturing Modernity: The Photographic Image in Culture and Society
HIST 1215	Origins of Today: Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues
HIST 1246	World War II in the Pacific
WMNS 1103	Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
History Seminar and Historical Writing
HIST 2301 and HIST 2302	The History Seminar and Historical Writing	5

Additional History Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Pre-1800 Course
Complete one of the following:		4
HIST 1218	Pirates, Planters, and Patriots: Making the Americas, 1492–1804
HIST 1252	Japanese Literature and Culture
HIST 1272	Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1500
HIST 1285	Introduction to Russian Civilization
HIST 2330	Colonial and Revolutionary America
HIST 2370	Renaissance to Enlightenment
HIST 2375	The Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Birth of Modern Britain
History Outside the United States and Europe
Complete one of the following:		4
HIST 1150	East Asian Studies
HIST 1180	African History
HIST 1185	Introduction to Middle Eastern History
HIST 1187	Introduction to Latin American History
HIST 1206	Drug Trade and Drug War: History, Security, Culture
HIST 1246	World War II in the Pacific
HIST 1252	Japanese Literature and Culture
HIST 1253	History of Vietnam Wars
HIST 1290	Modern Middle East
HIST 1500	Modern Chinese History and Culture
HIST 2211	The World Since 1945
HIST 2308	Law, Justice, and Society in Modern China
HIST 2311	Colonialism/Imperialism
HIST 2351	Modern Japan
Capstone or Project
Complete one of the following:		4
HIST 4701	Capstone Seminar

Intermediate/Advanced History Course Requirement

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete four history courses numbered 2000 or above (excluding HIST 2301 and HIST 2302); one of these courses must be numbered 3000–4999.		16

History Major Credit Requirement

Complete 46 semester hours in the major.

Experiential Liberal Arts

All students in this College of Social Sciences and Humanities program are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.

Program Requirements

128 total semester hours required

Four Years, One Co-0p

Year 1
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours	Summer 2	Hours
HIST 1000	1	HIST 1130	4	Vacation	0	Vacation	0
HIST 1170	4	MATH 1215	4
ENGW 1111	4	Elective	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
HIST 1200	1
HIST 1201	4
	18		16		0		0
Year 2
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours	Summer 2	Hours
Foreign language course	4	Foreign language course	4	Elective	4	Co-op	0
Elective	4	Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4	Elective	4
Pre-1800 or non-U.S./Europe history course	4	Pre-1800 or non-U.S./Europe History Course	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
	16		16		8		0
Year 3
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours
Co-op	0	Foreign language course	4	Elective	4
		HIST 2301	4	Elective	4
		HIST 2302	1
		Elective	4
		Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4
	0		17		8
Year 4
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours
Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4	Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4
Elective	4	HIST 4701	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
	16		16
Total Hours: 131

Five Years, Three Co-ops in Spring/Summer 1

Year 1
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours	Summer 2	Hours
HIST 1170	4	HIST 1130	4	Vacation	0	Vacation	0
ENGW 1111	4	MATH 1215	4
Elective	4	Foreign language course	4
HIST 1200	1	Elective	4
HIST 1201	4
	17		16		0		0
Year 2
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours	Summer 2	Hours
Foreign language course	4	Co-op	0	Co-op	0	Elective	4
Pre-1800 or non-U.S./Europe History Course	4					Elective	4
Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4
Elective	4
	16		0		0		8
Year 3
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours	Summer 2	Hours
Foreign language course	4	Co-op	0	Co-op	0	Elective	4
Pre-1800 or non-U.S./Europe History Course	4					Elective	4
Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4
Elective	4
	16		0		0		8
Year 4
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours	Summer 1	Hours	Summer 2	Hours
Elective	4	Co-op	0	Co-op	0	Vacation	0
HIST 2301	4
HIST 2302	1
Elective	4
Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4
	17		0		0		0
Year 5
Fall	Hours	Spring	Hours
Elective	4	HIST 4701	4
Intermediate/Advanced History Elective	4	Elective	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
Elective	4	Elective	4
	16		16
Total Hours: 130