The Department of History and the Department of English offer an interdisciplinary combined major in history and English. Students interested in the combined major integrate the study of literature and writing with the study and analysis of human history.
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 degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
History Requirements
Code | Title | Hours |
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History Colloquium | ||
HIST 1000 | History at Northeastern | 1 |
HIST 1200 | Historical Research and Writing | 1 |
HIST 1201 | First-Year Seminar | 4 |
Introductory Level | ||
Complete one course from the 1000 level. | 4 | |
History Seminar and Historical Writing | ||
HIST 2301 | The History Seminar | 4 |
HIST 2302 | Historical Writing | 1 |
Pre-1800 History Elective | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Introduction to Middle Eastern History | ||
Introduction to Latin American History | ||
Pirates, Planters, and Patriots: Making the Americas, 1492–1804 | ||
Japanese Literature and Culture | ||
Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1500 | ||
Introduction to Russian Civilization | ||
Renaissance to Enlightenment | ||
Colonial and Revolutionary America | ||
The Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Birth of Modern Britain | ||
Intermediate/Advanced History Courses | ||
Complete four history courses numbered 2000 or above that have not been used to fulfill another requirement. | 16 | |
Advanced History | ||
Complete one history course at the 3000 level or above that has not been used to fulfill another requirement. | 4 |
English Requirements
Code | Title | Hours |
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English Course-Level Requirement | ||
In addition to the capstone, two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be numbered 3000–4999. | ||
Introduction to College | ||
ENGL 1000 | English at Northeastern | 1 |
Foundational Courses | ||
ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
Diversity | ||
Complete one of the following courses. This course may also be used to fulfill an additional English requirement below: | 4 | |
Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
Early African-American Literature | ||
American Women Writers | ||
Writing in Global Contexts | ||
Asian-American Literature | ||
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
Pre-Nineteenth-Century Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
Global Literatures 1 | ||
Early African-American Literature | ||
Early Literatures | ||
17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | ||
Milton | ||
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
or JWSS 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | |
Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
The Graphic Novel | ||
The American Renaissance | ||
The Modern Bestseller | ||
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
Contemporary Israeli Literature and Art Abroad | ||
19th-Century Literatures | ||
Emerson and Thoreau | ||
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
19th-Century Major Figure | ||
20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure | ||
Theories and Methods | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Grammar: The Architecture of English | ||
Introduction to Rhetoric | ||
Introduction to Research on Writing | ||
Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
Rhetoric of Law | ||
Technologies of Text | ||
The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
Opening the Archive | ||
Narrative Medicine | ||
Introduction to Language and Linguistics | ||
Linguistic Analysis | ||
Syntax | ||
Semantics | ||
History of English | ||
Language and Gender | ||
Topics in Linguistics | ||
Comparative Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
British Literature to 1800 | ||
American Literature to 1865 | ||
Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
Contemporary Poetry | ||
Contemporary Fiction | ||
American Women Writers | ||
Asian-American Literature | ||
Horror Fiction | ||
Science Fiction | ||
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
What Is Nature? | ||
Boston in Literature | ||
Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
Writing | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Creative Writing | ||
Style and Editing | ||
Writing and Community Engagement | ||
Writing in Global Contexts | ||
Writing to Heal | ||
Visual Writing | ||
Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | ||
Writing Boston | ||
Creative Nonfiction | ||
Poetry Workshop | ||
Fiction Workshop | ||
Writing Seminar | ||
The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
English Electives | ||
Complete two additional ENGL electives. | 8 |
Capstone
Code | Title | Hours |
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Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Capstone Seminar | ||
Capstone Project | ||
Capstone Seminar |
Integrative Requirement
Code | Title | Hours |
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Required Integrative Course | ||
ENGL 3400 | Opening the Archive | 4 |
Experiential Liberal Arts
All students in this College of Social Sciences and Humanities program are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.
The History Seminar (HIST 2301) fulfills the college’s experiential learning requirement.
Program Requirements
128 total semester hours required
Sample Five Years, Three Co-ops in Summer 2/Fall
Year 1 | |||||||
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Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
HIST 1000 | 1 | HIST elective or integrative 1 | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
HIST 1200 | 1 | HIST elective or integrative 2 | 4 | ||||
HIST 1201 | 4 | ENGL 1160 or 1410 | 4 | ||||
ENGW 1111 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
ENGL 1400 | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Year 2 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
HIST 2301 | 4 | HIST elective or integrative 3 | 4 | Vacation | Co-op | ||
HIST 2302 | 1 | HIST elective or integrative 4 | 4 | ||||
Pre–19th-century ENGL | 4 | 19th-, 20th-, or 21st-century ENGL | 4 | ||||
ENGL theory/methods | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
17 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Year 3 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
Co-op | HIST elective or integrative 5 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | ||
ENGL comparative | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
ENGL writing | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
Year 4 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
Co-op | HIST elective or integrative 6 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | ||
ENGL diversity | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
Year 5 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
Co-op | HIST capstone or HIST senior project or ENGL capstone | 4 | |||||
HIST elective or integrative 7 | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
0 | 16 | ||||||
Total Hours: 131 |