From Historical Insight to Modern Impact

Schreiner University offers a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in History, featuring concentrations in European, Latin American, United States, and International History. Our program is designed to provide students with a broad and analytical perspective, essential for becoming truly educated and productive citizens.

The curriculum begins with lower-level courses that focus on acquiring historical knowledge, developing historical thinking, enhancing writing skills, and conceptual analysis. Upper-division courses and seminars delve into historical research, source evaluation, and critical historical analysis. Our History faculty believes that an objective and accurate assessment of historical trends fosters a greater awareness and appreciation of contemporary society, leading to enhanced individual insight.

The Bachelor of Arts in History degree plan includes 33 Core-course credits (which includes lower-division History courses), 15 to 21 Collateral credits, 36 to 42 Elective credits, and culminates with 30 upper-division History courses. Our program offers a rich array of topics (see below). History majors have the option of completing a senior thesis.

• Improve your reading and writing
• Enhance your critical thinking and knowledge building
• Think more holistically about yourself and the society around you
• Better understand your own culture and society and learn more about different cultures
• Better understand the complexity and interconnectedness of the world around us

• Contingency: the possibility that history did not have to take the course that it did.
• Context: events rarely happen in isolation, there is always a larger picture.
• Comprehensiveness: our history develops in tandem with people and things around us
• Change over time: development takes place over many years, even centuries.
• Cooperation and Conflict: how they have shaped our societies
• Agency: how individuals or groups shape history

Lower division courses in U.S. History and World Civilization
Upper division courses:

3318: US and Global South since 1945
3319: Europe, Ancient to Medieval
3321: The Reformation Era
3327: Modern Eastern Europe and Russia
3328: Modern Western Europe
3331: Europe in the World Wars
3341: The History of U.S. Immigration
3342: Latin American – US Relations since 1810
3352: History of Mexico
3362: The Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975
3395: Readings in Mexican American History

History: 18 Total Hours- 6 lower division hours and 12 upper division hours

European Studies: 21 total hours- 9 lower division multi-disciplinary, 12 upper division in courses on European history, from ancient times to the present, as well as courses in other fields such as Political Science, English, Religion, Art, and Theatre.

Mexican American Studies: 18 Total Hours-6 lower division hours and 12 upper division hours

3342: Latin American – US Relations since 1810
3352: History of Mexico
3341: The History of U.S. Immigration
3395: Readings in Mexican American History