Double Major or Minor in History at Schreiner University
Enhance Your Education with a History Double Major or Minor
Do you have a love for History? Looking for additional skills to make you stand out in the job market? You may be surprised to know that your current major could link up quite easily with History. Perhaps you can do a double major. Or if that feels too daunting, how about minoring in History? The Department of History also offers minors in general history, European studies, and Mexican-American studies.
How does History connect to your major?
- The study of History touches on nearly every other subject. Anything related to people or the natural world is part of history.
- History classes interlink many topics, such as society and culture, political and economic systems, ideas and religion, and the environment
- Studying history can help you connect yourself and your field of study to the broader world. Our courses cover Asian, European, Latin American, and U.S. history.
- History can broaden skills and knowledge from your major or enhance weaker skills.
What are some practical skills that a history major can help you improve?
- 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
What does history teach 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
How to achieve a history major or minor?
- The History degree plan is flexible, allowing many collateral and elective credits.
- A history double major requires 63 credit hours, of which 27 double with the core
- A history minor requires 18 credit hours, of which 6 double with the core
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