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History - B.A. Program Requirements

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity and writing-intensive requirements.

I. DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE 1 credit)
Type Course Title Credits
  US 10097 Destination Kent State: First Year Experience 1
II.   MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (36 credits)*  Courses count in major GPA 
Type Course Title Credits
KHU
DG		 HIST 11050 History of Civilization I 3
KHU
DG		   11051 History of Civilization II 3
KAD
DD		   12070 History of the U.S.: Formative Period 3
KAD
DD		   12071 History of the U.S.: Modern Period 3
WIC   32050 The Historian's Craft** 3
 
   49091 Senior Seminar in History
 3
    3/4xxxx HIST Elective: US. History 6
    3/4xxxx HIST Elective: European History since 1500 (including English and Russian) 6
    3/4xxxx HIST Elective: African, Ancient, Medieval, Latin American and/or Asian History 6
III.  ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (84 credits)  
Type Course Title Credits
  Foreign Language*** 14-20
  Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories) 3
  Kent Core Basic Sciences (must include one laboratory) 6-7
  Kent Core Composition 6-8
  Kent Core Fine Arts
 3
  Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning 3-5
  Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines) 6
  College General Requirements (must be from Kent Core Basic Sciences)****
 3
  College General Requirements (must be from Kent Core Social Sciences)***** 3
  General Electives (minimum 21 upper-division credit hours)
Credits required depends on meeting minimum 121 credit hours and minimum 42 upper-division credit hours
 37
TOTAL  121

* All courses taken from the list of major program requirements are used in the calculation of the major GPA.

**A minimum C (2.0) grade must be earned to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.

*** Fulfills College General Requirement.

****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Basic Science courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Biological Sciences (BSCI), Chemistry (CHEM), Geography (GEOG), Geology (GEOL) or Physics (PHY). Students may take the courses listed in the "introductory" sequences with the restrictions noted above in the Kent Core Basic Science section. The course may not be from the student's major.

*****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Social Sciences courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Applied Conflict Management (CACM), Geography (GEOG), Criminology and Justice Studies (JUS), Political Science (POL), Psychology (PSYC) or Sociology (SOC). The course may not be from the student's major.