This program is available at the following locations:

• Corvallis
• Ecampus

History students gain knowledge and skills that suit them for a wide variety of careers and pursuits and that enables them to bring historical and humanities-based perspectives to society’s “big problems,” from racial and social injustice to violence and war.

Major Code: 900

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Demonstrate “information literacy.” This includes effectively utilizing scholarly databases to identify appropriate and relevant primary and secondary sources, assessing the quality and relevance of secondary sources available, and successfully accessing relevant and appropriate sources.
• Formulate a significant and substantive historical question and construct and develop an effective historical argument. This includes articulating a substantive and defensible thesis; presenting informed and insightful analysis of relevant and appropriate historical evidence; and recognizing deficiencies, contradictions, and omissions in one’s interpretation.
• Analyze, evaluate, and contextualize various kinds of primary historical sources. This includes assessing each source’s reliability, claims, perspectives, interests, and limitations and analyzing/evaluating primary sources in relation to each other.
• Explain knowledge of historical chronology, central developments and conflicts, and multiple cultural perspectives in the history of the United States, Europe, and at least one of the following: Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
• Evaluate historical arguments in scholarly literature and synthesize the central interpretive issues in a historical field. This includes identifying key scholarly works, identifying historians’ interpretive arguments and assessing the validity of evidence and interpretive methods utilized, comparing and contrasting scholars’ questions/methods/interpretations, and producing an effective synthetic discussion of key points of scholarly debate.
• Effectively communicate historical knowledge, interpretation, and ideas to non-experts. This includes articulating scholarly arguments clearly, explicating scholarly debates, explaining historical forces, and presenting one’s own interpretations in a clear, organized, and convincing manner.
• Demonstrate effective practice of disciplinary conventions of attribution. This includes citing sources when appropriate and constructing properly formatted footnotes and bibliography.

• Minimum Total Major Credits (50)
• Minimum Upper-Division Credits (39)
• Required courses cannot be taken S/U
   

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Baccalaureate Core course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in a catalog year up to 2024-2025

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Core Education course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in catalog year 2025-2026 and beyond

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Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) course

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A minimum grade of C is required

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Students must complete HST 310 before attempting

Major Code: 900

Degree plans are subject to change and the following is only an example of how students may complete their degree in four years. Students should consult their advisor to determine the best degree plan for them. Contact details for advisors can be found on the Academic Advising page.

Bachelor of Science

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Baccalaureate Core course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in a catalog year up to 2024-2025

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Core Education course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in catalog year 2025-2026 and beyond

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Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) course