History (Minor)
The program for the history minor provides flexibility for students to fashion their academic interests around the course offerings. Students will examine human experiences in their context.
- Degrees & Offerings
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- Minor
- Location
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- Bloomsburg
- Lock Haven
- Mansfield
- Department
- Program Contact
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Chair of the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy / Associate Professor
The Historical practice requires students to learn a variety of perspectives, interpret evidence from the past as well as contemporary historical interpretations, with the knowledge that the record is incomplete, our knowledge provisional, and that cause and effect are complex.
Students interested in the History Minor should consult their advisor for information on course requirements.
Courses and Curriculum
History Minor Requirements
- 18 credits required for minor completion
- Students should meet with their academic advisor each semester and use Degree Works to monitor their individual progress toward completion of the minor.
- Students build historical knowledge to interpret the context and impact of the past
- Students explain multiplicity of perspective and causation in History and display empathy toward people in their historical context.
- Students identify, summarize, appraise, and synthesize other scholars’ historical arguments.
- Students develop critical research methods by creating historical questions, developing research strategies to answer them, collecting, organizing, and evaluating varying types of historical evidence.
- Students effectively communicate historical arguments and narratives through a variety of media by using arguments and evidence, synthesizing and interpreting the past ethically, and exhibiting understanding of conventions of the discipline.
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