History

Description

For a history major, curiosity is the biggest prerequisite. You’ll become an investigator into the minds, motivations, and movements that shaped our world, all while studying in one of the most historic cities on earth. Professors encourage classroom debate and rigorous research—you’ll sharpen your analytical and critical-thinking skills to interpret the past, contextualize the present, and frame the future. By graduation, you’ll be ready for a career that requires you to ask challenging questions and provide well-articulated answers, from law to education to journalism to business.

In addition to classroom work, you’ll have the rare opportunity to earn college credit while interning at one of the region’s many historical societies and museums, like the USS Constitution and the Massachusetts Historical Society. You’ll also have unparalleled access to rare archival resources, such as collections at the Boston Public Library. Our history program also offers several key areas of specialization, including African history, Asian history, American history, and women’s history, with upper-level classes tailored to your focus. Suffolk is home to a branch of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society.

The departments of history and English also offer an interdisciplinary honors major for interested and qualified students to explore the relationship between history and literature.

Detailed Course Facts

• USD 16265 Semester (National)

Full-time: 12-17 credits per semester $16,265

Students must complete a minimum of 126 credits for graduation.

• English

Course Content

• HST-200 Gateway to the Past: The Historian's Craft

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  What does it mean to study history? Why is history a particularly valuable means of understanding human experiences and problems? Historians do more than acquire facts about people and societies of the past. Historians debate the past as they uncover new information, develop new interpretative frameworks, and ask new questions. This course introduces students to history as a method of thought and inquiry, the development of history as a discipline, and to new trends and methodologies in the field. Prerequisite: Must be a History Major with at least sophomore status.

  Term:

  Offered Fall Term

  Type:

  Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Choose one of the following two-course sequences (8 credits):

• HST-101 History of Western Civilization I

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  A survey of European culture, politics, and society from antiquity to the seventeenth century, examining such topics as: the Greek, Judaic, and Roman heritage; the rise of Christianity; feudal society in the Middle Ages; Renaissance and Reformation; the Scientific Revolution; and the development of absolutist and constitutional governments.

  Term:

  Offered Fall Term

  Type:

  Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

• HST-102 History of Western Civilization II

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  A survey of European culture, politics, and society from the Scientific Revolution to the present, examining such topics as the development of absolutist and constitutional governments; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; Industrialization and urbanization; nationalism and imperialism; World War I, World War II, and the Cold War; the decline of Europe as a world power.

  Term:

  Offered Spring Term

  Type:

  Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Or

• HST-121 World History I

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  A survey of the civilizations of the ancient fertile Crescent, China, India, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the rise of Islam, Africa, the Americas, the Chinese borderlands and medieval Europe from the beginning of history to 1500. We study the uniqueness and similarities of each civilization, how they interacted with each other, and how they changed over time. Cultural Diversity B

  Term:

  Offered Fall Term

  Type:

  Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

• HST-122 World History II

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  A survey of human civilizations from 1500 to the present. Course explores themes such as the development of new trading networks, including the slave trade, religious and intellectual innovation, the rise of nationalism and creation of nation-states, the democratic revolutions, imperialism and world war. We study social change such as gender and race relations; technological and scientific revolutions; and cultural achievements of all civilizations. Cultural Diversity B

  Term:

  Offered Spring Term

  Type:

  Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement,BSBA SOCIAL CHANGE

Or

• HST-149 Empires & Globalization in World History I

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  This is the first of the two-course series of Empires and Globalization in World History. Course discusses the origins and development of globalization and capitalism from the perspective of economic history. Major issues include the formation of the medieval trade system, the development of finance and capitalism in the early modern ages, and economic changes prior to the Industrial Revolution. The specific topics may change every year due to new academic developments and publications. Cultural Diversity B

  Term:

  Offered Fall Term

  Type:

  Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities Literature Requirement

• HST-150 Empires & Globalization in World History II

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  This is the second of the two-course series of Empires and Globalization in World History. Course discusses the origins and development of globalization and capitalism from the perspective of economic history. Major issues include state-making, wars, and the rivalry among early modern empires, economic development, the Industrial Revolution and the formation of the global trade system. The specific topics may change every year due to new academic developments and publications. Cultural Diversity B

  Term:

  Offered Spring Term

  Type:

  Humanities & History,Cultural Diversity Opt B,Humanities Literature Requirement

Or

• HST-181 American History I

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  A survey of American history from European colonization up through the era of the Civil War. Topics include interactions with Native Americans; slavery; the American Revolution; the founding of a new republic; social and economic developments in the early nineteenth century; expansion; party politics; sectional conflict; the Civil War and Reconstruction.

  Term:

  Offered Fall Term

  Type:

  Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

• HST-182 American History II

  Credits:

  4.00

  Description:

  A survey of American history from the 1870s to the present. Topics include the new industrial order; farmer and worker protests; progressivism; America's emergence as a world power; the two World Wars; the Great Depression; the New Deal; the Cold War; post-World War II American society; the Civil rights movement; Vietnam; dissent and counterculture in the 1960s; the women's movement; economic, social, and political changes in the late-twentieth century; America's relationship to a globalized world.

  Term:

  Offered Spring Term

  Type:

  Humanities & History,Humanities Literature Requirement

Majors must also complete 7 history courses at the 200-level or above (28 credits).

History Concentration

Students have the ability to engage in focused study in a particular area of history – American, European, African-American, Asian, women and gender, or public history – by taking at least 4 upper-level courses in one of those areas.

English Language Requirements

TOEFL paper-based test score : 550 TOEFL iBT® test : 77

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Requirements

We do not use specific minimums for scores or grades in the decision process, but weigh all factors together to gain a whole view of you and your potential for success as a Suffolk University student:

• Level and range of high school courses selected
• Grades achieved (official high school transcript with senior year grades)
• SAT or ACT scores (our code is 3771)
• Recommendations (two required; one from a guidance counselor, one from a teacher)
• The essay
• Other required forms
• Admission interview (optional)
• Transfer students should view the transfer requirements page for more details.

In high school, you should have completed:

• Four units of English
• Three units of mathematics (algebra I and II and geometry)
• Two units of science (at least one with a lab)
• Two units of language
• One unit of American history
• Four units distributed among other college preparatory electives

We may also consider other factors in the review process, such as:

• Class rank
• Honors courses
• AP courses

We are also very interested in personal qualities that will offer us further insights into you as an applicant, including:

• Admission interview
• Extracurricular involvement
• Community service
• Special interests

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

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