Bachelor of Arts in History

History majors take a broad diversity of courses that teach the essential subject matter and skills of the discipline. As they advance in the major, students will have the option to specialize in a specific topic, issue, and time period through elective courses. In the last year of the program, they will use these knowledge and skills to produce their own in-depth research project. The UMBC Department of History boasts an award winning faculty who work closely with students to hone their skills as researchers, analysts and writers. Though we are productive researchers and active in our professional associations, we know that a faculty member's first duty is to their students. In our classes, students study a range of topics, issues, and time periods, with particular focus on Public History, Global History, Political and Policy History, and the History of Inequality and Justice. Just as importantly, students learn the skills and methodologies that are central to the discipline. Whether non-majors taking a single history course or majors working on an honors thesis, in our courses students learn how to find sources that give us insight about the past, how to critically analyze those sources, and how to compose texts that make clear and convincing arguments for diverse audiences. It is no surprise, then, that upon graduation our majors have gone on to a broad diversity of jobs both inside and outside the discipline that value these skills, including lawyer, secondary school teacher, congressional staffer and, of course, historian.

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Duolingo English Proficiency Test: 115
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): 80
International English Language Testing System (IELTS): 6.5
SAT (Evidence-Based Reading Writing Section): 500
Cambridge English Qualification: Cambridge B2 First, C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency 176
English composition at a U.S. College/University: grade of C or better
Average GPA: 3.96
Average SAT Score: 1303 (2-part)
Average ACT Composite Score: 25.7