Bachelor of Arts in History

Combine a passion for history with gained experience and learned skills to earn an extremely marketable degree. Learn from renowned scholars whose specialties are the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as well as the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Faculty are experts in race, gender, migration, environment, native peoples and public history. The History Department is committed to offering high-quality courses on a range of geographic and thematic areas, and meaningful faculty mentoring for students. History trains students to contextualize knowledge, to gather, evaluate, and synthesize evidence, and to appreciate different perspectives. Critical thinking is the basis for historical study, and the History Department uses this foundation to prepare students for careers in a variety of fields: law, journalism, teaching, business, public service, library sciences, international work, historical research, museums and more.

Our courses develop students intellectual, creative, and civic capacities through the study of the past. They generally fall into one of three categories: broad surveys (U.S. History and World History), more specialized upper-division courses, and junior-senior seminars (a capstone research and writing course open only to history majors). All of our upper-division courses (except the junior-senior seminar) function as Humanities Block Electives for students in other Liberal Arts majors. Writing is emphasized in virtually all history courses, and research is integrated into many of them.

Official High School or College transcripts must be sent directly from the schools attended in the U.S. or abroad. Foreign transcripts in a language other than English must be translated before being submitted to the university. Copies or faxes are considered unofficial and will not satisfy this admission requirement.
All international students must submit entrance exam scores. Take one of the following exams and request your scores to be sent directly to UTEP from the testing center:
SAT: minimum score of 1070 (reading + math sections) with a score of 480 on the reading section
ACT: minimum composite score of 23 with a score of 19 on the English section
TOEFL: minimum score of 500 on UTEP's institutional paper based exam or
a minimum score of 61 on the Internet Based TOEFL (IBT)
UTEP does not accept IELTS scores for admission.