History, BA (Boston)

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is a broadly based liberal arts degree in history. Students who pursue the BA degree must satisfy general requirements and take courses to satisfy Northeastern's university-wide core curriculum (NUpath), in addition to required and elective history courses. These requirements help students develop their historical knowledge and skills within the contexts of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences that together comprise the disciplinary sources of historical knowledge. The curriculum enables historical understanding to be culturally and linguistically sensitive to the subjects of historical inquiry.

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

Universitywide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.

BA Language Requirements

All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

History Major Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Introductory History
HIST 1000	History at Northeastern	1
Historical Research and Writing
HIST 1200	Historical Research and Writing	1
HIST 1201	First-Year Seminar	4
History Seminar and Historical Writing
HIST 2301	The History Seminar	4
HIST 2302	Historical Writing	1

Additional History Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Pre-1800 Course
Complete one of the following:		4
HIST 1100	Law and History
HIST 1185	Introduction to Middle Eastern History
HIST 1218	Pirates, Planters, and Patriots: Making the Americas, 1492–1804
HIST 1252	Japanese Literature and Culture
HIST 1270	Ancient Greece
HIST 1272	Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1500
HIST 1389	History of Espionage 1: Antiquity to World War II
HIST 2330	Colonial and Revolutionary America
HIST 2370	Renaissance to Enlightenment
HIST 2375	The Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Birth of Modern Britain
HIST 2390	Africa and the World in Early Times
HIST 3334	Assassinations in World History
History Outside the United States and Europe
Complete one of the following:		4
HIST 1150	East Asian Studies
HIST 1187	Introduction to Latin American History
HIST 1206	Drug Trade and Drug War: History, Security, Culture
HIST 1246	World War II in the Pacific
HIST 1252	Japanese Literature and Culture
HIST 1253	History of Vietnam Wars
HIST 1290	Modern Middle East
HIST 1294	History of the Jews in the Modern World
HIST 1500	Modern China
HIST 2025	Latin American History through Film
HIST 2211	The World Since 1945
HIST 2308	Law, Justice, and Society in Modern China
HIST 2311	Colonialism/Imperialism
HIST 2351	Modern Japan
HIST 2360	History of Capitalism in East Asia
Capstone
HIST 4701	Capstone Seminar	4

History Electives

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete further history courses not used to fulfill a previous requirement.
General History Elective Requirement
Complete three HIST courses at any level in any field.		12
Intermediate/Advanced Course Requirement
Complete a minimum of one HIST course numbered 2000 to 2999 (excluding HIST 2301 and HIST 2302).		4
Advanced Course Requirement
Complete a minimum of two HIST courses numbered 3000 to 4999 (excluding HIST 4701).		8

History Major Credit Requirement

Complete 46 semester hours in the major.

Experiential Liberal Arts

All students in this College of Social Sciences and Humanities program are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.

Program Requirements

128 total semester hours required