X. Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

History (HIST)

Department of History, College of Arts

Courses marked (H) are designed as honours courses. Students in a general program wishing to take these must obtain the permission of instructors concerned. All other courses may be taken by both general and honours students. Students wishing to take a 3000 level course must have pass standing in at least 5.00 credits in university courses.

Students wishing to take a 4000 level course must have pass standing in at least 10.00 university credits. Access to all 4000 level history courses is restricted to students in the B.A. Honours program with at least a 70% average in all history course attempts. Students should note the prerequisite requirements of upper level courses in planning their individual programs.

Students entering semester 1 are advised to choose from 1000 level courses. Second semester students wishing to take an advanced level History course should select that course from the History core.

Core Requirements

  1. HIST*1010, HIST*2100, HIST*2450, HIST*2600

  2. 0.50 credits from each of a) Pre-Modern; b) Developing World; and c) Thematic. Course lists available in the Department of History and at http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/.

Area of Concentration (General Program)

A minimum of 5.00 credits in History is required, including:

  1. at least 1.50 credits in History must be at the 3000 level (excluding HIST*3470 )

  2. students should take the History Core Requirements

Note: With the permission of the department, students may select as part of their program 0.50 credits outside the History Department such as ECON*2420, ECON*3730, EURO*4600, WMST*4010.

Major (Honours Program)

A minimum of 8.00 credits in History courses is required, including:

  1. the History Core Requirements

  2. 4.50 additional credits in History including 2.00 at the 4000 level.

Minor (Honours Program)

A minimum of 5.00 credits in History is required, including:

  1. the History Core Requirements

  2. 1.50 additional credits in History, including 1.00 at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Note: Honours students in History may, with the permission of the department, take up to 1.00 credits from outside the department such as ECON*2420, ECON*3730, EURO*4600, WMST*4010. Students considering graduate work are advised to take 2.00 - 3.00 additional upper level History credits perhaps including the Special History Project Seminar (HIST*4470, HIST*4970) and to acquire a reading knowledge of a foreign language. Honours students must complete HIST*2450 by the end of their third semester to be eligible for 3000 level History courses.

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