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 Anna
Hahn, 2008 Hartje Award Winner |
With diverse course offerings considering South Africa, America at War, Hiroshima's Shadown, Religion and Film, Modern Middle East, the Age of Decadence, Medieval Civilization, and the Vikings, our department seeks to offer students a global history. With 40 semester hours in History for the major and 20 semester hours for the minor, several of our majors elect to pursue licensure in Secondary Social Studies. After graduation, several alumni have found careers as lawyers, historians, museum curators, higher education administrators, marketers, editors, writers, professors, and educators.
Our department also provides several opportunities to meet with fellow students and faculty outside of the classroom.
History Talks, for example, is an informal, bimonthly meeting in which faculty and students gather to discuss historical topics such as American Foreign Policy, the history of family food traditions, historical novels, Frank Lloyd Wright homes, Folk Music, myth and history, and the impact of globalization. History Talks also has outings to the local bowling alley, to films, and to local museums and historical societies.
All students participate as members of the colloquium series offered by the department. Professional historians and history department alumni are frequent speakers.
History Picnic