密苏里科技大学

History is a response to the eternal desire of human beings to know more about themselves. For this reason, history students experience a variety of courses, which emphasize the importance of people, their individual choices, their values and their ways of seeing themselves and their world. History majors study humans' accumulated heritage from the fossil past to the nuclear present.

This varied course of study includes fundamental survey classes, specific chronological or topical investigations, and special topic seminars. At Missouri S&T individuals who hold Ph.D. degrees and are publishing scholars teach virtually all of your history and political science courses. The hallmark of the program is individual attention. In upper-level courses, efforts are made to keep class sizes small enough to enable discussion, which in turn provides for a greater breadth of knowledge and depth of understanding, and for personal student-professor associations.

As a history major you learn to analyze information, communicate effectively, and engage in research. Such skills are useful for careers in government service, business, industry, and social service institutions, as well as being the fundamental requisites for graduate and professional studies beyond the undergraduate degree.

If you plan to become a secondary school history teacher, you can fulfill the general requirements for the bachelor of arts degree, the requirements for the history major, and the requirements for Missouri certification in the teaching of history. See education for further information. Contact the Missouri S&T history department for advising.

Secondary Education Emphasis Area

You may earn a B.A. degree in history from Missouri S&T and certification to teach in the schools of Missouri. This program may be completed in four academic years and student teaching is arranged with public schools within 30 miles of the Rolla campus.

Students interested in the certification program should consult with the advisor for history/education majors in the department of history and political science for requirements particular to those interested in this degree. Students should process a change of major form to designate history with an emphasis area of secondary education.

History students must complete 127 credit hours, including requirements for teacher education listed in this catalog. A minimum grade of “C” is required by the department in all history and political science courses counted towards this degree.