Undergraduate History Courses

Notes to History Majors
Notes to Non-Majors
Spring 2010
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Welcome to the Department of History’s Spring 2010 undergraduate course offerings. As you’ll see, the History Department offers a diversity of courses, in terms of geography, chronology, and topic. If you have questions about the content of a particular course, please contact the listed instructor.:

The courses are grouped into three main categories:

1. University seminars (open only to first-year students)

2. Regular courses (generally open to all students, though some are restricted by class and/or by major) and broken into the following breadth areas:
Africa/Asia/Middle East
Ancient/Medieval Europe
Modern Europe
Latin America
United States
Special (global, thematic, etc.)

3. Special courses open only to history majors (History Workshop, Department Seminars, History Honors Program courses, etc.)
If you have questions regarding registration, seat access, counting courses toward particular requirements, or any other related issues, please consult the guidelines below before contacting the Department of History:

Notes to History Majors

While the Department aims to make our courses available to as many students as possible, we cannot guarantee individuals access to particular courses. If you prove unable to register for a desired course via InsideND, you may make a special request for an exemption by contacting Dan Graff, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), at dgraff@nd.edu. However, please note that no exemptions will normally be given until AFTER all students have had their registration appointments. In any request for an exemption, please note your class year and reason for wanting the course (breadth requirement, concentration course, elective, etc.). Priority is always given to graduating seniors and those with particularly compelling intellectual cases.

History majors may count no more than two lower-level courses toward the major (those that begin with a 1 or a 2). AP credit does not count toward the major.

The History Workshop, HIST 33000, a required course for all standard 10-course majors, is intended as a “gateway” course into the major, so all majors should take this course as soon as possible, ideally the semester following the declaration of the major. With more than one section of this course available, majors should aim to build their schedule around the Workshop, rather than the other way around.

Those completing the standard 10-course major should declare their concentration with their faculty advisor as soon as they begin taking courses beyond the Workshop and four breadth courses, if not before -- and by the end of the junior year at the latest.

All majors (standard and supplementary) must complete at least one departmental seminar (except History Honors Program students, who write a year-long senior thesis instead). These courses share the number sequence 43XXX, and they feature as the main assignment the writing of a 25-page paper rooted in primary research. Standard majors should choose a departmental seminar in the area of their concentration whenever possible, while supplementary majors should choose one on a topic with which they have some familiarity due to prior coursework. Note that majors do not have to wait until they are seniors to take one of these courses; also note that majors are encouraged to take more than one.

Notes to Non-Majors:

Please note that while the Department aims to make our courses available to as many students as possible, we cannot guarantee individuals access to particular courses. If you prove unable to register via InsideND for a desired course, you may make a special request for an exemption by contacting Dan Graff, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), at dgraff@nd.edu. However, please note that no exemptions will normally be given until AFTER all students have had their registration appointments. In any request for an exemption, please note your major, class year, and reason for wanting the course (university requirement, elective, etc.). Priority is always given to majors, graduating seniors, and those with particularly compelling intellectual cases.

Unless noted in the individual course description, any three-credit History course listed below satisfies the university History requirement (or College of Arts & Letters History/Social Science requirement). Students may not use a Special Studies course (HIST 47050) to satisfy this requirement.

Courses (or crosslists) beginning with a 1 are generally reserved for first-year students, and other students generally need permission from both the Department and the Dean of First Year Studies to register for them. University seminars, designated by the number HIST 13184, are restricted exclusively to first-year students.

Most courses beginning with a 2 are generally open to all students, but sometimes seats are reserved for sophomores and/or first-year students, especially during initial registration.

Courses beginning with a 3 or 4 are generally open to all students, but since they are major-level courses, some seats are restricted to History majors. If there are open seats restricted to history majors once initial registration for all students has ended, the department may lift the restriction to accommodate more non-majors.

If you have any other questions, please contact Director of Undergraduate Studies Daniel A. Graff, Ph.D., Dept. of History, 219 O’Shaughnessy Hall, ideally via email at dgraff@nd.edu.

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