Carleton College: History: History Audit

History Audit

New courses are added each year.

HISTORY DEPARTMENT AUDIT WORKSHEET 2009-10

updated 9/18/2009, nl

Major Requirements

Thematic Field Guidelines

If you have any questions about the major or History courses, please e-mail, call, or stop by and see the History Chair, Professor Annette Igra aigra@carleton.edu (507) 222-5240, Leighton 207.

Nikki Lamberty (507) 222-4217, Leighton 210 can also provide more information. She audits your History courses in consultation with your advisor and the Chair of the Department. Contact her or stop by the office, Leighton 210, if you have questions about the distribution of your credits in the various History fields, or if your Registrar's Office audit is inaccurate. Your complete Carleton transcript audit is done by Candy Braun, Academic Records Coordinator and Roger Lasley, Registrar.

All members of the History Department Faculty are available to answer your questions about the department, its offerings, and the requirements of the major.

Foreign Language Option: 199
Independent Studies: 290, 291, 292, 390, 391, 392
Internship 393, included under heading of topic of study.

For the Class of 2010, History 400 is only offered winter term and all requirements are exactly the same as they are now.

Beginning with the class of 2011, seniors will receive 6 credits for completing two comps classes and 6 credits for the newly designed Senior Historical Writing class, to meet the new 72-credit requirement. The newly re-designed Comps format includes taking History 400-1. Fall term (3 credits), then taking History 398: Advanced Historical Writing (6 credits) and History 400-2. Comps Research Paper (3 credits), taken Winter term.

NEW SENIOR WRITING SEMINAR
Beginning with the Class of 2010-2011: 398. Advanced Historical Writing This course is designed to support majors in developing advanced skills in historical research and writing. Through a combination of class discussion, small group work, and one-on-one interactions with the professor, majors learn the process of constructing sophisticated, well-documented, and well-written historical arguments within the context of an extended project of their own design. They also learn and practice strategies for engaging critically with contemporary scholarship and effective techniques of peer review and the oral presentation of research. Prerequisite: History 400.1. 6 credits, S/CR/NC. Begins Winter 2010-2011.

NEW COMPS beginning with the Class of 2010-2011:
400.1. Integrative Exercise Completion of a research proposal, working with an adviser. Satisfactory completion of this senior requirement depends upon approval of the proposal by the faculty adviser and the department. 3 credits, S/CR/NC. Begins Fall, 2010-2011.

NEW COMPS beginning with the Class of 2010-2011:
400.2. Integrative Exercise Completion and defense of a substantial (approximately 35-40 page) original research paper, written in consultation with a faculty adviser. Concurrent enrollment in History 398 required. Prerequisite: History 400.1. 3 credits, S/CR/NC. Begins Winter, 2010-2011.

History majors must take courses in at least three of the following seven fields:
1) U.S. HISTUS
2) Ancient and Medieval HISTANCNT/MDVL
3) Early Modern and Modern Europe HISTERLYMODEUR
4) Asia HISTASIA (East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East)
5) Africa and its Diaspora HISTAFRDIASPORA: This field includes courses related to Africa and the history of people of African descent outside the African continent.
6) Latin America HISTLATAM
7) the Atlantic World HISTATLANTWRLD: This is one of the newest fields of historical scholarship. It examines the relationship between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from ca. 1500-1820 through the circulation of people, goods, and ideas.

Students choosing fields 1-4 as their primary field will take four courses; those choosing 5-7 may take four courses in that field, or take three courses in the field and one additional course that is of relevance to the field. This additional course will be chosen in consultation with the advisor. In addition, each major must take two courses in each of two secondary fields (24 credits), and fulfill the other requirements listed below:

Also required are:
Junior Colloquium, History 298 - required 6-credit course (does not count toward a field) _____
Research Seminar, History 395 - required 6 credit course, usually taken in the your primary field ____ / ______ History 395 counts towards one field and also fulfills the senior research seminar requirement.
Senior Writing Colloquium, History 398, begins 2010-11, above - required 6-credit course (does not count toward a field) ____
Comps, History 400 - required for completion of the major and counts toward completion of the credit total for History. _____
Please look at new Comps procedure beginning in 2010-11, above.

FAQs
First year seminars (History 110s) count towards fields.
Colloquia and the comprehensive exercise courses count toward the total number of required credits but not in fields.
All graded courses count toward the major requirement credits in which a grade of C- or above is received.
No course can be counted for more than one field at a time.
You can change your primary field and secondary fields.

1) United States: 110, 120, 121, 195 (counts towards ENTS), 200 (or HistAsia), 211, 212, 213, 217, 220, 221, 222, 223, 226, 227, 228, 229, 279, 306 Topics in Environmental History (also counts for ENTS), 322, 324, 395. (Also: American Studies 115, Economics 232, 340, 341, and/or Religion 140, when taught by historians)

2) Ancient and Medieval: 110, 130, 137, 138, 204, 230, 233, 235, 238-01 (3 credits), 238-02 (3 credits), 330/395, 333, 395, Classics 227 Greek History, Classics 228 Roman History, Classics 229 Later Roman Empire, Byzantium & Islam, and European Studies 110 (when taught by historian).

3) Early Modern and Modern Europe: 110, 118 (or U.S.), 139, 140, 141, 142, 208, 232, 236 (or Ancient/Medieval), 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 395, Economics 233

4) Asia (includes East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East): 110, 150, 151, 152, 153
156, 160, 161, 167, 200 (or U.S.), 253, 254, 255, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263 (also early/modern Europe), 265, 360, 395

5) Africa and Its Diaspora: 110, 180, 181, 182, 276, 220, 221, 283, 386, 395

6) Latin America: 110, 169, 170, 208, 272, 273, 275, 276, 278, 395

7) The Atlantic World: 110 (Conquest and Survival in Indigenous Mexico, English Civil War, Natives and Newcomers), 139, 169, 208, 211, 212, 220, 237, 245, 276, 395

AP and IB

Courses from other departments that may be included in the 66-credit count when taught by historians:
American Studies 115 when taught by historian
Classical History courses Classics 227 Greek History, Classics 228 Roman History,
and Classics 229 History of Later Roman Empire, Byzantium & Islam
Economics 232, 233, 340, 341 (American and European Economic History, taught by historian)
Economics 250 when taught by Professor Martha Paas or another Economic historian.
European Studies 110 when taught by an historian
Religion 140: History of Religion in America, when taught by an historian

Regarding additional courses that may count toward major: if approved by the History Department Chair or your advisor to count any courses African-American, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classics, Latin American Studies, Religion, Women’s Studies, or other special course. Only courses offered by an historian visiting in another department can be considered for History department credit.

Courses numbered below 200 are open to first year students. First-year students may not register in courses numbered 200 and above without the written permission of the instructor. It is recommended that students planning to major in history take History 110 and one or two other courses during their first year. History majors who are interested in study and research in a major library should consider the Newberry Library Seminar Program. Other interesting off-campus programs and graduate studies programs and information can be found in the History Department lobby and at the following sites:
History Department Resources Page, ALSO: Off-Campus Studies Programs credit