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History Honors Program

The program provides history majors with a record of high achievement with the opportunity to carry out historical research and write an original piece of scholarship. To be in the program, students must commit to a two-course sequence that is designed to help them complete an honors project. Upon successful completion of the two classes, students will be awarded departmental honors.

Eligibility

Students are invited to apply to the program in February of their junior year based, in part, on the number of history courses taken to that point, grade point average, and the nomination of History Department faculty.

The History Honors Program and the Honors College

The History Honors Program overlaps with the Honors College in that the capstone (HST 400.7) is approved courses for University Honors, and the final product can count as the Honors College's final project.

Courses

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HST 400.7, Honors Senior Capstone (Fall of Senior year); 3 credit hours

Ordinarily taken in the first semester of the senior year, the course is designed to help students complete a first draft of their thesis. The course fulfills the departmental and Miami Plan capstone requirement.
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HST 401/501, Advanced Historical Methods (Spring of Senior year); 3 credit hours

This course is designed to take an honors project-in-progress and see it through completion. A major component of the class also requires students to communicate their research with outside audiences in various ways, including at the department's Honors Symposium at the end of the semester. The course counts toward the upper-level course requirement for the History Major, but NOT for the required 400-level course.

Questions?

Questions may be directed to the Honors Director, Dr. Amanda McVety.
Contact

Department of History

254 Upham Hall
100 Bishop Circle
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-5121
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