All students must complete the University's Liberal Education requirements.

Collegiate Requirements:

All CLA BA degrees require 18 upper-division (3xxx-level or higher) credits outside the major designator. These credits must be taken in designators different from the major designator and cannot include courses that are cross-listed with the major designator. The major designator for the History BA is HIST.
Students are required to complete 4 semester(s) of any second language, with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department or college.
All incoming CLA first-year (freshmen) must complete the First-Year Experience course sequence.
All incoming CLA first-year (freshmen) students earning a BA, BS, or BIS degree must complete CLA 3002 Career Kickstarter.
All students must complete a capstone in at least one CLA major. The requirements for double majors completing the capstone in a different CLA major will be clearly stated. Students must also complete all major requirements in both majors to allow the additional capstone to be waived. Students completing an additional degree must complete the Capstone in each degree area.

At least 13 upper-division credits in the major must be taken at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
Students create their degree program around an area of concentration of their own choosing, which can center on a historical theme (race, ethnicity, and diaspora, for example) or a combination of geography and chronology (e.g. medieval Mediterranean).
History majors are required to complete at least two Writing Intensive (WI) courses in the major. One of those WI courses will be the capstone course. Majors are invited to complete a second WI course at either the 1xxx or 3xxx level. Double majors completing their capstone experience in their non-history major can complete both of their WI requirements with a total of two courses at either the 1xxx or 3xxx level.
As many as two AP courses may count as 1xxx-level courses towards the Electives requirement in the History BA.

Students may earn a BA or a minor in history, but not both.

View sample plans for this program here: https://sampleplan.umn.edu/node/481

History B.A.

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