Program Overview

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Program Overview & Highlights

General 3-Year Program

Turn your passion for history into an opportunity to make a difference and inspire the next generation with a teaching career! In just five years, you can earn two degrees and gain the qualifications to teach grades 7-12. With Ontario’s growing need for teachers, now is the perfect time to pursue this impactful profession. Our supportive program provides 80 days of hands-on classroom experience and unique service-learning courses that help you thrive as a learner and a leader. Shape the future by bringing the past to life!

• Service learning courses in the community and abroad, including in Tanzania where you can help rehabilitate classrooms and teach in schools
• Learn the skills you need to communicate effectively in the classroom
• Explore everything from local history to global events that continue to impact us today
• Small classes mean your world-class professors will know you by name
• Join a tight-knit community of young historians like yourself in the History Students Association

Learn More About Our Program

• 10 Service learning electives to enhance your experience
• 98.8% of our graduates are employed within 2 years
• 35% of Ontario secondary schools and 24% of elementary schools are facing daily teacher shortages
• 80 days of real teaching experience inside local schools

What Lancers Are Saying

My experience with the Department of History has equipped me with the skills to work as a high school educator, teaching IB history for the Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board. Even as a graduate, the wonderful educators in the program have inspired and encouraged me to seek out further research opportunities around the world and to continue my professional development as an aspiring historian.

Kendal Ryan

Alumni
History and Concurrent Education, 2023

My experience at the University was greatly enhanced by the presence of some amazing professors and faculty.... Additionally, the History Students Association has provided me with support and connections to other students who could give me advice about navigating the department. I have loved that the university is small enough that I can get to know my professors and they know me by name as well.

Brennen Siemens

Student
History and Concurrent Education

Faculty & Staff

Faculty

• Gregg French PhD Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Student Recruitment Officer

• Selena Randhawa Recruiter - Business, FAHSS, Law, Education

Recruitment & Outreach Coordinator

• Sheri Lowrie FAHSS Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator

Gregg French PhD

Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Hello! My name is Dr. Gregg French and I am the Department of History's Undergraduate Advisor.

If you have any questions about our programs and courses, experiential learning opportunities, the History Students' Association, and/or anything else that has to do with the student experience in the Department of History at the University of Windsor, feel free to send me an e-mail.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

• Course Requirements: English/ENG4U (min. avg. 60%)
• Minimum Average: 75%
• Mean Average: 86%
• Note: Admission to first year only.

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

• Course Requirements: Grade 12 English
• Minimum Average: 70%
• Minimum Average (Co-op): 80%; 70% minimum in English
• Mean Average: 80%

Career Tracks

• Secondary teacher
• Principal
• Special education teacher
• Learning strategist
• Academic administrator
• Department head
• Communications specialist
• Museum curator
• Government official

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

1. ENGL-1010 is required for all FAHSS Majors. Students with 80% or higher in Grade 12 ENG4U (or equivalent) are exempt from this course requirement and will substitute it with an additional course from any area of study.
2. All FAHSS programs require students to take one course with Indigenous content, perspectives, or materials. This can be done at any time during the student’s undergraduate education. See this link for course options:
   Not all Indigenous content courses are offered every term.
3. EDUC 1199: This 1.0 credit course is required for this Concurrent Education major, but it will be added automatically to your course schedule later in the summer. Please select five courses now from your teachable subject area(s). The addition of EDUC-1199 will not create a course overload.

Required Course Notes

• Mandatory Course
  • HIST 1030: Past to Present – Understanding History
• Major Course
  • HIST 1230: The World in the Twentieth Century,
• Required Course
  • ENGL 1010
• Recommended Other Courses
  • GART 1210 (see note 2)
  • One Social Science
  • One Language or one Science

Required Courses

• EDUC 1199: Community Service Education The course provides students with directed experience in a community service organization such as a service club, a youth club or group, a national park or conservation area, or a science museum. The Faculty of Education Field Experience Office will arrange the Community Service Field Placements, where applicable. Workshops and seminars will prepare students for the Community Service Field Placements and introduce students to the Professional Year Applicant Portfolio as a means of documenting and reflecting on professional learning and practice in the teaching profession. (Open only to students in the Modern Languages, French, English Language and Literature, History, Drama, Visual Art, General Science and Mathematics I/S Concurrent Education programs). (This is an experiential learning course.)
• ENGL 1010: Academic Writing An introduction to the fundamentals of effective writing in academic contexts. Topics may include language, essay writing conventions, critical thinking, research, editing and revising, and academic integrity. (1.5 lecture, 1.5 laboratory hours per week.) (Arts elective only; does not count for credit in the major or minor Fall 2025 Undergraduate Calendar 104 course requirements of any English or English and Creative Writing degree programs.) (Credit cannot be obtained for both ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1001 or GART 1510.)
• HIST 1030: Past to Present: Understanding History This course is specifically designed for first semester history majors, to introduce them to the history department, different kinds of historical inquiry, and the basics of historical research. Further, it is designed to create a cohort of the new history majors, both through participating in this class together and by working in small groups.
• HIST 1230: The World in the Twentieth Century, An overview of the major events and movements during the first half of the ‘short’ twentieth century. The course will broadly explore the world-wide impact of the world wars, communism, fascism, colonialism, the Great Depression, etc. The geographical focus of the material will vary with the instructor. (3 lecture hours or 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour a week.)

Recommended Courses

• GART 1210: An Introduction into Indigenous Topics This course introduces students to Indigenous histories, perspectives, and modern realities through an Indigenous lens. The role of colonization is introduced as Indigenous relationships on Turtle Island changed as a result of contact and colonization. This survey course provides a learning opportunity for students to engage in Indigenous pedagogy and worldview as they learn how history impacts the contemporary lives of Indigenous people. Through exploring relationships, this course engages critical reading, writing and thinking skills through course lectures and seminar activities. The history of relations assists in understanding how colonization’s policies and statutory documents thereafter affected Indigenous peoples, such as the Royal Proclamation, Treaties, the Indian Act, the British North America Act (1867), and the Constitution Act (1982). Today, these colonial-state governance documents are a significant part of Indigenous-Crown and Indigenous-settler relations. (2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.) (Also offered as SOSC-1210.)