Program Overview

History

Learn the past. Improve the future.

As the saying goes, if you don't learn from history, you'll repeat its mistakes. With a history degree, you will gain a broad understanding of the human experience over time and, more importantly, gain the critical-thinking skills needed to apply history’s lessons to the present. You'll also be able to form grounded opinions about current issues and events so that you can be a catalyst for change in whatever career path you take.

Advantages

• Courses cover a wide range of topics and time periods
• Opportunities to study specific events in history, such as the Civil War, the Third Reich, or modern Africa
• Chances to study abroad or through the Lugar Academy Washington Semester program
• Critical thinking and research skills that can help you achieve future success
• Passionate professors who have been published and are regarded as experts in their areas of study

Potential Careers

• Teacher, either domestically or abroad
• Researcher

A history degree will help you prepare for this type of work:

• Graduate school/law school
• Nonprofit work

Curriculum Guides

These curriculum guides outline the different classes you will need to take as a History major. The general education guide provides a list of all the classes you need in order to fulfill UIndy’s general education requirements. The History guide lists all of the classes you will need to take in order to fulfill the major’s requirements. Be sure to take a look at both guides in order to get a complete picture of what your classes will look like at UIndy.

• University of Indianapolis General Education curriculum guide
• History Major curriculum guide

Alum Story

Lauren Judd

History, Class of 2017

Dr. Williams was very invested in helping me do what I wanted to do. When it came time to do my thesis, he coached me through the whole thing. I had a lot of one on one attention from him that I wouldn’t have had if I had gone to a larger school.