Academic
Catalog August 2009 - August 2010 Undergraduate
and Graduate
College of Arts and Letters
Department of History
Liberal Arts Building, room 219
NAU, PO Box 6023, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6023
928-523-4378 (fax 928-523-1277)
Department Chair
Cynthia Kosso
You may pursue the following undergraduate academic plans in NAU’s Department of History:
B.S.Ed. in history and social studies secondary education (extended major)
content emphasis in history (for the B.S.Ed. in elementary education)
The aims of our history plans are to examine the past from a perspective that is significant and applicable to the present and to instill in you an understanding of the processes by which historians draw conclusions from the evidence that has survived from the past.
Historical study requires diligence and clear, critical thinking, which are indispensable for women and men in the world today. The knowledge, skills, and understanding thus placed at your disposal are necessary and invaluable aids for such careers as teaching, law, government service, archival work, and business.
If you earn excellent grades and successfully complete a senior thesis or an honors project, you become eligible to receive departmental honors when you graduate.
To obtain departmental honors, you must:
have an overall grade point average of 3.5 or better
have an overall grade point average for all history courses taken of 3.7 or better
complete a minimum of 39 units of history courses
complete a senior thesis or an honors project under the supervision of a history faculty member
present the results of the thesis or honors project at the University Honors Program Symposium, or at a History department symposium or at a regional/national scholarly conference
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You may pursue the following graduate degrees in the Department of History:
M.A. in history (research and extended coursework plans)
Our faculty and curricular offerings provide breadth and depth for graduate studies in a wide range of fields, while maintaining a traditional strength in the study of the American West, Southwest, and borderlands.
Our academic plans emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to the historical study of several regions and promote understanding of each region as it has developed in global, political, social, economic, cultural, ethnic, and environmental contexts.
Our thematic courses provide you with the opportunity to study local and regional historical processes across disciplinary and geographic boundaries and to appreciate our increasingly interdependent and multicultural world. Our courses are taught by environmental historians with expertise in scientific areas, by social and cultural historians well-versed in gender and sociocultural theory, by economic historians interested in questions about the preservation of natural resources and sustainable environments, and by ethnohistorians employing anthropological approaches to cross-cultural encounters.
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