History: AA

Associate of Arts | 62 credits minimum

Program Website
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Program Description
The History Program provides students with a large variety of courses that span most of the World from ancient times to the 21st century. The courses range from area surveys to more specialized thematic topics. The program goes far beyond an emphasis on content and coverage; each course is designed to teach students to think like historians. History is both an art and a science. While it is deeply interpretive and involves storytelling, it is also an evidence-based discipline. Students will learn how to ask important questions about the past, collect, analyze, and contextualize a variety of sources and write persuasive arguments and narratives. Students will examine multiple and often contrasting or competing points of view, an activity that sharpens the ability to evaluate truth claims. This program, therefore, not only provides students the opportunity to study the human past in all of its diversity, it teaches highly transferable skills that will serve students well in other areas of study and in other career fields. After completing this program, students will be prepared to transfer to a four-year institution and succeed in upper division courses. Additionally, sixteen of the seventeen courses carry General Education designations. This means that this program is also a vehicle for students to broaden their perspectives and deepen their understandings of the world around them.

Career Opportunities
Educators: Secondary and Postsecondary; Historic Sites and Museums
Researchers: Historical Organizations; Cultural Resources Management and Preservation; Think Tanks.
Communicators: Writers and Editors; Journalists; Documentary Editors; Producers of Multimedia Material
Information Managers: Archivists; Records Managers; Librarians
Advocates: Lawyers and Paralegals; Litigation Support; Legislative Staff Work; Foundations
Businesses and Associations: Historians in Corporations and NGOs, Contract Historians

Transfer/Articulation Information
Please refer to the Student Resources section of the SLCC University Transfer webpage.

Estimated Cost for Students
Tuition and student fees: http://www.slcc.edu/student/financial/tuition-fees.aspx

NOTE: Fees may vary based upon specific registration and are subject to change.

General Education Requirements

Complete all General Education courses. Refer to Notes for program specific requirements and recommendations.

Associate of Science (AS) / Associate of Arts (AA) Degree General Education Requirements

Program General Education Notes

REQUIRED:

Composition (EN): ENGL 1010 and
ENGL 2010

Language (LN): Language (LN)

RECOMMENDED:

Quantitative Literacy (QL): MATH 1040

Program Requirements

Required Courses (15 Credits)

Take both of the following

Select one of the following

Select one of the following not taken above

Elective (9 credits)

Complete 9 credits from any college course numbered 1000 or above. History courses are recommended.
NOTE LANG 1010 can be used as an elective.

Time to Completion & Graduation Map

History AA: Full-time
Time to completion is 4.2 semesters based on a full-time minimum of 15 credits per semester. Less than 15 credits per semester will increase time to completion. If student takes 2 semesters of 15 credits, one semester of 16 credits, one semester of 17 credits, the student will graduate in 4 semesters.

Program Learning Outcomes

Program learning outcome alignment with Student Learning Outcomes in brackets.

Demonstrate substantive knowledge of the key social, political, economic events, themes, trends, processes, issues, and actors in a variety of History fields, and be able to place them in correct chronological sequence and make vertical and horizontal linkages between them. [1,4]
Be able to recognize and analyze how humans in the past shaped their own unique historical moments and were in turn, shaped by them. [1,4]
Distinguish the past from our very different present. [1,4,5]
Recognize history as an interpretive and contested account of the human past- one that is created in and influenced by the present. [4,5]
Engage in the methods historians use as they collect, sift, organize, interrogate, contextualize, synthesize and interpret a variety of historical sources.[4]
Construct and communicate historical arguments based on evidence. [2,4,8,9]
Apply historical knowledge to contemporary issues and problems and be able to engage a diversity of perspectives about the past and present in a civil and constructive manner. [2,4,7]
Collect and sift appropriate source material in the library or online and demonstrate that the ethics and practice of history mean recognizing and building on the work of others and providing appropriate and thorough attribution. [1,2,8,9]