What You'll Learn
A history major prepares you for a wide range of pursuits. You might pursue a career in teaching, public service, graduate or professional school (such as law or medicine), media, ministry, and business. You'll acquire strong skills in writing, research, critical thinking, and public speaking, while you engage with a broad range of cultures and eras.
After framing your coursework with a survey course in global history, build research and writing skills in our Research Methods of History course. Then choose from a wide range of electives to explore your own interests, all while opening doors to your career goals. Finally, bring it all together in our capstone course as you reflect on vocation as a Christian historian.
What Makes This Program Great
Gifted faculty Collaborate with highly respected faculty who are published experts on topics ranging from the Ottoman Empire to the contemporary African American church. They鈥檙e committed Christians who prioritize your learning and are personally invested in your success.
Open doors You鈥檒l learn about history through small classes, internships, off-campus programs, and independent research projects. You鈥檒l learn more than just historical facts鈥攜ou鈥檒l learn how to uncover information, appreciate different perspectives, test your own theories, and communicate your findings.
Future leaders Join a legacy of history majors who are in high demand in a wide range of professions. Our students go on to success in many fields because they think deeply, write clearly, and work effectively in any career they pursue.
Combines well History can readily be combined with a minor or second major, or with a pre-professional or professional track such as pre-law, pre-medicine, public health, or business.
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Encounter history in an off-campus program
Fieldwork in Archaeology: Umm Al-Jim膩l, Jordan
Learn about the history, cultures, and religions of the Middle East while excavating at the breathtaking site of Umm Al-Jim膩l.
Semester in Britain
Pursue your history studies at Liverpool-Hope University in this semester-long program in Britain.
Slavery, Homegoing, and Faith in Ghana
Explore the history, culture, and present day challenges of Ghana through reading key texts and visiting important cultural and historical sites. Major themes of the course are slavery, the Atlantic Slave Trade, human trafficking, Christianity and culture, and Christian-Muslim relations.
Modern Middle East
Study abroad in Jordan while delving into the history of the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.
Faculty
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
William Katerberg
Caleb Lagerwey
Darrell Rohl
Frans van Liere
Ruth Aardsma
