Main Departmental Office
Wooten Hall, Room 225

Mailing address:
1155 Union Circle #310650
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-2288
Fax: 940-369-8838

Web site:www.hist.unt.edu

Richard McCaslin, Chair

Faculty 

History encompasses all aspects of past human endeavor; it encourages students to think broadly and to integrate all of their knowledge into a meaningful whole. From history a person develops a better understanding of current events and a better appreciation of art, architecture, ideas, politics, and fellow human beings and their activities. It also provides a guide for the future. The study of history is important for journalists, teachers, business people, theologians, politicians, scientists, lawyers, librarians, archivists, museologists and those in many other professions. Students planning any career could benefit from majoring or minoring in history or from choosing history as the lead subject in the social science major or for elective credits. History is an interest students may retain for life.

U.S. history requirement

Texas state law requires that the university may not award a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic certificate unless the student has credit for 6 semester hours in American history. A student is entitled to submit as much as 3 hours of credit, or its equivalent, in Texas history in partial satisfaction of this requirement. The university may determine that a student has met the requirement by work transferred from another accredited college or upon successful completion of an advanced standing examination. The student may satisfy the entire 6-hour United States/Texas history requirement by advanced standing examination. Most students meet this requirement by taking the survey of U.S. history courses (HIST 2610 -HIST 2620 ), but advanced U.S. history courses (courses numbered 3000 and 4000) may be used to satisfy the legislative mandate, and Texas history (HIST 4700 ) may substitute for 3 hours of U.S. history.

Scholarships

The Department of History offers the following undergraduate scholarships: the Howard H. Schultz Scholarship and Watt Family Scholarship in Jewish Studies, the Harry and Ruth Kamman Scholarship, the Gus Seligmann History Scholarship, the Ledbetter Family Scholarship, the CBS Mechanical Inc. History Scholarship, the Nation’s Heritage Scholarship, the Benjamin Lyon Chapter DAR Scholarship and the Kingsbury-Thomason Scholarship (for students who intend to major in history and to teach history in Texas public schools). History majors who are entering freshmen, transfer students or continuing students may apply. The application deadline is February 15. For information and application forms, contact the department chair, associate chair or administrative assistant.

Programs

• History, BA

• African-American studies minor
• Asian Studies minor
• Classical Studies minor
• History minor
• Jewish Studies minor
• Mexican-American Studies minor

• History teacher certification

Courses

• HIST 4580 - Africa to the Nineteenth Century
• HIST 4590 - Modern Africa
• HIST 4630 - U.S. Navy, 1775–Present: Sails
• HIST 4640 - Early United States Military History to 1815
• HIST 4650 - Evolution of Warfare to Napoleon
• HIST 4660 - Evolution of Warfare from Napoleon
• HIST 4700 - Texas
• HIST 4750 - Social Studies Teaching Methods
• HIST 4780 - Indian Policy in United States History
• HIST 4790 - Diplomatic History of the United States Since 1945
• HIST 4800 - The Relations Between the United States and Latin American Countries
• HIST 4830 - The Old South
• HIST 4840 - The New South
• HIST 4850 - The Early National Period of the United States, 1789–1848
• HIST 4860 - The Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIST 4870 - Making of the Modern United States, 1877–1929
• HIST 4880 - United States Since 1929
• HIST 4890 - Civil Rights in the United States
• HIST 4900 - Special Problems
• HIST 4910 - Special Problems
• HIST 4951 - Honors College Capstone Thesis