Bachelor of Arts in History

University of Tampa

The Bachelor of Arts in History program is designed to help students see themselves and their society from different times and places, while displaying an informed perspective and a mature view of human nature. Students develop skills of analysis, including the ability to understand context, to understand change and continuity over time, and to draw conclusions from diffuse, fragmentary and biased sources. History students learn about the major social, economic, political and cultural events of the past, and how those events connect to other events in history or today. The program also teaches students how to read and think critically, write and speak clearly and conduct research effectively. All history majors take two introductory survey courses and a core curriculum exploring approaches to history and research methods, culminating in a senior capstone research project.