Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education

How did we get here, to this moment and place in time?

It’s one of the central questions posed by history majors at The University of Toledo.

Undergraduates explore history in all its dimensions — from family, institutional, political and social history to world and American history. Students in the UToledo Department of History dive deeply into cultures (their own and others), time periods and places around the globe.

They learn to frame critical questions, seek evidence, evaluate conflicting accounts and synthesize information. History majors learn to place facts (the who, what, where and when) into the broader frameworks that make up our human community. They interpret and create a context for understanding historical events.

Students also examine public history — why we commemorate events and people of the past, and how we commemorate them.

Requirements for Departmental Honors in History

Qualified students are invited to work for the degree citation “honors in history.”

1. Admission: History majors who demonstrate unusual promise in the study of history are invited by the department to enroll in the Honors Program. Departmental honors may be taken concurrently with college honors. Admission to departmental honors is based on the following:
   1. Sophomore standing
   2. Overall minimum GPA of 3.0
   3. A minimum GPA of 3.3 in all history courses (minimum of 10 hours)
   4. Recommendations from two professors
   5. An interview with the adviser
2. Requirements: To gain departmental honors in history, each student will satisfactorily complete the following:
   1. Honors recognition in two history courses. Honors recognition courses are regularly scheduled 3000 to 4000 level courses in which special recognition is achieved by reading and research in addition to the normal requirements of the course.