• B.A. degree program for History majors. Minors in History and Music History offered
• Primary and secondary school teaching certification in Social Studies also available
• History majors can simultaneously earn a J.D. from Duquesne University through a dual-degree program.
• Features a broad curriculum of more than 50 courses and a historic physical environment conducive to studying history.
• Graduation requirements include a major senior research paper.
• Unique Benedictine influence takes learning to a higher level. (Visit and see for yourself!)

• Broadens your understanding of the way things were and why they are.
• Fosters your ability to view people, problems and ideas in perspective.
• Offers study abroad opportunities, including an annual spring three-week East Asia Study Tour in cooperation with Fu Jen University in Taipei.
• Jump-starts your career through membership in Phi Alpha Theta, an accredited honor society for History majors and minors. Publish your research, network at academic conferences and compete for scholarships via our chapter!

• Prepares you to immediately enter the workforce or attend graduate or law school. Acceptance rates of Saint Vincent College graduates are high!
• Provides practical work experience through internships that we help you secure.
• Students have interned at the Smithsonian Institution, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Bushy Run Battlefield and Old Economy Village, to name a few sites.
• Gets you ready for a full life, personally and professionally, by nurturing your spirit as well as your intellect

History Department Learning Goals

Awareness of forces -- including political, economic, scientific, philosophic, military, religious and cultural -- that shape societies and institutions in order to better understand a particular institution's or idea's rise or fall.

• "Identify the particular forces most relevant to the development of an idea or institution, and trace the interactions of those forces through inception, development, transformation and decline"
• "relate historical forces to one's own growth" and
• "understand a work of literature in relation to literary and cultural history."

Develop students' "intellectual understanding of both the facts of historical events and their broader significance;"

• "nurturing (students') skills in critical thinking" and
• "effective oral communication"
• "effective written communication"
• "Students can more fully appreciate the complexity of human experience."

Develop the "ability to weigh evidence and arguments that are essential for those who live in a rapidly changing world."

By the time of graduation, a history major will be prepared to enter a graduate or professional program, or pursue a career broadly construed as being related to history.