BA in History
We are not currently recruiting new students to this program.
Our program aims to instill in you an in-depth appreciation of the past by exposing you to a global focus on both Eastern and Western civilizations through a consideration of the complex interactions across cultures over designated spans of time—interactions that collectively constitute the sum total of the human experience.
Being situated in the MENA region, you have a unique opportunity to view history as it is happening. The instructors of our LAC courses regularly draw upon history to illustrate the issues that face our region today. Our BA in History emphasizes a comparative approach drawing on diverse fields such as History of the Ancient World, Greece and Rome, and European history.
What Will I Learn?
The aim of the program is to show you that although our region has a rich and diverse history of its own, it has to be seen in a world context as belonging to the human family.
Learning about the past has the dual purpose of helping you get acquainted with the accumulated wisdom of the ages, while at the same time allowing you to discern the errors of eras gone by in order to avoid repeating them. A proper and systematic grounding in history therefore becomes the surest way to form character, cultivate perspective, illuminate context, and refine an understanding of what it means to belong to the human family.
Your Career
The BA in History offers you a broad spectrum of career opportunities and graduate studies. Our graduates have earned places in top universities abroad almost always with scholarships. However, the graduate with a BA in History is by no means restricted to academia or teaching. You can find career opportunities in NGO’s, civil service, journalism, foreign service and even local government.
Curriculum
The program requires 92 credits:
- Major requirements: 42 credits
- Liberal Arts Curriculum (LAC) requirements: 30 credits (ENG202 Advanced Academic English; COM203 Art of Public Communication, Arts and Humanities minimum 12 credits and maximum 15 credits, Sciences and Mathematics minimum 3 credits and maximum 6 credits and Social Sciences minimum 6 credits and maximum 9 credits)
- Computer Skills: 1 credit (CSC201 Computer Applications)
- Free elective courses: 19 credits
Major requirements (42 credits)
Four required courses:
Number | Course | Cr |
---|---|---|
HST205 | Historical Tools | 3 |
HST231 | History of Lebanon, from the Imarah to the 1975-1990 War | 3 |
HST401 | Special Topics | 3 |
HST499 | Senior Study | 3 |
Choose one course from the following:
Number | Course | Cr |
---|---|---|
HST220 | The Ancient World, Pre-History to Pericles | 3 |
HST221 | The Ancient World, Greece and Rome | 3 |
Choose one course from the following:
Number | Course | Cr |
---|---|---|
HST240 | History of the Arab Peoples | 3 |
HST241 | History of Islam in the Middle East | 3 |
Choose one course from the following (other than the course chosen in the above section):
Number | Course | Cr |
---|---|---|
HST240 | History of the Arab Peoples | 3 |
HST241 | History of Islam in the Middle East | |
HST242 | Europe and the Middle East (1798-1956) | 3 |
HST243 | Economic History of the Middle East | 3 |
HST244 | History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 3 |
Choose two courses from the following:
Number | Course | Cr |
---|---|---|
HST301 | Europe in Late Antiquity 410-1066 | 3 |
HST302 | Medieval Europe 1066-1453 | 3 |
HST303 | Early Modern Europe 1450-1750 | 3 |
HST304 | Modern Europe 1750-1945 | 3 |
HST305 | Contemporary Europe 1945-1989 | 3 |
Choose three courses from the following:
Number | Course | Cr |
---|---|---|
HST330 | History of Byzantium | 3 |
HST331 | History of Russia | 3 |
HST332 | History of China | 3 |
HST333 | History of South Asia | 3 |
HST334 | History of North America | 3 |
HST335 | History of Central and South America | 3 |
HST336 | History of Africa | 3 |
Choose two courses from the following:
Number | Course | Cr |
---|---|---|
HST340 | Topics in the History of Ideas | 3 |
HST341 | Topics in the History of Science | 3 |
HST342 | Topics in the History of Religion | 3 |
HST343 | Topics in Economic History | 3 |