Undergraduate Program in History

History is grounded in curiosity. It promotes historical consciousness, refusing to be imprisoned by present-mindedness or nostalgia. Historians explore the past with a variety of techniques, such as statistical analysis, oral history, and the insights of sociology, archaeology, anthropology, and other social science disciplines. Vital to a solid Liberal Arts education, history builds upon skills in written communication, research, and analytical approaches to problem-solving. History wants its graduates to be able to understand a complex world of diverse cultures and traditions.

At the University of Connecticut

The Department of History at the University of Connecticut is highly ranked nationally. We have active scholars with national and international reputations who have won prestigious prizes, fellowships and awards. They are also dedicated teachers. Take full advantage of office hours and attend departmental events so that they have a chance to get to know you.

Our upper-division classes, which students normally begin taking in their sophomore year, range between 19 and 40 students. Our emphasis is on learning to read critically, to write clearly and forcefully, and to think independently. Our students become equipped with analytical skills that will enable them to learn and develop for the rest of their lives.

At the University of Warwick

The Department of History has organized an exchange program with the University of Warwick in England. UConn students who attend the University of Warwick as part of this exchange may earn 12 credits for the fall term, 20 credits for the spring and summer terms, and a total of 32 credits if they attend the full year program. The History Department at the University of Warwick has particular strengths in the Renaissance and Reformation, French history, early modern and modern Britain and Ireland, Russia, India, China, the United States, the Caribbean and Spanish America, and the history of medicine.

For more information, please see the Study Abroad page.

In Oaxaca, Mexico

The University of Connecticut Winter in Oaxaca, Mexico is a UConn faculty-led program that provides students an ideal location to learn in-depth about and experience our southern neighbor. Students earn four UConn graded credits in the Program, taking both a full-credit course in Mexican history and culture taught by UConn Professor Mark Overmyer-Velázquez and a one-credit Linkage Through Language (LTL) Spanish immersion class. Both classes make full use of the city, markets and day trips to pre-Columbian sites, and indigenous artisan villages.

For more information, please see the Study Abroad page.

Contact Information

For general guestions, please visit the History Department offices on the first floor of Wood Hall (the eastern wing of the building, closest to Wilbur Cross), or call extension 6-3717. For questions about the major, minor, or study abroad, please contact the History Department Undergraduate Advising Office at advisehst@uconn.edu. The office is located at 124 Wood Hall

Forms and brochures, postings of events and advisor office hours are available on the Undergraduate Bulletin Board on the first floor of Wood Hall (eastern wing). Faculty and teaching assistants' mail boxes are located in room 118.

Forms

Plans of Study for the History Major and Minor can be found here. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Academic Service Center has a web page devoted to forms - such as declaring a minor or changing a major - that can be found here.