Catalog Navigator : Major Requirements

History majors must complete 12 courses in history (36 credits) with a grade of C or better in each course. A minimum of eight courses for the major must be taken at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. All history majors must fulfill the following requirements:

1. At least five courses at the 300 or 400 level

2. At least eight courses at the 200- through 400-level courses

3. History Workshop, 506:299, taken by the end of the sophomore year; transfer students must take 506:299 in their first semester at Rutgers.

4. A History Seminar, either 506:401 or 402, usually taken in the junior year, but can be taken in the senior year.

5. Of the 12 history courses, at least two must be in each of the following three areas:

a. Global, African, Asian, Latin American, or Native American history (508 and selected 506 courses)

b. European history (510)

c. United States history (512)

6. At least one course focusing on the period before 1500 C.E.

7. History majors shall not count more than two overlapping courses between history and any other majors or minors.

Ancient History and Classics Option

The ancient history and classics option in the history major requires 15, 3-credit courses (of which at least three must be history department courses and at least three must be classics department courses), apportioned as follows:

1. At least two courses in ancient languages (at least two languages: Latin, Greek, and/or other ancient languages offered at the university, e.g., Sanskrit and Hebrew). One of the courses must be a Greek or Latin course at the 200 level or above. Advanced placement can substitute for either or both of the courses, if at the appropriate level. Suggested intermediate courses are 01:490:207 Classical Greek Prose (3) and 01:580:203 Intermediate Latin Prose (3).

2. Three ancient history or classics survey courses at the 200 level, from among:

�01:190:205� Greek Civilization (3)
�01:190:206� Roman Civilization (3)
�01:508:200� Ancient Near East (3)
�01:510:201� Ancient Greece (3)
�01:510:202/01:190:209� Ancient Rome (3)
�01:510:205� Byzantium: The Imperial Age (3)
�01:510:207� Byzantium: The Last Centuries (3)

In consultation with an adviser, appropriate higher-level courses or courses from other departments may be substituted for any of the 200-level courses mentioned above.

3. Six ancient history or classics lecture courses at the 300 level, from among:

�01:190:310� Literature and Culture in Augustan Rome (3)
�01:190:320� Women in Antiquity (3)
�01:190:322� Greek Political Philosophy (3)
�01:190:325� Cults, Magic, Witchcraft (3)
�01:190:350/01:510:350� Greek Society (3)
�01:190:355� Ancient Mythology and Society (3)
�01:190:372� Cities of the Classical World (3)
�01:190:373� Pompeii: The Life and Death of a Roman Town (3)
�01:190:376� Classical World in Cinema (3)
�01:490:306� From Athens to Alexandria (3)
�01:490:391� Readings in Greek Prose (historical topic/author) (3)
�01:510:301� Early Greece (3)
�01:510:302� Classical Greece (3)
�01:510:303� Hellenistic World (3)
�01:510:304� The Rise of the Roman Republic (3)
�01:510:306/01:190:306� Roman Empire (3)
�01:510:307� The Roman World in Late Antiquity (3)
�01:510:308� Ancient Cultural and Intellectual History (3)
�01:510:403� Ancient Warfare and Diplomacy (3)
�01:580:304� Cicero Orations (3)
�01:580:325� The History of Livy (3)
�01:580:329� Tacitus (3)

4. One ancient history or classics course at the 300 or 400 level focusing on research and writing such as:

�01:490:391� Readings in Greek Prose (historical readings) (3)
�01:506:401,402� History Seminar (ancient topic) (3,3)
�01:506:471,472� Research in History (ancient topic) (3,3)
�01:510:407� Rome in the Age of Augustus (3)
�01:580:369,370� The Seminar in Latin (historical readings) (3,3), college honors, or departmental project (appropriate topic)

5. Three additional courses in history, classics, Latin, or Greek (in any combination, but no more than two of them at the 100 level).