2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue

History


Office: Humanities Center, Room 322A
Telephone: 410‑617‑2326
Website: www.loyola.edu/academics/history

Chair: Willeke Sandler, Associate Professor

Professors: David Carey, Jr.; Charles W. Cheape (emeritus); Kelly R. DeVries; Steven C. Hughes (emeritus); Matthew Mulcahy; Thomas R. Pegram (emeritus); Sara Scalenghe; Elizabeth Schmidt (emerita); Martha C. Taylor; Joseph J. Walsh
Associate Professors: Charles Borges, S.J.; Katherine Stern Brennan (emerita); Bill M. Donovan (emeritus); Angela Leonard (emerita); Andrew I. Ross; Willeke Sandler
Assistant Professors: Miya Carey-Agyemang; Oghenetoja Okoh
Assistant Teaching Professors:  Austin Parks, Brandon Parlopiano

The history major, traditionally a preparation for careers in law, politics, teaching, museum work, business, research, and other fields, trains students to read carefully, communicate effectively, and critically think about current issues. History majors learn how to assess arguments, complete original research, and understand the complexity of a globalized world. It combines rigorous study with close personal interaction between students and faculty. In addition to classroom contacts, departmental colloquia and events held periodically during the academic year keep history majors, minors, and faculty members current with new research and helps foster a sense of community around shared inquiry into past events and issues. 

History major and minor requirements are deliberately flexible in order to accommodate a wide variety of other subjects of study, as well as study abroad. History advisors will work with students to tailor the most appropriate individual program of study at Loyola. History majors have the opportunity to pursue an optional specialization in the history of gender and sexuality, the history of health, environment, science, and technology, or the history of law, politics, and society. A departmental honors project, centered on an extensive research paper or senior thesis, is available to selected seniors. Application is made in the junior year.

Learning Aims

Students who graduate with a history major will:

  • understand how to think historically and apply historical understanding to contemporary issues and everyday challenges;
  • conceptualize and develop an argument based on original research and that draws on existing historiography; 
  • conduct and complete extensive research using both primary and secondary sources and express that research in writing and/or orally;
  • carry on intellectual debate that offers critical appraisal of evidence and knowledge of counter-arguments;
  • understand the diversity of global cultures both in the past and in the present and recognize the ways power relationships in the past have shaped inequality over time. 

Programs

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