Sample Schedule: History, BA (124 Semester Hours)

FIRST-YEAR

Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
WSC 001 - Composition	3	WSC 002 - Composition	3
HIST 014S or HIST 014F or HIST 020	3	HIST Elective Course	3
Literature (LT) or Creative Participation (CP) or Appreciation and Analysis (AA) Distribution Course	3	Literature (LT) or Creative Participation (CP) or Appreciation and Analysis (AA) Distribution Course	3
Natural Sciences (NS) or Mathematics (MA) or Computer Science (CS) Distribution Course	3	Natural Sciences (NS) or Mathematics (MA) or Computer Science (CS) Distribution Course	3
Foreign Language Course	3	Foreign Language Course	3
Total Semester Hours	15	Total Semester Hours	15

SECOND-YEAR

Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
HIST (Am, Euro, or Non-West) Elective Course	3	Cross-Cultural (CC) Distribution Course	3
Behavioral Social Sciences (BH) Distribution Course	3	Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) Distribution Course	3
HIST 102 - Investigating History	3	HIST 103 - Debating History	3
Natural Sciences (NS) or Mathematics (MA) or Computer Science (CS) Distribution Course	3	Natural Sciences (NS) or Mathematics (MA) or Computer Science (CS) Distribution Course	3
Foreign Language Course or Minor Course	3	Foreign Language Course or Minor Course	3
Total Semester Hours	15	Total Semester Hours	15

THIRD-YEAR
^{Study Abroad Fall/Spring semester or an entire academic year; not restricted to Junior Year.**}
Click here for more information on Study Abroad Options.

Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
HIST Elective Course or Seminar	3	HIST Elective Course	3
Liberal Arts Elective Course	3	Liberal Arts Elective Course or Core Course	3
Foreign Language Course	3	Liberal Arts Elective Course or Core Course	3
Liberal Arts Elective Course or Core Course	3	Minor Course	3
Liberal Arts Elective Course or Core Course	3	HIST Elective Courseor Liberal Arts Elective Course	3
		Liberal Arts Elective Course	3
Total Semester Hours	15	Total Semester Hours	18

FOURTH-YEAR

Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
HIST (Am, Euro, or Non-West) Elective Course	3	HIST Elective Course, Internship, or Readings	3
HIST Elective Course or Internship	3	Liberal Arts Elective or Core Course	3
Liberal Arts Elective Course	3	Liberal Arts Elective Course	3
Liberal Arts Elective Course	3	Liberal Arts Elective Course	3
Minor Course	3	Minor Course	3
Liberal Arts Elective Course	3	Liberal Arts Elective Course	3
Total Semester Hours	18	Total Semester Hours	18
Program Total		124

^{Updated October 2023}

^NOTES

^{* You are not required to take Summer or January courses (for which there is no financial aid). You can complete your degree of 124 credits with 5 3-credit courses every semester and 4 4-credit History courses (Hist 14/20, Hist 102, Hist 103, and the Seminar).}

^{** The History Department strongly encourages the study of a foreign language beyond Level 3.}

^{*** Students are encouraged to consider a minor or double major in a foreign language, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, European Studies, Italian Studies, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, African Studies or Asian Studies, if they are interested in the history of a particular world region, or another liberal arts discipline such as Anthropology, Economics, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, among many others. Other possibilities are Women’s Studies and Global Studies. You might also consider a second major in a completely unrelated field such as Computer Science, Biology, Dance, Television/Film or Statistics.}

^{****In addition to going on study abroad for either semester in their third year, students can go for the entire academic year in their third year, for a semester in their second or fourth years, or for a short-term program in the summer or during the January break.}

^{+ See the History Department website for possible Internship venues and opportunities.}

^{https://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/hclas/his/his_internship.html}

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Sample Schedule: History, BA (124 Semester Hours)