History, Art History, and Religious Studies

Professors G. McKay, B. Upton (Department Chair); Associate Professors Q. Fang, S. Feeley, and B. Stoddard; Senior Lecturer J. Zejmis.

Areas of particular teaching interest: Professor McKay: Roman art, Byzantine and Early Christian art, Medieval art, Nineteenth-Century art; African-American art, Public History; Professor B. Upton: modern America, African-American history, intellectual history, and women’s history; Professor Q. Fang: Asia, environmental history; Professor S. Feeley: early Americas, American Revolution, North American Indians, American Civil War; Professor Stoddard: American religious history, religion and law, religion and public policy, prisons, and methods and thories in the study of religion; Professor J. Zejmis: Eastern Europe.

The study of history is an engagement with the past – the individuals, societies, civilizations, and art that have shaped the modern world. The department offers courses in the social, cultural, political, art history of America, Europe, and Asia, and religious studies. History majors have gone on to graduate school in history, museum and library studies, and to a wide range of careers, including the law, business and finance, archives, education, and the government.

Other Educational Options in History: Minors in History, Art History, American History, European History, and Religious Studies, and Teacher Certification Secondary (middle/high school) in Social Studies.

Transfer Credit: Students may transfer up to 20 credits towards the History major. (Please note that only four 1000-level courses can be counted towards the major). Additionally, at least two of the four area courses (i.e. Asia, America, Ancient World/Early Europe, Modern Europe) must be taken at the McDaniel College. Students entering with an Associate’s Degree receive a waiver allowing up to four 1000-level transfer courses. A grade of a 4 or 5 on an AP History test counts as a transfer elective at the 1000-level.

In order to graduate with Honors in the department a student must:

Earn a cumulative GPA of 3.0
Achieve a GPA of 3.5 in History courses;
Achieve a grade of A in the History Capstone (HIS 4492) and prepare a version of the senior paper for presentation at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Honors Conference;
Be recommended by the Department of History, Art History & Religious Studies.

Please see the Social Science teacher certification requirements under Programs: Education minor (secondary) for History major.

Programs

Undergraduate Major

History Major

Undergraduate Minor

Courses

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