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B.A. in History

BA-History-Program

Glean wisdom from the age-old human story.

Grove City College offers a history major that will equip you to make an impact in practically any field. In pursuit of your history degree, you will study the great ideas that have shaped Western culture and civilizations around the globe, discover timeless truths, and cultivate the critical thinking and research skills to thrive in your vocation—from law and academia to ministry, business, and criminal justice.

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Program Highlights
  • Personal access to accomplished faculty mentors who excel as historians in teaching and research.
  • 42 major credit hours of rigorous undergraduate coursework that will build your foundation in Western history, expose you to a vast array of civilizations around the globe, and give you freedom to explore niche areas of various historical periods. For detailed course descriptions, refer to the College Catalog.
    • Core requirement courses include Freshman Seminar, World History I and II, Historiography, U.S. History to 1865, U.S. History Since 1865, and Senior Research Seminar, as well as categorized options including Ancient Empires, Medieval History, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, American Civil War, U.S. Military History, American Intellectual History, and the History of Modern India, among others.
    • Major elective options include Constitutional Law I and II, Reformation Europe, Christianity and the Modern World, and Religion and History in Colonial America.
  • Optional minor in classical studies, as well as various other minors in complementary disciplines such as classical Christian education, political science, or philosophy.
  • Flexibility to double major in other disciplines.
  • Unique internship opportunities to grow professionally in the field.
    • Archeological Conservation Institute
    • Brig Niagara Program
    • Other students have landed internships with such organizations as the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, Old Sturbridge Village, Heinz History Center, The Heritage Foundation, the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and more.
  • Phi Alpha Theta history honorary which celebrates excellence, promotes genuine care for human beings, facilitates tutoring and mentoring among students, and provides opportunities to present papers at national conferences (where Grove City students consistently walk away with 70-80% of prizes for the best papers in their sections).
  • Countless other student-led organizations through which you can pursue your passions and grow in servant leadership, including our award-winning debate team, law society, and Lux Mea’s Intercollegiate Colloquium on the Liberal Arts.
  • Vocation-enriching humanities core classes woven into your academic schedule that will cultivate greater empathy, critical thinking, writing and other communication skills, and a well-rounded understanding of the world and your place in it.
Career Outcomes
  • If you’re like 96% of Grove City graduates, you will be prepared to compete for exciting positions in a wide variety of fields or pursue further education in history, law, business, medicine, ministry, and more.
    • Recent graduates have obtained positions such as museum specialist, presidential staff member, military captain, professor, pastor, and more with companies and organizations including Smithsonian Institution, Merrill Lynch, New York State Police, Peace Corps, U.S. Air Force, and Urban Impact Foundation.
    • Of those pursuing further education, our graduates have been admitted to such prestigious institutions as the University of Chicago, UCLA, NYU School of Law, Yale, Notre Dame, George Mason, and Westminster Theological Seminary, among others.
  • No matter where you feel called to serve and lead, you will be equipped to make a profound impact in modern society as a critical thinker, thorough researcher, effective writer, and caring person.

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