Bachelor's in History

History is a Bachelor program taught at Occidental College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

The History major at Occidental College helps students understand how people, power, and ideas have shaped the world. Students study how societies change over time and how events in one place affect others across the globe. Coursework emphasizes assessing the context and reliability of information, synthesizing complex issues, and linking historical theory with practice.

The program is organized around close reading, research, and analysis. Students work with primary and secondary sources and take courses that cover social and political history, economic and cultural history, intellectual history, gender history, and the history of science. The department connects classroom learning with hands-on experience through internships, faculty-mentored research projects, and archival or oral history projects.

Modules

• Magic, Science, & Religion
• Transformation of Urban & Rural China
• US Public Health & the Body Politic
• Learning History in LA
• History 490 Topics/Advisors
• Contract

The minimum requirements for admission in History at Occidental College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Occidental College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Occidental College as pre-requiste for admission in History.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

• Language study is required for Oxy’s history major and strongly recommended for all students.
• Faculty mentors help you design and carry out your own archival or community-based work.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.oxy.edu/academics/areas-study/history

• UCLA Law Fellow; Client Advocate, LA County Public Defender's Office
• Master’s program, journalism, Northwestern University
• Law School, Vanderbilt University
• Planning Assistant, Los Angeles Office of City Planning
• PhD, Harvard University; Assistant Prof. of History, Wesleyan University
• MA, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture; Architectural Historian, Dudek
• Tenant/community organizer, Inner City Law Center LA
• Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace
• Executive director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
• Careers in law, government, public policy, education, journalism, museums, nonprofits, consulting, and business

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.