History - Hamilton College Clinton

History from Hamilton College Clinton is a Campus Bachelor History degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. At Hamilton, History is a living, vibrant discipline. Whether you are tracing the spread of Buddhism from India to Japan or exploring the African diaspora in the U.S. today, the study of history is about building a perspective on other cultures, times and places. History students develop sophisticated writing and speaking skills, they learn to conduct research, and they hone the ability to think critically about complex issues and events of other times, and gain a historically informed understanding of the present. That makes the study of history valuable to all students, not just history majors. The discipline offers a broad grounding in the liberal arts and provides a foundation for a wide range of professions and scholarly pursuits. From the history program at Hamilton, graduates have moved on to careers in teaching, law, medicine, journalism, public policy and many other fields. In your first courses you may explore the Western legal tradition from Rome to the Middle Ages or be surprised by the diversity of the rise of nationalism in modern India. In intermediate courses you may turn to the upheavals of the 1960s, the writings of American conservatives from the Founding Fathers to the New Right, and even the emergence of Marxism and Darwinism in modern Europe. In more advanced courses you'll find yourself in small, intense discussion-based classes. There you'll investigate everything from the ancient Silk Route from China to Baghdad to the nationalist historiography of the Irish Republican Army. History majors at Hamilton take 10 courses in the field from among any three of these geographical regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, and the United States. Minors take five courses in history . With its broad liberal-arts focus and training in scholarly research, history is also popular at Hamilton as a double major. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES The Department of History encourages its students to seriously consider study abroad for a semester or a year during their stay at Hamilton. Typical destinations for history majors include Spain, France, Italy, England, China, Austria and Japan. Many of these can be visited through Hamilton-affiliated programs. While study abroad is an integral part of the liberal arts curriculum, it has special resonance for students of history as they study events and issues at their source and in their larger cultural context. All Hamilton history courses stress the development of rigorous, critical reading and research skills. A number of history majors build on these skills by receiving funding to work in collaboration with faculty mentors during the summer as Emerson Fellows. History students' knowledge of the world and habits of critical thinking are enhanced by closely working with their professors, who are themselves active in their own specialties. THE SENIOR PROGRAM The senior seminar paper or honors thesis is the culminating experience for history majors at Hamilton. It is a semester-long research project in which students draw on their accumulated skills and knowledge to produce focused, high-level scholarship on a specific topic or problem. More ... RESOURCES Hamilton has a fully accredited chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national honor society in history and one of the oldest and most respected honor societies in the nation. Hamilton history majors deliver papers at regional and national meetings of Phi Alpha Theta and publish papers in the society's journal. The department also regularly invites a spectrum of distinguished historians and scholars to campus for talks, panel discussions and workshops. View more details on Hamilton College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related History courses.