Program Requirements

To earn their Bachelor of Arts degree in History, students complete 126 credits, including core, major-sequence and elective courses, as outlined below. For more information about the courses listed below, please the St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences section of our Undergraduate Bulletin.

Common Core — 27 Credits 

Discover New York  3
English1000C 3
English1100C 3
History1000C    3
Science1000C 3
Philosophy1000C 3
Philosophy3000C 3
Theology1000C 3
Speech1000C 3
Total 27


Distributed Core — 21 Credits

Foreign Language  6
Mathematics1000C 3
Philosophy2200C  3
Theology2000 level  3
Theology3000 level 3
Social Sciences  3
Total 21


Major Sequence — 36 Credits

History10103
History1000C3
History29903
U.S. History 6
European History 6
Non-Western History 6
Seminar or Colloquium(junior or senior year)3
History Electives 6
Total 36