Bachelor of Arts- History

A History degree provides students with the skills necessary for success in a wide range of careers. The Department’s faculty works with students from their first semester to their graduation to prepare them for real-world positions as library and museum curators, as well as for careers in public service, business, law, and teaching.

The History Department seeks first to provide students with a broad knowledge of the human past and experience and the appreciation of diverse cultures crucial in a smaller and smaller world. A degree in history also provides students with the skills necessary for success in a wide range of careers and professions ranging from business to law, social services, and education. These skills include training in the collection, analysis, and evaluation of information; critical thinking; clarity of expression orally and in writing; and the ability to make independent judgments. Finally, the department seeks to train majors in the specific skills and knowledge necessary for public school teaching and for graduate study in history or in professional schools.

UNLV is committed to having  regular full-time faculty teach at all levels of the curriculum, which means that students receive individual attention and access to their professors, many of whom are internationally renowned for their scholarly expertise. UNLV promotes engaged forms of scholarship, with an emphasis on helping students understand and learn the process and rewards of historical inquiry and the many uses of imagination in researching and writing history. We evaluate our success in terms of the impact that it has on students, colleagues, institutions, and fellow citizens. UNLV believes  that historical consciousness is crucial to the cultural health of Nevada and to an informed understanding of the problems and challenges facing our world today and tomorrow.