Your Curriculum

History

Catalog 2013-2014 

MHCC Faculty Advisers:
Patrick Casey: 503 491-7302 - Room AC 2669
Pat.Casey@mhcc.edu 

Elizabeth Milliken: 503 491-7127 - Room AC 2679
Elizabeth.Millike@mhcc.edu 

History majors systematically observe and document the past. A history degree can lead to a career teaching history, or to founding or managing a business, or reporting the news, or managing an archive, or government, law and the professions.

Corporate management trainers report liberal arts majors advance further in business careers than students with other majors, and recent figures show that students majoring in history score especially well in entrance examinations for Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs and law school.

Curricular Outcomes
At the completion of this curriculum, the student should be able to:

• Identify and analyze major events and developments of significant cultures and civilizations
• Identify and analyze the interrelationships of selected social, cultural, political, economic and geographic systems
• Recognize the effects of historical events upon subsequent issues and situations
• Demonstrate basic competence in geography and discuss the effects of geography upon historical events
• Use basic tools of historical inquiry - especially the practice of finding evidence, weighing its importance and validity, and applying it to a historical problem
• Recognize different interpretations of historical events.

The following plan of classes is a general guide to prepare students to pursue a history degree at a college or university.* To prepare for such a degree and at the same time meet MHCC degree requirements, follow one of the transfer degree options on pages 10-15 of the printed catalog.

Students receiving financial aid must be certificate or degree seeking and must follow official MHCC certificate or degree requirements.

Admission and degree requirements vary among colleges and universities. Students are advised to:

• Contact the transfer university to confirm specific admission/major/degree requirements.
• Consult with a faculty adviser or the MHCC Academic Advising and Transfer Center early to develop an educational plan.

*Note that community colleges do not award transfer degrees in a subject area, but do award an Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer degree, an Associate of Science Oregon Transfer – Business degree or an Associate of Science degree.  

Nine MHCC history courses (the Western Civilization series: HST101-103; the World History series: HST110-112; and the American History series: HST201-203) will transfer directly to Oregon’s public universities as history credit; each may be taken individually or as part of a sequence. All other MHCC history courses transfer as social sciences distribution requirements or as social science electives. As transfer policies differ, it is vital to check with the transfer institution directly for specific information.

Each of the history courses listed below is offered at least once a year at MHCC and several are available in an independent study format.

* Courses offered only as Independent Study options

¹ First-year language electives may be satisfied with the following course sequences: ASL101-103, FR101-103, GER101-103, ITAL101-103, JPN101-102, RUS101-103 or SPAN101-103.
² This plan aligns with the Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer (AAOT) degree; refer to requirements, page 10 of the printed catalog.

Useful History Web Links
American Historical Association - http://www.historians.org/ 

Transfer Schools’ Web Links
Eastern Oregon University - http://www.eou.edu/history/
Portland State University - http://www.history.pdx.edu/
Oregon State University - http://oregonstate.edu/cla/history/
Southern Oregon University - http://www.sou.edu/history
University of Oregon - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~history/
Western Oregon University - http://www.wou.edu/las/socsci/history