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History

Bachelor of Arts

Customize your program with electives in Pre-law and Political Science

Overview

Here at BJU you’ll study history from a biblical perspective and why it’s so important to remember the past. You’ll learn, from the earliest known civilizations to the present day, how God has been working in the lives all peoples. You’ll study politics, warfare, trade, explorers, rulers and heroes to help you understand the past.

Program

History of Civilization gives you an overview of western history and how it has been affected by world events. United States History will grant you an opportunity to develop a solid grasp of our nation’s past.

Additionally, your upper-level history classes will focus on more specific topics such as the American Civil War, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. The South and Middle East offer strong cultural studies, and Historiography and Historical Research and Writing are pre-professional courses that will teach you the fundamentals of research, interpretation and writing.

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BJU Core

The BJU Core complements the content of your history classes well. Because history contains so many areas of study, courses like speech, English, mathematics, science, fine arts, and foreign languages will help you see how the parts of history add up to the whole. Additionally, these classes will help you think critically and to communicate more clearly in your writing and speaking. And most importantly, the skills you learn in the BJU Core will prepare you to more effectively and confidently share the Gospel with others.

Electives

History prepares you for a variety of vocations, and you can take electives to focus on areas that interest you. Many of our graduates pursue careers in history-related fields such as historic preservation, political and social history, media, and archives.

Our students who study history often take political science electives or minor in the field of political science. As graduates, they are able to go into government, politics, legal services, advertising, market research and public relations.

Success

Your Future

Job Types

The history program at BJU opens the door to many career possibilities including:

  • Politics
  • Government
  • Social Work
  • Archive Management
  • Research and Publishing
  • Law
  • Personnel/Human Resources
  • Travel Agent/Consultant
  • Public Relations

Graduate Schools

Our history graduates have been accepted into leading graduate schools including:

  • Brandeis
  • Clemson
  • Duke
  • Princeton
  • Stanford
  • United States War College
  • University of Maryland
  • University of South Carolina
  • University of Tennessee
  • University of Virginia
  • Vanderbilt
  • Yale

Career Support

BJU offers students a variety of ways to network with employers and organizations. A multitude of job opportunities are posted each year on Career Central, our online job board. In addition, more than 60 businesses and 150 Christian schools/mission boards/Christian organizations come on campus to recruit students through on-campus interviews and job/ministry fairs. Career Services also helps students by holding seminars on resume preparation and interview techniques.

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Learning Experience

Criminal Justice Association

The Criminal Justice Association exposes you to the American criminal justice system. Active career professionals present their perspectives and discuss items of current interest, emerging trends and other topics. Contact with the forum speakers also provides greater insight into the possibilities for ministry offered by the various jobs in law enforcement, the courts and corrections.

South Carolina Student Legislature

Each fall BJU’s Student Legislature team meets 10 to 15 other teams from South Carolina colleges and universities. In Columbia, S.C. they form a student government by electing a governor and a legislature presided over by officers elected from among their members. Students introduce legislation and use their extemporaneous speaking abilities, persuasive powers, and knowledge of current events to debate and pass bills they have written.

Linda Abrams
Linda Abrams
Division of Social Science

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BJU’s history faculty brings extensive knowledge of their subjects and expertise in teaching to the classroom. Most hold terminal degrees and have published articles and books and presented professional papers. Many of the faculty have lived and traveled in the countries that they lecture about.

All have a passion for equipping their students to think biblically about past and current issues and to excel in their postgraduate work.

Courses/Objectives

1st Year

2nd Year

3rd Year

  • Bible Doctrines
  • History Elective (300/400-level) (3 credits)
  • History Elective (300/400-level) (3 credits)
  • World Language- (3 credits)
  • Electives (3 credits)
  • Bible Doctrines
  • History Elective (300/400-level) (3 credits)
  • History Elective (300/400-level) (3 credits)
  • World Language- (3 credits)
  • Electives (3 credits)

4th Year

  • Program
  • BJU Core
  • Elective

    Program Goals

    Each student will:

    • Analyze changes and continuities in human history.
    • Evaluate research materials and historical interpretations from a biblical perspective.
    • Construct oral and written historical presentations.

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