Registration
Majors must meet with their advisors during the advisor's posted office hours, before they register. Your advisor will have your registration materials. Look over your course audit with your advisor and discuss the progress you are making toward fulfilling your major. Use the opportunity to clear up any questions or problems you may have. Please note that students should start planning their area of concentration within the major.
The Drop-Add Period
This period presents an opportunity to make alterations in your schedule. Most electives, you will find, will remain open. However, some courses do fill up quickly, including the American Civilization sections. Normally, the department will not approve overrides into these sections. If you request an override into a course that is closed, you must see the Undergraduate Programs Assistant.
Reading and Research courses (HS 699)
Such courses are, in effect, specially tailored tutorial courses on a specialized topic, constructed by a professor and a student. They usually involve weekly discussion and a research paper. Normally, a student can create such a course only after having taken a related survey course with the professor and having done well in that course. So it is really a specialized course that grows out of a previous survey course. The computer automatically lists an HS 699 course for each faculty member. However, to sign up for such a course you need departmental permission, which means obtaining the approval of the professor you wish to work with. There is a form which the professor must fill out, describing the individualized course. The form is then turned in by the student to the Undergraduate Programs Assistant.
For additional information on the history major, please click on the specific topics listed on the left.