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The History undergraduate program cultivates analytical thinking and promotes global awareness by exploring past events. Our department offers diverse historical perspectives, all focusing on essential skills: evaluating evidence, building coherent arguments, and understanding theoretical frameworks in historical interpretation.
Advanced courses cover topics from specific countries (like Chinese history) to international relations (such as Modern Middle East development) and socio-cultural examinations (including Women's Studies in America). Students gain intimate learning opportunities through colloquia - interactive seminars featuring text analysis, group discussions, and intensive writing based on primary and secondary sources.
Student must have completed secondary school with excellent grades/marks in academic subjects and have earned a certificate of completion that enables you to be admitted to a university in your home country and is equivalent to a U.S. high school diploma. If your secondary/high school was completed in a country where English was not the language of instruction, or if you have less than three years of high school curriculum instruction in English in the U.S., you are required to demonstrate English proficiency.
Various examinations and scores may be used to demonstrate proficiency in English: Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) examination: Internet-based test (IBT): score 80 or higher; Score 6.5 or higher on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS); Freshman applicants may complete one UC approved English composition course.