新泽西理工学院

Major Requirements

The accelerated B.A. in history requires 36 credits of history courses with a grade of C or higher. The history courses may include offerings at NJIT (HIST prefix) and Rutgers (510 and 512 prefixes). The accelerated history student must complete a minimum of 104 total undergraduate credits, inclusive of NJIT's General Education Requirements, prior to advancing to professional training in their fourth year. Each student's program of study is subject to approval by their academic advisor for the history major.

Required History Courses for Accelerated B.A./D.P.T.

American History

Six credits in U.S. History courses (any level) 6

Global/Comparative History

Six credits in Asian, African, Latin American, World, or Comparative History courses (any level) 6

History of Medicine/Health

Select two of the following:[1]

[1] At least one of these courses must be taken in an honors section. Each history of medicine/health course can count either as an American History course or as a course in Global/Comparative History (as determined by the academic advisor).

[2] Successful completion of a R Perspectives in History and HSS 404 Humanities Senior Seminar - History are required prior to enrollment in HIST 490 Seminar Research or R Seminar: Research.

[3] All majors write a research paper that incorporates methods of historiography and research learned in the seminar. An honors level of scholarship is expected from students enrolled in the Albert Dorman Honors College.

[4] Must be HSS 404 Humanities Senior Seminar - History if upper-level HSS GER not otherwise satisfied.

6-Year Accelerated Program in History (B.A.) and Physical Therapy (DPT)

[1] At least one of these courses must be taken in an honors section. Each history of medicine/health course can count either as an American History course or as a course in Global/Comparative History (as determined by the academic advisor).

[2] Student should take whichever course is needed to satisfy any remaining U.S. history or Global/Comparative requirement.

[3] At least one of these courses must be taken in an honors section. Each history of medicine/health course can count either as an American History course or as a course in Global/Comparative History (as determined by the academic advisor).

[4] Students in the B.A./D.P.T. program can take R Anatomy & Physiology and R Anatomy & Physiology (4 credits each) at Rutgers or its equivalent (121/122) at Essex County Community College in place of BIOL 340 Mammalian Physiology and BIOL 321 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy.

[5] Students in the B.A./D.P.T. program can take R Anatomy & Physiology and R Anatomy & Physiology (4 credits each) at Rutgers or its equivalent (121/122) at Essex County Community College in place of BIOL 340 Mammalian Physiology and BIOL 321 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy.