History pre-law majors benefit from requirements that ensure chronological and geographical breadth and depth of knowledge while allowing for the opportunity to focus on courses especially useful for law school preparation.

The Department of History, in the College of Arts and Sciences, is where students can explore the choices, limitations, achievements and failures of past peoples, history majors better understand the creation of the present and appreciate options for the future. The department has approximately 220 majors and over 80 minors. The major programs offered for undergraduate students include History, Pre-Foreign Service, Pre-Law and Pre-Theology. Students take classes ranging from the Vietnam War, Native Americans, Tudor England and the Soviet Union to U.S.-Latin American relations, the Holocaust, Genghis Khan, South Africa, history through film, traditional China, as well as other various subjects. Courses are taught largely by full-time faculty members who actively incorporate new technologies into their classes. Small class sizes at the upper-division level also promote the personal interaction between professors and students that enhances the undergraduate study of history. History majors may become lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, writers, social workers, and teachers. The Department of History offers a history minor to all majors, and also the option of a Jewish Studies Certificate.