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Welcome to the Department of History at UNC Charlotte. Our department offers students a range of programs and courses that explore the fascinating and complex history of human society while helping them develop the crucial analytic and communications skills needed for success in a wide range of careers.
The undergraduate major and minor in History seek to broaden and deepen a student’s understanding of the past and present from a multi-cultural perspective. Besides mandatory coursework to strengthen skills and provide background, students may elect to take a wide variety of European, American, and non-Western surveys and specialized topics courses. Many of our majors also pursue teacher licensure certification and take advantage of specialized courses designed for future classroom teachers. The department encourages student efforts to study abroad and has an internship program for those interested in developing their practical skills or working as a research assistant for faculty members. History also has an active departmental honors program and a chapter of the national Phi Alpha Theta honor society, and it annually awards several Davenport academic scholarships and the Patterson prize for best student papers.
The graduate program offers training of the highest quality as students work closely with recognized experts in many different fields. Graduate students can obtain an M.A. in History or an M.A. in History with a Public History concentration. The Public History concentration has a New Media focus, preparing students for careers in a wide range of applied history fields. Graduate stipends are available to qualified candidates on a competitive basis. There is an active Graduate History Association which hosts an annual Graduate History Forum, an academic conference for graduate students.
We invite you to visit. For more information about the department and its curricular and extracurricular offerings, please call 704-687-4633 or send an email to
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AUGUST
25 - Fall Semester begins
SEPTEMBER
4 - Graduate History Association (GHA) meets, 5pm
5 - GHA/Faculty Social, Reedy Creek Park,
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11- Workshop: Applying to PhD programs, 5pm
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Professors Lyman Johnson and Jurgen Buchenau are both recipients of 2008-2009 Faculty Research Awards from the highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship program. Their awards are especially noteworthy given the fact that both scholars work in the field of Latin American history. This is the fourth NEH fellowship awarded to a member of the History Department in the last five years.
Students in the public history program's museum studies class developed a project for the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) in the Spring of 2008. Students researched and developed story boards based on the neighborhoods that will be served by the Blue Line extension of the light rail system that will be built between Uptown Charlotte and the University in the coming years. They showcased their work during an exhibit at The Art House in NoDa on May 1, 2008. Read the story .
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