Aug 09, 2025  
Undergraduate Course Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Undergraduate Course Catalog 2025-2026

History, Comprehensive Social Studies


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Curriculum Requirements


The Department of History offers a minor in Comprehensive Social Studies at the baccalaureate level.  The primary mission of the department is to educate both undergraduate students in the search for truth through excellence in teaching, scholarly research, and service, thus developing students with knowledge, technological competence, aesthetic and ethical values to be successful in a global society.  The Department will provide history majors and minors with an educational environment and experience that will prepare them to teach at the secondary school level, or to pursue graduate study.

1. 120 semester hours:


Complete a minimum of 120 semester hours with a cumulative grade point average of 2.7 or better. The last 30 hours must be completed at NCCU.

2. General Education Requirement:


Freshmen and sophomore years: complete General Education Curriculum  required by the university as detailed on the four-year course of study.

3. Program Requirements:


Departmental requirements (must have a ‘C’ or better):


4. Concentration Requirements


5. Additional Requirements


Program Notes:


Four- Year Curriculum Plan


Freshman Year


Sophomore Year


Junior Year


Fall Semester


Spring Semester


Senior Year


Distribution of Hours


+History Required Courses 

*GEC General Education core Curriculum Courses 

=Comprehensive Social Studies Required Courses 

& General Electives 

SI= Speaking Intensive

WI=Writing Intensive

**Placement scores will determine if students are required to complete MFL I or II and MATH 1000

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