{"id":736,"date":"2002-03-28T14:58:26","date_gmt":"2002-03-28T19:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=736"},"modified":"2008-07-30T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T20:09:45","slug":"i-want-to-study-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"i want to study american history&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Can I do a major in American History? In the course calendar it is not listed, but I was curious if it was still possible to do one&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">the way that the history department works is that you need certain courses to complete the programs requirements. for a major you need:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">1 100-series<br \/>\n1 400-series<br \/>\n2 300- or 400-series<br \/>\n1 asia\/africa\/middle east<br \/>\n1 canada\/usa\/latin america<br \/>\n1 europe<br \/>\n1 premodern<br \/>\n7 courses total<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">this in addition to your degree requirements (distribution reqs, this many 400, only 6 100, yada yada yada). essentially, you can take 4 american histories if you work it right, because obviously asia\/africa\/middle east, europe, and premod courses cannot be american, although you might be able to find courses that relates to both. look into it in <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/prg_his.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the calendar<\/a> here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chass.utoronto.ca\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\">the history department&#8217;s website<\/a> you may be able to discern some more info, but i doubt it. check it out for contact info in case ya wanna talk to someone there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">there is also the specialist program of course, in which you take 10-12 history courses, increasing your odds, i&#8217;d wager. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">cheers,<br \/>\naskastudent<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #EndTemplate --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I do a major in American History? In the course calendar it is not listed, but I was curious if it was still possible to do one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}