The history degree program at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, emphasizes critical reading and analysis in seminar-style courses and offers a variety of independent research opportunities for history majors. Sharpening your investigative skills, you will embark on voyages of historical discovery. Who knows what you will find and how it will shape who you become?
History asks students to think with all the parts of their personalities—with all their senses as economic, political, social and cultural actors. It asks them to understand people with experiences outside their own. The protagonists of history are actors in the past, whether in this country or others.
Gregg Bocketti, professor of history
Learning experiences outside the classroom abound. May term travel courses may take you to Washington, D.C., New York, Greece, Israel or Honduras. Other events, lectures and symposia will allow you to meet and perhaps enjoy lunch or dinner with critically acclaimed scholars, such as recent guests, National Book Critics Circle Award winner Harriet Washington and Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Annette Gordon-Reed.
In history courses, students analyze primary sources, debate historical and contemporary issues, study historiography and methodology and engage in independent research. Other opportunities include practical experience through an internship with a historical society, museum, library or archaeological firm.
Positions Our Graduates Have Held
Internships at museums and historic sites
Chief legislative assistant to a congresswoman
Analyst in Far Eastern affairs for a national security agency
Staff member of National World War I Museum (Kansas City)
Writer for U.S. Geological Survey team
Professor
Teacher of Americorps
U.S. attorney
Opportunities in the Major
Black History Month committee
Phi Alpha Theta (international history honorary)
Women’s History Month committee
Internships at museums and historic sites
Where Our Graduates Have Studied
Boston College
College of William & Mary
New York University
Seton Hall University
The Citadel
University of Kentucky
University of Miami
University of Tennessee
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University
Semester Study Abroad Opportunities
Australia I
Australia II
Austria
Chile
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
England I
England II
Fiji
France II
Ireland
Israel
New Zealand
Poland
Scotland
South Korea
Spain II
Sweden
Uruguay
These GlobalTransy programs have at least two courses related to the major.
Interested in studying abroad for a summer? Take a look at our summer study abroad opportunities.
Contacts
Melissa McEuen, Professor of History; Program Director
(859) 233-8230
Katie Banks, Administrative Assistant, Division of Social Sciences
(859) 233-8110
Carpenter Academic Center
Transylvania University
300 North Broadway
Lexington, KY 40508-1797