The UW-Parkside History Department offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with faculty that are nationally, regionally, and locally recognized.
The History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside seeks to produce graduates who are equipped to perform in a wide variety of professional occupations as knowledgeable global citizens, critical thinkers, and skilled writers and researchers.
In parallel with our university-wide shared learning goals that seek to cultivate the skill sets of communication, reasoned judgment, and personal and social responsibility
Historians are the keepers of social memory. As heirs to an intellectual discipline rooted in the tradition of classical humanism, historians emphasize reasoned analysis based on empirical research. An important goal of an undergraduate program in history is to introduce students to the drama of the past. The study of history seeks to gives students a way of understanding the increasingly complex and global world that they stand to inherit.