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Department of History
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414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069

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Welcome to the Department of History

The USD Section of History consists of programs in history, philosophy and Native American studies and supports the women, gender and sexuality studies plan. We besides offer minor courses of study in religious studies and classical humanities. Our faculty are practiced historians, philosophers and thinkers who actively contribute to inquiry in their fields and promote a civilisation of marvel and community on campus. With a pocket-sized student-to-kinesthesia ratio, our department offers personalized mentorship and then our students tin piece of work straight with acclaimed scholars and researchers. Our students accept the opportunity to participate in enriching experiences in and beyond the classroom – including internships, report abroad, archival research and briefing presentations – as they prepare for careers or further instruction in police, journalism, not-turn a profit management, business concern, education, museums, libraries, cultural agencies and authorities, among other fields.

Bring together our customs of storytellers, explorers and researchers

If you are driven past marvel and want to larn about how the human feel has unfolded over time, the USD Department of History is the identify for you lot.

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Meet the Department

Get to know the kinesthesia and staff in the Department of History. Our faculty are experts in their fields, contributing to research and scholarship in Imperial Russian history, Native studies, philosophy, ethics, U.Southward. foreign policy, organized religion, women and gender studies, environmental history and more.

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Known for Excellence

At USD, you'll detect a high quality educational experience strengthened past our kinesthesia'southward research and artistic scholarship. Meet what makes our department exceptional.

Student Opportunities

As a educatee at USD, the opportunities available to you extend beyond the classroom. Explore your interests, find your community and experience your education to the fullest extent through the following opportunities.

Yous tin can build your resume, gain real-earth experiences and create a network that serves you for years to come up through an internship. USD history majors have interned locally at the South Dakota Oral History Center, USD Archives and Due west. H. Over Museum, the National Music Museum and across at centers and organizations like the Dakota Territorial Museum, Southward Dakota State Athenaeum and Smithsonian.

Whether you are studying history, philosophy or Native American studies, you can engage in hands-on learning in the region and around the world. Our students have traveled to the State Athenaeum of the South Dakota State Historical Society to perform research with primary source material and take also participated in written report away opportunities such as the department's Isles of Hellenic republic program.

Student History Guild

The Student History Club hosts activities ranging from meals using recipes from "Hollywood with a Historian" film nights to excursions to regional historical sites and performances and exhibits in Omaha.

The Friends of Wisdom

Friends of Wisdom is a student organization that welcomes all students with an interest in philosophy. Friends of Wisdom meetings involve lively discussion of selected topics, current events and other matters of involvement.

Tiospaye (extended family)

The Native American studies programme promotes Tiospaye, which encourages Native and non-Native students to get involved in schoolhouse activities. Nosotros support students in their academic pursuits and promote Native life on campus by engaging students, faculty and community members of all walks of life.

We create a Tiospaye (extended family) of academy and customs members to give students a home away from domicile and encourage S Dakota schools, universities and tribal colleges to work together to promote Native educatee higher teaching.

Phi Alpha Theta

The Zeta Mu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta was formed at USD in 1957 and since that fourth dimension has inducted over 550 members. Majors are inducted into Phi Alpha Theta at the awards ceremony each spring.

Membership Requirements:

  • Undergraduate students must consummate at to the lowest degree 12 semester hours in history (four courses) with a GPA of at least three.1 in history, have an overall GPA of 3.0 or better  and be in the peak 35% of the class. Membership is not limited to history majors.
  • Graduate students should take completed a minimum of 12 semester hours toward their primary'south degree, accept a GPA of ameliorate than 3.five and shall have completed approximately 30% of the residence requirements for the master's degree.

Phi Alpha Theta publishes The Historian, a distinguished quarterly journal with articles written by members with interests in all fields of history. It also contains numerous reviews of scholarly books and other items of interest. The Historian is one of the about widely circulated scholarly historical journals published in the Us.

The Department of History awards iv graduate assistantships in history and ane graduate assistantship in religious studies each year. Gain real-world, professional experience while enjoying paid employment and discounted tuition rates as a graduate student at USD. The affordability y'all gain through graduate assistantships and fellowships will equip you lot will valuable, professional-level skills that will ready yous apart later graduation.

Learn more nearly graduate assistantships

For history majors, the Cedric & Evelyn Cummins Memorial Scholarship supports the written report abroad experiences of history majors and has enabled students to travel to countries including Ireland, Hellenic republic, Germany and France. The Reaves Family History Scholarship as well supports history undergraduate students and is awarded annually by the history department faculty. Ask the section chair for more than information.

Departments & Facilities

The Department of History is continued to several departments and facilities across campus that promote programs related to history, philosophy, Native American studies, religious studies and women, gender and sexuality studies. These include the international studies program, Russian studies, Lakota and more than.

History

At the University of South Dakota, our Department of History houses numerous disciplines that exist at the intersection of curiosity, research, writing, storytelling and the human experience. Find the answers to your questions about people, events, institutions and values with the guidance and back up of our exceptional faculty.

Research & Creative Scholarship

The USD Department of History is habitation to a community of curious and driven scholars. Hither you'll observe kinesthesia who are leading insightful conversations and engaging in collaborative learning that challenges united states to view our world in new means.

You lot have opportunities to share your research right here at USD. The department hosts a the almanac Phi Blastoff Theta Student History Briefing and a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Briefing that bring scholars from beyond the region to campus, and the philosophy programme will host a conference exploring the role of money in shaping the human condition. Plus, the Schell and Cash lectures provide opportunities to hear from expert scholars.

Preparing Students for Successful Careers

By studying history, philosophy or Native American studies, yous will explore people, events, institutions and values as old as the ancient earth and equally new every bit yesterday's headlines. Our students graduate prepared for careers in didactics, law, business, regime and more. These disciplines encourage skills that volition serve you throughout your life, including critical thinking, reading, writing, intercultural understanding, advice and inquiry skills.

The unique experiences offered at USD – including hands-on internships in the Oral History Center and Academy Archives, personalized mentoring and valuable inquiry opportunities – will fix you apart after graduation. Whether yous desire to work in a museum, in business organization or anywhere in between, a degree in history, philosophy or Native American studies from USD will help you go there.