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Program Requirements
Note: University regulations apply to all students at Laurier. If there is any discrepancy between the program or progression requirements outlined on this page and those in the university's academic calendars, the academic calendars are the official sources of information. The information below is from the latest calendar, and you may be following progression requirements from an earlier calendar. Students are responsible for checking the appropriate calendar. Contact your program coordinator should you notice any discrepancies.
If you are History major at Laurier Brantford, Foundations courses are part of your program requirements. You cannot graduate without finishing the four Foundations courses.
Because the following two courses will probably help you most with your upper-level History courses, we strongly recommend that you complete them in your first year. Senior-level History courses may hold you accountable for the material covered in these courses.
- BF299: Academic Literacy: Humanities: This course will help you read more carefully, analyze texts more precisely, discern and form better arguments, and write clearer, sharper, better organized essays.
- BF190 Modernity and the Contemporary World: This course and its successor, BF299, will help you contextualize the discussions that you will encounter in your History classes, and will give you the intellectual background to form stronger arguments. The material in this course will particularly enrich your understanding of documents written between the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century.
The following two courses, to be taken in your second year or earlier, will make you a better scholar, and can help you better engage any course you take.
- BF290: Academic Literacy: Social Sciences: History requires your ability to process information from a vast array of subjects and bring it to bear when examining historical documents. The ability to engage issues raised in historical texts with scholarship from the social sciences will make you a more versatile and ultimately more successful historian.
- BF199: Critiques of Modernity: This course, the successor to BF290, will also provide essential context for the discussions that you will encounter in your History classes, especially those dealing with texts written since the beginning of the 20th century (i.e. fascism and neoliberalism).