HISTORIOGRAPHY
All history majors, except Evening/Weekend students, must take HIS 461 (Historiography). We recommend the course be taken in your senior year. It can only be taken after completing a minimum of 17 hours in History unless the instructor gives his/her consent.
YOU MUST TAKE HIS 461 IN ORDER TO MEET YOUR HISTORY MAJOR REQUIREMENTS AND TO BE ELIGIBLE TO GRADUATE.
DEPARTMENT THESIS/PROJECT
If you are a junior or senior and are planning to enter a graduate program, you may want to do a department thesis/project (HIS 491, 492). Please contact the Chair to learn about the requirements.
HISTORY MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for a History major are listed on the History Department Web site and on Blackboard.
Students majoring in history may prepare to teach in the secondary schools. Details of courses necessary to become licensed may be obtained from the Department of History or the Division of Education.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
You need to see your advisor in order to be able to register for the next semester. Advisors will post appointment charts on their office door/bulletin board prior to registration.
PHI ALPHA THETA NEWS
Phi Alpha Theta is the International Honor Society in History. The membership is comprised of students and professors who have been elected to membership upon the basis of excellence in the study and the writing of history.
The aim of Phi Alpha Theta is to promote the study of history and encourage research and publications, good teaching, and the exchange of learning and thought among historians. It seeks to bring members together both intellectually and socially.
Requirements for induction are:
12 hours of history completed
(Transfer credits as well as 3 CLEP OR 3 AP credits
count if the AP test score is a 4 or 5.)
3.1 average or higher in history
3.0 average or higher in all non-history courses
$55.00 induction fee,
payable to “Baldwin-Wallace College.” It is due
upon submission of application. ($40.00 for the
international headquarters, and $15.00 for the local
chapter).
Congratulations to the following students who will be inducted into Phi Alpha Theta on April 10, 2011: Bradley Ardelean, Lizabeth Disiena, Andrew Drost, Catherine Hewitt, Zachary Humphrey, Diane Larkin, Valerie Lattner, Michael Nemchick, Jr., and Danielle Sharron.
Application forms can also be obtained from the Department Secretary, Mrs. Jean Haag (Marting 307, M-F, 8:00-4:30), and should be submitted either to Dr. Connie Evans, Chapter Advisor, or Jean Haag. You can also get an application on the History Blackboard site under Documents. Applications can be turned in at any time for an initiation in Spring, 2012.
The officers of Phi Alpha Theta for 2010/2011 are: Jessica Gallagher, President; Islam Ayad, Vice-President; and Nicole Flower, Secretary/Treasurer.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SPRING 2011
The Senior Comprehensive Exam, which is required of all day history majors, will be given once more during Spring Semester 2011 – on Monday, March 21 (MART 106) from 3:45-5:15 p.m.
The exam will consist of one hundred multiple-choice questions geared slightly above the 101, 102, 121, 122, 151 and 152 levels. Should a student fail the exam twice, alternatives to meeting the requirement will be at the discretion of the Department of History.
Please call (826-2076) or email (jhaag@bw.edu) to let her know you'll take the exam. When you call or email, please let Jean know if you'll be taking an exam which covers European History or World History. In other words, if you took HIS 121I and 122I, you'll want to take the European exam. If you took HIS 101I and 102I, you'll want to take the World exam.
WARNING!!! FINANCIAL AID ALERT!!!
Students who are planning to student teach and have completed all other requirements for a history major and graduation, and are receiving financial aid, should know that if the comp is taken and passed, you will have completed all the requirements for the major and will not be eligible for financial aid while student teaching.
Double majors should note that completion of the other major will also make you ineligible for financial aid while student-teaching.
The Senior Comprehensive Exam, which is required of all day history majors, ISgiven twice each semester.
STUDY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE COMP
Please feel free to look at the study suggestions sheet for the comprehensive, found in the Blackboard site for History majors and minors under Documents – Comprehensive Exam. Save textbooks and exams from all courses, especially surveys.
SENIOR LEARNING STATEMENT
The Learning Statement is required of all senior day history majors and minors. It must be completed and delivered to Jean Haag, Marting 307 or jhaag@bw.edu. If you do not complete this Statement, you will not graduate...so we recommend you do it as soon as you have time. You will find the form under Documents on Blackboard.
Although this is not required of our Evening/Weekend majors and minors, we ask that you submit one to us.
FRESHMAN FORGIVENESS POLICY
A course that a student takes during the first 32 credit hours of his or her enrollment at Baldwin-Wallace College can be repeated. The grade obtained in the first attempt is removed from the calculation of the GPA and is designated with a symbol (*) signifying that the course was repeated and that the original grade is not included in the GPA calculation. The grade obtained on the second attempt is used to calculate the GPA, even if it is lower than the first attempt.
A course can only be repeated once under this policy. The credits of the repeated course count only once toward graduation requirements.
This policy does not apply to students transferring 32 or more credit hours; it applies, however, to students who are transferring fewer than 32 credit hours, as long as the course that is repeated was taken at Baldwin-Wallace College before the student earned 32 credits.
A course must be repeated at Baldwin-Wallace College the following semester, or the semester during which it is next offered, for the student to be able to benefit from this policy. Any course can be repeated under this policy, as long as the first attempt was taken at B-W within the first 32 credit hours of college work of the student.
Please see your advisor if you have questions.
ALUMNI NEWS
2001
Gretchen DeChant, Rocky River, is a special education teacher at Brookside High School.
2005
Stephanie Zych Senko completed the Option 3 Masters of Education program at Baldwin-Wallace in Spring, 2010. She is currently employed at Wellington High School in Ohio as their intervention specialst.
2009
Amber Greene moved to Buenos Aires in August, 2010 and plans on being there and plans to be there until April or May 2011. She is working as an English teacher, teaching private individual lessons and working at an English institute called Buenos Aires Centre. She teaches all age levels (5-65) and all language levels - basic to advanced. While she is there, she is also traveling to Iguazu Falls . Uruguay, Patagonia, and possibly Machu Picchu. She is also taking Spanish classes.
Amber Greene moved to Buenos Aires in August, 2010 and plans on being there and plans to be there until April or May 2011. She is working as an English teacher, teaching private individual lessons and working at an English institute called Buenos Aires Centre. She teaches all age levels (5-65) and all language levels - basic to advanced. While she is there, she is also traveling to Iguazu Falls . Uruguay, Patagonia, and possibly Machu Picchu. She is also taking Spanish classes.
Margaret Mondello is in her first year of the graduate program in History at Cleveland State University.
We enjoy hearing from our alums…please drop us a line if you see this newsletter online and let us know how and what you are doing. We’ll be more than happy to put you on our newsletter mailing list if you’d like to receive a copy in the U.S. mail or by email.
FACULTY NEWS
Dr. Rachel Boaz has written a book entitled In Search of the “Aryan Blood”: Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany. It will be published by Central European University Press later this year.
Dr. Connie Evans will travel with students to the Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton Virginia the weekend of April 15. Dr. Evans will lead the Explorations trip to England/Ireland in May term, 10-31 May with 25 students and Dr. Susan Oldrieve. Students will focus their research on the culture and literature of sixteenth century England and Ireland. Dr. Evans wrote a review of G. W. Bernard “Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions” which will be in an upcoming issue of “The Historian”, the journal of Phi Alpha Theta.
Dr. Robert Montgomery published the following book review: Buriatskii mir: kontseptsii i strategii razvitiia iazyka i kul’tury [The Buryat World: Conceptions and Strategies of the Growth of Language and Culture] ed. Mariia Samsonovna Vasil’eva, Valentina Dugarovna Pataeva, and D. Tsedenzhav, in Northern Notes: Newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, No. 32 (Spring/Summer 2010).
Dr. Steve Siry has written histhird book. Titled Sealed with Their Blood: Rebel GeneralsKilled in the Revolutionary War, it is scheduled for publication in 2012.
SUMMER JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS
Please take a look at the Blackboard Majors/Minors site if you are interested in history-related summer jobs or internships.
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Take a look at the bulletin board in classroom 103 for graduate school application information and brochures. We will post brochures as they become available. Many include postcards that you can send to the college for information.
GOING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL?
The Department encourages all students who intend to enter graduate school to do at least one research project before taking historiography. Opportunities for research include independent study, faculty/student collaborative or research as part of classes. Students should also be aware that they can do senior-level research for credit as department thesis or projects: HIS 491/492. Please discuss this with your advisor.
LET US KNOW IF WE CAN HELP YOU
Mrs. Jean Haag, Office Manager: Marting 307, 440-826-2076, jhaag@bw.edu
Or contact any member of the History Department:
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Dr. Connie Evans |
Dr. Robert Montgomery |
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Dr. Indira Gesink, Chair |
Dr. Steven Siry |
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Dr. Rachel Boaz |
Prof. Tim Mieyal |
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Dr. John Patton |
Prof. Jennifer Tobin |
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Dr. Louis Barone |
Dr. Edgar Moore |
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