The History Department provides open advising with History Department faculty. If you have already established an advising relationship with a particular History professor, look out for their available advising times (in your umbc email) to see them during the advising weeks. If your schedules don’t align, you may contact them directly by email to set up an advising appointment. Otherwise, history majors can be advised by any History Department advisor available during the open advising hours.
Please make an appointment through our advising appointment page, which is updated during each semester’s advising period.
Before heading to your advising appointment, please:
- Go to the Advising Center on your myUMBC webpage and check your degree audit to see what courses and requirements you have fulfilled.
- You should take Hist 201 [Introduction to History] in your first year at UMBC. Hist 201 is recommended before taking any 400-level courses and is a required prerequisite for the research capstone (Hist 496 or 497).
- Remember that History majors must take THREE 400-level elective History courses (not including the research capstone Hist 496/7).
- Download and fill in the History Department’s Requirements to Complete the History Major or Requirements to complete the History Minor form. You can also download and complete forms for the Requirements to Complete the Public History Minor or Requirements to complete the Asian History Minor. Please bring your completed forms with you to your advising session. This will ensure that you have a productive and timely meeting.