The Department of History of the University of Oklahoma maintains Zeta Theta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and encourages its majors to join. To be a member a student must have an overall grade point average of 3.0. Various chapter activities including monthly brown bag luncheons featuring informal talks by History Department faculty and the annual Phi Alpha Theta awards banquet, are held each year. The membership of Phi Alpha Theta is composed of students and professors who have been elected to membership upon the basis of excellence in the study of History. It is highly democratic.
All members participate in the work and in the direction of the society.
Phi Alpha Theta is also a professional society, designed to promote the study of History through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and thought among historians. It seeks to bring students, teachers, and writers of History together both intellectually and socially, and it encourages and assists, in a variety of ways, historical research and publication among its members. If the class was taken at a college in Oklahoma, check the Course Equivalency Tables, to see if it has been equated to an OU course. History courses which do not have an exact OU equivalent may not be used to satisfy Gen Ed requirements, but they may still transfer as elective credit. In some cases they may also be used to satisfy the history major requirements.