Undergraduate Program History is one of the most rewarding of the liberal arts majors. Through books, videotapes, lectures, and discussions, students can travel back in time to ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, or the Wild West. History at the University of Wyoming does not stress the memorization of facts and dates. Instead, history majors learn how to analyze historical data in order to draw their own conclusions concerning questions that affect us even today. By the time a student has completed the history major, he or she has learned how to analyze complex concepts more easily, write more clearly, and think more independently.
History is more than simply the study of wars and presidents.
Some history majors prefer classes that focus on social history, such as American women's history, Native American history, environmental history, immigration and ethnicity, and the medieval city. Other history majors prefer courses in American legal history, the American Civil War, World War II, the history of Mexico, or modern European history. Several courses focus on western United States history. The William Robertson Coe Library, which contains almost one million volumes, possesses a particularly rich collection of source materials in Western history. The undergraduate history major curriculum allows considerable leeway in course selection.