No. The Department has not department-wide policy regarding attendance. Some professors
do take roll and have an incentive system for regular attendance. Check your syllabus
and make an effort to comply, in good faith, with the expectations. If you are a History
major, if you consider the matter responsibly, it makes no sense for you to consistently
miss the class which are in the very field in which you are majoring...and although
you may pass on technicalities....you may not receive positive recommendations for
employment, graduate study, or professional schools.