Areas of concentration

Secondary education

Typically, history is the primary field for a degree in social studies education. In addition to courses in the history major, you will take concentrations in other social studies
areas to become licensed to teach middle school or high school. Your program will include a senior seminar project related to teaching primary sources, extensive fieldwork and student teaching in area schools.

Minor in Anabaptist/Mennonite history

This interdisciplinary minor highlights historic strengths of Goshen College, and may include courses such as Anabaptist/Mennonite History; History of Mennonites in America; Mennonite Literature; Church Music; and War, Peace and Nonresistance.

Investigative skills

This major is designed to provide students with library, statistical and field-research skills especially useful for careers in law, business and public administration. In addition to history courses, you will take classes in sociology, statistics and methods of social research, along with history senior seminar and an internship that utilizes research tools.

Research opportunities

The Mennonite Historical Library, the world’s largest collection of Anabaptist-Mennonite literature; Mennonite Church USA Archives, with national and international holdings; Mennonite Quarterly Review, a scholarly journal published at GC since 1927; and Mennonite World Conference’s Global Mennonite History Project are all connected to the Goshen College campus.


For more information, see the History and Political Science Online Catalog.