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Introduction
With an emphasis on international historical perspectives, UMBC’s Bachelor of Arts in History at the Universities at Shady Grove is designed to provide a broad overview of the human past by exploring how different peoples have built their worlds and made sense of them over time. UMBC History Alumni have enjoyed success in business, government, education, law, and public policy—and as entrepreneurs.
The History Program also offers a minor in public history, a field which brings together historians with partners and audiences to engage in productive conversations about the value and usefulness of the past. The public history minor introduces students to a wide breadth of practices, including historic sites documentation, cultural resources management, historic preservation planning, oral history, museum studies, and digital history. All of our students are encouraged to engage in active learning and research experiences in the many museums, historical societies and government agencies in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area.
Students enrolling in the Bachelor of Arts program in History at UMBC-Shady Grove will complete approximately two years of full-time study prior to entry and complete the remainder of their upper-level credits with UMBC-Shady Grove. Students may transfer a maximum of 70 credits from a community college and 90 credits from a four-year school to UMBC.
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Alumni Spotlight

Leigh Robertson '22
History
"How can we know who we are and try to have a vision for where we're going without knowing where we've been?"


Isabella Hlavacek '19
History
“I completed an internship at an organization called Heritage Montgomery in Germantown, which is a non-profit organization that oversees historic properties, old spaces, natural resources, etc. in Montgomery County. The point is to foster pride of place in MoCo and secure the legacy of these places.”