Cannon College of Arts and Sciences
History Overview
Expand your horizons at Wingate University by discovering the world around you as a history major. Committed to global awareness, your studies will enable you to learn from the past and present to prepare for your future.
The history department prides itself on small classes which incorporate writing and speaking opportunities. Within this close-knit academic environment, you will study historical themes and human analytical skills. Our history professors have lived and written about specialty areas and are able to teach with first-hand experience.
Our goal is to teach you how to think, not what to think.
One way that we support this vision is to allow students academic opportunities beyond the classroom. Many students attend and participate in local and national history conferences. Students take a global perspectives class too.
The history program serves as pre-entrepreneurial training and prepares you for law school, diplomacy, seminary or a number of exciting careers within many work fields including areas of government, journalism, law and research.
Field Trip to Museum of the New South
Emphasis: World history
"In my freshmen year of college, I knew I wanted to be a history major when I took Dr. Hastings’ World Civilizations course. During my time in his class, he completely broke down all my beliefs and traditionally accepted views of history, religion, politics, etc. I learned that the world was infinitely more complex than I had ever believed. Due to this opening of my perceptions, I became a history major in order to immerse myself in the various cultures, political ideologies, economic theories, and histories of a world of which I had been previously oblivious.”
- Wade Hampton Love, History Major ‘11
Contact:
Dr. Robert Billinger
Professor and Department Chair
Fax: 704-233-8285
CB# 2518
As a history major, you will be able to take classes that represent three distinct historical specialties: U.S. History, European History and World History.
History 312: Women in American History
History 411: Revolutions in Modern Latin America
History 412: German History, 1789 - Present
History 413: Social Movements in the Third World
History 322: Early India
History 324: Modern African History
History Club
Phi Alpha Theta
Internships within the nonprofit, law and government sectors include public interest groups, congressional offices and private law firms. History majors interested in developing career interests and experience may choose to secure, with the support of departmental faculty, internships within the nonprofit, law, and governmental sectors. There is an opportunity for such internships to gain academic credit.
Diplomat
Foreign Service officer
Congressional aide
Public administrator
Lawyer
Paralegal
Journalist
Curator
Archivist
Teacher
Check out some of the careers that our history majors have. Some of them pursued graduate and professional studies following graduation at Wingate.
Rich Lindsay ’00 – attorney
Jennifer Knox ’96 –District Court Judge
Roy Campbell ’95 – has a Ph.D. from Florida State University and is an associate professor at Presbyterian College
Kimberly Scism Eagle ’93 – earned an M.P.A. from Appalachian State University, a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and works as an evaluation manager in Charlotte
Alan Adcock ’91- international properties lawyer