To study history is to ask important questions about how our past influences who we are today. At Alverno, we teach history as a way of knowing, a way of thinking about and encountering the world. We believe this is best accomplished when our students experience a wide variety of history topics, including World, United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Gender, and Native Peoples.

As a student of history you will participate in lively classroom discussions with fellow students and engage in hands-on work with documents, ideas, and artifacts of the past. And as you progress in the program you will have a chance to put your learning to practice with an off-campus experience at one of the hundreds of internship opportunities available to you. In your final year you will do focused readings and research on a topic of your own choosing. Whether you want to teach, go on to graduate school, or step into one of the many private and public jobs available to history graduates, learning about the past will help you prepare for the future. As you visit our website you will see some of our students “doing history.” We hope you will join us.