History Advising

Step 1.

Meet with a History Faculty Advisor

Meet with your history faculty advisor regularly to plan, track your progress, and discuss your future goals. They also approve major/minor declaration forms and degree evaluations.

All tenured and tenure-track professors serve as advisors. Choosing an advisor can be a personal choice, but we do suggest students consider working with an advisor they have either taken classes with in the past or share similar research interests with. 

If you don't have a history faculty advisor: 

Email (history@wwu.edu) or call (360-650-2324) the history department's office assistant.

If you do have a history faculty advisor: 

Visit during their office hours or contact your history faculty advisor directly to schedule an appointment. 

History Advisors

Step 2.

Plan and Track Progress with your Advisor 

Degree Works

Use Degree Works to help track degree progress and pick courses to plan your path towards graduation. Degree Works can also be utilized by your faculty advisor in order to complete your degree evaluation prior to applying for graduation.

Degree Works is designed to aid and facilitate academic advising but is not intended to replace face-to-face advising sessions.

Degree Planning Sheets

Please utilize Degree Planning Sheets as a supplement (not a replacement to Degree Works) in order to plan-out and track your progress throughout your major. 

History, BA 
History/Social Studies, BA   
History/Elementary, BAE 
History Minor
Public History Minor

If you are a History Major and interested in designing your own thematic field, please discuss your interests with an advisor (A thematic field must be approved by a department advisor).

Thematic may include, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Transnational/Global
  • Gender/Sexuality
  • Environmental
  • Intellectual
  • Religious
  • Military
  • Imperialism/Colonialism

Thematic field planning sheet

Step 3.

Declare your Major or Minor

There is no application process or requirement to declare a history major or minor. However, we strongly recommend setting up a time to talk with a history faculty advisor before declaring.

If you do not have a history faculty advisor, wish to change advisors, or don't know who your advisor is, email (history@wwu.edu) or call (360-650-2324) the history department's office assistant.

Once you have been assigned a history faculty advisor, please visit them during their office hours or contact them directly to schedule an appointment. After (or during) the meeting, complete this Declaration Form and send it to your history faculty advisor for approval.

Major/Minor Declaration Form

Other Advising Resources:

Pathways to Woodring

Latin American Studies Program

Contact Luis Portugal (portugl@wwu.edu) in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures to declare a major/minor or for more information.

Academic Advising

For advising needs outside of the history department, please visit the Academic Advising & Student Achievement Center.

Transfer Credits

Transfer Credit Policies & Transfer Course Equivalency Guide 

Graduate Student Advising

We offer a Masters of Arts in History. For questions or advising please contact our Graduate Advisor, Professor Jared Hardesty.

Phi Alpha Theta Advising

Both undergraduate and graduate students can join PHI ALPHA THETA (P.A.T) National History Honor Society. Please contact the Phi Alpha Theta Advisor, Professor Dharitri Bhattacharjee, for more advising questions specific to the Honor Society.