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George Washington University Won’t Require History Majors To Know US History

Pardes Seleh

History majors at George Washington University will no longer be required to take a course in American history in order to graduate, the school’s newspaper reported.

The Hatchet, GWU’s campus paper, says the new change in the major’s requirements is part of an attempt to “draw in” students who would otherwise not want to enroll at GWU because of the United States history requirement, and allow them to “tailor their academic plans to better reflect a globalizing world.”

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