History Department

The college of education (former the High Teachers’ House) established in 1923. Up until the 1950s there was no history department in this college, but this department exist within the humanities department. When the latter has been split into two departments. One of them is the history department and since that time this department become an independent department.

1. The department aims to prepare teachers who are specialized in history and qualify professionally and pedagogically to teach in middle and high schools in Iraq. They are also qualifying and well-trained to teach at Iraqi Educator Preparation Institutes (EPIs)
2. Preparing faculty members specializing in historiography, old and contemporary Islamic history and qualify to teach at Iraqi universities and academic institutes.
3. Preparing the department’s graduates on undergraduate level to write and conduct scientific research such as theses, and dissertations
4. Highlighting and focusing on the Arab contributions to human civilization and imitating their history in new civilized era that can empower the role of Arab nation in building contemporary human civilization.
5. Considering history to achieve a better understanding of contemporary relations between nations and its role in maintaining global peace, security, freedom, and development.
6. To protect and increase awareness of the students’ department against demands aimed at counting the ancient cultural heritage as separate from the Arab cultural heritage and emphasizing that one is complementary to each other.
7. Informing the student of the experiences of nations in recovering from aftermath backsliding they went through. We encourage them to use of scientific and organized approach to understand the critical events of human history.
8. Appreciating and comprehending the experiences of European people in the fields of geographical exploration, scientific progress, and methodology by utilizing the reasoning and organized thinking.
9. Tutoring students, the fact that history is a field of human knowledge which is necessary for human development and no less important than other fields of knowledge.
10. Teaching students that will and determination of the people are able to make impossible and achieve miracles. The evidenced of that is the Italian-German unity that were achieved in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century.
11. Teaching students to adhere and uphold the scientific methods and commit to the academic integrity and credibility in analyzing historical events. This was because we believe that credibility of the historical events gives credibility to the human experience and important means in understanding the lessons and prevent the distortion of historical facts.

Teaching students to understand the different methods and approaches in interpreting and explaining the historical events that are subject to fake and truth which help student do not to take these event as granted it and accepted

1- An academic year is not devoid of a specialized scientific effort for a teacher or a student, as the teachers in the History Department publish scientific research in solid scientific journals, and a number of them are in influential scientific journals, and students contribute to this effort, especially postgraduate students.
2- A number of professors also write general methodological and historical books that supplement the department's library, and highlight the department's impact on enriching the human historical library.
3- The Department of History holds scientific conferences periodically, in the field of historical specialization, which go beyond the volume of internal participation to the title of the international conference, and in a way that contributes to joint scientific communication outside the local borders.
4- The participation of teachers in specialized scientific research in local and international conferences inside and outside Iraq.
5- The department periodically and variously holds many scientific activities such as workshops, seminars, panel discussions and scientific lectures.
6- Participation in social and national events, and holding scientific exhibitions.
7- Participate in improving the reality of the department and the college through voluntary campaigns aimed at improving the surrounding environment within the college, which will reflect positively on the academic life of both teachers and students.