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History (HIST) Minor

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
Required Minor Courses
Select a minimum of 18 semester hours of history courses ¹		18
At least 12 hours at the 2000 level or above
At least 6 hours at the 3000 level or above
Subtotal		18
Total Credits		18

History Depth Studies Course Groupings (HIST)

HIST Group I (Empires, Colonialism, and Globalization)

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
AINS 3684	Indigenous Peoples and World Politics	3
HIST 1224	Mesoamerica and the Andes	3
HIST 2165		3
HIST 2166	History of France	3
HIST 2346	History of the Middle East	3
HIST 2364	History of Japan	3
HIST/RLCL 2384	Gandhi in the Making of Modern India	3
HIST 2394	Tofu to Tikka: Food in Asian History	3
HIST 2484	Modern Germany	3
HIST 3004	Colonial America	3
HIST 3014	The American Revolution	3
HIST/AINS 3174	Native American History	3
HIST 3274	The Greek City	3
HIST 3314	The Later Roman Empire	3
HIST 3234	The North American West	3
HIST 3294	Roman Britain	3
HIST 3364	The Age of Revolution and Napoleon	3
HIST 3374	French Empire	3
HIST 3554	Age of Globalization	3
HIST 3594	The Rise of Modern Latin America	3
HIST 3604	Russia to Peter the Great	3
HIST 3614	Imperial Russia	3
HIST/AFST/IS 3864		3

HIST Group II (Ideas, Traditions, and Cultures)

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
HIST 2134	The Revolution Will Be Televised: Topics in History on TV	3
HIST/CLA 2224	Ancient Greek and Roman Women	3
HIST/CLA 2234	Classics in the Modern World	3
HIST/CLA 2244	Cities of Rome	3
HIST 2264	America in the 1960s	3
HIST 2355	History of China	3
HIST 2356	History of Modern China	3
HIST/RLCL 2374	Gods and Kings in Premodern India	3
HIST/AFST 2275	African-American History	3
HIST/AFST 2276	African-American History	3
HIST 2494	Cities in History	3
HIST/CRIM 2504	Crime and Punishment in American History	3
HIST 2514	U.S. Food History	3
HIST 2544	U.S. South: Pre-Colombian to 1865	3
HIST 2554	U.S. South: 1865 to Present	3
HIST 3084	Recent America, 1917-Present	3
HIST 3105	Women in U S History	3
HIST 3106	Women in U S History	3
HIST/CRIM 3124	Murder in American History	3
HIST 3134	Sports in American History	3
HIST 3164	Sexuality in American History	3
HIST/APS 3214	History of Appalachia	3
HIST 3224	History of Virginia	3
HIST 3324	The Medieval World	3
HIST 3334	The Renaissance World, 1350-1500	3
HIST 3344	Early Modern and Reformation History, 1500-1650	3
HIST/RLCL 3504	The Age of The Crusades	3
HIST 3694	History through Film	3
HIST 3744	Social History of Film	3

HIST Group III (Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine)

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
HIST/STS 2054	Engineering Cultures	3
HIST 2524	History of Agriculture	3
HIST/SOC/STS 2604	Introduction to Data in Social Context	3
HIST 2624	Topics in the History of Data in Social Context	3
HIST/STS 2715	History of Technology	3
HIST/STS 2716	History of Technology	3
HIST 3114		3
HIST 3144	American Environmental History	3
HIST 3484	Nazi Germany: History and Memory	3
HIST 3624	Health and Illness in African History	3
HIST/STS 3705	History of Science	3
HIST/STS 3706	History of Science	3
HIST 3714	War and Medicine	3
HIST 3724	History of Disease, Medicine, and Health	3
HIST/STS 3734	History of Modern Biology	3

HIST Group IV (Conflict, War and Peace)

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
HIST 1354	Conflict and Security in Modern East Asia	3
HIST 2184	History of the Balkans	3
HIST 2345	History of the Middle East	3
HIST 2534	America at War	3
HIST 3054	The American Civil War	3
HIST 3254	The Vietnam War	3
HIST 3284	The Roman Revolution	3
HIST 3304	The World of Alexander the Great	3
HIST/JUD/RLCL 3494	The Holocaust	3
HIST 3534	Modern Military History	3
HIST 3544	World War II	3
HIST 3564	The Cold War	3
HIST 3644	Twentieth-Century Russia	3
HIST 3654	Arab-Israeli Conflict	3
HIST 3664	Revolutionary China	3

Graduation Requirements

To earn a minor in history, a student must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 18 semester hours of history courses with a minimum 2.0 GPA in all courses taken to satisfy the minor. The 18 hours for the minor must include at least 3 hours of credit from each of three of the four groups of HIST courses (Groups I-IV).

Empires, Colonialism, and Globalization;
Ideas, Traditions, and Cultures;
Science, Technology, Environment, Medicine;
Conflict, War, and Peace.

HIST 1014, HIST 2984, HIST 3984, HIST 2104, HIST 2114, HIST 2124, HIST 3914, and HIST 4914 can be substituted to appropriate groups. Please see course schedule or advisor for more information.