Minor Requirements
To graduate with a Bachelor's degree with a minor in History students must take seven distinct history courses, four of which must be within their area of concentration and the remainder outside of it.
Areas of Concentration
- Europe (including Britain)
- United States
- Latin America
- Asia
- Middle East
- Africa
- Science and Technology
- His 102-6 Science and Literature: The Good Society (Alder)
- His 200-0 Energy and Society: A Global History (Meiton)
- His 275-1, 2 History of Western Science and Medicine
- His 300-0 The Computerized Society (Kramer)
- His 300-0 Islam, Science and Modernity (Stolz)
- His 300-0 Industrial America (Plaiss)
- His 300-0 Sickness and Health in Latin America (Ramirez)
- His 325-0 History of American Technology (Alder)
- His 337-0 History of Modern Europe (Mokyr)
- His 377-0 Medicine in American Society
- His 378-0 History of Law and Science
- His 379-0 Biomedicine and World History
- His 392-0 Creationism: A Global History (Stolz)
- His 392-0 Technology and Society in the Middle East (Stolz)
- His 392-0 Democracy, Capitalism, and Technology in Progressive Era America (Plaiss)
- His 392-0 Early Modern Science and Religion (Moy)
- His 392-0 Non-Western Science and Technology in the Modern World (Meiton)
- His 392-0/EPC 392-0 Bugs, Botanicals, and the British Empire – 1500-1850 (Wille)
- His 393-0 The Atomic Bomb (Hein)
- ECON 324-0 Western Economic History of the United States (Mokyr)
- Law and Crime
- His 101-6 Great Trials of Western Civ (Muir)
- His 300-0 Making Drugs in the Americas (Britto)
- His 300-0 Islamic Law and Islamic Mysticism (Petry)
- His 318-1, 2 Legal & Constitutional History of the U.S. (Grisinger)
- His 356-2 Modern South Africa (Glassman)
- His 378-0 History of Law and Science (Alder)
- His 392-0 Drugs and Trade in American History (June)
- His 393-0 Microhistory (Muir)
- His 393-0 Oral History and the Archives of Terror in Latin America (Britto)
- His 393-0 Approaches to History: Violence and History (Schoenbrun)
- Economics and Labor
- His 102-6 Anti-Poverty Crusades (Binford)
- His 102-6 Capitalism and Its Opponents in History (Immerwahr)
- His 255-1 Africa to 1650 (Schoenbrun)
- His 260-1 Colonial Latin America (Ramirez)
- His 300-0 Making Drugs in the Americas (Britto)
- His 300/LACS 391 Cultural Economies of the Americas, 1850-1950 (Hylton)
- His 300-0 Industrial America (Plaiss)
- His 300-0 Western Economic History, 1200-1800 (Martaccio)
- His 337-0 History of Modern Europe (Mokyr)
- His 356-2 Modern South Africa (Glassman)
- His 357-0 East Africa to 1900 (Schoenbrun)
- His 366-0 Race and Nation in Latin America (Ramirez)
- His 369-0 Dev. and Inequality in Modern Latin America
- His 384-2 History of Japan 1943-2011 (Hein)
- His 392/395 Nasser and Sadat (Petry)
- His 392-0 Drugs and Trade in American History (June)
- ECON 324-0 Western Economic History of the United States (Mokyr)
- Environment
- His 200-0 Energy and Society: A Global History (Meiton)
- His 255-1 Africa to 1650 (Schoenbrun)
- His 366-0 Race and Nation in Latin America (Ramirez)
- His 309-0 American Environmental History (Woodhouse)
- His 357-0 East Africa to 1900 (Schoenbrun)
- His 376-0 Global Environments and World History
- His 392-0/EPC 392-0 Bugs, Botanicals, and the British Empire – 1500-1850 (Wille)
- His 392-0 Apocalypse: Environment, History, Science and Religion in the West (Wille)
- His 392-0 Energy in American History (Kahn, Fall 2014)
- His 392/EPC 390 Wilderness in America (Woodhouse)
- His 393-0 Extinction and Biodiversity in American History (Woodhouse)
Notes and Restrictions
- At least three of the seven courses must be at the 300-level, and at least two of the courses in the concentration must be at the 300-level.
- Students may apply only one first-year seminar—101, 102, or 103—toward the minor requirements. Otherwise any 200- or 300-level course may be counted toward the minor, including seminars numbered 392, 393, 394, 395, and 398.
- No AP courses or online courses may be counted toward the history minor.
- Courses taken abroad may be counted toward the minor requirements with approval from a faculty advisor.