History Minor

The minor consists of a minimum of 5 full courses (or the equivalent).

Note: Students must earn minimum grades of C- or P for all courses that apply toward the minor.

View the catalog page for the History department.

Summary of Requirements

Five Full Courses in History (including at least one 300- or 400-level)

Note: At least three full courses must have the HIST prefix.

History Minor Course Lists

History Courses

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HIST 101 - Medieval and Early Modern European History
HIST 102 - Modern European History
HIST 103 - American History to 1877
HIST 104 - American History 1877-Present
HIST 105 - Chinese Civilization
HIST 106 - Modern China
HIST 108 - Russian History II
HIST 109 - Latin American History: Conquest and Colony
HIST 110 - Latin American History: State and Nation Since Independence
HIST 121 - History of the Middle East and North Africa, from the Rise of Islam to 1800
HIST 122 - MENA History from 1800 to the Present
HIST 129 - History of Rome
HIST 130 - History of Greece
HIST 141 - The History of Women in the U.S. to 1865
HIST 159 - Japan Earliest Times to 1868
HIST 160 - Modern Japan
HIST 162 - Cultures and Peoples of Ancient India
HIST 163 - Modern South Asia
HIST 107 - Russian History I
HIST 181 - Korea: Past, Present and Future
HIST 206 - Social Dissent, Power, and Heresy in Medieval Europe
HIST 208 - Of Miracles and Microscopes: A History of Science from 1200-1800
HIST 209 - The City in Europe, 1100-1789
HIST 210 - Global Migration History
HIST 211 - State, Empire and Rebellion in MENA
HIST 214 - Oberlin Oral History: Community-Based Learning & Research Practicum
HIST 216 - European Socialisms and Post-Socialisms
HIST 220 - Latinx Solidarities in United States Social and Cultural Movements
HIST 221 - Upending the Archive
HIST 222 - Modern Germany and Eastern Europe, 1848-1989
HIST 223 - Modern Korean History
HIST 226 - WW II
HIST 227 - The History and Practice of Whiteness in the United States
HIST 229 - Gender in Modern Europe, 1789-1989
HIST 230 - Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1914
HIST 231 - Second Wave of Feminisms
HIST 232 - History of Race in American Cities and Suburbs
HIST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question
HIST 238 - Slavery in the US
HIST 239 - South Asia and the World
HIST 240 - Militarization of Global Politics, Economy & Society
HIST 244 - The US in World War II
HIST 245 - Practicing International Affairs
HIST 249 - Postwar Japan through Music and Film
HIST 251 - U.S. Foreign Policy
HIST 255 - Kurosawa
HIST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History
HIST 257 - Westward Bound: The West in American History
HIST 260 - Asian American History
HIST 270 - Latina/o History
HIST 274 - History of the Holocaust
HIST 276 - Slavery in Latin America
HIST 278 - The Productive Past: Innovation and the Early Modern World
HIST 279 - Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 280 - The Korean War
HIST 281 - Ethnicity and Nation
HIST 282 - The French Empire: 18th Century to the Present
HIST 285 - American Indians: Pre-Columbus to the Present
HIST 288 - Weimar Berlin
HIST 289 - Japanese American Internment and Public History
HIST 292 - Jewish Emancipation in Modern Europe
HIST 295 - Chinese Earth and Environment
HIST 299 - Introduction to Historical Methods
HIST 301 - The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
HIST 303 - Seminar: Possession and Property in Medieval Europe
HIST 304 - Abolitionists and the Antislavery Movement
HIST 305 - Research Methods in Black Women’s Intellectual History
HIST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-52
HIST 310 - Marx and Marxism
HIST 312 - Research Seminar: World War II
HIST 314 - Existentialism
HIST 316 - Latino Social Movements in the 20th Century
HIST 318 - American Orientalism
HIST 325 - Ancient and Medieval Perspectives in History
HIST 331 - Race and Sexuality in United States History
HIST 335 - Seminar: Crusades: Contact & Conflict in the Mediterranean World
HIST 343 - Reserch Seminar: War, the Military and the American Nation
HIST 347 - The African Diaspora in Contemporary Latin America
HIST 348 - Historical Clues, Alternative Archives
HIST 349 - Latinx Social Biographies
HIST 351 - Indians and Empires in Early America
HIST 352 - War Memory in Postwar Japan
HIST 354 - Brit Empire & Indian Ocean
HIST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
HIST 371 - Muslim Politics in Modern South Asia
HIST 376 - Westworlds: Research Seminar in Western History
HIST 382 - Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Connections in Historical Perspective
HIST 383 - Borders, Wars, and Refugees from the Ottoman Empire to ISIS
HIST 385 - Environmentalism of the Poor & Water
HIST 389 - Archaeologies of China
HIST 392 - Soviet History and Cinema: Art, Propaganda, and Politics, 1908-1949
HIST 396 - Seminar: US Foreign Policy and MENA
HIST 399 - War and Civilization
HIST 404 - Race, Citizenship, Punishment
HIST 407 - Civil War Era
HIST 420 - Big Government: A Legal and Cultural History of Bureaucracy in China
HIST 422 - Migration in 20th Century Europe
HIST 427 - Borderlands
HIST 443 - Colloquium: Crisis of Confidence: American History and Culture in the 1970s
HIST 444 - Gender and Sexualities in China
HIST 454 - International Relations Theory for Historians
HIST 460 - Medieval Terrorism, Opportunism, or Acts of Love?: A Study of Crusade Historiography
HIST 472 - Colloquium: Early Modern Atlantic World
HIST 473 - Colloquium: Violence and Terror in Early America
HIST 479 - Colloquium: Readings in 20th Century Urban History
HIST 481 - Stalinism
HIST 482 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
HIST 486 - France and Algeria 1830-1962
HIST 487 - Women of Latin America
HIST 488 - US South
HIST 489 - Armies, Militias, and Jihad in MENA
HIST 492 - The 1960s
HIST 493 - Repairing the Past: Readings in Historical Justice
HIST 500 - History Senior Projects
HIST 501 - Senior Honors
HIST 502 - Senior Honors
HIST 910F - London, England, Britain: National Identities and Their Discontents
HIST 910H - London, England, Britain: National Identities and Their Discontents
HIST 912F - Museum Narratives
HIST 912H - Museum Narratives
HIST 980 - AKP Doshisha Joint Seminar
HIST 981 - Contemporary Japanese History
HIST 995F - Private Reading - Full
HIST 995H - Private Reading - Half
FYSP 067 - The Climate of History: From Asia to the Anthropocene
FYSP 071 - Pirates and Piracy in Times Past
FYSP 127 - Race-ing the Environment: Historical Approaches to Race and Environmental History
FYSP 167 - Writing Religion and Gender
FYSP 173 - The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World