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 107 - Russian History I
HIST 108 - Russian History II
HIST 109 - Latin American History: Invasion to Independence
HIST 110 - Latin American History: State and Nation Since Independence
HIST 117 - Modern Chinese History, 1600-present
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 159 - Japan: Earliest Times to 1868
HIST 160 - Modern Japan
HIST 162 - Cultures and Peoples of Ancient India
HIST 163 - Modern South Asia
HIST 181 - Korea and East Asia: From Ancient Times to the Present
HIST 204 - From Gold to Guacamole: Latin American Commodity History
HIST 205 - Heavenly Histories: The Making of Western Cosmology from Antiquity to the Trial of Galileo
HIST 207 - Cinema, Memory, and Politics in Egypt
HIST 207OC - Cinema, Memory, and Politics in Egypt
HIST 208 - Of Miracles and Microscopes: A History of Science from 1200-1800
HIST 209 - The City in Europe, 1100-1789
HIST 214 - Oberlin Oral History: Community-Based Learning & Research Practicum
HIST 216 - European Socialisms and Post-Socialisms
HIST 218 - The American Revolution
HIST 220 - Latinx Solidarities in United States Social and Cultural Movements
HIST 222 - Modern Germany and Eastern Europe, 1848-1989
HIST 226 - WW II
HIST 227 - The History and Practice of Whiteness in the United States
HIST 230 - Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1914
HIST 232 - History of Race in American Cities and Suburbs
HIST 233 - The Long War in Modern China
HIST 234 - Bandits, Terrorists, Partisans: Non-State Political Violence in Modern Europe
HIST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question
HIST 238 - Slavery in the US
HIST 244 - The U.S. in World War II
HIST 249 - Postwar Japan through Music and Film
HIST 251 - U.S. Foreign Policy
HIST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History
HIST 260 - Asian American History
HIST 261 - On the Edges of China
HIST 262 - Muslim Political Thought: From 600s to the Present
HIST 265 - Sacred and Secular in an Islamic Republic: Pakistan
HIST 268 - Incarceration in the Modern MENA
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 280 - Brothers at War: The Unending 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 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 305 - Research Methods in Black Women’s Intellectual History
HIST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-52
HIST 310 - Marx and Marxism
HIST 314 - Existentialism
HIST 318 - American Orientalism
HIST 322 - American Contact, 1492-1620
HIST 326 - Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America
HIST 335 - Seminar: Crusades: Contact & Conflict in the Mediterranean World
HIST 340 - Doing Local History-Community Based Learning in Elyria
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 354 - Brit Empire & Indian Ocean
HIST 360 - Constructing the Russian Revolutionary Self
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 389 - Archaeologies of China
HIST 392 - Soviet History and Cinema: Art, Propaganda, and Politics, 1908-1949
HIST 396 - Seminar: U.S. Foreign Policy and MENA
HIST 399 - War and Civilization
HIST 404 - Race, Citizenship, Punishment
HIST 405 - Age of Fracture: The United States since 1973
HIST 407 - Civil War Era
HIST 412 - Lords, Peasants, and Pigs on Trial: popular and elite culture in early modern Europe
HIST 418 - Beyond Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World
HIST 422 - Migration in 20th Century Europe
HIST 427 - Borderlands
HIST 430 - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa
HIST 435 - Museums: A Social, Political, and Institutional History
HIST 435OC - Museums: A Social, Political, and Institutional History
HIST 440 - Europe’s East: Orientalisms from Russia to the Balkans
HIST 472 - Colloquium: Early Modern Atlantic World
HIST 479 - Colloquium: Readings in 20th Century Urban History
HIST 481 - Stalinism
HIST 482 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
HIST 487 - Women of Latin America
HIST 488 - The U.S. South
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 995F - Private Reading - Full
HIST 995H - Private Reading - Half
FYSP 071 - Pirates and Piracy in Times Past
FYSP 077 - Sanctuaries Medieval to Modern
FYSP 167 - Writing Religion and Gender