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 History Minor Courses

Note(s) on Requirements

At least three full courses must have the HIST prefix.
At least one of the full courses must be at the 300- or 400-level.

Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor

AP/IB transfer credit received for HIST 097, HIST 098, and HIST 099 does not count toward the history minor.

Detailed Minor Requirements

History Minor Course Lists

History Minor 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 to the 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 121 - History of the Middle East and North Africa, from the Rise of Islam to 1800
HIST 122 - Middle East and North African 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 - Premodern 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 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 219 - The American Civil War
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 U.S.
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 271 - History of Rio de Janeiro
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 286 - Jewish Italy from Antiquity through Modernity
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, 1945-1952
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 327 - Mapping China and East Asia
HIST 328 - The Great War and Asia, 1914-1925
HIST 335 - Seminar: Crusades - Contact and Conflict in the Mediterranean World
HIST 337 - From the Great War to the Great Depression: America in the 1920s
HIST 340 - Doing Local History–Community-Based Learning in Elyria
HIST 343 - Research Seminar: War, the Military, and the American Nation
HIST 347 - The African Diaspora in Contemporary Latin America
HIST 354 - The British Empire and the Indian Ocean
HIST 358 - Memory and Justice in East Asia
HIST 360 - Constructing the Russian Revolutionary Self
HIST 363 - The Global Sixties in Latin America
HIST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
HIST 371 - Muslim Politics in Modern South Asia
HIST 375 - Beyond Indiana Jones: The History, Politics, and Culture of Archaeology
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 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 416 - The World Upside Down: Abolitionism in America
HIST 418 - Beyond Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World
HIST 425 - History of Space, History of Time
HIST 427 - Borderlands
HIST 429 - Jazz of the Americas
HIST 430 - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa
HIST 433 - American Empire
HIST 435 - Museums: A Social, Political, and Institutional History
HIST 440 - Europe’s East: Orientalisms from Russia to the Balkans
HIST 341 - Research Seminar: The Korean War
HIST 448 - Slavery, Law, and Warfare in North America
HIST 456 - Connections beyond Colonialism: Global Histories of the Global South
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 487 - Women of Latin America
HIST 488 - The U.S. South
HIST 493 - Repairing the Past: Readings in Historical Justice
HIST 500 - History Senior Projects
HIST 501 - History Senior Honors I
HIST 502 - History Senior Honors II
HIST 995F - Private Reading - Full
HIST 995H - Private Reading - Half
FYSP 011 - American Mixed Blood
FYSP 067 - The Climate of History: From Asia to the Anthropocene
FYSP 071 - Pirates and Piracy in Times Past
FYSP 077 - Sanctuaries Medieval to Modern
FYSP 127 - Race-ing the Environment: Historical Approaches to Race and Environmental History
FYSP 154 - Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siecle
FYSP 167 - Writing Religion and Gender
FYSP 173 - The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World