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Oct 03, 2024
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Course Catalog 2024-2025
History Major
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Note(s) on Requirements
- At least five full courses must have the HIST prefix.
- No more than three full courses taken from selected courses based on historical methodologies taught in other departments or programs may apply to the major.
- Courses that count toward the major but are administered by other departments can be used to fulfill any history major requirement except that of the 300-level course.
- Credit earned in first-year seminar program courses taught by members of the history department may be applied toward the major, but cannot be used to fulfill the 100-level course requirement.
Transfer of Credit Toward the Major
Students seeking to transfer credit toward the history major for classes not taken at Oberlin must consult with their advisor and/or the chair of the history department in advance, and gain written preliminary approval for courses they wish to take elsewhere.
Students may be eligible to transfer credit toward the major for a maximum of two full courses completed outside Oberlin, including courses completed during study away. Other courses may be transferred for general credit toward graduation. Normally, the history department does not accept toward the major any courses completed at two-year institutions after a student has declared a major in history at Oberlin.
Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Credit
AP/IB transfer credit received for HIST 097, HIST 098, and HIST 099 does not count toward the history major.
Capstone Courses
The history major does not have a required capstone, but majors are encouraged to consider pursuing a senior capstone that focuses on advanced work in their area of interest through either HIST 500 , a one-semester course available to seniors by consent of the instructor, or HIST 501 /HIST 502 , the two-semester honors program sequence open to students admitted to the Honors Program in History.
Honors in History
The Honors Program in History offers the opportunity for recognition of distinguished achievement in historical research and writing. Qualified students apply to enter the program in their sixth semester. Proposals are due in mid-April and should be prepared in consultation with department faculty. Further information is available from the chair or the history honors coordinator.
Visit the department website for more detailed guidelines.
Detailed Major Requirements
History Major Course Lists
300-Level Courses
Return to the summary of requirements. - AAST 357 - Empire and Resistance in the Caribbean
- 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 313 - The Enlightenment and its Critics
- HIST 314 - Existentialism
- HIST 319 - Muslim Political Thought: Past & Present
- 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 336 - Women and International Relations, 1400-1900
- 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 341 - Research Seminar: The Korean War
- 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 370 - From Conservation to Climate Crisis: The Environment in Twentieth-Century American History
- HIST 371 - Muslim Politics in Modern South Asia
- HIST 372 - Reckoning with Reconstruction, 1863-Present
- 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 388 - Women at War
- HIST 389 - Archaeologies of China
Geographic Distribution Requirement
Return to the summary of requirements.
Students must complete at least one course in three of the different geographic areas regularly or occasionally offered by the department. Students may take a class that is global/transnational in focus to substitute for one geographic area. No single class may count simultaneously for global/transnational and a specific geographic area.
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