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[DRAFT] Course Catalog 2026-2027 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
History Minor
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Note(s) on Requirements
- At least three full courses must have the HIST prefix.
- At least one full course must be at the 300- or 400-level.
Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor
The history department will accept up to the equivalent of two full courses of transfer credit to count toward the history minor requirements. Two types of approval are needed. (1) Approval from the Office of the Registrar that the transfer course meets Oberlin’s transfer-of-credit eligibility standards and (2) approval from the department/program chair that the course(s) may count to the minor. Current students taking post-matriculation credit must secure this approval before registering for course(s). Students who enter Oberlin as transfer students will have their pre-matriculation credit evaluated by the Office of the Registrar for elective credit, and they can later seek approval from the department/program for applying coursework to minor requirements. 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 minor. Detailed Minor Requirements
History Minor Course Lists
History Minor Courses
Return to the summary of requirements. - AAST 200 - Empires of Gold: Imperial Development in West Africa, 700 CE-1591CE
- AAST 201 - From Reconstruction to the Information Age: African American History 1865 - 2000
- CAST 232 - History of Race in American Cities and Suburbs ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 232
- CAST 260 - Asian American History ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 260
- CAST 270 - Latina/o History ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 270
- CAST 382 - Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Connections in Historical Perspective ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 382
- CAST 405 - Age of Fracture: The United States since 1973 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 405
- CAST 427 - Borderlands ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 427
- CLAS 103 - History of Greece ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 130
- CLAS 104 - History of Rome ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 129
- EAST 121 - China: From Civilizations to Early Modern Empire ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 105
- EAST 122 - Modern China ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 106
- EAST 131 - Japan: Earliest Times to 1868 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 159
- EAST 132 - Modern Japan ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 160
- EAST 163 - Korea and East Asia: From Ancient Times to the Present ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 181
- EAST 233 - The Long War in Modern China ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 233
- EAST 250 - The Great Wave: A Maritime View of Japanese History ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 250
- EAST 261 - On the Edges of China ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 261
- EAST 280 - The Korean War ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 280
- EAST 284 - Tokyo ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 284
- EAST 294 - Eco-Dynasties: China’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 294
- EAST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 307
- EAST 327 - Mapping China and East Asia ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 327
- EAST 328 - The Great War and Asia, 1914-1925 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 328
- EAST 332 - Discrimination in Modern Japan ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 482
- EAST 358 - Memory and Justice in East Asia ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 358
- EAST 364 - You Are What You Eat and Wear: Global Crops ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 364
- EAST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 367
- EAST 436 - Science and Technology in Early Modern and Modern East Asia ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 436
- EVSS 206 - Global Environmental History
- EVSS 326 - Environmental History of Oceans and Great Lakes
- 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 - China: From Civilizations to Early Modern Empire ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 121
- HIST 106 - Modern China ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 122
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with CLAS 104
- HIST 130 - History of Greece ⇒ cross-listed with CLAS 103
- HIST 138 - European Empires in Global History
- HIST 159 - Japan: Earliest Times to 1868 ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 131
- HIST 160 - Modern Japan ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 132
- HIST 162 - Premodern India
- HIST 163 - Modern South Asia
- HIST 181 - Korea and East Asia: From Ancient Times to the Present ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 163
- HIST 203 - Sport in America
- 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 206 - Medieval Foodways and Health
- 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 216 - European Socialisms and Post-Socialisms
- HIST 218 - The American Revolution
- HIST 219 - The American Civil War
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with JWST 281
- HIST 231 - The Origins of Modern Diplomacy, 1350-1850
- HIST 232 - History of Race in American Cities and Suburbs ⇒ cross-listed with CAST 232
- HIST 233 - The Long War in Modern China ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 233
- HIST 234 - Bandits, Terrorists, Partisans: Non-State Political Violence in Modern Europe
- HIST 243 - The Early Modern Mediterranean
- HIST 244 - The U.S. in World War II
- HIST 250 - The Great Wave: A Maritime View of Japanese History ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 250
- HIST 251 - U.S. Foreign Policy
- HIST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History ⇒ cross-listed with CAST 256
- HIST 259 - We the People: A History of American Political Movements, 1800-2020
- HIST 260 - Asian American History ⇒ cross-listed with CAST 260
- HIST 261 - On the Edges of China ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 261
- HIST 265 - Sacred and Secular in an Islamic Republic: Pakistan
- HIST 267 - Islamic Law & Society: From Shari’a to Human Rights
- HIST 268 - Incarceration in the Modern MENA
- HIST 270 - Latina/o History ⇒ cross-listed with CAST 270
- HIST 271 - History of Rio de Janeiro
- HIST 274 - History of the Holocaust ⇒ cross-listed with JWST 274
- HIST 278 - The Productive Past: Innovation and the Early Modern World
- HIST 280 - The Korean War ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 280
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with JWST 286
- HIST 291 - Antisemitism in European History and Literature ⇒ cross-listed with JWST 291
- HIST 294 - Eco-Dynasties: China’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 294
- HIST 299 - Introduction to Historical Methods
- HIST 301 - The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- HIST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 307
- HIST 313 - The Enlightenment and its Critics
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 327
- HIST 328 - The Great War and Asia, 1914-1925 ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 328
- HIST 335 - Seminar: Crusades - Contact and Conflict in the Mediterranean World ⇒ cross-listed with JWST 335
- 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 354 - The British Empire and the Indian Ocean
- HIST 358 - Memory and Justice in East Asia ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 358
- HIST 359 - The Mughal Empire and the World
- HIST 360 - Constructing the Russian Revolutionary Self
- HIST 363 - The Global Sixties in Latin America
- HIST 364 - You Are What You Eat and Wear: Global Crops ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 364
- HIST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905 ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 367
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with CAST 382
- HIST 383 - Borders, Wars, and Refugees from the Ottoman Empire to ISIS
- HIST 387 - A More Perfect Union: Race and the Federal Government, 1876-2020
- HIST 388 - Women at War
- HIST 391 - America in the 20th Century
- HIST 399 - Narrating the Archives: Local Voices & Global Collections
- HIST 405 - Age of Fracture: The United States since 1973 ⇒ cross-listed with CAST 405
- HIST 408 - Drugs in Modern History
- HIST 412 - Lords, Peasants, and Pigs on Trial: popular and elite culture in early modern Europe
- HIST 414 - The Puritans and Their World
- HIST 416 - The World Upside Down: Abolitionism in America
- HIST 418 - Beyond Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World
- HIST 424 - How to Make an Empire: Histories of Global Britain
- HIST 425 - History of Space, History of Time
- HIST 427 - Borderlands ⇒ cross-listed with CAST 427
- 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 436 - Science and Technology in Early Modern and Modern East Asia ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 436
- HIST 438 - It Can’t Happen Here: Anarchism, Communism, and Fascism in American History
- HIST 440 - Europe’s East: Orientalisms from Russia to the Balkans
- HIST 446 - A History of Disinformation
- 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 ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 332
- 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
- JWST 274 - History of the Holocaust ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 274
- JWST 281 - Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1914 ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 230
- JWST 286 - Jewish Italy from Antiquity through Modernity ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 286
- JWST 291 - Anti-Semitism in European History and Literature ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 291
- JWST 335 - Seminar: Crusades - Contact and Conflict in the Mediterranean World ⇒ cross-listed with HIST 335
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