2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog | 20263

History Minor minor

Required Credits: 22
Required GPA: 2.25

I REQUIRED COURSES

HST 1899 taken concurrently with either HST 1114 or
HST 1115

• HST 1899 Introduction to Writing an American History Paper (1 credit)

I ADDITIONAL REQUIRED COURSES

Complete at least 3 of the following courses:

• HST 1114 United States History to 1865 (3 credits)
• HST 1115 United States History since 1865 (3 credits)
• HST 1304 World History, Prehistory-1500 (3 credits)
• HST 1305 World History, 1500-Present (3 credits)

Complete one of the following courses:

• HST 3117 American Revolutionary Era, 1763-1800 (3 credits)
• HST 3128 Testing Democracy: Reform in Antebellum America, 1787-1865 (3 credits)
• HST 3137 The American Civil War (3 credits)
• HST 3159 The World at War, 1931-1945 (3 credits)
• HST 3187 American West (3 credits)
• HST 3208 Greece and Rome, 1500 BCE-500 CE (3 credits)
• HST 3409 Colonialism and Modernization in the Non-Western World (3 credits)
• HST 3459 Latin America (3 credits)
• HST 3650 Environmental History (3 credits)
• HST 3799 Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 (3 credits)
• HST 4000 Historiography (3 credits)

II REQUIRED ELECTIVES

Complete 9 credits as follows:

Complete 6 credits from the following:

• HST 2219 Medieval European Culture (3 credits)
• HST 2228 Renaissance and Reformation Europe (3 credits)
• HST 2300 History of China (3 credits)
• HST 2500 Native Americans and the United States, 1600s-Present (3 credits)
• HST 2580 Russia (3 credits)
• HST 2610 Minnesota History (3 credits)
• HST 2667 Men and Women: Gender in America (3 credits)
• HST 2700 The History of World Religions (3 credits)
• HST 2799 Religion in America (3 credits)
• HST 3117 American Revolutionary Era, 1763-1800 (3 credits)
• HST 3128 Testing Democracy: Reform in Antebellum America, 1787-1865 (3 credits)
• HST 3137 The American Civil War (3 credits)
• HST 3159 The World at War, 1931-1945 (3 credits)
• HST 3187 American West (3 credits)
• HST 3208 Greece and Rome, 1500 BCE-500 CE (3 credits)
• HST 3277 Readings and Research in European History (3 credits)
• HST 3409 Colonialism and Modernization in the Non-Western World (3 credits)
• HST 3459 Latin America (3 credits)
• HST 3799 Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 (3 credits)
• HST 3800 Georgian Britain, 1688-1820 (3 credits)

One additional 3 credit course from the following
options:
a. History course not taken above numbered 2000 or
above
b. HST 1114, HST 1115, HST 1304 OR HST 1305 not
taken above
c. One of the following allied discipline courses

• ENGL 2330 Diverse American Literatures to 1865 (3 credits)
• ENGL 2337 American Literature from 1865 to Present (3 credits)
• ENGL 2340 The American Film (3 credits)
• ENGL 2357 British Literature to 1800 (3 credits)
• ENGL 2358 Diverse British Literatures from 1800 to Present (3 credits)
• INST 2201 Creation to Contact (3 credits)
• INST 2202 Survivance Since Contact (3 credits)
• INST 3307 Ojibwe History (3 credits)
• PHIL 3310 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (3 credits)
• PHIL 3320 Modern Philosophy (3 credits)
• PHIL 3330 Nineteenth Century Philosophy (3 credits)
• PHIL 3340 Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Philosophy (3 credits)
• POL 3100 American Foreign Policy (3 credits)
• POL 3140 Canadian Politics (3 credits)
• POL 3180 International Law and Organization (3 credits)
• POL 3400 Political Theory (3 credits)
• POL 3410 Legislative and Executive Relations (3 credits)
• PSY 4487 History and Systems of Psychology (4 credits)
• SPAN 4426 Latin American Culture and Civilization (3 credits)
• SPAN 4427 Spanish Culture and Civilization (3 credits)