Updated 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog | 20255
History
Programs
- History, B.A. major
- History, B.S. major
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Social Studies, B.A.
major
History Emphasis - History Minor minor
- Equity cert
History Minor minor
Required Credits: 22
Required GPA: 2.25
I REQUIRED COURSES
Complete one of the following courses with a grade of B- or better:
*HST 1898 taken concurrently with either HST 1304 or HST 1305
*HST 1899 taken concurrently with either HST 1114 or HST 1115
- HST 1898 Introduction to Writing a World History Paper (1 credit)
- 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 I, to 1877 (3 credits)
- HST 1115 United States History II, since 1877 (3 credits)
- HST 1304 World History I, Prehistory-1500 (3 credits)
- HST 1305 World History II, 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 3799 Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 (3 credits)
- HST 3409 Colonialism and Modernization in the Non-Western World (3 credits)
- HST 3419 East Asia (3 credits)
- HST 3429 South and Southeast Asia (3 credits)
- HST 3459 Latin America (3 credits)
- HST 3650 Environmental History (3 credits)
- HST 4000 Historiography (3 credits)
II REQUIRED ELECTIVES
Complete 9 credits as follows:
One United States History course numbered 2000 or above.
- HST 2500 Native Americans and the United States, 1600s-Present (3 credits)
- HST 2610 Minnesota History (3 credits)
- HST 2667 Men and Women: Gender in America (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)
One non United States History course numbered 2000 or above
- HST 2218 Medieval Europe (3 credits)
- HST 2219 Medieval European Culture (3 credits)
- HST 2228 Renaissance and Reformation Europe (3 credits)
- HST 2580 Russia (3 credits)
- HST 2700 The History of World Religions (3 credits)
- HST 3208 Greece And Rome, 1500 BCE-500 CE (3 credits)
- HST 3258 The Roman Civil Law Tradition (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 3419 East Asia (3 credits)
- HST 3429 South and Southeast Asia (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 2340 The American Film (3 credits)
- ENGL 2330 American Literature to 1865 (3 credits)
- ENGL 2337 American Literature from 1865 to Present (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)