2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

History Major, 39 hours: B.S.—Minor Required

CIP: 540101

Requirements

The Northwest Core (44-47 hours)

Institutional Requirements (4 hours)

Core Requirements for Majors in History (18 hours)

HUM 26102Western Civilization I: The Ancient World to 1500 *

3

OR

HUM 26202Patterns in World Societies to 1500

3

 

HUM 26103Western Civilization II: 1500 to the Present *

3

OR

HUM 26203Patterns in World Societies Since 1500

3

 

HIST 33155The United States to 1877 *

3

HIST 33156The United States since 1877 *

3

HIST 33301The Historian's Craft and Its Uses

3

HIST 33591Research Seminar in History

3

HUM 26102, HUM 26103, HUM 26202, HUM 26203, HIST 33155, and HIST 33156 can be used to fulfill Northwest Core Requirements and Core Requirements in the History major but can only count once towards the degree.

American History Electives (12 hours)

Choose 4 courses from the following:

HIST 33225Race and Ethnicity in America

3

HIST 33302Digital Humanities

3

HIST 33313American History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

3

HIST 33314Environmental History of the US

3

HIST 33320Public History in the US

3

HIST 33325Protest and Activism in American History

3

HIST 33350American Military History

3

HIST 33360Women and Gender in U.S. History

3

HIST 33362The History of Missouri

3

HIST 33365American Religious History

3

HIST 33388The History of the American Economy

3

HIST 33444Practicum in American Local History

3

HIST 33491Historical Resources Internship

1 to 6

HIST 33522The American Colonies

3

HIST 33524The Early American Republic

3

HIST 33525United States Since 1945

3

HIST 33534The Civil War and Reconstruction

3

HIST 33556The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

3

HIST 33582The American West

3

HIST 33591Research Seminar in History

3

A maximum of 3 credit hours of HIST 33491 Historical Resources Internship can be counted toward the major.

World History Electives (9 hours)

Choose 3 courses from the following:

HIST 33303Global Health in History

3

HIST 33305The Ancient World

3

HIST 33306The Modern World

3

HIST 33310France Since Louis XIV

3

HIST 33323The World at War

3

HIST 33370History of the Near and Middle East

3

HIST 33375History of Latin America

3

HIST 33380Humanitarian Crises of the Modern World

3

HIST 33386The Pacific Rim

3

HIST 33389Early Modern Europe: The West Meets the World

3

HIST 33491Historical Resources Internship

1 to 6

HIST 33503The Middle Ages

3

HIST 33510History of Russia

3

HIST 33511The Long Nineteenth Century

3

HIST 33514The Violent Twentieth Century

3

HIST 33521History of Modern Germany

3

HIST 33532History of the Atlantic World

3

HIST 33591Research Seminar in History

3

A maximum of 3 credit hours of HIST 33491 Historical Resources Internship can be counted toward the major.

Minor requirements and/or free electives as needed to reach minimum 120 graduation hours