For those fascinated by history but not majoring in the discipline, the Minor in History offers a chance to receive recognition for doing something they love—exploring the past. Students take two courses in each of three areas of history: (1) ancient, Medieval, and global; (2) European; and (3) United States. 

Course Requirements for the Minor

The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this minor.

Course List

Course	Title	Units
European:
Select two of the following:		6
HIST 313	Early Modern History
HIST 314	Modern Europe
HIST 322	Russian and Soviet History
HIST/WMST 326	Gender and Sexuality in Modern European History
HIST 328	Modern Germany: From Unification to Reunification
HIST 411	Renaissance and Reformations
HIST 419	Gender, Sex, and Power in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World
HIST 429	Extreme Politics: Communism, Fascism, and Nazism in 20th Century Europe
Ancient, Medieval, and Global:
Select two of the following:		6
HIST 301	Greek History
HIST 303	Roman Empire
HIST 304	The Age of Caesar and Augustus
HIST 305	Catastrophe, Memory, and Society
HIST 309	Romans of the East: The Byzantine Empire
HIST 312	Medieval Europe
HIST 361/MEST 302/RELS 302	Muhammad and the Qur'an
HIST/MEST 362	Middle Eastern Empires
or HIST/MEST 362W	Middle Eastern Empires (W)
HIST/MEST 363	The Modern Middle East
HIST 373	Premodern East Asia
HIST 374	Modern East Asia
HIST 380	Colonial Latin America
HIST 381	Modern Latin America
HIST/LAST 382	Modern Mexico
HIST 463	Islamic Civilization
HIST 473	Asia and the City
HIST/ASST 474	Modern Korea
HIST 475	Modern China
HIST 480	Social Revolution in Latin America
HIST 482	Native Latin Americans
United States:
Select two of the following:		6
HIST/WMST 335	Gender and Sexuality in American History
HIST 341W	American Environment (W)
HIST 351	Volatile Decade: America in the 1960s
HIST 352	Early American History
HIST 353	Nineteenth-Century US History
HIST 354	Twentieth-Century US History
HIST 355	Topics in Contemporary US History
HIST 430	Popular Memory and Commemoration in Early America
HIST 431	The American Revolution
HIST 432	The Early American Republic
HIST 433	The Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 435	Twentieth-Century War in American Society
HIST 442	The Westward Movement
HIST/WMST 443	Gender and Sexuality in Early America
HIST 445	History of California
HIST 446	History of the American South
HIST 496	Material Culture
Total Units		18