History (Minor)

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Offered by the Department of History , College of Arts and Sciences .

Minor Requirements

18 credit hours with grades of C or better, a minimum of 9 credit hours at or above 300-level, taken at American University or through AU Abroad, and at least 12 credit hours unique to the minor

Course Requirements

Required (3 credit hours)

HIST-399 Conversations in History (3) (topics)

Electives (15 credit hours)

Complete 15 credit hours from the following, with at least 6 credit hours at or above 300-level, or other courses approved by program director:

HIST-100 History, Memory, and the Changeable Past (3)
HIST-110 Renaissance and Revolutions (3)
HIST-140 Modern European History: 1750 to Present (3)
HIST-202 The Ancient World: Greece (3)
HIST-203 The Ancient World: Rome (3)
HIST-204 Medieval Europe (3)
HIST-205 American Encounters: 1492-1865 (3)
HIST-206 U.S. History since 1865 (3)
HIST-208 African American History: to 1877 (3)
HIST-209 African American History: 1877 to Present (3)
HIST-210 Ethnicity in America (3)
HIST-215 Social Forces that Shaped America (3)
HIST-219 Women in America to 1850 (3)
HIST-220 Women in America since 1850 (3)
HIST-221 History of Britain I (3)
HIST-222 History of Britain II (3)
HIST-225 Russia and the Origins of Contemporary Eurasia (3)
HIST-231 The Russian Empire, 1650-1917 (3)
HIST-232 The Soviet Union (3)
HIST-235 The West in Crisis, 1900-1945 (3)
HIST-239 Topics in European History (3)
HIST-241 Colonial Latin America (3)
HIST-242 Latin America since Independence (3)
HIST-244 Law and America’s Racial Crisis (3)
HIST-247 Muslim Empires 1300-1920 (3)
HIST-248 Introduction to Modern Middle East (3)
HIST-250 History of Chinese Civilization (3)
HIST-251 History of Modern China (3)
HIST-264 Precolonial Africa (3)
HIST-274 Captain Cook and the Pacific (3)
HIST-285 Understanding Africa: Conquests, Protests, and Post-Independence Struggles (3)
HIST-288 Oliver Stone’s America (3)
HIST-327 Twentieth Century Europe (3)
HIST-349 Modern Iran (3)
HIST-385 Topics in African History (3)
HIST-412 Studies in European History (3) (topics)
HIST-418 Nazi Germany (3)
HIST-419 Holocaust (3)
HIST-428 The French Revolution (3)
HIST-437 British Studies (3) (topics)
HIST-438 French History since 1789 (3)
HIST-443 History of Israel (3)
/ ISR-443 History of Israel (3)
HIST-445 Russian Studies (3) (topics)
HIST-447 Asian Studies (3) (topics)
HIST-448 American Culture in the Nuclear Age: Living with the Bomb (3)
HIST-449 Topics in U.S. History (3)
HIST-450 Colonial America: 1492 to 1763 (3)
HIST-451 Era of the Revolution and Constitution (3)
HIST-453 Civil War and Reconstruction (3)
HIST-454 The South since Reconstruction (3)
HIST-455 Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1920 (3)
HIST-456 Twentieth-Century America (3)
HIST-457 America between the Wars, 1919-1941 (3)
HIST-460 U.S. Foreign Relations, 1774-1918 (3)
HIST-461 U.S. Foreign Relations since 1918 (3)
HIST-462 America and the Cold War (3)
HIST-464 U.S. Presidential Elections (3)
HIST-469 History of Medicine in the United States: from Smallpox to AIDS (3)
HIST-471 Ideology, Culture, and American Politics (3)
HIST-473 American Jewish History (3)
HIST-476 U.S. Environmental History (3)
HIST-478 Civil War Institute (3)
HIST-479 Topics in African American History (3)
HIST-485 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond (3)
JWST-205 Ancient and Medieval Jewish Civilization (3)