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Dec 04, 2025
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American University Catalog 2025-2026
History (Minor)
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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
Required (3 credit hours)
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: - AFAM-208 African American History: to 1877 (3)
/ HIST-208 African American History: to 1877 (3) - AFAM-209 African American History: 1877 to Present (3)
/ HIST-209 African American History: 1877 to Present (3) - 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-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-316 Eastern Europe in the Age of Empire (3)
- HIST-317 Eastern Europe in the Age of Ethnic Cleansing (3)
- HIST-318 Modern Germany: Reichs and Republics (3)
- HIST-327 Europe After Hitler (3)
- HIST-341 Anatomy of the Fantastic (3)
- HIST-349 Modern Iran (3)
- HIST-385 Topics in African History (3)
- HIST-404 Nationalism (3)
- HIST-405 Forced Migration (3)
- HIST-412 Studies in European History (3) (topics)
- HIST-415 The Dead Speak: Cemeteries in History (1)
- HIST-418 Nazi Germany (3)
- HIST-419 Holocaust (3)
- HIST-428 French Revolution and Napoleon (3)
- HIST-437 British Studies (3) (topics)
- HIST-438 French History, 1789-1945 (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-479 Topics in African American History (3)
- HIST-485 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond (3)
- JWST-205 Ancient and Medieval Jewish Civilization (3)
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