16 credits
Minor Requirements
HIS-470: Students will enroll in HIS-470 in their final semester before graduation and six weeks before the end of the term will submit a portfolio of relevant work completed, such as exams and papers, also to contain an assessment of the program. This assessment of the most important academic lessons learned and skills acquired during their course of study will be 1000 to 1500 words in length. The evaluation must also provide an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the Social Sciences & History PEAK. The portfolio will be graded Pass/Fail.
Complete 15 credits of HIS to include:
6 credits of upper-division (300- or 400-level) coursework
1 course from each of 2 of the distribution categories below (Asia, Europe, Latin America, or United States)
Asia
| HIS-210 | History of Modern East Asia | 3 credits |
| HIS-221 | Chinese Religions | 3 credits |
| HIS-338 | Modern India | 3 credits |
| HIS-340 | Pre-Modern Chinese History | 3 credits |
| HIS-345 | Modern China | 3 credits |
| HIS-354 | History of Southeast Asia | 3 credits |
| HIS-358 | People's Republic of China | 3 credits |
| HIS-359 | Pre-Modern Japan | 3 credits |
| HIS-364 | The Life of Jesus: History and Archaeology | 3 credits |
| HIS-376 | History of Zionism and Modern Israel | 3 credits |
| HIS-384 | Modern Japan | 3 credits |
Europe
| HIS-220 | History of Modern Europe | 3 credits |
| HIS-242 | The History of Christianity | 3 credits |
| HIS-314 | Tudor and Stuart England | 3 credits |
| HIS-331 | Ancient Greece | 3 credits |
| HIS-332 | Ancient Rome | 3 credits |
| HIS-334 | 19th-Century Europe: The Industrial Nation and Its Discontents | 3 credits |
| HIS-344 | Medieval Europe | 3 credits |
| HIS-346 | Reformation of the 16th Century | 3 credits |
| HIS-347 | 18th-Century Europe: The Fall of the Old Regime | 3 credits |
| HIS-348 | 20th-Century Europe: The Trials of Modernity | 3 credits |
| HIS-349 | Modern European Intellectual History | 3 credits |
| HIS-352 | England to 1688 | 3 credits |
| HIS-353 | Modern Britain | 3 credits |
| HIS-363 | The Rise of Christianity: Classical History and Archaeology | 3 credits |
| HIS-374 | Women and Gender in Jewish Societies | 3 credits |
Latin America
| HIS-230 | History of Modern Latin America | 3 credits |
| HIS-380 | Colonial Latin America | 3 credits |
| HIS-382 | Modern Mexico | 3 credits |
| HIS-386 | Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica | 3 credits |
| HIS-388 | Comparative Slavery in the Americas | 3 credits |
| HIS-389 | Latin American-U.S. Relations | 3 credits |
United States
| HIS-200 | Introduction to the History of the United States | 3 credits |
| HIS-300 | The United States Since 1945 | 3 credits |
| HIS-301 | History of American Ideas | 3 credits |
| HIS-302 | History of U.S. Foreign Policy | 3 credits |
| HIS-304 | The American Westward Movement | 3 credits |
| HIS-306 | The American South Since 1865 | 3 credits |