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College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of History

305 Bowman Hall
Tel: 330-672-2882
E-mail: history@kent.edu
Web: www.kent.edu/history

Students who pursue the History minor gain the ability to think critically, read analytically and research and write effectively. History students are flexible, able to turn their talents to a variety of different careers.

 

Attribute Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

HISTORY MINOR REQUIREMENTS (24 credits)
Attribute Course Title Credits Min. Grade
KHU/DG HIST 11050 World History: Ancient and Medieval 3  
KHU/DG HIST 11051 World History: Modern 3  
KHU/DD HIST 12070 Early America: From Pre-Colonization to Civil War and Reconstruction 3  
KHU/DD HIST 12071 Modern America: From Industrialization to Globalization 3  
  History upper-division electives
Electives must include minimum 3 credit hours of American history; 3 credit hours of European history, including English and Russian histories; and 3 credit hours of African, ancient, Latin American, medieval or Far Eastern history.		 12  
  United States History electives (minimum 3 credit hours), choose from the following:    
  HIST 31040 American History through Popular Music (3)    
  HIST 31061 History of Ohio (3)    
  HIST 31075 History of Women in the United States (3)    
  HIST 31080 African-American History: Slavery to Freedom (3)    
  HIST 31081 African-American History: Reconstruction to the Present (3)    
  HIST 38095 Special Topics in United States History (3)    
  HIST 40197 American Cultural Heritage: The Arts and Society (3)    
  HIST 41000 Introduction to Public History (3)    
DD HIST 41056 History of Colonial America, 1492-1714 (3)    
DD HIST 41057 Eighteenth Century America, 1714-1789 (3)    
  HIST 41058 Jefferson-Jackson Era, 1789-1848 (3)    
  HIST 41062 The United States: The Westward Movement (3)    
  HIST 41065 Sectional Conflict and Civil War (3)    
  HIST 41066 Reconstruction and the Later South (3)    
  HIST 41070 American Social and Intellectual History, 1790-1876 (3)    
  HIST 41071 American Social and Intellectual History, 1876-Present (3)    
  HIST 41075 War and Society in the United States from 1607-1865 (3)    
  HIST 41076 War and Society in the United States from 1865-Present (3)    
  HIST 41077 The Great Depression in America (3)    
  HIST 41079 Migrations to America, 1607-Present (3)    
  HIST 41083 U.S. Foreign Relations through World War I (3)    
  HIST 41084 U.S. Foreign Relations from 1920 (3)    
  HIST 41085 The Sixties in America (3)    
  HIST 41087 Progressive America: The United States, 1896-1919 (3)    
  HIST 41088 New Era through World War: The United States, 1920-1945 (3)    
  HIST 41089 Recent America: The United States, 1945-Present (3)    
WIC HIST 48697 Colloquium: U.S. Middle Period: 1820-1900 (3)    
  HIST 48797 Colloquium in African American History to 1877 (3)    
  HIST 48897 Colloquium in African American History Since 1877 (3)    
  HIST 49095 Special Topics in United States History (3)    
  European History Since 1500 Electives (minimum 3 credit hours); choose from the following:    
  HIST 31024 World War II (3)    
  HIST 31027 History of England to 1688 (3)    
  HIST 31028 England Since 1688 (3)    
  HIST 31030 NATO: The Enduring Alliance (3)    
  HIST 31050 History and Society of Modern Greece (3)    
  HIST 31052 History of Modern France (3)    
  HIST 31053 Modern Europe, from 1815 to Present (3)    
  HIST 38195 Special Topics in Europe Since 1500 (3)    
  HIST 41016 The Protestant and Catholic Reformations (3)    
  HIST 41017 Seventeenth-Century Europe (3)    
  HIST 41020 Nineteenth-Century Europe (3)    
  HIST 41024 Modern European History, 1914-1945 (3)    
  HIST 41025 Modern European History, 1945-Present (3)    
  HIST 41032 Consumption and Mass Culture in Modern Europe (3)    
  HIST 41033 Women and Gender in Modern Europe (3)    
  HIST 41041 History of Germany, 1871-Present (3)    
  HIST 41044 Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 (3)    
  HIST 41045 Modern Russia, 1917-Present (3)    
  HIST 41051 Politics, Culture and Society of 20th-Century Europe (3)    
  HIST 41060 Comparative Fascism (3)    
  HIST 41129 The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, 1938-1945 (3)    
  HIST 41789 The French Revolution and Napoleon (3)    
DG/WIC HIST 42497 Colloquium: Women in Modern Europe (3)    
  HIST 43797 Colloquium in Victorian England (3)    
  HIST 49195 Special Topics in Europe Since 1500 (3)    
  African, Ancient, Medieval, Latin American and Asian History Electives (minimum 3 credit hours); choose from the following:    
  HIST 31112 Chinese Civilization (3)    
  HIST 31118 Vietnam War (3)    
  HIST 31125 Zionism and Israel (3)    
  HIST 31126 History of the Middle East (3)    
  HIST 31127 Ancient and Early Medieval Jewish History (3)    
  HIST 31128 Late Medieval and Modern Jewish History (3)    
  HIST 31130 History of African Civilization (3)    
 DG HIST 31140 Modern Latin America (3)    
  HIST 31141 Early Latin America (3)    
  HIST 38295 Special Topics in Global History (3)    
  HIST 41006 Roman History (3)    
  HIST 41010 The Early Middle Ages (3)    
  HIST 41011 The High Middle Ages (3)    
  HIST 41014 Europe in the Renaissance (3)    
  HIST 41097 Colloquium: Saints, Monks and the Medieval Community (3)    
  HIST 41112 History of Modern China (3)    
  HIST 41116 History of Japan (3)    
  HIST 41132 History of Africa, 1880-Present (3)    
  HIST 42140 The Sixties: A Third World View (3)    
  HIST 42141 Comparative Third World Revolutions (3)    
  HIST 42142 Afro-Latin America (3)    
WIC HIST 42297 Colloquium: China and Japan (3)    
  HIST 43097 Colloquium: Medieval Russia (3)    
  HIST 49295 Special Topics in Global History (3)    
  MINIMUM TOTAL 24  

 

Graduation Requirements:

  • Minimum cumulative 2.000 GPA required for graduation.
  • Students must complete at least two upper-division courses in the minor at Kent State on a graded basis (A-F).