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History B.A.

History Department
College of Liberal Arts
  • Program Type: Baccalaureate
  • Requirements for this program are current for Spring 2016
  • Required credits to graduate with this degree: 120
  • Required credits within the major: 35 to 44
  • Degree: Bachelor of Arts
History examines the past, seeking to understand the development and changes in human experience from its origins to the present. Historians are interested in documenting and interpreting the past from its diverse theoretical, ideological, and methodological approaches, and at all levels from local history to comparative and global history. Courses range from surveys to research and intensive seminars, focusing on a rich array of topics - various regions (Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, United States), time periods (ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern), methods (social, cultural, economic, quantitative), and comparative themes (gender and sexuality, imperialism, race and ethnicity). Interdisciplinary programs incorporate history into a variety of other programs (history of medicine, global studies, medieval studies, American studies, women's studies).
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the Office of Admissions website.
General Requirements
All students in baccalaureate degree programs are required to complete general University and college requirements including writing and liberal education courses. For more information about University-wide requirements, see the liberal education requirements. Required courses for the major, minor or certificate in which a student receives a D grade (with or without plus or minus) do not count toward the major, minor or certificate (including transfer courses).
Program Requirements
Students are required to complete 4 semester(s) of any second language. with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department or college.
Take 11 courses: (2) 1xxx-3xxx survey courses, (8) upper-division HIST courses including the senior project, and a HIST elective from any level 1xxx-5xxx. Majors must fulfill the following distribution requirements with 1xxx-5xxx HIST courses: 1. Chronological: at least 2 pre-modern (up to 1750) courses, and at least 2 modern-era (since 1750) courses 2. Geographic: at least 1 course in each of 2 different geographic areas (the U.S. and Europe count as one geographic area for this requirement; the second course must be focused on Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America) 3. World History: at least 1 of the following courses - HIST 1011W or 1011V, 1012W or 1012V, 1015W or 1015V, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1411W or 3411W, 3412, 3414, 3415, 3416, 3417, 3418, 3419, 3546, 3728, 3778, 3797, 5501 4. Area of Concentration: at least 3 upper-division courses in 1 geographic area, or in 1 time period, or on 1 unified theme 5. Writing Intensive: at least 3 WI courses with the HIST designator (or cross-listed with HIST), including 1 survey course, 1 upper-division course and HIST 4010W/V Students who double-major and choose to complete the senior project in their other major are still required to meet History's 11-course requirement (courses must be worth three or four credits each). Students may earn a B.A. or a minor in history, but not both. Beginning fall 2012, all incoming CLA freshmen must complete the appropriate First Year Experience course sequence. Specific information about this collegiate requirement can be found at: http://class.umn.edu/degree_requirements/index.html
Survey Courses
At least one of the two survey courses must be writing intensive.
Take 2 or more course(s) totaling 7 - 8 credit(s) from the following:
Take 0 or more course(s) from the following:
· HIST 1026 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1027 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1307 - Authority and Rebellion: American History to 1865 [HIS] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 1308 - Global America: U.S. History Since 1865 [HIS] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3051 - Ancient Civilization: Near East and Egypt [HIS] (3.0-4.0 cr)
· HIST 3052 - Ancient Civilization: Greece [HIS, GP] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3053 - Ancient Civilization: Rome [HIS] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3101 - Introduction to Medieval History [HIS, GP] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3152 - British History From the Seventeenth Century [HIS, GP] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3431 - Early Africa and Its Global Connections [HIS, GP] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World [HIS, GP] (3.0-4.0 cr)
· HIST 3461 - Introduction to East Asia I: The Imperial Age (3.0-4.0 cr)
· HIST 3462 - From Subjects to Citizens: The History of East Asia From 1500 to the Present [HIS, GP] (3.0-4.0 cr)
· HIST 3485 - History of Southeast Asia [GP] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3505 - Survey of the Modern Middle East [GP] (3.0 cr)
· Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· HIST 1011W - Civilization and the Environment: World History to 1500 [HIS, ENV, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 1012W - The Age of Global Contact [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 1015W - Globalization: Issues and Challenges [GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 1031W - Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 1032W - Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange from 1500 to Present [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 1301W - Authority and Rebellion: American History to 1865 [HIS, DSJ, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 1302W - Global America: U.S. History Since 1865 [HIS, DSJ, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 1411W {Inactive} [HIS, CIV, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3151W - British History to the 17th Century [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825 [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3411W {Inactive} [HIS, CIV, WI] (4.0 cr)
Upper-division Courses
Three of these seven courses must be taken in the student's area of concentration, as approved by the undergraduate studies office. At least one of these seven courses must be writing intensive.
Take 7 or more course(s) totaling 21 or more credit(s) from the following:
· HIST 3xxx
· HIST 4xxx
· HIST 5xxx
History Elective Course
Take one additional history elective course at any level.
Take 1 or more course(s) totaling 3 or more credit(s) from the following:
· HIST 1xxx
· HIST 3xxx
· HIST 4xxx
· HIST 5xxx
Senior Project
The senior project is completed in HIST 4010W. Honors students should enroll in HIST 4010V. While students may take HIST 4010W/V up to four times with a change in topic, they may only take it in their junior or senior years. Students may elect to count as their senior project any 4010W/V paper they wish, so long as the paper receives a grade of C- or better.
HIST 4011W - Capstone Research [WI] (4.0 cr)
or HIST 4011V - Honors: Capstone Research [WI] (4.0 cr)
Upper-division Writing Intensive within the major
Students are required to take one upper-division Writing Intensive course within the major. If that requirement has not been satisfied within the core major requirements, students must choose one course from the following list. Some of these courses may also fulfill other major requirements. Note: HIST 3980W is a one-credit course that must be taken in conjunction with any upper-division (3xxx or higher) HIST course. Instructor permission required, see department for more information.
Take 0 - 1 course(s) from the following:
· HIST 3000 - New Topics in History (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3151W - British History to the 17th Century [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825 [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present [HIS, GP, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3411W {Inactive} [HIS, CIV, WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 3615W - Women in European History: 1500 to the Present [HIS, GP, WI] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3691W - The British Empire [WI] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3704W - Daily Life in Europe: 1300-1800 [HIS, GP, WI] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3727W {Inactive} [WI] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3875W - Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History [HIS, DSJ, WI] (3.0 cr)
· HIST 3980W - Supplemental Writing in History [WI] (1.0 cr)
· HIST 4011V - Honors: Capstone Research [WI] (4.0 cr)
· HIST 4011W - Capstone Research [WI] (4.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
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HIST 1307 - Authority and Rebellion: American History to 1865 (HIS)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1301W/1301V/1307
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Conflict/change, from colonial era through Civil War. Colonization/resistance, slavery, nation-building, westward expansion, gender roles, religion, reform, race/ethnicity, immigration, industrialization, class relations. Students use primary sources, historical scholarship.
HIST 1308 - Global America: U.S. History Since 1865 (HIS)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1302W,V/1308
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
U.S. history since Civil War, in global context. Emancipation. Forms of labor. Immigration. Citizenship. Changing conceptions of race/gender. Hot/cold wars. Reform/rights movements. Globalization. State power. Students use primary sources, historical scholarship.
HIST 3051 - Ancient Civilization: Near East and Egypt (HIS)
Credits: 3.0 -4.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
A broad survey of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian history and culture from the prehistoric to the rise of Persia around 550 B.C.
HIST 3052 - Ancient Civilization: Greece (HIS, GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
A broad survey of ancient Greek culture and history from the third millennium B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.
HIST 3053 - Ancient Civilization: Rome (HIS)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring & Summer
A broad survey of the culture and history of Rome from its origins to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries A.D.
HIST 3101 - Introduction to Medieval History (HIS, GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3101/MeSt 3001
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Europe from decline of Rome to early Renaissance. Politics, institutions, society, economy, and culture of Middle Ages.
HIST 3152 - British History From the Seventeenth Century (HIS, GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Civil War, Revolution, and constitutional settlement. Industrialization and growth of democracy. Rise/decline of British Empire.
HIST 3431 - Early Africa and Its Global Connections (HIS, GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Afro 3431/Hist 3431
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Survey of African history from earliest times to 1800. Focuses on socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in pre-colonial Africa from ancient Egypt through the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
HIST 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World (HIS, GP)
Credits: 3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3432/Afro 3432
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Survey of modern African history from early 19th century to present. Focuses on socioeconomic, political, and cultural development in Africa, from abolition of trans-Atlantic slave trade through postcolonial era.
HIST 3461 - Introduction to East Asia I: The Imperial Age
Credits: 3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: EAS 3461/Hist 3461
Typically offered: Every Fall
Comparative survey of early history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Early Chinese thought. Diffusion of Confucianism, Buddhism, and other values throughout East Asia. Political and social history of region to 1600.
HIST 3462 - From Subjects to Citizens: The History of East Asia From 1500 to the Present (HIS, GP)
Credits: 3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: EAS 3462/EAS 3462H/HIST 3462/H
Typically offered: Every Spring
How Asian states, societies, economies, and cultures linked with one another and with European powers. How period's historical effects still resonate. Covers India, China, Japan, Korea, and Indochina.
HIST 3485 - History of Southeast Asia (GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Origins of civilization/indigenous states. impact of world religions and Western colonialism on gender, social, political, and economic structures. Nationalism. Establishment of Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
HIST 3505 - Survey of the Modern Middle East (GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: AMES3806/Arab/Hist/MELC3505/55
Typically offered: Every Fall
Political history of Middle East in modern era. Socio-economic/intellectual issues. Decline of Ottoman Empire. Imperialism. Nationalism, rise/development of states. Political Islam.
HIST 1011W - Civilization and the Environment: World History to 1500 (HIS, ENV, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1011W/V/1017
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Sweep of history, from first prehistoric societies to dawn of modern world circa 1500. Forces that pushed humans to continually explore new environments and develop higher levels of social organization and cross-cultural interaction. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
HIST 1012W - The Age of Global Contact (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Five centuries of globalization. How the modern, interconnected world came into being. Changing material life (food, clothes, petroleum) and ideologies/beliefs. Analysis of primary documents to show how historical knowledge is produced. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
HIST 1015W - Globalization: Issues and Challenges (GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: GloS 1015W,V/Hist 1015W,V,1019
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Increased global interconnections over past 50 years. Impact of information revolution on human rights, economic inequality, ecological challenges, and decolonization. Cases in Asia, Africa, Latin America, or Middle East. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
HIST 1031W - Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1026/1031W/1031V
Typically offered: Every Fall
Europe, from Hammurabi to Columbus. Heyday of ancient Near East, Late Middle Ages. Culture, European interactions with wider world through religion, conquest, and trade. Beginning of the age of discoveries. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
HIST 1032W - Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange from 1500 to Present (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1027/1032W/1032V
Typically offered: Every Spring
Emergence of a Europe of nations/empires. Transformations through revolutions, wars, and encounters with world regions. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
HIST 1301W - Authority and Rebellion: American History to 1865 (HIS, DSJ, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1301W/1301V/1307
Typically offered: Every Fall
Conflict/change, from colonial era through Civil War. colonization/resistance, slavery, nation-building, westward expansion, gender roles, religion, reform, race/ethnicity, immigration, industrialization, class relations. Students use primary sources, historical scholarship. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
HIST 1302W - Global America: U.S. History Since 1865 (HIS, DSJ, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 1302W,V/1308
Typically offered: Every Spring
U.S. history since Civil War, in global context. Emancipation. Forms of labor. Immigration. Citizenship. Conceptions of race/gender. Hot/cold wars. Reform/rights movements. Globalization. State power. Students use primary sources, historical scholarship. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
HIST 3151W - British History to the 17th Century (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
The making of the English nation: Anglo-Saxons and Normans; development of English law and Parliament; Reformation and constitutional crisis; early Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
HIST 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825 (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3401W/HIST 3401V/LAS 3401
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.
HIST 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3402W/LAS 3402W
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
National and contemporary period 1825 to present, with emphasis on social, cultural, political, and economic change.
HIST 4011W - Capstone Research (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 0.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 4010W/V/4011W
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
The capstone research course helps students prepare and complete their writing intensive research paper that satisfies the capstone requirement of the History Major. Class readings and exercises help students define a research question that fits within the thematic frame of the course, conceptualize the project, identify and analyze primary sources, craft a paper outline, revise drafts, and produce a final version of the Major Paper in History. Topics in 4011W/V will vary by semester and will be printed in the class schedule. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
HIST 4011V - Honors: Capstone Research (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 0.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 4010W/V/4011W
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
The capstone research course helps students prepare and complete their writing intensive research paper that satisfies the capstone requirement of the History Major. Class readings and exercises help students define a research question that fits within the thematic frame of the course, conceptualize the project, identify and analyze primary sources, craft a paper outline, revise drafts, and produce a final version of the Major Paper in History. Topics in 4011W/V will vary by semester and will be printed in the class schedule. prereq: Jr or sr history major, honors, or instr consent
HIST 3000 - New Topics in History
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Courses on new topics in history, historical topics related to current events, and other special subjects. Contact the History department for current listings.
HIST 3151W - British History to the 17th Century (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
The making of the English nation: Anglo-Saxons and Normans; development of English law and Parliament; Reformation and constitutional crisis; early Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
HIST 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825 (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3401W/HIST 3401V/LAS 3401
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.
HIST 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 3402W/LAS 3402W
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
National and contemporary period 1825 to present, with emphasis on social, cultural, political, and economic change.
HIST 3615W - Women in European History: 1500 to the Present (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: GWSS 3615W/Hist 3615W
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
History of women in Western Europe from early modern period to present. Changes crucial to women's lives. Family/kinship structure, control over property, organization of work, religious ideas/practices, education, politics, beliefs/attitudes about female body.
HIST 3691W - The British Empire (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Gain/loss of colonies in Ireland, America, India, Africa. Development of racism, multicultural composition of British society, debates about economic motives for empire, resistance of colonized peoples to conquest/domination.
HIST 3704W - Daily Life in Europe: 1300-1800 (HIS, GP, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Even, Spring Odd Year
Living conditions and daily life in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. Topics include marriage and family, life at court, nobles, peasants, disease, farming, livestock-raising, urban life, the middle classes, manufacturing, trade, piracy, witchcraft, war, crime, and social deviance.
HIST 3875W - Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History (HIS, DSJ, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: AAS 3875W/Hist 3875W
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America to learn from and engage with what historians enmeshed in ethnic studies do. These historians examine the systematic and coordinated exercises of power called race in the American past and make legible how racially aggrieved groups responded to this shaping power. Thus, throughout, we ask, "What did racial subjects do with what was done to them by the American system forged out of settler colonialism, slavery, racism, and other forms of injustice, exclusion, and violence?" This question issues an intellectual challenge to do all that needs to be done to capture community life, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of social identities in all their richness, fullness, and complexity. In other words, we study and write about the racial history of modern America, including its ugly past and arc of justice, to consider what it would take to transcend this racial past.
HIST 3980W - Supplemental Writing in History (WI)
Credits: 1.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
May be attached, by agreement of instructor and students, to any 3xxx or 5xxx course to make a writing-intensive experience. prereq: instr consent; must take a 3-cr 3xxx or 5xxx course taken concurrently
HIST 4011V - Honors: Capstone Research (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 0.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 4010W/V/4011W
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
The capstone research course helps students prepare and complete their writing intensive research paper that satisfies the capstone requirement of the History Major. Class readings and exercises help students define a research question that fits within the thematic frame of the course, conceptualize the project, identify and analyze primary sources, craft a paper outline, revise drafts, and produce a final version of the Major Paper in History. Topics in 4011W/V will vary by semester and will be printed in the class schedule. prereq: Jr or sr history major, honors, or instr consent
HIST 4011W - Capstone Research (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 0.0]
Course Equivalencies: Hist 4010W/V/4011W
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
The capstone research course helps students prepare and complete their writing intensive research paper that satisfies the capstone requirement of the History Major. Class readings and exercises help students define a research question that fits within the thematic frame of the course, conceptualize the project, identify and analyze primary sources, craft a paper outline, revise drafts, and produce a final version of the Major Paper in History. Topics in 4011W/V will vary by semester and will be printed in the class schedule. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent