History

Major Requirements (27 Credits)

Required Courses (18 credits)

HIS 100	Western Civilization I: Ancient and Medieval	3
	And
HIS 101	Western Civilization II: Modern	3
	Or
HIS 104	Global History I: Traditions, Encounters, and Adaptation from the Stone Age to the 16th Century	3
	And
HIS 105	Global History II: Globalization, the Emergence of the Modern State, and Coping with Change	3

Four courses in History, at or above the 200-level, of which at least one must be at the 300-level.

(HIS 199 First Year Seminar may be included.)

The Writing of History I: Theory and Method (3 credits)

One of the following:

HIS 211	The Human in History: Biography and Life Writing	3
HIS 212	Weapons of Mass Destruction	3

The Writing of History II: Capstone Requirement (6 credits)

One of the following:

HIS 410	The Cold War	3
HIS 430	East Asia, 1900 to the Present	3
HIS 451	Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Europe and the Middle East	3
HIS 455	The World and the West in the Long 19th Century (Capstone)	3
HIS 460	The Revolutionary Idea in Theory and Practice: Russia 1917 in Context	3

And

HIS 499

History Senior Thesis

3

HIS 499: Students will be required to complete the Writing of History II Capstone Requirement (6 credits) unless a thesis is elected in another subject area in the combined major program. In such cases students should apply to have two History classes (at or above the 200-level, at least one of which should be at the 300-level) to substitute for the Capstone requirement.