May 06, 2025  
2025-2026 General Catalog [Effective Fall 2025] 
    
2025-2026 General Catalog [Effective Fall 2025]

History (Minor)

Location(s): Main Campus


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Program Information

  • No more than nine (9) credits of lower-division history classes may be counted toward the credit requirement of the minor. 
  • A history minor may emphasize either European or United States history, but must complete at least one (1) upper-division course in an area of history other than that of specialization.

History Minor Curriculum (18 Credits)


Required Courses (6 Credits)


Complete One of the Following (3 Credits)


Complete One of the Following (3 Credits)


History Electives (9 Credits)


  • Complete 3 credits from lower-division or upper-division HIST offerings
  • Complete 6 credits from upper-division HIST offerings

Total Credits, Minor: 18


Program Learning Outcomes


  • Students will possess factual and critical knowledge about past historical events, institutions, movements, figures, and societies and have the ability to identify key events that express change over time in a particular place or region, identify how change occurs over time, and explain historical continuity and change.
  • Students will understand, describe, and critically assess historical theories, principles, and concepts and possess the ability to apply historical theories, principles, and concepts.
  • Students will demonstrate effective oral and/or written communication skills.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to apply historical methods and research protocols to formulate historical questions, obtain data from primary and secondary sources, critically assess primary and secondary sources, and follow scholarly conventions of the discipline.
  • Students will possess and demonstrate critical and analytical thinking and reasoning skills and demonstrate the ability to construct well-organized historical arguments that utilize historic data in support of a thesis.

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