Minor Requirements
Minor Requirements: 5 courses, 20 credits
Core Requirements (2 courses, 8 credits)
Choose two of the following:
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HST-100 Introduction to Asian Studies: Culture, People, Ideas
Credits:
4.00
Description:
An interdisciplinary introduction to Asian Studies will touch upon the history, politics, economics, philosophy, geography, arts, and cultures of Asia. Sample topics include political economy, religious and cultural exchanges, international relations, the Asian experience in America, and the role of Asia in the twenty-first century. Students will develop conceptual frameworks for exploring the subjects covered by the Asian Studies curriculum.
Term:
Offered Fall Term
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HST-101 History of Western Civilization I
Credits:
4.00
Description:
Surveys European culture, politics, and society from antiquity to the seventeenth century. Topics include: the Greek, Judaic, and Roman heritage; the rise of Christianity; feudal society in the Middle Ages; Renaissance and Reformation; the Scientific Revolution; and the development of absolutist and constitutional governments.
Term:
Offered Fall Term
Type:
Classics Minor,Social & Intellectual HST
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HST-102 History of Western Civilization II
Credits:
4.00
Description:
Surveys European culture, politics, and society from the Scientific Revolution to the present. Topics include: the development of absolutist and constitutional governments; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; Industrialization and urbanization; nationalism and imperialism; World War I, World War II, and the Cold War; the decline of Europe as a world power.
Term:
Offered Spring Term
Type:
Social & Intellectual HST
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HST-103 Cultures and Social Transformations in Asia
Credits:
4.00
Description:
Presenting the major trends relevant to social, cultural, and economic transformations that can be seen in Asia today. Especially, students will explore the following trends: the Diaspora of the Chinese and Indian People; the hold of Traditional Religious Beliefs in a Modernizing Asia such as the influences of Buddhism and Islam; the preservation of Martial Values and in Militarism in Asia; Issues related to Gender and Sexuality; Pop Culture among young people in Asia.
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HST-121 World History I
Credits:
4.00
Description:
Explores the major themes of human history to 1500. Topics include: hunter-gathering, the migration of humans across the globe, transitions to food production, and the development of complex societies based on agriculture. Major early Eurasian civilizations (China, India, the Middle East, and Europe) are examined (alongside their interactions with Inner Asia and the Arabian Peninsula). So too are Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.
Term:
Offered Fall Term
Type:
Social & Intellectual HST
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HST-122 World History II
Credits:
4.00
Description:
Explores the major themes of human history since 1500. Topics include: the outward expansion of Europe, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Age of Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, the creation of a great-power dominated global system, the two world wars, the Cold War, the Third World, globalization, climate change, and modern social and political movements.
Term:
Offered Spring Term
Type:
Social & Intellectual HST
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HST-181 American Life to the Civil War Era
Credits:
4.00
Description:
Surveys American history from European colonization up through the era of the Civil War. Topics include interactions with Native Americans; slavery; the American Revolution; the founding of a new republic; social and economic developments in the early nineteenth century; expansion; party politics; sectional conflict; the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Term:
Offered Fall Term
Type:
Social & Intellectual HST
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HST-182 American Life Since the Civil War Era
Credits:
4.00
Description:
Surveys American history from the 1870s to the present. Topics include the new industrial order; farmer and worker protests; progressivism; America's emergence as a world power; the two World Wars; the Great Depression; the New Deal; the Cold War; post-World War II American society; the Civil rights movement; Vietnam; dissent and counterculture in the 1960s; the women's movement; economic, social, and political changes in the late-twentieth century; America's relationship to a globalized world.
Term:
Offered Spring Term
Type:
Social & Intellectual HST
Electives (3 courses, 12 credits)
Choose 3 History courses at the 200-level or above.
Residency Requirement Policy: In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.
Minor Programs Policy: A student declaring a minor may use no more than two courses from a major to fulfill the requirements for the minor. No more than one course from one minor may count toward the fulfillment of a second minor. Students may not minor in a subject in which they are also completing a major. For more information, see the Minor Programs section of the CAS Degree Requirements page.
