History Major

(42 credits)

Required Courses (18 Credits)

HIST 101 - Studies in World Civilization to 1500 3 credits
HIST 102 - Studies in World Civilization since 1500 3 credits
HIST 113 - Topics in History 3 credits
HIST 200 - How Historians Ask and Answer Questions 3 credits
HIST 302 - United States History 3 credits
HIST 400 - History Capstone Seminar 3 credits

Electives (24 credits):

A minimum of 6 credits in each of the following areas, with at least one 400-level course in each area and 6 additional credits of electives are required from any of the three areas.

At least 15 of the 24 hours must be at the 400-level.

Area A: United States

HIST 331 - U.S. Workers’ Fight for Justice 3 credits
HIST 334 - African American History, 1890 to present 3 credits
HIST 336 - The 1960s: Counterculture and Protest 3 credits
HIST 411 - The Colonial Experience 3 credits
HIST 412 - The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877 3 credits
HIST 413 - Revolutionary America 3 credits
HIST 414 - Antebellum America, 1815-1848 3 credits
HIST 415 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1917 3 credits
HIST 417 - The United States in Crisis 1917-1945 3 credits
HIST 418 - The United States’ Atomic Age, 1945 to the Present 3 credits
HIST 421 - United States Diplomacy 3 credits
HIST 425 - History of Indiana 3 credits
HIST 426 - History of the South 3 credits
HIST 433 - History of Labor in the United States 3 credits
HIST 434 - The History of Thought and Culture in the United States, to 1860 3 credits
HIST 435 - The History of Thought and Culture in the United States, 1860 to the Present 3 credits
HIST 436 - Indians and Europeans in Early America 3 credits
HIST 437 - Race and Nationality in the United States 3 credits
HIST 439A-C - Women in History 3 credits
HIST 494 - Topics in U.S. History 3 credits

Area B: Ancient, early modern, and modern European history

HIST 351 - The Ancient World 3 credits
HIST 353 - Medieval Europe 3 credits
HIST 355 - Early Modern Europe, 1500-1815 3 credits
HIST 357 - Europe since 1750 3 credits
HIST 409 - The Birth of Europe 3 credits
HIST 419 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust 3 credits
HIST 439A-C - Women in History 3 credits
HIST 455 - The Renaissance, 1300-1520 3 credits
HIST 456 - The Reformation, 1500-1650 3 credits
HIST 460 - Europe in the Twentieth Century 3 credits
HIST 466 - Modern Britain 3 credits
HIST 467 - Modern France 3 credits
HIST 468 - Modern Germany 3 credits
HIST 470 - Tsarist Russia 3 credits
HIST 471 - Modern Russia 3 credits
HIST 496 - Topics in European History 3 credits

Area C: The Wider World: Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

HIST 320 - Comparative Slavery 3 credits
AFRI 468 - History of Islam 3 credits
HIST 345 - Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies 3 credits
HIST 356 - Modern Asian History 3 credits
HIST 358 - The Atlantic World, 1500-1820 3 credits
HIST 422 - The Rise and Fall of the Spanish World Empire 3 credits
HIST 439A-C - Women in History 3 credits
HIST 444 - Latin America: The Colonial Era 3 credits
HIST 446 - Latin America and the United States 3 credits
HIST 474 - World Empires 3 credits
HIST 478 - History of Islam 3 credits
HIST 484 - History of the Modern Middle East 3 credits
HIST 493 - The History of Modern China 3 credits
HIST 498 - Topics in World History 3 credits

Note:

Students desiring a more specialized program may declare the following concentration in place of the Electives:

Public and Applied History Concentration (24 credits):

Required History (6 credits):

HIST 404 - Internship in Public History 3 credits
HIST 499 - Topics in History (Oral History: Methods and Practice) 1-3 credits
(Oral History: Methods and Practice)

Directed History Electives (18 credits):

6 credits from (Area A) United States;
6 credits from (Area B) Ancient, early modern, and modern European history;
6 credits from (Area C) The Wider World: Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

At least 12 credits must be at the 400-level, with at least one 400-level course in each area of study. A student may substitute three credits of directed electives with appropriate cognate courses taken in other departments. These cognate courses must be approved by the History Department Chair.