DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Minor Requirements

To graduate with a Bachelor's degree with a minor in History students must take seven distinct history courses, four of which must be within their area of concentration and the remainder outside of it.

Areas of Concentration

• Europe (including Britain)
• United States
• Latin America
• Asia
• Middle East
• Africa
• Science and Technology
  • His 102-6 Science and Literature: The Good Society (Alder)
  • His 275-1, 2 History of Western Science and Medicine
  • His 275-2 Modern Science and Medicine
  • His 300-0 Sickness and Health in Latin America (Ramirez)
  • His 300 History of Medicine in Asia
  • His 325-0 History of American Technology 
  • His 337-0 History of Modern Europe
  • His 378-0 History of Law and Science
  • His 379-0 Biomedicine and World History
  • His 393-0 The Atomic Bomb (Hein)
  • His 393 Science and Decolonization
  • His 395 Podcasting the History of Science
  • ECON 324-0 Western Economic History of the United States (Mokyr)
• Law and Crime
  • His 101-6 Great Trials of Western Civ (Muir)
  • His 200-0 Global History of Prisons and Camps (Frommer)
  • His 292 Great Trials in History
  • His 300-0 Making Drugs in the Americas (Britto)
  • His 300: Native Nations and the U.S. Legal System
  • His 300-0 Cannabis: Global History (Britto)
  • His 300-0 Islamic Law and Islamic Mysticism (Petry)
  • His 318-1, 2 Legal & Constitutional History of the U.S. 
  • His 356-2 Modern South Africa 
  • His 378-0 History of Law and Science 
  • His 393-0 Microhistory (Muir)
  • His 393-0 Oral History and the Archives of Terror in Latin America (Britto)
  • His 393-0 Approaches to History: Violence and History (Schoenbrun)
• Economics and Labor
  • His 102-6 Anti-Poverty Crusades (Binford)
  • His 102-6 Capitalism and Its Opponents in History (Immerwahr)
  • His 254 Entrepreneurship: A Global History 
  • His 255-1 Africa to 1650 
  • His 260-1 Colonial Latin America (Ramirez)
  • His 300-0 Making Drugs in the Americas (Britto)
  • His 300 History and Theory of Information
  • His 337-0 History of Modern Europe 
  • His 356-2 Modern South Africa
  • His 357-0 East Africa to 1900
  • His 366-0 Race and Nation in Latin America 
  • His 369-0 Dev. and Inequality in Modern Latin America
  • His 384-2 History of Japan 1943-2011
  • His 392/395 Nasser and Sadat (Petry)
  • ECON 324-0 Western Economic History of the United States (Mokyr)
• Environment
  • His 251 The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History
  • His 255-1 Africa to 1650
  • His 366-0 Race and Nation in Latin America 
  • His 309-0 American Environmental History 
  • His 357-0 East Africa to 1900
  • His 376-0 Global Environments and World History
  • His 392/EPC 390 Wilderness in America (Woodhouse)
  • His 393-0 Extinction and Biodiversity in American History (Woodhouse)

UP TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE HISTORY Minor

• Classics 211, 212
• Economics 315, 318, 323-1, 323-2, 324
• Religion 264, 265
• History courses taught in other departments or programs by core History faculty, visiting History faculty, or History lecturers.
• Only one Chicago Field Studies course may count toward a history MAJOR, but NOT towards a history MINOR
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Notes and Restrictions

1. At least three of the seven courses must be at the 300-level, and at least two of the courses in the concentration must be at the 300-level.
2. Students may apply only one first-year seminar—101, 102, or 103—toward the minor requirements. Otherwise any 200- or 300-level course may be counted toward the minor, including seminars numbered 392, 393, 394, 395, and 398.
3. No AP courses or online courses may be counted toward the history minor.
4. Chicago Field Studies courses may NOT count towards a history MINOR
5. Courses taken abroad may be counted toward the minor requirements with approval from a faculty advisor.

6. All courses toward the major/minor must be taken for a letter grade, no P/NP.