18 units

Learn more about the history minor.

Requirements 

The Department of History and Political Science maintains the following requirements for each of the minors it offers:

1. Students must complete all prerequisites for any HIST or POLI course with a C- or better before taking the course (except as noted in the course description).
2. Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in all political science and history courses required for the minor.
3. Students must complete each HIST or POLI course with a C- or higher for the course to meet a degree requirement in the Department of History and Political Science.

Course List

Code	Title	Units
Core
Select one of the following:		3
HIST 120	World Civilizations to 1648 1, 2
HIST 121	World Civilizations Since 1648 1
Select one of the following:		3
HIST 151	United States History to 1877 1
HIST 152	United States History Since 1877 1
HIST 202	United States History to 1930 3
Electives
Select four of the following:		12
HIST 200	The Varieties of History
HIST 311	Ancient Greece
HIST 312	Ancient Rome
HIST 320	Modern Africa
HIST 325	Topics in French History
HIST 334	History of American Foreign Affairs
HIST 342	The American West
HIST 346	History of American Immigration 4
HIST 350	Medieval Europe
HIST 352	Renaissance and Reformation
HIST 357	Enlightenment Europe
HIST 358	Europe 1789-1914
HIST 359	Europe 1914-1992
HIST 360	History of the Middle East I: Early and Medieval Islam
HIST 361	History of the Middle East II: Modern Middle East
HIST 365	History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
HIST 368	A Year in Time
HIST 374	Colonial Era
HIST 376	The Revolution and the Republic
HIST 380	Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 382	Emergence of Modern America
HIST 386	Modern America
HIST 389	Modern American Intellectual History
HIST 392	Colonial Latin America
HIST 393	Ritual and Re-enactment in Modern Latin America
HIST 401	Humanities Seminar
HIST 484	Historical Themes
HIST 497	Readings
HIST 498	Directed Research
HIST 499	Thesis/Project
Total Units		18

¹

Meets the APU Core: Humanities: History general education requirement.

²

Completion of the Honors humanities major or minor satisfies the HIST 120 requirement.

³

For liberal studies majors only.

⁴

Meets the APU Core: Intercultural Competence general education requirement.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this program shall be able to:

1. Demonstrate a knowledge of the major events, ideas, and trends in American history.
2. Describe and analyze the major events, ideas, and developments of world history.
3. Analyze primary and secondary sources and develop a historical argument based on them.
4. Articulate how a Christian worldview informs the study of history.