Majoring and Minoring
For complete information about majoring and minoring, see the online catalog.
Classics
324 Roman Women
Economics
255 Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth
256 The Industrial Revolution
History
110 Early East Asian History
111 Making Modern China
112 Making Modern Japan
113 Introduction to Korea: Origins to the 21st Century
120 Early European History
121 Modern European History
134 United States: Revolution to Empire
135 The United States in the 20th Century
141 Colonial Latin American History
142 Modern Latin American History
208 Asian American History in the U.S.
209 Japan at War
213 Personal Narratives in Chinese History
216 Ancient Greece
217 The Emergence of Modern South Asia
219 Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire
221 Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1485 to 1688
222 Britain in the Age of Revolution, 1688 to 1815
223 War and Society in Premodern Europe
224 The Making of Modern Britain, 1815 to Present
226 20th-Century Germany
227 Medieval Europe, 800 to 1400
229 The Holocaust in Comparative Perspective
230 Eastern Europe: Borderlands and Bloodlands
231A U.S. Women’s History, 1600 to 1980
232 Histories of Indigenous Peoples in North America (Turtle Island)
239 Constructing the American Landscape
240 Race and Ethnicity in the United States
242 Borderlands: U.S.-Mexico Border, 16th Century to Present
243 African American History Since 1863
244 Practicum
259 India in the Age of Empire
261 Global Environmental History
264 From Stumptown to Portlandia: The History of Portland
288 China in the News: Socio-Anthropological and Historical Perspective on Modern China
297 Special Topics in History
299 Independent Study
300 Historical Materials
308 Public History Lab
310 China in the World
311 History of Family, Gender, and Sexuality in China
313 Religion, Society, and the State in Japanese History
316 Popular Culture and Everyday Life in Japanese History
320 Humanism in Renaissance Europe
323 Modern European Intellectual History
324 Saints and Bureaucrats
325 History of Islam in Europe
326 History of Soviet Russia
328 The British Empire
331 American Culture and Society: 1880 to 1980
336 Wilderness and the American West
338 Crime and Punishment in the United States
345 Race and Nation in Latin America
347 Modern Mexico: Culture, Politics, and Economic Crisis
348 Modern Cuba
388 What’s for Dinner
390 Immigration and Asylum Law
394 Cross-Cultural Law & Justice in Early America
397 Advanced Topics in History
400 Reading Colloquium
444 Practicum
450 History Seminar
490 History Honors Thesis
499 Independent Study
Religious Studies
229 The Reformations of the 16th Century
251 Medieval Christianity
253 Prophets, Seekers, and Heretics: U.S. Religious History from 1492 to 1865
254 Religion in Modern America, 1865 to Present
340 Gender in American Religious History
The major requires 40 semester credits (10 courses) distributed as follows:
- HIST 300 (Historical Materials): A methods course that trains students how to find historical sources—such as letters, journals, images, census records, and maps—and then to interpret them. Students learn historical editing and conduct an oral history.
- HIST 400 (Reading Colloquium): Students read historical writing in a particular field and come to grips with the ways history is written and interpreted. Past topics have included Empire and Independence in the Modern World; Disasters in History; The Other Europe: History and Historiography of Eastern Europe; and Americans in the World.
- HIST 450 (Research Seminar): Senior research seminar that requires students to write an original thesis based on intensive research.
- At least one course in each of three areas (the Americas, Europe, Asia): Options include Japan at War; Race and Ethnicity in the United States; From Stumptown to Portlandia: The History of Portland; and Eastern Europe: Borderlands and Bloodlands.
- At least one pre-modern course: Options include Ancient Greece; Early East Asian History; India in the Age of Empire; and Colonial Latin American History.
- Two courses at the 300 level beyond Historical Materials: Options include C rime and Punishment in the United States; Modern Cuba; Popular Culture and Everyday Life in Japanese History; History of Islam in Europe; and Humanism in Renaissance Europe.
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One elective from the entire history curriculum at any level.
The minor requires a minimum of 24 semester credits (six courses), which must include:
- HIST 300 Historical Materials
- HIST 400 Reading Colloquium or HIST 450 History Seminar
- At least one course at the 300 level, excluding HIST 300 Historical Materials
- Two additional history courses, each one from a different geographical field: Asian history, European history, or history of the Americas. Courses from other departments do not apply.
History is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
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