History Minor
Requirements (19 total credits)
Each course can meet only one major requirement.
Introductory Level (4 credits)
Introductory Level Electives (1 course, 3 credits)
- 100 or 200 level U.S. history, western civilization or world history or Metropolitan State courses: HIST 302-309
Upper-division Level: Women's/Gender History (1 course, 4 credits)
- One course in women's history (See the list below.)
Upper-division Level: Electives (2 courses, 8 credits)
Upper-division level courses in any geographical area and field are appropriate. (HIST 490 is not required but students may choose to take this course in place of an upper-division course.)
Transfer Credits
Students can transfer up to 8 credits to meet minor requirements with courses designated as history only. Students cannot transfer courses from other disciplines, including multidisciplinary programs to meet major requirements.
Partial Listing of Lower-division Courses
- HIST 101 The American Past: To 1865
- HIST 102 The American Past: From 1865
- HIST 103 World History I: Patterns of Civilization to 1500
- HIST 104 World History II: The Modern World, 1500 to Present
Partial Listing of Courses Between HIST 302 and 309
Though they are numbered above 302, if you choose, these courses can be used to fulfill the introductory level elective requirement.
- HIST 303 U.S. Economic Life: Business
- HIST 304 U.S. Economic Life: Working People
- HIST 305 U.S. Economic Life: Technology
- HIST 309 Women and Public Activism in the United States
Partial Listing of Upper-division Topics Courses
- HIST 310 American Indian History
- HIST 311 African American History
- HIST 312 Beginnings of American Society: Colonial and Revolutionary History
- HIST 313 American Presidents
- HIST 315 Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
- HIST 320 History of Asian Americans
- HIST 327 American History at the Movies
- HIST 328 Women in Modern U.S. History 1877 to the present
- HIST 329 Legacies: History of Women and the Family
- HIST 331 Religion and Politics in America
- HIST 333 The Greening of America: Environmental History Since 1900
- HIST 334 The Great Depression of the 1930s
- HIST 336 The American Half-century: U.S. History Since World War II
- HIST 337 U.S. Foreign Relations, World War I to the Present
- HIST 341 The Vietnam War
- HIST 342 The Sixties Experience
- HIST 344 Controversies in Contemporary America: The 1980s and 1990s as History
- HIST 346 Minnesota History
- HIST 350 Europe: Creation and Conflict, 1500-1789
- HIST 351 Europe: The Global Power
- HIST 354 History of the Holocaust
- HIST 355 Problems in Contemporary Europe in Historical Perspective
- HIST 357 Women in Early Modern Europe
- HIST 361 Africa: From Ancient Times to 1800
- HIST 362 Africa: From Colonialism to Independence
- HIST 363 World Environmental History
- HIST 370 Behind the Great Wall: The Real China
- HIST 371 Understanding Modern Japan
- HIST 372 History of Japanese Popular Culture
- HIST 382 Latin American History I: to 1910
- HIST 383 Latin American History II: 1910 to Present
- HIST 394 Comparative Women's History
- HIST 395 The Rise ad Fall of Communism
- HIST 398 World War II: A Global History
- HIST 490 Historian as Investigator: Historical Research
Women's/Gender History
- HIST 309 Women and Public Activism in the United States
- HIST 328 Women in Modern U.S. History
- HIST 329 Legacies: History of Women and the Family
- HIST 339 History of Sexuality: Modern Perspectives
- HIST 357 Women in Early Modern Europe
- HIST 394 Comparative Women's History
Faculty-designed Independent Studies
Any upper-division course can be offered as a faculty-designed independent study.
Internships
Students may make use of internships in their programs of study. The History Department encourages serious and disciplined history minors to participate in internships which are well designed and academically beneficial. The department will sponsor one internship per student. An internship will be counted as a 3 credit-hour history course (HIST 350I).For further inquiries contact the Department Chair, Doug Rossinow, at doug.rossinow@metrostate.edu or call him at 651-793-1468. The department address is History Department, Metropolitan State University, 700 East Seventh Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55106-5000, The fax number is 651-793-1446.
