Students majoring in all disciplines are welcome to minor in history.  A minor in history provides a perfect complement to many disciplines. It engages students in questions about causality and asks students to see the contingent conditions that have shaped our world. It offers students an opportunity to develop their critical analysis, reading, and writing skills. Students may minor in history by completing 3 units in lower division world history and 15 units in upper division history courses.

Requirements for a minor in History (18 units)

Students must choose one 3 unit course from the following:		3
HIST 1400	World History to c. 1500
or ANTH 1400	World History to c. 1500
HIST 1440	World History from c.1500
Students must complete 15 units of upper division units chosen from five of the following six areas:		15
Ancient History
HIST 3200	History of Ancient Greece
HIST 3210	History of Rome
HIST 3360	Ancient Egyptian Archaeology
HIST 3380	Ancient Egyptian Art
HIST 3390	Culture and Society in Ancient Egypt
HIST 4260	Ancient and Early Imperial China
HIST 4420	Archaic Greece
HIST 4440	Roman Republic
HIST 4460	Age of Augustus
HIST 4470	Impact of Warfare in Antiquity
HIST 4480	Trade, Travel, and Migration in the Ancient Mediterranean World
HIST 4520	Ancient Egyptian History, Origins to c. 1700 B.C.E.
HIST 4530	Ancient Egyptian History, c. 1700 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E
HIST 4540	Ancient Egypt, c. 1000 B.C.E. to 495 C.E.
HIST 4540	Ancient Egypt, c. 1000 B.C.E. to 495 C.E.
HIST 4550	Egyptian Mining Expeditions, Their Buildings, and Their Slaves
HIST 4800	History of Christianity I
African History
HIST 3860	Africa to 1870
HIST 3870	Africa 1870 to Present
HIST 3880	The Rise, Decline and Legacy of Apartheid South Africa
HIST 3890	Images of Africa
HIST 4500	History of Southern Africa
HIST 4510	The History of Health and Medicine in Africa
HIST 4490	Gender and Development in Africa
Asian/Middle Eastern History
HIST 3830	Classical Islamic Civilization
HIST 3840	Modern Middle East
HIST 4260	Ancient and Early Imperial China
HIST 4280	Medieval China
HIST 4290	Modern China I, 1644-1911
HIST 4310	Modern China II, 1911-Present
HIST 4330	Modern Chinese History in Fiction and Film
HIST 4350	World War II in the Pacific
HIST 4400	History of Modern East Asia
HIST 4560	Mughal India and the Early Modern World
HIST 4570	Modern India at the Crossroads of Empire
HIST 4850	Arab-Israeli Conflict
HIST 4870	Topics in Modern Middle Eastern History
HIST 4950	Politics of Oil
European History
HIST 3050	Ancient and Medieval Europe to the Renaissance
HIST 3060	European History from the Renaissance to the Present
HIST 3200	History of Ancient Greece
HIST 3210	History of Rome
HIST 3350	Modern Ireland
HIST 4000	Early Medieval Europe
HIST 4010	High Medieval Europe
HIST 4020	Renaissance and Reformation
HIST 4030	The Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment
HIST 4050	Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
HIST 4060	European Intellectual History
HIST 4090	Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 4100	Hitler's Europe
HIST 4810	History of Christianity II
HIST 5000	Tudor and Stuart England
HIST 5010	Britain, 1688-1901
HIST 5030	Europe Since 1945
HIST 5350	Studies in European National History
Latin American History
HIST 3900	History of Modern Mexico
HIST 4650	Modern Central America
HIST 4660	Foreign Relations of Latin America
HIST 4670	Latin American History Through Film
HIST 4690	Colonial Latin America
HIST 4700	Modern Latin America
United States History
HIST 3201	Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in the United States
HIST 3400	African-American History, 1620-1865
HIST 3410	African-American History, 1865-Present
HIST 3420	American Indian History
HIST 3430	Great Debates in African American History
HIST 3450	Women in U.S. History, 1607-Present
HIST 3460	Women in the Black Freedom Movement
HIST 3470	Black Freedom Movement Through Film
HIST 3480	Black Panthers and Black Power
HIST 3500	The American Colonies, 1607-1783
HIST 3510	The Evolution of American Democracy, 1783-1840
HIST 3540	Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 3560	The United States, 1877-1917
HIST 3570	The United States, 1917-1945
HIST 3580	United States in World War II
HIST 3590	United States History, Cold War Era
HIST 3600	American History Through Film
HIST 3610	Chicana/o History Through Film
HIST 3620	LGBT History
HIST 3630	Race, Ethnicity, and Film in America, 1920-Present
HIST 3680	The United States, 1960s
HIST 3700	History of California
HIST 3710	California Indian History
HIST 3910	Chicana/o History
HIST 4180	Early American Biography
HIST 4200	US Empire and Foreign Policy 1898-Present
HIST 4220	20th Century Americans
HIST 5400	Constitutional History of the United States
HIST 5410	U.S. Citizenship and the Law
HIST 5470	African American Intellectual History
HIST 5560	Foreign Relations of the United States
HIST 5600	History of the American West
HIST 5610	Gender, Sex, and Conquest in the American West
HIST 5640	Chicana/Mexicana Feminisms
HIST 5650	Immigration and Ethnic American History
HIST 5680	History of the U.S. - Mexico Borderlands
HIST 6300	California Water History
Total Units		18