History, BA

Program Overview

This history program offers a comprehensive curriculum covering American, pre-1500, global, and regional history. Students must complete required courses in history workshop, the historian's vocations, and a seminar, along with a selection of courses in various historical areas. The program prepares students for careers in history, education, and other fields requiring historical knowledge and analytical skills.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Required History
• HIST 140 - History Workshop (3 credits)
• HIST 141 - The Historian's Vocations (3 credits)
• HIST 495 - Seminar in History (3 credits)
• American History (1 course)
• HIST 160 - United States History to 1877 (3 credits)
• HIST 161 - United States History Since 1877 (3 credits)
• HIST 201 - Michigan History (3 credits)
• HIST 251 - Revolutionary America: Visionaries, Rebels, and Ruffians (3 credits)
• HIST 252 - Civil War America: Disruption and Destiny (3 credits)
• HIST 255 - World War I America (3 credits)
• HIST 256 - Recent America: From World War II to 9/11 (3 credits)
• HIST 257 - Race and Ethnicity in US History (3 credits)
• HIST 287 - US Women and Social Change (3 credits)
• HIST 351 - Slavery and Race in America, 1619-Present: The Struggle Within (3 credits)
• HIST 352 - Women, Gender and Sex in United States History (3 credits)
• HIST 355 - United States Foreign Policy, 1898-Present: Power, Promise, and Peril (3 credits)
• HIST 357 - United States Cultural History (3 credits)
• HIST 361 - United States Military History: Rise of a Warrior Democracy (3 credits)
• Pre-1500 History (1 course)
• HIST 120 - Introduction to World History to 1500 (3 credits)
• HIST 130 - Introduction to Ancient and Medieval European History (3 credits)
• HIST 210 - The Greek World (3 credits)
• HIST 215 - The Roman World (3 credits)
• HIST 217 - Race and Ethnicity in Classical Antiquity (3 credits)
• HIST 218 - The Middle Ages: Europe, Byzantium and Islam (3 credits)
• HIST 220 - Ancient Rome and the Third Reich: Fascist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity (3 credits)
• HIST 285 - Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity (3 credits)
• Global History (1 course)
• HIST 120 - Introduction to World History to 1500 (3 credits)
• HIST 121 - Introduction to World History since 1500 (3 credits)
• HIST 274 - Friend or Foe: China and the United States in Trade, War, and the Missionary Movement (3 credits)
• HIST 280 - Modern Imperialism (3 credits)
• HIST 341 - World War Two: Collaboration and Resistance (3 credits)
• HIST 344 - Genocide in the Modern World (3 credits)
• HIST 364 - Latino Identities: Ethnic Diversity in Latin American and United States History (3 credits)
• Regional History (2 courses)
• Africa (1 course)
• HIST 221 - Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa: African Perspectives on Colonialism (3 credits)
• HIST 321 - The Making of Modern Africa (3 credits)
• East Asia (1 course)
• HIST 270 - Modern China (3 credits)
• HIST 314 - The History of Japan and Korea since 1600: At the Origins of Modernity (3 credits)
• Europe (1 course)
• HIST 130 - Introduction to Ancient and Medieval European History (3 credits)
• HIST 131 - Introduction to Modern European History (3 credits)
• HIST 220 - Ancient Rome and the Third Reich: Fascist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity (3 credits)
• HIST 242 - Twentieth Century Europe (3 credits)
• HIST 268 - Russian History from Peter the Great to the USSR (3 credits)
• HIST 272 - Social History in Early Modern Europe: Wanderers, Warriors, and Witches (3 credits)
• Latin America (1 course)
• HIST 260 - History of Latin America Since 1810 (3 credits)
• HIST 263 - Colonial Latin American History (3 credits)
• HIST 365 - Gender and Power in Latin American History (3 credits)
• Middle East (1 course)
• HIST 230 - Model Arab League (3 credits)
• HIST 370 - Modern Middle East (3 credits)