World History Minor

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The World History minor is designed to provide support and assistance to students who wish to specialize in world history and to provide a coherent academic program which is well integrated with other disciplines and departments.

Requirements

(18 units)

Lower Division

(6 units)

HIST 1010 - World Civilizations I
HIST 1020 - World Civilizations II

Note:

Equivalent courses at many community colleges may satisfy these requirements, but they must be world, not western, civilization courses.

Upper Division

1. Global — Comparative

a. Two of the following:

(6 units)

HIST 3090 and 3400 also fulfill university multicultural requirement

HIST 3090 - Contemporary World History
HIST 3400 - The Great Teachings
HIST 4041 - Colonialism and the Modern State in Africa and Asia
HIST 4730 - Disease and World Societies

b. One of the following may be substituted for one class above:

HIST 3120 - Ancient Mediterranean World
HIST 4440 - Western Science and Society Since Copernicus
HIST 4510 - The United States and Latin America
HIST 4720 - Modern Atlantic Slavery
HIST 4850 - China and the United States

2. Area Studies

a. Any two of the following:

(6 units)

HIST 3230 - Nineteenth Century Europe
HIST 3240 - Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 3510 - Colonial Latin America
HIST 3520 - Modern Latin America
HIST 3720 - United States Ethnic and Immigrant Past
HIST 3730 - Afro American History
HIST 3800 - East Asia in Traditional Times
HIST 3810 - East Asia in the Modern World
HIST 3860 - Africa Before 1885
HIST 3880 - Contemporary Africa, 1945 to the Present
HIST 3900 - Arab-Islamic Civilization: Origins to the Present
HIST 4210 - European Intellectual History: Renaissance to the Present
HIST 4500 - History of Mexico
HIST 4710 - Mexican American History