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Program Overview
Degree:
Minor in History
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Study the past to broaden your perspective by earning a Minor in History. Coursework includes American Colonial Experience, Making and Sundering of Union, U.S. Between Wars, 1865-1917, The Ancient World, and more. Enroll in online history courses to enhance your degree and your expertise.
Course Details
Requirements for the Minor
6 Courses
Choose any six of the following:
Global Issues and Trends
4.5 Quarter Units
Cultivate students’ understanding of “the global” as a complex web of local events and their sense of themselves as “global citizens”, whose everyday decisions are inextricably linked to larger social, political, and economic forces and structures. Investigate global issues to enable students to develop competencies that enhance their abilities to make informed decisions throughout their lives about how their actions and/or inactions fit into the broader global context.
Culture of Global Capitalism
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Places contemporary cultural, economic and technological issues in a global and historical perspective. Examines the ways that capitalism, culture, and technology have interacted over the past 500 years to shape the places, peoples and societies that have come into existence in the modern world.
Modern World Migration
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Human migration is the story of individual lives enmeshed in larger historical issues of identity, culture, work, social institutions and various forms of coercion. Explores how work and migration have intersected in the last 500 years to shape the world in which we live today.
The Global Economy
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 240
Examines changes associated with globalization since World War II, including changes in technology, urbanization, finance, markets, lending, the internationalization of production, the organization of work, and power relations among nations and world cultures. Investigates both theories of and popular responses to the new global economy.
Ecological Revolutions
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 240
Examines the relationships between humans and the natural environment over the last 500 years. Topics include conceptions of nature, the use of resources in different societies, the consequences of various forms of economic organization (particularly capitalism) on the environment, and the impact of technological change on the world’s ecology.
Contemporary World Literature
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 240 and LIT 100
Study of contemporary literary works from diverse cultures outside the Anglo-American literary tradition.
World Music
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 102
An exploration of localized musical traditions and practices across a variety of cultures, including Native America, India, the Arabic-speaking world, Indonesia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Black America. Promotes understanding of both music and the social circumstances that create music-cultures.
World Religions
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Major world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are surveyed in their philosophical, historical, art historical, and literary contexts. Important aspects of the philosophy and sociology of religion are addressed, and parallels in the study of myths, rituals, conversion experiences, and rites of passage are compared. Recent and contemporary religious trends are also addressed.
International Relations
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 102
A survey of the nature of the international system and the theoretical framework used by political scientists to examine it; in particular, this course focuses on the decision-making process within the international arena. International negotiation and decision-making are utilized.
Geography
4.5 Quarter Units
Examination of relationships between geographical features of the earth and human societies. Includes the study of map construction, mapping tools, geographical data, and the influence of geomorphological features on the development and spatial distribution of political systems, languages, and religions
Social Movements
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Introduction to social movements and collective action, covering several theoretical perspectives on how to understand and analyze social movements in recent global history, from their origins to their demise; a global survey of the processes of social and political awareness, mobilization, and development of such movements.
Art, Culture, and Civilization
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 102
An expansive overview of the history of world consciousness through various civilizations, exploring the interconnectedness of art, culture, politics, religion, economies, and the social environment in which they emerge. Draws on the contributions of people from different fields of creativity, the world’s outstanding thinkers, and the interconnectedness of their works.
Film in a Global Context
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 240
Examines how international cinema represents various aspects of societies and cultures outside the U.S. Representative films of Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, Australia and Oceania, and Canada may be studied.
Gender and Society
4.5 Quarter Units
Prerequisite: ENG 240
Examines the sociological and historical experiences of sex, sexuality, and gender in the USA, focusing on their intersectionality with race, class, and other social variables. Analyzes dominant representations of gender roles and stereotypes in public culture as well as LGBTQ and other representations that challenge prevailing power structures.
Program Learning Outcomes
Learn the key skills to help you excel in your field of study.
- Demonstrate cultural and global awareness to be responsible citizens in a diverse society.
- Analyze issues as they impact the global environment.
- Explain the varied experiences of different social groups interacting with the global economy over the past several hundred years.
- Analyze a global problem such as poverty, hunger, the spread of disease, or environmental degradation from several disciplinary perspectives.
- Evaluate scholarship on globalization for its veracity and reliability.
- Describe the relationships between economic and cultural change in regions of the globe.
- Describe the relationships between economic change and processes of nation-state formation over the last several hundred years.
- Synthesize theoretical perspectives and empirical data into a coherent argument.
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