History Department
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BA/BS IN HISTORY or HISTORY MAJOR (72 Credits)
- HST 101, 102, 103 History of Western Civilization (12) -OR- HST 104, 105, 106 World History (12)
- HST 201, 202, 203 History of the United States (4 Each) (Choose two of the three courses) -OR- HST 211 and HST 212 American History Survey (8)
- HST 420 Philosophies of History (4)
- HST 499 Senior Seminar (4)
Select at least two courses from four of the five areas below: (44)
Consult a history department adviser in developing your plan. This may include History 407 seminars on topical/regional areas offered on a periodic basis. With prior approval from their History Department advisor, students may plan a program that includes up to 9 hours of Social Science electives relevant to their concentration areas in history to complete the 44 hour sequence.
Students will use a paper completed for upper-division history course at WOU as a foundation for their Senior Seminar thesis. They will revise and expand this topical paper, with history department advisers, across the senior year to complete Senior Seminar (HST 499) in the spring term. HST 420 should be taken the term preceding HST 499. In HST 420 the student will explore the theoretical foundations of the research topic that will become the basis for the HST 499 senior thesis paper.
Europe/Russia (4)
- HST 412 Yugoslavia: From Experiment to Collapse
- HST 414, 415, 416 English History
- HST 417 The Renaissance
- HST 418 The Reformation
- HST 419 Early Modern Europe
- HST 421 England Under the Tudors and Stuarts
- HST 422 Germany: The 19th Century
- HST 423 Germany 1914 to 1945
- HST 424 Postwar German History
- HST 425 Modern France: Revolution and Napoleon
- HST 426 Modern France: The 19th Century
- HST 427 Modern France: The 20th Century
- HST 428 Nineteenth Century Europe
- HST 429 Twentieth Century Europe: From World Wars to Cold Wars
- HST 430 Twentieth Century Europe: Postwar Period
- HST 431 Russia to Peter the Great
- HST 432 Imperial Russia
- HST 433 Soviet Russia
- HST 434, 435 History of Spain and Portugal
- HST 436 History of Modern Italy
- HST 438 Ancient Near East and Egypt
- HST 439 Ancient Greece
- HST 440 Ancient Rome
- HST 441 Aristophanes' Athens
- HST 442 Cicero and the Politics of the Late Republic
- HST 443 Biography and Empire
- HST 444 Cities and Vesuvius: Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae
- HST 445 Women in the Greco-Roman World
- HST 446 Archaeology of the Biblical World
- HST 447 Early Middle Ages
- HST 448 High Middle Ages
- HST 449 Late Middle Ages
- HST 450 The Byzantine Empire
- HST 451 The Crusades
- HST 452 Women and Family in the Middle Ages
- HST 493 British Constitutional History
North American Studies (4)
- HST 454 Mexico and the Caribbean
- HST 456 Mexico Since the Independence
- HST 475 Colonial America
- HST 476 Market Democracy in America
- HST 477 Civil War and Reconstruction
- HST 478 Managing and Resisting Incorporation, 1865-1914
- HST 479 Challenges of Progressive Era America
- HST 480 Topics in Multicultural American History
- HST 481 American Voices: Autobiography, Biography and Memoir in American History
- HST 482 America and the World Wars
- HST 483 Cold War America
- HST 484 Health, Medicine and Gender in Historical Perspective
- HST 487 Canada: to Confederation (1867)
- HST 488 Canada: Since Confederation
- HST 490 Wests of Early America
- HST 491 Western US: 20th Century Issues
- HST 492 Pacific Northwest History
- HST 494 North American Constitutional History
Comparative/Methods (4)
- HST 401 History and the Internet
- HST 404/405 Gender Issues in History
- HST 406 Archival Science
- HST 408/508 Oral History
- HST 409/509 Historical Editing
- HST 410/510 Introduction to Public History
- HST 411 World Problems
- HST 441 Aristophanes' Athens
- HST 442 Cicero and the Politics of the Late Republic
- HST 443 Biography and Empire
- HST 444 Cities and Vesuvius: Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae
- HST 445 Women in the Greco-Roman World
- HST 446 Archaeology of the Biblical World
- HST 450 The Byzantine Empire
- HST 451 The Crusades
- HST 452 Women and Family in the Middle Ages
- HST 458 History of the Inter-American Relations
- HST 479, 480 Challenges of Progressive Era America
- HST 481 American Voices: Autobiography, Biography and Memoir in American History
- HST 484 Health, Medicine and Gender in Historical Perspective
- HST 489 Environmental History
- HST 492 Pacific Northwest History
- HST 493 British Constitutional History
- HST 494 North American Constitutional History
Africa/Latin America
- HST 453 Precolumbian and Colonial Latin America (4)
- HST 454 Mexico and Caribbean Since Independence (4)
- HST 455 South America Since Independence (4)
- HST 456 Mexico Since Independence (4)
- HST 457 20th Century Latin America (4)
- HST 485 Mexican Foundations of Chican@/Latin@ History (4)
- HST 486 Chican@ History (4)
- HST 496 West Africa: Democracy and Dictatorships (4)
- HST 497 East Africa: Democracy and Dictatorships (4)
East and West Asia (4)
- HST 461, 462, 463 History of East Asia
- HST 464 South East Asia: Imperialism to Independence
- HST 465 South East Asia: Second World War to Cold War
- HST 466 South East Asia: Cold War to Present
- HST 467 Modern China I: Fragmentation and Reform Movements in Late Imperial China
- HST 468 Modern China II
- HST 469 Modern China III: Peoples Republic of China, Confucianism and Socialism
- HST 470 Women in Indian Society
- HST 471 Women in Japanese Society
- HST 472 Women in Chinese Society
- HST 473 Popular Culture in China
- HST 474 Popular Culture in Japan
- HST 495 Arab World in Transition
Note: For the B.S. degree in History, students may take any combination of Math/Computer Science/Statistics courses as long as it includes at least one Math course beyond MTH 105 and one Computer Science course beyond CS 101.
HISTORY MINOR (28 Credits)
Choose at least one course from four of the five categories below and three additional electives. A minimum of 16 credits must be upper division.
- Europe/Russia
- North American Studies
- Comparative Methods
- Africa/Latin American
- East and West Asia
Note: The history minor should be planned with the help of a history department adviser. HST 201, 202, 203, 211 and 212 are designated as North American Studies; HST 101, 102 and 103 are designated as Europe/Russia; and HST 104, 105 and 106 are designated as Comparative/Methods.