Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

History, Minor (392)


Program Coordinator

Jennifer A. Hanley, jennifer.walton-hanley@wku.edu, (270) 745-4723

Program Requirements (21 hours)

The minor in History requires a minimum of 21 semester hours. 

Foundational Study
WORLD HISTORY3
World History I
World History II
UNITED STATES HISTORY3
The United States to 1865
The United States Since 1865
Geographic and Chronological Electives
THE GLOBAL SOUTH3
Choose at least one course from the following:
Latin American Society: Past and Present
History of Africa Since 1500
Colonial Latin America, 1400-1825
Modern Latin America, 1800-Present
Modern South Asia: from Empires to Nations
History of Yoga: Tradition, Literature, Practice
Gandhi: The Creation of a Global Legacy
Modern East Asia
History of the Middle East
The Mexican Republic
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Local and Global Influences
Modern China
ANCIENT TO EARLY MODERN HISTORY3
Choose at least one course from the following:
Ancient Identities
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
The Middle Ages
Conflict, Culture and Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean
Renaissance Europe
Age of the Reformation
The British Isles to 1688
History of Africa Before 1500
History of Ancient Egypt
The Crusades: West Meets East
Tudor-Stuart England
Colonial North America to 1763
Traditional East Asia
The Atlantic World
Electives9
ELECTIVE COURSES
Students may select any 200, 300, or 400-level history course not already counted toward the major. A maximum of three hours across all elective categories (including Geographic and Chronological Electives and Electives) may be at the 200-level.
Total Hours21

Note: Students may select up to three hours of elective courses from outside of History in consultation with a department undergraduate advisor and with approval of the department’s lead advisor, program coordinator, or department chair. Additionally, other History courses may be approved for elective categories with approval of department’s lead advisor, program coordinator, or department chair.