Field in History

Advisor: Terry Strieter

Required Courses - 9 hours

	HIS 201	Modern Europe
	HIS 221	American Experience to 1865¹
	or
	HIS 222	American Experience since 1865¹
	HIS 300	Introduction to Historical Studies

	¹ If not taken as University Studies elective(s); if HIS 221/222 has/have already been taken as University Studies elective(s), then the student will take one or two additional history electives for a concentration total of 18 hours.

Electives - 9 hours

	Three additional upper-level electives, one from each of the three groups below; at least two of the three must be at the 400 level. (Specific courses below are subject to change as a result of curriculum revision; please check the latest edition of the MSU Bulletin.)

	Group 1 - European History:

	HIS 301	Ancient History to the Fall of Rome
	HIS 302	Medieval Europe
	HIS 303	The Making of Britain
	HIS 304	History of Ireland
	HIS 306	Europe in Renaissance and Reformation
	HIS 401	The French Revolution
	HIS 402	19^th-Century Europe
	HIS 403	Europe Since 1914
	HIS 408	The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
	HIS 409	Tudor and Stuart Britain
	HIS 410	Modern Britain
	HIS 411	Modern France
	HIS 412	Modern Germany

	Group 2 - United States History:

	HIS 315	Women in American History
	HIS 320	African-American History
	HIS 322	History of Religion in the United States
	HIS 323	The Great American West
	HIS 329	The American Indians
	HIS 330	Sports in America
	HIS 333	Military History of the United States
	HIS 334	History of American Agriculture and Rural Life
	HIS 421	United States Social and Cultural History to 1865
	HIS 422	United States Social and Cultural History Since 1865
	HIS 430	Colonial America to 1763
	HIS 431	America in Revolution
	HIS 434	Civil War and Reconstruction
	HIS 435	The Transformation of America 1877-1929
	HIS 436	Recent America
	HIS 441	History of the Old South
	HIS 442	History of the New South
	HIS 445	History of Race Relations in the United States
	HIS 446	History of Kentucky

	Group 3 - Non-Western History:

	HIS 309	Survey of World Religions
	HIS 340	The Far East in Modern Times
	HIS 350	History of Latin America
	HIS 355	Islamic Middle East
	HIS 370	History of Africa
	HIS 415	Women in History
	HIS 450	Modern Africa
	HIS 451	Slavery in Africa
	HIS 455	Middle East Since 1800
	HIS 456	The Arab-Israeli Conflict
	HIS 474	China in Revolution
	HIS 475	Modern Japan
	HIS 481	Revolutionary Mexico 1810-Present

	(Requirements in this category may be changed, with specific written permission of the student's advisor and the Chair of the Department of History, if such a change can be shown by the student--also in writing --to effect a better link between History and the student's other Liberal Arts area of concentration.)

Total Requirements - 18 hours

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