Undergraduate > The History Minor
The department's program for the
undergraduate minor in History requires the following:
- Registration in the Department of History by Autumn Quarter of the senior year.
How to declare:
- Contact the Undergraduate Student Services Officer in the History office and she will start a file for you.
- Next, declare the minor online through AXESS.
A minor includes the following requirements:
- Completion of at least six courses in History. All courses must be at least 3 units and all must be taken for a letter grade.
- Up to three courses from other institutions may transfer to the minor.
- Of the six History courses required, a minimum of three must be taken from permanent members of the History Department faculty. Advanced placement credits may not be used to fulfill any departmental requirements.
- Completion of two small group courses. Small group courses include any of the following four categories:
-- Sources and Methods seminars (1S-99S)
-- Stanford Intro Seminars taught by History faculty (1N-99N; 1Q-99Q)
-- 200-level undergraduate colloquia (200-299)
-- History research seminar (201S-299S).
- A concentration of at least three courses within one of the following: Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Russia, Empires and Cultures, Europe before 1700, Europe since 1700, Jewish history, Latin America, science and technology, the United States, the Middle East; or a thematic subject treated comparatively, such as war and revolution, work, gender, family history, popular culture/high culture. Thematic concentrations require students to propose their coursework, write one paragraph explaining how the coursework relates to their theme, and submit this to the Program Assistant for review by the D.U.S.
- One course from Histories Area One sequences (" Ancient Empires", "The Rise and Fall of Europe", or "Worlds of Islam") may be counted toward the six-course requirement, but not for the three-course concentration.