The University of St. Thomas

Major in History

Major in History

Forty-four credits in major, of which at least four must be from each of four areas:

  • The Ancient and Medieval World
  • Modern Europe since 1450
  • The United States or its Colonial Antecedents
  • The non-Western World

Four credits from the following:
  • HIST 111 Origins of the Modern World to 1550 (4 credits)
  • HIST 112 The History of the Modern World since 1550 (4 credits)

Plus four credits from the following:
  • HIST 113 Early America in Global Perspective (4 credits)
  • HIST 114 The Modern U.S. in Global Perspective (4 credits)

(no more than one additional 100-level course may be applied to major)

Plus one thematic course from:
  • HIST 326 English Law and Government Before the American Revolution (4 credits)
  • HIST 345 Family and Women in Chinese History (4 credits)
  • HIST 360 Early American Thought and Culture (4 credits)
  • HIST 361 American Thought and Culture Since the Civil War (4 credits)
  • HIST 365 U.S. Constitutional History (4 credits)
  • HIST 366 The History of the Catholic Church in the United States (4 credits)
  • HIST 368 History of Women in the United States (4 credits)
  • HIST 369 African-American History (4 credits)
  • HIST 371 History of U.S. Foreign Policy (4 credits)
  • HIST 373 Origins of War: 1850 to 1945 (4 credits)
  • HIST 382 Careers in History (4 credits)
  • HIST 384 Uses of History: Decision-Making (4 credits)
  • HIST 391 Development of Industrial Economies (4 credits)

Plus one limited period course from:
  • HIST 314 Modern Europe since 1945 (4 credits)
  • HIST 328 The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era (4 credits)
  • HIST 333 Eastern Europe, 1914 to the Present (4 credits)
  • HIST 353 History of the American Revolution (4 credits)
  • HIST 355 The Civil War Era (4 credits)
  • HIST 358 Twentieth-Century United States (4 credits)
  • HIST 372 The United States and Vietnam (4 credits)

Plus four credits from the following:
  • HIST 463 Seminar in European History (4 credits)
  • HIST 464 Seminar in Non-Western History (4 credits)
  • HIST 465 Seminar in U.S. History (4 credits)

Plus:
  • Twenty-four credits in history chosen in consultation with student’s major adviser

What some of our majors are doing?

  •  Becky Pulju, Ph.D. French History from University of Iowa

  • Lucien Frary, Ph.D. European History from University of Minnesota

  • Roy Sutherland, in Ph.D. program at University of Houston

  • Deirdre Joyce, in PH.D. program, Irish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Fr. Kevin McDonough:  St. Peter Claver Church Pastor; St. Paul Minneapolis Archdiocese Vicar General