The Military History minor provides students an opportunity to focus on the history of warfare and its consequences in multiple historical contexts. The variety of courses offered include the Crusades and the Age of the Samurai, as well as options covering the great wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students may analyze the history of tactics and strategy, while also exploring the social, cultural, economic, religious and global effects of warfare.
Minor in Military History
The minor in Military History consists of 18 credit hours: two required courses (6 credit hours) and four upper-division (3000-4000 level) history elective courses (12 credit hours).
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 3 |
| American Military History | |
| American Crucible: The Military and the Development of the United States | |
| 3 |
| Growth of Western Civilization to 1715 | |
| Growth of Western Civilization since 1715 | |
| Introduction to American History | |
| History of Latin America | |
| Africa | |
| East Asia | |
| Doing History | |
| 12 |
| The Civil War Era | |
| The Vietnam War Era | |
| War and Religion in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650 | |
| "The Great War": World War I, 1914-18 | |
| World War II | |
| From Colony to Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations 1776-1914 | |
| Rise to Global Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1914 | |
| African-American History | |
| The Crusades | |
| Comparative Homefronts during the Second World War | |
| Nazi Germany and the Holocaust | |
| The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1787 to 1815 | |
| The Cold War | |
| Age of the Samurai | |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Note:
HIST 4931, 4953, 4955 and 4955 may be applied to the upper division requirement subject to approval by the director of undergraduate studies.
