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As a history student, it's essential that you learn how to conduct high-level research.

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Why Choose
Cedar Crest?
  • Personalized attention
  • Average class size <20
  • Women's leadership opportunities
  • Flexibility to add dual major, minor

Gain valuable perspective on today's global society through the study of history.

Contact:
Barton C Shaw, Ph.D.
Professor, History
bcshaw@cedarcrest.edu
610-437-4471 ext. 3403

History Minor

The history minor provides Cedar Crest students with an enlightening context for their studies in another major, including:

  • Global studies
  • Political science
  • Religious studies
  • Business
  • The arts
  • The sciences

When selecting the courses that will constitute your history minor, you will be asked to develop a well thought-out combination that reflects your intellectual interest in the discipline of history, the skills you want to master, and how the history minor will add strength to your overall undergraduate education.

About the Program

As a history minor at Cedar Crest, you will receive an introduction to the discipline, including its key components of:

  • Research
  • Scholarship
  • The illumination of situations and problems in the contemporary world

As such, this minor provides a valuable complement in both knowledge and skills to many majors in other fields.

Course Requirements

 

The history minor requires 18 credits, including two history courses at the 100-level and at least four courses at the 200-level.

Take at least two of these courses:

  • HIS 107 European Civilization I 3 credits
  • HIS 108 European Civilization II 3 credits
  • HIS 121 Survey of US History I 3 credits
  • HIS 122 Survey of US History II 3 credits

Take at least four of these courses:

  • HIS 210 Liberal Democracy and Capitalism 3 credits
  • HIS 211 20th-Century Dictatorships 3 credits
  • HIS/ART215 Selected Movements in Art and Architecture 1750-1900 3 credits
  • HIS 218 The City as History 3 credits
  • HIS/HON 220 Film and History: Visions and Revisions of the Past 3 credits
  • HIS 221 The American Revolution and the Early Republic 3 credits
  • HIS 223 The Civil War and Reconstruction 3 credits
  • HIS 224 America as a World Power 3 credits
  • HIS 230 The American South since the Civil War 3 credits
  • HIS 231 American Cultural Traditions 3 credits
  • HIS 232 The African-American Freedom Struggle 3 credits
  • HIS 250 Germany and the Path to the European Union 3 credits
  • HIS 251 Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia 3 credits
  • HIS 270 China and Japan in the Modern Age 3 credits
  • HIS 278 Terror: The History of an Idea 3 credits