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Global History Minor

Effective Winter 2022

Exclusions:

A minor in Global History is not open to students with a major or any other minor in the Department of History.

Advising

Appointments with History advisors are scheduled online from the department's webpage: /lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduates/advising.htm. Students should see an advisor as soon as they decide on their major or minor.

The History Department offers a three-tiered advising structure.

Tier 1: Faculty Advisors from the History Department's Undergraduate Committee

  • declaring a history major - obtaining general advice about the nature, purpose, and utility of a history degree
  • recommending a faculty mentor
  • approving study abroad and transfer credit
  • declaring an academic minor in History

To make an appointment, go to http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduate/advising.

Tier 2: The Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • obtaining general advice about the requirements for the major
  • checking progress towards the major or minor
  • completing the graduation checklist and release

To make an appointment, go to http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduate/advising.

Tier 3: Individual Faculty Mentors

  • obtaining approval for a survey sequence and a major theme
  • getting advice about course selection
  • obtaining advice about career planning

Students generally meet with a Tier 2 advisor for help in selecting a mentor, but all subsequent advising will be done by that individual professor.

Faculty who go on leave will designate a substitute, and inform all their mentees of the temporary change.

Students must arrange appointments directly with their mentors, and are expected to do so at least once a term. It is the student's responsibility to take the initiative in setting up these meetings.

Prerequisites

None.

Requirements

Minimum Credits: 15

A minimum of 5 courses and 15 credits, distributed as follows

Survey Requirement: Students must take one of the following four courses. (Students may elect up to two to count among the four required "Additional Courses" listed below.)

  • HISTORY 237 (Global Environmental History)
  • HISTORY 238 (Zoom: A History of Everything)
  • HISTORY 239 (The World Before 1492)
  • HISTORY 240 (The World Since 1492)

Additional Courses: Four additional courses (a minimum of 3 credits each for at least 12 credits).  At least two of the four additional courses must be at the 300-level or higher.

All courses must be from the approved list of classes that count for the Global History Minor.

Approved Courses list

  • HISTORY 101 / INTLSTD 205: What Is History?
  • HISTORY 102: A History of the Present
  • HISTORY 105: Introduction to Religion
  • HISTORY 215: The History of Disaster (only if elected WN 18 or later)
  • HISTORY 223 / ENVIRON 223 Trashed! A History of Garbage in the Modern World
  • HISTORY 224 / PUBPOL 224: Global Nuclear Proliferation
  • HISTORY 226 / AMCULT 226 / LATINOAM 226: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context in Latin America and the U.S.
  • HISTORY 227: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
  • HISTORY 229 / ANTHRCUL 226: Introduction to Historical Anthropology
  • HISTORY 230: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled “Tracking Human Rights”; “Global Cold War”; “The Family in the Modern World”; “Religion in the Making of African America”; “Angels and Demons in Early Christianity”; “Introduction to Islam”
  • HISTORY 232: Interdisciplinary Topics in History, section titled “Mental Health in Global History”
  • HISTORY 234: History of Medicine in the Western World from the 18th Century to the Present
  • HISTORY 241: America and Middle Eastern Wars
  • HISTORY 243 / MENAS 243 / ISLAM 243: The Dawn of Islamic History
  • HISTORY 248 / ASIAN 248 / RELIGION 248: Jesus Comes to Asia: Conversion and its Consequences in Asia
  • HISTORY 256 / JUDAIC 265: Introduction to Jewish Law: Sources, Legal History and Legal Theory
  • HISTORY 257 / JUDAIC 257: Law in the Pre-Modern World
  • HISTORY 282. History of the Economy
  • HISTORY 285 / RCSSCI 275: Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
  • HISTORY 287: Horror and Enchantment: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Early Modern World  (only if elected WN 20 or later)
  • HISTORY 290 / JUDAIC 290 / AAPTIS 287: Jews and Muslims
  • HISTORY 291: A World History of Happiness: Care of the Self from the Greeks to the Sufis (only if elected WN 20 or later)
  • HISTORY 303: Topics in History, section titled “Atlantic Slave Trade: Histories and Legacies”
  • HISTORY 309: After Alexander: The Hellenistic Age in the Mediterranean and the Near East
  • HISTORY 310 / AAS 310 / INTLSTD 310: Atlantic Slavery and the Making of the Modern World
  • HISTORY 314 / FRENCH 345: Empire, War, and Modernity: France and the World in the 20th Century
  • HISTORY 327 / WGS 327 (WOMENSTD 327): History of Sexuality
  • HISTORY 328: Humanities Topics in History, section titled “The Great War and the Twentieth Century”
  • HISTORY 339 / ASIAN 365 / CLCIV 339: Doctors in the Ancient World: China, Greece, and Rome
  • HISTORY 350 / HISTART 323 / MIDEAST 383 / JUDAIC 323 / RELIGION 324: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos
  • HISTORY 358: Religion, Magic, and Mystery After Alexander (if elected WN21 or later)
  • HISTORY 363: The U.S. and the World Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and War in the American Century
  • HISTORY / AMCULT / NATIVEAM 367: American Indian History (only if elected WN 14 or later)
  • HISTORY 375 / WGS 375 (WOMENSTD 375): A History of Witchcraft: The 1692 Salem Trials in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • HISTORY 376: Epidemics: Plagues and Cultures from the Black Death to the Present
  • HISTORY 379 / RCSSCI 379 / SI 379: History of Computers and the Internet
  • HISTORY 407: Advanced Study in Comparative and International History, section titled “Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights”
  • HISTORY 421 / AAS 421 / LACS 421 / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora
  • HISTORY/AMCULT 426: Skin/Masks: Violence and (De)Colonization 
  • HISTORY 441/AMCULT 405/ASIAN 480: History Labs I, section titled: The Philippines and the University of Michigan 
  • HISTORY 445: Topics in History, sections titled “Debating Capitalism”; "Why the West Rules(d) the World"; "What is Capitalism?"
  • HISTORY 469: Precolonial Southeast Asia
  • HISTORY 477: Law, History, and the Dynamics of Social Change  (only if elected FA 15 or later)
  • HISTORY 487: Conversions and Christianities in the Early Modern World and Beyond (only if elected WN 18 or later)
  • HISTORY 489: The History of the Roman Catholic Church, 1775-2005
  • HISTORY 495: The World the Mongols Made

Constraints

AP credit: AP credits may not be used to satisfy requirements of the minor.

Residency

Four of the five courses must be taken in-residence at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, or must count as in-residence credit (i.e., relevant courses taken through UM-sponsored CGIS programs abroad).

Global History (Minor) (Fall 2017 - Fall 2021)

Effective Fall 2017

Exclusions:

A minor in Global History is not open to students with a major or any other minor in the Department of History.

Advising

Appointments with History advisors are scheduled online from the department's webpage: /lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduates/advising.htm. Students should see an advisor as soon as they decide on their major or minor.

The History Department offers a three-tiered advising structure.

Tier 1: Faculty Advisors from the History Department's Undergraduate Committee

  • declaring a history major - obtaining general advice about the nature, purpose, and utility of a history degree
  • recommending a faculty mentor
  • approving study abroad and transfer credit
  • declaring an academic minor in History

To make an appointment, go to http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduate/advising.

Tier 2: The Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • obtaining general advice about the requirements for the major
  • checking progress towards the major or minor
  • completing the graduation checklist and release

To make an appointment, go to http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduate/advising.

Tier 3: Individual Faculty Mentors

  • obtaining approval for a survey sequence and a major theme
  • getting advice about course selection
  • obtaining advice about career planning

Students generally meet with a Tier 2 advisor for help in selecting a mentor, but all subsequent advising will be done by that individual professor.

Faculty who go on leave will designate a substitute, and inform all their mentees of the temporary change.

Students must arrange appointments directly with their mentors, and are expected to do so at least once a term. It is the student's responsibility to take the initiative in setting up these meetings.

Prerequisites

None.

Requirements

Minimum Credits: 15

A minimum of 5 courses and 15 credits, distributed as follows

Survey Requirement: Students must take two (but may elect the third under the “Additional Courses” category below):

  • HISTORY 238 (Zoom: A History of Everything)
  • HISTORY 239 (The World Before 1492)
  • HISTORY 240 (The World Since 1492)

Additional Courses: Three additional courses (a minimum of 3 credits each for at least 9 credits).  At least two of the three additional courses must be at the 300-level or higher.

All courses must be from the approved list of classes that count for the Global History Minor.

Approved Courses list

  • HISTORY 101 / INTLSTD 205: What Is History?
  • HISTORY 102: A History of the Present
  • HISTORY 105: Introduction to Religion
  • HISTORY 215: The History of Disaster (only if elected WN 18 or later)
  • HISTORY 223 / ENVIRON 223 Trashed! A History of Garbage in the Modern World
  • HISTORY 224 / PUBPOL 224: Global Nuclear Proliferation
  • HISTORY 226 / AMCULT 226 / LATINOAM 226: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context in Latin America and the U.S.
  • HISTORY 227: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
  • HISTORY 229 / ANTHRCUL 226: Introduction to Historical Anthropology
  • HISTORY 230: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled “Tracking Human Rights”; “Global Cold War”; “The Family in the Modern World”; “Religion in the Making of African America”; “Angels and Demons in Early Christianity”; “Introduction to Islam”
  • HISTORY 232: Interdisciplinary Topics in History, section titled “Mental Health in Global History”
  • HISTORY 234: History of Medicine in the Western World from the 18th Century to the Present
  • HISTORY 237 / ENVIRON 237. Global Environmental History
  • HISTORY 241: America and Middle Eastern Wars
  • HISTORY 243 / MENAS 243 / ISLAM 243: The Dawn of Islamic History
  • HISTORY 248 / ASIAN 248 / RELIGION 248: Jesus Comes to Asia: Conversion and its Consequences in Asia
  • HISTORY 256 / JUDAIC 265: Introduction to Jewish Law: Sources, Legal History and Legal Theory
  • HISTORY 257 / JUDAIC 257: Law in the Pre-Modern World
  • HISTORY 282. History of the Economy
  • HISTORY 285 / RCSSCI 275: Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
  • HISTORY 287: Horror and Enchantment: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Early Modern World  (only if elected WN 20 or later)
  • HISTORY 290 / JUDAIC 290 / AAPTIS 287: Jews and Muslims
  • HISTORY 291: A World History of Happiness: Care of the Self from the Greeks to the Sufis (only if elected WN 20 or later)
  • HISTORY 303: Topics in History, section titled “Atlantic Slave Trade: Histories and Legacies”
  • HISTORY 309: After Alexander: The Hellenistic Age in the Mediterranean and the Near East
  • HISTORY / AAS / HISTORY/ INTLSTD 310: Atlantic Slavery
  • HISTORY 314 / FRENCH 345: Empire, War, and Modernity: France and the World in the 20th Century
  • HISTORY 327 / WGS 327 (WOMENSTD 327): History of Sexuality
  • HISTORY 328: Humanities Topics in History, section titled “The Great War and the Twentieth Century”
  • HISTORY 339 / ASIAN 365 / CLCIV 339: Doctors in the Ancient World: China, Greece, and Rome
  • HISTORY 350 / HISTART 323 / MIDEAST 383 / JUDAIC 323 / RELIGION 324: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos
  • HISTORY 358: Religion, Magic, and Mystery After Alexander (if elected WN21 or later)
  • HISTORY 363: The U.S. and the World Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and War in the American Century
  • HISTORY / AMCULT / NATIVEAM 367: American Indian History (only if elected WN 14 or later)
  • HISTORY 375 / WGS 375 (WOMENSTD 375): A History of Witchcraft: The 1692 Salem Trials in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • HISTORY 376: Epidemics: Plagues and Cultures from the Black Death to the Present
  • HISTORY 379 / RCSSCI 379 / SI 379: History of Computers and the Internet
  • HISTORY 407: Advanced Study in Comparative and International History, section titled “Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights”
  • HISTORY 421 / AAS 421 / LACS 421 / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora
  • HISTORY 445: Topics in History, sections titled “Debating Capitalism”; "Why the West Rules(d) the World"; "What is Capitalism?"
  • HISTORY 469: Precolonial Southeast Asia
  • HISTORY 477: Law, History, and the Dynamics of Social Change  (only if elected FA 15 or later)
  • HISTORY 487: Conversions and Christianities in the Early Modern World and Beyond (only if elected WN 18 or later)
  • HISTORY 489: The History of the Roman Catholic Church, 1775-2005
  • HISTORY 495: The World the Mongols Made

Constraints

AP credit: AP credits may not be used to satisfy requirements of the minor.

Residency

Four of the five courses must be taken in-residence at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, or must count as in-residence credit (i.e., relevant courses taken through UM-sponsored CGIS programs abroad).

Global History (Minor) (Winter 2016 - Summer 2017)

Effective Winter 2016

Exclusions:

A minor in Global History is not open to students with a major or any other minor in the Department of History.

Advising

Appointments with History advisors are scheduled online from the department's webpage: www.lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduate. Students should see an advisor as soon as they decide on their major or minor.

The History Department offers a three-tiered advising structure.

Tier 1: Faculty Advisors from the History Department's Undergraduate Committee

  • declaring a history major - obtaining general advice about the nature, purpose, and utility of a history degree
  • recommending a faculty mentor
  • approving study abroad and transfer credit
  • declaring an academic minor in History

To make an appointment, go to http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduate/advising.

Tier 2: The Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • obtaining general advice about the requirements for the major
  • checking progress towards the major or minor
  • completing the graduation checklist and release

To make an appointment, go to http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/undergraduate/advising.

Tier 3: Individual Faculty Mentors

  • obtaining approval for a survey sequence and a major theme
  • getting advice about course selection
  • obtaining advice about career planning

Students generally meet with a Tier 2 advisor for help in selecting a mentor, but all subsequent advising will be done by that individual professor.

Faculty who go on leave will designate a substitute, and inform all their mentees of the temporary change.

Students must arrange appointments directly with their mentors, and are expected to do so at least once a term. It is the student's responsibility to take the initiative in setting up these meetings.

Prerequisites

None.

Requirements

Minimum Credits: 15

A minimum of 5 courses and 15 credits, distributed as follows

  1. Survey Requirement: Students must take two (but may elect the third under the “Additional Courses” category below, although none of these count for cluster purposes):
    • HISTORY 238: Zoom: A History of Everything
    • HISTORY 239: The World Before 1492
    • HISTORY 240: The World Since 1492

    Students may take all three and count one under “additional courses.”
  2. Additional Courses. Three additional courses (a minimum of 3 credits each for at least 9 credits), including two from a designated cluster, to be chosen in consultation with a faculty advisor. At least two of the three additional courses must be at the 300-level or higher. A maximum of one can be at the 100-level.
    All courses must be from the approved list of classes that count for the Global History Minor. The designated clusters are:
    • Global Power and Social Justice
    • Science, Technology, Medicine, Environment
    • Cultural Connections

With approval from a faculty advisor, students may create an alternative cluster.

Cluster #1: Global Power and Social Justice

Courses in the this cluster address projections of power, inequality, and dependency over long distances, from the premodern era through the cold war and post-9/11 worlds. Key themes involve the development of political systems, such as empires and colonies; military interventions, in many types of wars and conflicts; economic exchanges, including trade networks and commodity systems; and international legal history, including treaties and the development of human rights law.

This cluster is particularly relevant for students majoring in fields such as International Studies, Political Science, and Economics.

  • HISTORY 227: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
  • HISTORY 230: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled “Tracking Human Rights” and “Global Cold War”
  • HISTORY 241: America and Middle Eastern Wars
  • HISTORY 257 / JUDAIC 257: Law in the Pre-Modern World
  • HISTORY 282: History of the Economy
  • HISTORY 303: Topics in History, section titled “Atlantic Slave Trade: Histories and Legacies”
  • HISTORY 310 / RCSSCI 310: Globalization in History: The Making of the Modern World
  • HISTORY 314 / FRENCH 345: Empire, War, and Modernity: France and the World in the 20th Century
  • HISTORY 328: Humanities Topics in History, section titled “The Great War and the Twentieth Century”
  • HISTORY 363: The U.S. and the World Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and War in the American Century
  • HISTORY 407: Advanced Study in Comparative and International History, section titled “Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights”
  • HISTORY 445: Topics in History, sections titled “Debating Capitalism”, "Why the West Rules(d) the World", and "What is Capitalism?"

Cluster #2: Science, Technology, Medicine, Environment

Courses in this cluster provide global and comparative perspectives on the ways in which scientific knowledge, technological and medical developments, and environmental transformations have shaped societies, reflected political power and produced inequalities.

This cluster is particularly useful for minors whose program is supplementing a major in fields such as the biological sciences, engineering, environmental studies, and the social sciences, and for undergraduates on the pre-med and pre-public health tracks.

  • HISTORY 237 / ENVIRON 237. Global Environmental History
  • HISTORY 223 / ENVIRON 223 Trashed! A History of Garbage in the Modern World
  • HISTORY 224 / PUBPOL 224: Global Nuclear Proliferation
  • HISTORY 232: Interdisciplinary Topics in History, section titled “Mental Health in Global History”
  • HISTORY 234: History of Medicine in the Western World from the 18th Century to the Present
  • HISTORY 285 / RCSSCI 275: Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
  • HISTORY 300 / ASTRO 300: The Beginning and the End: A History of Cosmology
  • HISTORY 301 / ASTRO 301: Discovery of the Universe
  • HISTORY 339 / ASIAN 365 / CLCIV 339: Doctors in the Ancient World: China, Greece, and Rome
  • HISTORY 376: Epidemics: Plagues and Cultures from the Black Death to the Present
  • HISTORY 379 / RCSSCI 379 / SI 379: History of Computers and the Internet

Cluster #3: Cultural Connections

Ideas, languages, books, religions--all move widely across space and change as they circulate. Cultural transformations and interactions along frontiers and borderlands, in port cities, and through movement across regions and continents are at the center of global and world history. The Cultural Connections cluster draws on the History Department’s extensive curricular offerings in the study of world religions along with global and transregional perspectives on the history of sexuality, the family, popular culture, and everyday life, among other themes.

This cluster is particularly well suited for humanistically inclined students interested in society and culture through comparative and interactive perspectives.

  • HISTORY 105: Introduction to Religion
  • HISTORY 226 / AMCULT 226 / LATINOAM 226: The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context in Latin America and the U.S.
  • HISTORY 229 / ANTHRCUL 226: Introduction to Historical Anthropology
  • HISTORY 230: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled “The Family in the Modern World”, “Religion in the Making of African America”, “Angels and Demons in Early Christianity”, “Introduction to Islam”
  • HISTORY 243 / MENAS 243: Islamic World History
  • HISTORY 248 / ASIAN 248 / RELIGION 248: Jesus Comes to Asia: Conversion and its Consequences in Asia
  • HISTORY 256 / JUDAIC 265: Introduction to Jewish Law: Sources, Legal History and Legal Theory
  • HISTORY 290 / JUDAIC 290 / AAPTIS 287: Jews and Muslims
  • HISTORY 309: After Alexander: The Hellenistic Age in the Mediterranean and the Near East
  • HISTORY 327 / WOMENSTD 327: History of Sexuality
  • HISTORY 350 / HISTART 323 / HJCS 323 / JUDAIC 323 / RELIGION 324: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos
  • HISTORY 375 / WOMENSTD 375: A History of Witchcraft: The 1692 Salem Trials in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • HISTORY 421 / AAS 421 / LACS 421 / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora
  • HISTORY 469: Precolonial Southeast Asia
  • HISTORY 489: The History of the Roman Catholic Church, 1775-2005
  • HISTORY 495: The World the Mongols Made

100-Level Courses (not in any cluster; maximum of one of these may be counted toward the minor)

  • HISTORY 101 / INTLSTD 205: What Is History?
  • HISTORY 102: A History of the Present

Constraints

AP credit: AP credits may not be used to satisfy requirements of the minor.

Residency

Four of the five courses must be taken in-residence at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, or must count as in-residence credit (i.e., relevant courses taken through UM-sponsored CGIS programs abroad).