Effective Winter 2016
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
A minimum of 5 courses and 15 credits, distributed as follows
- Core Course. HISTORY 105: Introduction to Religion.
- Additional Courses. Four additional courses (at least 12 credits), to be chosen in consultation with a faculty advisor.
- At least two of these four courses must be at the 300-level or higher.
- The four courses must cover at least two of the following religious traditions or philosophical traditions – Buddhism [BUD]; Christianity [CHR]; Comparative [COMP]; Hinduism [HIN]; Islam [ISLM]; Judaism [JUD] – or another religious tradition approved by a faculty advisor.
- All four courses must be from the approved list of courses that count for the Religion minor.
Courses Approved for Religion Minor
History
HISTORY / INTLSTD / RELIGION 209: Death, Immortality, and Afterlife (only if elected FA19 or later) [COMP]
HISTORY / MEMS 210: Early Medieval Europe [CHR]
HISTORY / MEMS 213: The Reformation [CHR]
HISTORY 222 / JUDAIC / WGS 224 (WOMENSTD 224): Sex and Sexuality in Jewish History and Culture (F18)
HISTORY 230: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled “Angels and Demons in Early Christianity” or "The Bible in History" [COMP] or "Islam in History" [COMP] (only if elected WN21 or later)
HISTORY / MENAS 243: The Dawn of Islamic History [ISLM]
HISTORY 244 / MIDEAST 284 / JUDAIC 244 / MENAS 244. The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [COMP]
HISTORY / AAS 245: Islam in Africa [ISLM]
HISTORY / ASIAN / RELIGION 248: Jesus Comes to Asia [CHR]
HISTORY / MEMS 253: Europe, 300-1648: The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ages (only if elected FA19 or later) [CHR]
HISTORY / JUDAIC 265: Intro to Jewish Law [JUD]
HISTORY 259 / MIDEAST 339 / RELIGION 358: Israel Before the Exile: Its History & Religion [JUD]
HISTORY / AMCULT / AAS 267. Religion in the Making of African America [COMP]
HISTORY 269 / JUDAIC / RELIGION 260: Introduction to the Talmud and the Rabbis [JUD]
HISTORY / AMCULT 270: Religion in America [COMP]
HISTORY / RELIGION 271 / ANTHRCUL 221: Religions of Latin America [COMP]
HISTORY / RELIGION 286: A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century [CHR]
HISTORY 287: Horror and Enchantment: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Early Modern World (only if elected WN20 or later) [COMP]
HISTORY / JUDAIC 290 / MIDEAST 287: Jews and Muslims [COMP]
HISTORY 291: A World History of Happiness: Care of the Self from the Greeks to the Sufis (only if elected WN20 or later) [COMP]
HISTORY / CLCIV / WGS 303 (WOMENSTD 303): Women in the Ancient Mediterranean [COMP]
HISTORY 304: Interdisciplinary Topics in History, section titled "Magic, Mystery, and Religion in the Hellenistic World" (only if elected FA19 or later) [COMP]
HISTORY 308 / ASIAN / RELIGION 307: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia [COMP]
HISTORY / MEMS / WGS 316 (WOMENSTD 316): Medieval Women [CHR]
HISTORY 324: Muslims in Contemporary Europe [ISLM]
HISTORY / RELIGION 325 / MIDEAST 375 / MEMS 325 / ASIAN 324: The History of Islam in South Asia [ISLM]
HISTORY 328: Humanities Topics in History, sections titled “The Bible in the 19th Century” or “Ancient Judaism: Law, Religion, History” [JUD]
HISTORY 350 / JUDAIC / HISTART 323 / MIDEAST 383 / RELIGION 324: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos [JUD]
HISTORY 357: Topics in African History, section titled “Islam in Africa” [ISLM]
HISTORY 358: Religion, Magic, and Mystery After Alexander (only if elected WN21 or later)
HISTORY 381 / CLCIV / JUDAIC 380 / RELIGION 382: The Beginnings of Judaism: From Ethnicity to Religion [JUD]
HISTORY / JUDAIC / AMCULT 387: History of American Jews [JUD]
HISTORY 390: Topics in History, section titled "Islam and the West" [ISLM]
HISTORY / AAS / LACS / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora [COMP]
HISTORY 427: Magic, Religion, and Science in Early Modern England (only if elected FA17 or later) [ISLM]
HISTORY 428 / MIDEAST 413. The Rise of Islam [ISLM]
HISTORY 442 / MIDEAST 417: The First Millennium of the Islamic Near East [ISLM]
HISTORY 445: Topics in History, section titled “American Jews & Social Justice in the U.S.” [JUD] or section titled "Ancient Greek Religion" (only if elected FA19 or later) [COMP]
HISTORY 470 / ASIAN / RELIGION 464: From Mystic Saints to Holy Warriors: Islam in Southeast Asia [ISLM]
HISTORY 481: Topics in European History, section titled “Spirituality & Madness: Religious Women” [CHR]
HISTORY 487: Conversations and Christianities in the Early Modern World and Beyond [CHR]
HISTORY 489: Roman Catholicism and the Modern World [CHR]
HISTORY 497: History Colloquium, section titled “Crusade and Jihad” [COMP]
African and African American Studies
AAS 206: Issues in African Studies: African Christianities [CHR]
AAS / HISTORY 245: Islam in Africa [ISLM]
AAS / HISTORY / AMCULT 267. Religion in the Making of African America [COMP]
AAS 358: Topics in Black World Studies, section titled “Urban Religion in the African Diaspora” [COMP]
AAS / HISTORY / LACS / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora [COMP]
American Culture
AMCULT / HISTORY / AAS 267. Religion in the Making of African America [COMP]
AMCULT / HISTORY 270: Religion in America [COMP]
AMCULT: Topics in American Culture, section titled "Islam in America" [ISLM] (F17)
AMCULT HISTORY / JUDAIC 387: History of American Jews [COMP]
ARABAM 301: Topics in Arab American Studies, section titled "Islam in/and America" [ISLM] (F17)
Anthropology
ANTHRCUL 221 / HISTORY / RELIGION 271: Religions of Latin America [COMP]
ANTHRCUL / RELIGION 246: Anthropology of Religion [COMP]
Asian Languages and Cultures
ASIAN 220 / RELIGION 202: Introduction to the Study of Asian Religions [COMP]
ASIAN / RELIGION 223: Krishna Speaks: Bhagavad-Gita [HIN]
ASIAN / RELIGION 225: Introduction to Hinduism [HIN]
ASIAN / PHIL 230 / RELIGION 230: Introduction to Buddhism [BUD]
ASIAN / RELIGION 231: Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism [BUD]
ASIAN / RELIGION 234: Buddhism and Death [BUD]
ASIAN / HISTORY / RELIGION 248: Jesus Comes to Asia [CHR]
ASIAN / RELIGION 272: Introduction to the Study of Korean Religions [COMP]
ASIAN / RELIGION 303: Religious Military Orders of the World [COMP]
ASIAN / HISTART 304: The Art of Yoga [BUD]
ASIAN / RELIGION 305: Religion and Violence in the Secular World [COMP]
ASIAN / RELIGION 306: What is Religion? [COMP]
ASIAN 307 / HISTORY 308: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia [COMP]
ASIAN 324 / HISTORY / MIDEAST 375 / MEMS / RELIGION 325 /: The History of Islam in South Asia [ISLM]
ASIAN 325 / RELIGION 323: Zen: History, Culture, and Critique [BUD]
ASIAN 326: Introduction to Japanese Buddhism [BUD]
ASIAN 329: Violence and Nonviolence in the Buddhist Traditions of Asia [BUD]
ASIAN / PHIL / RELIGION 331: Introduction to Indian Philosophy [COMP]
ASIAN 333: Sacred Collectives: Nation and Religion in South Asia [COMP]
ASIAN 335/ HISTART 305: Himalayas: An Aesthetic Experience [COMP]
ASIAN 350 / RELIGION 351. Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Popular Religion [COMP]
ASIAN 430: Philosophy of the Sikh Gurus [COMP]
ASIAN / RELIGION / HISTORY 470: From Mystic Saints to Holy Warriors: Islam in Southeast Asia [ISLM]
Classical Studies
CLCIV 303 / HISTORY 303 / WOMENSTD 303. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean [COMP]
CLCIV 347 / RELIGION 347: Roman Religion from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity [COMP]
CLCIV 380 / HISTORY 381 / JUDAIC 380 / RELIGION 382: The Beginnings of Judaism: From Ethnicity to Religion [JUD]
CLCIV 446. Greek Religion [COMP]
GREEK 307 / ACABS 307: The Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke (requires two terms of Greek) [CHR]
English
*ENGLISH 258 / RELIGION 258: The Bible as Literature [COMP]
ENGLISH 398: Junior Seminar in English Studies, section titled “New English Literature in the Age of Chaucer” [CHR]
ENGLISH 415 / WOMENSTD 414: Studies in Women and Literature: Early Women Writers [CHR]
ENGLISH 469: Milton [CHR]
Germanic Languages and Literatures
GERMAN 460: Europe’s Islam: From Dante to Rushdie [ISLM]
Greek
GREEK 307 / MELANG 307: The Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke (requires two terms of Greek) [CHR]
History of Art
HISTART 285 / MIDEAST 285: Visual Culture Islam [ISLM]
HISTART 304 / ASIAN 304: The Art of Yoga [BUD]
HISTART 305 / ASIAN 335: Himalayas: An Aesthetic Experience [COMP]
HISTART 323 / HISTORY 350 / JUDAIC 323 / MIDEAST 383 / RELIGION 324: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos [JUD]
HISTART 351: The Art and Poetry of Michelangelo [CHR]
HISTART 355 / MEMS 355: The Miraculous and the Diabolical in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Visual Culture [CHR]
International Studies
INTLSTD / HISTORY / RELIGION 209: Death, Immortality, and Afterlife (only if elected FA19 or later) [COMP]
Judaic Studies
JUDAIC 205 / MIDEAST 276: What is Judaism? [JUD]
JUDAIC / WOMENSTD 224 / HISTORY 222: Sex and Sexuality in Jewish History and Culture (F18)
JUDAIC 244 / HISTORY 244 / MIDEAST 284 / MENAS 244: The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [JUD]
JUDAIC 260 / HISTORY 269 / RELIGION 260: Introduction to the Talmud and the Rabbis [JUD]
JUDAIC 265/ HISTORY 256: Intro to Jewish Law [JUD]
JUDAIC 290 / HISTORY 290: Jews and Muslims [JUD]
JUDAIC 318. Humanities Topics in Judaism, section titled "History and Religion of Ancient Judaism" [JUD]
JUDAIC 323 / HISTORY 350 / HISTART 323 / MIDEAST 383 / RELIGION 324: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos [JUD]
JUDAIC 360: A Global History of the Jews of Spain [JUD]
JUDAIC 376 / WOMENSTD 376: Women and the Bible [JUD]
JUDAIC 380 / HISTORY 381 / CLCIV 380 / RELIGION 382: The Beginnings of Judaism: From Ethnicity to Religion [JUD]
JUDAIC 387 / HISTORY 387 / AMCULT 387: History of American Jews [JUD]
JUDAIC 410 / SOC 410: Sociology of the American Jewish Community [JUD]
JUDAIC 451 / POLSCI 350: The Politics and Culture of Modern East European Jewry [JUD]
JUDAIC 468 / MIDEAST 456 / RELIGION 469: Jewish Mysticism [JUD]
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS 421 / HISTORY 421 / AAS 421 / RELIGION 421: Religions of the African Diaspora [COMP]
Medieval and Early Modern Studies
MEMS 213 / HISTORY 213: The Reformation [CHR]
MEMS / HISTORY 253: Europe, 300-1648: The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ages (only if elected FA19 or later) [CHR]
MEMS 325 / ASIAN 324 / HISTORY 325 / MIDEAST 375 / RELIGION 325: The History of Islam in South Asia [ISLM]
MEMS 355 / HISTART 355: The Miraculous and the Diabolical in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Visual Culture [CHR]
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
MENAS 243 / HISTORY 243: The Dawn of Islamic History [ISLM]
MENAS 244 / HISTORY 244 / MIDEAST 284 / JUDAIC 244: The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [COMP]
Middle Eastern Studies
MIDEAST 202 / RELIGION 201: Introduction to World Religions: Near Eastern [COMP]
MIDEAST 216 / RELIGION 204: Introduction to Islam [ISLM]
MIDEAST 235 / RELIGION 121: Introduction to the Tanakh/Old Testament [JUD]
MIDEAST 236 / RELIGION 122: Introduction to the New Testament [CHR]
*MIDEAST 238 / RELIGION 280: The Historical Jesus in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam [COMP]
MIDEAST 240: Ancient Egypt: Religion and Culture [COMP]
MIDEAST 242 / RELIGION 270: Introduction to Rabbinic Literature [JUD]
MIDEAST 276 / JUDAIC 205: What is Judaism? [JUD]
MIDEAST 284 / HISTORY 244 / JUDAIC 244 / MENAS 244: The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [COMP]
MIDEAST 285 / HISTART 285: Visual Culture Islam [ISLM]
MIDEAST 295. First Year Seminar in Near Eastern Studies, section titled "The Dead Sea Scrolls for the 21st Century" [JUD]
MIDEAST / ISLAM / MEMS / REEES / RELIGION 318: The Church of Armenia: Profile of a National Institution [CHR]
MIDEAST 321: Jihad in History [ISLM]
MIDEAST 322 / RELIGION 363: The Qur’an and its Interpretations [ISLM]
MIDEAST 323: The Prophet Muhammad in Islam [ISLM]
MIDEAST 335 / RELIGION 359. History and Religion of Ancient Judaism [JUD]
MIDEAST 336 / RELIGION 350: Early Christianity, 50-650 CE [CHR]
MIDEAST 339 / RELIGION 358: Israel Before the Exile (587 BCE): Its History & Religion [JUD]
MIDEAST 375 / MEMS 325 / HISTORY 325 / RELIGION 325 / ASIAN 324: The History of Islam in South Asia [ISLM]
MIDEAST 383 / HISTORY 350 / HISTART 323 / JUDAIC 323 / RELIGION 324: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos [JUD]
MIDEAST 413 / HISTORY 428. The Rise of Islam [ISLM]
MIDEAST 417 / HISTORY 442: The First Millennium of the Islamic Near East [ISLM]
MIDEAST 421 / RELIGION 465: Islamic Mysticism [ISLM]
MIDEAST 456 / JUDAIC 468 / RELIGION 469: Jewish Mysticism [JUD]
MIDEAST 520: Readings in Classical Islamic Texts (requires 6th-term proficiency in Arabic) [ISLM]
MELANG 307 / GREEK 307: The Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke (requires two terms of Greek) [CHR]
Philosophy
PHIL 230 / ASIAN 230 / RELIGION 230: Introduction to Buddhism [BUD]
PHIL 262 / RELIGION 262: Intro to the Philosophy of Religion [COMP]
PHIL 331 / ASIAN 331 / RELIGION 331: Introduction to Indian Philosophy [COMP]
PHIL 480: Philosophy of Religion [COMP]
Political Science
POLSCI 350 / JUDAIC 451: The Politics and Culture of Modern East European Jewry [JUD]
Religion
RELIGION 202 / ASIAN 220: Introduction to the Study of Asian Religions [COMP]
RELIGION 204 / MIDEAST 216: Introduction to Islam [ISLM]
RELIGION / HISTORY / INTLSTD 209: Death, Immortality, and Afterlife (only if elected FA19 or later) [COMP]
RELIGION 223 / ASIAN 223: Krishna Speaks: Bhagavad-Gita [HIN]
RELIGION 225 / ASIAN 225: Introduction to Hinduism [HIN]
RELIGION 230 / PHIL 230 / ASIAN 230: Introduction to Buddhism [BUD]
RELIGION 231 / ASIAN 231: Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism [BUD]
RELIGION 234 / ASIAN 234: Buddhism and Death [BUD]
RELIGION 235 / MIDEAST 235: Introduction to the Tanakh/Old Testament [JUD]
RELIGION 236 / MIDEAST 236: Introduction to the New Testament [CHR]
RELIGION 246 / ANTHRCUL 246: Anthropology of Religion [COMP]
RELIGION 248 / HISTORY 248 / ASIAN 248: Jesus Comes to Asia [CHR]
*RELIGION 258 / ENGLISH 258 / JUDAIC 258: The Bible as Literature [COMP]
RELIGION 260 / JUDAIC 260 / HISTORY 269: Introduction to the Talmud and the Rabbis [JUD]
RELIGION 262 / PHIL 262: Intro to the Philosophy of Religion [COMP]
RELIGION 270 / MIDEAST 242: Introduction to Rabbinic Literature [JUD]
RELIGION 271 / HISTORY 271/ ANTHRCUL 221: Religions of Latin America [COMP]
RELIGION 272 / ASIAN 272: Introduction to the Study of Korean Religions [COMP]
*RELIGION 280 / MIDEAST 238: The Historical Jesus in Christianity, Judaism and Islam [COMP]
RELIGION 286 / HISTORY 286: A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century [CHR]
RELIGION 303 / ASIAN 303: Religious Military Orders of the World [COMP]
RELIGION 305 / ASIAN 305: Religion and Violence in the Secular World [COMP]
RELIGION 306 / ASIAN 306: What is Religion? [COMP]
RELIGION 307 / ASIAN 307 / HISTORY 308: Eat, Pray, Love: Devotional Traditions in South Asia [COMP]
RELIGION 323 / ASIAN 325: Zen: History, Culture, and Critique [BUD]
RELIGION 324/ HISTORY 350 / HISTART 323 / JUDAIC 323 / MIDEAST 383: History of Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos [JUD]
RELIGION 325 / HISTORY 325 / MIDEAST 375 / MEMS 325 / ASIAN 324: The History of Islam in South Asia [ISLM]
RELIGION 331 / ASIAN 331 / PHIL 331: Introduction to Indian Philosophy [COMP]
RELIGION 347 / CLCIV 347: Roman Religion from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity [COMP]
RELIGION 350 / MIDEAST 336: Early Christianity, 50-650 CE [CHR]
RELIGION 351 / ASIAN 350. Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Popular Religion in China [COMP]
RELIGION 358 / MIDEAST 339. Israel Before the Exile: Its History & Religion [JUD]
RELIGION 359 / MIDEAST 335 / JUDAIC 318: History and Religion of Ancient Judaism [JUD]
RELIGION 360 / RCHUMS 365: Experiences of Atheism: A History of Skepticism [COMP]
RELIGION 363 / MIDEAST 322: The Qur’an and its Interpretations [ISLM]
RELIGION 382 / HISTORY 381 / CLCIV 380 / JUDAIC 380: The Beginnings of Judaism: From Ethnicity to Religion [JUD]
RELIGION 421/ HISTORY 421 / AAS 421 / LACS 421: Religions of the African Diaspora [COMP]
RELIGION 455 / SOC 455: Religion and Society [COMP]
RELIGION 464 / ASIAN 464 / HISTORY 470: From Mystic Saints to Holy Warriors: Islam in Southeast Asia [ISLM]
RELIGION 465 / MIDEAST 421: Islamic Mysticism [ISLM]
RELIGION 368 / CLCIV 466: Greek Religion [COMP]
RELIGION 469 / MIDEAST 456 / JUDAIC 468: Jewish Mysticism [JUD]
Residential College
RCHUMS 334: Special Topics in the Humanities, section titled, "Death in the Western Imagination" (only if elected WN 20 or later) [CHR]
RCHUMS 365 / RELIGION 360: Experiences of Atheism: A History of Skepticism [COMP]
Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies
REEES 490 / SOC 490 / WOMENSTD 492: Women and Islam: A Sociological Perspective [ISLM]
Sociology
SOC 410 / JUDAIC 410: Sociology of the American Jewish Community [JUD]
SOC 455 / RELIGION 455: Religion and Society [COMP]
SOC 490 / REEES 490 / WOMENSTD 492: Women and Islam: A Sociological Perspective [ISLM]
Women’s Studies
WOMENSTD / JUDAIC 224 / HISTORY 222: Sex and Sexuality in Jewish History and Culture (F18)
WOMENSTD 303 / HISTORY 303 / CLCIV 303: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean [COMP]
WOMENSTD 376 / JUDAIC 376: Women and the Bible [JUD]
WOMENSTD 414 / ENGLISH 415: Studies in Women and Literature: Early Women Writers [CHR]
WOMENSTD 492 / SOC 490 / REEES 490: Women and Islam: A Sociological Perspective [ISLM]
*change in tradition
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).
