History Minor

History Department Faculty

Professor Laura Shelton, Chair

Professor Ted Pearson, Associate Chair
 

Douglas A. Anthony
Professor of History

Benjamin McRee
Professor of History

Maria D. Mitchell
Professor of History

Richard Reitan
Professor of History

Abby M. Schrader
Professor of History

Ted Pearson
Associate Professor of History

Laura Shelton
Associate Professor of History

Gregory Kaliss
Assistant Professor of History

Ilan Benattar
Robert F. & Patricia G. Ross Weis Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies & History

Sotirios Dimitriadis
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

Minor Requirements:

A minor in History consists of at least six courses. These courses must include:

• HIS 260 - History Workshop: Methods and Practice Credits: 1 , which should be taken during the sophomore or junior year unless permission is given by the Chair to take it at some other time;
• one seminar; and
• two additional courses at the 300-level.
• History minors must fulfill a distribution requirement by taking one course in two of the following areas-United States, European, and World (Latin American, African, Islamic, and Asian) history -one of which must be designated pre-modern.

Note:

Students should consult with their academic adviser or the History Department Chair for questions concerning requirements for the major/minor.

Off-Campus Study:

Minors in the Department of History are strongly encouraged to study abroad because personal familiarity with foreign cultures is increasingly useful in an ever more interconnected world. Students interested in off-campus study should meet with their academic adviser or the History Department chairperson as early as possible. Typically, students will receive History credit at the 200- or 300-level for courses that they take abroad; these courses will often fulfill other distributional requirements. Those students considering study abroad during their entire junior year must take the History Workshop (HIS 260 ) by the second semester of their sophomore year at the College.

Majors and minors in the History Department have studied abroad in the following programs in recent years: F&M in Tuscany; IFSA-Butler National University of Ireland, Galway; IFSA-Butler Summer Language and Culture Program at Universidad de Buenos Aires; SIT Study Abroad Peru; SU Abroad Florence, Italy; IES Abroad Vienna; and Advanced Studies in England. See the International and Off-Campus Study section of the Catalog for further information.

History Distribution Areas