History Major

Approved Electives in History from the 300-400 level: 24 hours**

Students must take at least one elective from three of the following four areas:

• Military History

• HY 308. The Military History of the United States, 1755-1975 (3)
• HY 403. The First World War (3)
• HY 404. The Second World War (3)
• HY 405. War of the Modern Age (3)
• HY 406. Senior Capstone for Military History Concentration (3)
• HY 423. The Military History of the Civil War (3)

• Non-US History

• HY 333. Europe in the 19th Century (3)
• HY 335. Contemporary Europe (3)
• HY 336. History of Women in Western Civilization (3)
• HY 341. History of England to 1688 (3)
• HY 342. History of England and Britain, 1689 to the Present (3)
• HY 362. Latin America since 1810 (3)
• HY 436. History of Modern Germany
• HY 437. History of Nazism and Fascism (3)
• HY 451. History of Japan (3)
• HY 452. History of China (3)

• Public History

• HY 305. Fundamentals of Public History (3)
• HY 307. Fundamentals of Historic Preservation (3)
• HY 408. Cultural Resource Management (3)
• HY 415. Fundamentals of Archival Theory and Practice (3)
• HY 425. Oral History/Folklore (3)
• HY 426. Introduction to Historical and Natural Interpretation (3)
• HY 485. Fundamentals of Historical Archaeology (3)

• U. S. History

• HY 306. Film and History (3)
• HY 310. Indians of North America (3)
• HY 311. Colonial and Revolutionary America (3)
• HY 312. The Early National Period (3)
• HY 313. Jacksonian America (3)
• HY 314. The Civil War Era (3)
• HY 315. Gilded Age and Progressive Era (3)
• HY 316. The Jazz Age and the Great Depression (3)
• HY 317. U.S. Since 1945 (3)
• HY 318. History of Women in the U. S. (3)
• HY 410. American Diplomatic History (3)
• HY 418. U.S. Constitutional History I (3)
• HY 419. U.S. Constitutional History II (3)
• HY 420. History of Alabama (3)
• HY 421. History of the Old South (3)
• HY 422. History of the New South (3)
• HY 427. Indians of the Southeast (3)
• HY 457. Natural History of the Black Belt (4)
• HY 471. African-American History, 1400-1865 (3)
• HY 472. African-American History, 1866-Present (3)
• HY 473. Slavery in North America (3)
• HY 475. The Modern Civil Rights Movement (3)
• HY 476. Comparative Slavery (3)

Note(s):

• This program must be completed in conjunction with a minor or double major in another field.
• **Majors will complete no fewer than 12 elective hours at the 400-level.
• *All History majors must have at least one non-American elective.