Military History Minor
This program is available at the following locations:
- Corvallis
- Ecampus
Issues such as war and peace have continually been part of the human condition. This military history minor is designed to better inform students regarding the questions and controversies surrounding military and peace studies. It is not only for current and future military personnel, rather it is designed for all students interested not only in strategy, tactics and military technology but also for the relationship between war and peace regarding topics such gender, social and scientific movements and what it means to serve one's country.
Minor Code: 909
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
- Demonstrate “information literacy.” This includes effectively utilizing scholarly databases to identify appropriate and relevant primary and secondary sources, assessing the quality and relevance of secondary sources available, and successfully accessing relevant and appropriate sources.
- Formulate a significant and substantive historical question and construct and develop an effective historical argument. This includes articulating a substantive and defensible thesis; presenting informed and insightful analysis of relevant and appropriate historical evidence; and recognizing deficiencies, contradictions, and omissions in one’s interpretation.
- Analyze, evaluate, and contextualize various kinds of primary historical sources. This includes assessing each source’s reliability, claims, perspectives, interests, and limitations and analyzing/evaluating primary sources in relation to each other.
- Demonstrate knowledge of historical chronology, central developments and conflicts, and multiple cultural perspectives in the history of the United States, Europe, and at least one of the following: Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
- Evaluate historical arguments in scholarly literature and synthesize the central interpretive issues in a historical field. This includes identifying key scholarly works, identifying historians’ interpretive arguments and assessing the validity of evidence and interpretive methods utilized, comparing and contrasting scholars’ questions/methods/interpretations, and producing an effective synthetic discussion of key points of scholarly debate.
- Effectively communicate historical knowledge, interpretation, and ideas to non-experts. This includes articulating scholarly arguments clearly, explicating scholarly debates, explaining historical forces, and presenting one’s own interpretations in a clear, organized, and convincing manner.
- Demonstrate knowledge and effective practice of disciplinary conventions of attribution. This includes citing sources when appropriate and constructing properly formatted footnotes and bibliography.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core 1 | ||
| Select 27 credits from the following with at least 14 credits of upper division courses: | 27 | |
| *HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | ||
| *HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | ||
| *HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | ||
| *WORLD HISTORY I: ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS | ||
| *WORLD HISTORY II: MIDDLE AND EARLY MODERN AGES | ||
| *WORLD HISTORY III: THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD | ||
| *HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES | ||
| *HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES | ||
| *HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES | ||
| THE EUROPEAN MILITARY, 1400-1815 | ||
| THE AMERICAN MILITARY, 1607-1865 | ||
| *WHY WAR: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE | ||
| THE AMERICAN MILITARY, 1865-PRESENT | ||
| *HITLER'S EUROPE | ||
| HISTORY OF RUSSIA | ||
| *THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT | ||
| *MODERN IRAN: REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH | ||
| *THE HOLOCAUST IN ITS HISTORY | ||
| WORLD WAR I: A GLOBAL HISTORY | ||
| *AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY | ||
| CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION | ||
| WORLD WAR II: A GLOBAL HISTORY | ||
| THE UNITED STATES AND VIETNAM 1945-1995 | ||
| CHINA IN 20TH CENTURY | ||
| *THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND FOUNDATION OF MODERN BIOLOGY | ||
| Total Credits | 27 | |
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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)
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Writing Intensive Course (WIC)
- 1
All students must receive a grade of “C” (2.00) or better in all upper-division courses and must maintain an overall grade point average (GPA) of 2.00 in all courses taken toward the Military History Minor. All classes must be taken for letter grades instead of S/U credit
Minor Code: 909