Breadth in Humanities and Social Sciences is an ABET requirement. You must take two courses out of the same subject area within the two Stout "categories" of Humanities and the Arts or Social and Behavioral Sciences. As an example, you could take: HIST-120 (Early US History) and HIST-121 (Modern US History) or ECON-210 (Princ.
Of Economics I) and ECON-121 (Princ. Of Economics II) or LIT-203 (American Poets) and LIT-273 (American Multicultural Literature) The combinations are limitless. See the General Education listings for all possible courses to select from.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.