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History Catalog of Course Requirements

The following is a summary list of undergraduate history courses and how they may be applied to the history major requirements. Questions about this list or how to apply courses to the history major should be directed to the history undergraduate program coordinator. The information on this list is subject to change. Last updated: 12/17/21

History Catalog of Course Requirements
Number and Title		Instructor	Concentration(s)	Chron. Req	GEs
Lower Division Courses (HIS 1 - 99)
2A	The World to 1500	Breen	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
2B	The World Since 1500	O'Malley, Matera	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	CC
4	History of the Present: Investigating the Historical Origins of Contemporary Problems	Derr & Jones	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World		PR-E
9	Introduction to Native American History	Lonetree	Americas and Africa		ER
10A	United States History to 1877	Jones, Smyth, Westerkamp	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	ER, AHIR
10B	United States History, 1877 to 1977	Lasar	Americas and Africa		ER, AHIR
11A	Latin America: Colonial Period	Diaz	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	ER _{(Effective Spring 2018. Formerly CC)}
11B	Latin America: National Period	O'Hara	Americas and Africa		ER _{(Effective Spring 2018. Formerly CC)}
12	Introduction to Latino American History	Delgado	Americas and Africa		ER, AHIR
13	Introduction to American Religious Culture	Westerkamp	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	TA
15	The United States of America from its Founding through Our Time	Lasar	Americas and Africa		ER, AHIR
20	U.S. Popular Music Movements	Porter	Americas and Africa		IM
30	The Making of Modern Africa	Anthony	Americas and Africa		ER _{(Effective Spring 2018. Formerly CC)}
40A	Early Modern East Asia	Hu	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-1800	CC
40B	The Making of Modern East Asia	Aso, Christy	Asia and the Pacific		CC
41	The Making of the Modern Middle East	Derr	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
44	Modern South Asia, 1500 to Present	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific		ER
50	When Pharaohs Reigned: The History of Ancient Egypt	Sullivan	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
51	Pyramids of Earth: Religion and Symbol in the Ancient World	Sullivan	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	IM
58	From Pirates to Refugees: The History of the Modern Mediterranean	Davis	Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER
59	The History of the English Language (online course)	Hedrick	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	SR
60	Medical and Scientific Terminology (online course) _{Formerly offered as Scientific Vocabulary and the Roots of the European Scientific Tradition}	Hedrick	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	PR-E _{(Effective Summer 2020. Formerly PE-T)}
61	Classical Mythology	Hedrick	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600
62A	Classical World: Greece	Hedrick, Pawlowski	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
62B	Classical World: Rome	Hedrick	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
65B	From Crusaders to Conquistadors: Late Medieval Europe, 1000-1500	Breen	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	TBD
70A	Modern European History, 1500-1815	Breen, Silver, Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	CC
70B	Modern European History, 1815-Present	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
74	Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures	Deutsch, Heckman, Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER
74A	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern	Heckman	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	ER _{(Effective Summer 2020. Formerly CC)}
74B	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000	Heckman	Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER _{(Effective Summer 2020. Formerly CC)}
75	Film and the Holocaust	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		IM
76	The Holocaust: A Global Perspective _{Formerly offered as The Holocaust}	Deutsch, Heckman	Europe and the Mediterranean World		PE-H
78	Modern Authoritarianism in Europe and Beyond	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
80C	Global China (online course)	Chan	Asia and the Pacific		PR-E
80X	Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Change and American Society	Brundage	Americas and Africa		ER
80Y	World War II Memories in the U.S. and Japan	Christy, Yang	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific		PR-E
81	Science in the Colonial World	Gutierrez	Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	SI
82	California Gold Rush in Global History _{Formerly offered as Global History of the California Gold Rush}	McGuinness	Americas and Africa		PE-E, AHIR
Upper Division Courses (HIS 100 - 189)
100	Historical Skills and Methods	STAFF	Required for All Majors		TA
101C	Oceans in World History	Matera	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
101D	World History of Science (online course)	Hu	Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	SI
101E	Global 1930s	Matera	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World
101F	Global Environmental History (online course)	Hu	Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	PE-E
104C	Celluloid Natives: American Indian History on Film	Lonetree, Smyth	Americas and Africa		IM
104D	Museums and the Representation of Native American History, Memory, and Culture	Lonetree, Smyth	Americas and Africa		ER
105	Nations and Nationalism	Silver	Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
106A	Vietnam War Memories	Yang	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific		CC
106B	Asian and Asian American History, 1941-Present	Yang	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific		ER
109A	Race, Gender, and Power in the Antebellum South	Jones, Smyth	Americas and Africa		ER
110A	Colonial America, 1500-1750	Westerkamp	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	ER, AHIR
110B	Revolutionary America, 1740-1815	O'Malley	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	AHIR
110D	The Civil War Era	Jones	Americas and Africa		AHIR _{(Effective Winter 2022)}
110E	Rise of the Machines: Technology, Inequality, and the United States, 1877 to 1914	Lasar	Americas and Africa		PE-T AHIR
110F	World War USA: The United States from 1914 through 1945	Lasar	Americas and Africa
110G	Strange Days: The USA and its National Security State, 1945-1991	Lasar	Americas and Africa
110H	Greater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States	Jones	Americas and Africa		ER, AHIR
112	American Feminist Thought, 1750-1950	Westerkamp	Americas and Africa
113C	Women and American Religious Culture	Westerkamp	Americas and Africa
114	Market Revolution in Antebellum U.S.	Jones	Americas and Africa
116	Slavery Across the Americas	O'Malley	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	ER, AHIR
116A	Unchained Memory: Slavery and the Politics of the Past	Jones	Americas and Africa		TA
117	Wired Nation: Broadcasting & Telecommunications in the US from the Telegraph to the Internet	Lasar	Americas and Africa
117A	From the Player Piano to Pandora	Lasar	Americas and Africa
118	The Global Cold War, 1945-1991	Lasar	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World
118A	Conspiracy Planet: How Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories, and Conspiracy Scandals Shape History	Lasar	Americas and Africa		PE-H
120	W.E.B. Du Bois	Porter	Americas and Africa		ER
121A	African American History to 1877	Anthony	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	ER
121B	African American History: 1877 to the Present	Anthony	Americas and Africa		ER
122A	Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1900-1945	Porter	Americas and Africa		IM
122B	Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1945 to the Present	Porter	Americas and Africa		IM
123	Immigrants and Immigration in U.S. History	Brundage	Americas and Africa		ER
124A	Panama Canal and U.S. Empire	McGuinness	Americas and Africa		PE-T
128	Chicana/Chicano History	Delgado	Americas and Africa		ER, AHIR
130	History of Modern Cuba	Diaz	Americas and Africa
131	Women in Colonial Latin America	Diaz	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800
134A	Colonial Mexico	O'Hara	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	ER
134B	History of Mexico, 1850 to Present	O'Hara	Americas and Africa		CC
137A	Africa to 1800	Anthony	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	CC
137B	Africa from 1800 to the Present	Anthony	Americas and Africa		CC
137C	African Cinema _{Prerequisite(s): course 30 or 137A or 137B, or by permission of instructor.}	Anthony	Americas and Africa		CC
139C	Queer Pasts: A Radical Telling of LGBTQ History in the United States	STAFF	Americas and Africa		TA
140B	History of Qing China, 1644-1911	Hu	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-1800	CC
140C	Revolutionary China, 1895-1960	Chan	Asia and the Pacific		CC
140D	Recent Chinese History	Chan	Asia and the Pacific		CC
140E	Women in China's Long 20th Century	Chan	Asia and the Pacific		CC
141A	Classical Chinese Culture and Literature, 10th Century B.C.E. through Sixth Century C.E. _{Also offered as LIT 141B. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	Connery	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-600	CC
141B	Classical Chinese Culture and Literature, Sixth Century through 16th Century _{Also offered as LIT 141C. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	Connery	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-1800	CC
143B	History of the Philippines, 1815 to the Present	Gutierrez	Asia and the Pacific		CC
146A	Colonial South Asia 1750-1947	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific
147A	History of Premodern India	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-1800	CC
147B	Political and Social History of Modern South Asia	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific		CC
147C	South Asia in the 20th Century	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific		CC
147D	Intellectual History of South Asia	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific		TA
149	Plants, People, and the Making of Modern Southeast Asia	Gutierrez	Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	PE-E
150A	Emperors and Outcasts: Ancient Japan _{Formerly offered as Ancient Japan}	Aso	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-600	CC
150B	Tokugawa Japan	Christy	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-1800
150C	Inventing Modern Japan: The State and the People _{Formerly offered as Modern Japan}	Aso, Christy	Asia and the Pacific		CC
150D	The Japanese Empire, 1868-1945	Christy	Asia and the Pacific
150E	History and Memory in the Okinawan Islands (online course)	Christy	Asia and the Pacific		IM
150F	Engendering Empires: Women in Modern Japan and Korea	Aso	Asia and the Pacific		CC
151	History of Science, Medicine & Technology from Antiquity to the Enlightenment	Breen	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	SI
151A	Medicine and the Body in the Colonial World	Derr	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	PE-T
151B	Drugs in World History	Breen	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800
154	Post-Colonial North Africa	Davis	Europe and the Mediterranean World		TA
155	History of Modern Israel	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
156	Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East	Derr	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
156A	Art, Culture, and Mass Media in the Arab Middle East	Derr	Europe and the Mediterranean World
156B	Modern Arab Thought	Davis	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
157	The Ottoman Empire	Derr	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	CC
158A	The Escapes of David George: Biographical Research on Slavery and Early America _{Enrollment restricted to College Scholars students or by permission of the instructor.}	O'Malley	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	TA
158C	Slavery in the Atlantic World: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives _{Also offered as ANTH 179. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	O'Malley, Monroe	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	PR-E
159A	Cleopatra to Constantine: Greek and Roman Egypt	Sullivan	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
159B	Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt	Sullivan	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	IM
159C	Temple and City: The Egyptian New Kingdom and the City of Thebes	Sullivan	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	IM _{(Effective Winter 2019)}
159D	When Cities Were New: the Rise of Urbanism in the Ancient Near East & Mediterranean	Sullivan	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
160A	Athenian Democracy	Hedrick	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
160C	Topics in Greek History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Hedrick, Pawlowski	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
161B	Topics in Roman History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Hedrick, Pawlowski	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600
163B	Genesis: A History	Deutsch	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	CC
165A	Medieval History and Architecture	Pawlowski	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	CC
166	Northern Ireland: Communities In Conflict	Brundage	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
167A	The First World War	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		TA
167B	The Second World War in Europe	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
169	Dutch & Belgian History, 1500 to Present	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800
170A	French History: Old Regime and Revolution	Silver	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800
170B	French History: 19th Century	Davis	Europe and the Mediterranean World
170C	From the Trenches to the Casbah: France and its Empire in the 20th Century	Davis	Europe and the Mediterranean World		TA
172A	German History	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World
172B	German Film, 1919 - 1945	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World		IM
172C	History of German Film, 1945 to Present	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World		IM
174	Spies: History and Culture of Espionage	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
176	Eastern Europe, 1848-2000	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
177A	Slaves, Soldiers, and Scientists: History of the Tropics	Breen	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800
178A	European Intellectual History: The Enlightenment	STAFF	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800
178B	European Intellectual History: The 19th Century	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World
178C	European Intellectual History, 1870-1970	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
178E	Modern Jewish Intellectual History	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER
181	Modern Britain and the British Empire	Matera	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
181A	Postcolonial Britain and France _{Also offered as ANTH 110O. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.}	Fernando, Matera	Europe and the Mediterranean World		CC
181B	Africa and Britain in an Imperial World	Matera	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER
184B	Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present	Davis	Europe and the Mediterranean World		TA
185C	Communism, Nationalism, & Zionism: Comparative Radical Jewish Politics _Formerly_{HIS 194K, Jewish Radical Movements}	Heckman	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER
185I	Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period	Heckman	Americas and Africa		ER _{(Effective Summer 2020)}
185J	The Modern Jewish Experience	Deutsch	Europe and the Mediterranean World
185K	Jewish Life in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities	Heckman	Europe and the Mediterranean World
185L	Where Civilizations Met--Jews, Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula	Heckman	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800
185M	Zionism: An Intellectual History	Deutsch	Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER
185N	The Holocaust in a Digital World _{Also offered as JWST 185N. Students cannot receive credit for both courses. Enrollment restricted to declared history and Jewish studies majors/minors during priority enrollment.}	STAFF	Europe and the Mediterranean World		PR-E
185O	The Holocaust and the Arab World	Heckman	Europe and the Mediterranean World		ER _{(Effective Fall 2020)}
189	@history: Doing History in a Digital Age	Sullivan	Elective Only		PR-E
Comprehensive Exit Seminar Courses (HIS 190s, 194s, and 196s)
190A	Slavery and Race in Latin America	Diaz	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	DC
190B	Race and the Nation in Latin America	Diaz	Americas and Africa		DC
190D	Asian and Latino Immigration Since 1875	Delgado	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific		DC
190E	Topics in Chicana/o History	Delgado	Americas and Africa		DC
190F	Research Seminar in the Americas _{May be repeated for credit.}	Lonetree, Smyth	Americas and Africa		DC
190H	History of Time	O'Hara	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
190J	Mexican History in the Archives	O'Hara	Americas and Africa		DC
190K	Wired Planet: Readings on the Global History of Broadcasting and Telecommunications	Lasar	Americas and Africa		DC
190L	Personal Politics in the New South	Jones	Americas and Africa		DC
190M	History of Children and Culture of Childhood in the 19th Century	Jones	Americas and Africa		DC
190N	Topics in African History	Anthony	Americas and Africa		DC
190O	African American Historiography	Anthony	Americas and Africa		DC
190P	Early American Society and Culture	Westerkamp	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	DC
190Q	The Novel and History	Westerkamp	Americas and Africa		DC
190R	Research in the History of American Religions	Westerkamp	Americas and Africa		DC
190T	Latin America in the Cold War	O'Hara	Americas and Africa		DC
190U	Power, Culture, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Lasar	Americas and Africa		DC
190W	U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction	Jones	Americas and Africa		DC
190X	History of the Atlantic World, 1492-1824	O'Malley	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	DC
190Y	The Atlantic Slave Trade	O'Malley	Americas and Africa	Pre-1800	DC
190Z	The Long Civil Rights Movement	Brundage	Americas and Africa		DC
194B	Okinawan History	Christy	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific		DC
194C	Topics in Modern Chinese History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Chan	Asia and the Pacific		DC
194E	Women in Japanese History	Aso	Asia and the Pacific		DC
194K	Topics in the History of Southeast Asia _{May be repeated for credit.}	Gutierrez	Asia and the Pacific		DC
194L	Exile, Diaspora, and Displacement: Jewish Lives from North Africa to the Middle East	Heckman	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800	DC
194M	Literati, Samurai, and Yangban: Comparative History of State and Elite in East Asia, 1600-1900	Hu	Asia and the Pacific	Pre-1800	DC
194N	Urbanites in the Global South, 18th Century to the Present	Shaikh	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
194O	South Asia in the Twentieth Century	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific		DC
194P	Urban South Asia	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific		DC
194Q	Making Space in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World	Derr	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
194R	Cairo: The City Victorious, 1750-2000	Derr	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
194S	Special Topics in Ancient Egyptian History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Sullivan	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	DC
194T	Worlds of Labor in Asia	Shaikh	Asia and the Pacific		DC
194U	The Cold War and East Asia	Aso	Asia and the Pacific		DC
194V	Fascism & Anti-Fascism: The Global Spanish Civil War	Heckman	Americas and Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
194W	Social Movements in the Modern Middle East	Derr	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
194Y	Memories of WWII in the U.S. and Japan	Christy, Yang	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific		DC
196E	Modern Irish History	Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196F	Topics in European Environmental History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Breen, Thompson	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196G	Topics in Modern Germany and Europe _{May be repeated for credit.}	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196H	Sex And The City--The History Of Sexuality In Urban Areas Around The Globe	Matera	Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196I	The French Revolution	Silver	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196K	Studies in European Intellectual History	Silver	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196M	Shtetl: Eastern European Jewish Life	Deutsch	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196N	Eastern European Jewish Social History	STAFF	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196Q	Europe And The World During The Cold War	Lasar	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196S	Special Topics in Ancient History _{May be repeated for credit.}	Hedrick, Pawlowski	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600	DC
196X	National Socialism and the Third Reich	Kehler	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC
196Z	Europe From the Margins: Outside Influences on Modern European Thought and Culture	Matera	Europe and the Mediterranean World		DC

History Catalog of Course Requirements

Lower Division Courses (HIS 1 - 99)

Upper Division Courses (HIS 100 - 189)

Comprehensive Exit Seminar Courses (HIS 190s, 194s, and 196s)