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M.A. Course Requirements

HIS 200, Methods and Theories of History
HIS 201, Directed Research Colloquium
HIS 202, Practicing World History
One of the following research seminars during your first four quarters:
- HIS 204A, History of Gender
- HIS 204C, Colonialism, Nationalism, and Transnational Movements
- HIS 204E, Transnationalism, Borderlands, and History
Two-unit courses:
- First Year: HIS 280A-B
- Second Year: HIS 280B
Electives:
- Six courses (five units each), two of which may be taken outside the History Department. Courses taken are graduate seminars, most upper-division undergraduate courses, and independent study courses.
Reading Seminars:
- Two courses required of all graduate students in their respective specialties
- U.S.: 210A-B, Readings in U.S. History
- Europe: 251A-B, Readings in European Social and Cultural History
- East Asia: 230A, Readings in Late Imperial China; 230C, Readings in 20^th Century China; 230B, Engendering China; 242, Readings in Modern Japan