COURSES OFFERED IN THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT

We offer courses in African, American, Asian, European, and Middle Eastern history. You can study the history of food, the history of families, popular culture, war, revolutions, the history of cities . . . just about anything that interests you. For a detailed list of courses offered, see Courses below. And if you can't find the perfect course, then construct it yourself through an independent study. Every year our faculty directs dozens of individual projects in which students read and write about an area of personal interest or intellectual curiosity. For a list of some of the independent studies undertaken in the last few years see Independent Studies.

COURSE CONCENTRATIONS

Introductory Courses

HIST 102 Making of the Modern World
HIST 103 Revolutionary Europe
HIST 105 Introduction to the American Experience
HIST 151 Food Systems in History
HIST 199 Meditations on Time and Memory

African and Middle Eastern History Courses

BIDS 235 Third World Experience
HIST 283 South Africa in Transition
HIST 284 Africa: From Colonialism to Neocolonialism
HIST 285 The Middle East: Roots of Conflict
HIST 364 African History
HIST 461 War and Peace in the Middle East
HIST 462 Africa Through the Novel

American and Latin American History Courses

HIST 204 History of American Society
HIST 208 Women in American History
HIST 215 American Urban History
HIST 226 Colonial Latin America
HIST 227 African American History I: The Early Era
HIST 228 African American History II: The Modern Era
HIST 231 Modern Latin America
HIST 240 Immigration and Ethnicity in America
HIST 246 American Environmental History
HIST 300 American Colonial History
HIST 304 The Early National Republic: 1789 1840
HIST 306 Civil War and Reconstruction: 1840 1877
HIST 307 The American Revolution
HIST 310 Rise of Industrial America
HIST 311 20th Century America: 1917 1941
HIST 312 The U.S. Since 1939
HIST 314 Aquarian Age: The 1960s
HIST 316 Metropolis
HIST 317 Women’s Rights Movements in the U.S.
HIST 336 History of American Thought to 1865
HIST 337 History of American Thought Since 1865
HIST 340 Seminar: Faulkner and Southern Historical Consciousness
HIST 352 Who Wants to Be a Billionaire: Elites in America
HIST 463 Seminar: Topics in American History
HIST 469 Seminar: Global Cities
HIST 471 Seminar: Civil War in American History

Asian History Courses

HIST 291 Late Imperial China
HIST 292 Japan Before 1868
HIST 390 The Modern Transformations of China and Japan
HIST 394 Russia and Asia
HIST 396 History and the Fate of Socialism: Russia and China
HIST 493 Seminar: Japanese History

European and Russian History Courses

HIST 101 Foundations of European Society
HIST 237 Europe Since the War
HIST 238 The World Wars in Global Perspective
HIST 250 Medieval Popular Culture
HIST 253 Renaissance and Reformation
HIST 256 Technology and Society in Europe
HIST 260 Modernity in Russia
HIST 261 20th Century Russia
HIST 264 Modern European City
HIST 269 Modern Germany: 1764-1996
HIST 272 Nazi Germany
HIST 276 The Age of Dictators
HIST 301 The Enlightenment
HIST 313 Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
HIST 318 Making of the Individualist Self
HIST 321 The Evolution of Human Emotion
HIST 325 Medicine and Public Health in Modern Europe
HIST 367 Women and the State: Russia
HIST 371 Life-Cycles: The Family in History
HIST 394 Russia and Asia
HIST 396 History and the Fate of Socialism: Russia and China
HIST 476 Seminar: Western Civilization and Its Discontents