Courses in History

Introductory Courses

• HIST 010A SC - The Making of Modern Europe: Gender, Power, Knowledge (1400-1700)
• HIST 010B SC - Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
• HIST 040A SC - Latin America before 1820: Long Views of Contemporary Struggles for Equality
• HIST 047 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HIST 048 SC - Women in Latin America:The Violence of Poverty
• HIST 050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877
• HIST 050B AF - African Diaspora in the United States since 1877
• HIST 070A SC - United States History to 1865
• HIST 070B SC - Introduction to Modern U.S. History
• HIST 072 SC - History of Women in the United States

Early Modern Europe

• HIST 110 SC - Renaissance Venice: Politics, Society, and Visual Culture
• HIST 111 SC - The Worlds of Niccolo Machiavelli
• HIST 112 SC - Nuns, Saints, and Mystics from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
• HIST 113 SC - Renaissance East and West: Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Mediterranean Culture, 1350-1750
• HIST 114 SC - Women and Gender in the Wider Mediterranean (ca.1300-1800)
• HIST 115 SC - The Making of Leviathan
• HIST 116 SC - Baroque Civilization: Politics, Religion, and Science in the Seventeenth Century
• HIST 118 SC - Queering the Renaissance
• HIST 119L SC - The Making of Medieval Europe
• HIST 119M SC - The Art of Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• HIST 119R SC - Women and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Modern Europe

• HIST 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture
• HIST 124 SC - Paris and the Birth of Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century
• HIST 127 SC - Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault
• HIST 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique
• HMSC 133 SC - Freud/Derrida
• HIST 134 SC - France/Algeria
• HIST 138 SC - Disease, Identity, and Society

Latin America and Caribbean

• HIST 140B SC - Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean
• HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing
• HIST 143 SC - Cuba and Nicaragua: Revolution in the Shadow of Empire
• HIST 146 SC - History of the Modern Maya: Indigenous Ethnicity and Resistance

United States

See also: AMST 125 , AMST 126 , AMST 130 . See American Studies for course descriptions.

• HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America
• HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory
• HIST 158 JT - Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S
• HIST 169A SC - Freedom and Race: Citizenship, Slavery and the Sex/Labor Trades
• HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States
• HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race
• HIST 174 SC - The American 1960s
• HIST 175 SC - War, Empire, and Society in the U.S., 1898-Present
• HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era
• HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists

Core Courses: Required of all Majors

• HIST 180 SC - Proseminar: What is History?
• HIST 190 SC - Senior Seminar in History
• HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis

Special Topics

See also: Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Classical Studies for other History course offerings. 

• HIST 197 SC - Topics in Historical Study
• HIST 199 SC - Independent Study in History: Reading and Research