Courses in History

Introductory Courses

• HIST 010A SC - Early Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Napoleonic Wars
• 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 048 SC - Gender and Testimony in Latin America and the Caribbean
• 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
• HIST 090 SC - Individual and Society
• HIST 009 SC - European Union

Early Modern Europe

• HIST 107 SC - Dante and the Medieval World
• HIST 108 SC - The History of Economic Thought
• HIST 109 SC - The First Age of Globalization, 1492-1789
• HIST 110 SC - Renaissance Venice: Politics, Society, and Visual Culture
• HIST 111 SC - The Worlds of Niccolo Machiavelli
• HIST 113 SC - Venice and the Islamic East, 1350-1750
• HIST 114 SC - The Renaissance on the Margins: Gender, Slavery, and Heresy, 1450-1750
• HIST 115 SC - The Making of Leviathan
• HIST 116 SC - Baroque Civilization: Politics, Religion, and Science in the Seventeenth Century
• HIST 117 SC - The Economic History of the Western World I: The Rise of Capitalism
• HIST 120 SC - Mediterranean Cities

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 - Modernity and the Unconscious
• HIST 134 SC - France/Algeria
• HIST 136 SC - Epistemology of European Colonialism
• HIST 138 SC - Disease, Identity, and Society

Latin America and Caribbean

• HIST 048 SC - Gender and Testimony in Latin America and the 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/Bolivia/Venezuela: Revolution
• HIST 144 SC - Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States
• HIST 146 SC - Zapatistas/Mayan Rebels

United States

• AFRI 116 AF - Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition
• HIST 145 SC - Comparative Freedom Movements
• HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America
• HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory
• HIST 154 SC - Queer Histories in the U.S.
• HIST 155 SC - Women, Gender, and US Colonialism
• HIST 159 SC - Black Women’s History
• HIST 164 SC - Birthright Citizenship
• HIST 166 SC - Self and Society: Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.
• HIST 169 SC - Gender, Race, and US Education
• HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States
• HIST 173 AF - Black International Politics in the United States: Race, Nation, and Empire
• HIST 174 SC - The U.S. in the 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 - What is History?
• HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis

• (fall enrollment for one-semester and two-semester theses)

• HIST 192 SC - Senior Thesis

• (spring enrollment for two-semester theses)

Special Topics

See also Africana Studies , Asian American Studies , Chicanx Latinx Studies , and Classical Studies  for other History course offerings. 

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