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General History Track

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History Fields of Study or Degree Options

In addition to completing the requirements for all History majors, the student in the General History track is required to satisfy breadth and concentration requirements.

  1. Breadth Requirements: to ensure chronological and geographical breadth, at least two courses must be completed in a premodern chronological period and in each of three geographical fields: Field I (Africa, Asia, and Middle East); Field II (the Americas); and Field III (Europe, including Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia). Courses fulfilling the premodern chronological period (Field IV) may also count for Fields I-III. For 2008-2009, these courses are as follows:

    Field I: Africa/Asia/Middle East

    HISTORY 48Q. South Africa: Contested Traditions

    HISTORY 48S. South Africa for Whom? Nationalisms in Twentieth Century South Africa

    HISTORY 49S. Slavery, Race and Society in Islamic Africa and the Middle East from the Seventh to the Twentieth Centuries

    HISTORY 90Q. Buddhist Political and Social Theory

    HISTORY 95N. Mapping the World: Cartography and the Modern Imagination

    HISTORY 106A. Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

    HISTORY 145B. Africa in the Twentieth Century

    HISTORY 181B. The Middle East in the 20th Century

    HISTORY 182. Medieval Islamic History, 600-1500

    HISTORY 182A. The Ottoman Empire

    HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China

    HISTORY 194B. Japan in the Age of the Samurai

    HISTORY 195. Modern Korean History

    HISTORY 196. South Asian Modernity, 1750-1950: Politics, Culture, Ideas

    HISTORY 197. Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era

    HISTORY 198. The History of Modern China

    HISTORY 224B. Modern Afghanistan

    HISTORY 248S. African Societies and Colonial States

    HISTORY 249. History without Documents

    HISTORY 256. U.S.-China Relations: From the Opium War to Tiananmen

    HISTORY 281A. Twentieth Century Iraq: A Political and Social History

    HISTORY 281B. Modern Egypt

    HISTORY 282. The United States and the Middle East since 1945

    HISTORY 282A. State and Society in Modern Turkey

    HISTORY 282C. Environmental History of the Middle East

    HISTORY 282B. Islamic Thought and Culture in the Pre-modern Middle East, 800-1800

    HISTORY 283. The New Global Economy, Oil, and Islamic Movements in the Middle East

    HISTORY 287B. International Law and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

    HISTORY 291D. Traitors and Collaborators in Colonial History

    HISTORY 291E. Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia

    HISTORY 292. The Two Koreas

    HISTORY 293B. Homosexuality in Historical and Comparative Perspective

    HISTORY 293D. Empire and Cosmopolitanism: Traveling Ideas in Global Political Thought

    HISTORY 294. Liberalism and Violence: A Conceptual History

    HISTORY 295F. Race and Ethnicity in East Asia

    HISTORY 295J. Chinese Women's History

    HISTORY 296. Communism and Revolution in China

    HISTORY 296E. Contentious Identities: The Formation of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationhood in Modern Japan

    HISTORY 298A. International Law and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

    CLASSHIS 105. History and Culture of Ancient Egypt

    CLASSHIS 106. Life and Death in China's Late Antiquity

    INTNLREL 206. Palestinian Nationalism, Past and Present

    Field II: The Americas

    HISTORY 36N: Gay Autobiography

    HISTORY 38N. The Body

    HISTORY 44N. The History of Women and Gender in Science, Medicine and Engineering

    HISTORY 52N. The Harlem Renaissance

    HISTORY 54N. African American Women's Lives

    HISTORY 56S. Crime Waves and Panics in the U.S. from Reconstruction to the War on Terror

    HISTORY 57S. Reconstructions: Nation Building in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1865-2009

    HISTORY 70. Culture, Politics and Society in Latin America

    HISTORY 103E. History of Nuclear Weapons

    HISTORY 107. Introduction to Feminist Studies

    HISTORY 150A. Colonial and Revolutionary America

    HISTORY 150B. Nineteenth Century America

    HISTORY 150C. The United States in the Twentieth Century

    HISTORY 151. Slavery and Freedom in American History

    HISTORY 154A. Religion and American Society

    HISTORY 163. A History of North American Wests

    HISTORY 166. Introduction to African American History: The Modern African American Freedom Struggle

    HISTORY 168. U.S. History since World War II through Film

    HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America

    HISTORY 201. Introduction to Public History in the U.S., Nineteenth Century to the Present

    HISTORY 243K. Endangered Species

    HISTORY 251G. Topics in Constitutional History

    HISTORY 254. Popular Culture and American Nature

    HISTORY 255B. Introduction to African and African American Studies

    HISTORY 255D. Racial Identity in the American Imagination

    HISTORY 256. U.S.-China Relations: From the Opium War to Tiananmen

    HISTORY 258. History of Sexuality in the U.S.

    HISTORY 260. California's Minority-Majority Cities

    HISTORY 261. Race, Gender, and Class in Jim Crow America

    HISTORY 264X. Chicana/o History

    HISTORY 265. Writing Asian-American History

    HISTORY 267E. Twentieth Century American Politics

    HISTORY 268E. American Foreign Policy and International History, 1941-2009

    HISTORY 273B. Latin American Societies: The Public and the Domestic Domain

    HISTORY 274A. Representing Revolution: The Mexican Revolution in Cross-disciplinary Perspective

    HISTORY 275F. Social Change in Latin America

    HISTORY 279A. Visual and Urban Culture of Modern Latin America

    AMSTUD 114N. Visions of the 1960s

    AMSTUD 160. Perspectives on American Identity

    AMSTUD 203A. Children in American History

    AMSTUD 214. The American 1960s: Thought, Protest, and Culture

    ECON 116. American Economic History

    ECON 226. U.S. Economic History

    HPS 156. History of Women and Medicine in the United States

    IHUM 4B. Mass Violence from Crusades to Genocides

    IHUM 11B. Origins of the World: Europe and Latin America

    POLISCI 137R. Justice at Home and Abroad: Civil Rights in the 21st Century

    Field III: Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia

    HISTORY 12N. The Early Roman Emperors: History, Biography, and Fiction

    HISTORY 15S. Understanding Machiavelli: War, Women, and Politics

    HISTORY 16S. Vikings, Crusaders, Kings: The Normans and the Expansion of Latin Christendom

    HISTORY 18S. Mobility in France and the Self: People, Products, and Ideas in Motion

    HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

    HISTORY 21S. Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe, 1944-1953

    HISTORY 22N. Images and Practices of Violence in Early Modern Russian Art and Law

    HISTORY 32S. Discipline and Dirt: Urban Environments and Social Control in Modern Britain, 1800-1900

    HISTORY 33S. The France of Louis XIV

    HISTORY 34N. The European Witch Hunts

    HISTORY 35S. The Specter of Female Power: Harpies, Harlots, and Hysterics in Revolutionary France, 1770-1871

    HISTORY 36N. Gay Autobiography

    HISTORY 46N. Science and Magic

    HISTORY 85S. Jews, Christians and Muslims in a Mediterranean Port City: Salonica, 1821-1945

    HISTORY 103E. History of Nuclear Weapons

    HISTORY 110A. Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500

    HISTORY 110C. Introduction to Modern Europe

    HISTORY 120A. Foundations of Modern Russia

    HISTORY 120B. The Russian Empire

    HISTORY 125. Twentieth Century Eastern Europe

    HISTORY 132. Ordinary Lives: A Social History of the Everyday in Early Modern Europe

    HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts

    HISTORY 133B. Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age

    HISTORY 136D. European Intellectual History, 1789-Present

    HISTORY 137. The Holocaust

    HISTORY 138A. Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990

    HISTORY 138B. Colonialism and Empire in Nineteenth Century Europe

    HISTORY 140A. The Scientific Revolution

    HISTORY 217A. Poverty and Charity in Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

    HISTORY 217B. Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain

    HISTORY 218A. Muslim Minorities in History

    HISTORY 221B. The Woman Question in Modern Russia

    HISTORY 223. Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia

    HISTORY 227B. Imperialism, the Media, and the Public Sphere

    HISTORY 229. Poles and Jews

    HISTORY 230F. Self-Policing, Denunciation, and Surveillance in Modern Europe

    HISTORY 232D. Rome: The City and the World, 1350-1750

    HISTORY 233. Reformation, Political Culture and the Origins of the English Civil War

    HISTORY 233B. Early Modern Sexualities

    HISTORY 233G. Catholic Politics in Europe, 1789-1992

    HISTORY 234A. Marie Antoinette on Trial

    HISTORY 236A. Nationalism 1600 to the Present

    HISTORY 238K. European Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution, 1938-1948

    HISTORY 243C. Eighteenth Century Colonial Science and Medicine

    CLASSART 61. Introduction to Greek Archaeology

    CLASSGEN 22N. Technologies of Civilization: Writing, Numbers, and Money

    CLASSGEN 47. Hannibal

    CLASSGEN 60. The Life and Death of a Roman City: Pompeii

    CLASSGEN 66. Herodotus

    CLASSHIS 60. The Romans

    CLASSHIS 101. The Greeks

    ECON 115. European Economic History

    IHUM 4A,B. Mass Violence from Crusades to Genocides

    IHUM 11A. Origins of the World: Europe and Latin America

    OSPOXFRD 15. British Architecture and the Renaissance: 1500-1850

    REES 130. With God in Russia: Orthodox Christianity in the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Field IV: Pre-1700

    HISTORY 12N. The Early Roman Emperors: History, Biography, and Fiction

    HISTORY 15S. Understanding Machiavelli: War, Women, and Politics

    HISTORY 16S. Vikings, Crusaders, Kings: The Normans and the Expansion of Latin Christendom

    HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

    HISTORY 22N. Images and Practices of Violence in Early Modern Russian Art and Law

    HISTORY 33S. The France of Louis XIV

    HISTORY 34N. The European Witch Hunts

    HISTORY 49S. Slavery, Race and Society in Islamic Africa and the Middle East from the Seventh to the Twentieth Centuries

    HISTORY 110A. Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500

    HISTORY 120A Foundations of Modern Russia

    HISTORY 132. Ordinary Lives: A Social History of the Everyday in Early Modern Europe

    HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts

    HISTORY 133B. Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age

    HISTORY 140A. The Scientific Revolution

    HISTORY 182. Medieval Islamic History, 600-1500

    HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China

    HISTORY 194B. Japan in the Age of the Samurai

    HISTORY 217A. Poverty and Charity in Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

    HISTORY 217B. Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain

    HISTORY 218A. Muslim Minorities in History

    HISTORY 232D. Rome: The City and the World, 1350-1750

    HISTORY 233. Reformation, Political Culture and the Origins of the English Civil War

    HISTORY 233B. Early Modern Sexualities

    HISTORY 249. History without Documents

    HISTORY 282B. Islamic Thought and Culture in the Pre-modern Middle East, 800-1800

    CLASSART 61. Introduction to Greek Archaeology

    CLASSGEN 22N. Technologies of Civilization: Writing, Numbers, and Money

    CLASSGEN 47. Hannibal

    CLASSGEN 60. The Life and Death of a Roman City: Pompeii

    CLASSGEN 66. Herodotus

    CLASSHIS 60. The Romans

    CLASSHIS 101. The Greeks

    CLASSHIS 105. History and Culture of Ancient Egypt

    CLASSHIS 106. Life and Death in China's Late Antiquity

    CLASSHIS 133. Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought

    CLASSHIS 137. Models of Democracy

    IHUM 4A. Mass Violence from Crusades to Genocides

    IHUM 6A. World History of Science

    IHUM 11A. Origins of the World: Europe and Latin America

    OSPOXFRD 15. British Architecture and the Renaissance: 1500-1850

  2. Concentration: to develop some measure of expertise, students must complete four courses in a single area (including one undergraduate colloquium or research seminar). The proposed concentration must be approved by the major adviser; a proposal for a thematic concentration must be approved by both the adviser and the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Areas of concentration are:
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Eastern Europe and Russia
    • Europe before 1700
    • Europe since 1700
    • Jewish History
    • Latin America
    • Science and Technology
    • The United States
    • The Middle East
    • International History
    • Comparative Empires and Cultures
    • or a thematic subject treated comparatively, such as war and revolution, work, gender, family history, popular culture, or high culture.
  3. Required course: HISTORY 102. The International System is a required course for students who select the International History concentration. This course is not offered in 2008-09.

Certain Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) courses taught by History faculty in a Winter-Spring sequence count toward the General History major. These are: IHUM 4A,B; 5A,B; 11A,B

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