General History Track

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.

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 2009-2010, these courses are as follows:
Field I: Africa/Asia/Middle East

HISTORY 44S. Sex and Power in South African History

HISTORY 46S. The History and Legacy of Mau Mau in Kenya: A Civil War, Peasant Revolt, or Nationalist Struggle?

HISTORY 48N. African History through Literature and Film

HISTORY 48Q. South Africa: Contested Traditions

HISTORY 50S. The History of Development in Africa

HISTORY 84Q. The American Empire in the Middle East since the Cold War: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine

HISTORY 90S. The Social and Cultural History of Tokugawa Japan, 1603-1868

HISTORY 91N. Mao Zedong: The Man Who Would Become China

HISTORY 91S. The Making of Nationalism in Modern China

HISTORY 106A. Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

HISTORY 145B. Africa in the Twentieth Century

HISTORY 145C. Africa in the Age of Empire

HISTORY 147. History of South Africa

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

HISTORY 181C. Social and Cultural History of Modern Shi'ism

HISTORY 182B. The Three Empires of Islam: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

HISTORY 182C. From Prophet to Empire: The Making of the Muslim Middle East, 600-1500

HISTORY 191D. China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties

HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China

HISTORY 194B. Japan in the Age of the Samurai

HISTORY 195. Modern Korean History

HISTORY 195C. Modern Japanese History

HISTORY 196. Modern South Asia

HISTORY 198. The History of Modern China

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

HISTORY 245G. Law and Colonialism in Africa

HISTORY 247S. Intellectual and Cultural History in Modern Africa

HISTORY 248. Islam in Africa

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

HISTORY 281. Economic and Social History of the Modern Middle East

HISTORY 281C. Urban History of the Middle East: Aleppo and Istanbul on the Eve of Modernity

HISTORY 281D. The Origins and Formation of Islam

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

HISTORY 282A. State and Society in Modern Turkey

HISTORY 282D. The Late Ottoman Empire, Its Collapse, and the Making of the Turkish Nation State

HISTORY 287C. Zionism and its Critics

HISTORY 287D. Tel Aviv: Site, Symbol, City

HISTORY 288. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

HISTORY 291D. Colonialism and Collaboration in East Asia

HISTORY 292. The Korean War: The Origins, Outbreak and Aftermath

HISTORY 292D. Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan

HISTORY 292F. Traditional Korea: History and Culture

HISTORY 295F. Race and Ethnicity in East Asia

HISTORY 295J. Chinese Women's History

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

Field II: The Americas

HISTORY 36N: Gay Autobiography

HISTORY 54N. African American Women's Lives

HISTORY 57. The Constitution: A Short History

HISTORY 62N. The Atomic Bomb in Policy and History

HISTORY 67S. The Virgin Mary: Religion and Identity from Mexico City to Los Angeles

HISTORY 68S. The Cultural Margins of America: Witches, Indians, and Arabs in the 18th Century Imagination

HISTORY 103E. History of Nuclear Weapons

HISTORY 144. Gender in Science, Medicine and Engineering

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 154. 19th Century U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History, 1790-1860

HISTORY 154A. Religion and American Society

HISTORY 158. The United States Since 1945

HISTORY 164C. From Freedom to Freedom Now: African American History, 1865-1965

HISTORY 165. Mexican American History through Film

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

HISTORY 168. American History in Film: Since World War II

HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America

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

HISTORY 243J. Climate Change in the West: A History of the Future

HISTORY 251. Creating the American Republic

HISTORY 252. Decision Making in Crises: The A-Bomb, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

HISTORY 253D. Approaches to American Legal History

HISTORY 254. Popular Culture and American Nature

HISTORY 255D. Racial Identity in the American Imagination

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

HISTORY 259A,B. Poverty and Homelessness in America

HISTORY 260. California's Minority-Majority Cities

HISTORY 265. Writing Asian-American History

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

HISTORY 275F. Social Change in Latin America since 1900

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

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

Field III: Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia

HISTORY 13N. Slavery and Rebellion in Ancient Rome

HISTORY 14N. The Crusades

HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

HISTORY 22N. Crime, Punishment and Rebellion in Early Modern Russia

HISTORY 24S. The Soviet Union Through Western Eyes: Workers' Paradise and Evil Empire

HISTORY 27S. Life in the Divided City: A History of Postwar Berlin, 1945-2009

HISTORY 30Q. English Society through Fiction

HISTORY 31S. The Renaissance of War: War, Technology, and Art in the High Renaissance

HISTORY 34S. From Tears of Joy to the Reign of Terror: The French Revolution, 1789-1794

HISTORY 36N. Gay Autobiography

HISTORY 36S. Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Carnival and Magic: Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

HISTORY 42N. Science, Medicine and Empire

HISTORY 102. The History of the International System

HISTORY 103E. History of Nuclear Weapons

HISTORY 110A. Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500

HISTORY 110B. Early Modern Europe

HISTORY 110C. Introduction to Modern Europe

HISTORY 120A. Russian Civilization from Beginnings to the Enlightenment

HISTORY 123. Reform and Revolution in Modern Russia, 1856-2009

HISTORY 125. Twentieth Century Eastern Europe

HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts

HISTORY 133A. Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors

HISTORY 134A. European Witch Hunts

HISTORY 135. History of European Law, Medieval to Contemporary

HISTORY 137. The Holocaust

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

HISTORY 139. Modern Britain and the Empire

HISTORY 140. World History of Science, Technology and Medicine: From Prehistory to the Scientific Revolution

HISTORY 141A. The Emergence of Medicine: The Middle Ages and Renaissance

HISTORY 142. Darwin in the History of Life

HISTORY 185B. Jews in the Modern World

HISTORY 208. Private Lives, Public Stories: Autobiography in Women's History

HISTORY 211. Body, Gender, and Society in Medieval Europe

HISTORY 211B. Jews under Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages

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

HISTORY 217B. Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain

HISTORY 218A. Barcelona to Berlin: Muslim Minorities in History

HISTORY 220G. Demons, Witches, Holy Fools, and Folk Belief: Popular Religion in Russia, 19th and 20th Centuries

HISTORY 221A. Men, Women, and Power in Early Modern Russia, 1500-1800

HISTORY 221B. The Woman Question in Modern Russia

HISTORY 223F. The Nationality Question in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

HISTORY 229. Poles and Jews

HISTORY 230A. The Witness in Modern History: Memoir, Reportage, Image

HISTORY 231S. Early Modern Things

HISTORY 233C. Two British Revolutions

HISTORY 233F. Political Thought in Early Modern Britain

HISTORY 234C. Counterinsurgency in History

HISTORY 236A. European Nationalism, 1600 to the Present

HISTORY 236B. The Idea of Society

HISTORY 236C. Reordering Europe, 1917-1923

HISTORY 237E. Violence, Law, and Order in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Ireland

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

HISTORY 239D. Capital and Empire

HISTORY 238H. Colonialism and Empire in Modern Europe

HISTORY 285K. History of Modern Antisemitism

HISTORY 287E. Jewish Intellectuals and Modernity

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

Field IV: Pre-1700

HISTORY 7S. The Age of Discovery: Maritime Imperialism and Science, 1400-1850

HISTORY 13N. Slavery and Rebellion in Ancient Rome

HISTORY 14N. The Crusades

HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

HISTORY 22N. Crime, Punishment and Rebellion in Early Modern Russia

HISTORY 31S. The Renaissance of War: War, Technology, and Art in the High Renaissance

HISTORY 36S. Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Carnival and Magic: Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

HISTORY 42N. Science, Medicine and Empire

HISTORY 110A. Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500

HISTORY 110B. Early Modern Europe

HISTORY 120A. Russian Civilization from Beginnings to the Enlightenment

HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts

HISTORY 133A. Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors

HISTORY 134A. European Witch Hunts

HISTORY 135. History of European Law, Medieval to Contemporary

HISTORY 140. World History of Science, Technology and Medicine: From Prehistory to the Scientific Revolution

HISTORY 141A. The Emergence of Medicine: The Middle Ages and Renaissance

HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America

HISTORY 182B. The Three Empires of Islam: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

HISTORY 182C. From Prophet to Empire: The Making of the Muslim Middle East, 600-1500

HISTORY 191D. China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties

HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China

HISTORY 194B. Japan in the Age of the Samurai

HISTORY 211. Body, Gender, and Society in Medieval Europe

HISTORY 211B. Jews under Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages

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

HISTORY 217B. Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain

HISTORY 218A. Barcelona to Berlin: Muslim Minorities in History

HISTORY 221A. Men, Women, and Power in Early Modern Russia, 1500-1800

HISTORY 231S. Early Modern Things

HISTORY 233C. Two British Revolutions

HISTORY 233F. Political Thought in Early Modern Britain

HISTORY 281C. Urban History of the Middle East: Aleppo and Istanbul on the Eve of Modernity

HISTORY 281D. The Origins and Formation of Islam

IHUM 11A. Origins of the World: Europe and Latin America
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.
Required course: HISTORY 102. The International System is a required course for students who select the International History concentration. This course is offered in Spring quarter.

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; 6A,B;11A,B