Elective Courses for Thematic Track

The following courses apply to one or more of the following pathways:

Cultures and Ideas (C&I)
Empires and Colonialism (E&C)
Revolution, War, and Politics (RWP)
Social Justice (SJ)
Before Modernity (BM)

		C&I	E&C	RWP	SJ	BM
HIST-105	Histories of North America, c. 1600-1890	*				*
HIST-106	Development of the United States (1877-present)	*
HIST-109	Historical Roots of East Asia	*				*
HIST-110	East Asian History 1600 to the Present	*	*	*
HIST-112	Modern Africa	*	*		*
HIST-127	Islamic Civilization I: The Early and Medieval Islamic World	*	*			*
HIST-128	Islamic Civilization II: The Modern Islamic World: The Ottomans to Arafat	*	*	*
HIST-130-A Offered Fall 2024, Spring 2026	ST: Intro to Native North American History & Beyond	*			*
HIST-150-A Offered Fall 2025	ST: Gender & Sexuality in Chinese Culture	*
HIST-151	Before Germs and Genetics: Wellness, Healing, and Meaning in Early America	*				*
HIST-152	The “Crusades” and their Legacies		*	*		*
HIST-155	Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural Resources in Global Environmental History	*	*	*
HIST-160	Troy & the Trojan War	*				*
HIST-166 IRES-166	A Sea of Islands: Pacific Island Histories		*		*
HIST-180	Antiqui-tea: Spilling the Ancient Mediterranean	*	*			*
HIST-181	Europe Transformed, c. 300-1400	*				*
HIST-182	Expansion and Enlightenment: Europe, c. 1400-1789	*	*			*
HIST-183	Revolution and the Impact of Mass Culture: Modern Europe			*
HIST-188	Modern Latin America	*			*
HIST-202	The Age of Cathedrals: European Thought and Culture, 1100-1350	*				*
HIST-204	Syria: From Ruin(ation) to Restoration			*	*
HIST-205	East Asian Environmental History	*	*			*
HIST-206	European Environmental History to 1800	*			*	*
HIST-207	Renaissance and Reformations in Europe, 1400-1650	*				*
HIST-208	Latinx in the US: A History	*	*		*
HIST-209	Religion in Latin America	*			*	*
HIST-211	The World Wars in Africa		*	*	*
HIST-214	Sex in the Casbah: Sex, Gender & Islam	*	*		*	*
HIST-217	Decolonization in Africa		*	*	*
HIST-218	Africa to 1885	*				*
HIST-219	Nation Creation: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century			*	*	*
HIST-220	Ottomania! History, Politics, and Memory of the Ottoman Empire		*	*		*
HIST-223-A Offered Spring 2026	ST: Oceanic Islam in an Age of Empire	*	*
HIST-224	Powerful Art/ifacts: Greece/Rome	*			*	*
HIST-225	Cleopatra: History & Myth	*			*	*
HIST-226	Meet the Ancient Greeks	*				*
HIST-227	Meet the Romans	*	*			*
HIST-230	International Relations of the Middle East			*
HIST-231	Oceans Past and Future: Introduction to Marine Environmental History	*			*	*
HIST-232	Changing Landscapes: Introduction to Terrestrial Environmental History	*				*
HIST-235	The Arab Spring in Historical Context			*	*
HIST-237	Medieval England: Migrations, Kingdoms, and Conquests	*		*		*
HIST-241	Early Japanese History	*			*	*
HIST-243	Japan’s Modern Empire	*	*	*	*
HIST-246	Food Ritual & Performance: Cultural History in Late Imperial China	*
HIST-247	Early Chinese History	*			*	*
HIST-248-A Offered Spring 2026	ST: Tolerance and Intolerance in South Asia	*			*
HIST-250	New Worlds, New Empires: North America, 1600-1800		*	*	*	*
HIST-254	The Social History of Stuff: Power, Technology, and Meaning in the United States from the Cotton Gin to the Internet	*			*
HIST-258-A Offered Spring 2023 (as HIST-259-A) and Spring 2026	ST: US Slavery & Resistance: 19th Century	*	*		*
HIST-262	People/Nature/Technology: North American Landscapes	*	*
HIST-263	From Farm to Fork: Slow Fast Food and European Foodways	*			*
HIST-264	People Called Female: US Perspectives	*			*
HIST-265	Neighbors: The U.S. and Latin America in the 20th Century		*	*	*
HIST-266 IRES-266	Indigenous Women & Genders: Early American History to the Present		*	*	*
HIST-267	Protest & Organizing: A History of U.S. Social Movements	*		*	*
HIST-268	Im/migration and US History: Population Flows, Experience, and Nation	*			*
HIST-275	Modern European Imperialism	*	*	*
HIST-276	Europe: Global Dreams, National Nightmares, 1871-1945	*	*	*
HIST-277	Revolutionary Europe: Democracy Rising	*		*
HIST-278	Twentieth-Century Europe	*		*
HIST-280	The “Other” Greece & Rome				*	*
HIST-286	Making Modern Mexico	*			*
HIST-287	Colonial Latin America		*		*	*
HIST-288	Reform or Revolution: Latin America in the Twentieth Century			*	*
HIST-297	Nineteenth-Century United States: Experiment to Empire	*	*	*	*
HIST-300	Gender in Chinese History				*
HIST-307	Beastly Modernity: Animals in the 19th Century	*	*		*
HIST-313	Discourses of Dictatorship: Testifying Against Torture in Guatemala and Argentina			*	*
HIST-314	Colonial Moment in Africa		*		*
HIST-319	Women in Africa				*
HIST-320	Alexander and the Hellenistic World	*	*			*
HIST-321	History and Ethnobiology of the Silk Roads	*				*
HIST-322	History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict		*	*	*
HIST-330	Hail Caesar? The Roman Revolution		*	*		*
HIST-331	A Tale of Two Cities: Carthage & Rome		*			*
HIST-332	Conversion, Crusade, and Conquest: European Cultural Encounters, c. 400-1600	*	*			*
HIST-333	Never-Ending Revolution? The French Experiment, 1789-2002		*	*	*
HIST-339	Modern Germany: Imagining a Nation?	*		*	*
HIST-344	China in Revolution			*	*
HIST-348	Horseriders and Samurai: Comparisons in Early Modern East Asia	*		*	*	*
HIST-355	Pacific Whaling History	*	*
HIST-364	Sugar, Sex, & Slavery: The History of the Black Atlantic	*	*		*	*
HIST-365	Industrialization in the United States	*			*
HIST-366	The Americas, 1968-1999: Dictatorship, Neoliberalism & Solidarity		*	*	*
HIST-370	Histories of US Genders and Sexualities				*
HIST-371	African American History	*			*
HIST-383	History of Sex & Pleasure Work			*	*
HIST-384	Cuba and Nicaragua			*	*
HIST-393	VT: Horizons of Autocracy: Rome & Augustus	*	*	*	*	*
HIST-399	VT: (Re)confronting US Empire	*	*	*	*

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