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BA.HST.G - History (Major, Minor)

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Program Electives

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

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HIST-106

Development of the United States (1877-present)

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HIST-109

Historical Roots of East Asia

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HIST-110

East Asian History 1600 to the Present

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HIST-112

Modern Africa

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HIST-127

Islamic Civilization I: The Early and Medieval Islamic World

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HIST-128

Islamic Civilization II: The Modern Islamic World: The Ottomans to Arafat

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HIST-130-A
Offered Fall 2024, Spring 2026

ST: Intro to Native North American History & Beyond

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HIST-150-A
Offered Fall 2025

ST: Gender & Sexuality in Chinese Culture

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HIST-151

Before Germs and Genetics: Wellness, Healing, and Meaning in Early America

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HIST-152

The “Crusades” and their Legacies

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HIST-155

Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural Resources in Global Environmental History

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HIST-160

Troy & the Trojan War

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HIST-166

IRES-166

A Sea of Islands: Pacific Island Histories

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HIST-180

Antiqui-tea: Spilling the Ancient Mediterranean

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HIST-181

Europe Transformed, c. 300-1400

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HIST-182

Expansion and Enlightenment: Europe, c. 1400-1789

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HIST-183

Revolution and the Impact of Mass Culture: Modern Europe

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HIST-188

Modern Latin America

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HIST-202

The Age of Cathedrals: European Thought and Culture, 1100-1350

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HIST-204

Syria: From Ruin(ation) to Restoration

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HIST-205

East Asian Environmental History

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HIST-206

European Environmental History to 1800

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HIST-207

Renaissance and Reformations in Europe, 1400-1650

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HIST-208

Latinx in the US: A History

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HIST-209

Religion in Latin America

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HIST-211

The World Wars in Africa

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HIST-214

Sex in the Casbah: Sex, Gender & Islam

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HIST-217

Decolonization in Africa

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HIST-218

Africa to 1885

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HIST-219

Nation Creation: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

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HIST-220

Ottomania! History, Politics, and Memory of the Ottoman Empire

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HIST-223-A
Offered Spring 2026

ST: Oceanic Islam in an Age of Empire

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HIST-224

Powerful Art/ifacts: Greece/Rome

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HIST-225

Cleopatra: History & Myth

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HIST-226

Meet the Ancient Greeks

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HIST-227

Meet the Romans

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HIST-230

International Relations of the Middle East

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HIST-231

Oceans Past and Future: Introduction to Marine Environmental History

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HIST-232

Changing Landscapes: Introduction to Terrestrial Environmental History

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HIST-235

The Arab Spring in Historical Context

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HIST-237

Medieval England: Migrations, Kingdoms, and Conquests

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HIST-241

Early Japanese History

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HIST-243

Japan’s Modern Empire

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HIST-246

Food Ritual & Performance: Cultural History in Late Imperial China

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HIST-247

Early Chinese History

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HIST-248-A
Offered Spring 2026

ST: Tolerance and Intolerance in South Asia

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HIST-250

New Worlds, New Empires: North America, 1600-1800

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HIST-254

The Social History of Stuff: Power, Technology, and Meaning in the United States from the Cotton Gin to the Internet

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HIST-258-A
Offered Spring 2023 (as HIST-259-A) and Spring 2026

ST: US Slavery & Resistance: 19th Century

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HIST-262

People/Nature/Technology: North American Landscapes

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HIST-263

From Farm to Fork: Slow Fast Food and European Foodways

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HIST-264

People Called Female: US Perspectives

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HIST-265

Neighbors: The U.S. and Latin America in the 20th Century

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HIST-266

IRES-266

Indigenous Women & Genders: Early American History to the Present

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HIST-267

Protest & Organizing: A History of U.S. Social Movements

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HIST-268

Im/migration and US History: Population Flows, Experience, and Nation

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HIST-275

Modern European Imperialism

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HIST-276

Europe: Global Dreams, National Nightmares, 1871-1945

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HIST-277

Revolutionary Europe: Democracy Rising

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HIST-278

Twentieth-Century Europe

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HIST-280

The “Other” Greece & Rome

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HIST-286

Making Modern Mexico

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HIST-287

Colonial Latin America

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HIST-288

Reform or Revolution: Latin America in the Twentieth Century

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HIST-297

Nineteenth-Century United States: Experiment to Empire

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HIST-300

Gender in Chinese History

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HIST-307

Beastly Modernity: Animals in the 19th Century

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HIST-313

Discourses of Dictatorship: Testifying Against Torture in Guatemala and Argentina

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HIST-314

Colonial Moment in Africa

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HIST-319

Women in Africa

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HIST-320

Alexander and the Hellenistic World

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HIST-321

History and Ethnobiology of the Silk Roads

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HIST-322

History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

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HIST-330

Hail Caesar? The Roman Revolution

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HIST-331

A Tale of Two Cities: Carthage & Rome

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HIST-332

Conversion, Crusade, and Conquest: European Cultural Encounters, c. 400-1600

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HIST-333

Never-Ending Revolution? The French Experiment, 1789-2002

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HIST-339

Modern Germany: Imagining a Nation?

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HIST-344

China in Revolution

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HIST-348

Horseriders and Samurai: Comparisons in Early Modern East Asia

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HIST-355

Pacific Whaling History

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HIST-364

Sugar, Sex, & Slavery: The History of the Black Atlantic

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HIST-365

Industrialization in the United States

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HIST-366

The Americas, 1968-1999: Dictatorship, Neoliberalism & Solidarity

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HIST-370

Histories of US Genders and Sexualities

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HIST-371

African American History

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HIST-383

History of Sex & Pleasure Work

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HIST-384

Cuba and Nicaragua

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HIST-393

VT: Horizons of Autocracy: Rome & Augustus

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HIST-399

VT: (Re)confronting US Empire

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