Selected Course Descriptions | Spring 2024
Undergraduate Fields of Specialization are organized by Geographic region and Thematic topics.
The Department of History offers more than 200 courses that address a wide variety of subjects. In the table below, Selected Courses for Spring 2024 are grouped by Field of Specialization. Courses may address a number of fields of specialization.
SPRING 2024 Selected Course Descriptions
| HIST205 Global Environmental History | McRae | Global Interaction and Exchange; Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment |
| HIST251 Latin America Since Independence | Rosemblatt | Latin America and Caribbean, Economics, Labor, and Capitalism; Empires and Colonialism; Politics, Law, and Government; Religion and Society |
| HIST287 Why the Jews? Historical and Cultural Investigations | Lapin | Europe, Britain, and Russia; North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia; Cultural and Intellectual; Religion and Society |
| HIST289A Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Tolerance, Oppression, and the Problematic Past | Bianchini | Europe, Britain, Russia; Cultural and Intellectual; Religion and Society; War, Peace, and Society; Women, Gender, Sexuality |
| HIST289V What Does It Mean to be An American? | Smead | United States; Cultural and Intellectual; Economics, Labor, and Capitalism; Social Change and Social Movements; Race and Ethnicity |
| HIST291 Jewish Texts and Cultures of the Second Temple Periods | Lapin | North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia; Cultural and Intellectual; Religion and Society; Pre-1750 |
| HIST319Z State and Society in Modern China: Opium War to the Present | Li | South and East Asia; Social Change and Social Movements; Politics, Law, and Government |
| HIST328Y Cities in Flux: Urban Environmental Histories of Water | McRae | Fields: Global Interaction and Exchange; Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment |
| HIST333 Europe's Reformations | Soergel | Europe, Britain, and Russia; Cultural and Intellectual; Social Change and Social Movements; Religion and Society; Pre-1750 |
| HIST419W The African Side of the Black Diasporic Atlantic: People, Politics, and Faiths | Landau | Africa and the African Diaspora; Race and Ethnicity; Empires and Colonialism |
| HIST428B Seven Revolutions in Postwar Africa | Landau | Africa and the African Diaspora; Global Interaction and Exchange; Empires and Colonialism; Cultural and Intellectual History; Economics, Labor and Capitalism; Politics, Law, and Government |
| HIST428i Contentious Historical Memories in/between Korea and Japan | Choi | South and East Asia; Empires and Colonialism; War, Peace, and Society |
| HIST429B Digital Methods in Historical Research | Lapin | North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia; Religion and Society |
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