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100-Level Courses
  Hist 101
Foundations of Western Civilization
Hist 102 The West and the Modern World

200-Level Courses
  Hist 205 United States History Through Reconstruction
  Hist 206 United States History Since Reconstruction
  Hist 260 Historiography

UPPER LEVEL COURSES

European History

HIST 301 Social History of Modern Europe

HIST 302 Origins of Civilization

HIST 303 Greek Civilization

HIST 304 Rome: Republic and Empire

HIST 306 Europe in the Middle Ages

HIST 307 Imperial Spain

HIST 308 History of Christianity

HIST 309 The Italian Renaissance

HIST 310 Modern France Since 1815

HIST 312 Reformation Europe

HIST 313 Age of Discovery and Conquest

HIST 330 Imperial Russia

HIST 331 Twentieth – Century Russia

HIST 332 Tudor-Stuart England

HIST 333 Modern Britain

HIST 336 Europe in the Age of Revolution 1789-1848

HIST 338 Europe Since 1914

HIST 339 The Revolutionary Movement in Russia

HIST 340 Germany from Bismarck Through Hitler

HIST 341 Hitler and the Nazi Era

HIST 345 Social History of Russia through Literature

HIST 346 Modern European Women’s History

HIST 347 Irish History

HIST 348 The British Empire and Imperialism

HIST 349 The Holocaust

HIST 352 Medieval and Early Modern European Women’s History

HIST 357 Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire

HIST 396 History and Literature of Medieval Spain

HIST 410 Europe: The Industrial Revolution

HIST 427 Peasant Russia

HIST 428 Stalin and His Times

HIST 429 The Russian Revolution 1917 – 1932

HIST 430 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era

HIST 432 Intellectual History of Ancient and Medieval Civilizations

HIST 444 European Religion 1500-1700

 

United States History

HIST 205 US History Through Reconstruction

HIST 206 US History Since Reconstruction

HIST 311 Labor History Through Film

HIST 314 History of New Jersey

HIST 315 US Jewish Community

HIST 316 American Women’s History

HIST 318 American Colonies

HIST 320 Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy 1789-1840

HIST 321 Era of the Civil War 1840-1877

HIST 322 Progress, War, and Normalcy 1877-1933

HIST 323 From New Deal to Cold War: Since 1933

HIST 324 Social & Cultural History of the Early American Republic

HIST 325 American Ethnic History

HIST 327 American as a World Power

HIST 344 Society at War – US in WWII

HIST 350 American Slavery

HIST 354 History of the Civil Rights Movement

HIST 355 U.S. Urban History

HIST 388 Latino History to 1898

HIST 389 Latino History Since 1898

HIST 397 History of Pop Culture

HIST 403 Interpreting U.S. History

HIST 404 Creation of the American Republic

HIST 409 U.S. Labor History Since 1865

 

Asian History

HIST 356 Women & Gender in Modern South Asia

HIST 358 Russia in Asia

HIST 359 Women & Islam: History, Politics and Culture

HIST 360 Traditional Japan

HIST 361 Modern Japan

HIST 364 Japanese History through Cinema

HIST 365 The Pacific War: Japan and the second world war in Asia

HIST 366 The US and the Pacific

HIST 370 Traditional China

HIST 371 Modern China

HIST 375 Chinese Communist Revolution

HIST 376 Korean History: From the Earliest Times through the 20 th century

HIST 378 Mughal India

HIST 394 Modern India

HIST 460 Seminar in East Asian History

HIST 468 Gandhi & Nonviolence

HIST 476 Women and Revolution in China

 

Middle Eastern History

HIST 390 Islamic/Middle Eastern History and Civilization I

HIST 391 Islamic/Middle Eastern History and Civilization II

HIST 392 Contemporary Middle East

 

Latin American History

HIST 353 Comparative Race and Slavery in the Americas, 1400-1888

HIST 380 Colonial Latin America

HIST 381 Modern Latin America

HIST 382 Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Caribbean World

HIST 383 Modern Brazilian History

HIST 384 The Mexican Revolution

HIST 385 19 th Century Latin America, 1810-1910

HIST 386 Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

HIST 387 Ancient American Civ: The Aztec, Maya & Inca

 

Variable Courses

HIST 260 Historical Methods (required course)

HIST 317 US History of the 1960s

HIST 319 Age of Global Connections

HIST 328 Economic History

HIST 335 Science, Technology & Society

HIST 351 History Museum Studies

HIST 399 Selected Topics

HIST 400 Internship in History

HIST-408 Social Darwinism to the Bell Curve

HIST 417 War and Society

HIST 433 Comparative Revolutions

HIST 480 Seminars

HIST 490 Race, Ethnicity & the Changing City

HIST 499 Independent Stud

HIST 403 Interpreting US History