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Required Core (12 credits):

 HIST 501: Information Technology and the Historical Profession

 Global History Seminars.  (3 credits) Choose one of the following four:
  HIST 536: Seminar on Intellectual and Cultural History: Selected Topics
  HIST 537: Seminar on the Twentieth Century: Selected Topics
  HIST 538: Seminar on Empires: Selected Topics
  HIST 539: Seminar on War and Revolution: Selected Topics

 HIST 698. Thesis Seminar.
 HIST 699. Independent Thesis Research.



Electives (18 credits):
 
Global History Seminars may be used as electives provided that the subject is not repeated.
There are no regional tracks; students may take electives in one or more regions.

U.S. History

 HIST 540:  Abundance and Poverty in U.S. History
 HIST 545:  The Reform Impulse in American History
 HIST 550:  Violence in America
 HIST 560:  Twentieth Century U.S. Foreign Relations
 HIST 565:  Nuclear America
 HIST 570:  America since World War II
 HIST 589:  Seminar in New Jersey History: Selected Topics
 HIST 590:  New Jersey Urban History
 HIST 595:  Seminar in Oral History
 HIST 599.  SELECTED TOPICS
 
European History

 HIST 611: Europe in Transition: Constantine to Charlemagne, 300-800
 HIST 612: Seminar in Early Modern Europe: Selected Topics
 HIST 613: Seminar in European Social History: Selected Topics
 HIST 614: Seminar in Women's History: Selected Topics
 HIST 633: Modern Britain
 HIST 634: Modern France
 HIST 636: Crime and Punishment in Modern Europe
 HIST 637: German History: Issues and Debates
 HIST 638: Nazi Germany: Selected Topics
 HIST 645: The Soviet Union

Non-Western and Topical History

 HIST 650: Seminar on the Contemporary Middle East: Selected Topics
 HIST 660: Seminar in Asian History and Culture: Selected Topics
 HIST 661: Seminar in Japanese History and Culture: Selected Topics
 HIST 665: Seminar in Chinese History and Civilization: Selected Topics
 HIST 670: Seminar in Latin American History: Selected Topics

 HIST 681: Technology and Culture
 HIST 682: Seminar in the History of Science: Selected Topics
 HIST 683: Military History: Selected Topics
 HIST 684: Seminar in the History of Sexuality: Selected Topics
 HIST 700: Independent Studies



Total credits:  30
 
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