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Bachelor of Arts Degree
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AMST - American Studies
ARAB - Arabic
ARTH - Art History
ARTS - Studio Art
ASN - Asian Studies
BICH - Biochemistry
BIO - Biology
BLST - Black Studies
BOSP - Barack Obama Scholars Program
CHEM - Chemistry
CHIN - Chinese Studies
COGS - Cognitive Science
CWP - College Writing Program
COMP - Computer Science
CORE - Core Program
CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice
DWA - Diplomacy & World Affairs
ECON - Economics
EDUC - Education
ENGL - English
FREN - French
FYS - First Year Seminars
GEO - Geology
GERM - German
GRK - Greek
GWSS - Gender Women and Sexuality Studies
HIST - History
INT - Internships
JAPN - Japanese Studies
KINE - Kinesiology
LANG - Language
LATN - Latin
LING - Linguistics
LLAS - Latino/a and Latin American Studies
MAC - Media Arts and Culture
MATH - Mathematics
MUSA - Music Applied Study
MUSC - Music
PHAC - Physical Activities
PHIL - Philosophy
PHYS - Physics
POLS - Politics
PSYC - Psychology
PUBH - Public Health
RELS - Religious Studies
RUSN - Russian
SOC - Sociology
SPAN - Spanish
THEA - Theater
UEP - Urban & Environmental Policy
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> HIST - History
HIST - History
HIST 100
How to Lose a Democracy: Histories of Authoritarianism
HIST 101
United States Culture and Society I
HIST 102
United States Culture and Society II
HIST 103
Rethinking Democracy: A History of Ideas and Practices
HIST 105
History Wars: The Politics of Public History
HIST 106
THE 1960s
HIST 110
The Chicago World Fair
HIST 121
Rethinking “the West”: A Critical History of Europe, Southwest Asia, and North Africa from Antiquity to 1700
HIST 122
Rise, Fall, and Rebirth: Europe 1740s to 2020s
HIST 125
Humanities from Renaissance to the Present
HIST 130
History of Science from Antiquity to 1700
HIST 141
East Asian Survey
HIST 150
Colonial Latin America
HIST 151
Modern Latin America
HIST 158
The Politics of Holocaust Memory
HIST 169
Transpacific Movements and Activisms: Asian and Asian American Connections Across the Pacific
HIST 180
Introduction to African History: Africa and the Making of the Modern World
HIST 182
The Modern Middle East
HIST 190
Capitalism
HIST 191
Revolution
HIST 192
Gender
HIST 193
Directed Research
HIST 194
Imperialism
HIST 195
Topics in History
HIST 197
Independent Study
HIST 199
Modernity: A History
HIST 200
A History of the Palestine-Israel Question
HIST 201
History and Anthropology
HIST 205
Urban History
HIST 206
History of American Women
HIST 207
African American History I: Black Americans and the Making of the Nation
HIST 208
U.S. Immigration History
HIST 209
The United States in the World Since 1900
BLST 210
African American History II: Black American Culture and Politics, 1865-1965
HIST 211
Pandora's Box: 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the United States
HIST 212
Diversity Before Multiculturalism: The Ottoman World, 1300-1699
HIST 213
19th Century Black Activism for Abolition and Equality
HIST 216
The "Canon Wars": Debating the Aims of U.S. Higher Education
HIST 217
The 1960s: From Protest to Resistance
HIST 218
Rethinking the American West
HIST 219
Topics in California History
HIST 220
Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence
HIST 222
Islam and Capitalism
HIST 223
Magic, Science, and Religion
HIST 224
Marco Polo to Machiavelli: Italian Renaissance and Exploration
HIST 225
Crusades and Convivencia: Understanding the Medieval Mediterranean
HIST 226
Renaissance to Revolution!
HIST 230
European Intellectual History
HIST 232
The Holocaust: History, Memory, and Justice
HIST 233
Fascism, Nazism, and the Crisis of Democracy
HIST 234
The Crisis of Interwar Europe
HIST 235
Empire, Total War, and Ideology: Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 237
Changing Views of Gender, Women, and Sexualities
HIST 242
Imperial China
HIST 243
Modern China: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution
HIST 245
China and the World
HIST 248
Modern Japan
HIST 249
Modern Korea
HIST 251
Nahuatl Language, Writing, and Culture
HIST 252
Religion in Mexico, Pre-Columbian Times to Present
HIST 254
The History of Race in Latin America
HIST 255
Political Violence and Art-Making in Modern Latin America: History, Memory, and Representation
HIST 256
Remembering the Conquest of Mexico
HIST 258
Mexico-U.S. Relations
HIST 259
Health on the Move: Immigrant and Refugee Resilience
HIST 274
Medicine and Disease in Western Society
HIST 277
Reproductive Justice Histories
HIST 282
The Muslim World in Modern Times
HIST 283
Peasant, Tribe, and Nation in the Middle East
HIST 293
Directed Research
HIST 295
Topics in History
HIST 297
Independent Study
HIST 300
History Colloquium
HIST 305
The Islamic Golden Age
HIST 309
Slavery in the Antebellum South
HIST 311
American Frontiers: From Contact to Empire
HIST 312
Race, Rights, and Revolution in the Atlantic World
HIST 315
U.S Public Health and the Body Politic
HIST 316
Mid-Century Modern LA: From Noir to the Space Age
HIST 330
The French Revolution and the Birth of Haiti
HIST 336
Modern Italy: The Struggles and Triumphs of a New Nation State
HIST 338
Modern Italy through Film History
HIST 344
Contemporary China: Reform, Rise, and Crisis
HIST 345
The Holocaust: History, Testimony, and Memory
HIST 346
The Transformation of Urban and Rural China
HIST 348
The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Global Sixties
HIST 355
Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
HIST 357
Environmental History of Mesoamerica
HIST 358
Food and Drink in Mexican History
HIST 385
Identity Formation in the Middle East: Sectarianism, Identity and Civil War in Lebanon 1975-1990
HIST 388
Africa and the Cold War
HIST 390
Research Seminar
HIST 393
Directed Research
HIST 395
Special Topics in History
HIST 397
Independent Study
HIST 490
Senior Seminar
HIST 497
Independent Study
HIST 498
Advanced Directed Research
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