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AMST - American Studies
ARAB - Arabic
ARTH - Art History
ARTS - Studio Art
BICH - Biochemistry
BIO - Biology
BLST - Black Studies
BOSP - Barack Obama Scholars Program
CHEM - Chemistry
CHIN - Chinese Studies
COGS - Cognitive Science
COMP - Computer Science
CORE - Core Program
CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CSP - Cultural Studies Program
CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice
DWA - Diplomacy & World Affairs
EASN - East Asian Studies
ECON - Economics
EDUC - Education
ENGL - English
FREN - French
GEO - Geology
GERM - German
GRK - Greek
INT - Internships
HIST - History
JAPN - Japanese Studies
KINE - Kinesiology
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
RELS - Religious Studies
RUSN - Russian
SOC - Sociology
SPAN - Spanish
THEA - Theater
UEP - Urban & Environmental Policy
WRD - Writing & Rhetoric
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> HIST - History
HIST - History
HIST 101
United States Culture and Society I
HIST 102
United States Culture and Society II
HIST 121
Antiquity to 1700: Europe and the Middle East
HIST 122
Rise, Fall, and Rebirth: Europe Since the Enlightenment
HIST 125
Humanities from Renaissance to the Present
HIST 141
East Asian Survey
HIST 150
Colonial Latin America
HIST 151
Modern Latin America
HIST 182
The Social and Cultural History of the Modern Middle East
HIST 183
Middle Eastern History Since the Nineteenth Century
HIST 190
Capitalism
HIST 191
Comparative Revolutions
HIST 200
A History of the Palestine-Israel Question
HIST 205
Urban History
HIST 206
History of American Women
HIST 208
Immigrants in America, 1492 to the Present
HIST 209
The United States in the World Since 1900
HIST 210
History of California
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 214
The American Civil War
HIST 215
American Legal and Constitutional History
HIST 216
American Jewish History
HIST 220
Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence
HIST 224
Marco Polo to Machiavelli: Italian Renaissance and Exploration
HIST 226
Early Modern Origin of Human Rights
HIST 230
European Intellectual History
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 236
Jewish Life in Europe
HIST 237
Changing Views of Gender, Women, and Sexualities
HIST 242
Imperial China
HIST 245
China and the World
HIST 246
Pre-Modern Korea
HIST 247
Pre-Modern Japan
HIST 248
Modern Japan
HIST 249
Modern Korea
HIST 251
Nahuatl Language, Writing, and Culture
HIST 252
Religion in Mexico, PreColumbian Times to Present
HIST 253
Mexico City: Biography of a Capital
HIST 257
History of Anti-Semitism
HIST 258
Twentieth Century Mexico
HIST 271
Herstory: Women in European Culture
HIST 274
Medicine and Disease in Western Society
HIST 277
Women and Community Health
HIST 278
Twentieth Century Decolonization in Global Perspective
HIST 282
The Muslim World in Modern Times
HIST 283
Peasant, Tribe, and Nation in the Middle East
HIST 295
Topics in History
HIST 300
History Colloquium
HIST 304
The American Revolution, 1760-1815
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 316
Mid-Century Modern LA: From Noir to the Space Age
HIST 328
The Age of Enlightenment
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 354
The History of Race in Latin America
HIST 355
Indians of Mexico
HIST 357
Environmental History of Mesoamerica
HIST 358
Food and Drink in Mexican History
HIST 359
Mexico-United States Borderlands
HIST 376
Genocide and the Ethical Crisis of Modernity
HIST 385
Identity Formation in the Modern Middle East and Africa
HIST 390
Research Seminar
HIST 395
Special Topics in History
HIST 397
Independent Study
HIST 490
Senior Seminar
HIST 495
Honors Seminar
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