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2024-2025 Catalog > Course Descriptions > 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 110 The Chicago World Fair
HIST 121 Antiquity to 1700: Europe and the Middle East
HIST 122 Rise, Fall, and Rebirth: Europe 1740s to 2020s
HIST 125 Humanities from Renaissance to the Present
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 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 200 A History of the Palestine-Israel Question
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
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 Resistance and the Politics of Style: U.S. Counter-Culture of the 1960s
HIST 218 Rethinking the American West
HIST 219 Topics in California History
HIST 220 Ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence
HIST 224 Marco Polo to Machiavelli: Italian Renaissance and Exploration
HIST 226 Renaissance to Revolution!
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 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 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 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 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 Indians 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 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

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