Upcoming Courses
Spring 2025
Categories below refer to the geographical distribution requirements for the history major. Students must take courses in four of the eight areas. These may be at the 100, 200, or 300 level.
The geographical areas are as follows: North America (HINA), Latin America/Caribbean (HILA), Africa (HIAF), Europe (HIEU), Middle East (HIME), Asia (HIAS), Pre-1800 (HIPR), United States (HIUS) and Comparative/Transnational/Global (HICT).
HIST 199-01 — Early French Empire from Champlain to Napoleon (AIHS, FSHT)
HIST 199-02 — Changing South Africa (AIHS, FSHT, HIAL, HIAF)
HIST 199-03 — The Age of Revolutions in Latin America (AIHS, FSHT)
HIST 199-04 — How to End an Empire (AIHS, FSHT)
HIST 199-05 — Making and Breaking America: Revolution, Global Trade, and the Impending Crisis, 1750-1850 (AIHS, FHST, HIUS)
HIST 199-07 — History of American Presidency (AIHS, FSHT, HIUS)
HIST 202 — Early American Republic (AIHS, AMER, FSHT, HINA, HIPR)
HIST 204 — The Civil War & Reconstruction (AIHS, AMER)
HIST 211 — Supreme Court Cases of the 20th Century (FSHT, HINA)
HIST 214 — Scottsboro Trials (AIHS, FSHT, HINA, HIUS, IFPE, WGGV)
HIST 221 — Classical Greece (CLEL, HIPR, SLPA)
HIST 224 — The Crusades (AIHS, FSHT, HIEU, HIPR, IFWC)
HIST 236 — Russian Empire, Soviet Union and After (FSHT, GSCP, GSEE, GSGP, HIEU, RSEL, SLPA)
HIST 239 — French Revolution (AIHS, FSHT, GSHC, HIEU, IFEB, SLPA)
HIST 249 — Cold War Europe, 1945-1991 (AIHS, FSHT, GEEL, GSDW, GSEE, GSWE, HIEU, IFWC, ITEL, SLPA)
HIST 251 — Chinese Revolutions (AIHS, CHIN, GSHC, HIAS, SLPA)
HIST 261 — Modern Latin America (AIHS, AMER, FSHT, GSHC, GSLA, HILA, SLPA)
HIST 272 — The Ottoman Empire (AIHS, GSHC, HICT, HIME, IFPE, SLPA)
HIST 292 — How People Became the Problem (AIHS, IFQD)
HIST 297 — ST: Environmental History (AIHS, IFPE)
HIST 297 — ST: Fossil Fueled (AIHS, EVEL, HIUS, IFPE)
HIST 298 — ST: Patriotic Histories (AIHS)
HIST 298 — ST: Medieval Travel & Travelers: A Global Middle Ages (AIHS)
HIST 398 — Historiography (AFSB)
HIST 399-01 — ST: Women and Gender in Africa (WGHP, WGTP)
HIST 399-02 — ST: Modern Turkey
HIST 399-03 — ST: History in Place: Philadelphia & Richmond
HIST 400 — Research Seminar: Empires in Asia (Loo)
HIST 413 — Honors Research Seminar