Upcoming Courses

Spring 2026

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 199-01/02 — History of the American South (AIHS, FSHT, HINA)

HIST 199-03/04 — Forging a New World Order: American Foreign Relations (AIHS, FSHT, HINA)

HIST 199-05 — Soccer & Society in Latin America (AIHS, FSHT, HIAL, HILA)

HIST 199-06/07 — History of the American Presidency (AIHS, FSHT, HINA)

HIST 201-01/02 — The American Revolution (AIHS, FSHT, HINA, HIPR, AMER)

HIST 210-01/02 — African American History (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE, HINA)

HIST 213 — Lawrence v. Texas (AIHS, FSHT, IFWC, HINA, WGHP, WGSS)

HIST 220-01/02 — Reagan's America (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE)

HIST 223 — The Roman Empire (CLEL, HIEU, HIPR, ITEL)

HIST 236 — Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and After (AIHS, FSHT, IFWC, HIEU, GSEE, GSCP, GSGP, RSEL)

HIST 240-01/02 — Human Rights in the Atlantic World (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE, WGSS, IFPE, WGTP, HICT, GSCP, PPLW)

HIST 249 — Cold War Europe, 1945-1991 (AIHS, FSHT, IFWC, ITEL, HIEU, GSWE, GSEE, GSDW, GEEL)

HIST 253 — Opium Wars (AIHS, FSHT, IFWC, HIAS, HIAL)

HIST 261-01/02 — Modern Latin America (AIHS, FSHT, HILA, AMER, HIAL, GSHC, GSLA)

HIST 272 — The Ottoman Empire (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE, GSHC, HIAL, HICT, HIME)

HIST 273-01/02 — The Great War in the Middle East (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE, HIAL, HIME, HICT, GSME, GSCP)

HIST 291-01/02 — History of Public Health & Biomedicine in the Global South (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE, HIAL, HICT, GSCC, GSCP, GSD2, GSGP, HSHP)

HIST 292-01/02 — How People Became the Problem (AIHS, FSHT, IFQD, HICT)

HIST 297-01 — ST: Fossil Fueled (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE, HINA, EVEL)

HIST 297-02 — ST: American Jewish History (AIHS, FSHT, IFPE, HINA)

HIST 298 — ST: East Asian Women's Histories (AIHS, FSHT, HIAL, HIAS)

HIST 321 — Capitalism at the Margins: Labor, Law, and Illicit Trade in the Early Modern World (HIPR, WGSS, HIEU)

HIST 398 — Historiography (300-level requirement, AFST2, HICT)

HIST 400 — The Atlantic World (IFWC)