Core Courses - College of Arts and Sciences

Did you know…

That History courses fulfill eight different areas of the core?
That almost all History Department courses fit into one or more of nineteen different pathways?
And that you can do a whole history minor simply by fulfilling core requirements?

Explore the full range of History Department offerings.

History courses fulfill a wide variety of Core Curriculum requirements, lending itself particularly well to becoming a major, second major, or minor.

Modern India (54/154)
Central America (64)
Africa in World History (91)
Modern East Asia (92)
The Cold War (93)
Modern Latin America: Challenge & Change (95)
Genocide and Gender in the 20th Century (102S)
World History until 1492 (104)
Hellenistic Age (109)
Sex & Gender in the Age of High Imperialism (116S)
The Holocaust (122)
Gender, Race and National Identity in 20th-Century Eastern and Western Europe (136)
The Soviet Experiment (137)
Black Internationalism in the Atlantic Era (140)
Politics and Development in Independent Africa (141)
Modern West Asia & North Africa (142)
The Haitian Revolution in World History and Memory (43/143)
Islam in Africa (144S)
Islam in the Modern World (145)
Medieval and Early Modern Japan (146A)
Modern Japan in the World (146B)
Wonders of Ancient China (147A)
China in Revolution: 1840-2020 (147B)
Gender and Sexuality in East Asia (150)
Race & Imperialism in East Asia (151)
Modern India (54/154)
Black Atlantic Migrations (157)
Modern Mexico (161)
Argentina: Empire to Pope Francis (162)
Cuba and the Caribbean (163)
Latin America: Empires & Borderlands (166)

Human Rights and Humanitarianism (21/121)
Digital and Public History (27/127)
The French Revolution, an Introduction (30)
This is What Democracy Looks Like? (33/103)
African-American Pursuit of Freedom (55/155)
Immigration and Race in the U.S.) (60/160)
Parties and Presidents (65)
Global 1968 (68)
The American Revolution (70/170)
New Nation: Hamilton to Jackson) (71/171)
North America: Peoples & Lands (83/184)
United States Environmental History (85)
The Cold War (93)
Colonization, Revolution, and Civil War: The United States, Origins to 1877 (96A)
Globalization, Reform, and War: The United States 1877 to Present (96B)
Revolutions in Sex, Race & Rights (115)
Representation, Rights, and Democracy, 1050-1792 (118)
Gender, Sexuality & Social Movements in the 20th U.S (119)
Human Rights and Humanitarianism (121)
Politics and Passions in Modern Germany (122C)
Crime, Prostitution and Poverty in Victorian London (128)
Modern France and the World (139)
California (186)
Making of Modern America: The Progressive Era (188S)
Britain and the First World War (131)
Parties and Presidents: US Political History (65/165)
American Revolution (70/170)
The New Nation (171)
Protest and Activism: The U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s (174)
Celebrity and Politics: U.S. 1980s to Present (176)

African-American Pursuit of Freedom (55/155)
Immigration and Race in the U.S. (60/160)
The Civil War Era (72/172)
Natives and Newcomers: Early North America (75/175)
United States Women's History (84)
Colonization, Revolution, and Civil War: The United States, Origins to 1877 (96A)
Globalization, Reform, and War: The United States 1877-Present (96B)
Gender & Social Movements in 20th Century U.S. (119)
Civil Rights and Anti-Colonial Movements (153)
African American Pursuit of Freedom (55/155)
African American History (156)
Turmoil and Reform: U.S. 1877-1920 (158)
Malcolm and Martin (168)
Protest and Activism: The U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s (174)
Celebrity and Politics: U.S. 1980s to Present (176)
Gays and Lesbians in United States History (177)
Race & World War II (178)
Native Americans of the United States (180)
Whiteness and Immigration in the US (183)
African Americans in Postwar Film (185)
California (186)
Making of Modern America: The Progressive Era (188S)