Prerequisites
Effective January 2023, the prerequisite requirement for entering the History major are one course at the 200 or 300 level, and a second course recommended (but not required).
Pre-2023 Prerequisites
Prior to January 2023, the prerequisite requirement is one course from the following:
Course | Semester Offered |
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HIS 201: A History of the World | |
HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800 | |
HIS 208: East Asia Since 1800 | Spring 2024 |
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity | Spring 2024 |
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700 | |
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day | Spring 2024 |
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena | Spring 2024 |
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa | |
HIS 262 Capitalism: Origins, Alternatives, Futures | |
HIS 267: History of Palestine/Israel | Spring 2024 |
HIS 270: Asian American History | |
EGR 277 / HIS 277: Technology and Society | |
HIS 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories | Spring 2024 |
EAS 280/HIS 279 Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest | |
HIS 280: Approaches to American History | Spring 2024 |
HIS 281: Approaches to European History | |
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History | |
HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World | |
HIS 290: The Scientific Worldview of Antiquity and the Middle Ages | |
HIS 291: The Scientific Revolution and the European Order, 1500-1750 | |
HIS 292: Science in the Modern World | |
HIS 295 Making America: Technology and History in the United States | Spring 2024 |
HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America | Spring 2024 |
Students who entered the major in the spring of 2020, took a gap year, and joined the class of 2023 should consult with the Director of Undergraduate Studies about the new requirements.
Thematic Distribution Requirements
The thematic distribution requirements are abbreviated as follows:
- Knowledge and Belief (KB)
- Power and Conflict (PC)
- Pre-Modern, pre-1700 (PM)
- Race and Difference (RD)
While many courses carry more than one designation, a single course may satisfy only one thematic requirement. Students must take at least one course in each thematic area.
Course | Distribution Requirement | Semester Offered |
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HIS 201: A History of the World | KB | |
HIS 202: The Sixties: Documentary, Youth, and the City | PC, RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 205: The Byzantine Empire | KB, PM | Spring 2024 |
EAS 206/HIS 206: Medieval Asian Worlds: Korea, Japan, China, Inner and South Asia 300 CE-1700 CE | PM | |
HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800 | PC, PM | |
HIS 208: East Asia since 1800 | PC, RD | Spring 2024 |
EAS 218/HIS 209: The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600 | PC, PM | |
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity | KB, PM | Spring 2024 |
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700 | KB, PM | |
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day | KB, PC | Spring 2024 |
AAS 313/HIS 213: Modern Caribbean History | RD | |
HIS 214: British Empire in World History, 1700-2000 | PC, RD | |
CLA 220/HIS 215: Slavery in the Roman World | PM | |
CLA 216/HIS 216: Archaic and Classical Greece | PM | |
CLA 217/HIS 217: The Greek World in the Hellenistic Age | PM | |
CLA 218/HIS 218: The Roman Republic | PM | |
CLA 219/HIS 219: The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to A.D. 337 | PM | |
NES 220/HIS 220: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages | KB, PM | |
NES 390/HIS 221: Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide | PC, PM | |
HIS 222: Hellenism: The First 3000 Years | PM | |
NES 201/HIS 223 Introduction to the Middle East | PC | |
HIS 225: The Mediterranean: From Rome to Fortress Europe | PC, PM | |
MED 227/HIS 227: The Worlds of the Middle Ages | KB, PM | |
CLA 231/HIS 231: Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients | PM | |
JDS 232/HIS 232: Hatred or Tolerance? Jews & Christians in Medieval and Early Modern Europe | KB, PM | |
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena | KB, PC | Spring 2024 |
NES 350/HIS 245: The Islamic World from its Emergence to the Beginnings of Westernization | PM | |
HUM 248/NES 248/HIS 248: Near Eastern Humanities II: Medieval to Modern Thought and Culture | KB, PM | Spring 2024 |
HIS 249 / AFS 249: A Global History of Modern Ethiopia: Rastafari to Haile Selassie | PC | |
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa | KB, RD | |
NES 369/HIS 251: The World of the Cairo Geniza | KB, PM | |
EAS 253/HIS 253: The Law in Action in Premodern Japan: A Comparative Perspective | PM | |
REL 255/HIS 255: Mapping American Religion | KB | Spring 2024 |
AMS 361/HIS 261: Slavery, Antislavery, and the U.S. Constitution | PC | |
HIS 262: Capitalism: Origins, Alternatives, Futures | PC | |
HIS 267: History of Palestine/Israel | PC | Spring 2024 |
HIS 270: Asian American History | RD | |
HIS 271: Native American History | PC, RD | |
EAS 279/HIS 276: The Qin Dynasty and the Beginnings of Empire in China | KB | Spring 2024 |
EGR 277/HIS 277: Technology and Society | KB | Spring 2024 |
HIS 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories | KB | Spring 2024 |
EAS 280/HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest | PC, PM | |
HIS 280: Approaches to American History | PC | Spring 2024 |
HIS 281: Approaches to European History | KB, PC | |
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History | PC, RD | |
HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World | PC | |
HIS 292: Science in the Modern World | KB | |
HIS 293: Science in a Global Context: 15th to 20th Century | KB, PC | |
HIS 294: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World | KB, PM | Spring 2024 |
HIS 295: Making America: Technology and History in the United States | KB | Spring 2024 |
AMS 395/HIS 296: Performing the City: Race and Protest in 1960s Trenton and Princeton | PC, RD | |
STC 297/HIS 297: Transformative Questions in Biology | KB | |
HIS 298: Information Revolutions | KB | |
HIS 301: Modern Eastern Europe: 19th to 20th Centuries | PC | |
HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810 | PC, PM | |
HIS 304: Modern Latin America since 1810 | PC | |
HIS 306: Becoming Latino in the U.S. | PC, RD | |
HIS 307: The Spanish Empire | PC, RD | Spring 2024 |
AMS 306/HIS 308: Commemoration, Crisis, and Revolution in the City | KB | Spring 2024 |
EAS 409/HIS 309: The Warrior Culture of Japan | PM | |
REL 357/HIS 310: Religion and the American Revolution | KB | |
NES 316/HIS 311: Global Trade Before the Modern Period | PM | |
NES/317/HIS 312: Text and Technology: From Handwritten to Digital Formats | KB | Spring 2024 |
HIS 314: Precolonial Africa | PM, RD | |
HIS 315: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa | PC, RD | |
HIS 316: South African History: 1497 to the Present | PC, RD | |
HIS 317: Making of Modern India and Pakistan | PC | |
COM 376/HIS 320: On the Edge of Authoritarianism: Literature and Politics in the Modern Mediterranean | PC | |
EAS 321/HIS 321: Early Modern Japan | KB, PC | |
HIS 322: 20th-Century Japan | PC, RD | |
HIS 324: Early Modern China | PM, PC | |
HIS 325: China, 1850 to the Present | PC | |
CLA 326/HIS 326: Topics in Ancient History | PM | |
CLA 326/HIS 326: Topics in Ancient History: Dining and Food in the Roman World | PM, KB | Spring 2024 |
CLA 327/HIS 327: Topics in Ancient History and Religion: Augustus: Politics, Religion, Culture | PM | Spring 2024 |
CLA 324/HIS 328: Classical Historians and Their Philosophies of History | PM | Spring 2024 |
JDS 324/HIS 329: Trauma and Oral History: Giving Voice to the Unspeakable | KB, PC | Spring 2024 |
ART 329/HIS 330: Architecture of Confinement, from the Hospice to the Era of Mass Incarceration | PC | |
EAS 326/HIS 331: Bamboo, Silk, Wood, and Paper: Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts | KB | |
HIS 332: Pre-Colonial India: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1800 CE | PC, PM, RD | |
HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History | PC, RD | |
HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters | KB, RD | |
NES 437/HIS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800 | PC, PM | Spring 2024 |
URB 384/HIS 340: Affordable Housing in the United States | RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 341: Making Minorities: Modern South Asian Histories | PC, RD | |
HIS 342: Southeast Asia's Global History | KB, PC | |
HIS 343: The Formation of the Christian West | PC, PM | |
HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages | PC, PM | Spring 2024 |
HIS 345: The Crusades | PC, RD | |
HUM 320/HIS 346: Making Medieval Worlds: Methods and Materials | PM | |
AAS 352/HIS 347: Race and Reproduction in U.S. History | RD | |
REL 356/HIS 348: Black Religions in Slavery and Freedom | KB, RD | |
NES 338/HIS 349: The Arab-Israeli Conflict | PC | |
HIS 350: History of International Order | PC, RD | |
HIS 352 Democracy in Europe since 1945: The Contested History | KB, PC | |
ECS 350/HIS 354: Books and Their Readers | KB | Spring 2024 |
HIS 358: History of the Balkans | PC | |
HIS 359: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present | KB, RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 360: The Russian Empire: State, People, Nations | KB, PC | |
HIS 361: The United States Since 1974 | PC | Spring 2024 |
HIS 362: The Soviet Empire | KB, PC | Spring 2024 |
HIS 363: The Napoleonic Wars | PC | |
HIS 364: France and Its Empire from the Renaissance to Napoleon, 1500-1815 | PC, RD | |
HIS 366: Germany Since 1806 | KB, PC | |
HIS 367: English Constitutional History | PC, PM | |
SPI 364/HIS 368: Making Post-Pandemic Worlds: Epidemic History and the Future | KB, PC | |
HIS 369: European Intellectual History in the 20th Century | KB | |
HIS 370: Britain from the American Revolution to World War II | PC | |
HIS 371: The Colonization of North America | PM, RD | |
HIS 372: Revolutionary America | PC, RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 373: Slavery and Democracy in the New Nation | PC, RD | |
HIS 374: History of the American West | PC | |
HIS 375: US Intellectual History: Development of American Thought | KB | |
HIS 376: The American Civil War and Reconstruction | PC, RD | |
HIS 377: Gilded Age and Progressive-Era United States, 1877-1920 | PC | |
HUM 372/HIS 378/MED 372: World Travelers in the Middle Ages | PM | Spring 2024 |
HIS 379: U.S. Legal History | KB, PC | |
HIS 380: U.S. Foreign Relations | PC, RD | |
URB 392/ARC 392/HIS 381: Building African Cities, Past and Present | PC | Spring 2024 |
AAS 331/HIS 382: Beyond Tuskegee: Race and Human Subjects Research in US History | RD | |
HIS 383: The United States, 1920-1974 | PC, RD | |
HIS 384: Gender and Sexuality in Modern America | PC, RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 385: Historical Consciousness: An Introduction | KB | |
AAS 366/HIS 386: African American History to 1863 | RD | Spring 2024 |
AAS 367/HIS 387: African American History Since Emancipation | PC, RD | |
HIS 388: Unrest and Renewal in Urban America | PC, RD | |
HIS 389: American Cultural History | KB, RD | |
HIS 390: Formations of Knowledge: Historical Approaches to Science, Technology, and Medicine | PC, RD | |
HIS 391: History of Contemporary Science | KB | |
HIS 392: History of Evolution | KB | |
HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America | KB, RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 394: History of Ecology and Environmentalism | KB | |
HIS 395: History of Medicine and the Body | KB, RD | |
HIS 396: History of Biology | KB | Spring 2024 |
HIS 397: Medicine and the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from the Asylum to Zoloft | KB, RD | |
HIS 398: The Einstein Era | KB | |
AMS 399/HIS 399: In the Groove: Technology and Music in American History, From Edison to the iPod | KB | |
HIS 401: American Women's History | PC, RD | |
HIS 402: Writing Slavery: Sources, Methods, Ethics | PC, RD | |
HIS 403: The History of Free Speech | KB, PC | |
HIS 404: The Rise of the Republican Party | PC | |
HIS 405: Native American History | PC, RD | |
HIS 406: Two Empires: Russia and the US from Franklin to Trump | PC | |
HIS 407: History Behind the Headlines: Native America in the News | RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 409: Women and Law in in U.S. History | RD, PC | |
HIS 410: Culture and Revolution in the Modern Middle East | PC | |
HIS 411: World After Empire | PC, RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 412: Marx and the Marxist Method of Analysis: A Primer for All Disciplines | KB, PC | |
HIS 413: Transgression: A History of Magic | KB | Spring 2024 |
HIS 414: Life Writings in Britain and America, 1650-1918 | KB | |
HIS 415: Healing in the Black Atlantic | KB, RD | |
HIS 417: Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma | PC | |
HIS 418: Imagined Cities | KB, PC | |
HIS 420: Desi Girl/Mother India: Gender, Sexuality, and History in Hindi Cinema | PC, RD | |
HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World | PC, PM | |
AMS 342/HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable: Society and Politics in Pre-Modern South Asia, c. 1100-1800 | RD, PM | |
HIS 423: The History of Christianity in Africa: From St. Mark to Desmond Tutu | KB, PM | |
HIS 424: The Historian as Cultural Broker: The Making and Remaking of History in the First Millennium | KB, PM | |
HIS 425: History of Political Propaganda from the French Revolution | KB, PC | Spring 2024 |
AAS 426/HIS 426: Memory, History and the Archive | KB, RD | |
HIS 427: Being Human: A Political History | KB | Spring 2024 |
HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe | KB, PC | |
HIS 429: Fascism and Antifascism in Global History | KB, PC | |
HIS 431: Ukraine on Fire, 1900 to the Present | PC | |
HIS 432: Environment and War | KB, PC | |
NES 433/HIS 433: Imperialism and Reform in the Middle East and the Balkans | PC | |
HIS 434: Revolutionary Russia | KB, PC | Spring 2024 |
HIS 437: Law After Rome | KB, PM | Spring 2024 |
HIS 438: History of Palestine/Israel | PC | |
HIS 439: China's Frontiers | PC, RD | |
HIS 440: History of the National Security State | PC | |
HIS 441: Reconstructing the Union: Law, Democracy, and Race after the American Civil War | PC, RD | |
AMS 342/HIS 442: Race, Racism and Politics in Twentieth-Century America | PC, RD | |
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now | PC, RD | |
EAS 415/HIS 444: Intellectual History of China to the Fifth Century | PM, RD | |
HIS 445: Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the 'Special Relationship' in the Twentieth Century | PC | Spring 2024 |
HIS 446: Political Prisons: Crime, Persecution and Incarceration in 19th Century Europe | PC | |
HIS 447: Ethnicity and History | RD | |
HIS 448: History: An Introduction to the Discipline | KB | |
HIS 449: The French Enlightenment | KB | |
HIS 450: Abolition and Fall of American Slavery: The History of Antislavery Movements and Struggles in the United States | PC | Spring 2024 |
HIS 452: Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World | KB, PM | |
HIS 454: Afghanistan in World History: Between and Beyond Empires | KB | |
HIS 456: New Orleans at 300: Invention & Reinvention in an American City | RD | |
HIS 459: The History of Incarceration in the U.S. | PC, RD | |
HIS 462: Difference and Deviance in the Early Middle Ages | PM, RD | |
HIS 465: Latino Urban History | RD | |
HIS 466: California History | RD | |
SPI 466/HIS 467: Financial History | KB, PC | |
HIS 468: The History of the United States during World War II | PC, RD | Spring 2024 |
AMS 442/HIS 470: History & Memory on the Lower East Side | RD | |
HIS 471: The Political History of Civil Rights | RD | |
HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present | KB, RD | |
HIS 474: Cultural History of the Modern Nile Valley | KB | Spring 2024 |
HUM 412/HIS 475: Digging for the Past: Archaeology from Ancient Greece to Modern America | KB, PM | |
ART 478/HIS 476 The Vikings: History and Archaeology | PM | |
AAS 477/HIS 477: The Civil Rights Movement | PC, RD | |
HIS 478: The Vietnam Wars | PC | |
HIS 479: Society, Politics, and Ideas in 1980s America | PC, RD | |
HIS 480: Property: How, Why, and What We Own | PC, KB | |
HIS 481: Science and Film | KB | |
FRE 480/HIS 482: The Writer, The Prince, and the Public: Political Writing in the Eighteenth-Century | PC | |
HIS 484: Borderlands, Border Lives | PC, RD | |
HIS 485: History of African American Families | RD | |
HIS 487: The Age of Democratic Revolutions | PC | |
HIS 488: The Soviet Atomic, Space, and Information Ages | KB, PC | |
HIS 489: The Scientific Self | KB | |
HIS 491: Fertile Bodies: A Cultural History of Reproduction from Antiquity to the Enlightenment | PM | |
HIS 492: The Therapeutic Persuasion: Psychotherapy and American Life | KB | |
HIS 493: '1, 2, 3, Testing'... in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | KB | |
HIS 494: Broken Brains, Shattered Minds | KB, RD | Spring 2024 |
HIS 495: Alchemy: Art and Science | KB, PM | |
HIS 496: History of Neuroscience | KB, RD | |
HIS 498: History of Pseudoscience | KB |