Distribution Requirements - Class of 2023

Students who entered the concentration 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.

NOTE: bolded courses with an asterisk * will be offered in Fall 2021

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Prerequisites
Knowledge & Belief (KB)
Power & Conflict (PC)
Pre-Modern, pre-1700 (PM)
Race & Difference (RD)
History of Science (HOS)
Geographical Distribution Requirement

Prerequisites

For more information, visit our Prerequisites page.

1 from the following:

* HIS 201: A History of the World
HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800
HIS 208: East Asia Since 1800
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
HIS 267: The Modern Middle East
* HIS 270: Asian American History
EGR 277 / HIS 277: Technology and Society
HIS 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories
EAS 280/HIS 279 Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 280: Approaches to American History
* HIS 281: Approaches to European History
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
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

Knowledge & Belief (KB)

* HIS 201: A History of the World
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day
NES 220/HIS 220: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages
MED 227/HIS 227: The Worlds of the Middle Ages
JDS 232/HIS 232: Hatred or Tolerance? Jews & Christians in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
* NES 369/HIS 251: The World of the Cairo Geniza
EGR 277/HIS 277: Technology and Society
* HIS 281: Approaches to European History
HIS 292: Science in the Modern World
HIS 293: Science in a Global Context: 15th to 20th Century
HIS 294: What Is the Scientific Revolution?
HIS 295: Making America: Technology and History in the United States
STC 297/HIS 297: Transformative Questions in Biology
NES 316/HIS 299: Muslims, Jews and Christians in North Africa: Interactions, Conflicts and Memory
* REL 357/HIS 310: Religion in Colonial America and the New Nation
EAS 321/HIS 321: Early Modern Japan
* HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters
HIS 342: Southeast Asia's Global History
ECS 350/HIS 354: Books and Their Readers
HIS 359: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present
* HIS 360: The Russian Empire: From Peter the Great to Nicholas II
HIS 362: The Soviet Empire
HIS 366: Germany since 1806
HIS 369: European Intellectual History in the 20th Century
HIS 379: U.S. Legal History
HIS 389: American Cultural History
HIS 391: History of Contemporary Science
HIS 392: History of Evolution
HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
HIS 394: History of Ecology and Environmentalism
HIS 395: History of Medicine and the Body
* HIS 396: History of Biology
HIS 397: Medicine and the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from the Asylum to Zoloft
* AMS 399/HIS 399: In the Groove: Technology and Music in American History, From Edison to the iPod
HIS 403: The History of Free Speech
HIS 412: Marx and the Marxist Method of Analysis: A Primer for All Disciplines
HIS 418: Imagined Cities
* HIS 425: History of Political Propaganda from the French Revolution
* HIS 423: The History of Christianity in Africa from St. Mark to Desmond Tutu
* AAS 426/HIS 426: Memory, History and the Archive
* HIS 427: Being Human: A Political History
HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe
HIS 429: Fascism and Antifascism in Global History
HIS 431: Archiving the American West
HIS 432: Environment and War
HIS 434: Revolutionary Russia
HIS 437: Law after Rome
HIS 448: History: An Introduction to the Discipline
HIS 449: The French Enlightenment
* HIS 454: Afghanistan in World History: Between and Beyond Empires
HIS 462: Building Mestizo Worlds: Early Colonial Mexican History in a Global Perspective
* SPI 466/HIS 467: Financial History
* HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
HIS 480: Property: How, Why, and What We Own
HIS 489: The Scientific Self
HIS 493: '1, 2, 3, Testing'... in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
* HIS 494: Broken Brains, Shattered Minds
HIS 495: Alchemy: Art and Science
HIS 496: History of Neuroscience
HIS 498: History of Pseudoscience

Power & Conflict (PC)

HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800
HIS 208: East Asia since 1800
HIS 209: The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day
HIS 214: British Empire in World History, 1700-2000
NES 390/HIS 221: Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena
HIS 267: The Modern Middle East
EAS 280/HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 280: Approaches to American History
* HIS 281: Approaches to European History
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World
HIS 293: Science in a Global Context
HIS 296: Performing the City: Race and Protest in 1960s Trenton and Princeton
* HIS 301: Modern Eastern Europe
* HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
HIS 304: Modern Latin America since 1810
HIS 306: Becoming Latino in the U.S.
HIS 315: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
HIS 316: South African History: 1497 to the Present
HIS 317: Making of Modern India and Pakistan
EAS 321/HIS 321: Early Modern Japan
HIS 322: 20th-Century Japan
HIS 324 : Early Modern China
HIS 325: China, 1850 to the Present
HIS 332: India Before Europe: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1857 A.D.
HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History
EAS 317/HIS 335: The Warrior Culture of Japan
NES 437/HIS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
HIS 342: Southeast Asia's Global History
HIS 343: The Formation of Europe in the First Millennium
* HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages
HIS 350: History of International Order
HIS 358: History of the Balkans
* HIS 360: The Russian Empire: From Peter the Great to Nicholas II
HIS 361: The United States Since 1974
HIS 362: The Soviet Empire
HIS 363: The Napoleonic Wars
HIS 364: France and Its Empire from the Renaissance to Napoleon, 1500-1815
HIS 366: Germany since 1806
HIS 367: English Constitutional History
HIS 372: Revolutionary America
* HIS 373: Democracy and Slavery in the New Nation
HIS 374: History of the American West
HIS 376: The American Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS 379: U.S. Legal History
* HIS 380: U.S. Foreign Relations
* HIS 383: The United States, 1920-1974
HIS 384: Gender and Sexuality in Modern America
AAS 367/HIS 387: African American History Since Emancipation
* HIS 388: Unrest and Renewal in Urban America
HIS 401: American Women's History
HIS 403: The History of Free Speech
HIS 404: The Rise of the Republican Party
HIS 405: Native American History
HIS 406: Two Empires: Russia and the US from Franklin to Trump
HIS 411: World After Empire
HIS 412: Marx and the Marxist Method of Analysis: A Primer for All Disciplines
HIS 415: Race, Labor, and Empire
HIS 417: Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma
HIS 418: Imagined Cities
HIS 420: Desi Girl/Mother India: Gender, Sexuality, and History in Hindi Cinema
HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World
* HIS 425: History of Political Propaganda from the French Revolution
HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe
HIS 429: Fascism and Antifascism in Global History
HIS 432: Environment and War
HIS 434: Revolutionary Russia
HIS 438: History of Palestine/Israel
* HIS 439: China's Frontiers
HIS 440: History of the National Security State
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
HIS 446: Political Prisons: Crime, Persecution and Incarceration in 19th Century Europe
HIS 459: The History of Incarceration in the U.S.
HIS 462: Building Mestizo Worlds: Early Colonial Mexican History in a Global Perspective
* SPI 466/HIS 467: Financial History
HIS 468: Populism in Global History
HIS 474: Violence in America
AAS 477/HIS 477: The Civil Rights Movement
HIS 478: The Vietnam Wars
HIS 479: Society, Politics, and Ideas in 1980s America
HIS 480: Property: How, Why and What We Own
* HIS 484: Borderlands, Border Lives
* HIS 487: The Age of Democratic Revolutions

Pre-Modern, pre-1700 (PM)

HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800
EAS 218/HIS 209: The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700
CLA 220/HIS 215: Slavery in the Roman World
* CLA 216/HIS 216: Archaic and Classical Greece
CLA 217/HIS 217: The Greek World in the Hellenistic Age
CLA 218/HIS 218: The Roman Republic
CLA 219/HIS 219: The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to A.D. 337
NES 220/HIS 220: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages
NES 390/HIS 221: Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide
MED 227/HIS 227: The Worlds of the Middle Ages
CLA 231/HIS 231: Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients
JDS 232/HIS 232: Hatred or Tolerance? Jews & Christians in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
* NES 369/HIS 251: The World of the Cairo Geniza
EAS 280/HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 294: What Is the Scientific Revolution?
* HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
HIS 314: Precolonial Africa
HIS 324 : Early Modern China
* CLA 326/HIS 326: Topics in Ancient History - Town and Country
CLA 327/HIS 327: Topics in Ancient History
CLA 324/HIS 328: Classical Historians and Their Philosophies of History
HIS 332: India Before Europe: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1857 A.D.
EAS 317/HIS 335: The Warrior Culture of Japan
NES 437/HIS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
HIS 343: The Formation of Europe in the First Millennium
* HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages
HIS 345: The Crusades
HUM 320/HIS 346: Making Medieval Worlds: Methods and Materials
HIS 367: English Constitutional History
* HIS 371: The Colonization of North America
HIS 413: Medieval Democracy: Italian City States of the Middle Ages
HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World
HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable: Society and Politics in Pre-Modern South Asia, c. 1100-1800
* HIS 423: The History of Christianity in Africa: From St. Mark to Desmond Tutu
HIS 437: Law after Rome
HIS 452: Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World
HIS 491: Fertile Bodies: A Cultural History of Reproduction from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
HIS 495: Alchemy: Art and Science

Race & Difference (RD)

HIS 208: East Asia since 1800
AAS 313/HIS 213: Modern Caribbean History
HIS 214: British Empire in World History, 1700-2000
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
* HIS 270: Asian American History
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
HIS 296: Performing the City: Race and Protest in 1960s Trenton and Princeton
HIS 306: Becoming Latino in the U.S.
HIS 314: Precolonial Africa
HIS 315: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
HIS 316: South African History: 1497 to the Present
HIS 322: 20th-Century Japan
HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History
* HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters
HIS 345: The Crusades
HIS 350: History of International Order
HIS 359: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present
HIS 364: France and Its Empire from the Renaissance to Napoleon, 1500-1815
* HIS 371: The Colonization of North America
HIS 372: Revolutionary America
* HIS 373: Democracy and Slavery in the New Nation
HIS 376: The American Civil War and Reconstruction
* HIS 380: U.S. Foreign Relations
* HIS 383: The United States, 1920-1974
HIS 384: Gender and Sexuality in Modern America
* AAS 366/HIS 386: African American History to 1863
AAS 367/HIS 387: African American History Since Emancipation
* HIS 388: Unrest and Renewal in Urban America
HIS 389: American Cultural History
HIS 390: African American Women's History
HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
HIS 395: History of Medicine and the Body
HIS 397: Medicine and the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from the Asylum to Zoloft
HIS 401: American Women's History
HIS 402: Princeton and Slavery
HIS 405: Native American History
HIS 411: World After Empire
HIS 415: Race, Labor, Empire
HIS 420: Desi Girl/Mother India: Gender, Sexuality, and History in Hindi Cinema
HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable: Society and Politics in Pre-Modern South Asia, c. 1100-1800
* AAS 426/HIS 426: Memory, History and the Archive
HIS 431: Archiving the American West
* HIS 439: China's Frontiers
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
HIS 447: Ethnicity and History
HIS 456: New Orleans at 300: Invention & Reinvention in an American City
HIS 459: The History of Incarceration in the U.S.
HIS 465: Latino Urban History
HIS 468: Populism in Global History
HIS 471: The Political History of Civil Rights
* HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
HIS 474: Violence in America
AAS 477/HIS 477: The Civil Rights Movement
HIS 479: Society, Politics, and Ideas in 1980s America
* HIS 484: Borderlands, Border Lives
HIS 485: History of African American Families
HIS 493: Science and Religion: Historical Approaches
*HIS 494: Broken Brains, Shattered Minds
HIS 496: History of Neuroscience

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