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
- 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
- * 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
- 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
- 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.
- * EAS 409/HIS 309: the Warrior Culture of Japan
- HIS 315: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
- HIS 316: South African History: 1497 to the Present
- HIS 317: Making of Modern India and Pakistan
- EAS 312/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
- 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
- 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
- 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, Empire
- HIS 417: Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma
- HIS 418: Imagined Cities
- HIS 420: Desi Girl/Mother India
- HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World
- * HIS 425: History of Political Propaganda
- 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
- 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
- * 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
- HIS 294: What Is the Scientific Revolution?
- * HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
- * EAS 409/HIS 309: The Warrior Culture of Japan
- 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
- 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
- * 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
- * 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
- HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable
- * 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