Former Distribution Requirements

For students who declared before Spring 2020.

if you are unclear on which Distribution Requirements you need to fulfill, please contact Judie Miller.

NOTE: bolded courses with an asterisk * will be offered in Fall 2023

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Prerequisites
European
United States
Non-Western
Pre-Modern
History of Science

Prerequisites

For more information, visit our Prerequisites page.

2 courses in history, 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 262: Capitalism: Origins, Alternatives, Futures
HIS 267: The Modern Middle East
EGR 277 / HIS 277: Technology and Society
HIS 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories
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 393 Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America

Prerequisite Notes:

HUM 216/217 and HUM 218/219 can replace one of the above listed courses but will not count as a departmental
CLA 216, 217, 218, and 219 do not satisfy the 200 level pre-requisite but will count as departmentals

European

Choose 1 from the following:

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 214: British Empire in World History, 1700-2000
JDS 232 / HIS 232: Hatred or Tolerance? Jews and Christians in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
HIS 281: Approaches to European History
HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World (formerly HIS 354)
HIS 291: The Scientific Revolution and European Order, 1500-1750
HIS 292: Science in the Modern World
HIS 294: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World
*HIS 301: Modern Eastern Europe, 19th to 20th Centuries
HUM 370 / HIS 302: The Age of Discovery: History and Literature from the Renaissance to the French Revolution
HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters
NES 327/HIS 339: Muslims in France and Europe Before and After the Terror Attacks
HIS 343: The Formation of Europe in the First Millennium
HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages
HIS 345: The Crusades
HIS 348: The Hispanic World, 1400-1800
HIS 350: History of International Order
HIS 351: France, 1815 to the Present
ART 361/HIS 355 The Art & Archaeology of Plague
HIS 358: History of the Balkans
HIS 359 / JDS 359: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present
HIS 360: The Russian Empire: From Peter the Great to Nicholas
HIS 362: The Soviet Empire
HIS 363: The Napoleonic Wars
HIS 364: France and Its Empire from the Renaissance to Napoleon, 1500-1815
HIS 365: Europe in the 20th Century
HIS 366: Germany Since 1806
HIS 367: English Constitutional History
HIS 368: England from the War of the Roses to the Glorious Revolution
HIS 369: European Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century
HIS 370: Britain from the American Revolution to World War II
HIS 403: The History of Free Speech
HIS 406: Two Empires: Russia and the U.S from Franklin to Trump
HIS 407: Commons, Enclosures, Colonization in the Early Modern Atlantic
HIS 412: Marx and Marxist Method of Analysis: A Primer for All Disciplines
HIS 414: Life-Writing: Diaries, Memoirs, Autobiographies and History
HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World
HIS 424: Intellectual History of Europe since 1880
HIS 425: The History of Political Propaganda from the French Revolution
HIS 429: Fascism and Antifascism in Global History
ECS 331 / HIS 430: Communication and the Arts
HIS 435: Relics, Ruins, and Robots: The Life of Things in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
HIS 437: Law After Rome
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
HIS 445: Remembering Deportation and Genocide in France since the Second World War
HIS 446: Political Prisons: Crime, Persecution and Incarceration in 19th Century Europe
HIS 447: Ethnicity and History
HIS 449 / FRE 449 / ECS 449: The French Enlightenment
HIS 452: Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World
HIS 454: Women and Gender in Early Modern England
HIS 461: Writing a World: Encounters With Difference, 1650-1850
HIS 463: Rivals and Reactionaries in the Early Modern World
CHV 466 / HIS 466: Foundations of the Modern State

United States

Choose 1 from the following:

AMS 361 / HIS 261: Slavery, Antislavery, and the U. S. Constitution
HIS 270: Asian American History
HIS 280: Approaches to American History
HIS 295: Making America: Technology and History in the United States
AMS 395 / HIS 296: Performing the City: Race and Protest in 1950s Trenton and Princeton
HIS 306: Becoming Latino in the US (formerly Latino History)
REL 357 / HIS 310: Religion in Colonial America and the New Nation
HIS 361: The United States Since 1974
*HIS 371: The Colonization of North America
HIS 372: Revolutionary America
HIS 373: Democracy and Slavery in the New Nation
HIS 374: History of the American West
HIS 375: U. S. Intellectual History: Development of American Thought
HIS 376: The American Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS 377: Gilded Age and Progressive-Era United States, 1877-1920
ECO 370 / HIS 378: American Economic History
*HIS 379: US Legal History
*HIS 380: U. S. Foreign Relations
AAS 331/HIS 382: Beyond Tuskegee: Race and Human Subjects Research in US History
*HIS 383: The United States, 1920-1974
HIS 384: Gender and Sexuality in Modern America
HIS 385: Role of Law in American Society
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
AMS 399 / HIS 399: In the Groove: Technology and Music in American History, From Edison to the iPod
HIS 401: American Women’s History
HIS 402: Princeton and Slavery
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 U.S from Franklin to Trump
HIS 414: Life-Writing: Diaries, Memoirs, Autobiographies and History
HIS 415: Race, Labor, and Empire
HIS 431: Archiving the American West
HIS 432: Environment and War
HIS 440: History of the National Security State
HIS 441: Founders: The Early American Republic in American History
AMS 342 / HIS 442: Race, Racism, and Politics in 20th-Century America
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
HIS 451: Writing About Cities
HIS 453: Digital Histories of Crime in the Americas
HIS 456: New Orleans at 300: Invention & Reinvention in an American City
HIS 459: The History of Incarceration in the U.S.
HIS 460: Topics in American Legal History
HIS 465: Latino Urban History
HIS 469: The Bush Presidency
HIS 470: Abraham Lincoln and America, 1809-1865
HIS 471: Political History of Civil Rights
HIS 474: Violence in America
HIS 475: America in the Age of Reagan: From Watergate to the War on Terror
AAS 477 / HIS 477: The Civil Rights Movement
HIS 478: The Vietnam Wars
HIS 479: Society, Politics, and Ideas in 1980s America
HIS 482: Arab America: Culture, Activism, and Resistance
HIS 483: Race in the American Empire
*HIS 484: Border Lands, Border Lives
HIS 485: History of African American Families
HIS 487: The Age of Democratic Revolutions
*HIS 488: Law, Social Difference, and the Sustenance of Health
HIS 497: Eating, Growing, Catching, Knowing: Historical Perspectives on Food, Science, and the Environment

Non-Western

Choose 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
EAS 218 / HIS 209: Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity
AAS 313 / HIS 213: Modern Caribbean History
NES 390 / HIS 221: Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide
*NES 201 / HIS 223: Introduction to the Middle East
NES 226 / HIS 226: History of the Post WW II Middle East: Decolonization, Cold War and Crisis of Modernization
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena
NES 350 / HIS 245: The Islamic World From its Emergence to the Beginnings of Westernization
HIS 250/AFS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
NES 369 / HIS 251: the World of the Cairo Geniza
HIS 267: The Modern Middle East
HIS 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories
*EAS 280 / HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
HIS 293: Science in a Global Context: 15th to 20th Century
NES 316 / HIS 299: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in North Africa: Interactions, Conflicts and Memory
*HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
HIS 304: Modern Latin America Since 1810
LAS 302 / HIS 305: Latin America in Modern World History: Global and Transnational Perspectives, 1800 to the Present
HIS 307: The Mongols in the Middle East
EAS 409/HIS 309: The Warrior Culture of Japan
LAS 312/HIS 313: Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America
HIS 314: Precolonial Africa
HIS 315: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
HIS 316: South African History, 1497 to the Present
HIS 317: The Making of Modern India and Pakistan
EAS 321 / HIS 321: Early Modern Japan
*HIS 322: 20th-Century Japan
EAS 309 / HIS 323: Ideas and Society in Modern Japan, 1600-1945
*HIS 324: Early Modern China
HIS 325: China, 1850 to the Present
REL 378 / HIS 331: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Latin America
*HIS 332: Pre-Colonial India: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1800 C.E.
*HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History
HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters
*NES 437 / HIS 337 / HLS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
NES 392 / HIS 338: Clash of Civilizations?
EAS 340 / HIS 340: Culture and Society in Late Imperial China: 1000-1900
HIS 342: Southeast Asia’s Global History
HIS 345: The Crusades
NES 338 / HIS 349: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
ART 361 / HIS 355: The Art and Archaeology of Plague
JDS 355 / HIS 356: Between Swords and Stones: Jerusalem, a History
HIS 408: Selected Topics in 20th-Century Latin America
HIS 410: Culture and Revolution in the Modern Middle East
*HIS 411: World After Empire
HIS 416: Resistance and Reform: Islam and Colonialism in Modern South Asia
HIS 417: Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma
HIS 419: Topics in the History of Modern Syria
HIS 420: Desi Girl, Mother India: Gender, Sexuality, and History in Hindi Cinema
HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean
HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable: Society and Politics in Pre-Modern South Asia, c. 1100-1800
*HIS 423: Africa: Revolutionary Movements and Liberation Struggles
HIS 427: From Alexander to Genghis Khan: Conquerors, Builders, and Empires
HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe
HIS 432: Environment and War
NES 433 / HIS 433: Imperialism and Reform in the Middle East and the Balkans
HIS 436: Working Class Lives on the Indian Subcontinent
HIS 437: Law After Rome
HIS 438: History of Palestine / Israel
HIS 439: China’s Frontiers
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
EAS 415 / HIS 444: Intellectual History of China to the Fifth Century
HIS 445: Remembering Deportation and Genocide in France since WWII
HIS 453: Digital Histories of Crime in the Americas
HIS 455 / NES 456 / COM 452: The Dictator Novel in Historical Perspective: Writing Tyranny
NES 395 / HIS 457: Human Trafficking and Its Demise: African and European Slaves in Modern Islam (16th - 21st c.)
HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
HIS 473: White Hunters, Black Poachers: Africa and the Science of Conservation

Pre-Modern

Choose 1 from the following:

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
HIS 214: British Empire in World History, 1700-2000
CLA 220 / HIS 215: Slavery in the Roman World
CLA 216 / HIS 216: Archaic and Classical Greece
CLS 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 AD. 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
*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 290: The Scientific Worldview of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
HIS 291: The Scientific Revolution and European Order, 1500-1750
HIS 294: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World
*HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
HIS 307: The Mongols in the Middle East
EAS 409/HIS 309: The Warrior Culture of Japan
HIS 314: Precolonial Africa
EAS 321 / HIS 321: Early Modern Japan
EAS 309/HIS 323: Ideas and Society in Modern Japan, 1600-1945
*HIS 324: Early Modern China
*CLA 326 / HIS 326: Topics in Ancient History
CLA 327 / HIS 327: Topics in Ancient History
CLA 324 / HIS 328: Classical Historians and Their Philosophies of History
*NES 437 / HIS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
EAS 340 / HIS 340: Culture and Society in Late Imperial China: 1000-1900
HIS 343: The Formation of Europe in the First Millennium
HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages
HIS 345/HLS 345/MED 345: The Crusades
REL 350 / HIS 353: God, Satan, Goddesses, and Monsters: How Their Stories Play in Art, Culture, and Politics
ART 361 / HIS 355 / MED 361 / HUM 361: The Art and Archaeology of Plague
HIS 358: History of the Balkans
HIS 367: English Constitutional History
*HIS 371: The Colonization of North America
HIS 407: Commons, Enclosures, Colonization in the Early Modern Atlantic
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 427: From Alexander to Genghis Khan: Conquerors, Builders, and Empires
HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe
HIS 435: Relics, Ruins, and Robots: The Life of Things in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
HIS 437: Law After Rome
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
*EAS 415/HIS 444: Intellectual History of China to the Fifth Century
HIS 447: Ethnicity and History
HIS 449: The French Enlightenment
HIS 452: Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World
HIS 463: Rivals and Reactionaries in the Early Modern World
CHV 466 / HIS 466: Foundations of the Modern State
ART 478 / HIS 476: The Vikings: History and Archaeology
HIS 491: Fertile Bodies: A Cultural History of Reproduction from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

History of Science

Choose at least 4 of the following:

EGR 277 / HIS 277: Technology and Society
HIS 290: The Scientific Worldview of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
HIS 291: The Scientific Revolution and European Order, 1500-1750
HIS 292: Science in the Modern World
HIS 293: Science in a Global Context: 15th to 20th Century
HIS 294: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World
HIS 295: Making America: Technology and History in the United States
STC 297 / HIS 297: Transformative Questions in Biology
AAS 306/HIS 312: History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
ART 361/HIS 355: The Art and Archaeology of Plague
*SPI 364/HIS 368: Making Post-Pandemic Worlds: Epidemic History and the Future
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 Asylum to Zoloft
HIS 398: The Einstein Era
AMS 399 / HIS 399: In the Groove: Technology and Music in American History, From Edison to the iPod
HIS 452: Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World
GSS 426 / HIS 458: History and the Body
HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
HIS 489: The Scientific Self
HIS 491/GSS 491: Fertile Bodies: A Cultural History of Reproduction from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
HIS 492: The Therapeutic Persuasion: Psychotherapy and American Life
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 497: Eating, Growing, Catching, Knowing: Historical Perspectives on Food, Science, and the Environment
HIS 498: History of Pseudoscience
*HIS 499: Things