Geographical Distribution Requirement

Students must take two courses focused on the histories of Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East. They may overlap with courses taken to satisfy the thematic distribution requirements.

NOTE: bolded courses will be offered in Fall 2023

HIS 201: A History of the World
HIS 205: The Byzantine Empire
EAS 206 / HIS 206: Medieval Asian Worlds: Korea, Japan, China, Inner and South Asia
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
HIS 225: The Mediterranean: From Rome to Fortress Europe
EAS 240/HIS 240: The Perception of China and Asia in the West
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
HUM 248/NES 248/HIS 248: Near Eastern Humanities II: Medieval to Modern Thought and Culture
HIS 249 / AFS 249: A Global History of Modern Ethiopia: Rastafari to Halle Selassie
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
NES 369 / HIS 251: The World of the Cairo Geniza
EAS 253 / HIS 253: The Law in Action in Premodern Japan: A Comparative Perspective
HIS 267: The Modern Middle East
EAS 279 / HIS 276: The Qin Dynasty and the Beginnings of Empire in China
EAS 280 / HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
HIS 304: Modern Latin America Since 1810
EAS 409 / HIS 309: The Warrior Culture of Japan
NES 316/HIS 311: Global Trade before the modern Period
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
HIS 332: Pre-Colonial India: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1800 CE
HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History
HUM 335 / HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters
NES 437 / HIS 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 341: Making Minorities: Modern South Asian Histories
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 418 Imagined Cities
HIS 419: Topics in the History of Modern Syria
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
HIS 423: The History of Christianity in Africa: From St. Mark to Desmond Tutu
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 454 / SAS 454: Afghanistan in World History: Between and Beyond Empires
HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
HIS 473: White Hunters, Black Poachers: Africa and the Science of Conservation
HIS 484: Borderlands, Border Lives