Approved Courses for the History Thematic Majors & Minors

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• History of Empire and Colonialism
• History of Religion and Society
• History of Race, Gender, and Power
• History of War and Society
• History of Science (Minor Only)

Major/Minor in History of Empire and Colonialism Approved Courses

• HSTAM 111: The Ancient World
• HSTAM 250: Mongol Empire
• HSTAM 231: Race, Identity and the Ancient Mediterranean World
• HSTAM 302: Ancient Roman History
• HSTAM 312: The Roman Republic
• HSTAM 313: The Roman Empire
• HSTAM 315: The Byzantine Empire
• HSTAM 325: Empires in Ancient Iran
• HSTAM/CLAS 330: Age of Augustus
• HSTAM 365: Medieval England, 1042-1485
• HSTAM 401: Early Greece
• HSTAM 402: Classical Greece
• HSTAM 403: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
• HSTCMP 202: World Wars I and II
• HSTCMP 205/JSIS A 205: Filipino Histories
• HSTCMP 212/AIS 212: Indigenous Leaders and Activists
• HSTCMP 221: Global Environmental History, Feast and Famine
• HSTCMP 245: Exploration and Empire: Science, Art, and Power, 1300-1800
• HSTCMP 247: Before Global Health: The Histories of Public Health and International Health in the Global South
• HSTCMP 248: AIDS Epidemic: A Global History
• HSTCMP 258: Slavery and Slave Trading in the 21st Century
• HSTCMP 259 (formerly HSTCMP 358):  Race & Slavery across the Americas
• HSTCMP 309: Marx and the Marxian Tradition in Western Thought: The Foundations of Modern Cultural Criticism I
• HSTCMP 312: Science in Civilization: Science in Modern Society
• HSTCMP 313/ASTR 313: Science in Civilization: Physics and Astrophysics Since 1850
• HSTCMP 340/JSIS B 340: The Cold War; Realities, Myths, Legacies
• HSTCMP/JEW ST 368: Jewish Thought
• HSTCMP 406: 406 Issues in World History to 1500
• HSTCMP 407 The Making Of The Modern World: World History Since 1500
• HSTCMP 410: Medicine, History, and Society
• HSTCMP 440/JSIS B 440: History of Communism
• HSTCMP 484/CHID 484: Colonial Encounters
• HSTCMP 485: Comparative Colonialism
• HSTAFM 151: Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• HSTAFM 152: Introduction to African History, c. 1880 - Present
• HSTAFM 162: History of the Islamic Middle East, 600-1800
• HSTAFM 163: The Modern Middle East
• HSTAFM 253: African History in Real Time
• HSTAFM 263: Identity and Politics in the Modern Middle East
• HSTAFM 278: Modern North Africa
• HSTAFM 288: Introduction to the Horn of Africa
• HSTAFM 314 History of Modern Israel/Palestine
• HSTAFM 452: Southern Africa Since 1500
• HSTAFM 459 History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
• HSTAFM 463: Modern Persian Gulf
• HSTAS 202/JSIS A 202: Introduction to South Asian History, 1500 - present
• HSTAS 212/JSIS A 212: History of Korean Civilization
• HSTAS 221/JSIS A 221: History of Southeast Asia
• HSTAS 235/JSIS A 235: History of Modern Taiwan
• HSTAS 244/JSIS A 244: Imperialism and Anti-Colonialism in Asia
• HSTAS 254/JSIS A 254: Modern China: 3 Revolutions
• HSTAS 265/JSIS A 265: The Viet Nam Wars
• HSTAS 317: History by Bollywood: Colonial India through Film
• HSTAS 327/JSIS A 327: China and the West
• HSTAS 264 (formerly HSTAS 364/JSIS B 364): Violence, Myth, and Memory
• HSTAS 403: History of Modern India to 1900
• HSTAS 404: History of Twentieth-Century India
• HSTAS 423/JSIS A 423: History of Modern Japan
• HSTAS 452: Chinese History from Earliest Times to 1276
• HSTAS 453: Chinese History from 1276-1895
• HSTAS 454/JSIS A 454: History of Modern China
• HSTAS 482: History of Modern Korea: 1860 to the Present
• HSTAS 484/JSIS A 484: Korea in the Japanese Empire
• HSTAS 490: Globalization and Empire in East Asia
• HSTLAC 185: Race, Class and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HSTLAC 280: Drug Wars in Latin America
• HSTLAC 289: Cuban Revolution
• HSTLAC 384: Latin America: Inter- American and Intra-Continental Relations
• HSTLAC 385: Colonial Society and the Negotiation of Rule in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HSTLAC 386: The Challenges of Post-Coloniality in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HSTLAC 482: The History of Brazil: Colonial Period to the Present
• HSTEU 245 St. Petersburg/Leningrad: City as History
• HSTEU 252 The Bloodlands: East-Central Europe Under Hitler and Stalin
• HSTEU 303: Contemporary European History Since 1815
• HSTEU 361: Spain and Its Golden Age, 1469-1700
• HSTEU 376: Modern Irish History
• HSTEU 422: The French Revolution and Napoleon: 1789-1815
• HSTEU 444/JSIS A 444: Imperial Russia: 1700-1900
• HSTEU 445/JSIS A 445: Twentieth-Century Russia
• HSTEU 451: East-Central Europe Since 1342
• HSTEU 452:  Eastern Europe Since 1918
• HSTEU 474: Britain at its Imperial Peak
• HSTEU 475: England in the Twentieth Century
• HSTEU 477: From 13 Colonies to Brexit: Making and Un-Making of the British Empire
• HSTAA 205: Asian American History
• HSTAA 209/AIS 209: American Indian History to 1815
• HSTAA 210/AIS 210: American Indian History since 1815
• HSTAA 221/ENVIR 221: Environmental History of the U.S.
• HSTAA 230: Race and Power in America, 1861-1940
• HSTAA 301: Colonial North America
• HSTAA 302: Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America
• HSTAA 308 American Indians and the Environment
• HSTAA 312: Early History of the American West
• HSTAA 331 /AIS 331: American Indian History to 1840
• HSTAA 332/AIS 332: American Indian History II Since 1840
• HSTAA/AAS 406: Asian American Activism
• HSTAA 417AIS 425: Indians in Western Washington History
• HSTAA 432: History of Washington and the Pacific Northwest
• JSIS 200: States and Capitalism: The Origins of the Modern Global System

Major/Minor in History of Religion and Society Approved Courses

• HSTAM 112: The Medieval World
• HSTAM 209: Ancient Christianity: From Jesus to Muhammad
• HSTAM 215: Tudor England
• HSTAM 235: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages
• HSTAM 314: The World of Late Antiquity
• HSTAM 315: The Byzantine Empire
• HSTAM 320: Reacting to the Past: Religion and Politics in the European Middle Ages
• HSTAM 325: Empires in Ancient Iran
• HSTAM 331: Early Middle Ages
• HSTAM 332: Central Middle Ages
• HSTAM 333: Late Middle Ages
• HSTAM 365: Medieval England, 1042-1485
• HSTAM 370/SCAN 370: The Vikings
• HSTCMP 209: History of Christianity
• HSTCMP 210: Catholic Classics in Historical Context
• HSTCMP 217: The Space Age
• HSTCMP 250/JSIS C 250: Introduction to Jewish Cultural History
• HSTCMP 265: Modern Revolutions Around the World
• HSTCMP 270: Mediterranean to America: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Migrations in Global Context
• HSTCMP 284: History of Sex
• HSTCMP 309: Marx and the Marxian Tradition in Western Thought: The Foundations of Modern Cultural Criticism I
• HSTCMP 310: Science and Religion in Historical Perspective
• HSTCMP 311: Science in Civilization: Antiquity to 1600
• HSTCMP 319: Nietzsche and the Nietzschean Legacy in Western Thought: Foundations of Modern Cultural Critique II
• HSTCMP 320: Greek History: 7000 BC to Present
• HSTCMP/JEW ST 368: Jewish Thought
• HSTCMP 406: Issues in World History to 1500
• HSTCMP 469/JSIS C 466: The Sephardic Diaspora: 1492-Present
• HSTAFM 162: History of the Islamic Middle East, 600-1800
• HSTAFM 453: Health and Illness in Africa
• HSTAFM 459 History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
• HSTAS 211 History of Chinese Civilization
• HSTAS 212/JSIS A 212: History of Korean Civilization
• HSTAS 403: History of Modern India to 1900
• HSTAS 408: Religious Reform in Colonial India
• HSTAS 452: Chinese History from Earliest Times to 1276
• HSTAS 466/JSIS A 466: Islam, Mysticism, Politics and Performance in Indonesian Culture
• HSTAS 481: History of Traditional Korea: Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century
• HSTAA 336: American Jewish History since 1885
• HSTAA 337: The Holocaust and American Life
• HSTAA 402: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
• HSTLAC 282: Social History of Mexico
• HSTLAC 385: Latin American History Through Film
• HSTEU 210: Paris
• HSTEU 250: Rome
• HSTEU 301: Early Modern European History: 1450-1648
• HSTEU 305: European Witch Trials
• HSTEU 368: Modern European Jewish History
• HSTEU 370: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Mythology for England
• HSTEU 376: Modern Irish History
• HSTEU 401: The Italian Renaissance
• HSTEU 402: The Reformation
• HSTEU 422: The French Revolution and Napoleon: 1789-1815
• JSIS 202: Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World
• RELIG 201: Introduction to World Religions: Western Traditions
• RELIG 202: Introduction to World Religions: Eastern Traditions

Major/Minor in History of Race, Power, and Gender Approved Courses

• HSTAM 231: Race, Identity and the Ancient Mediterranean World
• HSTAM 340: Medieval Women
• HSTCMP 202: World Wars I and II Digital Histories
• HSTCMP 212/AIS 212: Indigenous Leaders and Activists
• HSTCMP 221: Global Environmental History, Feast and Famine
• HSTCMP 245: Exploration and Empire: The Art and Science of Global Power
• HSTCMP 247: Before Global Health: The Histories of Public Health and International Health in the Global South
• HSTCMP 248: AIDS Epidemic: A Global History
• HSTCMP 250/JSIS C 250: Introduction to Jewish Cultural History
• HSTCMP 259 (formerly HSTCMP 358):  Race & Slavery across the Americas
• HSTCMP 265: Modern Revolutions Around the World
• HSTCMP 269/JSIS C 269: The Holocaust: History and Memory
• HSTCMP 270: Mediterranean to America: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Migration in Global Context
• HSTCMP 281: Queer and Trans History (changed to HSTCMP 381)
• HSTCMP 284: History of Sex
• HSTCMP 314: The Psychoanalytic Revolution in Historical Perspective
• HSTCMP 315: History of Technology to 1940
• HSTCMP 319: Nietzsche and the Nietzschean Legacy in Western Thought: Foundations of Modern Cultural Critique II
• HSTCMP 320: Greek History: 7000 BC to Present
• HSTCMP 381: Queer and Trans History (formerly HSTCMP 281)
• HSTCMP 407:  The Making Of The Modern World: World History Since 1500
• HSTCMP 410: Medicine, History and Society - From Cholera to Covid-19: A Global History of Epidemics
• HSTCMP 468/JSIS B 468: Theatre as a Site of History and Memory
• HSTCMP 469/JSIS C 466: The Sephardic Diaspora: 1492-Present
• HSTCMP 484: Colonial Encounters
• HSTCMP 485: Comparative Colonialism
• HSTAFM 151: Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• HSTAFM 152: Introduction to African History, c. 1880 – Present
• HSTAFM 253: African History in Real Time
• HSTAFM 288: Introduction to the Horn of Africa
• HSTAFM 314 History of Modern Israel/Palestine
• HSTAFM 452: Southern Africa Since 1500
• HSTAFM 453: Health and Illness in Africa
• HSTAS 211 History of Chinese Civilization
• HSTAS 214/JSIS A 214: Modern Korean History through Film
• HSTAS 221: History of Southeast Asia
• HSTAS 235/JSIS A 235: History of Modern Taiwan
• HSTAS 303: Divided Lands/Divided Lives: An Environmental History of South Asia
• HSTAS/JSIS A 317: History by Bollywood: Colonial India through Film
• HSTAS 404: History of Twentieth-Century India
• HSTAS 408: Religious Reform in Colonial India
• HSTAS 453: Chinese History from 1276-1895
• HSTAS 456: Topics in Chinese Social History
• HSTAS 484/JSIS A 484: Korea in the Japanese Empire
• HSTLAC 185: Race, Class and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HSTLAC 282: Social History of Mexico
• HSTLAC 289: The Cuban Revolutionary Experiment
• HSTLAC 384: Latin America: Inter- American and Intra-Continental Relations
• HSTLAC 386: The Challenges of Post-Coloniality in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HSTLAC 481: History of Peru and the Andean Region
• HSTLAC 482: The History of Brazil: Colonial Period to the Present
• HSTEU 210: Paris
• HSTEU 234: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HSTEU 303: Contemporary European History Since 1815
• HSTEU 305: European Witch Trials
• HSTEU 368/JSIS C 368: Modern European Jewish History
• HSTEU 415: The Second World War
• HSTEU 422: The French Revolution and Napoleon: 1789-1815
• HSTEU 477: From 13 Colonies to Brexit: Making and Un-Making of the British Empire
• HSTAA 105: The Peoples of the United States
• HSTAA 110: History of American Citizenship
• HSTAA 150/AFRAM 150: Introduction to African-American History
• HSTAA 205: Asian American History
• HSTAA 208: The City: People, Place, and Environments
• HSTAA 209/AIS 209: American Indian History to 1815
• HSTAA 210/AIS 210: American Indian History since 1815
• HSTAA 213: History of the American Presidency
• HSTAA 225: American Slavery
• HSTAA 230: Race and Power in America, 1861-1940
• HSTAA 231: Race and American History
• HSTAA 241: The United States During the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction (formerly HSTAA 411)
• HSTAA 270/AFRAM 270: The Jazz Age
• HSTAA 301: Colonial North America
• HSTAA 302: Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America
• HSTAA 303: Modern American Civilization From 1877
• HSTAA 308 American Indians and the Environment
• HSTAA 312: Early History of the American West
• HSTAA 313: African Americans in the American West
• HSTAA 316: History of American Science
• HSTAA 317: History of the Digital Age
• HSTAA 321: Becoming Black Americans
• HSTAA 322: African-American History, 1865 To The Present
• HSTAA 331/AIS 331: American Indian History to 1840
• HSTAA 332/AIS 332: American Indian History II Since 1840
• HSTAA 334/AFRAM 334: Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States
• HSTAA 336: American Jewish History since 1885
• HSTAA 353: Class and Labor in American History
• HSTAA 365: Culture, Politics, and Film in Twentieth Century America
• HSTAA 371: Consumption and Consumerism in the Modern U.S.
• HSTAA 373/GWSS 383: Social History of American Women to 1890
• HSTAA 374/GWSS 384: Social History of American Women in the 20th Century
• HSTAA 402: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
• HSTAA 406: Asian American Activism
• HSTAA 410: American Social History: The Modern Era
• HSTAA 411: The United States During the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
• HSTAA 417/AIS 425: Indians in Western Washington History
• HSTAA 465: The Sixties in America
• AFRAM 272: History of the South Since the Civil War
• AIS 201: Introduction to American Indian Histories
• AIS 335: American Indians and the Law
• GWSS 323: History of Racial Formation in the United States: 1800-1990
• JSIS 202 Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World

Major/Minor in History of War and Society Approved Courses

• HSTAM 111: The Ancient World
• HSTAM 205: Military History of the Ancient World
• HSTAM 215: Tudor England
• HSTAM 250: Mongol Empire
• HSTAM 312: The Roman Republic
• HSTAM 314: The World of Late Antiquity
• HSTAM 330: The Age of Augustus
• HSTAM 333: Late Middle Ages
• HSTAM 370/SCAN 370: The Vikings
• HSTAM401: Early Greece
• HSTAM402: Classical Greece
• HSTAM403: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
• HSTCMP 202: World Wars I and II
• HSTCMP 204: Europe and America in the Era of the World Wars
• HSTCMP 215: The History of the Atomic Bomb
• HSTCMP 217: The Space Age
• HSTCMP 245: Exploration and Empire: Science, Art, and Power, 1300-1800
• HSTCMP 265: Modern Revolutions Around the World
• HSTCMP 269/JSIS C 269: The Holocaust: History and Memory
• HSTCMP 340/JSIS B 340: The Cold War; Realities, Myths, Legacies
• HSTCMP 345: War and Society
• HSTCMP 346: Images of War in History, Literature and Media
• HSTCMP 440/JSIS B 440: History of Communism
• HSTAFM 268: Wars in the Modern Middle East
• HSTAFM 451: Eastern and Central Africa Since 1500
• HSTAFM 452: Southern Africa Since 1500
• HSTAFM 463: Modern Persian Gulf
• HSTAS 244: Imperialism and Anti-Colonialism in Asia
• HSTAS 265: The Viet Nam Wars
• HSTAS 264 (formerly HSTAS 364/JSIS B 364): Violence, Myth, and Memory
• HSTAS 402: History of Medieval and Mughal India
• HSTAS 424: The Emergence of Postwar Japan
• HSTAS 481: History of Traditional Korea: Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century
• HSTLAC 384: Latin America: Inter-American and Intra-Continental Relations
• HSTLAC 481: History of Peru and the Andean Region
• HSTEU 113: Europe and the Modern World
• HSTEU 234: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HSTEU 245 St. Petersburg/Leningrad: City as History
• HSTEU 250: Rome
• HSTEU 251: Events that Shook Modern Europe: French Revolution to EU
• HSTEU 252 The Bloodlands: East-Central Europe Under Hitler and Stalin
• HSTEU 274: European History and Film from the 1890's to the Present
• HSTEU 276: Postwar: European History and Film after 1945
• HSTEU 301: Early Modern European History: 1450-1648
• HSTEU 302: Modern European History: 1648-1815
• HSTEU 303: Contemporary European History Since 1815
• HSTEU 361: Spain and Its Golden Age, 1469-1700
• HSTEU 370: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Mythology for England
• HSTEU 401: The Italian Renaissance:
• HSTEU 414: Europe Since 1945
• HSTEU 415: The Second World War (formerly Europe in the Second World War)
• HSTEU 422: The French Revolution and Napoleon: 1789-1815
• HSTEU 432: Germany: 1914-1945
• HSTEU 435: 435 World War I
• HSTEU 445/JSIS A 445: Twentieth-Century Russia
• HSTEU 451 East-Central Europe Since 1342
• HSTEU 452: Eastern Europe Since 1918
• HSTEU 475: England in the Twentieth Century
• HSTAA 202: American Foreign Policy, 1776 -Present
• HSTAA 212: The Military History of the United States From Colonial Times to the Present
• HSTAA 213: History of the American Presidency
• HSTAA 241: The United States During the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction (formerly HSTAA 411)
• HSTAA 303: Modern American Civilization From 1877
• HSTAA 317: History of the Digital Age
• HSTAA 337: The Holocaust and American Life
• HSTAA 345: U.S. Political and Economic History, 1920 - Present
• HSTAA 373/GWSS 383: Social History of American Women to 1890
• HSTAA 374/GWSS 384: Social History of American Women in the Twentieth Century
• HSTAA 401: American Revolution and Confederation
• HSTAA 411: The United States During the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction (now HSTAA 241)
• HSTAA 465: The Sixties in America

Minor in History of Science Approved Courses

• HSTCMP 311: Science in Civilization: Antiquity to 1600
• HSTCMP 312: Science in Civilization: Science in Modern Society
• HSTRY 390: Colloquium in History and Science
• HSTRY 493: Senior Thesis in History of Science

The list of approved History of Science Minor electives includes HSTCMP 215, 310, 313, 315, 410, 412, 414, HSTAA 316 and B H 401.

The History and Philosophy of Science Major is administered through the Department of Philosophy. More information is available on their site.