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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 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 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 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 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
- 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.