History: Requirements and Sample Courses

1. United States History
   • History of the U.S. to 1877
   • History of the U.S. Since 1877
   • U.S. Cultural History
   
   
   • Native American
   • American Indian History
   • Prehistory of North America
   • North American Indians to 1830
   • Native Americans in U.S. History
   • Age of Discovery or Conquest? America Before Jamestown
   • Natives and Newcomers: Encounters in the New World
   • European settlements/colonies
   • Early American History to 1800
   • Origins of a New Nation
   • American Colonial History
   • Origins of a New Nation
   • Colonial and Revolutionary America
   • Origins of a New Nation
   • Puritan New England
   • The Colonial Wars and the Coming of American Independence, 1739-1776
   • American Revolution
   • Colonial and Revolutionary America
   • Era of the American Revolution
   • History and Political Thought of the American Revolution
   • Era of the Revolution and Constitution
   • The Revolutionary War and the Making of the American Republic, 1775-1801
   • Expansion, reform, and economic growth to the Civil War
   • Growth of the American Nation
   • The Creation of “America” in the Age of Jefferson
   • The Age of Jefferson and Jackson, 1789-1850
   • History of the Early Republic
   • America in Ferment, 1815-1850
   • Frontiers in Early America
   • The Atlantic Slave Trade
   • The Old South and Slavery
   • Antebellum America
   • Civil War and Reconstruction
   • The American Civil War
   • Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
   • Civil War and Reconstruction Era
   • European immigration, industrialization, scientific and technological progress
   • Immigrant Experiences, Old/New
   • U.S. Comparative Immigration
   • The Immigrant City in the United States, 1880-1924
   • Immigration, Ethnicity, and the American Experience
   • The Making of Multicultural America
   • Development of Modern America
   • Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1920
   • Evolution of Industrial Capitalism
   • America in the Age of Reform
   • The Progressive Era
   • The U.S. Between the Civil War and World War I
   • U.S. Society and Politics: 1865-1900
   • Modern America: 1877-1929
   • Technology in American History
   • Emergence of the Modern U.S., 1876-1901
   • The United States from Emancipation through World War II, 1865-1945
   • World War I
   • 20th Century America
   • 20th Century American Wars
   • Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1920
   • Making of Modern America: 1914-45
   • American Foreign Relations Since 1900
   • History of the U.S. Foreign Policy in the 20th Century
   • The United States from Emancipation through World War II, 1865-1945
   • World War II
   • 20th Century America
   • 20th Century American Wars
   • Making of Modern America: 1914-1945
   • History of the U.S. Foreign Policy in the 20th Century
   • The United States from Emancipation through World War II, 1865-1945
   • U.S. History Since 1941
   • The U.S. and Japan in World War II
   • World War II and American Culture
   • U.S. History: The New Deal and World War II
   • Post-WWII - present
   • America 1945 - Present
   • America and the Cold War
   • The U.S. and the Postwar World
   • America's Civil Rights Movement
   • The Vietnam War
   • Crisis and Reform: America in the 1960s
   • Recent American History, 1960 - Present
   • America as a World Power
   • History of the U.S. Foreign Policy in the 20th Century
   
   
2. World History (Survey Courses)
• Introduction to World History
• World History 1500 - Present
• Globalization in History: The Making of the Modern World


• Human beginnings and early civilizations (Africa, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Egypt, India, China)
• Introduction to Ancient Civilizations
• Ancient Studies
• The Ancient Near East
• Mesoamerican Civilizations
• East Asian Civilizations to the 17th Century
• Classical Indian Civilization
• Roots of Western civilization (Israel, Greece, Rome)
• Origins of Western Civilization
• Western Traditions
• Genesis of Western Values
• Ancient Israel
• The Ancient World: Greece
• War and Society in Ancient Greece
• Greek History: Archaic and Classical Greece
• The Roman Republic
• The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
• The Age of Augustus
• The World of Late Antiquity
• The Christian Tradition in the West from New Testament to Early Reformation
• English and Western European history
• Foundations of Modern Europe
• European Tradition
• Medieval Europe
• Charlemagne and Medieval Civilization
• European Revolutions, 1000-1300
• Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation Europe
• Middle East and Europe since the Crusades
• Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Times
• The British Isles: Prehistory to the Present
• Anglo-Saxon England
• Ireland: Celts to Present
• Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain
• European Civilization to 1815
• Renaissance and the age of exploration
• Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation Europe
• Europe in Medieval and Early Modern Times
• Renaissance and Revolutions: Europe, 1400-1815
• Renaissance Culture
• The Italian Renaissance
• Tudor England
• Spain and Its Empire, 1492-1700
• European Civilization to 1815
• Development of Asia, Africa, and South America
• Latin American Civilization
• Land and Labor in Latin America
• Mexico Since Spanish Conquest
• History of Africa to 1800
• West African History
• Resistance and Rebellion in Africa
• History of Modern China, 1620-2001
• Late Imperial China
• Revolution and Social Reform in China
• The Modern Transformation of East Asia
• India, from Empire to Democracy: 1500 to the Present
• Age of revolutionary change in Europe
• Era of the French Revolution
• England in the Age of Revolution, 1688-1832
• Revolution, Dictatorship, Power
• Exploring Europe in the Modern Age
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Growth of National States in Europe
• Environment and Empire Since 1750
• Modern Germany, 1800-1945
• European Civilization: Science and Technology
• The Russian Revolution and the New Regime
• Cultures and Identities: East-Central Europe, 1795-1921
• The world in the era of two World Wars
• 20th Century European Diplomatic History
• Europe in the 20th Century
• History of Europe 1890-1950
• The Great War
• World War I: The Brutalization of Europe
• 20th Century Europe: World War I
• Stalin's Russia
• Europe and World War II
• World War II in Asia and the Pacific
• Modern Germany, 1800-1945
• Fascism: East and West
• Problems in Modern European History
• The Third Reich and the Jews
• Stalin and Stalinism
• The world from 1945 to the present
• 20th Century European Diplomatic History
• Origins of the Cold War
• The Two Germanys and the Cold War
• Eastern Europe Since 1945
• Russian Culture in the Modern Age
• Nationalism and Communism in East Asia
• Postwar Japan
• Korea North and South
• Aspects of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• Making of the Modern Middle East
• Modern Iran and Iraq
• 1968: The Pivotal Year
• European Integration


3. Geography
• Major physical features of the world
• Map of the Modern World
• World Regional Geography
• Earth History
• Navigation and Cartography
• Archaeology of Place
• Physical Geology
• Key concepts of geography and its effects on various peoples
• Human-Land Interaction
• Environmental Geology
• Environment and Society
• Place and Society
• Cultural Geography
• Urban Geography
• People and the Earth: Ecosystems
• Explorations in Historical Geography


4. Economics
• Fundamental economic concepts and economic reasoning
• Introduction to Economics
• Microeconomic Theory
• Principles of Macroeconomics
• Elements of Economic Analysis
• Introduction to Economic Policy Issues
• Introduction to Political Economy
• International Trade
• Money and Financial Markets
• Labor Economics
• American economic history
• Economic History of the U.S.
• American Economic and Business History
• U.S. Economy to 1865
• U.S. Labor History
• Labor Since the Industrial Revolution
• The Working Class in American Society
• Market, Culture, and Society


5. Government
• Principles of American government and the Founding Documents of the United States
• Foundations of American Constitutionalism
• American Constitutional Law
• American Politics and Government
• American Political Thought
• The Supreme Court and American Politics
• U.S. Governmental Institutions
• U.S. Political Parties
• Congress: Politics and Policy-Making
• Comparative government
• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Introduction to International Politics
• Comparative Political Systems
• Comparative European Politics
• Politics and Government of Eastern Europe
• Contemporary African Politics
• Comparative Asian Government and Politics


6. History and Philosophy of Science
• History of Science
• Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization
• Newton and the 18th Century
• 19th Century Roots of Modern Science
• Evolution and Intellectual Revolution
• Physics for the 20th Century
• Science, Technology and Values
• Scientific Revolutions


7. Methods and Sources for Research in History
• Issues in Contemporary Historiography
• Historians and the Living Past
• Literature and Philosophy of History
• Introduction to Historical Practice
• Historical Evidence
• The Craft of History
• Oral History and Critical Pedagogy
• History: Theory and Practice
• Statistical Methods and their Applications