• HIST 3559

    New Course in General History
     Rating

    2.78

     Difficulty

    2.67

     GPA

    3.42

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of general history.

  • HIUS 3011

    Colonial British America
     Rating

    3.54

     Difficulty

    3.23

     GPA

    3.42

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course tells the story of British America from an Atlantic perspective. The thirteen colonies that formed the United States were once part of a larger empire that spanned eastern North America and the Caribbean. From 1500 to 1800, cross-cultural encounters among Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans created a dynamic new world. Key topics trade, religion, agriculture, slavery, warfare, and the origins of the American Revolution.

  • HIEA 3559

    New Course in East Asian History
     Rating

    4.60

     Difficulty

    2.80

     GPA

    3.43

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.

  • HIEU 2101

    Jewish History I: The Ancient and Medieval Experience
     Rating

    4.33

     Difficulty

    2.60

     GPA

    3.43

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course surveys the pre-modern Jewish historical experience from antiquity through the sixteenth century.

  • HIUS 3611

    Gender & Sexuality in AM, 1600-1865
     Rating

    4.75

     Difficulty

    2.75

     GPA

    3.43

    Last Taught

    Fall 2024

    Studies the evolution of women's roles in American society with particular attention to the experiences of women of different races, classes, and ethnic groups.

  • HIEA 2101

    Modern Korean History: One Peninsula, Two Paths
     Rating

    3.86

     Difficulty

    2.88

     GPA

    3.44

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course traces Korea's history from its unified rule under the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) to Japanese colonization (1910-1945) and subsequent division into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea). It examines how processes of reform, empire, civil war, revolution, and industrialization shaped both Koreas' development and how ordinary people experienced this tumultuous history.

  • HIEU 4502

    Seminar in Post-1700 European History
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.44

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

  • HILA 4501

    Seminar in Latin American History
     Rating

    3.67

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.44

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. Seminar work results primarily in the preparation of substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

  • HIST 3352

    The First World War
     Rating

    3.50

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.45

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    At the Great War's centennial, we take stock of how it shaped life in the 20th century for peoples around the globe. Movies, memoirs, government reports and other texts throw light on causes of the war, the human carnage of 1914-18, Woodrow Wilson's effort to end war forever with a League of Nations, the demise of liberalism and the rise of fascism and communism in postwar Europe, and the launch of anti-colonial movements in Asia and Africa.

  • HIST 2212

    Maps in World History
     Rating

    2.88

     Difficulty

    2.25

     GPA

    3.45

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the history of cartography that ranges across the globe from oldest surviving images of pre-history to GIS systems of the present day. It approaches map history from a number of disciplinary perspectives, including the history of science, the history of cartography, critical theory and literary studies, anthropology, historical geography, and spatial cognition and wayfinding.