• HIEU 3462

    Neighbors and Enemies in Germany
     Rating

    4.44

     Difficulty

    3.33

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Explores the friend/foe nexus in Germany history, literature and culture, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.

  • HIUS 3853

    From Redlined to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the US
     Rating

    4.56

     Difficulty

    2.67

     GPA

    3.79

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course examines the history of housing and real estate and explores its role in shaping the meaning and lived experience of race in modern America. We will learn how and why real estate ownership, investment, and development came to play a critical role in the formation and endurance of racial segregation, modern capitalism, and the built environment.

  • HILA 3051

    Modern Central America
     Rating

    4.58

     Difficulty

    2.75

     GPA

    3.58

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Studies the history of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador from 19th century fragmentation, oligarchic, foreign, and military rule, to the emergence of popular nationalisms.

  • HIEU 3152

    Colonizing the World: The British Empire
     Rating

    4.72

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.37

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course will focus primarily on the 'second' empire in Asia and Africa, although the first empire in the Americas will be our first topic. Topics covered include the slave plantations in the West Indies, the American Revolution, the rise of the British East India Company and its control of India, and the Scramble for Africa. Special emphasis will be placed on the environmental history of our points of debarkation.

  • HIAF 3112

    African Environmental History
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    2.50

     GPA

    3.85

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course explores how Africans changed their interactions with the physical environments they inhabited and how the landscapes they helped create in turn shaped human history. Topics covered include the ancient agricultural revolution, health and disease in the era of slave trading, colonial-era mining and commodity farming, 20th-century wildlife conservation, and the emergent challenges of land ownership, disease, and climate change.

  • HIAF 3501

    Introductory History Workshop
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.80

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term.

  • HIME 3191

    Christianity and Islam
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Studies Christianity in the Middle East in the centuries after the rise of Islam.

  • HIEA 3501

    Introductory Workshop
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term.

  • HISA 3501

    Introductory History Workshop
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term.

  • HIST 4400

    Topics in Economic History
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.52

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Comparative study of the historical development of selected advanced economies (e.g., the United States, England, Japan, continental Europe). The nations covered vary with instructor. Cross-listed with ECON 4400.