History Course List

Course List

Catalog of Course Requirements

The following is a summary list of undergraduate history courses and how they may apply to the different geographic regions of concentration and the chronological distribution requirements. Questions about this list or how to apply courses to the history major should be directed to the history undergraduate program coordinator. The information on this list is subject to change. 

 

Number

Title

Concentrations

Chron. Req.

Lower-Division Courses (1-99)

HIS 2A

The World to 1500

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 2B

The World Since 1500

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 4

History of the Present: Investigating the
Historical Origins of Contemporary Problems

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 9

Introduction to Native
American History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 10A

United States History
to 1877

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 10B

United States History,
1877 to 1977

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 11A

Latin America:
Colonial Period

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 11B

Latin America:
National Period

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 12

Introduction to Latino American History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 13

Introduction to American
Religious Culture

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 15

The United States of
America from its
Founding through
Our Time

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 20

U.S. Popular
Music Movements

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 30

The Making of
Modern Africa

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 40A

Early Modern
East Asia

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-1800

HIS 40B

The Making of
Modern East Asia

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 41

The Making of the
Modern Middle East

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 44

Modern South Asia,
1500 to Present

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 50

When Pharaohs Reigned: The History of Ancient Egypt

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 51

Pyramids of Earth: Religion and Symbol in the Ancient World

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 58

From Pirates to Refugees: The History of the Modern Mediterranean

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 59

The History of the English
Language (online course)

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 60

Medical and Scientific
Terminology (online course)

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 61

Classical Mythology

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 62A

Classical World: Greece

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 62B

Classical World: Rome

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 65A

From the Martyrs to the
Vikings: Medieval Europe,
200-1000

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 70A

Modern European
History, 1500-1815

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 70B

Modern European
History, 1815-Present

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 74

Introduction to Jewish
History and Cultures

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 74A

Introduction to Middle Eastern and
North African Jewish History:
Ancient to Early Modern

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 74B

Introduction to Middle Eastern and
North African Jewish History,
1500-2000

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 75

Film and the Holocaust

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 76

The Holocaust: A Global Perspective

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 78

Modern Authoritarianism
in Europe and Beyond

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 80C

Global China (online course)

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 80X

Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Change and American Society

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 80Y

World War II Memories in the U.S. and Japan

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 81

Science in the Colonial World

Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 82

Global History of the California Gold Rush

Americas and Africa

 

Upper-Division Courses (100-189)

HIS 100

Historical Skills and Methods

Required course. Students who enter UCSC as frosh are
expected to complete HIS 100 by the end of their second year.
Transfer students are expected to complete HIS 100
no later than their second term at UCSC.

 

HIS 101C

Oceans in World History

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 101D

World History of Science (online course)

Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 101E

The Global 1930s

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 101F

Global Environmental History (online course)

Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 104C

Celluloid Natives: American
Indian History on Film

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 104D

Museums and the Representation
of Native American History,
Memory, and Culture

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 105

Nations and Nationalism

Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 106A

Vietnam War Memories

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 106B

Asian and Asian American
History, 1941-Present

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 109A

Race, Gender, and Power
in the Antebellum South

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 110A

Colonial America, 1500-1750

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 110B

Revolutionary America, 1740-1815

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 110D

The Civil War Era

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 110E

Rise of the Machines: Technology,
Inequality, and the United States,
1877 to 1914

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 110F

World War USA: The United
States from 1914 through 1945

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 110G

Strange Days: The USA and its
National Security State, 1945-1991

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 110H

Greater Reconstruction: Race,
Empire, and Citizenship in the
Post-Civil War United States

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 112

American Feminist Thought, 1750-1950

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 113C

Women and American Religious Culture

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 114

Market Revolution in Antebellum U.S.

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 116

Slavery Across the Americas

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 116A

Unchained Memory: Slavery and the Politics of the Past

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 117

Wired Nation: Broadcasting & Telecommunications in the
U.S. from the Telegraph to the Internet

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 117A

From the Player Piano to Pandora

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 118

The Global Cold War, 1945-1991

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 118A

Conspiracy Planet: How Conspiracies,
Conspiracy Theories, and Conspiracy
Scandals Shape History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 120

W.E.B. DuBois

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 121A

African American History to 1877

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 121B

African American History:
1877 to the Present

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 122A

Jazz and United States
Cultural History, 1900-1945

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 122B

Jazz and United States
Cultural History, 1945 to the Present

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 123

Immigrants and Immigration
in U.S. History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 124

Panama Canal and U.S. Empire

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 128

Chicana/Chicano History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 130

History of Modern Cuba

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 131

Women in Colonial Latin America

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 134A

Colonial Mexico

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 134B

History of Mexico, 1850 to Present

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 137A

Africa to 1800

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 137B

Africa from 1800 to the Present

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 137C

African Cinema

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 139C

Queer Pasts: A Radical Telling of LGBTQ History in the United States

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 140B

History of Qing China, 1644-1911

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-1800

HIS 140C

Revolutionary China, 1895-1960

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 140D

Recent Chinese History

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 140E

Women in China's
Long 20th Century

Asia and the Pacific

 

LIT 141B/
HIS 141A

Classical Chinese Culture and
Literature, 10th Century B.C.E.
through Sixth Century C.E.

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-600

LIT 141C/
HIS 141B

Classical Chinese Culture and
Literature, Sixth Century through
16th Century

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-1800

HIS 143B

History of the Philippines, 1815 to the Present

Asia and the Pacific

HIS 145

Gender, Colonialism, and
Third-World Feminisms

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 146A

Colonial South Asia 1750-1947

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 147A

History of Premodern India

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-1800

HIS 147B

Political and Social History of Modern South Asia

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 147C

South Asia in the 20th Century

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 147D

Intellectual History of South Asia

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 149

Plants, People, and the Making of Modern Southeast Asia

Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 150A

Emperors and Outcasts:
Ancient Japan

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-600

HIS 150B

Tokugawa Japan

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-1800

HIS 150C

Inventing Modern Japan:
The State and the People

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 150D

The Japanese Empire, 1868-1945

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 150E

History and Memory in
the Okinawan Islands (online course)

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 150F

Engendering Empires: Women
in Modern Japan and Korea

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 151

History of Science, Medicine &
Technology from Antiquity
to the Enlightenment

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 151A

Medicine and the Body
in the Colonial World

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 151B

Drugs in World History

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 152

Trade and Travel on
the Silk Roads

Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 152B

Islam in Eurasia

Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 154

Post-Colonial North Africa

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 155

History of Modern Israel

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 156

Interrogating Politics in the
Post-Colonial Middle East

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 156A

Art, Culture, and Mass
Media in the Arab Middle East

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 156B

Modern Arab Thought

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 157

The Ottoman Empire

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 158A

The Escapes of David George:
Biographical Research on
Slavery and Early America

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 158C/ANTH 179

Slavery in the Atlantic
World: Historical and
Archaeological Perspectives

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 159A

Cleopatra to Constantine:
Greek and Roman Egypt

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 159B

Women and Gender
in Ancient Egypt

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 159C

Temple and City: The Egyptian
New Kingdom and the
City of Thebes

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 159D

When Cities Were New: the Rise
of Urbanism in the Ancient
Near East and Mediterranean

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 160A

Athenian Democracy

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 160C

Topics in Greek History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 161B

Topics in Roman History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 163B

Genesis: A History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 164A

Late-Medieval Italy, c. 1200-1400

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 164B

Renaissance Italy, c. 1400-1600

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 165A

Medieval History and Architecture

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 166

Northern Ireland:
Communities In Conflict

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 167A

The First World War

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 167B

The Second World
War in Europe

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 169

Dutch and Belgian History, 1500 to Present

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 170A

French History: Old Regime and Revolution

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 170B

French History: The 19th Century

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 170C

From the Trenches to
the Casbah: France and its
Empire in the 20th Century

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 172A

German History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 172B

German Film, 1919 - 1945

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 172C

History of German Film,
1945 to Present

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 173B

Imperial Russia, 1696-1917

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 173C

History of the Soviet Union

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 174

Spies: History and
Culture of Espionage

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 176

Eastern Europe, 1848-2000

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 177

Smoke, Smallpox, and the Sublime:
Thinking about the Environment
in the 19th Century

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 177A

Slaves, Soldiers, and Scientists: History of the Tropics

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 178A

European Intellectual
History: The Enlightenment

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 178B

European Intellectual
History: The 19th Century

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 178C

European Intellectual
History, 1870-1970

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 178E

Modern Jewish Intellectual History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 181

Modern Britain and
the British Empire

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

ANTH 110O/HIS 181A

Postcolonial Britain and France

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 181B

Africa and Britain in an Imperial World

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 183A

Nineteenth-Century Italy

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 183B

Fascism and Resistance in Italy

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 184B

Racism and Antiracism in
Europe: From 1870 to the Present

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 185C

Communism, Nationalism, &
Zionism: Comparative
Radical Jewish Politics

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 185I

Latin American Jewish
History in the Modern Period

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 185J

The Modern Jewish Experience

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 185K

Jewish Life in Eastern
Mediterranean Port Cities

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 185L

Where Civilizations Met--Jews,
Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 185M

Zionism: An Intellectual History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 185N

The Holocaust in a Digital World

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 185O

The Holocaust and the Arab World

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 189

@history: Doing History
in a Digital Age

Elective Only

 

Comprehensive Research Seminar Courses (190s, 194s, and 196s)

HIS 190A

Slavery and Race in Latin America

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 190B

Race and the Nation
in Latin America

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190D

Asian and Latino Immigration
Since 1875

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 190E

Topics in Chicana/o History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190F

Research Seminar in the America

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190H

History of Time

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 190K

Wired Planet: Readings on the
Global History of Broadcasting
and Telecommunications

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190L

Personal Politics in the New South

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190M

The History of Children and Culture of Childhood
in the 19th Century

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190N

Topics in African History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190O

African American Historiography

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190P

Early American Society and Culture

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 190Q

The Novel and History

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190R

Research in the History
in American Religions

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190T

Latin America in the Cold War

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190U

Power, Culture, and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190W

U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 190X

History of the Atlantic
World, 1492-1824

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 190Y

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Americas and Africa

Pre-1800

HIS 190Z

The Long Civil Rights Movement

Americas and Africa

 

HIS 194A

Gender, Class and Sex
in Shanghai

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194B

Okinawan History

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194C

Special Topics in Modern Chinese History

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194E

Women in Japanese History

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194G

China Since the Cultural
Revolution: Histories of the Present

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194H

Gender, Family & State
in China, 1600-Present

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194J

The Poor and the
Everyday in Modern China

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194K

Topics in the History of Southeast Asia

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194L

Exile, Diaspora, and Displacement:
Jewish Lives from North Africa
to the Middle East

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 194M

Literati, Samurai, and Yangban:
Comparative History of State
and Elite in East Asia, 1600-1900

Asia and the Pacific

Pre-1800

HIS 194N

Urbanites in the Global South,
18th Century to the Present

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 194O

South Asia in
the Twentieth Century

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194P

Urban South Asia

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194Q

Making Space in the Colonial
and Post-Colonial World

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 194S

Special Topics in
Ancient Egyptian History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 194T

Worlds of Labor in Asia

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194U

The Cold War and East Asia

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194V

Fascism & Anti-Fascism:
The Global Spanish Civil War

Americas and Africa,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 194W

Social Movements in the
Modern Middle East

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 194Y

Memories of WWII in
the U.S. and Japan

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 194Z

Historical Memory and
Historical Narration in China

Asia and the Pacific

 

HIS 196C

Modern Italian Culture

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196D

City of Rome

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196E

Modern Irish History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196F

Topics in European Environmental History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196G

Topics in Modern Germany and Europe

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196H

Sex And The City--The History
Of Sexuality In Urban
Areas Around The Globe

Americas and Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196I

The French Revolution

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196K

Studies in European Intellectual History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196M

Shtetl: Eastern European Jewish Life

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196N

Eastern European Jewish Social History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196O

Russian Revolution, 1917-1932

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196Q

Europe And The World During The Cold War

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196S

Special Topics in Ancient History

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-600

HIS 196V

The Soviet Experience

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196W

Brave New World? Scientific & Technological Visions
Of Utopia And Dystopia In Russia/Soviet Union

Europe and the Mediterranean World

 

HIS 196Y

Saints and Holiness
in Medieval Europe

Europe and the Mediterranean World

Pre-1800

HIS 196Z

Europe From the Margins:
Outside Influences on Modern
European Thought and Culture

Europe and the Mediterranean World