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 5B	Cult, Church, Empire: History of Early Christianity, 0-431 C.E.	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600
HIS 5C	Introduction to the Bible	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600
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 65B	From Crusaders to Conquistadors: Late Medieval Europe, 1000-1500	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-1800
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	California Gold Rush in Global History	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	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. Du Bois	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 124A	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 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 163C	Jesus in History and Film	Europe and the Mediterranean World	Pre-600
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 174	Spies: History and Culture of Espionage	Europe and the Mediterranean World
HIS 176	Eastern Europe, 1848-2000	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 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
JWST 185N/ 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 190J	Mexican History in the Archives	Americas and Africa
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 of 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 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 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 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