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General History Track

In addition to completing the requirements for all History majors, the student in the General History track is required to satisfy breadth and concentration requirements.

  1. Breadth Requirements: to ensure chronological and geographical breadth, at least two courses must be completed in a premodern chronological period and in each of three geographical fields: Field I (Africa, Asia, and Middle East); Field II (the Americas); and Field III (Europe, including Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia). Courses fulfilling the premodern chronological period (Field IV) may also count for Fields I-III. For 2011-2012, these courses are as follows:
    1. Field I: Africa/Asia/Middle East
      • HISTORY 47S. Saints and Sorcerer-Kings: History and the Epic in West Africa
      • HISTORY 48Q. South Africa
      • HISTORY 82N. Modern Islamic Movements
      • HISTORY 84N. American Empire in the Middle East Since Cold War
      • HISTORY 91N. Mao Zedong: Man Who Would Become China
      • HISTORY 95S. Chinese Capitalism in Historical Perspective: Commerce and Society in Early Modern China, 1600-1840
      • HISTORY 106A. Global Human Geography: Asia/Africa
      • HISTORY 145B. Africa in the Twentieth Century
      • HISTORY 147. History of South Africa
      • HISTORY 181B. The Formation of the Contemporary Middle East
      • HISTORY 182C. The Making of the Islamic World (600-1300)
      • HISTORY 183. Modern Iran
      • HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China
      • HISTORY 195C. Modern Japanese History
      • HISTORY 198. The History of Modern China
      • HISTORY 198B. The Construction of Modern China through Space and Time
      • HISTORY 204B. History Without Documents
      • HISTORY 208C. History of Death and Dying
      • HISTORY 224B. Modern Afghanistan
      • HISTORY 281. Economic and Social History of the Middle East
      • HISTORY 281B. Modern Egypt
      • HISTORY 284F. Empires, Markets, and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World, 1500-1800
      • HISTORY 287D. Tel Aviv: Site, Symbol, City
      • HISTORY 290G. Dilemmas of Modernity in Twentieth-Century Japan
      • HISTORY 295F. Race and Ethnicity in East Asia
      • HISTORY 295J. Chinese Women's History
      • HISTORY 298E. China-Taiwan-U.S. Triangular Relations from World War II through the Cold War
    2. Field II: The Americas
      • HISTORY 41Q. Mad Women: Explorations in Gender and Mental Illness in US History
      • HISTORY 41S. Speed and Power and Work by the Hour: The Revolution of Western Industry
      • HISTORY 44Q. History of Women in Science, Medicine, and Engineering
      • HISTORY 52S. Working for the Man: Historical Approaches to Workers and Business in American History, 1815-1940
      • HISTORY 53S. Race Riots and Rebellions in 20th Century Urban America
      • HISTORY 54S. Prohibition in America
      • HISTORY 55S. Real Men and Dragon Ladies: Race and Sexuality in America, 1662-1965
      • HISTORY 56N. Celluloid America
      • HISTORY 103E. History of Nuclear Weapons
      • HISTORY 107. Introduction to Feminist Studies
      • HISTORY 150A. Colonial and Revolutionary America
      • HISTORY 150B. 19th Century America
      • HISTORY 150C. The United States in the Twentieth Century
      • HISTORY 154. American Intellectual and Cultural History to the Civil War
      • HISTORY 157. The Constitution
      • HISTORY 159. Asian American History
      • HISTORY 161. Women in Modern America
      • HISTORY 166B. Immigration Debates in the U.S., Past and Present
      • HISTORY 169. The Environmental History of North America
      • HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America
      • HISTORY 170B. Culture, Politics and Society in Latin America
      • HISTORY 175. Modern Mexico
      • HISTORY 201. Introduction to Public History in the United States, 19th Century to the Present
      • HISTORY 253D. Approaches to American Legal History
      • HISTORY 254. Popular Culture and American Nature
      • HISTORY 255D. Racial Identity in the American Imagination
      • HISTORY 260. California's Majority Minority Cities
      • HISTORY 262G. The Pivotal Decade in U.S. History: 1960s or 1970s?
      • HISTORY 263G. History Through a Life: The Allure of American Biography
      • HISTORY 268E. American Foreign Policy and International Relations
      • HISTORY 272B. Frontiers in Iberian and Latin American Culture and History
      • HISTORY 273G. Geographical Imagination and the Making of Brazil and the Hispanic American States: Maps, Historical Narratives and Performance (1750-1850)
      • HISTORY 275G. Religion in Colonial Latin America and Iberian World
      • HISTORY 276E. Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Iberian World
    3. Field III: Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia
      • HISTORY 5S. Disciplining the Colonial Body: Violence, Sex, and Resistance in Europe's Empires, 1830-2011
      • HISTORY 13N. Slavery and Rebellion in Ancient Rome: Spartacus in Legend and History
      • HISTORY 13S. The Politics of Food in Early Modern England
      • HISTORY 22S. Big Brother is Watching: The Communist Secret Police
      • HISTORY 30Q. English Society through Fiction
      • HISTORY 102. History of the International System since 1914
      • HISTORY 108. Mass Violence
      • HISTORY 110A. Europe from Antiquity to 1500
      • HISTORY 110B. Early Modern Europe
      • HISTORY 110C. Introduction to Modern Europe
      • HISTORY 125. Dark Century: Eastern Europe After 1900
      • HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts
      • HISTORY 134A. European Witch Hunts
      • HISTORY 135. History of European Law
      • HISTORY 139. Modern Britain and the Empire
      • HISTORY 142. Darwin in the History of Life
      • HISTORY 185B. Jews in the Modern World
      • HISTORY 204E. Origins of Totalitarianism
      • HISTORY 211C. Saints in the Middle Ages
      • HISTORY 211D. Law and Society in Medieval Europe
      • HISTORY 212G. Economy and Society in Precapitalist Europe
      • HISTORY 214D. Mediterranean Crossroads: Power, Culture, and Religion in Medieval Sicily
      • HISTORY 220G. Demons, Witches, Holy Fools, and Folk Belief: Popular Religion in Russia, 19th and 20th Centuries
      • HISTORY 221D. Historiography of the Soviet Union
      • HISTORY 225C. Leaders and Leadership in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
      • HISTORY 227. East European Women and War in the Twentieth Century
      • HISTORY 229. Poles and Jews: The Two Saddest Nations on Earth
      • HISTORY 232A. Power, Art, and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
      • HISTORY 233A. Modern Intellectual History: From Bacon to Hegel
      • HISTORY 233E. Modern Intellectual History: From the Left Hegelians to Freud
      • HISTORY 236. The Idea of Society
      • HISTORY 236D. Cold War Europe
      • HISTORY 237. The Holocaust
      • HISTORY 239D. Capital and Empire
    4. Field IV: Pre-1700
      • HISTORY 13N. Slavery and Rebellion in Ancient Rome: Spartacus in Legend and HIstory
      • HISTORY 13S. The Politics of Food in Early Modern England
      • HISTORY 110A. Europe from Antiquity to 1500
      • HISTORY 110B. Early Modern Europe
      • HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts
      • HISTORY 134A. European Witch Hunts
      • HISTORY 135. History of European Law
      • HISTORY 140. World History of Science: From Prehistory to the Scientific Revolution
      • HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America
      • HISTORY 182C. Early Middle East
      • HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China
      • HISTORY 203E. Global Catholicism
      • HISTORY 204B. History Without Documents
      • HISTORY 211C. Saints in the Middle Ages
      • HISTORY 211D. Law and Society in Medieval Italy
      • HISTORY 212G. Economy and Society in Precapitalist Europe
      • HISTORY 214D. Mediterranean Crossroads: Power, Culture & Religion in Medieval Sicily
      • HISTORY 232A. Power, Art, and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
      • HISTORY 275G. Religion in Colonial Latin America and Iberian World
      • HISTORY 276E. Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Iberian World
  2. Concentration: to develop some measure of expertise, students must complete four courses in a single area (including one undergraduate colloquium or research seminar). The proposed concentration must be approved by the major adviser; a proposal for a thematic concentration must be approved by both the adviser and the department's director of undergraduate studies. Areas of concentration are:
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Eastern Europe and Russia
    • Europe before 1700
    • Europe since 1700
    • Jewish History
    • Latin America
    • Science and Technology
    • The United States
    • The Middle East
    • International History
    • Comparative Empires and Cultures
    • or a thematic subject treated comparatively, such as war and revolution, work, gender, family history, popular culture, or high culture.
  3. Required course: HISTORY 102. The History of the International System is a required course for students who select the International History concentration. This course is offered in Spring quarter.

Certain Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) courses taught by History faculty in a Winter-Spring sequence count toward the General History major. These are: IHUM 69A,B; 74A,B

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