Major in History

Forty-four credits in major, of which at least four must be from each of four areas:

• The Ancient and Medieval World
• Modern Europe since 1450
• The United States or its Colonial Antecedents
• The non-Western World

• HIST 111 Origins of the Modern World to 1550 (4 credits)
• HIST 112 The History of the Modern World since 1550 (4 credits)

• HIST 113 Early America in Global Perspective (4 credits)
• HIST 114 The Modern U.S. in Global Perspective (4 credits)

(no more than one additional 100-level course may be applied to major)

• HIST 322 Tudor & Stuart England
• HIST 326 English Law and Government Before the American Revolution (4 credits)
• HIST 345 Family and Women in Chinese History (4 credits)
• HIST 360 Early American Thought and Culture (4 credits)
• HIST 361 American Thought and Culture Since the Civil War (4 credits)
• HIST 365 U.S. Constitutional History (4 credits)
• HIST 366 The History of the Catholic Church in the United States (4 credits)
• HIST 368 History of Women in the United States (4 credits)
• HIST 369 African-American History (4 credits)
• HIST 371 History of U.S. Foreign Policy (4 credits)
• HIST 373 Origins of War: 1850 to 1945 (4 credits)
• HIST 382 Careers in History (4 credits)
• HIST 384 Uses of History: Decision-Making (4 credits)

• HIST 327 18th Century Ireland and England
• HIST 314 Modern Europe since 1945 (4 credits)
• HIST 328 The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era (4 credits)
• HIST 333 Eastern Europe, 1914 to the Present (4 credits)
• HIST 341 History of Modern China
• HIST 353 History of the American Revolution (4 credits)
• HIST 355 The Civil War Era (4 credits)
• HIST 358 Twentieth-Century United States (4 credits)
• HIST 372 The United States and Vietnam (4 credits)

• HIST 463 Seminar in European History (4 credits)
• HIST 464 Seminar in Non-Western History (4 credits)
• HIST 465 Seminar in U.S. History (4 credits)

• Twenty-four credits in history chosen in consultation with student’s major adviser