Focus Areas

The history curriculum offers multiple opportunities to explore different themes across space and time. These are not requirements of the major, but opportunities for you to delve deeply into topics that interest you. We organized the groupings to help you see some of the ways in which our courses fit together.

Health and Environment

  • HST 236: Medicine & Disease in Modern Society
  • HST 238: Food in History
  • HST 336 Medicine & Disease in Premodern Society
  • HST 385: Race, Science, and Disease in the Americas
  • HST/LAS 319: Revolutions and Social Movements in Latin America
  • HST/LAS 360: (variable topic) 
  • HST 392: Sex and Gender in American Culture
  • HST 397: American Environmental History

Cultural & Social Change

  • HST 221: African-American History
  • HST 250: History in Pop Culture
  • IDS 259: Intro to the Miami Tribe
  • HST 290F: 1968: Year that Changed the World
  • HST 315: The Renaissance
  • HST/REL 316: The Reformation
  • HST 328 Italy: Machiavelli to Mussolini
  • HST 354 Modern Chinese History
  • HST 355: History of Modern Sport and National Identity
  • HST 356: Modern Japanese
  • HST362: Era of the American Revolution
  • HST363: Early American Republic
  • HST 367: The United States in the 1960s
  • HST 382: Women in American History
  • HST 392: Sex and Gender in American Culture
  • HST 400: (Capstone) 

Politics, Power & Money

  • HST/LAS 217: Modern Latin America
  • HST 221: African-American History
  • HST 222: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1898
  • HST 250: History in Pop Culture
  • HST 275: European Diplomacy
  • HST/REL 316: The Reformation
  • HST 328:  Italy: Machiavelli to Mussolini
  • HST 331: Industry and Empire: Europe from 1850-1914
  • HST 332: Age of Dictators: Europe 191-1945
  • HST 333: Reconstruction of Europe Since 1945
  • HST 354: Modern Chinese History
  • HST 356: Modern Japanese
  • HST 357: Gilded Age America
  • HST 367: The United States in the 1960s
  • HST 371: Native History History to 1840
  • HST 372: Native History Since 1840
  • HST 374: History of the Russian Empire
  • HST 375: History of the Soviet Union
  • HST 400 (Capstone) 
  • HST 472: Germany 1914-1945

Media & Public History

  • HST 216: Introduction to Public History
  • HST 315: The Renaissance
  • HST 252: History at the Movies
  • HST 428:  History through Literature
  • HST 435/535: Public History Practicum
  • HST 459: Historicizing the News