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History Courses in the Pre-industrial Era

History majors must complete at least one upper-level (numbered 150 or higher) chiefly concerned with a Pre-industrial era, defined as follows:

Europe and North America before 1760

Asia before 1800

Latin America before 1820

Africa before 1870

The following History courses (not all taught in a given year) will fulfill the Pre-industrial requirement of the History major. Your advisor can help you determine whether a course not included in this list will meet the requirement.

Survey Courses:

HIST 201 Medieval Europe
HIST 202 Early Modern Europe
HIST 204 Greek History
HIST 205 Roman History
HIST 206 The Birth of Europe, 300-1000
HIST 208 Rome Through the Age
HIST 211 The Making of Britain: 400-1763
HIST 215 European Intellectual History to the Renaissance
HIST 217 African History to 1870
HIST 218 Russian History to 1881
HIST 221 Imperialism and the Third World, I
HIST 223 History of Traditional China
HIST 228 Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
HIST 231 Islamic Civilization: The Classical Age
HIST 237 17th and 18th Century United States History
HIST 241 Introduction to African American History to 1865
HIST 247 Jewish History: from "Biblical Israel" to Diaspora Jews
HIST 253 History of Scientific Thought to 1700

Seminar Courses:

HIST 154 The Customs of Europe
HIST 188 Subject Peoples
HIST 241 Early African American History, 1619-1865
HIST 246 Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy
HIST 260 An Introduction to Japanese History & Culture
HIST 264 Waterways: Boats, Oceans and History
HIST 271 Political Culture in the Age of Absolutism
HIST 272 French Revolution and the Old Regime
HIST 274 The Last Days of the Roman Republic
HIST 278 Cultural History of Reading and Writing
HIST 300 Medieval Women
HIST 301 Jews Under Christian and Muslim Rule
HIST 306 Japan in the Edo Period
HIST 316 Advanced Seminar in African History
HIST 317 Ireland: Colonialism and Decolonialization
HIST 337 Mystical Traditions in Islam
HIST 348 Roman Urban Life
HIST 350 War and Society in Colonial America
HIST 351 Saints and Sinners
HIST 384 Problems in the History of Subject Peoples
HIST 399 The Medieval City as Cultural Vector