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.

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
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.
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