Students construct their curricula, in consultation with their advisers, from the following types of courses offered by the Department of History:
405 Seminars in Historical Analysis: A varying menu of courses in methodology and/or theory. At least two seminars are offered every year.
410 (American history), 430 (European history), or 450 (African history): General Field Seminars designed to familiarize students in each division of the graduate curriculum with pivotal issues, interpretations, controversies, research techniques, and works in the field. Two seminars are offered in American history and at least one in European and one in African history every year.
420s (American history), 440s (European history), 460s (African history) or 480s (other): Topical Seminars. A variety of topical seminars are offered every quarter as listed in the Graduate School Bulletin ("The Literature of... "Nationalism", "Comparative Industrialization", etc. ). A variety of topical seminars are offered every quarter.
490/99 Directed Reading: Tutorials, taken on a graded (499) or ungraded (490) basis, arranged between individual students and faculty for the study of specific areas and topics; tutorials sometimes include attendance at advanced undergraduate course lectures. Up to two 490s may consist of service in teaching assistantships.
570 1st year Research Seminar: A two-quarter course in which all first-year students meet together with a single supervising faculty member, but conduct individual research projects based on primary sources under the codirection of another professor. Offered annually, the 570 seminar is a key component of the first-year program.
580 (American history), 581 (European history), or 582 (African history): Directed Research in the second year, conducted over two quarters on a tutorial basis with a selected supervisor. Usually but not necessarily in a student's field of specialization, the tutorial ideally serves as the entree to work on a dissertation.
Courses offered in the History Department include:
405: Seminars in Historical Analysis
Approaches to Social and Economic History
Atlantic History
Colonialism and Imperialism in the Modern World
The Comparative History of the Modern Global City
Cultural History
Doing Business History
Gender and Empire
The Historical Study of Religion
History of Science
History of Technology and Material Culture
History Without Documents
Issues and Concepts in Women’s and Gender History
Legal Sources in Social History
Marxism
The Marxist Tradition in Historical Writing
Microhistory
Nationalism and the Subaltern Project
Paradigms in History
The Practice of Oral History
Protest without Politics in Agrarian Societies
Remembrance and Commemoration as Historical Problems
Roots of Race Thinking
Text and Context: Interpretation of Documentary Source
Theories of Nationalism
Sex in the Early Modern World
The History of Africa
African Field Seminar
African Cultural History
African Historiography
Constituting the Archive for African History
Decolonization, African Independence, and the Postcolony
East Africa
Ethnicity and Nationalism in East and Southern Africa
Health and Healing in African History
Islam in Africa
Slavery in African History
The History of Asia and the Middle East
Middle East Field Seminar
Japanese History Field Seminar
Chinese History Field Seminar
Asia as Point of Departure: Offsetting the West
Sources in Tokugawa History
Tokugawa and Meiji HistoryChina in the Early Modern World
Society and Culture in Late Imperial China
Systems of Gender in late Imperial and Modern China
Directed Readings: Republican China
Directed Readings: People's Republic of China
Directed Readings: The Chinese Diaspora
Women and Chinese Politics
Chinese Urban History
Chinese Legal Culture
Nationalism and Revolution in 20th c. China
Post-Colonial Histories of East and South Asia
The History of Europe
Medieval European Field Seminar
Early Modern European Field Seminar
Modern European Field Seminar
Medieval Marriage
Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages
Medieval Women
Medieval Popular Religion
Renaissance Europe
Italian Renaissance
European Reformation and Counter-Reformation
The English Revolution
Religion in England c.1500-1642
Elizabethan Culture
Spain 1700-1850: From Empire to Nation
Eighteenth-Century Britain: Culture and Politics
The French Revolution: Classic Approaches, New Debates
Readings in Nineteenth-Century Europe
France in the Twentieth Century
East European Jewish Historiography
Messianic Trends in Judaism
Jewish-Islamic Cultural Imagination
Habsburg Central Europe
The Balkans
Communist East Europe
Germany from Unification to Collapse, 1861-1945
Directed Readings in German History
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe
Hitler and Stalin
Readings in Russian History
The Historiography of the Soviet Union
The History of Latin America
Latin American Field Seminar
Poverty in the Latin American City
Comparative Race Relations
The History of the United States
General Field Seminar in American History
Early American History
Seventeenth-Century England and America
American Revolution
Legal and Constitutional History of the United States
Comparative Slavery and Emancipation
Liberalism and American Political Culture: The 19th Century
Race and Nationhood in the 19th century US
State and Society in Modern America
Social Movements in the U.S
Contemporary America
African American History
American Intellectual and Cultural History
Global America
Sexuality in America
US Urbanization in a World Context
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