Pre-Modern Courses

The following courses fulfill the major's requirement for a pre-modern course. If there is an additional course that you feel should be on this list, or if you have any questions, please contact the department coordinator for assistance.

First-year seminars

  • 10c Monsters, Marvels & Messiah; Europe During the Age of Discovery
  • 13c,d Living in the Sixteenth Century
  • 28c,d The History of Tea in East Asia

Introductory courses

  • 108c Christianity, Judaism, Islam 400-1200
  • 180c,d Living in the Sixteenth Century (Japan)

200-level lecture courses

  • 201c History of Ancient Greece: Bronze Age to the Death of Alexander
  • 202c Ancient Rome
  • 204c Science, Magic, and Religion
  • 205c A History of the Body
  • 206c Early Modern Europe
  • 207c Medieval Europe
  • 212c China Among Equals: History from Song to Ming 850-1644
  • 214c City and Country in Roman Culture
  • 221c History of England, 1485-1688
  • 231c Social History of Colonial America, 1607-1763
  • 252c Colonial Latin America
  • 262c Africa and the Atlantic World 1400-1880
  • 265c Africa and the Indian Ocean World
  • 270c Chinese Thought in Classical Period
  • 271c Material Culture of Ancient China
  • 273c History of Shamanism in East Asia
  • 274c Chinese Poetry and Society
  • 276c The Origins of Imperial China
  • 279c India to 1707
  • 282c India and Indian Ocean Worlds
  • 283c The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization

Intermediate seminars

  • 200c Creating the World
  • 203c Islam and Christianity in West Africa
  • 208c The History of History
  • 209c Cultures of Deception
  • 210c Origins of Modernity
  • 257c Law and Society in Colonial India
  • 266c African History to 1850
  • 281c The Courtly Society of Heian Japan
  • 285c Warring States
  • 285c Conquests and Heroes
  • 286c Japan and the World
  • 287c Kingship in Comparative Perspective

Problems courses

  • 307c Topics in Medieval and Early Modern History
  • 370c Problems in Chinese History
  • 380c The Warrior Culture of Japan