Pre-Modern Courses
Planning Your Major or Minor
The Curriculum
Honors Projects
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
- 010{1006} Monsters, Marvels & Messiah; Europe During the Age of Discovery
- 013{1035} Living in the Sixteenth Century
- 018{1008} New Worlds, New Goods: Consumerism in Early Modern Europe (formerly the Consumer Revolution in the Atlantic World)
Introductory courses
- 110c{1140} Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe
- 127{1160} Early Modern Europe: Reformation to Revolution
Intermediate lecture courses
- 201c{2001} History of Ancient Greece: Bronze Age to the Death of Alexander
- 202c{2002} Ancient Rome
- 204c{2040} Science, Magic, and Religion
- 205c{2041} A History of the Body
- 206c{2230} Immorality & Political Revolution in Ancient Rome
- 209{2286} Indigenous Identity and Politics in Latin America, 1492-Present
- 214c{2003} City and Country in Roman Culture
- 221c{2083} History of England, 1485-1688
- 231c{2121} Social History of Colonial America, 1607-1763
- 243c{2060} Old Regime and Revolutionary France
- 251{2062} European States and Empires
- 252c{2401} Colonial Latin America
- 262c{2362} Africa and the Atlantic World 1400-1880
- 271{2061} Culture Wars in the Age of Enlightenment
- 273{2321} History of China II
- 275{2320} History of China I
- 282c{2341} India and Indian Ocean Worlds
- 283c{2300} The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization
Intermediate seminars
- 203c{2842} Islam and Christianity in West Africa
- 210c{2521} Origins of Modernity
- 260{2781} Science, Technology, and Society in China
- 277{2541} Crime and Punishment
- 278{2540} The Politics of Private Life (formerly Marriage and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World)
- 281c{2760} The Courtly Society of Heian Japan
- 285c{2761} Conquests and Heroes
- 286c{2762} Japan and the World
300/3000-Level Advanced Seminars
- 301{3001} Place in American History
- 307c{3040} Topics in Medieval and Early Modern History
- 324{3060} Great Nation, Haunted Nation: Memory and the French Revolution
- 380c{3300} The Warrior Culture of Japan