Courses - Fall 2025
HIST106
Cross-listed with: JWST141.
Credit only granted for: HIST106 or JWST141.
History of the Jews in America from Colonial times to the present. Emphasis on the waves of migration from Germany and Eastern Europe; the changing nature of the American Jewish community and its participation in American social, economic, and political life.
HIST108D
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar in History; A History of Drugs from Ayahuasca to Zantac
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
The term "drug" has meant many things over its long history, ranging from a remedy to a banned substance. In this seminar we'll explore the term's history and see how it has changed over time. Topics include global trade, cultural appropriation, healthcare. politics, law, technology, and big pharma.
HIST110
The Ancient World
Interpretation of select literature and art of the ancient Mediterranean world with a view to illuminating the antecedents of modern culture; religion and myth in the ancient Near East; Greek philosophical, scientific, and literary invention; and the Roman tradition in politics and administration.
HIST113
The Making of Modern Europe
Evolution of modern nation states since late medieval times. Industrial-economic structure and demography. Emergence of modern secular society.
HIST120
Islamic Civilization
Cross-listed with: RELS120.
Credit only granted for: HIST120 or RELS120.
Introduction to society and culture in the Middle East since the advent of Islam: as a personal and communal faith; as artistic and literary highlights of intellectual and cultural life; and as the interplay between politics and religion under the major Islamic regimes.
HIST122
History of Africa from earliest times to 1800. Topics of study include origins of African societies, Nile Valley civilization, medieval African states and societies, Islam, oral traditions, African slavery and the slave trade, and early African-European interactions.
HIST135
Civil Discourse or Urban Riot: Why Cities Don't (Often) Explode
Cross-listed with: JWST289E.
Credit only granted for: HIST135 or JWST289E.
An examination of the mechanisms that promote peaceful co-existence in urban societies and a discussion of how and why city streets sometimes become violent.
HIST200
HIST201
Interpreting American History: From 1865 to the Present
Credit only granted for: HIST157 or HIST201.
Formerly: HIST157.
The United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Economic, social, intellectual, and political developments. Rise of industry and emergence of the United States as a world power.
HIST208L
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; TBA
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
HIST208M
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; TBA
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
HIST208N
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; TBA
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
HIST219I
Religions of the Ancient Near East
Cross-listed with: RELS225, JWST225.
Credit only granted for: JWST225, HIST219I, RELS225, or RELS219A.
Formerly: RELS219A.
Introduction to ancient Near Eastern religious systems and mythology, from the third millennium BCE through the fourth century BCE. Particular emphasis on Mesopotamia and ancient Israel.
HIST219L
Special Topics in History; Disinformation in the Twentieth Century
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Despite common perception, disinformation or "fake news" did not emerge with the advent of the internet, or the explosion of social media. Long before the internet revolution, states, corporations, and other actors successfully launched disinformation campaigns, and those helped to shape people's perceptions and behavior, sometimes for decades. Through a comparative framework, students will be able to evaluate what made some disinformation campaigns highly successful and others less so, as well as what are the conditions under which groups are able to break throughthe screen of disinformation and develop alternative, and more truthful, narratives.
HIST224
Modern Military History, 1494-1815
Survey of global military history from the European "discovery" of the Americas to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Explores how the creation of professional armies, advancement of weapons technology, and evolution of military-civilian relations in Europe during these three centuries sparked the "Rise of the West".
HIST226
Revolution, Regret, and Reform: The People and Principles in American Political History
Credit only granted for: HONR299G or HIST226.
Formerly: HONR299G.
Explores American political history from Independence through the present day. Interrogates the roots of American political ideas, the dynamics of partisan competition, the interaction of class, ethnicity, race, and politics, the evolution of policy preferences, the growth of the state, and the transformation of grassroots expectations and ambitions, among other important themes. By exploring the writings of major figures as well as the preferences of anonymous voters--and everyone in between, this course will help students identify the overarching themes and the important forgotten moments in our nation's political development. Students will end the semester armed with a mastery of this history, an understanding of the methods of political historians and scholars in related fields, and a contextualization of our contemporary political world.
HIST234
Invaders, Conquerors, Usurpers: A History of Pre-Modern Britain to 1485
British history from Roman times to the 15th century. The Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Norman invasions; the coming of Christianity; Magna Carta, the development of Parliament, legal institutions, and the Common Law; the decline of medieval kingship.
HIST250
Cross-listed with: LACS250.
Credit only granted for: LASC250, HIST250, OR LACS250.
Formerly: LASC250.
Introductory survey of the history of Latin America from pre-Columbian Indian cultures to the beginning of the wars for independence (ca. 1810), covering cultural, political, social, and economic developments. Major themes include conquest, colonialism, indigenous culture, African slavery, religion, race and ethnicity, and gender ideologies.
HIST254
African-American History to 1865
Cross-listed with: AAAS254.
Credit only granted for: HIST254, AAAS254 or AASP298C.
Survey of the principal developments in the history and culture of the peoples of African descent in colonial North America and the United States to 1865. Examines the African past, the Atlantic slave trade, variation in slavery, the growth of free black communities, the transformations of families and cultural forms, and patterns of resistance.
Cross-listed with AASP298C. Credit will be granted for AASP298C or HIST 254.
HIST261
An introduction to the broad shifts in European medicine of early modern period, a period that saw the extension of overseas empires and the emergence of medicine as a profession. The course offers a thematic and comparative look at the intertwined experiences of disease, empire, and global commerce that reshaped expectations of what medicine could or should do, for whom, and at what cost.
HIST266
The United States in World Affairs
A study of the United States as an emerging world power and the American response to changing status in world affairs. Emphasis on the relationship between internal and external development of the nation.
HIST284
An interdisciplinary survey of the development of East Asian cultures. An historical approach drawing on all facets of East Asian traditional life, to gain an appreciation of the different and complex cultures of the area.
HIST289A
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Tolerance, Oppression, and the Problematic Past
Cross-listed with: RELS289C.
Credit only granted for: HIST289A or RELS289C.
For 800 years, medieval Spain was home to one of the most religiously diverse societies in European history. Despite frequent hostilities, the interactions of Spanish Jews, Christians, and Muslims produced a flowering of science, theology, and literature in an often remarkably tolerant climate. Students will learn how medieval Spanish people themselves experienced interreligious contact and conflict. They will also discover the modern pressures, prejudices, and ideals that have shaped historians interpretations of medieval Spain.
HIST289T
Jesus, Mani, and Muhammad: The Dynamics of New Religious Movements
Cross-listed with: RELS273.
Credit only granted for: RELS273 or RELS289M or HIST289T.
Formerly: RELS289M.
We examine three significant ancient religious figures: Jesus (d. 30s CE), Mani (d. 276 CE), and Muhammad (d. 632). All three were founders of long-lasting religions that were part of a dramatic change in the society and religion of the ancient world. Special areas of focus: the biographies of these founding figures, and how we know them; a historical approach to religious founders; and the sociology of new religious movements.
HIST299
Directed Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST310
History of South Africa
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Formerly: HIST419E.
Explores the roots of Apartheid and the anti-Apartheid movement from precolonial times to the present: the social history of work and identity, the rise of kingdoms (Zulu, Sotho), conquest and colonial administration, urban and rural mass politics, gender relations, and the transition to democracy.
HIST319C
Special Topics in History; The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with RELS319K. Credit only granted for RELS319K or HIST319C.
Explores a famous historical conundrum Edward Gibbon (d. 1794) defined as The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. What historical forces, operating between the third century and the seventh, brought the high Classical civilization of the Greeks and Romans to an end? Was it the invasions of Germans and other barbarian peoples? The bubonic plague or climate disasters? Do we think our own societies and governments would respond to similar challenges? Or, was Gibbon wrong, and Rome never really "fell?"
Explores a famous historical conundrum Edward Gibbon (d. 1794) defined as The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. What historical forces, operating between the third century and the seventh, brought the high Classical civilization of the Greeks and Romans to an end? Was it the invasions of Germans and other barbarian peoples? The bubonic plague or climate disasters? Do we think our own societies and governments would respond to similar challenges? Or, was Gibbon wrong, and Rome never really "fell?"
HIST319E
Special Topics in History; The Thirty Years' War
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST319G
Special Topics in History; The Vikings
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Study of the Vikings from their origins in late antique Scandinavia through the Norman conquest, looking at them both as feared pillagers and conquerors in the west and merchant adventurers in the east. Focus on combining textual histories, myth, and archaeology to reconstruct an image of Viking life, motivations, and society.
HIST319P
Special Topics in History; Ukraine and Russia: Entangled Histories, Clashing Identities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Formerly offered as HIST429W. Credit only for HIST319P or HIST429W.
Interactions and encounters as well as divergences between the processes of Ukrainian and Russian national identity and state formation,in a broader context of East European and Slavic history, from the Middle Ages up to Russia's aggression against Ukraine in 2022.
Interactions and encounters as well as divergences between the processes of Ukrainian and Russian national identity and state formation,in a broader context of East European and Slavic history, from the Middle Ages up to Russia's aggression against Ukraine in 2022.
HIST319X
Special Topics in History; Black Women in Twentieth Century America
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with WGSS379J, AMST498D, and AASP398J. Credit only granted for HIST319X, WGSS379J, AMST498D, or AASP398J.
Traces twentieth-century United States history from the perspective of Black women. We will center their diverse voices and experiences as we explore themes including family, work, activism, and cultural expression.
Traces twentieth-century United States history from the perspective of Black women. We will center their diverse voices and experiences as we explore themes including family, work, activism, and cultural expression.
HIST328J
Selected Topics in History; Transnational Neorealism
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examining -- and trenchantly going beyond -- the allegedly Italian origins of neorealism, this course will use select examples from the global cinema of the second postwar to look at the transnational, cultural, and political history of this famous film style.
HIST328O
Selected Topics in History; Inventing the New World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
From Columbus to the Amazons, El Dorado and the cannibals. Explores how sixteenth-century Europeans tried to make sense of their discovery of the Americas. Emphasis on the ways in which the textual and visual representations of native peoples and their cultures by explorers, conquistadors, mapmakers and missionaries contributed to development of European colonialism.
HIST329A
Special Topics in History; Britain in the Age of Bridgerton
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Period dramas like Bridgerton and Jane Austen adaptations often present a fantasy of the late Georgian and Regency period; this course will explore the social, political and cultural realities, from slavery in the sugar colonies and Parliamentary politics to the history of fashion and sexuality. We will also examine how 21st century popular culture uses this period in history to promote a certain version of "Britishness" andr omanticize the past for profit.
HIST329F
Special Topics in History; Religious and Political Transformations in Modern Jewish History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with JWST319V. Credit will be only granted for JWST319V or HIST329F. Analysis of the social, cultural, and political forces that led to the emancipation of the Jews?the granting to them of equal rights with all other inhabitants of the countries in which they lived?and the integrationof a once-detested ethnic-religious group into European society. The f ocus of the course will be Europe, where most Jews lived in the period between 1650 and 1870.
HIST329M
Special Topics in History; From Damascus to Cordoba: The First Dynasty of Islam East and West
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with RELS429M. Credit will be only granted for HIST329M or RELS429M. A global history of the first dynasty of Islam, from their Arabian origins to Syria and Iberia, with a focus on how the Umayyads wanted to memorialize themselves while questioning the construction of historical narratives in medieval Islam.
HIST329O
Special Topics in History; Ideologies, Parties, and Social Movements in the Modern Middle East
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Focuses on the emergence and evolution of political and social movements in Middle Eastern countries since the second half of the 19th century. Orientations spanned from left wing radicalism, communism, to political Islam and right-wing nationalism.
HIST329X
Special Topics in History; Mobility in History: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST338E
Special Topics in History; Understanding Modern Japan: 1600-Present
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST338F
Special Topics in History; What Does Government Do?: Rethinking American Political His tory
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
What does the U.S. government do and why is there so much disagreement about its responsibilities and influence? How have Americans drawn distinctions between private interest and the public purpose in the modern era? To answer these questions we will examine conflicts over policy, protest, civil rights, inequality, and a range of American "freedoms," from the Civil War to the present.
HIST338K
Special Topics in History; (Auto)biography and the Black Atlantic: 1700-1865
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examines self-writing (autobiography, memoirs, diaries) as an entry point to the history of the African diaspora in the Americas. Discusses how people of African descent understood and represented themselves, in relation to a changing social and political environment. Analyzes the challenges of writing historical biography and the relationships between biography and history. Students conduct their own biographical research into a Black Atlantic figure of their choice.
HIST338L
Special Topics in History; A Hundred Silent Springs: Environmental Justice History in the Americas, 1862-1962
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST339O
Special Topics in History; Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots: Between Propaganda and Myth
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST339Q
Special Topics in History; The Ancient Silk Road and the Indian Ocean World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST355
Civil War and the Rise of Industrialization, 1860-1900
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST355 or HIST364.
Civil War, sectional and class conflicts and their impact on American life and institutions from the beginning of the Civil War through the Gilded Age; social, economic, and political reconstruction of the Union; industrialization, urbanization, and technological changes.
HIST357
Recent America: 1945-Present
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
American history from the inauguration of Harry S. Truman to the present with emphasis upon politics and foreign relations, but with consideration of special topics such as radicalism, conservatism, and labor.
HIST382
Law and Culture in Late Imperial China
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
An exploration of Chinese law and its social/cultural implications in the late imperial period (1550s-1900s). Major interpretations of the conceptions of law and justice, the functioning of the judicial system, and local courts. An introduction to society and culture, politics and the bureaucracy, family and gender relations, and literature and popular religion of China through the lens of law.
HIST386
Experiential Learning
Credits:
3 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Permission of ARHU-History department; and junior standing or higher.
The History Department's Internship program. Pre-professional experience in historical research, analysis, and writing in a variety of work settings.
HIST395
Honors Colloquium I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Permission of ARHU-History department; and must be in History program.
History and theory: the conceptual underpinnings of the historical discipline. Students evaluate several contrasting theories of history. Prerequisite for other honors courses.
HIST398
Honors Thesis I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST399
Honors Thesis II
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST401
Science and Gender
Credit only granted for: HIST401 or HIST429R.
Formerly: HIST429R.
Examines the role of women and gender in the history of science. Includes consideration of barriers to women's participation in science; women's role as scientific subjects and researchers; and questions about the scientific construction of gender and the gendered construction of science.
HIST407
Technology and Social Change in History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Social consequences of technological innovations and the ways in which societies have coped with new technologies.
HIST408C
HIST408D
Senior Seminar; Empire and Nationalism in Russia: A Borderland Perspective
HIST408E
Senior Seminar; The Worlds of Benjamin Franklin
An analysis of some of the multiple lives that Franklin led during the eighteenth century. We will gain a greater comprehension of Franklin and of the worlds in which he lived: colonial America, the British Empire, and the independent United States.
HIST408Q
Senior Seminar; Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
HIST412
History of Women and Gender in Africa
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST412 or HIST428L.
Formerly: HIST428L.
An examination of socio-economic and cultural change in Africa from the dawn of the colonial era in the 19th century to independence in the mid-twentieth century. Major focus on how African women understood and responded to the expansion of European empires, changes in the colonial economy, and impact of westernization and urbanization.
HIST419D
Special Topics in History; Modernizing the Chinese Nation: Labor, Technology, and Politics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST419J
Special Topics in History; American Women and the Great Society: Th 1960s and Beyond
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST419N
Special Topics in History; The Unending War: From the Korean War to the Korean Wave
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST419Z
Special Topics in History; China's Long Twentieth Century: Economic and Social Changes
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST429E
Special Topics in History; East Asia and the Cold War
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST429K
Special Topics in History; From Colonization to Decolonization in North Africa, 1830-1962
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST429M
Special Topics in History; Constructing the Past in Early Islam
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST429O
Special Topics in History; Righting Historical Wrongs: Global Struggles for Truth and Justice
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Explores the diverse approaches that societies around the world have adopted to investigate, adjudicate, acknowledge, or otherwise atone for a wide range of historical injustices: colonial violence, apartheid, sexual atrocities committed during war, gross human rights violations carried out by dictatorial regimes, and genocide. Global case studies with an emphasis on non-US examples.
HIST429Z
Special Topics in History; American Money: Rethinking Finance and its History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Standard macroeconomic treatments of money and finance cannot be supported by the historical record. While most textbooks say otherwise, money has its origins in credit instruments, and meanwhile its value and uses are inseparable from the public authority that issues it. We will briefly revisit that well-documented history and debates among scholars about money's origins and nature. Then we'll look at case studies--from the colonial period to the present (from the issue of the first paper bills to Bitcoin)--to examine money's role in shaping American development.
HIST444
America in the 1960s
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST319V or HIST444.
Formerly: HIST319V.
Celebrated and vilified, the years between 1960 and 1970 represented a watershed in twentieth-century American history. Although history rarely falls neatly within 10-year divisions, the 1960s - as both historical era and historical idea - witnessed enormous political, social, and cultural changes. This course will examine the seminal events, actors, and movements that continue to shape our nation.
HIST454
Constitutional History of the United States: From Colonial Origins to 1865
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The interaction of government, law, and politics in the constitutional system. The nature and purpose of constitutions and constitutionalism; the relationship between the constitution and social forces and influences, the way in which constitutional principles, rules, ideas, and institutions affect events and are in turn affected by events. The origins of American politics and constitutionalism through the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Major constitutional problems such as the origins of judicial review, democratization of government, slavery in the territories, secession, and civil war.
HIST466
Immigration and Ethnicity in the U.S.
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: AAST498L or HIST466.
Seminar exploring historical problems relating to US immigration, race, and ethnicity since 1848, with emphasis on cultural impacts of migration on immigrants, their children, and U.S. society.
HIST499
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST601
History and Contemporary Theory
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
An introduction to contemporary theories in philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, anthropology, and other fields; and analysis of their usefulness to historians.
HIST607
The Teaching of History in Institutions of Higher Learning
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
S-F
HIST608A
General Seminar; American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST608C
General Seminar; European History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST608N
General Seminar; Global Interaction and Exchange
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
HIST610
Introduction to Museum Scholarship
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Cross-listed with: AMST655, ANTH655, INST653.
Credit only granted for: AMST655, ANTH655, HIST610, INST728T or INST653.
Provides students a basic understanding of museums as cultural and intellectual institutions. Topics include the historical development of museums, museums as resources for scholarly study, and the museum exhibition as medium for presentation of scholarship.
HIST619A
Special Topics in History; Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST619B
Special Topics in History; Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST619E
Special Topics in History; From Colonization to Decolonization in North Africa, 1830-1962
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST619N
Special Topics in History; Modernizing the Chinese Nation: Labor, Technology, and Politics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST619Q
Special Topics in History; The Unending War: From the Korean War to the Korean Wave
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST619R
Special Topics in History; The Civil Rights Movement
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST619Z
Special Topics in History; Ecological Literacy: Environmental Methods in Historical Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST629O
Readings in the American Revolution and New Nation, 1763 to 1812; Righting Historical Wrongs: Global Struggles for Truth and Justice
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Explores the diverse approaches that societies around the world have adopted to investigate, adjudicate, acknowledge, or otherwise atone for a wide range of historical injustices: colonial violence, apartheid, sexual atrocities committed during war, gross human rights violations carried out by dictatorial regimes, and genocide. Global case studies with an emphasis on non-US examples.
HIST639K
Special Topics in History; Sexualities in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
HIST639M
Special Topics in History; Constructing the Past in Early Islam
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
HIST639X
Special Topics in History; Global Commodity Histories
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
HIST708
Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations I
Credits:
1 - 4
Grad Meth:
S-F
HIST709
Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations II
Credits:
1 - 4
Grad Meth:
S-F
HIST799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
HIST811
Museum Scholarship Practicum
Credits:
3 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg
Prerequisite: AMST856, ANTH856, or HIST810.
Restriction: Permission of Museum Scholarship Program required.
Cross-listed with: AMST857, ANTH857, INST787.
Credit only granted for: AMST857, ANTH857, HIST811, INST728I or INST787.
Students devise and carry out a research program using the collections at the Smithsonian Institution or some other cooperating museum, working under joint supervision of a museum professional and a university faculty member.
HIST819A
Special Topics in History: Independent Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Department permission required.
HIST819B
Special Topics in History: Independent Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Department permission required.
HIST819M
Special Topics in History: Independent Research; United States History: Reconstruction to Present
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST819T
Special Topics in History: Independent Research; History of Technology, Science, the Environment, and Medicine
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
HIST899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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