Engagement with the Human Past
Students acquire knowledge through evidence about human experience in one or more eras of the human past and learn to evaluate, synthesize, and communicate that evidence, applying it to their lives in the present.
Engagement with the Human Past (FC-PAST) is a required Focus Capacity course in the IDEAs in Action curriculum.
A single course may be used to fulfill only one Focus Capacity requirement (not including lab).
Approved Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| AAAD 51 | 
First-Year Seminar: Masquerades of Blackness | 3 |
| AAAD 130 |
Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies | 3 |
| AAAD 231 |
African American History since 1865 | 3 |
| AAAD 232 |
Black Women in America | 3 |
| AAAD 240 |
African American Politics | 3 |
| AAAD 250 |
The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present | 3 |
| AAAD 252 |
African Americans in the West | 3 |
| AAAD 254 |
African Americans in North Carolina | 3 |
| AAAD 257 |
Black Nationalism in the United States | 3 |
| AAAD 258 |
The Civil Rights Movement | 3 |
| AAAD 259 |
Black Influences on Popular Culture | 3 |
| AAAD 286 |
The African Diaspora in the Colonial Americas, 1450-1800 | 3 |
| AAAD 298 |
Blacks in British North America to 1833 | 3 |
| AAAD 302 |
West African History, Politics, and Culture | 3 |
| AAAD 332 |
Remembering Race and Slavery | 3 |
| AAAD 350 |
The Harlem Renaissance | 3 |
| AAAD 385 |
Emancipation in the New World | 3 |
| AAAD 430 |
African American Intellectual History | 3 |
| AAAD 466 |
Race and Gender in the Atlantic World | 3 |
| AAAD 491 |
Class, Race, and Inequality in America | 3 |
| AMST 60 |
First-Year Seminar: American Indians in History, Law, and Literature | 3 |
| AMST 101 |
This Place Called "America" | 3 |
| AMST 102 |
Myth and History in American Memory | 3 |
| AMST 110 |
Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America | 3 |
| AMST 175 |
Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society | 3 |
| AMST 202 |
Historical Approaches to American Studies | 3 |
| AMST 210 |
This Place Called "The South" | 3 |
| AMST 222 |
The Death Penalty in American History | 3 |
| AMST 231 |
Native American History: The East | 3 |
| AMST 234 |
Native American Tribal Studies H | 3 |
| AMST 235 |
Native America in the 20th Century | 3 |
| AMST 251 |
The Jewish American Experience | 3 |
| AMST 253 |
A Social History of Jewish Women in America | 3 |
| AMST 258 |
Captivity and American Cultural Definition | 3 |
| AMST 259 |
Tobacco and America | 3 |
| AMST 262 |
Public History and Museum Practice | 3 |
| AMST 269 |
Mating and Marriage in America | 3 |
| AMST 273 |
Games and American Culture | 3 |
| AMST 278 |
Crimes and Punishments | 3 |
| AMST 337 |
American Indian Activism since 1887: Beyond Red Power | 3 |
| AMST 339 |
The Long 1960s in Native America | 3 |
| AMST 392 |
Radical Communities in Twentieth Century American Religious History | 3 |
| AMST 486 |
The Jewish South: Race, Region, and Religion | 3 |
| ANTH 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Archaeology and Popular Culture | 3 |
| ANTH 121 |
Ancient Cities of the Americas | 3 |
| ANTH 123 |
Habitat and Humanity | 3 |
| ANTH 145 |
Introduction to World Prehistory | 3 |
| ANTH 149 |
Great Discoveries in Archaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 151 |
Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture | 3 |
| ANTH 222 |
Prehistoric Art | 3 |
| ANTH 231 |
The Inca and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Andean South America | 3 |
| ANTH 232 |
Ancestral Maya Civilizations H | 3 |
| ANTH 233 |
Archaeology of Ancient Turkey | 3 |
| ANTH 234 |
Native American Tribal Studies H | 3 |
| ANTH 235 |
Origins of Civilization: Archaeology of the British Museum | 3 |
| ANTH 250 |
Archaeology of North America H | 3 |
| ANTH 252 |
Archaeology of Food | 3 |
| ANTH 349 |
Histories of Violence | 3 |
| ANTH 409 |
Curating Things | 3 |
| ANTH 411 |
Laboratory Methods in Archaeology H | 3 |
| ANTH 413 |
Laboratory Methods: Archaeobotany | 3 |
| ANTH 414 |
Laboratory Methods: Human Osteology | 3 |
| ANTH 415 |
Laboratory Methods: Zooarchaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 416 |
Bioarchaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 418 |
Laboratory Methods: Ceramic Analysis | 3 |
| ANTH 451 |
Field School in North American Archaeology H | 6 |
| ANTH 462 |
Archaeologies of Capitalism | 3 |
| ANTH 535 |
The Archaeology of Health and Well-Being | 3 |
| ANTH 550 |
Archaeology of the American South | 3 |
| ANTH 674 |
Issues in Cultural Heritage | 3 |
| ARTH 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Art, War, and Revolution H | 3 |
| ARTH 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe H | 3 |
| ARTH 113 |
Art and Sports in the Americas | 3 |
| ARTH 151 |
History of Western Art I H | 3 |
| ARTH 152 |
Art in Life: An Introduction to Western Art from the Renaissance to the Modern Period H | 3 |
| ARTH 160 |
Introduction to the Art and Architecture of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica H | 3 |
| ARTH 161 |
Introduction to American Art | 3 |
| ARTH 210 |
The Visual Culture of News, Past and Present | 3 |
| ARTH 242 |
Egyptian Art and Archaeology | 3 |
| ARTH 244 |
Greek Art and Archaeology | 3 |
| ARTH 247 |
Roman Art and Archaeology | 3 |
| ARTH 267 |
Latin American Modernisms | 3 |
| ARTH 268 |
Hellenistic Art and Archaeology (350-31 BCE) | 3 |
| ARTH 275 |
18th-Century Art | 3 |
| ARTH 279 |
The Arts in England, 1450-1650 H | 3 |
| ARTH 281 |
Art of Exchange and Exploration: Early America and the Globe | 3 |
| ARTH 283 |
Picturing Paris: 1800-2000 | 3 |
| ARTH 310 |
From Charlemagne to Bauhaus: German Art and Architecture from the Middle Ages to Modern Time | 3 |
| ARTH 330 |
Art, History, and the Modern Museum | 3 |
| ARTH 368 |
The Renaissance Portrait | 3 |
| ARTH 370 |
Visual Art in the Age of Revolution | 3 |
| ARTH 380 |
Life and Art in Ancient Pompeii | 3 |
| ARTH 383 |
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Modern Architecture But Were Afraid to Ask | 3 |
| ARTH 401 |
Seen, Unseen, and Suggested: Representation and Hollywood Film Censorship | 3 |
| ARTH 457 |
Studies in the History of Graphic Art | 3 |
| ARTH 465 |
Roman Architecture | 3 |
| ARTH 469 |
Art of the Aztec Empire | 3 |
| ARTH 473 |
Early Modern and Modern Decorative Arts | 3 |
| ARTH 474 |
Roman Sculpture | 3 |
| ARTH 476 |
Roman Painting | 3 |
| ARTH 484 |
Culture on the Move: Art, Empire, and Restitution since 1800 | 3 |
| ARTH 485 |
Art of the Harlem Renaissance | 3 |
| ARTH 514 |
Monuments and Memory | 3 |
| ARTH 557 |
Art and Money | 3 |
| ARTH 592 |
History and Theory of Museums | 3 |
| ARTS 274 |
Landscapes of the Camino | 3 |
| ASIA 50 |
First-Year Seminar: The Samurai: Gender and Power in Japanese History | 3 |
| ASIA 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Philosophy on Bamboo: Rethinking Early Chinese Thought | 3 |
| ASIA 131 |
Southeast Asia before 1800 through Digital History | 3 |
| ASIA 132 |
Modern Southeast Asia | 3 |
| ASIA 133 |
Introduction to Chinese History | 3 |
| ASIA 134 |
Modern East Asia | 3 |
| ASIA 135 |
History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750 | 3 |
| ASIA 139 |
History of Muslim Societies since 1500 | 3 |
| ASIA 152 |
Survey of South Asian Cultural History | 3 |
| ASIA 180 |
Islam and Muslim Life before 1500 | 3 |
| ASIA 181 |
Islam and Muslim Life since 1500 | 3 |
| ASIA 211 |
The Silk Road: Markets, Metaphysics, and Music | 3 |
| ASIA 233 |
Drugs, Sex, and Sovereignty in East Asia, 1800-1945 | 3 |
| ASIA 262 |
Nation, Film, and Novel in Modern India | 3 |
| ASIA 276 |
The Modern Middle East | 3 |
| ASIA 277 |
The Conflict over Israel/Palestine | 3 |
| ASIA 282 |
China in the World | 3 |
| ASIA 283 |
Chairman Mao's China in World History H | 3 |
| ASIA 284 |
The Buddhist Tradition: East Asia | 3 |
| ASIA 286 |
Premodern Japanese Religions | 3 |
| ASIA 288 |
Modern Japan | 3 |
| ASIA 303 |
Chinese Religions | 3 |
| ASIA 331 |
Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia H | 3 |
| ASIA 350 |
Transpacific Narratives: Oral Histories of Asian America | 3 |
| ASIA 418 |
Family and Gender in Early Modern China and Korea | 3 |
| ASIA 488 |
Shinto in Japanese History | 3 |
| ASIA 581 |
Sufism | 3 |
| ASIA 582 |
Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia | 3 |
| ASIA 583 |
Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present | 3 |
| ASIA 584 |
The Qur'an as Literature | 3 |
| ASTR 105 |
Time, Tides, and the Measurement of the Cosmos H | 3 |
| ASTR 205 |
The Medieval Foundations of Modern Cosmology | 3 |
| CHIN 150 |
Introduction to Chinese Civilization | 3 |
| CHIN 252 |
Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative | 3 |
| CHIN 265 |
Imperial China in Global Objects | 3 |
| CHIN 346 |
History as Fiction or Fiction as History? Early Chinese History in Film and Literature | 3 |
| CHIN 361 |
Chinese Traditional Theater | 3 |
| CHIN 367 |
Illustration and the Animation of Text | 3 |
| CHIN 439 |
Environmental China: Premodern Political Ecology | 3 |
| CLAR 110 |
The Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period | 3 |
| CLAR 115 |
Life in the Roman Army | 3 |
| CLAR 120 |
Ancient Mediterranean, Egyptian, and Near Eastern Archaeology H | 3 |
| CLAR 210 |
The Archaeology of Warfare in the Ancient World | 3 |
| CLAR 242 |
Egyptian Art and Archaeology | 3 |
| CLAR 243 |
Minoans and Mycenaeans: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece | 3 |
| CLAR 244 |
Greek Art and Archaeology | 3 |
| CLAR 247 |
Roman Art and Archaeology | 3 |
| CLAR 268 |
Hellenistic Art and Archaeology (350-31 BCE) | 3 |
| CLAR 374 |
The Archaeology of Death | 3 |
| CLAR 380 |
Life and Art in Ancient Pompeii | 3 |
| CLAR 465 |
Roman Architecture | 3 |
| CLAR 474 |
Roman Sculpture | 3 |
| CLAR 476 |
Roman Painting | 3 |
| CLAR 480 |
Egypt after the Pharaohs | 3 |
| CLAR 492 |
Archaeology of Greek Sanctuaries | 3 |
| CLAR 512 |
Ancient Synagogues | 3 |
| CLAS 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Writing the Past H | 3 |
| CLAS 121 |
The Greeks H | 3 |
| CLAS 122 |
The Romans H | 3 |
| CLAS 241 |
Women in Ancient Rome H | 3 |
| CLAS 257 |
Augustus and Rome H | 3 |
| CLAS 259 |
Pagans and Christians | 3 |
| CLAS 260 |
Ancient Medicine H | 3 |
| CLAS 263 |
Athletics in the Greek and Roman Worlds H | 3 |
| CLAS 271 |
Classical Rhetoric and American Democracy | 3 |
| CLAS 365 |
The Lives of Others from Herodotus to Tacitus | 3 |
| CLAS 371 |
Cicero, Caesar, and the End of the Roman Republic | 3 |
| CLAS 380 |
Emperors, Tyrants, Kings, and Rulers in Ancient Greece and Rome | 3 |
| CLAS 409 |
Greek and Roman Historians H | 3 |
| CLAS 415 |
Roman Law H | 3 |
| CMPL 120 |
Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions | 3 |
| CMPL 122 |
Great Books I: Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity to 1750 H | 3 |
| CMPL 123 |
Great Books I: Politics and Literature from Antiquity to 1750 | 3 |
| CMPL 124 |
Great Books I: Science and Literature from Antiquity to 1750 | 3 |
| CMPL 220 |
Global Authors: Jane Austen H | 3 |
| CMPL 223 |
Global Authors: Cervantes | 3 |
| CMPL 225 |
Global Authors: The Worlds of Shakespeare | 3 |
| CMPL 227 |
Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema | 3 |
| CMPL 232 |
Imagining the City in Modern Korea: Text, Image, Space | 3 |
| CMPL 453 |
The Erotic Middle Ages | 3 |
| CMPL 460 |
Transnational Romanticism: Romantic Movements in Europe and the Americas | 3 |
| CMPL 473 |
Drama, Pageantry, and Spectacle in Medieval Europe | 3 |
| CMPL 474 |
Words and Pictures: Literature and Photography in the 20th Century | 3 |
| CMPL 558 |
The Lives and Times of Medieval Corpses | 3 |
| CMPL 622 |
Medieval Cosmopolitanisms | 3 |
| COMM 373 |
Commemorative Controversies | 3 |
| COMM 430 |
History of American Screenwriting | 3 |
| DRAM 281 |
Theatre History and Literature I | 3 |
| DRAM 282 |
Theatre History and Literature II | 3 |
| EDUC 529 |
Education in American Society | 3 |
| EDUC 570 |
History of American Higher Education | 3 |
| ENGL 115 |
History of the English Language | 3 |
| ENGL 116 |
History of Writing: From Pen to Pixel | 3 |
| ENGL 120 |
British Literature, Medieval to 18th Century H | 3 |
| ENGL 153 |
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Premodern World | 3 |
| ENGL 223 |
Chaucer H | 3 |
| ENGL 224 |
Survey of Medieval English Literature, excluding Chaucer H | 3 |
| ENGL 225 |
Shakespeare H | 3 |
| ENGL 226 |
Renaissance Drama H | 3 |
| ENGL 227 |
Literature of the Earlier Renaissance H | 3 |
| ENGL 238 |
19th-Century British Novel H | 3 |
| ENGL 242 |
Victorian Literature--Contemporary Issues | 3 |
| ENGL 275 |
Founding Fictions: Democracy and American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 331 |
18th-Century Literature H | 3 |
| ENGL 337H |
The Romantic Revolution in the Arts | 3 |
| ENGL 443 |
American Literature before 1860--Contemporary Issues H | 3 |
| ENGL 620 |
Introduction to Old English Language and Literature | 3 |
| EURO 159 |
Europe and the World Since 1900 | 3 |
| EURO 252 |
Politics, Society, and Culture in Modern Germany (1871-1945) | 3 |
| EURO 257 |
Politics, Society, and Culture in Postwar Germany | 3 |
| EURO 259 |
Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe | 3 |
| EURO 270 |
Religion in Western Europe H | 3 |
| FOLK 254 |
U.S. Historical Geographies | 3 |
| FOLK 502 |
Myths and Epics of the Ancient Near East H | 3 |
| FREN 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Déjà vu. Medicine and Narration across Time and Space | 3 |
| FREN 155 |
The French Love Affair with Philosophy | 3 |
| FREN 342 |
The Art and Power of Conversation: The Enlightenment Salon | 3 |
| FREN 356 |
Littérature et philosophie | 3 |
| FREN 370 |
French and Francophone Studies to 1789 | 3 |
| FREN 387 |
Paris/Versailles: The Court and the City in the 17th Century | 3 |
| GEOG 64 |
First-Year Seminar: Vietnam | 3 |
| GEOG 232 |
Agriculture, Food, and Society | 3 |
| GEOG 254 |
U.S. Historical Geographies | 3 |
| GEOG 266 |
Society and Environment in Southeast Asia | 3 |
| GERM 227 |
Luther and the Bible | 3 |
| GERM 247 |
Music, Madness, and Genius: The Pathologies of German Musical Literature | 3 |
| GERM 265 |
Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi Germany | 3 |
| GERM 281 |
The German Idea of War: Philosophical Dialogues with the Literary and Visual Arts in WWI | 3 |
| GERM 303 |
German Literature and Culture | 3 |
| GERM 370 |
German Intellectual History | 3 |
| GERM 381 |
Berlin: Mapping a (Post) Modern Metropolis | 3 |
| GERM 383 |
Recycling the Past: East German Literature | 3 |
| GERM 410 |
Getting Medieval. Or: What Makes Us Modern? | 3 |
| GERM 416 |
The Viking Age | 3 |
| GERM 426 |
Play Time: Theater in the Medieval and Early Modern World | 3 |
| GERM 444 |
The Origins of Radical Thought | 3 |
| GERM 449 |
Vienna, Munich, Berlin. Revolution in German Art ca. 1900 | 3 |
| GERM 474 |
Words and Pictures: Literature and Photography in the 20th Century | 3 |
| GERM 481 |
Berlin: Mapping a (Post) Modern Metropolis | 3 |
| GERM 483 |
Recycling the Past: East German Literature | 3 |
| GERM 570 |
German Intellectual History | 3 |
| GSLL 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Literary Fantasy and Historical Reality | 3 |
| GSLL 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism | 3 |
| GSLL 75 |
First-Year Seminar: The Book of Books: Literature and the Bible | 3 |
| GSLL 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Uncharted Territory: Underworlds in Literature and the Visual Arts | 3 |
| GSLL 80 |
Not Just Dogs: Animals in Russian Literature | 3 |
| GSLL 212 |
"Game of Thrones" and the Worlds of the European Middle Ages | 3 |
| GSLL 225 |
Popular and Pious: Early Modern Jewish Literature | 3 |
| GSLL 250 |
Central Europe, Medieval to Modern | 3 |
| HIST 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Latin American Revolutions | 3 |
| HIST 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Traveling to European Cities: American Writers/Cultural Identities, 1830-2000 | 3 |
| HIST 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Movies and the Medieval Past | 3 |
| HIST 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Dogs, Past and Present | 3 |
| HIST 58 |
First-Year Seminar: History and the Meaning of Life | 3 |
| HIST 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Women's Voices: 20th-Century European History in Female Memory H | 3 |
| HIST 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India | 3 |
| HIST 80 |
First-Year Seminar: African American Music as History | 3 |
| HIST 88 |
First Year Seminar: America's Founding Documents | 3 |
| HIST 101 |
A History of Lies, Conspiracies, and Misinformation | 3 |
| HIST 106 |
Ancient History | 3 |
| HIST 107 |
Medieval History | 3 |
| HIST 108 |
Introduction to Early Medieval History 500-1050 | 3 |
| HIST 110 |
Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America | 3 |
| HIST 120 |
Sport and American History | 3 |
| HIST 121 |
History of Religion in North America | 3 |
| HIST 125 |
The Social History of Popular Music in 20th-Century America | 3 |
| HIST 126 |
Early American History and the Foundations of American Democracy | 3 |
| HIST 127 |
American History to 1865 | 3 |
| HIST 128 |
American History since 1865 | 3 |
| HIST 129 |
Very Modern America, 1985-2025 | 3 |
| HIST 130 |
Modern African History | 3 |
| HIST 131 |
Southeast Asia before 1800 through Digital History | 3 |
| HIST 132 |
Modern Southeast Asia | 3 |
| HIST 133 |
Introduction to Chinese History | 3 |
| HIST 134 |
Modern East Asia | 3 |
| HIST 135 |
History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750 | 3 |
| HIST 137 |
Muhammad to Malcolm X: Islam, Politics, Race, and Gender | 3 |
| HIST 139 |
History of Muslim Societies since 1500 | 3 |
| HIST 140 |
The World since 1945 | 3 |
| HIST 142 |
Latin America under Colonial Rule | 3 |
| HIST 143 |
Latin America since Independence | 3 |
| HIST 144 |
Women in United States History | 3 |
| HIST 145 |
Latin American Indigenous Peoples | 3 |
| HIST 151 |
European History to 1650 | 3 |
| HIST 153 |
From the Bible to Broadway: Jewish History to Modern Times | 3 |
| HIST 158 |
Early Modern European History, 1450-1815 | 3 |
| HIST 159 |
Europe and the World Since 1900 | 3 |
| HIST 161 |
Russia Becomes an Empire | 3 |
| HIST 162 |
Russia under the Last Tsars and Soviet Commissars | 3 |
| HIST 163 |
Modern Central Asia H | 3 |
| HIST 164 |
Victorian Britain: From Slavery to South African War | 3 |
| HIST 165 |
20th Century Britain: from the Great War to Brexit | 3 |
| HIST 167 |
Asian American History | 3 |
| HIST 180 |
Genocide in Global Perspective | 3 |
| HIST 189 |
The Global World Order from World War II to the Present H | 3 |
| HIST 203 |
Empires and Cultures in the Modern World | 3 |
| HIST 204 |
Global Environmental Histories: People, Climate, and Landscapes | 3 |
| HIST 205 |
War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1618-1815 | 3 |
| HIST 206 |
War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945 | 3 |
| HIST 215 |
Peoples, Cultures, and Landscapes of Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 220 |
The Olympic Games: A Global History H | 3 |
| HIST 225 |
History of Greece | 3 |
| HIST 226 |
The Rise of Rome | 3 |
| HIST 227 |
The Fall of the Roman Empire | 3 |
| HIST 228 |
Medieval Science | 3 |
| HIST 229 |
The History of London 43 - 1666 H | 3 |
| HIST 231 |
Native American History: The East | 3 |
| HIST 234 |
Native American Tribal Studies H | 3 |
| HIST 235 |
Native America in the 20th Century | 3 |
| HIST 236 |
Sex and American History | 3 |
| HIST 237 |
Colonial American History to 1763 | 3 |
| HIST 238 |
The American Revolution, 1763-1815 | 3 |
| HIST 240 |
Introduction to Mexico: A Nation in Four Revolutions | 3 |
| HIST 241 |
History of Latinos in the United States | 3 |
| HIST 242 |
United States-Latin American Relations | 3 |
| HIST 243 |
The United States and Africa H | 3 |
| HIST 244 |
History of the American Presidency | 3 |
| HIST 245 |
The United States and the Cold War: Origins, Development, Legacy | 3 |
| HIST 246 |
The Long Cold War: U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20th and 21st Centuries | 3 |
| HIST 247 |
Early Modern Japanese History and Culture | 3 |
| HIST 248 |
Guerrillas and Counterinsurgencies in Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 249 |
Modern Global Christianity | 3 |
| HIST 250 |
Central Europe, Medieval to Modern | 3 |
| HIST 251 |
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648): Europe in an Age of Crisis | 3 |
| HIST 252 |
Politics, Society, and Culture in Modern Germany (1871-1945) | 3 |
| HIST 254 |
War and Society in Early Modern Europe | 3 |
| HIST 255 |
Manor to Machine: The Economic Shaping of Europe | 3 |
| HIST 256 |
France, 1940 to the Present H | 3 |
| HIST 257 |
Politics, Society, and Culture in Postwar Germany | 3 |
| HIST 259 |
Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe | 3 |
| HIST 260 |
From Kings to Communists: East-Central Europe in the Modern Era H | 3 |
| HIST 262 |
History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews | 3 |
| HIST 263 |
Gender and Religion in Premodern Europe H | 3 |
| HIST 265 |
Imperial China in Global Objects | 3 |
| HIST 266 |
Global History of Warfare | 3 |
| HIST 271 |
Ancient and Medieval Japanese History and Culture | 3 |
| HIST 273 |
Water, Conflict, and Connection in the Middle East | 3 |
| HIST 274 |
History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 | 3 |
| HIST 276 |
The Modern Middle East | 3 |
| HIST 277 |
The Conflict over Israel/Palestine | 3 |
| HIST 278 |
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade H | 3 |
| HIST 279 |
Modern South Africa H | 3 |
| HIST 280 |
Women and Gender in Latin American History | 3 |
| HIST 282 |
China in the World | 3 |
| HIST 283 |
Chairman Mao's China in World History H | 3 |
| HIST 285 |
20th-Century China | 3 |
| HIST 288 |
Modern Japan | 3 |
| HIST 289 |
America in the 1970s | 3 |
| HIST 291 |
Putting Literature and History in Dialogue H | 3 |
| HIST 301 |
How Empires Fall: Case Studies from the Past and Lessons for Today | 3 |
| HIST 302 |
Movies Make History: Films as Primary Sources in Europe and America H | 3 |
| HIST 303 |
Medieval Spain | 3 |
| HIST 304H |
Conquest and Colonization in the English Atlantic World | 3 |
| HIST 305 |
Elizabeth I and her World: Gender, Power, and the Beginnings of the Global | 3 |
| HIST 306 |
Princes and Reformations in Germany, 1400-1600 | 3 |
| HIST 307 |
Religion, Statecraft, and Enlightenment in Germany, 1600-1815 | 3 |
| HIST 309 |
Old Regime France, 1661-1787 | 3 |
| HIST 310 |
The French Revolution | 3 |
| HIST 312 |
History of France and Algeria | 3 |
| HIST 313 |
Women and the Law in Africa and the Middle East | 3 |
| HIST 314 |
Law and Society in Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 315 |
Nation-Building in Latin America H | 3 |
| HIST 320 |
Art, History, and the Modern Museum | 3 |
| HIST 331 |
Why History Matters to Public Policy | 3 |
| HIST 335 |
Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia H | 3 |
| HIST 339 |
Asia and the Birth of Global Capitalism, 1400-1850 | 3 |
| HIST 340 |
Ethics and Business in Africa H | 3 |
| HIST 343H |
Empire, Race, and Resistance | 3 |
| HIST 345 |
Dictators and Democracy: Autocracy and "the People" from Antiquity to Today | 3 |
| HIST 360 |
Ideas in Modern America H | 3 |
| HIST 361 |
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories in the United States | 3 |
| HIST 362 |
Baseball and American History | 3 |
| HIST 364 |
History of American Business | 3 |
| HIST 367 |
North Carolina's Unfinished Democracy | 3 |
| HIST 372 |
History of American Politics, 1932-Present H | 3 |
| HIST 377 |
History of African Americans, 1865 to Present H | 3 |
| HIST 383 |
Big-Time College Sports and the Rights of Athletes, 1874 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 384 |
America in the Sixties H | 3 |
| HIST 385 |
African American Women's History | 3 |
| HIST 418 |
Family and Gender in Early Modern China and Korea | 3 |
| HIST 434 |
Medieval England | 3 |
| HIST 437 |
Aristocratic Culture in the Central Middle Ages | 3 |
| HIST 438 |
Medieval Masculinities, 500-1200 H | 3 |
| HIST 439 |
Environmental China: Premodern Political Ecology | 3 |
| HIST 443 |
Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective | 3 |
| HIST 445 |
Humanitarianism in Historical Perspective | 3 |
| HIST 456 |
The Holocaust, Genocide and Historical Methodology | 3 |
| HIST 457 |
Liberalism, Socialism, and Fascism in Europe | 3 |
| HIST 468 |
Culture on the Move: Art, Empire, and Restitution since 1800 | 3 |
| HIST 480 |
Russia's 19th Century: Cultural Splendor, Imperial Decay | 3 |
| HIST 488 |
Global Intellectual History H | 3 |
| HIST 489 |
The History of the 2008 Financial Crisis H | 3 |
| HIST 507 |
Geopolitical Rivalry, Development, and Global Capitalism, 1900-1950 | 3 |
| HIST 514 |
Monuments and Memory | 3 |
| HIST 564 |
Religion, Race, and Inquisition in the Spanish Empire | 3 |
| HIST 580 |
International Relations and Public History | 3 |
| HIST 585 |
Race, Basketball, and the American Dream | 3 |
| ITAL 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Contagion and Culture: Lessons from Italy | 3 |
| ITAL 130 |
Dante's Divine Comedy | 3 |
| ITAL 241 |
The Renaissance Mind and Body | 3 |
| ITAL 343 |
Italian Culture Today: Modern Italy as a Nation 1860 to Present | 3 |
| ITAL 346 |
Gender, Sexuality, and Representation in Early Modern Italy and Europe | 3 |
| ITAL 359 |
Medieval Frauds: Fake News, Counterfeits, and Forgeries | 3 |
| ITAL 365 |
Italian Food and Culture | 3 |
| ITAL 372 |
Poetry, Parchment, Polis | 3 |
| JAPN 231 |
Ancient and Medieval Japanese History and Culture | 3 |
| JAPN 246 |
Early Modern Japanese History and Culture | 3 |
| JAPN 277 |
Empire of Sex: Eroticism, Mass Culture, and Geopolitics in Japan, 1945-Present | 3 |
| JAPN 375 |
The Culture of Modern, Imperial Japan, 1900-1945 | 3 |
| JWST 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism | 3 |
| JWST 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Jewish Spain: History and Culture Across the Hispanic World | 3 |
| JWST 100 |
Introduction to Jewish Studies | 3 |
| JWST 106 |
Judaism in the Time of Jesus | 3 |
| JWST 109 |
History and Culture of Ancient Israel H | 3 |
| JWST 110 |
The Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period | 3 |
| JWST 153 |
From the Bible to Broadway: Jewish History to Modern Times | 3 |
| JWST 211 |
Classical Hebrew I: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible | 3 |
| JWST 212 |
Classical Hebrew II: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible | 3 |
| JWST 225 |
Popular and Pious: Early Modern Jewish Literature | 3 |
| JWST 251 |
The Jewish American Experience | 3 |
| JWST 253 |
A Social History of Jewish Women in America | 3 |
| JWST 262 |
History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews | 3 |
| JWST 480 |
Russian-Soviet Jewish Culture: Lofty Dreams and Stark Realities H | 3 |
| JWST 486 |
The Jewish South: Race, Region, and Religion | 3 |
| JWST 503 |
Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls H | 3 |
| JWST 512 |
Ancient Synagogues | 3 |
| JWST 602 |
What Is Scripture? Formations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Canon | 3 |
| KOR 232 |
Imagining the City in Modern Korea: Text, Image, Space | 3 |
| LING 202 |
Linguistic Variation and Language Change | 3 |
| LING 578 |
Comparative History of the Romance Languages | 3 |
| LTAM 215 |
Peoples, Cultures, and Landscapes of Latin America | 3 |
| LTAM 241 |
History of Latinos in the United States | 3 |
| LTAM 314 |
Law and Society in Latin America | 3 |
| MNGT 364 |
History of American Business | 3 |
| MUSC 141 |
Survey of Western Music History | 3 |
| MUSC 255 |
Studies in Music History II, 1750 to the Present | 3 |
| NAVS 311 |
Evolution of Warfare | 3 |
| NUTR 175 |
Introduction to Food Studies: From Science to Society | 3 |
| PHIL 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Who Was Socrates? | 3 |
| PHIL 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Plato's Symposium and Its Influence on Western Art and Literature H | 3 |
| PHIL 110 |
Philosophical Texts that Changed the World: An Introduction to Philosophy through Great Works H | 3 |
| PHIL 111 |
Philosopher Queens: World Philosophies through Women's Texts | 3 |
| PHIL 113 |
Philosophical Texts that Changed the World: An Introduction To Philosophy Through Great Works | 3 |
| PHIL 175 |
Philosophical Foundations of American Democracy | 3 |
| PHIL 210 |
Wonder, Myth, and Reason: Introduction to Ancient Greek Science and Philosophy H | 3 |
| PHIL 211 |
Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Marginality in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Science, and Medicine | 3 |
| PHIL 213 |
Asian Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 215 |
Medieval Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 220 |
17th and 18th Century Western Philosophy H | 3 |
| PHIL 224 |
Existential Philosophy and the Meaning(lessness) of Life H | 3 |
| PHIL 282 |
Human Rights: Philosophical Interrogations | 3 |
| PHIL 411 |
Aristotle | 3 |
| PHIL 412 |
Plato | 3 |
| PHIL 421 |
Rationalism | 3 |
| PHIL 422 |
Empiricism | 3 |
| PHIL 423 |
Kant's Theoretical Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 424 |
Kant's Practical Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 426 |
Nietzsche | 3 |
| PLAN 246 |
Cities of the Past, Present, and Future: Introduction to Planning | 3 |
| PLCY 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth H | 3 |
| PLCY 331 |
Why History Matters to Public Policy | 3 |
| POLI 200 |
The President, Congress, and Public Policy | 3 |
| POLI 240 |
African American Politics | 3 |
| POLI 257 |
Politics, Society, and Culture in Postwar Germany | 3 |
| PORT 323 |
Advanced Communication in Portuguese: History, Nature, and Society | 3 |
| PORT 370 |
Modern Brazil through Literature and Film in Translation | 3 |
| PORT 375 |
Portuguese and Brazilian Fiction in Translation | 3 |
| PORT 521 |
Contemporary Portuguese Culture and Contexts | 3 |
| PWAD 115 |
Life in the Roman Army | 3 |
| PWAD 132 |
Modern Southeast Asia | 3 |
| PWAD 134 |
Modern East Asia | 3 |
| PWAD 205 |
War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1618-1815 | 3 |
| PWAD 206 |
War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945 | 3 |
| PWAD 210 |
The Archaeology of Warfare in the Ancient World | 3 |
| PWAD 238 |
The American Revolution, 1763-1815 | 3 |
| PWAD 245 |
The United States and the Cold War: Origins, Development, Legacy | 3 |
| PWAD 248 |
Guerrillas and Counterinsurgencies in Latin America | 3 |
| PWAD 251 |
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648): Europe in an Age of Crisis | 3 |
| PWAD 254 |
War and Society in Early Modern Europe | 3 |
| PWAD 262 |
History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews | 3 |
| PWAD 266 |
Global History of Warfare | 3 |
| PWAD 273 |
Water, Conflict, and Connection in the Middle East | 3 |
| PWAD 277 |
The Conflict over Israel/Palestine | 3 |
| PWAD 312 |
History of France and Algeria | 3 |
| PWAD 331 |
Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia H | 3 |
| PWAD 359 |
Comparative History of National Intelligence Regimes H | 3 |
| RELI 63 |
First-Year Seminar: The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 3 |
| RELI 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Myth, Philosophy, and Science in the Ancient World | 3 |
| RELI 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Jesus in Scholarship and Film | 3 |
| RELI 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Religion and Writing in the Ancient World | 3 |
| RELI 104 |
Understanding the Bible: The New Testament and Christian Literature H | 3 |
| RELI 106 |
Judaism in the Time of Jesus | 3 |
| RELI 109 |
History and Culture of Ancient Israel H | 3 |
| RELI 110 |
The Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period | 3 |
| RELI 114 |
Early Christian Worship, Ritual, and Bodies | 3 |
| RELI 117 |
Culture of the Ancient Near East | 3 |
| RELI 123 |
Introduction to Jewish Studies | 3 |
| RELI 125 |
Heaven and Hell | 3 |
| RELI 127 |
The Claims of Science and Religion | 3 |
| RELI 130 |
Religion and Popular Culture | 3 |
| RELI 138 |
Religious Freedom | 3 |
| RELI 140 |
Religion in America H | 3 |
| RELI 142 |
Catholicism in America | 3 |
| RELI 151 |
Religion in Latin America | 3 |
| RELI 161 |
Introduction to the History of Christian Traditions H | 3 |
| RELI 162 |
Catholicism Today: An Introduction to the Contemporary Catholic Church | 3 |
| RELI 164 |
Heresy and Inquisition: Religion, Ethics, Marginalization | 3 |
| RELI 165 |
Mysticism H | 3 |
| RELI 167 |
Global Christianity | 3 |
| RELI 180 |
Islam and Muslim Life before 1500 | 3 |
| RELI 181 |
Islam and Muslim Life since 1500 | 3 |
| RELI 207 |
Jesus in the Early Christian Gospels | 3 |
| RELI 208 |
The Birth of Christianity | 3 |
| RELI 209 |
Varieties of Early Christianity H | 3 |
| RELI 211 |
Classical Hebrew I: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible | 3 |
| RELI 212 |
Classical Hebrew II: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible | 3 |
| RELI 217 |
Gnosticism H | 3 |
| RELI 227 |
Luther and the Bible | 3 |
| RELI 240 |
Religion, Literature, and the Arts in America H | 3 |
| RELI 242 |
New Religious Movements in America | 3 |
| RELI 249 |
Religion in Colonial Mexico | 3 |
| RELI 263 |
Gender and Religion in Premodern Europe H | 3 |
| RELI 266 |
Medieval and Renaissance Christian Cultures | 3 |
| RELI 270 |
Religion in Western Europe H | 3 |
| RELI 284 |
The Buddhist Tradition: East Asia | 3 |
| RELI 286 |
Premodern Japanese Religions | 3 |
| RELI 288 |
Chinese Religions | 3 |
| RELI 289 |
Muhammad and the Qur'an | 3 |
| RELI 314 |
Memory and the Historical Jesus H | 3 |
| RELI 325 |
Religion, Magic, and Science | 3 |
| RELI 332 |
The Protestant Tradition H | 3 |
| RELI 362 |
Mary in the Christian Tradition H | 3 |
| RELI 413 |
Biblical Coptic and Early Egyptian Monasticism | 3 |
| RELI 416 |
The Cult of Saints: Narratives, Materialities, Practices | 3 |
| RELI 421 |
Religion and Science | 3 |
| RELI 441 |
Religion in Early America H | 3 |
| RELI 448 |
Native and Christian: Indigenous Engagements with Christianity | 3 |
| RELI 450 |
Sexuality in Jewish Tradition and History | 3 |
| RELI 488 |
Shinto in Japanese History | 3 |
| RELI 501 |
The History of the Bible in Modern Study | 3 |
| RELI 502 |
Myths and Epics of the Ancient Near East H | 3 |
| RELI 503 |
Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls H | 3 |
| RELI 512 |
Ancient Synagogues | 3 |
| RELI 514 |
Judaism and the Search for Christian Origins | 3 |
| RELI 515 |
Cultural Histories of the New Testament H | 3 |
| RELI 564 |
Religion, Race, and Inquisition in the Spanish Empire | 3 |
| RELI 581 |
Sufism | 3 |
| RELI 582 |
Islam and Islamic Art in South Asia | 3 |
| RELI 583 |
Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present | 3 |
| RELI 584 |
The Qur'an as Literature | 3 |
| RELI 602 |
What Is Scripture? Formations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Canon | 3 |
| RELI 609 |
Christianity and Greco-Roman Culture | 3 |
| RELI 617 |
Death and Afterlife in the Ancient World H | 3 |
| ROML 63 |
First Year Seminar: Forging Alliances: Religion, War, and Cultural Transference on the Camino | 3 |
| ROML 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Jewish Spain: History and Culture Across the Hispanic World | 3 |
| ROML 578 |
Comparative History of the Romance Languages | 3 |
| RUSS 270 |
Crimes and Punishments: Russian Literature of the 19th Century | 3 |
| RUSS 277 |
Love, Sex, and Marriage in Soviet Culture | 3 |
| RUSS 279 |
Sunstrokes in Dark Alleys: Russian Short Stories | 3 |
| RUSS 445 |
19th Century Russian Literature and Culture | 3 |
| RUSS 461 |
Soviet Socialist Realism: Making the World Anew | 3 |
| RUSS 464 |
Dostoevsky | 3 |
| RUSS 465 |
Chekhov | 3 |
| RUSS 479 |
Tolstoy | 3 |
| RUSS 480 |
Russian-Soviet Jewish Culture: Lofty Dreams and Stark Realities H | 3 |
| SCLL 105 |
Time, Tides, and the Measurement of the Cosmos | 3 |
| SCLL 121 |
History of Religion in North America | 3 |
| SCLL 125 |
Utopias and Dystopias | 3 |
| SCLL 132 |
Philosophy of Education | 3 |
| SCLL 140 |
Islam and its Others | 3 |
| SCLL 145 |
The Family in Political Thought | 3 |
| SCLL 160 |
The Moral Economy | 3 |
| SCLL 175 |
Gurus, Prophets, Demagogues | 3 |
| SCLL 205 |
The Medieval Foundations of Modern Cosmology | 3 |
| SCLL 237 |
Left, Right, Center | 3 |
| SCLL 360 |
Ideas in Modern America | 3 |
| SOCI 121 |
Population Problems | 3 |
| SOCI 122 |
Race and Ethnicity | 3 |
| SPAN 340 |
Topics in the Cultural History of Iberia | 3 |
| SPAN 378 |
Afro-Hispanic Language Contacts | 3 |
| WGST 64 |
Plantation Lullabies: Literature by and about African American Women | 3 |
| WGST 144 |
Women in United States History | 3 |
| WGST 222 |
Prehistoric Art | 3 |
| WGST 241 |
Women in Ancient Rome H | 3 |
| WGST 253 |
A Social History of Jewish Women in America | 3 |
| WGST 259 |
Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe | 3 |
| WGST 266 |
Black Women in America | 3 |
| WGST 280 |
Women and Gender in Latin American History | 3 |
| WGST 313 |
Women and the Law in Africa and the Middle East | 3 |
| WGST 330 |
Women's Health Activism in Twentieth Century America | 3 |
| WGST 337 |
African Gender History | 3 |
| WGST 360 |
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories in the United States | 3 |
| WGST 362 |
Mary in the Christian Tradition H | 3 |
| WGST 382 |
African American Women's History | 3 |
| WGST 418 |
Family and Gender in Early Modern China and Korea | 3 |
| WGST 450 |
Sexuality in Jewish Tradition and History | 3 |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
