History Major, B.A.

The Department of History educates students about the past, teaching them to discover the rich diversity of historical human experiences. The study of history also equips students with the valuable critical thinking, research, and communication skills they need to succeed in the present, preparing them for a wide variety of careers and a life of informed citizenship.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the history program, students should be able to:

• Appreciate the diversity of human experiences in past eras and parts of the globe
• Identify substantive, well-reasoned topics of historical inquiry for analysis
• Evaluate the quality of historical scholarship and conflicting views of the past
• Analyze primary sources to develop evidence-based arguments
• Produce and document original knowledge about the past in a field of expertise
• Communicate historically informed knowledge in written, digital, and/or oral forms

Requirements

In addition to the program requirements, students must

• earn a minimum final cumulative GPA of 2.000
• complete a minimum of 45 academic credit hours earned from UNC–Chapel Hill courses
• take at least half of their major core requirements (courses and credit hours) at UNC–Chapel Hill
• earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the major core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for major or specific courses.

For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Core Requirements
A total of 10 HIST courses
Four to six courses in a field of concentration (geographical or thematic). See lists below.		12-18
Four to six courses outside the field of concentration		12-18
HIST 398	Undergraduate Seminar in History (This seminar can be in the field of concentration or outside it.) H	3
One course in Latin America or Africa, Asia, and Middle East history		3
At least six courses numbered 200 or above
Total Hours		30

H	Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply.

Each major shall concentrate in one area (see lists below), or students must devise a thematic concentration and have it approved by the chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee.

The Department of History offers multiple sections of the required HIST 398 undergraduate seminar each semester. Each section focuses on a different topic. Prior to the course registration period, the Department of History will distribute to all history majors information about the next semester’s offerings of HIST 398.

All College of Arts and Sciences policies apply, including (but not limited to) the following.

• A maximum of 15 history courses (45 hours) may be applied toward the B.A. degree. Any courses beyond the minimal 10 (but not above the maximum of 15) will count as free electives.
• No more than five courses (15 hours) of transfer credit and College Board Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate credit may count toward the major. Up to five courses (15 hours) of transfer credit may count toward the major, but only up to two courses (six hours) of College Board Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate credit may count toward the major. In no case can the combination of transfer credits and AP/IB credits exceed 15 hours.

History (HIST) course descriptions.

Field According to Topic

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 190	Special Topics in History	3
HIST 291	Putting Literature and History in Dialogue H	3
HIST 390	Special Topics in History H	3
HIST 398	Undergraduate Seminar in History H	3
HIST 490	Special Topics in History H	3
HIST 493	Internship in History	1-3
HIST 495	Directed Readings in History	1-3
HIST 496	Independent Research in History	1-3
HIST 691H	Honors in History	3
HIST 692H	Honors in 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.

Geographical Concentrations 

Africa, Asia, and Middle East 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 52	First-Year Seminar: Conflicts over Israel/Palestine	3
HIST 62	First-Year Seminar: Nations, Borders, and Identities	3
HIST 63	First-Year Seminar: Water, Conflict, and Connection: the Middle East and Ottoman Lands H	3
HIST 74	First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India	3
HIST 83	First-Year Seminar: African History through Popular Music	3
HIST 130	Modern African History	3
HIST 131	Southeast Asia before 1800 through Digital History	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 136	History of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: South Asia since 1750	3
HIST 137	Muhammad to Malcolm X: Islam, Politics, Race, and Gender	3
HIST 138	History of Muslim Societies to 1500	3
HIST 139	History of Muslim Societies since 1500	3
HIST 163	Modern Central Asia H	3
HIST 166	History of Afghanistan	3
HIST 174H	Honors Seminar in African, Asian, and Middle Eastern History	3
HIST 203	Empires and Cultures in the Modern World	3
HIST 243	The United States and Africa H	3
HIST 271	Ancient and Medieval Japanese History and Culture	3
HIST 272	Modern South Asia	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 281	The Pacific War, 1937-1945: Its Causes and Legacy	3
HIST 282	China in the World	3
HIST 284	Late Imperial China	3
HIST 285	20th-Century China	3
HIST 288	Modern Japan	3
HIST 312	History of France and Algeria	3
HIST 331	Sex, Religion, and Violence: Revolutionary Thought in Modern South Asia	3
HIST 340	Ethics and Business in Africa H	3
HIST 440	Gender in Indian History	3
HIST 442	Religion, Co-existence, and Conflict in Pre-Colonial India	3
HIST 483	Nation and Religion in Russia	3
HIST 484	Islam in Tsarist and Soviet Russia	3
HIST 511	9/11 in World History H	3
HIST 534	Slavery and the US Civil War H	3
HIST 535	Women and Gender in African History H	3
HIST 536	Revolution in the Modern Middle East	3
HIST 537	Women in the Middle East	3
HIST 538	The Middle East and the West	3
HIST 539	The Economic History of Southeast Asia	3
HIST 550	Gender in Chinese History	3
HIST 557	Fiction and History in India	3
HIST 570	The Vietnam War	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.

Latin America

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 51	First-Year Seminar: Latin American Revolutions	3
HIST 76	First-Year Seminar: Understanding 1492	3
HIST 142	Latin America under Colonial Rule	3
HIST 143	Latin America since Independence	3
HIST 145	Latin American Indigenous Peoples	3
HIST 175H	Honors Seminar in Latin American History	3
HIST 203	Empires and Cultures in the Modern World	3
HIST 240	Introduction to Mexico: A Nation in Four Revolutions	3
HIST 242	United States-Latin American Relations	3
HIST 248	Guerrillas and Counterinsurgencies in Latin America	3
HIST 280	Women and Gender in Latin American History	3
HIST 315	Nation-Building in Latin America H	3
HIST 526	History of the Andes	3
HIST 531	History of the Caribbean	3
HIST 532	History of Cuba	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.

Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 64	First-Year Seminar: Gorbachev: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the Rise of the New Russia	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 176H	Honors Seminar in Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European History	3
HIST 264	Gender in Russian History	3
HIST 334	Rasputin's Russia: Erotic, Decadent, Revolutionary	3
HIST 476	Religion and Ethnicity	3
HIST 477	Revolution in Russia, 1900-1930	3
HIST 478	Stalin and After: The USSR, 1929-Present	3
HIST 480	Russia's 19th Century: Cultural Splendor, Imperial Decay	3
HIST 481	From Communists to Capitalists: Eastern Europe since 1945	3
HIST 482	Russia, Eurasian Empire	3
HIST 483	Nation and Religion in Russia	3
HIST 484	Islam in Tsarist and Soviet Russia	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.

Europe

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 53	First-Year Seminar: Traveling to European Cities: American Writers/Cultural Identities, 1830-2000	3
HIST 64	First-Year Seminar: Gorbachev: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the Rise of the New Russia	3
HIST 66	First-Year Seminar: Film and History in Europe and the United States, 1908-1968	3
HIST 72	First-Year Seminar: Women's Voices: 20th-Century European History in Female Memory H	3
HIST 81	First-Year Seminar: Diaries, Memoirs, and Testimonies of the Holocaust	3
HIST 84	First-Year Seminar: Monsters, Murders, and Mayhem in Microhistorical Analysis: French Case Studies H	3
HIST 85	First-Year Seminar: What Concentration Camp Survivors Tell Us H	3
HIST 104	Introduction to Major Problems in European History	3
HIST 151	European History to 1650	3
HIST 152	European History since 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 164	Victorian Britain: From Slavery to South African War	3
HIST 165	20th Century Britain: from the Great War to Brexit	3
HIST 177H	Honors Seminar in Early European History	3
HIST 178H	Honors Seminar in Modern European History	3
HIST 205	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1618-1815	3
HIST 206	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945	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 258	Modern Italy since 1848	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 261	France, 1870-1940	3
HIST 262	History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews	3
HIST 264	Gender in Russian History	3
HIST 269	Modern London: Empire, Race, and Culture H	3
HIST 306	Princes and Reformations in Germany, 1400-1600	3
HIST 307	Religion, Statecraft, and Enlightenment in Germany, 1600-1815	3
HIST 308	The Renaissance and the Jews	3
HIST 309	Old Regime France, 1661-1787	3
HIST 310	The French Revolution	3
HIST 320	Art, History, and the Modern Museum	3
HIST 325	Food and History	3
HIST 332	Identity and Community in Modern Jewish History: The Case of Durham	3
HIST 334	Rasputin's Russia: Erotic, Decadent, Revolutionary	3
HIST 347	Fascist Challenge in Europe, 1918-1945	3
HIST 348	History of Migration	3
HIST 353	Cinema, Culture, and Society	3
HIST 354	War and Gender in Movies H	3
HIST 452	The Renaissance: Italy, Birthplace of the Renaissance, 1300-1550	3
HIST 453	Mediterranean Societies and Economics in the Renaissance World	3
HIST 454	The Reformation	3
HIST 458	Europe and the World Wars, 1914-1945	3
HIST 462	Germany, 1806-1918: Politics, Society, and Culture H	3
HIST 463	Germany since 1918: Politics, Society, and Culture H	3
HIST 466	Modern European Intellectual History H	3
HIST 468	Culture on the Move: Art, Empire, and Restitution since 1800	3
HIST 469	European Social History	3
HIST 474	Britain in World Affairs: British Foreign Policy since World War II	3
HIST 476	Religion and Ethnicity	3
HIST 477	Revolution in Russia, 1900-1930	3
HIST 478	Stalin and After: The USSR, 1929-Present	3
HIST 479	History of Female Sexualities	3
HIST 480	Russia's 19th Century: Cultural Splendor, Imperial Decay	3
HIST 481	From Communists to Capitalists: Eastern Europe since 1945	3
HIST 482	Russia, Eurasian Empire	3
HIST 485	From Fiddler on the Roof to the Holocaust: East European and Soviet Jewish History	3
HIST 486	Extremism, Terrorism, and Security in Postwar Europe H	3
HIST 500	Gender, Empire, and Nation	3
HIST 508	Europe and Humanitarian Aid since 1945: Concepts, Actors, Practices	3
HIST 510	Human Rights in the Modern World H	3
HIST 516	Historical Time H	3
HIST 517	Gender, Military, and War	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.

United States 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 53	First-Year Seminar: Traveling to European Cities: American Writers/Cultural Identities, 1830-2000	3
HIST 66	First-Year Seminar: Film and History in Europe and the United States, 1908-1968	3
HIST 70	First-Year Seminar: Seeing History in Everyday Places: Chapel Hill as a Case Study	3
HIST 79	First-Year Seminar: Coming of Age in 20th Century America	3
HIST 102	Introduction to Major Problems in U.S History	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 124	United States History through Film	3
HIST 125	The Social History of Popular Music in 20th-Century America	3
HIST 127	American History to 1865	3
HIST 128	American History since 1865	3
HIST 144	Women in United States History	3
HIST 179H	Honors Seminar in American History	3
HIST 205	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1618-1815	3
HIST 206	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945	3
HIST 230	Why History Matters to Public Policy	3
HIST 231	Native American History: The East	3
HIST 233	Native American History: The West	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 239	Religion in North America since 1865	3
HIST 241	History of Latinos in the United States	3
HIST 242	United States-Latin American Relations	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 289	America in the 1970s	3
HIST 302H	Movies Make History: Films as Primary Sources in Europe and America	3
HIST 320	Art, History, and the Modern Museum	3
HIST 322	Technology and American Culture	3
HIST 325	Food and History	3
HIST 355	American Women's History to 1865	3
HIST 356	American Women's History, 1865 to the Present	3
HIST 357	The U.S. South to 1865	3
HIST 358	The New South	3
HIST 359	The Early American Republic, 1789-1848	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 363	Popular Culture and American History H	3
HIST 364	History of American Business	3
HIST 365	The Worker and American Life	3
HIST 366	North Carolina History before 1865	3
HIST 367	North Carolina History since 1865	3
HIST 368	War and American Society to 1903	3
HIST 369	War and American Society	3
HIST 372	History of American Politics, 1932-Present H	3
HIST 373	The United States in World War II	3
HIST 374	The American West, 1800 to the Present	3
HIST 375	History of Gender in America	3
HIST 376	History of African Americans to 1865	3
HIST 377	History of African Americans, 1865 to Present H	3
HIST 382	The History of the Civil Rights Movement 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 459	Global Evangelicalism since 1600	3
HIST 475	History of Feminism H	3
HIST 510	Human Rights in the Modern World H	3
HIST 517	Gender, Military, and War	3
HIST 562	Oral History and Performance H	3
HIST 565	Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1900	3
HIST 566	The History of Sexuality in America	3
HIST 568	Women in the South	3
HIST 570	The Vietnam War	3
HIST 571	Southern Music	3
HIST 576	The Ethnohistory of Native American Women	3
HIST 577	United States Foreign Relations in the 20th Century	3
HIST 581	American Constitutional History to 1876	3
HIST 582	American Constitutional History since 1876	3
HIST 584	The Promise of Urbanization: American Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries	3
HIST 585	Race, Basketball, and the American Dream	3
HIST 589	Race, Racism, and America: (United States) Law in Historical Perspective	3
HIST 593	Exploring the U.S. South Hands On and Ears Open: Internship at the Southern Oral History Program	3
HIST 670	Introduction to Oral History	3
HIST 671	Introduction to Public 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.

Thematic Concentrations

Ancient and Medieval

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 105	Empires in World History	3
HIST 106	Ancient History	3
HIST 107	Medieval History	3
HIST 108	Introduction to Early Medieval History 500-1050	3
HIST 151	European History to 1650	3
HIST 177H	Honors Seminar in Early European History	3
HIST 225	History of Greece	3
HIST 226	The Rise of Rome	3
HIST 228	Medieval Science	3
HIST 255	Manor to Machine: The Economic Shaping of Europe	3
HIST 306	Princes and Reformations in Germany, 1400-1600	3
HIST 421	Alexander	3
HIST 422	Ancient Greek Warfare H	3
HIST 423	Archaic Greece, 800-480 BCE	3
HIST 424	Classical Greece (Sixth-Fourth Centuries BCE)	3
HIST 425	Roman History, 154 BCE-14 CE	3
HIST 427	The Early Roman Empire, 14 CE-193 CE	3
HIST 428	The Later Roman Empire, 193 CE-378 CE	3
HIST 431	The Medieval Church	3
HIST 432	The Crusades	3
HIST 434	Medieval England	3
HIST 435	The Medieval University	3
HIST 437	Aristocratic Culture in the Central Middle Ages	3
HIST 438	Medieval Masculinities, 500-1200 H	3
HIST 452	The Renaissance: Italy, Birthplace of the Renaissance, 1300-1550	3
HIST 453	Mediterranean Societies and Economics in the Renaissance World	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.

Global History

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 53	First-Year Seminar: Traveling to European Cities: American Writers/Cultural Identities, 1830-2000	3
HIST 62	First-Year Seminar: Nations, Borders, and Identities	3
HIST 66	First-Year Seminar: Film and History in Europe and the United States, 1908-1968	3
HIST 76	First-Year Seminar: Understanding 1492	3
HIST 83	First-Year Seminar: African History through Popular Music	3
HIST 103	Introduction to Major Problems in Modern World History	3
HIST 105	Empires in World History	3
HIST 138	History of Muslim Societies to 1500	3
HIST 139	History of Muslim Societies since 1500	3
HIST 140	The World since 1945	3
HIST 203	Empires and Cultures in the Modern World	3
HIST 205	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1618-1815	3
HIST 206	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945	3
HIST 207	The Global Cold War	3
HIST 210	Global Issues and Globalization	3
HIST 212	History of Sea Power	3
HIST 213	Air Power and Modern Warfare	3
HIST 220	The Olympic Games: A Global History H	3
HIST 242	United States-Latin American Relations	3
HIST 243	The United States and Africa H	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 249	Modern Global Christianity	3
HIST 266	Global History of Warfare	3
HIST 278	The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade H	3
HIST 281	The Pacific War, 1937-1945: Its Causes and Legacy	3
HIST 282	China in the World	3
HIST 283	Chairman Mao's China in World History H	3
HIST 302H	Movies Make History: Films as Primary Sources in Europe and America	3
HIST 312	History of France and Algeria	3
HIST 325	Food and History	3
HIST 329	An Introduction to the History of Medicine H	3
HIST 330	Jesus and the Jews: From the Bible to the Big Screen H	3
HIST 346	Dictators in the 20th Century	3
HIST 349	Comparative Empires in the Modern World	3
HIST 354	War and Gender in Movies H	3
HIST 459	Global Evangelicalism since 1600	3
HIST 474	Britain in World Affairs: British Foreign Policy since World War II	3
HIST 479	History of Female Sexualities	3
HIST 508	Europe and Humanitarian Aid since 1945: Concepts, Actors, Practices	3
HIST 509	The World History of Slavery	3
HIST 510	Human Rights in the Modern World H	3
HIST 511	9/11 in World History H	3
HIST 514	Monuments and Memory	3
HIST 516	Historical Time H	3
HIST 517	Gender, Military, and War	3
HIST 534	Slavery and the US Civil War H	3
HIST 538	The Middle East and the West	3
HIST 578	Transatlantic Relations and Contemporary Geo-Politics from the Cold War to the Present	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.

Politics, Law, and Economy

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 51	First-Year Seminar: Latin American Revolutions	3
HIST 52	First-Year Seminar: Conflicts over Israel/Palestine	3
HIST 62	First-Year Seminar: Nations, Borders, and Identities	3
HIST 63	First-Year Seminar: Water, Conflict, and Connection: the Middle East and Ottoman Lands H	3
HIST 64	First-Year Seminar: Gorbachev: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the Rise of the New Russia	3
HIST 74	First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India	3
HIST 105	Empires in World History	3
HIST 106	Ancient History	3
HIST 107	Medieval History	3
HIST 108	Introduction to Early Medieval History 500-1050	3
HIST 127	American History to 1865	3
HIST 128	American History since 1865	3
HIST 130	Modern African History	3
HIST 134	Modern East Asia	3
HIST 136	History of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: South Asia since 1750	3
HIST 140	The World since 1945	3
HIST 142	Latin America under Colonial Rule	3
HIST 158	Early Modern European History, 1450-1815	3
HIST 161	Russia Becomes an Empire	3
HIST 162	Russia under the Last Tsars and Soviet Commissars	3
HIST 203	Empires and Cultures in the Modern World	3
HIST 205	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1618-1815	3
HIST 206	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945	3
HIST 207	The Global Cold War	3
HIST 225	History of Greece	3
HIST 226	The Rise of Rome	3
HIST 235	Native America in the 20th Century	3
HIST 238	The American Revolution, 1763-1815	3
HIST 244	History of the American Presidency	3
HIST 252	Politics, Society, and Culture in Modern Germany (1871-1945)	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 260	From Kings to Communists: East-Central Europe in the Modern Era H	3
HIST 272	Modern South Asia	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 284	Late Imperial China	3
HIST 309	Old Regime France, 1661-1787	3
HIST 310	The French Revolution	3
HIST 313	Women and the Law in Africa and the Middle East	3
HIST 335	Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia H	3
HIST 346	Dictators in the 20th Century	3
HIST 352	The Great Depression and Its Legacies H	3
HIST 354	War and Gender in Movies H	3
HIST 359	The Early American Republic, 1789-1848	3
HIST 364	History of American Business	3
HIST 365	The Worker and American Life	3
HIST 372	History of American Politics, 1932-Present H	3
HIST 382	The History of the Civil Rights Movement H	3
HIST 425	Roman History, 154 BCE-14 CE	3
HIST 427	The Early Roman Empire, 14 CE-193 CE	3
HIST 428	The Later Roman Empire, 193 CE-378 CE	3
HIST 452	The Renaissance: Italy, Birthplace of the Renaissance, 1300-1550	3
HIST 462	Germany, 1806-1918: Politics, Society, and Culture H	3
HIST 463	Germany since 1918: Politics, Society, and Culture H	3
HIST 468	Culture on the Move: Art, Empire, and Restitution since 1800	3
HIST 481	From Communists to Capitalists: Eastern Europe since 1945	3
HIST 482	Russia, Eurasian Empire	3
HIST 489	The History of the 2008 Financial Crisis H	3
HIST 500	Gender, Empire, and Nation	3
HIST 510	Human Rights in the Modern World H	3
HIST 565	Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1900	3
HIST 581	American Constitutional History to 1876	3
HIST 582	American Constitutional History since 1876	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.

Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 50	First-Year Seminar: Time and the Medieval Cosmos	3
HIST 53	First-Year Seminar: Traveling to European Cities: American Writers/Cultural Identities, 1830-2000	3
HIST 66	First-Year Seminar: Film and History in Europe and the United States, 1908-1968	3
HIST 74	First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India	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 121	History of Religion in North America	3
HIST 124	United States History through Film	3
HIST 125	The Social History of Popular Music in 20th-Century America	3
HIST 135	History of the Indian Subcontinent to 1750	3
HIST 138	History of Muslim Societies to 1500	3
HIST 139	History of Muslim Societies since 1500	3
HIST 153	From the Bible to Broadway: Jewish History to Modern Times	3
HIST 203	Empires and Cultures in the Modern World	3
HIST 221	Under Crescent and Cross: Jews in the Medieval World	3
HIST 239	Religion in North America since 1865	3
HIST 247	Early Modern Japanese History and Culture	3
HIST 249	Modern Global Christianity	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 257	Politics, Society, and Culture in Postwar Germany	3
HIST 259	Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe	3
HIST 263	Gender and Religion in Premodern Europe H	3
HIST 270	Mughal India	3
HIST 271	Ancient and Medieval Japanese History and Culture	3
HIST 291	Putting Literature and History in Dialogue H	3
HIST 302	Movies Make History: Films as Primary Sources in Europe and America H	3
HIST 306	Princes and Reformations in Germany, 1400-1600	3
HIST 307	Religion, Statecraft, and Enlightenment in Germany, 1600-1815	3
HIST 308	The Renaissance and the Jews	3
HIST 311	Ghettos and Shtetls? Urban Life in East European Jewish History H	3
HIST 331	Sex, Religion, and Violence: Revolutionary Thought in Modern South Asia	3
HIST 332	Identity and Community in Modern Jewish History: The Case of Durham	3
HIST 333	Love and Politics in Early India	3
HIST 353	Cinema, Culture, and Society	3
HIST 360	Ideas in Modern America H	3
HIST 363	Popular Culture and American History H	3
HIST 431	The Medieval Church	3
HIST 432	The Crusades	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 442	Religion, Co-existence, and Conflict in Pre-Colonial India	3
HIST 454	The Reformation	3
HIST 459	Global Evangelicalism since 1600	3
HIST 466	Modern European Intellectual History H	3
HIST 468	Culture on the Move: Art, Empire, and Restitution since 1800	3
HIST 483	Nation and Religion in Russia	3
HIST 484	Islam in Tsarist and Soviet Russia	3
HIST 485	From Fiddler on the Roof to the Holocaust: East European and Soviet Jewish 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.

War, Revolution, and Society 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 51	First-Year Seminar: Latin American Revolutions	3
HIST 52	First-Year Seminar: Conflicts over Israel/Palestine	3
HIST 159	Europe and the World Since 1900	3
HIST 205	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1618-1815	3
HIST 206	War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945	3
HIST 207	The Global Cold War	3
HIST 212	History of Sea Power	3
HIST 238	The American Revolution, 1763-1815	3
HIST 240	Introduction to Mexico: A Nation in Four Revolutions	3
HIST 242	United States-Latin American Relations	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 248	Guerrillas and Counterinsurgencies in Latin America	3
HIST 251	The Thirty Years War (1618-1648): Europe in an Age of Crisis	3
HIST 254	War and Society in Early Modern Europe	3
HIST 266	Global History of Warfare	3
HIST 281	The Pacific War, 1937-1945: Its Causes and Legacy	3
HIST 307	Religion, Statecraft, and Enlightenment in Germany, 1600-1815	3
HIST 310	The French Revolution	3
HIST 315	Nation-Building in Latin America H	3
HIST 354	War and Gender in Movies H	3
HIST 368	War and American Society to 1903	3
HIST 369	War and American Society	3
HIST 373	The United States in World War II	3
HIST 388	Chinese Strategic Thought: Antiquity to the Present	3
HIST 421	Alexander	3
HIST 422	Ancient Greek Warfare H	3
HIST 434	Medieval England	3
HIST 458	Europe and the World Wars, 1914-1945	3
HIST 477	Revolution in Russia, 1900-1930	3
HIST 517	Gender, Military, and War	3
HIST 518	Colloquium in World Military History	3
HIST 536	Revolution in the Modern Middle East	3
HIST 570	The Vietnam War	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.

Women’s and Gender History

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 72	First-Year Seminar: Women's Voices: 20th-Century European History in Female Memory H	3
HIST 130	Modern African History	3
HIST 144	Women in United States History	3
HIST 236	Sex and American History	3
HIST 259	Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe	3
HIST 264	Gender in Russian History	3
HIST 280	Women and Gender in Latin American History	3
HIST 354	War and Gender in Movies H	3
HIST 355	American Women's History to 1865	3
HIST 356	American Women's History, 1865 to the Present	3
HIST 361	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories in the United States	3
HIST 375	History of Gender in America	3
HIST 385	African American Women's History	3
HIST 438	Medieval Masculinities, 500-1200 H	3
HIST 475	History of Feminism H	3
HIST 479	History of Female Sexualities	3
HIST 500	Gender, Empire, and Nation	3
HIST 517	Gender, Military, and War	3
HIST 535	Women and Gender in African History H	3
HIST 537	Women in the Middle East	3
HIST 562	Oral History and Performance H	3
HIST 566	The History of Sexuality in America	3
HIST 568	Women in the South	3
HIST 576	The Ethnohistory of Native American Women	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.

History Major, NUS Joint Degree

History majors may wish to consider applying for the Joint Degree Program, an innovative undergraduate degree program joining UNC–Chapel Hill and the National University of Singapore, one of the top universities in Asia and the world. UNC–Chapel Hill undergraduates spend from two to four semesters at the National University of Singapore and receive a joint bachelor of arts degree with a major in history from both institutions. 

Special Opportunities in History

Honors in History

The departmental honors program is open to any qualified history major with at least a 3.3 cumulative grade point average and, under normal circumstances, a 3.4 in history courses, and experience in research and writing derived from an undergraduate seminar in history (HIST 398). The student pursuing a degree in history with honors must take HIST 691H and HIST 692H; these two courses contribute credit hours toward fulfilling field-of-concentration requirements, depending on the topic of the thesis. The student, in consultation with the honors director, will choose a topic and locate an appropriate faculty member to supervise a senior honors thesis. In HIST 691H the mechanics of researching and writing a senior essay will be discussed and a start made on the essay itself. In HIST 692H the essay will be completed and the student examined by the supervisor and at least one additional faculty member to be agreed upon by the student and supervisor. To receive highest honors the essay must be recommended by the examiners and a review committee. The director of honors, in consultation with the examiners and review committee, will recommend that the student who has defended the essay graduate with either honors or highest honors, or merely with course credit. Students should submit applications for the honors program by the end of February during their junior year. For detailed guidelines click here or contact the director of honors in the Department of History.

Departmental Involvement

Students with broad interests in the intellectual and social life of the department may volunteer to serve on the department’s Undergraduate Studies Committee (UGSC). Each spring the department invites majors to volunteer for the UGSC, and the selection is made at the start of the next fall semester by the faculty members on the UGSC. Students may also plan or participate in activities organized by the Undergraduate History Club as well as, for those who are eligible, UNC–Chapel Hill’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (described more fully below under “Undergraduate Awards”). For more information about the UGSC, the History Club, and Phi Alpha Theta, see department’s website or contact the coordinator for undergraduate studies in the Department of History.

Experiential Education

In some cases, students majoring in history may wish to pursue internship opportunities. Questions and requests regarding internships should be directed to the department’s lecturer/advisor, who has responsibility for evaluating internship proposals and deciding whether an internship may be taken for academic credit. For more information, click here.

All history majors will receive credit for the Research and Discovery requirement (in the IDEAs in Action General Education curriculum) or the Experiential Education requirement (in the Making Connections General Education curriculum) when they complete HIST 398.

Study Abroad

The department strongly encourages its students to explore the many study abroad opportunities provided by the Study Abroad Office. The experience of studying abroad opens intellectual horizons that can be glimpsed only in unfamiliar worlds, and it deepens one’s appreciation for the enduring power of historical context and circumstance.

The Department of History participates in a unique joint degree program with the National University of Singapore. The department also has an exchange program with King’s College in London. For further information about both programs, contact the Study Abroad Office and the director of undergraduate studies in the department. General information for history majors wishing to study abroad can be found on the department's website.

Undergraduate Awards

All majors who complete the required undergraduate seminar (HIST 398) are automatically eligible for the annual Joshua Meador Prize, awarded to the author of the best seminar paper written in the preceding calendar year. A named prize is also awarded to the author of the best honors thesis; the award is announced at the annual spring honors banquet.

The Department of History sponsors a chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. Students who have taken 12 hours of history courses at UNC–Chapel Hill and who have an overall grade point average of 3.0 and an average in history courses of 3.1 are eligible to apply for membership. An announcement regarding applications for Phi Alpha Theta will be distributed to all history majors in the fall semester.

Undergraduate Research

The Department of History encourages undergraduate research in a variety of ways. The required seminar for majors (HIST 398) introduces students to historical research. The senior honors program (HIST 691H and HIST 692H) gives students an opportunity to carry out a yearlong research project. In both the fall and spring semesters, senior honors students may apply for competitive awards, including the Michael L. and Matthew L. Boyatt Awards in History for Undergraduate Research and the David Anthony Kusa Undergraduate Research Award, to help support travel for the purpose of research.

Department Programs

Major

• History Major, B.A.

Minors

• History Minor

Graduate Programs

• M.A. in History
• Ph.D. in History