Course List for Pre- and Post-1700 Major Requirement

*These lists indicate which courses in our catalog have been coded into SIS to count towards the pre- and post-1700 major requirement (under the revised major requirements as of Fall 2021). To inquire about other History courses, please contact our Director of Undergraduate Programs at hist-dup@virginia.edu.

Pre-1700 Courses

HIAF

2001

Early African History

HIEA

2011

History of Chinese Civilization

HIEA

2073

Japan to 1868: An Historical Introduction

HIEA

2081

Korea: Antiquity through the 12th Century

HIEA

2091

Korean Civilization to 1900

HIEA

3111

China to the Tenth Century

HIEU

1501

Introductory Seminar in Pre-1700 European History

HIEU

2001

Western Civilization I

HIEU

2031

Ancient Greece

HIEU

2041

Roman Republic and Empire

HIEU

2051

Economic History of Europe

HIEU

2061

The Birth of Europe

HIEU

2071

Early Modern Europe and the World

HIEU

2101

Jewish History I: The Ancient and Medieval Experience

HIEU

2111

England, Britain, Empire, 1500-1800

HIEU

2721

Supernatural Europe, 1500-1800

HIEU

3021

Greek and Roman Warfare

HIEU

3041

The Fall of the Roman Republic

HIEU

3051

History and Civilization of France: Revolution to 1945

HIEU

3091

Ancient Law and Society

HIEU

3101

Early Medieval Civilization

HIEU

3111

Later Medieval Civilization

HIEU

3121

Medieval Society: Ways of Life and Thought in Western Europe

HIEU

3131

The World of Charlemagne

HIEU

3141

Age of Conquests: Britain from the Romans to the Normans (43-1066)

HIEU

3151

Medieval Iberia, 411-1469

HIEU

3181

Medieval Christianity

HIEU

3215

Dante's Italy

HIEU

3221

The Culture of the Renaissance

HIEU

3231

Reformation Europe

HIEU

3271

Three Faiths, One Sea: The Early Modern Mediterranean

HIEU

3291

Stuart England

HIEU

3311

Social History of Early Modern Europe

HIEU

3321

The Scientific Revolution, 1450-1700

HIEU

3471

English Legal History to 1776

HIEU

3851

History of London

HIEU

4501

Seminar in Pre-1700 European History

HIEU

4511

Colloquium in Pre-1700 European History

HIEU

4591

Topics in Pre-1700 European History

HIEU

5001

Dark Age Greece

HIEU

5011

Late Archaic Greece

HIEU

5013

The Early Medieval Mediterranean

HIEU

5021

Greece in the Fifth Century

HIEU

5031

Greece in the Fourth Century

HIEU

5051

Roman Empire

HIEU

5061

Roman Imperialism

HIEU

5063

Late Antiquity AD 235-410

HIEU

5871

Early Modern Europe Seminar

HILA

2001

Colonial Latin America, 1500-1824

HILA

3071

History of Colonial Brazil

HILA

4701

The Inquisition in Spain and Latin America

HIME

2001

The Making of the Islamic World

HIME

2003

Economic History of the Islamic World

HIME

3192

From Nomads to Sultans: the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1700

HIME

3195

Arabian Seas: Islam, Trade and Empire in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean

HIME

5053

Slavery in the Middle East and Ottoman Empire

HISA

2001

History and Civilization of Classical India

HISA

2002

History and Civilization of Medieval India

HISA

5021

Historiography of Early Modern South Asia

HIST

2001

Global History

HIST

2060

History of Christianity II

HIST

2150

Global Environmental History

HIST

2152

Climate History

HIST

2212

Maps in World History

HIUS

3150

Salem Witch Trials: History and Literature

MSP

3501

Exploring the Middle Ages

MSP

3559

New Course in Medieval Studies

MSP

4559

New Course in Medieval Studies

MSP

4995

Capstone Project in Medieval Studies

 

 

 

Post-1700 Courses

HIAF

2002

Modern African History

HIAF

3021

History of Southern Africa

HIAF

3031

History of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

HIAF

3051

West African History

HIAF

3091

Africa in World History

HIAF

3112

African Environmental History

HIEA

2031

Modern China

HIEA

2072

Modern Japanese Culture and Politics

HIEA

2101

Modern Korean History: One Peninsula, Two Paths

HIEA

3112

Late Imperial China

HIEA

3141

Political and Social Thought in Modern China

HIEA

3162

Historical China and the World

HIEA

3171

Meiji Japan

HIEA

3172

The Japanese Empire

HIEA

3211

Japan's Economic Miracle

HIEA

3221

Japan's Political History

HIEA

3311

Peasants, Students and Women: Social Movement in Twentieth-Century China

HIEA

3321

China and the Cold War

HIEA

3323

China and the United States

HIEA

5050

International History of East Asia

HIEA

5052

China and the World: From Empire to Nation

HIEA

5151

Mao and the Chinese Revolution

HIEU

1502

Introductory Seminar in Post-1700 European History

HIEU

2002

Western Civilization II

HIEU

2004

Nationalism in Europe

HIEU

2072

Modern Europe and the World

HIEU

2102

Modern Jewish History

HIEU

2112

Britain since 1688: From the Glorious Revolution to Brexit

HIEU

2121

France in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1871

HIEU

2152

History of the Russian Empire 1700-1917

HIEU

2162

History of Russia Since 1917

HIEU

2212

Contemporary Europe

HIEU

3000

Modern European Imperialism

HIEU

3002

Queer European History

HIEU

3152

The British Empire and the Making of the Modern World

HIEU

3312

Europe at War, 1939-45: Occupation, Genocide, Resistance

HIEU

3342

Society and the Sexes in Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

HIEU

3352

Modern German History

HIEU

3372

German Jewish Culture and History

HIEU

3382

Revolutionary France, 1770-1815

HIEU

3390

Nazi Germany

HIEU

3412

Twentieth-Century Europe

HIEU

3432

France Since 1815

HIEU

3442

European History: Industrial Revolution to the Welfare State 1848-1963

HIEU

3452

Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe

HIEU

3462

Neighbors and Enemies in Germany

HIEU

3472

Nineteenth Century Britain

HIEU

3492

The British Empire

HIEU

3502

History of Central Europe

HIEU

3505

History and Fiction, Topics

HIEU

3602

Twentieth Century Spain

HIEU

3604

The Holocaust on Film

HIEU

3612

Age of Reform and Revolution in Russia, 1855-1917

HIEU

3622

Russian Intellectual History in the 19th Century

HIEU

3670

The Fall of Communism: How the Soviet Empire Lost the Cold War

HIEU

3692

The Holocaust

HIEU

3695

The Holocaust and the Law

HIEU

3702

Russia as Multi-Ethnic Empire

HIEU

3712

Spanish Culture & Civilization

HIEU

3742

European Social History, 1890-1980

HIEU

3752

Evolution of the International System, 1815-1950

HIEU

3772

Science in the Modern World

HIEU

3782

Origins of Modern Thought, 1580-1943

HIEU

3802

Origins of Contemporary Thought

HIEU

3812

Marx

HIEU

4502

Seminar in Post-1700 European History

HIEU

4512

Colloquium in Post-1700 European History

HIEU

4592

Topics in Post-1700 European History

HIEU

5062

Philosophy and Theory of History

HIEU

5082

Modernity and History

HIEU

5302

Nationality, Ethnicity, and Race in Modern Europe

HIEU

5312

Era of the World Wars, 1914-1945

HIEU

5352

The British Economy Since 1850

HIEU

5662

Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History

HIEU

5882

Modern Europe, 1750-1890

HIEU

5892

Europe since 1890

HILA

2002

Modern Latin America, 1824 to Present

HILA

3051

Modern Central America

HILA

3061

History of Modern Brazil

HILA

3111

Public Life in Modern Latin America

HIME

2002

The Making of the Modern Middle East

HIME

2012

Israel/Palestine 1948

HIME

3571

Arab History at the Movies

HIME

5052

World War I in the Middle East

HISA

2003

History of Modern India

HISA

3003

Twentieth-Century South Asia

HISA

3004

India's Partition: Literature, Culture, Politics

HISA

3111

Social and Political Movements in Twentieth-Century India

HISA

3121

History of Women in South Asia

HISA

5101

Economic History of India

HIST

2002

The Modern World: Global History since 1760

HIST

2011

History of Human Rights

HIST

2012

History of Communism

HIST

2013

Why Did They Kill? Interpreting Genocide and Its Perpetrators

HIST

2210

Epidemics, Pandemics, and History

HIST

2213

Law and Sovereignty in World History

HIST

2214

The Cold War

HIST

3041

The British Empire in the 18th Century

HIST

3050

Modern Imperialism: The British and American Experience

HIST

3152

The Cold War, 1945-1990

HIST

3162

War and Society in the Twentieth Century

HIST

3201

History, Museums, and Interpretation

HIST

3281

Genocide

HIST

3300

Curating the Past: A History of Museums

HIST

3352

The First World War

HIST

3452

The Second World War

HIST

3611

Espionage and Intelligence in the 20th Century

HIST

3775

Americans in the Middle East

HIST

3854

Reasoning from History

HIST

4400

Topics in Economic History

HIST

4501

Major Seminar

HIST

4511

Major Colloquium

HIST

5001

Policy Design and Statecraft

HIST

5063

Theory and/of History: Recent Perspectives

HIST

5077

Pius XII, Hitler, the US and World War II

HIST

5130

Global Legal History

HIST

5621

Genocide

HIST

5920

History of Documentary Photography

HIUS

1501

Introductory Seminar in U.S. History

HIUS

1559

New Course in United States History (select topics)

HIUS

2001

American History to 1865

HIUS

2002

American History Since 1865

HIUS

2003

Slavery and Freedom at UVA and in Virginia: History and Legacies

HIUS

2051

United States Military History 1600-1900

HIUS

2052

America and War Since 1900

HIUS

2053

American Slavery

HIUS

2061

American Economic History

HIUS

2071

American Power and Energies - A History of the United States

HIUS

2401

History of American Catholicism

HIUS

2559

New Course in United States History (select topics)

HIUS

2711

American Environmental History

HIUS

3011

Colonial British America

HIUS

3031

The Era of the American Revolution

HIUS

3051

The Age of Jefferson and Jackson, 1789-1845

HIUS

3071

The Coming of the Civil War

HIUS

3072

The Civil War and Reconstruction

HIUS

3081

History of the American Deaf Community

HIUS

3131

The Emergence of Modern America, 1870-1930

HIUS

3132

Race, Gender, and Empire: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism

HIUS

3141

Civil Society in Twentieth Century U.S.

HIUS

3142

Viewing the South

HIUS

3151

Modernizing, Moralizing and Mass Politics: US, 1900-1945

HIUS

3161

Viewing America, 1940 to 1980

HIUS

3162

Digitizing America

HIUS

3171

US Since 1945: People, Politics, Power

HIUS

3172

America in Vietnam

HIUS

3173

The Vietnam War in American Film

HIUS

3191

American Jewish History

HIUS

3221

Hands-On Public History

HIUS

3231

Rise and Fall of the Slave South

HIUS

3232

The South in the Twentieth Century

HIUS

3261

History of the American West

HIUS

3262

Witnessing Slavery: Interpreting Slave Testimony in U.S. History

HIUS

3281

Virginia History to 1900

HIUS

3282

History of Virginia, 1900 to 2018

HIUS

3301

The History of UVa in the Twentieth Century

HIUS

3401

Development of American Science

HIUS

3411

American Business

HIUS

3451

History of Urban America

HIUS

3455

History of U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914

HIUS

3456

America in the World since 1914

HIUS

3471

History of American Labor

HIUS

3481

American Social History to 1870

HIUS

3482

United States Social History Since 1870

HIUS

3490

From Motown to Hip-Hop

HIUS

3491

Rural Poverty in Our Time

HIUS

3523

Disco and Disillusionment: The United States in the 1970s

HIUS

3559

New Course in United States History (select topics)

HIUS

3611

Gender & Sexuality in AM, 1600-1865

HIUS

3612

Gender & Sexuality in America, 1865 to Present

HIUS

3621

Coming of Age in America: A History of Youth

HIUS

3641

American Indian History

HIUS

3651

Afro-American History to 1865

HIUS

3652

Afro-American History since 1865

HIUS

3654

Black Fire

HIUS

3671

African American Freedom Movement, c 1945-Present

HIUS

3752

The History of Early American Law

HIUS

3753

The History of Modern American Law

HIUS

3756

American Legal Thought since 1880

HIUS

3851

Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States to 1865

HIUS

3852

Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States since 1865

HIUS

3853

From Redlined to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the US

HIUS

4160

History Behind the Headlines

HIUS

4260

Voices of the Civil War

HIUS

4501

Seminar in United States History

HIUS

4511

Colloquium in United States History

HIUS

4559

New Course in United States History (select topics)

HIUS

4591

Topics in United States History

HIUS

4993

Independent Study in United States History

HIUS

5000

African-American History to 1877

HIUS

5022

Economic Culture in Early America

HIUS

5081

Turning Points in U.S. History: Micro-Analytic Methods

HIUS

5559

New Course in United States History (select topics)