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. To inquire about other history courses, please contact our Director of Undergraduate Programs.

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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

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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 3061History 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)