General History Track

In addition to completing the requirements for all History majors, the student in the General History track is required to satisfy breadth and concentration requirements.

Breadth Requirements: to ensure chronological and geographical breadth, at least two courses must be completed in a premodern chronological period and in each of three geographical fields: Field I (Africa, Asia, and Middle East); Field II (the Americas); and Field III (Europe, including Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia). Courses fulfilling the premodern chronological period (Field IV) may also count for Fields I-III. For 2010-2011, these courses are as follows:
1. Field I: Africa/Asia/Middle East
  - HISTORY 43S. Indian Ocean History, 1100-1945
  - HISTORY 45S. Colonial Anthropologists and the Production of Knowledge about Africa
  - HISTORY 48Q. South Africa: Contested Transitions
  - HISTORY 82N. Modern Islamic Movements
  - HISTORY 92S. Cultural Identity in Ancient and Medieval China
  - HISTORY 135. History of European Law, Medieval to Contemporary
  - HISTORY 145B. Africa in the 20th-Century
  - HISTORY 147. History of South Africa
  - HISTORY 181B. Formation of the Contemporary Middle East
  - HISTORY 182C. From Prophet to Empire: The Making of the Muslim Middle East, 600-1500
  - HISTORY 183. Modern Iran
  - HISTORY 187D. Zionism and Its Critics
  - HISTORY 191C. Early Imperial China
  - HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China
  - HISTORY 194B. Japan in the Age of the Samurai
  - HISTORY 195. Modern Korean History
  - HISTORY 195C. Modern Japanese History
  - HISTORY 196. The Idea of India
  - HISTORY 197. Southeast Asia from Antiquity to the Modern Era
  - HISTORY 198. The History of Modern China
  - HISTORY 224B. Modern Afghanistan
  - HISTORY 248S. African Societies and Colonial States
  - HISTORY 282. The United States and the Middle East since 1945
  - HISTORY 284. The Ottoman Turks in Comparative Perspective: The Inner Life of a Eurasian Empire
  - HISTORY 287D. Tel Aviv: Site, Symbol, City
  - HISTORY 287G. Jews in Colonial North Africa
  - HISTORY 287S. Middle East History
  - HISTORY 288. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  - HISTORY 291D. Colonialism and Collaboration in East Asia
  - HISTORY 292. The Korean War: Origins, Outbreak, and Aftermath
  - HISTORY 292D. Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan
  - HISTORY 292F. Traditional Korea
  - HISTORY 293. Law and Society in Late Imperial China
2. Field II: The Americas
  - HISTORY 36N: Gay Autobiography
  - HISTORY 51S. Popular Violence in 19th-Century American Culture and Society
  - HISTORY 53S. Rebellion and Revolution in American History: From the Stamp Act to the Civil War
  - HISTORY 58N. Thomas Jefferson and his World
  - HISTORY 58S. Perceptions of Failure in 19th-Century America: Indians, Degenerates, and Debtors
  - HISTORY 60S. International Social Movements in the U.S. from World War I to World War II
  - HISTORY 61S. California Politics since the 1960s
  - HISTORY 62N. The Atomic Bomb in Policy and History
  - HISTORY 62S. The Politics, Culture and Ecology of Food in American History
  - HISTORY 107. Introduction to Feminist Studies
  - HISTORY 130A. The Rise of Scientific Medicine
  - HISTORY 150A. Colonial and Revolutionary America
  - HISTORY 150B. 19th Century America
  - HISTORY 150C. The United States in the 20th-Century
  - HISTORY 158B. History of Education in the United States
  - HISTORY 158C. History of Higher Education in the U.S.
  - HISTORY 161. Women in Modern America
  - HISTORY 164C. From Freedom to Freedom Now! African American History, 1865-1965
  - HISTORY 166. Introduction to African American History: The Modern African American Freedom Struggle
  - HISTORY 166B. Immigration in 20th-Century America: Ethnicity, Race, Nation
  - HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America
  - HISTORY 201. Introduction to Public History in the United States, 19th Century to the Present
  - HISTORY 243J. Climate Change in the West: A History of the Future
  - HISTORY 251C. The American Enlightenment
  - HISTORY 251G. Topics in Constitutional History
  - HISTORY 258. Topics in the History of Sexuality: Sexual Violence
  - HISTORY 258D. School: What Is It Good For?
  - HISTORY 260. California's Majority Minority Cities
  - HISTORY 278A. Political Economy of Property Rights
3. Field III: Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia
  - HISTORY 11N. The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall
  - HISTORY 17S. Princesses, Politicians, and Patronesses: Identities of Early Modern Noble Women
  - HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern Imagination
  - HISTORY 30S. Travel, Adventure, Blood, and Espionage: The British Cultural Imagination in Afghanistan, 1813-1907
  - HISTORY 31Q: British History Revealed by the Arts of the Twentieth Century
  - HISTORY 32S. Gender and European Imperial Crisis through Media: 1880-2000
  - HISTORY 35N. Industrial Revolution: The History, Ethics, and Consequences of Modern Economic Development
  - HISTORY 36N. Gay Autobiography
  - HISTORY 37S. Youth in Modern Europe, 1762-1968
  - HISTORY 102. The History of the International System
  - HISTORY 110B. Early Modern Europe
  - HISTORY 110C. Introduction to Modern Europe
  - HISTORY 110D. Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages, 1000-1500
  - HISTORY 125. 20th-Century Eastern Europe
  - HISTORY 131. Science, Technology and Art: The Worlds of Leonardo da Vinci
  - HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts
  - HISTORY 133B. Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age
  - HISTORY 135. History of European Law
  - HISTORY 137. The Holocaust
  - HISTORY 138A. Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990
  - HISTORY 139. Modern Britain and the Empire
  - HISTORY 185B. Jews in the Modern World
  - HISTORY 186D. Jews, Citizenship, and Europe's Others
  - HISTORY 204E. Origins of Totalitarianism
  - HISTORY 224A. The Soviet Civilization
  - HISTORY 227. East European Women and War in the 20th Century
  - HISTORY 230D. Europe in the World: 1789 to the Present
  - HISTORY 230F. Self-Policing, Denunciation, and Surveillance in Modern Europe
  - HISTORY 231A. Charles Darwin and the Global 19th Century
  - HISTORY 231G. European Reformations
  - HISTORY 233. Reformation, Political Culture, and the Origins of the English Civil War
  - HISTORY 233C. Two British Revolutions
  - HISTORY 233F. Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
  - HISTORY 234. Enlightenment Seminar
  - HISTORY 234F. Science, Technology, and Empire
  - HISTORY 236A. Nations and Nationalism in East-Central Europe
  - HISTORY 236D. Cold War Europe
  - HISTORY 238K. Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe During World War II
  - HISTORY 239. Capital and Empire
  - HISTORY 242A. Technology and Society in the Modern World (1700 to Present)
  - HISTORY 286E. Jews in France from the Dreyfus Affair to World War II
  - HISTORY 287E. Understanding the Age of Extremes: Intellectual Responses to the Holocaust and Totalitarianism
  - HISTORY 287K. Gentlemen and Jews: History of the Jews of England
4. Field IV: Pre-1700
  - HISTORY 11N. The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall
  - HISTORY 17S. Princesses, Politicians, and Patronesses: Identities of Early Modern Noble Women
  - HISTORY 20Q. Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination
  - HISTORY 92S. Cultural Identity in Ancient and Medieval China
  - HISTORY 110B. Early Modern Europe
  - HISTORY 110D. Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages, 1000-1500
  - HISTORY 131. Science, Technology and Art: The Worlds of Leonardo da Vinci
  - HISTORY 132A. Enlightenment and the Arts
  - HISTORY 133B. Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age
  - HISTORY 135. History of European Law
  - HISTORY 170. Colonial Latin America
  - HISTORY 182C. From Prophet to Empire: The Making of the Modern Middle East, 600-1500
  - HISTORY 191C. Early Imperial China
  - HISTORY 193. Late Imperial China
  - HISTORY 194B. Japan in the Age of the Samurai
  - HISTORY 202C. Heretics to Headscarves
  - HISTORY 207C. The Global Early Modern
  - HISTORY 231G. European Reformations
  - HISTORY 233. Reformation, Political Culture, and the Origins of the English Civil War
  - HISTORY 233C. Two British Revolutions
  - HISTORY 233D. Strangers, Barbarians, and Infidels: Crosscultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern World
  - HISTORY 233F. Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
  - HISTORY 284. The Ottoman Turks in Comparative Perspective: The Inner Life of a Eurasian Empire
  - HISTORY 292F. Traditional Korea
  - IHUM 11A. Origins of the World: Europe and Latin America
Concentration: to develop some measure of expertise, students must complete four courses in a single area (including one undergraduate colloquium or research seminar). The proposed concentration must be approved by the major adviser; a proposal for a thematic concentration must be approved by both the adviser and the department's director of undergraduate studies. Areas of concentration are:
- Africa
- Asia
- Eastern Europe and Russia
- Europe before 1700
- Europe since 1700
- Jewish History
- Latin America
- Science and Technology
- The United States
- The Middle East
- International History
- Comparative Empires and Cultures
- or a thematic subject treated comparatively, such as war and revolution, work, gender, family history, popular culture, or high culture.
Required course: HISTORY 102. The History of the International System is a required course for students who select the International History concentration. This course is offered in Spring quarter.

Certain Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) courses taught by History faculty in a Winter-Spring sequence count toward the General History major. These are: IHUM 4A,B; 5A,B; 6A,B;11A,B