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Nov 27, 2024
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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
History Major (BA)
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Degree Requirements
If this is the student’s only or primary major, the degree requirements below must be completed for graduation. See graduation requirements for more information.
Major Requirements
Complete at least 36 credits from 12 courses including one introductory history course, three 200-level survey courses, seven electives, and one capstone. For all courses applied toward the major, at least one course must be in pre-1800 history and at least one course must fall into four out of five geographic breadth areas.
Pass/fail: No courses taken pass/fail may be applied toward the major.
Residency: At least six courses used for the major must be completed at UMass Boston.
Introductory Course (3 Credits)
200-Level Survey Courses (9 Credits)
Take three courses from the list below.
Electives (21 Credits)
Take seven history courses. At least four must be at the 300-level and at least one must be at the 400-level.
Pre-1800 History Requirement
At least one course from the pre-1800 history list below must be used toward the major requirements.
Geographic Breadth Requirement
At least one course from four of the five geographic breadth areas below must be used to fulfill major requirements.
African History - HIST 150 - Food and Empire 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 252 - African History to 1800 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 253 - African History since 1800 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 346 - Women & Gender in African History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 347 - Feast to Famine: Food in African History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 352 - Topics in African History 3 Credit(s)
Asian History - HIST 115L - Survey of South Asia 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 160L - East Asian Civilizations to 1850 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 161L - East Asian Civilizations since 1850 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 249 - Modern Middle East History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 251L - South Asia and the India Ocean World: Trade, Labor and Capital from 1800 to the Present 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 357 - The Vietnam War 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 359L - Women in Modern China 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 360L - Traditional China 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 361L - The History of Modern China 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 363L - Modern Japan 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 364L - India since 1857 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 365L - Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in Modern History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 456 - Faith and Politics in Islam: Devotion, Reform, and Jihad in Historical Perspective 3 Credit(s)
European History - HIST 130 - Goddesses and Supergirls 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 211 - Europe to 1600 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 212 - Modern Europe 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 219 - History of the Mediterranean 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 220 - History of European Empires 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 301L - Ancient Greek History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 302L - Roman History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 303L - The Archaeology of Ancient Greece 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 304 - Early Middle Ages: Europe 300-1000 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 305 - Later Middle Ages: Europe 1000-1450 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 306L - The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 307 - Renaissance and Reformation 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 308 - The History of Common Law 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 312 - Cities in Early Modern Europe 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 313 - Nineteenth Century Europe 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 314 - Health and Healing in Early Modern Europe 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 315 - Europe 1900-1945 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 316 - Europe since 1945 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 317L - Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 322 - Shakespeare’s London 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 324 - Russia and the Soviet Union: From the 1917 Revolution to Putin 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 325 - European Expansion 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 326 - Hitler, A Man and His Times 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 330 - The French Revolution 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 334 - Italy Since 1815 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 342 - Cinema in Hitler’s Germany: Movies, Propaganda, Politics in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1945 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 343 - World War II: The Global War 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 413 - Saints, Witches and Heretics 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 416L - Thucydides: War & Human Nature 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 433 - Mussolini 3 Credit(s)
Latin American History - HIST 152 - Crime, Corruption, and Scandal in Historical Perspective 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 255L - Gods and Slaves: Latin America before 1800 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 256L - Skyscrapers and Shantytowns: Latin America since 1800 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 350 - Mexico since 1850 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 351 - Histories of Brazil 3 Credit(s)
United States History - HIST 171 - Leeches to Lasers: Medicine and Health in the United States 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 173 - Baseball and American History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 175 - Comic Books in America: The History of Comic Books and American Society since 1938 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 185 - Mascots, Monuments, Massacres: Native American History in the Public Sphere 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 210L - Labor and Working Class History in the United States 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 262L - American Indian History to 1783 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 263L - Modern American Indian Social and Political History: From the American Revolution to Standing Rock 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 265 - American History before 1877 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 266 - American History since 1877 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 276 - This Land is Your Land: A Survey of American Environmental History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 349L - The Cold War: Rise and Fall 3 Credit(s)
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- HIST 371 - The American Revolution, 1763-1789 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 372 - The Early Republic 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 374 - The Whaling Women of Nantucket 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 377 - The American Progressive Era, 1890-1920 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 380 - The United States Since 1945 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 382 - American Indian Treaty Rights, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 387 - US Foreign Policy since 1898 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 388 - American Soldiers in American Wars: History and Memory 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 395 - The History of Boston 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 440L - United States in a Global Context 3 Credit(s)
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