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Minor in History

University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science 236 courses

About This Program

Bachelor of Arts (BA) The Department of History offers a program of instruction ranging widely over the historical record of human experience. The chronological, geographical, and topical range affords great flexibility to students working toward degrees in history and to those who wish to give a historical dimension to their studies in other disciplines. History at Berkeley is a highly flexible major that allows students to follow their interests. It is also a major that places strong value on original student research, with all students completing capstone projects on topics they choose in consultation with members of the faculty. Declaring the Major Students may declare the major after completing three letter-graded courses in the Department of History with a 2.0 grade-point average (GPA) or better. Honors Program To graduate with honors in History, a major must achieve a general GPA of 3.5, a departmental GPA of 3.7, and a minimum grade of "A-" in HISTORY 102 or HISTORY 101A / HISTORY 101B . All students will be eligible to be nominated for high or highest honors in History regardless of whether they complete the semester-long ( HISTORY 102 ) or yearlong ( HISTORY 101A / HISTORY 101B ) thesis. The students must receive a nomination for high or highest honors from their thesis instructor. The decision to award high or highest honors rests with the Honors Committee. Minor Program The Department of History offers a minor in History. Students are welcome to meet with the...

Degree Requirements

Lower Division: History Core

Complete at least 1 of the following. Minimum grade of C- is required

Code Course Title Credits
HISTORY 1 Global History 4
HISTORY 2 Comparative World History 4
HISTORY 3 Islamic and Eastern Roman History 4
HISTORY 4A The Ancient Mediterranean World 4
HISTORY 4B Origins of Western Civilization: Medieval Europe 4
HISTORY 5 European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present 4
HISTORY 6A History of China: Origins to the Mongol Conquest 4
HISTORY 6B Introduction to Chinese History: From the Mongols to Post-Mao China 4
HISTORY 7A Introduction to the History of the United States: The United States from Settlement to Civil War 4
HISTORY 7B Introduction to the History of the United States: The United States from Civil War to Present 4
HISTORY 8A Latin American History: Becoming Latin America, 1492 to 1824 4
HISTORY 8B Latin American History: Modern Latin America 4
HISTORY 10 African History 4
HISTORY 11 Introduction to the Civilizations and Cultures of South Asia 4
HISTORY 12 The Middle East 4
HISTORY 14 Introduction to the History of Japan 4
HISTORY 20 Introduction to the History of Religion 4
HISTORY 30 Science and Society 4
HISTORY 39A Africa and the Humanitarians 4
HISTORY 39B Fashion, the Middle Ages, & the Catholic Imagination: The Heavenly Bodies Exhibit 4
HISTORY 39C THE HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM 4
HISTORY 39D Big History as Astronomy, Astrology, and Philosophy: From Antiquity to the Big Bang 4
HISTORY 39E Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39F Third World Problems: Contemporary South Asia in Historic Perspective 4
HISTORY 39G Civilizing the Vikings 4
HISTORY 39H Culture and Migration in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1800-2000 4
HISTORY 39I Child Labor in Africa: A Historical Perspective 4
HISTORY 39J Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39K Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39L Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39M Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39N Gender and the Politics of Feminism in South Asia 4
HISTORY 39O Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39P Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39Q Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39R Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39S Freshman Sophomore Seminar 4
HISTORY 39T Hindu/Muslim: Religion, Politics, and Violence in a Millennium of Indian History 4
HISTORY 39U Shanghai: Between China and the World 4
HISTORY 39V Science, Environment and European Colonialism 4
HISTORY 39W Warfare in the Middle Ages 4
HISTORY 39X Fiction and the Historical Imagination: Modern Egypt from 1919 to the Arab Spring 4
HISTORY 39Y Well-Behaved Women Making History: Accessing Women's Lives from the Ancient Sources 4
HISTORY 39Z Life in Early Modern Japan: Culture and Connections 4

Upper Division: Asia

Complete at least 1 of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
HISTORY 100F Special Topics in Asian History 4
HISTORY S103F Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation and Research in Asian History 4
HISTORY 111A Topics in the History of Southeast Asia: Southeast Asia to the 18th Century 4
HISTORY 111B Topics in the History of Southeast Asia: Modern Southeast Asia 4
HISTORY 111C Topics in the History of Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural History of Vietnam 4
HISTORY 111D Vietnam at War 4
HISTORY 113B Modern Korean History 4
HISTORY 114A Politics, Culture, and Philosophy in South Asia before Modernity 4
HISTORY 114B India: Modern South Asia 4
HISTORY 116A China: Early China 4
HISTORY 116B China: Two Golden Ages: China During the Tang and Song Dynasties 4
HISTORY 116C China: Modern China 4
HISTORY 116D China: Twentieth-Century China 4
HISTORY 116G Imperial China and the World 4
HISTORY 117A Topics in Chinese History: Chinese Popular Culture 4
HISTORY 117C Topics in Chinese History: Reading the Visual in Chinese History 4
HISTORY 117D Topics in Chinese History: The Chinese Body: Gender and Sex, Health, and Medicine 4
HISTORY 118A Japan: Japan, Archaeological Period to 1800 4
HISTORY 118B Japan: Japan 1800-1900 4
HISTORY 118C The Twentieth Century in Japan 4
HISTORY 119A Topics in Japanese History: Postwar Japan 4
HISTORY C111B Modern Southeast Asia 4
SEASIAN C141B Modern Southeast Asia 4

Upper Division: Europe

Complete at least 1 of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
DUTCH C170 Dutch Culture and Society: Amsterdam and Berkeley in the Sixties 4
HISTORY 100AP Special Topics in Ancient History 4
HISTORY 100B Special Topics in European History 4
HISTORY 100BP Special Topics in Medieval History 4
HISTORY 103B Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: Europe 4
HISTORY 103C Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: England 4
HISTORY 105A Ancient Greece: Archaic and Classical Greek History 4
HISTORY 105B Ancient Greece: The Greek World: 403-31 BCE 4
HISTORY 106A Ancient Rome: The Roman Republic 4
HISTORY 106B Ancient Rome: The Roman Empire 4
HISTORY 149B Medieval Italy: Italy in the Age of Dante (1000-1350) 4
HISTORY 150B Medieval England: from the Conquest to 1485 4
HISTORY 151A Early Modern Britain, 1485-1750: Reformation to Revolution, Island to Empire 4
HISTORY 151B Britain 1485-Present: Britain, 1660-1851 4
HISTORY 151C Maker of the Modern World? Britain since 1750 4
HISTORY 152A Topics in the History of the British Isles: Ireland Since the Union 4
HISTORY 155A Medieval Europe: From the Late Empire to the Investiture Conflict 4
HISTORY 155B Medieval Europe: From the Investiture Conflict to the Fifteenth Century 4
HISTORY 156C The Justice of the State in the Middle Ages 4
HISTORY 158A Modern Europe: Old Regime and Revolutionary Europe, 1715-1815 4
HISTORY 158B Modern Europe: Europe in the 19th Century 4
HISTORY 158C Modern Europe: Old and New Europe, 1914-Present 4
HISTORY 158D History of Fascism 4
HISTORY 158E History of Democracy: Europe 1620-present 4
HISTORY 159B The Power of Ideas: The History of Economic and Social Thought 4
HISTORY 162A Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 4
HISTORY 162C World War II 4
HISTORY 164A The Birth of Modern Thought: European Intellectual History, 1500-1800 4
HISTORY 164B Modern European Intellectual History: European Intellectual History from Enlightenment to 1870 4
HISTORY 164C Modern European Intellectual History: European Intellectual History 1870 to the Present 4
HISTORY 165A The Reformation of European Christianity, 1500-1800 4
HISTORY 165B The Enlightenment: Culture, Society, and Politics in Europe, 1680-1800 4
HISTORY 165D The Social and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe 4
HISTORY 166B Modern France: Renaissance to Revolution 4
HISTORY 166C Modern France 4
HISTORY 167A Modern Germany: Early Modern Germany 4
HISTORY 167B Modern Germany: The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich: Germany 1770-1918 4
HISTORY 167C Modern Germany: Germany 1914 to the Present 4
HISTORY 168A Spain and Portugal: The Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Golden Age: 1450-1700 4
HISTORY 168B Spain and Portugal: From 1715 to the Present 4
HISTORY 170 The Netherlands 4
HISTORY 171A Russia: Russia to 1700 4
HISTORY 171B Autocracy and Society in Romanov Russia 4
HISTORY 171C Russia: History of the Soviet Union 4
HISTORY 172 Nationalism, Socialism, and Gender in Russia, 1800-1950 4
HISTORY 173B History of Eastern Europe: The Habsburg Empire, 1740-1918 4
HISTORY 174A Topics in the History of Eastern Europe: A History of Poland-Lithuania 4
HISTORY 174B Topics in the History of Eastern Europe: Poles and Others: the Making of Modern Poland 4
HISTORY 175C Jews and Judaism: From Paris to Jerusalem and Beyond 4
HISTORY 175D Muslim-Jewish Encounters: From the Beginnings of Islam to Today 4
HISTORY 178 History of the Holocaust 4
HISTORY 185A Christianity: The Beginnings 4
HISTORY 185B History of Christianity: History of Christianity from 1250 4
HISTORY C157 The Renaissance and the Reformation 4
HISTORY C159A Origins of Capitalism 4
HISTORY C175B Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4
HISTORY C194 Dutch Culture and Society: Amsterdam and Berkeley in the Sixties 4
HISTORY N106A The Roman Republic 4
HISTORY N106B The Roman Empire 4
HISTORY N174T The History of Belonging and Coexistence in Modern Europe 6
POLECON C160 Origins of Capitalism 4
RELIGST C124 The Renaissance and the Reformation 4
RELIGST C135 Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4
SOCIOL C189 Dutch Culture and Society: Amsterdam and Berkeley in the Sixties 4
UGIS C155 Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4

Upper Division: United States

Complete at least 1 of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
AMERSTD 138AC From Civil Rights Era to the New Gilded Age 4
AMERSTD 139AC Civil Rights and Social Movements in U.S. History 4
AMERSTD C132B Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 4
DEMOG 145AC The American Immigrant Experience 4
ESPM 160AC American Environmental and Cultural History 4
HISTORY 100AC Special Topics in the History of the United States 4
HISTORY 100D Special Topics in the History of the United States 4
HISTORY 103D Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: United States 4
HISTORY 120AC American Environmental and Cultural History 4
HISTORY 121B The Colonial Period and American Revolution: The American Revolution 4
HISTORY 122AC Antebellum America: The Advent of Mass Society 4
HISTORY 123 Civil War and Reconstruction 4
HISTORY 124A The Recent United States: The United States from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II 4
HISTORY 124B The Recent United States: The United States from World War II 4
HISTORY 125A African American History and Race Relations: 1450-1860 4
HISTORY 125B African American History and Race Relations: 1860-2016 4
HISTORY 127AC California 4
HISTORY 128AC California, the West, and the World 4
HISTORY 129A United States Legal and Constitutional History since 1850 4
HISTORY 130 American Foreign Policy 4
HISTORY 131B Social History of the United States: Creating Modern American Society: From the End of the Civil War 4
HISTORY 131C In the Shadow of War: A Social History of the U.S. Military 4
HISTORY 132C American Religious History 4
HISTORY 133A The History of American Capitalism 4
HISTORY 133B Wall Street / Main Street 4
HISTORY 134A The Age of the City: The Age of the City, 1825-1933 4
HISTORY 134B The Age of the City: The 20th Century to the Present 4
HISTORY 135B Encounter & Conquest in Indigenous America 4
HISTORY 136A The History of Women in the United States before 1900 4
HISTORY 136B Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century US History 4
HISTORY 136C Defiant Women: Gender, Power and Violence in American History 4
HISTORY 137AC Immigrants and Immigration as U.S. History 4
HISTORY 138 History of Science in the U.S. 4
HISTORY 138T History of Science in the US CalTeach 4
HISTORY C132B Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 4
HISTORY 139AC The Multiracial History of Slavery & Servitude in America 4
HISTORY C139B The American Immigrant Experience 4
HISTORY C139C Civil Rights and Social Movements in U.S. History 4
HISTORY C139D From Civil Rights Era to the New Gilded Age 4

Upper Division: Comparative

Complete at least 1 of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
COGSCI C103 History of Information 3
DATA C104 Human Contexts and Ethics of Data - DATA/History/STS 4
HISTART C156B Art and Science 4
HISTART C158 Art and Science 4
HISTORY 100L Special Topics in Legal History 4
HISTORY 100S Special Topics in the History of Science 4
HISTORY 100ST Special Topics in the History of Science (CalTeach) 4
HISTORY 100U Special Topics in Comparative History 4
HISTORY 100UP Special Topics in Comparative History 4
HISTORY 103U Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: Comparative History 4
HISTORY 104 The Craft of History 4
HISTORY 121A The Atlantic World 4
HISTORY 160 The International Economy of the 20th Century 4
HISTORY 162B War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 4
HISTORY 180 The Life Sciences since 1750 4
HISTORY 180T History of the Life Sciences Since 1750 (Cal Teach) 4
HISTORY 181B Topics in the History of the Physical Sciences: Modern Physics: From the Atom to Big Science 4
HISTORY 182AT Science, Technology, and Society (Cal Teach) 4
HISTORY 183 Topics in the History of Medicine 4
HISTORY 186 International and Global History since 1945 4
HISTORY 190 Society and the Sexes in Europe and the U.S., 1750 to the Present 4
HISTORY C175B Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4
HISTORY C182A Science, Technology, and Society 4
HISTORY C182C Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society 4
HISTORY C183A Disease, Health and Medicine in American History 4
HISTORY C184D Human Contexts and Ethics of Data - DATA/History/STS 4
HISTORY 187 The History and Practice of Human Rights 4
HISTORY C188A Art and Science 4
HISTORY C188B Art and Science 4
HISTORY C188C Magic, Religion, and Science: The Ancient and Medieval Worlds 4
HISTORY C191 Death, Dying, and Modern Medicine: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 4
HISTORY C192 History of Information 3
HMEDSCI C133 Death, Dying, and Modern Medicine: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 4
INFO C103 History of Information 3
ISF C100G Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society 4
LS C140V The History and Practice of Human Rights 4
MEDIAST C104C History of Information 3
MELC C188 Magic, Religion, and Science: The Ancient and Medieval Worlds 4
RELIGST C135 Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4
STS C100 Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society 4
STS C101 Science, Technology, and Society 4
STS C103 Disease, Health and Medicine in American History 4
STS C104D Human Contexts and Ethics of Data - DATA/History/STS 4
UGIS C133 Death, Dying, and Modern Medicine: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 4
UGIS C155 Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4

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