Fall Quarter 2025
Course descriptions can be found in the general catalog, topical course descriptions can be found at the bottom of this page, and syllabi may be found at courses.ucsd.edu. All courses listed on this page are subject to change. Colloquia - H*** 160-190 |
Lower Division Courses
Course | Title | Instructor |
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HILD | ||
HILD 2A | United States History | TBD |
HILD 7A | Race & Ethnicity in the United States | Widener |
HILD 10 | East Asia: The Great Tradition | Muscolino |
HILD 14 | Film and History in Latin America | Murillo |
Upper Division Courses
Course | Title | Instructor |
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HIAF | ||
HIAF 111 | Modern Africa since 1880 | Prestholdt |
HIEA | ||
HIEA 112 | Japan: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the US Occupation | Matsumura |
HIEA 153 | Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Korea | Henry |
HIEU | ||
HIEU 108 | Sex and Politics in the Ancient World + | Balberg |
HIEU 139 | Sex and Gender from the Renaissance to the French Revolution + | Strasser |
HIEU 140 | History of Women and Gender in Europe: From the French Revolution to the Present | Radcliff |
HIEU 154 | Modern German History: From Bismarck to Hitler | Hansen |
HIEU 158 | Why Hitler? How Auschwitz? | Hertz |
HIEU 171 | Special Topics in 20th Century Europe: Holocaust through Film # | Hertz |
HIGL | ||
N/A | ||
HILA | ||
HILA 114 | Dictatorships in Latin America | Cowan |
HILA 131 | A History of Mexico | Vitz |
HILA 161 | History of Women in Latin America | Cowan |
HINE | ||
HINE 144 | Topics in Middle Eastern History | Provence |
HINE 186 | Special Topics in Middle Eastern History # | Provence |
HISA | ||
HISA 110 | Modern India and South Asia | De |
HISA 122 | History and Lit. in South Asia (# with instructor approval) | De |
HISC | ||
HISC 107 | The Emergence of Modern Science | Golan |
HISC 131 | Science, Technology, and Law | Golan |
HITO | ||
HITO 100 | The Craft of History | Martinez-Matsuda |
HITO 196 | Honors Seminar # | Man |
HIUS | ||
HIUS 105 | Chicanas and Latinas: Twentieth-Century US History | Bermudez |
HIUS 106 | Women of Color and Social Movements | Bermudez |
HIUS 144 | Topics in US History: History of Native American Law & Federal Indian Policy | Daly |
HIUS 181/281 | Topics in 20th Century US History: Indigenous Environmental History # | Daly |
Graduate Courses
Course | Title | Instructor |
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Crossfield | ||
HIGR 200 | History and Theory | Matsumura |
HIEA | ||
HIGR 210 | Historical Scholarship on Modern Chinese History | Muscolino |
HIEU | ||
HIGR 222 | Historical Scholarship on European History, since 1850 | Biess |
HIGL | ||
N/A | ||
HILA | ||
N/A | ||
HINE | ||
N/A | ||
HISC | ||
N/A | ||
HIUS | ||
HIGR 267A | Research Seminar in United States History | Widener |
New and Topical Course Descriptions
New and Topical Courses:
HISA 110. Modern India and South Asia (4 units)
This course is a survey of the history of India and South Asia since c. 1750. It provides the historical depth to understand contemporary South Asia through a historical inquiry into the making and multiple meanings of modernity. It explores the history, culture, and political economy of the subcontinent, which provides a fascinating laboratory to study such themes as colonialism, nationalism, partition, the modern state, economic development, religious identities, and center-region problems.
HISA 122. History and Literature in South Asia (4 units)
This course analyzes the history of South Asia through an engagement with the diverse pre-modern and modern literary traditions of the region. Reading translations from multiple South Asian languages across centuries, the course situates literary discourse in historical context, as well as trains students to study literature as historical sources.
Freshman Seminars Course Descriptions
Freshman Seminars:
Gunpowder, China, and the Rise of the West: We will read The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West (Princeton University Press, 2017), by historian Tonio Andrade, and some related material from Ming times (1368-1644). Andrade offers a new, fact-based answer to the old question of why Europe colonized parts of Asia rather than vice-versa, informed by primary sources from both sides.
Pandemics, Panics, and Plagues: Human Responses to Inhuman Catastrophes: An exploration of the role that pandemic and epidemic illness has played in human history, focusing on the different ways in which people have responded to their fears, their mortality, their uncertainty about the causes of contagion, and their disastrous losses. We will study contemporaneous accounts from the distant and recent past, coupled with historical analyses and fictional depictions, to understand the struggle to survive, control, and recover from the onslaught of deadly infections.
What Is Socialism? (And What Isn't): Socialism has recently become a very hot topic in American politics -- something that people are fighting for and fighting against. Conservatives, libertarians, and others on the political "right" continue their long tradition of rejecting as "socialism" a wide range of policies they do not like. But many progressives and others on the "left," inspired by Bernie Sanders and like-minded activists, have recently started to embrace this label (after running away from it in the past).