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Spring Quarter 2026

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.eduAll courses listed on this page are subject to change.

Colloquia - H*** 160-190 
Graduate Courses - H*** 200+
"+" indicates course that focus on the period before 1800
"#" indicates course is a colloquium





Lower Division Courses

Course Title Instructor
HILD
HILD 2C United States Hendrickson
HILD 7C Race and Ethnicity in the United States Alvarez
HILD 12 Twentieth-Century East Asia Henry
HILD 30 History of Public Health Edington
HILD 43 Anthropocene 4: The Great Acceleration, 1945–Present Vitz
HITO
TBD
TBD

 

Upper Division Courses

Course Title Instructor
HIAF

HIAF 113

Small Wars and the Global Order: Africa and Asia

Prestholdt

HIEA
HIEA 154 Korean History Through Film Henry
HIEU
HIEU 128 Europe since 1945 Hansen
HIEU 144P Topics: Topics in Pre-Modern European History - Ancient Jewish Apocalypse + Balberg
HIEU 144 Topics in European History Strasser
HIEU 144 Topics in European History Devereux
HIEU 148 Europe and the World II, 1918–Present Biess
HIGL
HIGL 114 History of Modern Vietnam Edington
HILA
HILA 101 Nation-State Formation, Ethnicity, and Violence in Latin America Katz
HILA 118  Subverting Sovereignty: US Aggression in Latin America, 1898–Present Kozameh
HILA 122 Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic Kozameh
HILA 144 Topics in Latin American History Katz
HILA 169 Scholarship on Latin American History in the Twentieth Century Vitz
HINE
HINE 115 Death and Dying in Antiquity Balberg
HINE 116 The Ottoman Empire, Iran and Egypt (1798–1914) Shafir
HINE 120 The Middle East in the New Century Provence
HINE 186 Special Topics in Middle Eastern History Shafir
HISA
No course offerings
HISC
HISC 125 Early Modern Mapping + Pineda De Avila
HITO
HITO 100 Craft of History Radcliff
HIUS
HIUS 113 History of Mexican America Martinez-Matsuda
HIUS 114B or 161 (tbd) California History, 1850–Present Widener
HIUS 136 Citizenship and Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century Martinez-Matsuda
HIUS 161 or 114B (tbd) Topics in California History Widener
HIUS 181 Topics in Twentieth Century United States Histor Bermudez

Departmental Approval

To enroll in a colloquium you will need to request Department Approval by using the Course Pre-Authorization Request tool. In the justification field please answer the following questions:
  • Why are you interested in taking the class?
  • Have you taken any history classes before?
  • Have you taken any other course on this period?
  • How heavy is your schedule? -- we will have a lot of reading and writing.
  • What kinds of papers have you written before? 

Graduate Courses

Course Title Instructor
Crossfield
     
HIGR 205  Historical Scholarship on Women and Gender   Strasser
HIEA
     
HIEU
     
HIGL
N/A
HILA
  N/A  
HINE
N/A
HISC
HIGR 239 Seminar in Science Studies Pineda De Avila
HIUS
 HIGR 267B  Research Seminar in United States History Widener

New and Topical Course Descriptions

Coming soon! 

Freshman and Senior Seminar Course Descriptions

Freshman Seminars:

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).

Sun, Sea, Sand & Sex: Tourism: Course description coming soon.