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.edu. All 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
HITO 87	Sun, Sea, Sand & Sex: Tourism	Patterson
HITO 87	What Is Socialism/What Isn't	Patterson
HITO 87	Books of Nature: Art/Science	Pineda de Avila

Upper Division Courses

Course	Title	Instructor
HIAF
HIAF 113	Small Wars and the Global Order: Africa and Asia	Prestholdt
HIEA
HIEA 144	Topics in East Asia History: S. Korea in Global 1980s	Henry
HIEU
HIEU 123	Ancient Greece in the Classical Period +	Westerfeld
HIEU 128	Europe since 1945	Hansen
HIEU 144	Topics in European History	Strasser
HIEU 144	Topics in European History	Devereux
HIEU 147	Europe and the World I, 1808–1918	Biess
HIGL
HIGL 114	History of Modern Vietnam	Edington
HIGL 144	Topics: History and Politics of the World Cup	Ivey
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 132	Modern Mexico: From Revolution to Drug War Violence	Vitz
HILA 144	Topics in Latin American History. Labor History of Latin America: From Colonial Miners to App Workers	Katz
HINE
HINE 109	History of the Ottoman +	Shafir
HINE 115	Death and Dying in Antiquity +	Balberg
HINE 120	The Middle East in the New Century	Provence
HINE 128	History of Mideast: Early Medieval	Shafir
HISA
	No course offerings
HISC
HISC 107	Emergence of Modern Science	Golan
HISC 125	Early Modern Mapping +	Pineda De Avila
HISC 131	Science, Technology, & Law	Golan
HITO
HITO 100	Craft of History	Edington
HITO 100	Craft of History	Radcliff
HITO 192	Senior Seminar: Physics and Politics in WWII	Biess & Chivukula
HIUS
HIUS 113	History of Mexican America	Martinez-Matsuda
HIUS 136	Citizenship and Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century	Martinez-Matsuda
HIUS 155	Zoot Suit-HipHop:Race-Pop Cult	Alvarez
HIUS 161	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
HIGR 215B	Research Seminar in Modern Chinese History	Muscolino
HIEU

HIGL
HIGR 280	Global History/Early Mod Era	Devereux
HILA
	N/A
HINE
	N/A
HISC
HIGR 239	Seminar in Science Studies	Pineda De Avila
HIGR 240	Colloquium in Science Studies	Mckenzie
HIUS
HIGR 267B	Research Seminar in United States History	Widener