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Winter 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





Freshman Seminars

Course Title Instructor
 
  TBD  
  TBD  
  TBD  
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Lower-Division Courses

Course Title Instructor
HILD
HILD 2B United States Daly
HILD 7B  Race and Ethnicity in the United States Man
HILD 41 Anthropocene 2: The First Global Era, 1400–1750 Devereux
HILD 60 Global Black History through Biography Graham

Upper-Division Courses

Course Title Instructor
HIAF
 HIAF 111 Modern Africa since 1880 Prestholdt
  TBD  
HIEA
HIEA 114 Postwar Japan Matsumura
HIEA 115 Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Japan Matsumura
HIEA 144 Topics in East Asian History Muscolino
HIEA 152 History and Cultures of the Korean Diaspora Henry 
HIEA 155 China and the Environment + Muscolino
HIEU
HIEU 109 Blood, Soil, Boundaries: Nationalism in Europe + Hertz
HIEU 118 Americanization in Europe Patterson
HIEU 147 Europe and the World I, 1808–1918 Biess 
HIEU 164 Special Topics in Early Modern Europe Devereux
HIEU 184 Yugoslavia: Before, During, and After Patterson
HIGL
 No course offerings
HILA
HILA 102 Latin America in the Twentieth Century Cowan
HILA 121A History of Brazil through 1889 + Cowan
HILA 168 Scholarship on Latin American History in the Nineteenth Century Katz
HINE
HINE 100 The Hebrew Bible and History + Balberg
HINE 109 History of the Middle East (1200–1800): The Ottoman Empire + Shafir
HINE 119 US Mid-East Policy Post-WWII Provence
HINE 129 History of the Middle East: The Late Medieval Period, 1000–1500 + Shafir
HISA
HISA 120 Race and Empire in South Asia De
HISC
HISC 106 The Scientific Revolution Pineda De Avila
HISC 144 Topics in History of Science Pineda De Avila
  TBD  
HITO
HITO 100 Craft of History Strasser
HITO 119 Human Rights I: Intro/History Patterson
HITO 133 War and Society: The Second World War Patterson
HITO 192 Senior Seminar in History Biess
HIUS
HIUS 146 Race, Riots, and Violence in the U.S.  Alvarez
HIUS 149 The United States in the 1960s 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

Historical Scholarship on American History​
Course Title Instructor
Crossfield
HIGR 208 Graduate Professional Development Alvarez
HIGR 281 Global History: Approaches to the Modern Era Prestholdt
HIEA
HIEU
HIGR 224 Readings in Twentieth-Century German History Hansen
HIGL
N/A
HILA
  N/A  
HINE
N/A
HISC
N/A
HIUS
HIGR 265B Historical Scholarship on American History Man

New and Topical Course Descriptions

New and Topical Courses:

Coming soon! 

Freshman and Senior Seminar Course Descriptions

Freshman Seminars:

Global History of DrugsThis seminar introduces students to the history of drugs from a global perspective. Topics include the opium trade in Asia, the origins of international drug control, the war on drugs in the United States and Latin America and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the recent opioid epidemic.

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).

Why Do Europeans Love and Hate America? "Americanization" and "McDonaldization" in Europe spark controversy and even violent protests. Many treat imports of American culture with disgust. Yet the US is also admired, even loved, and demand for American things remains strong. We will study key forms of and resistance to Americanization.