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Apr 19, 2024
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Course Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
History Major
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Summary of Requirements
Notes:
At least five full courses must have the HIST prefix.
No more than three full courses taken from selected courses based on historical methodologies taught in other departments or programs may apply to the major.
Courses that count towards the major but originate in other departments can be used to fulfill any History major requirement except that of the 300-level course.
Credit earned in First-Year Seminars taught by members of the Oberlin History Department may be applied toward the major but cannot be used to fulfill the 100-level course requirement.
Transfer of Credit
Students seeking to transfer credit toward the History Major for classes not taken at Oberlin must consult with their advisors and/or the chair of the History Department in advance, and gain written preliminary approval for courses they wish to take elsewhere.
Students may be eligible to transfer toward the major credit for a maximum of two full courses completed outside Oberlin. Other courses may be transferred for general credit toward graduation. Normally, the History Department does not accept toward the major any courses completed at two-year institutions after a student has declared a major in History at Oberlin.
Visit the department website for a detailed explanation of History Department Transfer Guidelines.
Study Away
No more than 2 full courses taken in approved study-away programs may apply to the major.
Honors
The Honors Program in history offers the opportunity for recognition of distinguished achievement in historical research and writing. Qualified students apply to enter the program in their sixth semester. Proposals are due in mid-April and should be prepared in consultation with department faculty. Further information is available from the chair or the History Honors coordinator.
Visit the department website for more detailed guidelines.
History Major Course Lists
300-Level Courses
Return to the summary of requirements. - HIST 301 - The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- HIST 303 - Seminar: Possession and Property in Medieval Europe
- HIST 304 - Abolitionists and the Antislavery Movement
- HIST 305 - Research Methods in Black Women’s Intellectual History
- HIST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-52
- HIST 310 - Marx and Marxism
- HIST 312 - Research Seminar: World War II
- HIST 314 - Existentialism
- HIST 316 - Latino Social Movements in the 20th Century
- HIST 318 - American Orientalism
- HIST 322 - American Contact, 1492-1620
- HIST 325 - Ancient and Medieval Perspectives in History
- HIST 327 - Mapping China and East Asia
- HIST 328 - The Great War and Asia, 1914-1925
- HIST 330 - Social History of Development in the Modern MENA
- HIST 331 - Race and Sexuality in United States History
- HIST 335 - Seminar: Crusades: Contact & Conflict in the Mediterranean World
- HIST 343 - Reserch Seminar: War, the Military and the American Nation
- HIST 347 - The African Diaspora in Contemporary Latin America
- HIST 348 - Historical Clues, Alternative Archives
- HIST 349 - Latinx Social Biographies
- HIST 351 - Indians and Empires in Early America
- HIST 352 - War Memory in Postwar Japan
- HIST 354 - Brit Empire & Indian Ocean
- HIST 360 - Constructing the Russian Revolutionary Self
- HIST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
- HIST 371 - Muslim Politics in Modern South Asia
- HIST 376 - Westworlds: Research Seminar in Western History
- HIST 382 - Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Connections in Historical Perspective
- HIST 383 - Borders, Wars, and Refugees from the Ottoman Empire to ISIS
- HIST 385 - Environmentalism of the Poor & Water
- HIST 389 - Archaeologies of China
- HIST 392 - Soviet History and Cinema: Art, Propaganda, and Politics, 1908-1949
- HIST 396 - Seminar: US Foreign Policy and MENA
- HIST 399 - War and Civilization
400-Level Courses
Return to the summary of requirements. - HIST 404 - Race, Citizenship, Punishment
- HIST 405 - Age of Fracture: The United States since 1973
- HIST 407 - Civil War Era
- HIST 412 - Lords, Peasants, and Pigs on Trial: popular and elite culture in early modern Europe
- HIST 420 - Big Government: A Legal and Cultural History of Bureaucracy in China
- HIST 422 - Migration in 20th Century Europe
- HIST 427 - Borderlands
- HIST 430 - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa
- HIST 435 - Museums: A Social, Political, and Institutional History
- HIST 443 - Colloquium: Crisis of Confidence: American History and Culture in the 1970s
- HIST 444 - Gender and Sexualities in China
- HIST 454 - International Relations Theory for Historians
- HIST 460 - Medieval Terrorism, Opportunism, or Acts of Love?: A Study of Crusade Historiography
- HIST 472 - Colloquium: Early Modern Atlantic World
- HIST 473 - Colloquium: Violence and Terror in Early America
- HIST 479 - Colloquium: Readings in 20th Century Urban History
- HIST 481 - Stalinism
- HIST 482 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
- HIST 486 - France and Algeria 1830-1962
- HIST 487 - Women of Latin America
- HIST 488 - US South
- HIST 489 - Armies, Militias, and Jihad in MENA
- HIST 492 - The 1960s
- HIST 493 - Repairing the Past: Readings in Historical Justice
Pre-Modern Courses
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- AAST 122 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: Indigenous to 1898
- CLAS 103 - History of Greece
- CLAS 104 - History of Rome
- EAST 121 - Chinese Civilization
- EAST 131 - Japan Earliest Times to 1868
- EAST 389 - Archaeologies of China
- FYSP 071 - Pirates and Piracy in Times Past
- FYSP 167 - Writing Religion and Gender
- FYSP 173 - The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World
- HIST 101 - Medieval and Early Modern European History
- HIST 103 - American History to 1877
- HIST 105 - Chinese Civilization
- HIST 109 - Latin American History: Conquest and Colony
- HIST 121 - History of the Middle East and North Africa, from the Rise of Islam to 1800
- HIST 129 - History of Rome
- HIST 159 - Japan Earliest Times to 1868
- HIST 162 - Cultures and Peoples of Ancient India
- HIST 107 - Russian History I
- HIST 205 - Heavenly Histories: The Making of Western Cosmology from Antiquity to the Trial of Galileo
- HIST 206 - Social Dissent, Power, and Heresy in Medieval Europe
- HIST 208 - Of Miracles and Microscopes: A History of Science from 1200-1800
- HIST 209 - The City in Europe, 1100-1789
- HIST 230 - Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1914
- HIST 239 - South Asia and the World
- HIST 276 - Slavery in Latin America
- HIST 278 - The Productive Past: Innovation and the Early Modern World
- HIST 285 - American Indians: Pre-Columbus to the Present
- HIST 301 - The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- HIST 303 - Seminar: Possession and Property in Medieval Europe
- HIST 322 - American Contact, 1492-1620
- HIST 325 - Ancient and Medieval Perspectives in History
- HIST 351 - Indians and Empires in Early America
- HIST 382 - Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Connections in Historical Perspective
- HIST 389 - Archaeologies of China
- HIST 460 - Medieval Terrorism, Opportunism, or Acts of Love?: A Study of Crusade Historiography
- HIST 472 - Colloquium: Early Modern Atlantic World
- HIST 486 - France and Algeria 1830-1962
- JWST 281 - Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1914
Geographic Distribution Requirement
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Students must complete at least one course in three of the different geographic areas regularly or occasionally offered by the Department.
European History Courses
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- CLAS 103 - History of Greece
- CLAS 104 - History of Rome
- FYSP 154 - Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siecle
- HIST 101 - Medieval and Early Modern European History
- HIST 102 - Modern European History
- HIST 129 - History of Rome
- HIST 130 - History of Greece
- HIST 205 - Heavenly Histories: The Making of Western Cosmology from Antiquity to the Trial of Galileo
- HIST 206 - Social Dissent, Power, and Heresy in Medieval Europe
- HIST 208 - Of Miracles and Microscopes: A History of Science from 1200-1800
- HIST 209 - The City in Europe, 1100-1789
- HIST 216 - European Socialisms and Post-Socialisms
- HIST 222 - Modern Germany and Eastern Europe, 1848-1989
- HIST 229 - Gender in Modern Europe, 1789-1989
- HIST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question
- HIST 278 - The Productive Past: Innovation and the Early Modern World
- HIST 288 - Weimar Berlin
- HIST 292 - Jewish Emancipation in Modern Europe
- HIST 303 - Seminar: Possession and Property in Medieval Europe
- HIST 310 - Marx and Marxism
- HIST 314 - Existentialism
- HIST 325 - Ancient and Medieval Perspectives in History
- HIST 335 - Seminar: Crusades: Contact & Conflict in the Mediterranean World
- HIST 392 - Soviet History and Cinema: Art, Propaganda, and Politics, 1908-1949
- HIST 412 - Lords, Peasants, and Pigs on Trial: popular and elite culture in early modern Europe
- HIST 422 - Migration in 20th Century Europe
- HIST 486 - France and Algeria 1830-1962
- JWST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question
- JWST 291 - Antisemitism in European History and Literature
- JWST 292 - Jewish Emancipation in Modern Europe
- LOND 907 - A History of London
History Major Elective Courses
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In addition to 100-, 200-, 300-, and 400-level history courses, the following courses count toward history electives.
- AAST 122 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: Indigenous to 1898
- AAST 123 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: 1898-1986
- AAST 202 - African American History Since 1865
- AAST 213 - Long Walk to Freedom: South Africa Since 1948
- AAST 219 - Freedom Movements: Civil Rights and Black Power
- AAST 220 - Doin’ Time: A History of Black Incarceration
- AAST 227 - Saint Domingue/Haiti in the Atlantic World
- AAST 228 - Katrina and Black Freedom Struggle
- AAST 229 - Radical Thinkers and Movements in the Caribbean
- AAST 285 - African American Women’s History
- AAST 321 - Seminar: Black Feminist Thought: A Historical Perspective
- AAST 357 - Empire and Resistance in the Caribbean (Haiti, Jamaica, Grenada, & Trinidad)
- CAST 260 - Asian American History
- CLAS 103 - History of Greece
- CLAS 104 - History of Rome
- EAST 121 - Chinese Civilization
- EAST 122 - Modern China
- EAST 131 - Japan Earliest Times to 1868
- EAST 132 - Modern Japan
- EAST 163 - Korea and East Asia: From Ancient Times to the Present
- EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb: A Comparative Study of Gender, Race and Nationalism in Japan and The US
- EAST 249 - Pine, Bamboo, Plum: Nature in Japan
- EAST 276 - Modern Korean History
- EAST 280 - Brothers at War: The Unending Korean War
- EAST 362 - The Korean War
- EAST 364 - Seminar: The Japanese Seizure of Korea, 1876-1905
- EAST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
- EAST 389 - Archaeologies of China
- EAST 390 - Big Government: A Legal and Cultural History of Bureaucracy in China
- FYSP 067 - The Climate of History: From Asia to the Anthropocene
- FYSP 071 - Pirates and Piracy in Times Past
- FYSP 127 - Race-ing the Environment: Historical Approaches to Race and Environmental History
- FYSP 154 - Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siecle
- FYSP 173 - The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World
- GSFS 260 - Asian American History
- JWST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question
- JWST 274 - History of the Holocaust
- JWST 281 - Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1914
- JWST 291 - Antisemitism in European History and Literature
- JWST 292 - Jewish Emancipation in Modern Europe
- LOND 907 - A History of London
- POLT 240 - Militarization of Global Politics, Economy & Society
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