University of Southern California

Courses approved for the temporal-breadth requirement

Pre-1300

HIST 101g The Ancient World (4)

HIST 102gm Medieval People: Early Europe and Its Neighbors, 400-1500 (4)

HIST 275g The Worlds of the Silk Road (4).  Note: This course can be used to fulfill EITHER the early OR the middle temporal-distribution requirement, but not both.

HIST 303 Barbarians, Romans, and Christians (4)

HIST 305 From Goddesses to Witches: Women in Premodern Europe (4)

HIST 306 The Early Middle Ages (4)

HIST 307 Women in Medieval Europe, c. 1000-1500 (4)

HIST 308 Britain and Ireland to 1200 C.E. (4)

HIST 309 Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500 C.E. (4)

HIST 334 History of the Samurai (4)

HIST 335 History of Japan to 1550 (4)

HIST 338 China to 960 A.D. (4)

HIST 382 The Middle East, 500-1500 (4)

HIST 401 The Roman World (4)

HIST 403 Carolingian Europe (4)

HIST 406 Special Periods in Medieval History (4)

HIST 407 Europe in the 10th Century (4)

HIST 408 Everyday Life in Chaucer’s England (4)

HIST 409 The Norman Conquest of England, 1066 (4)

HIST 419 Poland and Its Neighbors in the Middle Ages (4)

HIST 438 Seminar in Pre-Modern Japanese History (4, max 8)

 

1300-1800

HIST 103g The Emergence of Modern Europe (4)

HIST 271g Early Native American Stories (4)

HIST 273g Colonial Latin America (4)

HIST 275g The Worlds of the Silk Road (4).  This course can be used to fulfill EITHER the early OR the middle temporal-distribution requirement, but not both.

HIST 312 The Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon (4).  This course can be used to fulfill EITHER the middle OR the modern temporal-distribution requirement, but not both.

HIST 316 The Renaissance (4)

HIST 318 Early American Indian History (4)

HIST 325 Early Modern Britain (4)

HIST 331 The British Empire: 1588-1834 (4)

HIST 349 Colonial North America 1600-1760 (4)

HIST 351 The American Revolution (4)

HIST 369 Aztecs, Mayas, and other Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (4)

HIST 385 Anglo-American Law before the 18th Century (4)

HIST 410 The Age of Humanism and Reformation (4)

HIST 432 Britain in the 18th Century (4)

HIST 440 Early Modern World History (4)

HIST 456 Race, Slavery, and the Making of the Atlantic World (4)

HIST 470 The Spanish Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (4, 2 years)

HIST 473 Colonial Latin America Seminar (4)

HIST 474 Sex, Gender, and Colonialism in Latin America, 1492 to 1820 (4, 2 years)

HIST 497 Senior Seminar in Early Modern Studies (4, Sp) (Enroll in ENGL 497)

 

1800 to the Present

HIST 104g Europe and Its Influence since 1750: From the Rise of Democracy to the Age of                                    Extremes (4)

HIST 200gm The American Experience (4)

HIST 215g Business and Labor in America (4)

HIST 225g Film, Power, and American History (4)

 HIST 235g War and the American Experience (4)

HIST 245gm Gender and Sexualities in American History (4)

HIST 255g The Evolution Debates (4)

HIST 265g Understanding Race and Sex Historically (4)

HIST 266g Business and East Asian Culture, 1800-Present (4)

HIST 312 The Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon (4).  This course can be used to fulfill EITHER the middle OR the modern temporal-distribution requirement, but not both.

HIST 313 France and the French from Napoleon to Mitterand (4)

HIST 317gm North American Indians in American Public Life (4)

HIST 323 The Holocaust in 20th Century Europe (4)

HIST 324g Islam in Russia and the Soviet Union (4)

HIST 326 The Victorians (4)

HIST 327 Twentieth Century Britain (4)

HIST 329 Madness and Society in the Modern Age (4)

HIST 332 British Empire from the Mid-19th Century (4)

HIST 333 Korea: The Modern Transformation (4)

HIST 337 Japan since 1945 (4)

HIST 340 History of China since 1800 (4)

HIST 342 Love and Politics in America, 1750s to 2050s (4)

HIST 343 Work, Leisure, and Violence in Industrializing America (4)

HIST 344 The Vietnam War, 1945-1975 (4)

HIST 345 Men and Women in United States History from the 1920s to the Present (4)

HIST 347 Urbanization in the American Experience (4)

HIST 348 The Dynamics of American Capitalism (4)

HIST 352 The American Civil War (4)

HIST 354 Mexican Migration to the United States (4)

HIST 355 The African-American Experience (4)

HIST 356 The Old South (4)

HIST 357 The New South (4)

HIST 360 19th Century U.S. History (4)

HIST 361 20th Century U.S. History (4)

HIST 363 Foundations of American Foreign Policy, 1776 to the Present (4)

HIST 365 The Second World War (4)

HIST 366 The People’s Republic of China (4)

HIST 372 Modern Latin America (4)

HIST 373 History of the Mexican American (4) (Enroll in AMST 373).

HIST 374 History of Mexico (4)

HIST 376 U.S.-Japan Encounters: War, Trade, and Culture (4) (Enroll in IR 376).

HIST 378m Introduction to Asian American History (4) (Enroll in AMST 378m).

HIST 379 Arabs in America (4) (Enroll in AMST 379).

HIST 380 American Popular Culture (4)

HIST 381 Cinema and History (4)

HIST 384 Popular Culture in the Middle East (4)

HIST 386 American Legal History (4)

HIST 413 The Age of Revolution (4)

HIST 414 Contemporary Europe (4)

HIST 417 History of Soviet Russia: 1917-1991 (4)

HIST 420 European Intellectual and Cultural History: The 19th Century, 1790-1870 (4)

HIST 421 European Intellectual and Cultural History: The Turn of the Century 1880-1920 HIST 422 European Intellectual and Cultural History: The 20th Century, 1920 to the Present (4)

HIST 425 The Era of the First World War (4)

HIST 427 The German Question: Nation and Identity in Modern Central Europe (4)

HIST 428 Life and Death in Nazi Germany (4)

HIST 429 Street Life: Urban Culture in Modern Europe (4)

HIST 441 Modern World History (4)

HIST 445 Comparative History and Theory of Fascism and Nazism (4)

HIST 451 The Mexican Revolution (4)

HIST 452 Beauty and the Body in Historical Perspective (4)

HIST 455 Advanced Topics in African-American History (4)

HIST 458 History of California (4)

HIST 461 19th Century American Thought (4)

HIST 462 20th Century American Thought (4)

HIST 464 Culture, Money, and Power: Japanese-American Relations since 1853 (4)

HIST 465 America in the Cold War World, 1945-1991 (4)

HIST 478 The United States, 1789-1850 (4)

HIST 481 Producing Film Histories (4)

HIST 484 The United States, 1919-1939 (4)

HIST 487 The United States since 1939 (4)

HIST 495 American Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the United States Past (4)

 

 

PLEASE NOTE:  The following courses may fulfill a temporal-distribution requirement depending on the syllabus and/or the research topic (please consult your faculty adviser):

HIST 330 Drugs, Disease, and Medicine in History (4)

HIST 388 Women and Gender in North American History through 1920 (4)

HIST 390 Special Problems (1-4)

HIST 404 Seminar in Korean History (4)

HIST 424 Family, Work, and Leisure in Russian History (4)

HIST 426 Gender, Family, and Society in Europe and the United States, 1500-Present (4)

HIST 437 Seminar in Modern Chinese History (4, max 8)

HIST 457 The American West (4)

HIST 480 Seminar in Middle East History (4, max 8)

HIST 490 Directed Research (2-8, max. 8)

HIST 498 Seminar on Selected Historical Topics (4, max 8)

HIST 499 Special Topics (2-4, max 8)