Courses Grouped by Level, Program, and Geographic Areas
Special Topics
(All special topics courses may be counted toward the geographical distribution
requirement.)
Lower-Level Small Group Learning Experience
49S: First-Year Seminar Lower-Level
Lectures
103,104: Lectures in Special Topics. One Course. Staff
Intermediate-level Seminars
105S: Special Topics in FOCUS: Offered only to first-year students. For current
list of courses see FOCUS Program Brochure. The web page is located at http://pmac-www.aas.duke.edu/focus.
Offered fall semester. One Course. Staff
106S: Seminars in Selected Topics. One Course. Staff
Upper-Level Small Group Learning Experience
191, 192: Independent Study
195S, 196S: Junior-Senior Seminars in Special Topics
197S-198S: Senior Honors Seminar
299: Lectures in Special Topics
299S: Special Topics
Courses Taught in Duke Study Abroad Programs
Courses numbered 100 with a letter suffix are taught in Duke-administered study-abroad programs. These courses provide the same credit and fulfill the same curriculum requirements as any, introductory, 100-level, or seminar course in history department.
99. Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics on History.
100A-U Study Abroad: Special Topics on History. Register for course by designated
suffix indicating the specific country
100A: Duke in Madrid
100B: Duke in Spain
100C: Duke in Britain
100E: Duke in China
100F: Duke in France
100H: Duke in Andes
100I: Duke in Italy
100J: Duke in Russia
100K: Duke in Australia
100L: Duke in Germany
100M: Duke in Oxford
100N: Duke in Japan
100O: Duke in Vienna
100Q: Duke in India
100R: Duke in Venice
100U: Duke in Rome
100V: Duke in Greece
100S: Study Abroad: Seminar on Historical Topics. Register for country by
the section designated in the Official Schedule of Courses.
History Courses
21D: Europe to the Eighteenth Century
22D: Europe from the Eighteenth Century
25: Introduction to World History
26: Introduction to World History, continued
29: Comparative Revolutions: France, 1789-Russia, 1917
49S: First-Year Seminar
53: Greek History
54: Roman History
75: Topics on the Third World and the West
76: Topics on the Third World and the West, Cont=d.
91D: American History to 1876
92D: America from 1877 to the Present
98: Introduction to Canada
99: Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics
100A-100W Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics
101C: Terrorism, 1848-1968
101E.S: Nationalism and Exile
101G: Introduction to Islamic Civilization
101K: Topics in Chinese Civilization
102A.S.: Exploration of North America
102G: Introduction to Islamic Civilization
103: Lectures in Special Topics-fall semester
104: Lectures in Special Topics-spring semester
105S: Special Topics: FOCUS
106S: Seminar in Selected Topics
107A: Tudor/Stuart Britain
107B: Modern Britain
108D: Contesting Empires: Western North America to 1870's
108E: Imaging the North West: History/Myth
108F: Introduction to North America
110A: Religion in China
111A: Early America to 1760
111B: Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1815
111C: The New Nation
111E: Civil War and Reconstruction
111F: United States, 1870 to 1914
111G: Modern America
112A: The World in the 20th Century
112B: The World in the 20th Century, continued
112C: Race and American Politics
113A: The 1960s: History/Public Policy
113B: Europe’s Colonial Encounter, 1492-1992.
114A.S.: Islam in West Africa
114C: Opium and World Power, 1800-2000.
115A: History of Africa: From Antiquity to Early Modern Times
115B: Africa, Antiquity to Present
115C: Introduction to African Studies
116: Aspects of Medieval Culture
117: Early Modern Europe
118B: Warfare in the 20th Century
118C: History of the World Wars
118E: The Meaning of Vietnam
119: Native American History: Indians in North America
120: History of Socialism and Communism
121A: Globalizing Protest
122A: The Economic History of Japan, 1850 to the Present
123S: Madness and Society in Historical Perspective
124S: Slave Society in Colonial Anglo-America: The West Indies, South Carolina
and Virginia
125B: Modern American Legal History
125D: The Enlightenment: A Social Cultural, and Intellectual Survey
126A: US Political History to 1900
126B: American Political History, 1900-2000
126D: American Dreams and American Realities
127A: The Caribbean, 1492-1700
127B: The Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
129: Twentieth Century American Medicine
129S: Behind the Veil
130B: Introduction to Economic History
131B: Representing the Middle East
132: Modern World Environmental History, 1500-Present
133A: Poverty and Sanctity in Medieval Society
133C: British Isles in the Middle Ages
133D: The British Empire 1750-1947
134A: History of Jews in the Early Middle Ages
134B: History of Jews in the Late Middle Ages
134C: Jewish History, 1780s-Present
135A: Europe in the 20th Century
135B: Weimar and Nazi Germany
135C: Germany and the Cold War
136A: Introduction to Contemporary Latin America
136B: Biography and Politics in Latin America
136C: Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Building Postcolonial Nations
137: Comparative Approaches to Global Issues
138: Reformation Europe
139B: Modern South Asia
140A: The Idea of Nature
140B: Multinationalism in the Slavic World
141A: Indentity/Cultural History: The Ottoman Context
141B: History of Economic Thought
142C: Chinese Food in History
143A: Ancient and Early Modern Japan
143B: The Emergence of Modern Japan
144A: The Crusades to the Holy Land
144B: Tolstoy/The Russian Experience
145A: African American History
145B: African American History, continued
145C: African American Women and History
146A: Adam Smith and The System of Natural Liberty
146S: Introduction to Russian Civilization
147: Magic, Religion, and Science since 1400
148A: Aspects of Renaissance Culture
148B: History of Medieval Renaissance Italy
149: World Military History
150A: Documentary Film History
150B.S.: The Documentary Experience: A Video Approach
150E: Russian Revolutionary Cinema
151A: The History of the Renaissance in Europe, 1250-1550
151C: European Intellectual History, 1789-1848
151E: European Intellectual History, 1848-1918
152: The Modern Middle East
154A: Soviet Propaganda
154B.S.: Upheavals That Made Modern France
154C.D.: The History of Emotions
155: Mexico Since Before Cortes
156A: The Reformation of the 16th Century
156B: History of the Christian Church
157A: Rise of Modern Science: Early Science through Newton
157C.: Rise of Modern Science: 20th Century
158A.D.: American Business History
159D: Afghanistan: Warriors and Nation Building
161: Russian Cultural History
163E: The Civil Rights Movement
163G: Chinese Culture and History
164A.D.: Love in the Western World.
166A: The Insurgent South
167A: U.S. Foreign Policy I: From World War II to Vietnam War
167B: U.S. Foreign Policy II: From Vietnam War to the Present
168A: The Emergence of the Atlantic Basin to 1713
168B.S.: The Atlantic Slave Trade
169A: American Women, 1600-1877
169B: American Women, 1877-Present
170A: American Cultural History, 1750-1860
170BS: Exploring Latino Identity in the 20th Century
170C: Afro-Brazilian Culture and History
171A: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
172A: Introduction to Asian American History
172B: China and the West
172C: China from Antiquity to 1400
173: War/Society, 1000-1918
174A: Latin America: Colonialism and Its Consequences
174B: Modern Latin America
175S: The Southern Plantation as Historical Laboratory: Odyssey in Black and
White, 1770-1970
176B: African American Intellectual History, 20th Century
176D: Globalization and the Limits of Translation
177B: Modern American Constitutional Development II
177D: American Constitutional Development I (with discussion sections)
178A: Science and Technology in the Ancient World
179A: Classics of Western Civilizations: The German Tradition, 1750-1930
179B.S.: The Inca Empire and Colonial Legacies
180: The Soviet Experience
182B: Rome: History of the City
182C: History of Greek and Roman Civil Law
183S: Canada from the French Settlement
184S: Canadian Issues
186: Marxism and Society
188A: Genocide in the 20th Century
189B: History of Public Health in America
190: The History of Women in Science and Medicine
191: Research Independent Study-fall semester
192: Research Independent Study-spring semester
193: Introduction to the Civilization of Southern
195S: Junior-Senior Seminars in Special Topics-fall semester
196S: Junior-Senior Seminars in Special Topics-spring semester
197S: 198S Senior Thesis Seminar-year long seminar
199A: The Development of Economic Thought
201S: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Origins of the Revolution
202S: The Russian Revolution
203S: Topics in Modern World Environmental History
204S: Technology, Economic Development, and Social Change, 1750 to the Present
207A.S.: Geographic Perspectives in History I: Atlantic Worlds
207B.S.: Geographic Perspectives in History II: Asian and Pacific Worlds
208A.S.: De-centering the Cultural Map: Boundary Zones as Counter-Cores
209S: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern British History
211S: History of Poverty in the United States
214: Class, Public Opinion, and the French Revolution
218: Problems in British Imperialism
221A.S.: The Society and Economy of Europe, 1400-1700
221B.S.: Religion and Society in the Age of the Reformation
223S: The World Wars-fall semester
224S: The World Wars-spring semester
226: Topics in the Labor History of the United States
228S: 20th Century Social Movements in America
232A.S.: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Emotion
233A.S.: Narrative, History, and Historical Fiction
235S: The Antebellum South
236B: Special Topics and Early Medieval History
239: History of Socialism and Communism
242B: The Soviet 1920s: The Road to a New Synthesis
255A.S.: Courts, Wars, Legacies of Wars
255B: War and the National State
255C: The Culture of American Capitalism, 1750-1860
255E.S.: Topics in Cold War History
256: Modern Literature and History
260: Fifth-and Fourth-Century Greece
261: The Hellenistic World
262S: Japan Since 1945
263: The Roman Republic
264: The Roman Empire
266: Late Antiquity
267S: Britain in the 16th Century
268S: England in the 17th Century
272S: Fin-de-siècle and Interwar Vienna: Politics, Society, and Culture
273S: Topics in the History of Science
274S: History of Science
276A: Labor, Immigration, and the Asian American Experience
279: Health, Healing, and History-fall semester
280: Health, Healing, and History-spring semester
282S: Canada
283S: Seminar in North American Studies
287A: Popular Religion
287BS: Ethnohistory
291S: Marketing/Consumption in Japan and US
292: Research Methods in Japanese
293: French Liberalism: An Intellectual History, 1815-1981
294S: Women and Medicine in the United States
295S: Slavery and Freedom in Africa, to 1960
296: United States Policy in the Middle East
297S: Teaching Race, Teaching Gender
299: Lectures in Special Topics
299S: Special Topics
Courses by Geographic Areas
1) USC: United States and Canada; 2) EUR: Europe and Russia; 3) LAC: Latin American and Caribbean; 4) AMEA: Africa, Middle East and Asia. In cases of special topics, global or comparative courses, consult the course description in the Undergraduate Bulletin or the History Undergraduate Office.
For course titles visit the History section of the online Bulletin at http://registrar.duke.edu/bulletins/Undergraduate/.
AMEA: 101G, 101M, 102G, 114A.S, 115A, 115B, 115C, 122A, 131B, 133D, 139A, 139B, 142B, 142C, 143A, 143B, 152, 163G, 172A, 172C, 193, 245, 246, 276A, 292, 295S, applicable sections of History 49S, 100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S, 191, 192, 195S, 196S, 299, and 299S.
EUR: 21D, 22D, 53, 54, 101ES, 107A, 107B, 110, 113, 116, 117, 120, 123S, 133A, 133C, 134A, 134B, 135A, 135B, 135C, 138, 104A, 104B, 141A, 144A, 144B, 146S, 148A, 148B, 150E, 151A, 151C, 151E, 151F, 154A, 154D, 154BS, 156A, 156B, 157A, 161, 164AD, 171A, 171B, 173, 178A, 179A, 180, 181, 182C, 186, 201S, 201T, 202S, 209S, 213S, 214, 218, 221AS, 221BS, 236B, 238S, 239, 242B, 254S, 256, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267S, 268S, 270S, 272S, 293, applicable sections of History 49S, 100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S, 191, 192, 195S, 196S, 299, and 299S.
LAC: 127A, 127B, 136A, 136B, 136C, 155, 170BS, 170C, 174A, 174B, 230S, 231S, 257, applicable sections of History 49S, 100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S, 191, 192, 195S, 196S, 299, and 299S.
USC: 91D, 92D, 97D, 98, 108D, 108E, 108F, 111A, 111B, 111C, 111E, 111F, 111G, 112C, 118E, 119, 124S, 125B, 126A, 126B, 126D, 128S, 129, 129A, 129B, 129S, 145A, 145B, 145C, 146A, 150A, 150BS, 158AD, 163E, 165, 166A, 167A, 167B, 169A, 169B, 170A, 175S, 176B, 177B, 177D, 183S, 184S, 189B, 211S, 226, 228S, 235S, 250, 255A.S, 255B, 255C, 276A, 282S, 283S, 294S, 297S, applicable sections of History 49S, 100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S, 191, 192, 195S, 196S, 299, and 299S.
Global Comparative Courses: 26, 75, 76, 101C, 112A, 112B, 114B, 114C, 118B, 118C, 121A, 130B, 132, 137, 141B, 147, 149, 154C.D, 157B, 157C, 168A, 168BS, 176D, 188A, 190, 199A, 203S, 204S, 207A.S, 207BS, 208A.S, 210S, 219S, 220S, 223S, 224S, 225S, 232A.S, 233A.S, 241A, 252A, 255E.S, 273S, 274S, 275S, 279, 280, 285S, 286S, 287A, 287BS, 289S, 290S, 291S, 296, applicable sections of History 49S, 100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S, 191, 192, 195S, 196S, 299, and 299S.
Courses Listed by Thematic Area
(Students may define other thematic areas, with the approval of the director of undergraduate studies).
African diaspora: 75,76 (applicable sections), (100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S applicable sections) 113b, 114a, 115a, 115b, 115c, 124S, 127a, 127b, 153S, 163a, 163c, 163e, 166, 168a, 168b, 170C, 175S, (191,192,195S, 196S applicable sections) 209S, 289S, 295S and (299, 299S applicable sections).
Military: (100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S applicable sections) 118a, 118b, 118c, 129, 135b, 140A, 149, 163S, (191,192, 195S, 196S applicable sections) 223S/224S, 255b, 288S and (299, 299S applicable sections).
History of medicine, science, and technology: (100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S applicable sections) 122a, 123S, 147, 157a, 157b, 157c, 178a, 189b, 190, (191,192, 195S,196S applicable sections) 204S, 219S, 249S, 273S, 274S, 279/280, and (299, 299S applicable sections).
History of Women: (100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S applicable sections) 126S, 145C, 169a, 169b, 171a, 171b, 190, (191, 192,195S, 196S applicable sections) 275S, 294S and (299, 299S applicable sections).
Pre-1800 courses
(100A-100S, 103, 104, 105S, 106S Applicable sections); 21D, 26, 53, 54, 75, 91D, 101G, 107A, 111A, 111B, 113B, 114A,S, 115A, 115C, 116, 117, 119A, 124S, 126S, 127A, 127B, 133A, 133B, 133C, 134A, 136A, 138, 143A, 144A, 145A, 147, 148a, 148b, 149, 151A, 154D, 156A, 156B, 157A, 158A, 168a, 168b, 169a, 171a, 172C, 173, 174a, 178A, 179, 182B, 182C, 183S, 189A, 190; (191, 192, 195S, 196S Applicable sections); 211A, 213S, 214, 217, 219S, 221a, 221b 222A, 222B, 222C,S, 231S, 236A, 236b, 237S, 238S, 251B, 259, 260, 261, 263, 264, 266, 267S, 268S, 279, 289S, 294S, 295S, and (299, 299S applicable sections).