主题, 地理, and temporal descriptions of the 历史 Department’s major and minor requirements are listed below. It will be observed that the categories of race, 种族, class, and gender do not appear in this list. Because these themes permeate human experience through space and time, all history courses deal with these issues in one way or another.

To declare a major concentration please use the form 在这里.

To declare a minor concentration please use the form 在这里. 

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主题

帝国，国家，战争
课程 in this category emphasize themes exploring the development, practices and relationships between the formation of empires and nations. Marked by historically distinct forms of political discourse and integration, the “modern nation” became the standard form of global political organization by the 20th century and was often formed or transformed through processes of colonialism, especially collective violence. For a full list of courses in this category, 点击这里. 

 

Ideas, Science, Medicine
课程 in this category emphasize themes exploring intellectual history and the histories of science, 医学, 和技术. Many courses in this category focus on the production of knowledge about the natural world, 健康与康复, and historicized examinations of terms like ‘science.’ 课程 may also explore intellectual movements, thinkers from a range of 社会 and political contexts, and the ways people have engaged with ideas about the universe, their own and different societies, 生与死. For a full list of courses in this category, 点击这里.

政治，法律，等等脸部用的正义

课程 in this category emphasize themes exploring politics, law, and 社会 justice. 在这些课上, students explore how conflicts over who rules and who is ruled are waged through different ideas and institutions. These classes also examine how different historical actors and groups have envisioned and fought for justice. For a full list of courses in this category, 点击这里. 

 

Sexuality, Body, Affect
课程 in this category emphasize themes exploring the role of the body in mediating, 折射, 使具体化, and challenging large-scale 社会, 文化, and political processes. Paying attention to the concept of embodiment, 这些课程相互竞争, is essential for analyzing phenomena related to discipline, 欲望, 内存, 灵性, 和社交能力, 在许多其他方面. 同时, these courses explore how the body and its practices are conceptualized by broader political, 社会, and 文化 norms in different times and places. For a full list of courses in this category, 点击这里.

Space, Place, Environment

课程 in this category explore the themes of space, place, and environment. 在这种情况下, they seek to illuminate the ways that both physical surroundings and 文化 understandings of those environments impacted the lives and worldviews of people and societies in the past. These courses unpack how ideas about and relationships with the natural world and the built environment developed, and how they change over time. For a full list of courses in this category, 点击这里.

 

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地理

The logics of place inform historical processes; historical processes in turn shape the emergence and interrelationship of larger spatial configurations transcending political divisions. Though such configurations are distinguished by their own historical logics, they are neither self-contained nor unchanging. 因此, students majoring in history will be required to take courses in at least two (Track 2) or four (Track 1) of the following regional categories:

• 中央 & 东欧
• 比较
• 东亚
• 拉丁美洲 & 加勒比海
• 北非 & 中东地区
• 北美
• 南亚
• 东南亚
• 撒哈拉以南非洲
• 西欧

For a full list of courses designated by region, 点击这里.

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时间

17世纪 & 早些时候
As a discipline concerned with change over time and thus with the provincialization of the present, historical analysis necessitates attention to times different from our own. 像这样, students majoring in history will be required to take at least one course focused on the 17th century or earlier. For a full list of courses designated by region, 点击这里.

这两个
课程 in this category span the 17世纪 divide, featuring historical formations and processes unfolding across centuries and some cases millennia. They can t在这里fore be used to meet the temporal requirement. For a full list of courses in this category, 点击这里.