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Number Title Offered/Credits
HS005 Asia in the World I (Fall: 3)
HS006 Asia in the World II (Spring: 3)
HS019 Democracy, Rights, and Empire I (Fall: 3)
HS020 Democracy, Rights, and Empire II (Spring: 3)
HS031 Europe and the Modern World I (Fall: 3)
HS032 Europe and the Modern World II (Spring: 3)
HS055 Globalization I (Fall: 3)
HS056 Globalization II (Spring: 3)
HS077 Globalization I (Fall: 3)
HS078 Globalization II (Spring: 3)
HS083 Globalization I (Fall: 3)
HS084 Globalization II (Spring: 3)
HS087 Globalization I (Fall: 3)
HS088 Globalization II (Spring: 3)
HS093 Modern History I (Spring: 3)
HS094 Modern History II (Fall: 3)
HS100 American Political Rivalries (Fall: 3)
HS107 Internship (Fall/Spring/Summer: 1)
HS112 Science and the Scientific Revolution (Fall: 3)
HS114 The Civil War (Fall: 3)
HS115 Spies, Spying, and the Presidency (Spring: 3)
HS121 People and Nature: History/Future of Human Impact on the Planet (Fall: 3)
HS132 American Pacific (Fall: 0)
HS137 China From Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Fall: 3)
HS140 Ugly Americans" in the "American Century:" A Transnational History (Fall: 3)
HS148 Introduction to Feminisms (Fall/Spring: 3)
HS155 Tolkien and Medieval History (Fall: 3)
HS172 Post-Slavery History of the Caribbean (Spring: 3)
HS174 Modern Latin America (Fall: 3)
HS175 Booker T. Washington (Spring: 3)
HS176 Business in American Life (Fall: 3)
HS181 U.S. History I (Fall: 3)
HS182 U.S.History II (Spring: 3)
HS189 African-American History I (Fall: 3)
HS192 Black Education Movements (Spring: 3)
HS202 Ugly Americans" in the "American Century (Fall: 3)
HS208 The Middle East in the Twentieth Century (Spring: 3)
HS220 Tolkien and Medieval History (Fall: 3)
HS230 The Age of the Renaissance (Spring: 3)
HS241 Capstone: Boston's College--Your Life (Fall/Spring: 3)
HS243 Greek History (Fall: 3)
HS280 History of Black Nationalism (Fall: 3)
HS285 African American Life Stories (Fall: 3)
HS290 Modern East Asia: Politics, Society & Popular Culture (Fall: 3)
HS292 The Witch, the Church, and the Law (Spring: 3)
HS300 Study and Writing of History (Fall/Spring: 3)
HS300.06 Study and Writing of History: Boston College at 150 (Fall 2012-2013: 4)
HS300.06 Study and Writing of History: Religious Dissent, Repression and Toleration in the Middle Ages (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS300.13 Study and Writing of History: The 1990s (Fall 2012-2013: 4)
HS300.14 Study and Writing of History: Slavery and Memory: The WPA Narratives and Antebellum Slavery (Fall 2012-2013: 4)
HS300.25 Study and Writing of History: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.37 Study and Writing of History: Women of the Renaissance (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS300.38 Study and Writing of History: The Clinton Presidency (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS300.40 Study and Writing of History: The Death Penalty in the United States (Spring 2012-2013: 4)
HS300.44 Study & Writing: Black Migrations: Movement and Mobility in the African Diaspora (Fall 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.63 Study and Writing of History: France and World War II (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.65 Study and Writing of History: Travel and Espionage in the Middle East (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.66 Study and Writing of History: The Arabian Nights (Fall 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.72 Study and Writing of History: Reagan & Thatcher (Fall 2012-2013: 4)
HS300.81 Study and Writing of History: Witchcraft & Magic, c. 1400-1800 (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.84 Study and Writing of History: Writing the Conquest of the Americas (Fall 2012-2013: 4)
HS300.93 Study and Writing of History: Europe and the Age of 'Discovery' (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.96 Study and Writing of History: Immigration Fraud and Border Enforcement (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.97 Study and Writing of History: The Intellectual Roots of Race and Nation in Modern Latin America (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
HS300.99 Study and Writing of History: History of Emotions (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS302 From Sun Yat-sen to the Beijing Olympics (Spring: 3)
HS310 Public Culture in Postwar Japan (Spring: 3)
HS320 Modern Brazil (Spring: 3)
HS324 Populism and Military Rule in Latin America (Fall: 3)
HS325 Revolutionary Cuba: History and Politics (Fall: 3)
HS326 History of Modern Iran (Fall: 3)
HS328 Mexican Revolution (Fall: 3)
HS329 The Caribbean During the Cold War, 1962-1989 (Spring: 3)
HS335 Islam & Christendom: Renaissance & Revolution,1400-1800 (Spring: 3)
HS339 Travelers in Latin America (Spring: 3)
HS343 History of the Ottoman Empire (Fall: 3)
HS369 Nationalism in the Middle East Compared: Pan-Turkism, Pan-Arabism & Zionism (Fall: 3)
HS373 Slave Societies in the Caribbean and Latin America (Fall: 3)
HS385 Introduction to Modern South Asia (Spring: 3)
HS387 Hero, Criminal or Dreamer? The First Emperor of the Qin (Spring: 3)
HS390 China Regionalized: Environment, History & Culture (Fall: 3)
HS396 Decolonization and the Cold War in Africa (Fall: 3)
HS403 The Vikings (Spring: 3)
HS412 Religion and International Relations (Spring: 3)
HS430 A 'polite and commercial' or a 'mad, bad and dangerous people': Imperial Britain in the Long 18th Century (Fall: 3)
HS431 Ireland: Union to the Treaty (Spring: 3)
HS432 Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Fall: 3)
HS434 History of Northern Ireland, 1912 to the Present (Fall: 3)
HS444 The End of History (Spring: 3)
HS445 After the End of History (Fall: 3)
HS451 War Crimes Trials (Fall: 3)
HS463 French Visions of Empire (Fall: 3)
HS467 Global Political Catholicism (Fall: 3)
HS476 The Culture of Athenian Deomocracy (Spring: 3)
HS500 The Plains Indians (Spring: 3)
HS502 Church and State in America (Spring: 3)
HS514 The American Civil War and Reconstruction (Fall: 3)
HS515 Colonial North America (Fall: 3)
HS522 Boston: History, Literature and Culture (Fall: 3)
HS523 Boston: History, Literature & Culture II (Spring: 3)
HS529 The Death Penalty in American History (Fall: 3)
HS534 Nannies, Maids and Mail Order Brides: Gender and Migration in U.S. History (Fall: 3)
HS540 Modern American Women (Spring: 3)
HS543 Journalism and American Democracy (Spring: 3)
HS548 Age of Decision: Challenges to Industrial America,1877-1929 (Spring: 3)
HS551 U.S. 1929 - 1960 (Fall: 3)
HS552 The U.S. Since 1960 (Spring: 3)
HS553 The Old South (Spring: 3)
HS565 American Immigration I: to 1865 (Fall: 3)
HS566 American Immigration II: from 1865 (Spring: 3)
HS571 U.S. Foreign Relations I (Fall: 3)
HS572 U.S. Foreign Relations II (Spring: 3)
HS575 Terror and the American Century (Spring: 3)
HS600 Making History Public (Fall/Spring: 3)
HS600.03 Making History Public: Boston Common and the Changing Uses of Urban Space (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS600.04 Making History Public: Early Maps and Distant Places (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
HS691 Senior Colloquium (Fall/Spring: 3)
HS691.08 Senior Colloquium: Atlantic Ecologies (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS691.09 Senior Colloquium: Information Revolutions (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS691.10 Senior Colloquium: Topics in U.S. Immigration History (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS691.13 Senior Colloquium: Cities of the Islamic Mediterranean (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
HS691.18 Senior Colloquium: Revolution and Society in Modern Europe (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
HS693 Honors Seminar (Fall: 3)
HS694 Honors Thesis (Spring: 3)
HS695 Advanced Independent Research (Fall: 3)
HS696 Advanced Independent Research (Spring: 3)
HS699 Readings and Research: Independent Study (Fall/Spring: 3)