# History (HISTORY) courses UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog · 126 courses Source: https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/history/ "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026. ### HISTORY 5 — Truth, Lies, and History: The Uses of the Past - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV) Focuses on how struggles over the meaning of historical events have shaped and continue to shape our understandings of the world. Through guest lectures from history faculty, students explore debates about the meaning of the past. ### HISTORY 10 — The Holocaust - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VIII) Introduction to the history of European Jewish communities before the Holocaust; the origins of Nazi antisemitism; the implementation of the "Final Solution"; Jewish resistance to the Nazis; and attempts in film and literature to represent the Holocaust since 1945. ### HISTORY 11 — Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Since WWII - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (III and VIII) Investigates instances of genocide since 1945 (including Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and others); explores the history behind these mass murders; considers why people kill, how victims survive, and questions whether international agreements are enough to prevent crimes against humanity. ### HISTORY 12 — Introductory Topics in History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV) Introduces methods and premises of historical study. Topics include introductions to cultural, political, economic, social, and religious history. ### HISTORY 15A — Native American History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VII) Native American history in North America, emphasizing Indigenous perspectives and creative adaptations to changing historical circumstances. Topics may include sovereignty, settler colonialism, treaties, decolonization, Indigeneity; cultural, economic, religious, environmental practices and experiences; and intersections of U.S. and Native histories. ### HISTORY 15B — The U.S. and Asia - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as ASIANAM 51 - ((III or IV) and VIII.) Explores the historical and contemporary transnational linkages between the U.S. and regions in Asia and their resultant flows of people, goods, and ideas. Attention given to the role of militarism and processes of globalization, and the histories of cultural contact/conflict. ### HISTORY 15C — Asian American Histories - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as ASIANAM 50, SOC SCI 78A - ((III or IV) and VII.) Examines and compares diverse experiences of major Asian American groups since the mid-nineteenth century. Topics include origins of emigration; the formation and transformation of community; gender and family life; changing roles of Asian Americans in American society. Formerly ASIANAM 60A. ### HISTORY 15D — History of Sexuality in the US - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VII) Explores intertwined histories of sexuality, race, and gender in the US. By examining how different cultures and times viewed sexuality, race, and gender, it analyzes relationships between regulation of bodies/behaviors and construction of cultural, economic, and political norms. ### HISTORY 15F — What to Eat? Immigrants and the Development of American Cuisines - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - ((III or IV) and VII.) Relationship between immigration and changing American foodways; impact of several major culinary traditions of immigrants and racial minorities, such as African Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Jewish Americans, on America’s gastronomical and socioeconomic landscape. ### HISTORY 15G — Racial Segregation in Modern U.S. - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (VII) Explores the history of racial segregation in the United States from the late 19th century to the present. ### HISTORY 16A — World Religions I - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as REL STD 5A - (IV and VIII) An introduction to the history, doctrine, culture, and writing of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ### HISTORY 16B — World Religions II - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as REL STD 5B - (IV and VIII) An introduction to various religious traditions in selected areas of the world—including India and South Asia, East Asia, Africa, and the Americas. ### HISTORY 16C — Religious Dialogue - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as REL STD 5C - (IV and VIII) Lectures and discussion on controversial topics in religion: sexual morality; religious violence; science; treatment of women and girls; religious truth, American Constitutional matters; secularization; the future of religion, and other topics. ### HISTORY 18A — Major Jewish Texts - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VIII.) Introduction to the diversity of Jewish cultures from ancient to modern times. Surveys the Jewish experience in various societies and civilizations: ancient Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. ### HISTORY 21A — World: Innovations - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VIII) Treats major themes of world historical development through the mid-17th century, focusing on the Eurasian world, but with secondary emphasis on Africa and the Americas. ### HISTORY 21B — World: Empires and Revolutions - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - (IV and VIII) Examines three major transformations that made the world of 1870 dramatically different from that of 1650: e.g., the scientific revolution, industrialization, and the formation of modern states and nations. ### HISTORY 21C — World: Nation, War, and Rights - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV and VIII.) Considers several major currents of modern history: technological change and its social effects; changes in gender relations; totalitarianism; peasant revolutions and the crisis of colonization; international migration; and ecological problems. ### HISTORY 36A — The Formation of Ancient Greek Society: Early Greece - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as CLASSIC 36A - (IV) A survey of ancient Greek civilization from its origins in the Bronze Age to the mid-Archaic period. Examines political and social history, as well as literature, art, religion, and archaeological remains. ### HISTORY 36B — The Formation of Ancient Greek Society: Late Archaic and Classical Greece - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as CLASSIC 36B - (IV) A survey of ancient Greek civilization from the Late Archaic period to the Classical period. Focuses on major institutions and cultural phenomena as seen through the study of ancient Greek literature, history, archaeology, and religion. ### HISTORY 36C — The Formation of Ancient Greek Society: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Greece - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as CLASSIC 36C - (IV) A survey of ancient Greek civilization from the fourth century BCE through to the Hellenistic period. Focuses on major institutions and cultural phenomena as seen through the study of ancient Greek literature, history, archaeology, and religion. ### HISTORY 37A — The Formation of Ancient Roman Society: Origins to Roman Republic - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as CLASSIC 37A - (IV) A survey of the development of Roman civilization from its eighth century BCE beginnings to the civil wars of the first century BCE. Examines political and social history, as well as literature, art, architecture, and religion. ### HISTORY 37B — The Formation of Ancient Roman Society: Roman Empire - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as CLASSIC 37B - (IV) A survey of Roman civilization from Augustus’s consolidation of power following the civil wars of the first century BCE to the crisis of the third century CE. Includes social history, literature, art, architecture, and religion. ### HISTORY 37C — The Formation of Ancient Roman Society: The Fall of Rome - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as CLASSIC 37C - (IV) A survey of Roman civilization from the crisis of the third century CE to the so-called “fall of Rome” in 476 CE. Examines political and social history, as well as literature, art, architecture, and religion. ### HISTORY 40A — Colonial America: New Worlds - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - (IV) Important themes in the social, economic, political, and cultural development in North America that transformed part of the geographical space into the U.S. Topics include Native Americans, European colonization, African enslavement, borderlands, gender, economic stratification, the American Revolution, the Constitution. ### HISTORY 40B — Nineteenth-Century U.S.: Crisis and Expansion - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV) Explores the transformation of American society, economy, and politics during the 19th century. Topics include industrial revolution, slavery, antislavery, women's rights, reform movements, Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration and ethnicity, and cultural and social transformation. ### HISTORY 40C — Modern America: Culture and Power - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - (IV) Important themes in U.S. history in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics include corporate capitalism, empire, immigration, race, gender, consumer society, World Wars, Progressiveness, New Deal, Great Society, civil rights, women's movements, Vietnam War, conservative politics, and economic stratification. ### HISTORY 60 — The Making of Modern Science - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as LPS 60 - (II or IV) Surveys the history of science and mathematics since the Scientific Revolution, examining central developments both chronologically and thematically, as well as investigating their significance for contemporary philosophical debates about the role and status of current scientific theories. ### HISTORY 70A — Problems in History: Asia - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VIII) An introduction to the historical problems, the issues of interpretation, the primary sources, and the historical scholarship of the history of Asia, with an emphasis on developing skills in historical essay-writing. ### HISTORY 70B — Problems in History: Europe - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VIII) An introduction to the historical problems, the issues of interpretation, the primary sources, and the historical scholarship of the history of Europe, with an emphasis on developing skills in historical essay-writing. ### HISTORY 70C — Problems in History: United States - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV) An introduction to the historical problems, the issues of interpretation, the primary sources, and the historical scholarship of the history of the United States, with an emphasis on developing skills in historical essay-writing. ### HISTORY 70D — Problems in History: Latin America - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VIII) An introduction to the historical problems, the issues of interpretation, the primary sources, and the historical scholarship of the history of Latin America, with an emphasis on developing skills in historical essay-writing. ### HISTORY 70E — Problems in History: Middle East and Africa - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VIII) An introduction to the historical problems, the issues of interpretation, the primary sources, and the historical scholarship of the history of the Middle East and Africa, with an emphasis on developing skills in historical essay-writing. ### HISTORY 70F — Problems in History: Transregional History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary - (IV and VIII) An introduction to the historical problems, the issues of interpretation, the primary sources, and the historical scholarship of transregional history, with an emphasis on developing skills in historical essay-writing. ### HISTORY 100W — Writing About History - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** HISTORY 5 or HISTORY 12 or HISTORY 15A or HISTORY 15C or HISTORY 15D or HISTORY 16A or HISTORY 16B or HISTORY 16C or HISTORY 18A or HISTORY 21A or HISTORY 21B or HISTORY 21C or HISTORY 40A or HISTORY 40B or HISTORY 40C or HISTORY 60 or HISTORY 70A or HISTORY 70B or HISTORY 70C or HISTORY 70D or HISTORY 70E or HISTORY 70F. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken 2 times as topics vary - Restrictions: History majors have the first consideration for enrollment - (Ib) Specialized courses focusing on history writing and research skills. Each class reflects the instructor's intellectual interests and is conducted as a discussion group. Limited to 18 students. Several short writing assignments and one longer project meeting the upper-division writing requirement. ### HISTORY 101A — Culture, Money, and Globalization - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule Examines the fundamental dynamics of cultural production and consumption under conditions of globalization. ### HISTORY 102B — Topics in Environmental History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Explores the many historical interfaces between climate change, modes of production, and culture. Topics include the environmental history of warfare, imperialism, and famine in the nineteenth century and the history of environmental thought. ### HISTORY 110D — Topics in Medieval Europe - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Theme-based approach to the main social, political, religious, and cultural developments in Europe between the 4th and 15th centuries. Topics include the Crusades, medieval towns, medieval visionaries, and the deadly sins. ### HISTORY 112D — Topics in Early Modern Europe - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Theme-based approach to the main social, political, and cultural developments in Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Topics included Renaissance humanism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, scientific revolution, court culture and nation building, interactions with non-European peoples, cities and commerce. ### HISTORY 114 — Topics in Modern European History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Course content changes with instructor. Topics include the Inquisition; science and religion in modern Europe; sex and society in modern Europe; French revolutions; culture in interwar Europe; the Holocaust; the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. ### HISTORY 120D — War and Empire: France and the World in the 20th Century - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule Examines French experience of World War I, the defeat and occupation by Germany in World War II, the violent struggles that came with the loss of the French empire in the 1950s and 1960s, immigration, French responses to globalization. ### HISTORY 123D — Topics in Spanish History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Topics include Spain in the nineteenth century, the Spanish Civil War, and dictatorship and democracy in modern Spain. ### HISTORY 126B — The Era of World War II: 1933-45 - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) The era of World War II and its political, social and economic history. ### HISTORY 128C — Topics in the History of Women in Europe - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of history of European women. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 130C — Topics in the Jewish History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of Jewish history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 130D — History of Antisemitism - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as REL STD 130D Survey of the history of antisemitism, ancient to modern. Topics include medieval religious anti-Judaism, persecution of Jews and Judaism during the Crusades and the Inquisition, the rise of modern racial antisemitism, Nazi antisemitism, and the persistence of antisemitism since 1945. ### HISTORY 130F — Jews and Power - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as POL SCI 154J, REL STD 130F Examines the relationship between the Jewish people and political power over a 3500 year period. How have Jews preserved their communal interests and personal safety? How have they defined the proper relationship of the people to political authority? ### HISTORY 131A — History of Zoroastrianism - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as REL STD 131A - Concurrent: IRAN 231A Reviews major trends in the history of Zoroastrianism. ### HISTORY 131B — Ancient Persia - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as CLASSIC 131B - Concurrent: IRAN 231B Survey of the history of Persia in antiquity. ### HISTORY 131C — Medieval Persia - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Concurrent: IRAN 231C A survey of Persian history in the context of Late Antique and Medieval Islamic history. ### HISTORY 131D — Modern Iran - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule The history of Iran from the end of the Safavid Empire in the eighteenth century to the present. ### HISTORY 132B — The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule Offers a survey of the history of the Middle East from the 19th century to the present time. Formerly History 133A. ### HISTORY 132C — Women and Gender in the Middle East - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule Focuses on women and gender in the Middle East from the pre-modern to the contemporary. ### HISTORY 132D — Armenians and Armenia in Ancient to Early Modern World History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule A history of Armenia and Armenians from ethnogenesis to the early modern period at the end of the 1700s within a regional and global context. Takes into account interactions and encounters with the empires, and peoples that encompassed their orbit. ### HISTORY 132E — Armenians and Armenia in Modern World History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule Covers the most important themes in the history of Armenians and Armenia in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries within a regional (i.e., Middle East and Caucasus) and global context. ### HISTORY 132H — Topics in Middle Eastern History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Topics include the cultural, political, intellectual, social, and/or economic histories of one or many regions of the Middle East. ### HISTORY 134A — Africa: Societies and Cultures - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule Introduction to the variety of cultures, political organizations, social structures, and artistic expressions created by Africans over a broad time span. Indigenous development of African societies in distinct regions of the continent. Issues, themes, processes for understanding history of Africa. ### HISTORY 134C — Topics in the History of Africa - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of African history. Topics addressed vary each quarter ### HISTORY 134D — Topics in South African History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Introduction to important historical events and processes in Southern Africa. Focuses on particular themes and explores how those themes change over time. Topics include: changing ideas about race, the development of class structures, identity formation, the role of gender. ### HISTORY 134E — History of the African Diaspora - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as AFAM 137 Examines the causes and consequences of the multiple diasporas of African peoples since the sixteenth century in the Atlantic world, especially the Americas and Europe. ### HISTORY 135A — The Scientific Revolution - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as LPS 135A, PHILOS 135A An examination of early modern European science from 1500-1700. Includes primary readings from central figures (Copernicus, Harvey, Bacon, Descartes, et al.); themes include the impact of printing, humanism, patronage, technology, and discussion of the term "revolution" in this context. ### HISTORY 135E — Topics in the History of Science and Technology - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of science and technological history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 135G — Language Origins: Evolution, Genetics, and the Brain - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as LSCI 175, ANTHRO 152A, GLBLCLT 105 Examines how human language(s) may have originated. Studies pertinent techniques (reconstruction) and addresses related questions, including is our language faculty inborn (i.e., genetically encoded)? Can brain imaging and population genetics research help to unlock this mystery of human evolution? ### HISTORY 137 — Surviving Epidemics - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as MED HUM 137 - Restrictions: Juniors, Sophmores, and Seniors only Analyzes diverse social and cultural responses to epidemics from mid-nineteenth century to the present, including incarceration, caregiving, and disability rights. Using interdisciplinary materials and collaborative activities, students interpret strategies and outcomes of Indigenous, racialized, and marginalized communities surviving great illness. ### HISTORY 140 — Topics in U.S. History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of U.S. history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 142A — California Dreaming: Conquest, Conflict, and Globalization in the Golden State - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule California as a case study of national trends and as a unique setting: its specific problems and culture. Major themes include: colonization, immigration, race relations, agricultural development, industrialization, urbanization, working class movements, social conflict, and political reform. ### HISTORY 142B — Topics in American Social and Economic History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of American social and economic history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 144G — Topics in American Cultural and Intellectual History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of American cultural and intellectual history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 147 — Education and the American Dream: Historical Perspectives on Democracy and Education - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as EDUC 174 Examines the relationship between public schooling and the promotion of democratic ideals in American society over the past two centuries. ### HISTORY 148B — Topics in Multicultural U.S. History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Examines the variety of cultural expressions through which the people who came to inhabit the United States historically signify their collective identities. ### HISTORY 150 — Topics in African American History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as AFAM 138 - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of African American history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 151B — Chicana/Chicano History: Twentieth Century - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as CHC/LAT 132B Examines social history of the Southwest with emphasis on Mexican-origin people. Discusses major questions, theory and research methods pertinent to Chicana/Chicano history. Themes explored include: immigration, xenophobia, class struggle, leadership, generational cohorts, unionization, education, barrioization, ethnicity, patriarchy, sexuality. ### HISTORY 151C — Latinas in the Twentieth Century U.S. - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as CHC/LAT 135 Latinas in the U.S. from 1900 to present, offering a diversity of their cultures, regional histories, sexualities, generations, and classes. ### HISTORY 151D — Latina/Latino Pop: Latina/Latino Popular Culture - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as CHC/LAT 121 - Restrictions: Chicano/Latino Studies majors and History majors have the first consideration for enrollment With a focus on the politics of language and space/place, prepares students to critically analyze sites of Latina/Latino popular culture including: music, film, performance, sports, media, and varied subcultures. ### HISTORY 152 — Topics in Asian-American History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Introduction to important themes in the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. ### HISTORY 152A — Asian American Labor - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as ASIANAM 137 Explores history of Asian Americans and work from the nineteenth century to the present. Areas of study include migration, colonialism, family, social organization, and work culture. ### HISTORY 154 — American Urban History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule A study of urban communities in the United States, from colonial times to the present. Traces the impact of industrialization and urbanization on social and cultural life, and investigates the significance of urban life for U.S. democratic culture. ### HISTORY 160 — Sex and Conquest in Latin America - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as ANTHRO 140, CHC/LAT 150A, GEN&SEX 171A Competing ideas of masculinity and femininity, sexual violence, sexual identities, and gendered hierarchies informed how the Spanish engaged in military and religious domination of Mexican and Andean communities, as well as the forms of native resistance throughout colonial Latin America. ### HISTORY 163 — World of Coffee - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule History of consumption and production of coffee over the centuries, and coffee's cultural, economic, social, political consequences. Coffee's social life as a drug, symbol of hospitality, religious rite, sociability and bourgeois lifestyle, commodity, source of livelihoods, imperial revenues, corporate profits. ### HISTORY 164A — Caribbean History: Colonization to Emancipation - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as AFAM 134A Exploration of the history of the archipelago from pre-Columbian times to the end of slavery; examining the impact of European colonization, decimation of the indigenous populations, African slavery, resistance, and emancipation; the unity and diversity of experience in region. ### HISTORY 164B — Caribbean History: Emancipation to Independence - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as AFAM 134B Post-emancipation and anti-colonial struggles ending with political independence for most of the region. Examines social, political, economic, cultural dimensions of post-emancipation period, including large-scale migration to Central America, the U.S., and Britain; the region's global cultural and political contribution. ### HISTORY 165A — Revolution and Memory in Latin America - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as ANTHRO 162E Comparison of how Andeans resurrected the leaders of the Inca, a defeated indigenous empire, to contest the Spanish empire with how enslaved Africans, with their descendants and others, defeated Spanish colonial rule in what would become the Cuban nation. ### HISTORY 166 — U.S. Intervention in Latin America - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as POL SCI 142J, INTL ST 177D, CHC/LAT 150 Explores political, economic, social, and cultural ties that bind Latin America to the United States. Focuses on U.S. intervention and Latin American response from early nineteenth century to present day. Case studies include Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Central America. ### HISTORY 166B — Revolution and Reaction in Cold War Latin America - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as INTL ST 177G Explores Latin American experiences of revolutionary change and military dictatorship during the Cold War (1945-1990). Pays particular attention to the lives of women, peasants, workers, and the urban middle classes. Case studies include Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Mexico. ### HISTORY 166C — Cuban Society and Revolution - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as INTL ST 177E, POL SCI 153G, CHC/LAT 157 Explores the causes, development, and legacy of the 1959 Revolution. Themes include economic dependency, democracy, race, gender, culture, and the always volatile relations between Cuba and the United States. ### HISTORY 166D — Revolution in Latin America - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Same as INTL ST 177C, CHC/LAT 151B, SOC SCI 173N Presents a comparative analysis of the causes, development, and consequences of selected revolutionary movements, focusing on outbreaks in Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada. Explores topics of state formation, economic nationalism, social justice, ethnicity, and role of international affairs. ### HISTORY 169 — Topics in Latin American History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of Latin American history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 170A — Ancient India - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as ART HIS 155A, REL STD 122 - Concurrent: ART HIS 255A Examines the visual and religious history of the region defined as "India" today, but necessarily encompassing modern Bangladesh and Pakistan. Culminates with the supposed Golden Age of the Gupta empire and its far-reaching legacies. ### HISTORY 170B — Medieval India - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Same as ART HIS 155B, REL STD 123 - Concurrent: ART HIS 255B Begins with the Gupta period's aesthetic legacies in South Asia's architecture, sculpture, and painting. Explores the dispersal of Islam throughout South Asia, including the Muslim communities of southern India. ### HISTORY 171D — Chinese History to 1800 - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule A survey of the history of China to 1800. ### HISTORY 171E — Chinese History: 1800-1949 - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule An examination of Chinese society and thought from the late-eighteenth century to the 1949 revolution. Focuses on the role of intellectuals; popular culture; women in Chinese society; developments in commerce and urban life; rebellion; foreign imperialism. ### HISTORY 171G — Topics in the History of China - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of China. ### HISTORY 172G — Topics in the History of Japan - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual and religious history of Japan. ### HISTORY 173G — Topics in the History of Korea - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of Korea. ### HISTORY 174G — Topics in the History of South Asia - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of South Asia. ### HISTORY 175G — Topics in the History of Southeast Asia - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Topics include the cultural, political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of Southeast Asia. ### HISTORY 178 — The Viet Nam War Seen Through Oral History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - (CE) Offers an overview of the Viet Nam War; explores the art of doing oral history and the use of oral testimony in research and writing the history of war through conducting oral history interviews with individuals of the war generation. ### HISTORY 180 — Special Studies in Social History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of social history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 182 — Special Studies in Intellectual-Cultural History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of intellectual-cultural history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 183 — Special Studies in International History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of international history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 184 — Special Studies in Comparative History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected areas of comparative history. Topics addressed vary each quarter. ### HISTORY 190 — Colloquium - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken 3 times as topics vary - Restrictions: History majors have the first consideration for enrollment Specialized courses dealing primarily with close reading and analysis of primary and secondary works; required reports and papers. Each colloquium reflects the instructor's intellectual interests and is conducted as a discussion group. Limited to 18 students. ### HISTORY 193 — Advanced Research Seminar I - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: History majors only The first course in a two-quarter advanced research sequence, this course allows upper-division history majors to undertake significant research and writing under close faculty supervision. ### HISTORY 194 — Advanced Research Seminar II - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** HISTORY 193. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: History majors only Second course in a two-quarter advanced research sequence. Allows upper division history majors to undertake significant research and writing under close faculty supervision. ### HISTORY 197 — Internships in Public History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Grading Option: Pass/Not Pass only - Restrictions: History majors only Students will sharpen their abilities to research, critically interpret, and present history by “doing history” beyond the formal classroom. Internships, which introduce students to the field of “public history,” include working as archivists, oral historians, project advisers, and exhibit curators. ### HISTORY 199 — Independent Reading - **Units:** 1-4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 20 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Investigation of special topics through directed reading. Paper required. ### HISTORY 200 — History and Theory - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Explores a variety of theoretical issues and methodological concerns that have sparked lively debate in the humanities and social sciences in past decades and which remain of urgent concern to 21st-century historical writing. ### HISTORY 202A — First-Year Research Seminar - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times - Restrictions: History majors only Introduction to historical methodologies and preparation for the first-year research paper. Required of all first-year doctoral students and M.A. students. ### HISTORY 202B — First-Year Research Seminar - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** HISTORY 202A with a minimum grade of B- - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times Research and writing of a paper demonstrating command of historical methods explored in HISTORY 202A. Required of all first-year Ph.D. students and M.A. students. ### HISTORY 204A — Second-Year Research Seminar - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Restrictions: History majors only Part one of a two-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students during the second year of the program; not required for M.A. students. Includes primary research and writing a research paper, often related to a future dissertation topic. ### HISTORY 204B — Second-Year Research Seminar - **Units:** 4 - **Prerequisite:** HISTORY 204A with a minimum grade of B- - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Restrictions: History majors only Part two of a two-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students. Taken during the second year of the Ph.D. program; not required for M.A. students. Includes primary research and writing a research paper, often related to a future dissertation topic. ### HISTORY 205 — Approaches to History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) Introduces graduate students to some of the most foundational ideas and debates that have shaped historiographical practice over the past half-century. ### HISTORY 210A — History in the Professions: An Introduction to Doing History in Graduate School and Beyond - **Units:** 1.3 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only Centers conversations and topics that illuminate the hidden curriculum of graduate school, explore the political economy of labor in the university, and provide students a foundational introduction to the historical profession. ### HISTORY 210B — History in the Professions: An Introduction to Doing History in Graduate School and Beyond - **Units:** 1.3 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only Centers conversations and topics that illuminate the hidden curriculum of graduate school, explore the political economy of labor in the university, and provide students a foundational introduction to the historical profession. ### HISTORY 210C — History in the Professions: An Introduction to Doing History in Graduate School and Beyond - **Units:** 1.3 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only Centers conversations and topics that illuminate the hidden curriculum of graduate school, explore the political economy of labor in the university, and provide students a foundational introduction to the historical profession. ### HISTORY 230 — Topics in European History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected themes and time periods in European history. Topics and period vary. ### HISTORY 240 — Topics in World History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected themes and time periods in world history. Topics and period vary. ### HISTORY 250 — Topics in Latin American History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected themes and time periods in Latin American history. Topics and period vary. ### HISTORY 260 — Topics in American History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected themes and time periods in U.S. history. Topics and period vary. ### HISTORY 270 — Topics in Middle Eastern History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected themes and time periods in Middle Eastern history. Topics and period vary. ### HISTORY 280 — Topics in Asian History - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Studies in selected themes and time periods in Asian history. Topics and period vary. ### HISTORY 290 — Special Topics - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary Lectures, readings, and discussion on subjects more limited in scope than those included in the year-long colloquium series. ### HISTORY 291 — Directed Reading - **Units:** 4-12 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 37 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times - Restrictions: History majors only Reading courses focused on specialized topics. ### HISTORY 297 — History Internship - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times - Restrictions: History majors only Limited to History graduate students with Department-approved internships. ### HISTORY 298 — Experimental Group Study - **Units:** 4-12 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Open to four or more students. ### HISTORY 299 — Dissertation Research - **Units:** 4-12 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 34 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times - Restrictions: Advancement to Ph.D. candidacy Specifically designed for students researching and writing their dissertations. ### HISTORY 399 — University Teaching - **Units:** 4 - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/history.md) - Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only - Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times Limited to Teaching Assistants.