History (HIST)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

HIST 1200

How can we learn about the past? How do we tell stories about the past? How do we judge the truth of falsity of evidence? Writing History seminars introduce students to many different ways of interpreting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:The Idea of Entrepreneurship in Modern America

  •  9455 HIST 1200   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Goodwin, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The City of the Future: From Past to Present

  •  9456 HIST 1200   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Plukker, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Imperial Islands

  •  9457 HIST 1200   SEM 103

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Wan, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: 19th Century Readings African American Literature

  •  9458 HIST 1200   SEM 104

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Roggensack, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

HIST 1402

This course looks at Islam as a global phenomenon, both historically and in the contemporary world. We spend time on the genesis of Islam in the Middle East, but then move across the Muslim would in various ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9432 HIST 1402   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tagliacozzo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

HIST 1412

Is the United States a nation of freedom-loving individualists or club-joining conformists? Both, obviously. How, then, have Americans reconciled their enthusiasm for personal independence and individual ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9491 HIST 1412   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Clark, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

HIST 1470

For centuries, people have revered the places known as Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks. Artists, intellectuals, and nature lovers have devoted books, brochures, and picture essays to the natural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9492 HIST 1470   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

HIST 1540

This course studies the history of American capitalism. It helps you to answer these questions: What is capitalism? Is the U.S. more capitalist than other countries? How has capitalism shaped the history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1540ILRGL 1845

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9867 HIST 1540   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Baptist, E

      Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9868 HIST 1540   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9869 HIST 1540   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9870 HIST 1540   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9871 HIST 1540   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9872 HIST 1540   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9873 HIST 1540   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9874 HIST 1540   DIS 207

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9875 HIST 1540   DIS 208

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9876 HIST 1540   DIS 209

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9877 HIST 1540   DIS 210

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9878 HIST 1540   DIS 211

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9879 HIST 1540   DIS 212

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9880 HIST 1540   DIS 213

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9881 HIST 1540   DIS 214

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 1561

This course will introduce students to the study of the Ottoman Empire from its inception in the late 13th century until the early part of 19th century. The classes will follow the main timeline of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: NES 1561

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9859 HIST 1561   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Minawi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9860 HIST 1561   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 1595

Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction Nadir of black life; the mass black insurgency ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 1595ASRC 1595

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9937 HIST 1595   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 1622

In 1868, samurai revolutionaries and their allies seized the reins of power and established a new capital they called Tokyo. Against all odds, this fragile regime survived and made Tokyo a center of power ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2222CAPS 1622GOVT 1623

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9950 HIST 1622   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9951 HIST 1622   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9952 HIST 1622   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9953 HIST 1622   DIS 203

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9954 HIST 1622   DIS 204

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9955 HIST 1622   DIS 205

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9956 HIST 1622   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9957 HIST 1622   DIS 207

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9958 HIST 1622   DIS 208

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9959 HIST 1622   DIS 209

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 1740

This course explores the history of imperial China between the 3rd century b.c.e. and the 16th century c.e. with a focus on the following questions: How did imperial Chinese states go about politically ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2740CAPS 1740MEDVL 1740

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9914 HIST 1740   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hinrichs, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9915 HIST 1740   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9916 HIST 1740   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9917 HIST 1740   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9918 HIST 1740   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 1920

This course surveys modern Chinese history from 1600 to present. Time will be devoted to each of the three major periods into which modern Chinese history is conventionally divided: the Imperial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2920CAPS 1920

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9993 HIST 1920   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9994 HIST 1920   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9995 HIST 1920   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2001

Independent Study based supervised reading with history faculty. Student must complete Independent Study Form with faculty supervisor for determining requirements and for permission to enroll through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9665 HIST 2001   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9666 HIST 2001   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9667 HIST 2001   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9668 HIST 2001   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9670 HIST 2001   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chen, Z

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9671 HIST 2001   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9672 HIST 2001   IND 608

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Friedland, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9673 HIST 2001   IND 609

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Craib, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9675 HIST 2001   IND 611

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Falk, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9676 HIST 2001   IND 612

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9677 HIST 2001   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9679 HIST 2001   IND 615

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hinrichs, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9680 HIST 2001   IND 616

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9681 HIST 2001   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Juni, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9682 HIST 2001   IND 618

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9684 HIST 2001   IND 622

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Litvak, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9685 HIST 2001   IND 623

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Loos, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9686 HIST 2001   IND 624

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rebillard, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9687 HIST 2001   IND 625

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Minawi, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9688 HIST 2001   IND 626

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Mulder, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9690 HIST 2001   IND 628

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9691 HIST 2001   IND 629

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9692 HIST 2001   IND 630

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9693 HIST 2001   IND 631

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sachs, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9694 HIST 2001   IND 632

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9695 HIST 2001   IND 633

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tagliacozzo, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9696 HIST 2001   IND 634

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Travers, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9697 HIST 2001   IND 635

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Schmitt, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9698 HIST 2001   IND 636

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weil, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9699 HIST 2001   IND 637

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9700 HIST 2001   IND 638

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9701 HIST 2001   IND 639

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Verhoeven, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9702 HIST 2001   IND 640

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

HIST 2005

Educational historian Frederick Rudolph called Cornell University the first American university, referring to its unique role as a coeducational, nonsectarian, land-grant institution with a broad curriculum ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2001ENGL 2999

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  4362 HIST 2005   LEC 001

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Earle, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    If you are unable to enroll, please add yourself to the waitlist: https://forms.gle/1uytdaT9WRE25Z9z7.

HIST 2050

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 2750

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: The Good Life

  •  1714 HIST 2050   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Beswick, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment preference given to: students accepted into the Humanities Scholars Program. For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses

HIST 2155

Religion is a term with a rich history but without a precise definition. Everyone can describe a religious idea or a religious experience even though there is no agreement about what it is that makes an ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2155RELST 2155

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9990 HIST 2155   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Litvak, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2165

What is democracy? What does it need to thrive? When does it die? How do anti-liberal, authoritarian regimes emerge? What makes them tick? In 1921, a British liberal announced that democracy had already ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10002 HIST 2165   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Florea, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10003 HIST 2165   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 2207

East Asian medicinal and martial arts, whether practiced in East Asia or in other parts of the world, have been important points of contact for people within and between often marginalized communities. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 2278STS 2207

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10024 HIST 2207   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hinrichs, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10025 HIST 2207   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 2213

What was the Second World War? How do people in different countries remember it today? In this class, we will explore the military, political, economic and cultural history of the Second World War—and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10051 HIST 2213   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10052 HIST 2213   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 2251

Americans are conflicted about immigration. We celebrate and commercialize our immigrant heritage in museums, folklife festivals, parades, pageants, and historical monuments. We also build fences and detention ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2251LSP 2251

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9934 HIST 2251   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2285

This course uses history and political theory to understand the fascist experience in the twentieth century. In the first part of the course, we will examine fascist ideology; its relation to democracy ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10004 HIST 2285   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Mulder, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10005 HIST 2285   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Mulder, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 2333

At the end of the Great War, Europe has became the realm of a new relationship between violence, culture, and politics. From 1914 to 1945, the continent became the realm of an extraordinary entanglement ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ROMS 3300

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3748 HIST 2333   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2353

This course explores the changing meaning of American freedom and citizenship in the context of the long struggle for black liberation. Relying on social and political history, it confronts the promise, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2353ASRC 2353

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9940 HIST 2353   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9941 HIST 2353   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 2548

For millennia, Buddhist monks, merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, and adventurers have moved around the Indian Ocean arena circulating Buddhist teachings and powerful objects. In doing so they helped create ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2248RELST 2248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10311 HIST 2548   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Blackburn, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2556

The vast Congo Basin region has shaped the world in ways that are often ignored. Its mineral resources travel the globe - the uranium used to bomb Japan in 1945 came from the Congo, and if you have a cellphone, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2556

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10030 HIST 2556   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2575

This course focuses on the human condition of Chinese women after 1949. In the name of the Women's liberation movement since the early 1900s, do Chinese women eventually hold up the half sky? From the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 2575FGSS 2575

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10018 HIST 2575   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10019 HIST 2575   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 2640

An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AAS 2130AMST 2640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9703 HIST 2640   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9704 HIST 2640   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9705 HIST 2640   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9706 HIST 2640   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9707 HIST 2640   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9708 HIST 2640   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2660

One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AIIS 2660AMST 2660

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9833 HIST 2660   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9834 HIST 2660   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9835 HIST 2660   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2674

This course examines major trends in the evolution of the Middle East in the modern era. Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries and ending with the Arab Spring, we will consider Middle East history with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 2674GOVT 2747NES 2674

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1358 HIST 2674   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1359 HIST 2674   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1360 HIST 2674   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1361 HIST 2674   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1362 HIST 2674   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1363 HIST 2674   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1364 HIST 2674   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2689

This course offers an introduction to the history of the Roman empire, from the prehistoric settlements on the site of Rome to the fall of the Western empire in the fifth century and its revival in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2689

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8546 HIST 2689   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rebillard, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2690

This lecture course examines approaches to the study of terrorism, especially in the global north. It will cover 1) the history of terrorism as it developed over the course of the modern era (in the process ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9855 HIST 2690   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Verhoeven, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9856 HIST 2690   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9857 HIST 2690   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9858 HIST 2690   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2750

This introductory course is a broad survey of the history of the Indian subcontinent from remnants of the Mughal empire through the end of the British empire into the postcolonial present. Prominent themes ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2275

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9847 HIST 2750   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2760

This course considers how a small northern European kingdom acquired and then governed a vast global empire. Beginning with the navigators, pirates and settlers of the Elizabethan era, and ending with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9842 HIST 2760   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Travers, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9843 HIST 2760   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9844 HIST 2760   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9845 HIST 2760   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9846 HIST 2760   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2765

In this course, we will learn about the history of the West. We will deconstruct popular myths about the West, as we engage with the major themes and significant debates that define the historical scholarship. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2775LSP 2765

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10032 HIST 2765   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10033 HIST 2765   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 2812

Science needs images. Natural history books contain drawings of plants and animals, physics books diagrams of atoms, and medical books depictions of the human body. But what makes these images “scientific”? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: STS 2813

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10049 HIST 2812   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Schneider, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2815

This course looks at theories and practices of incarceration in the West, from the Middle Ages to the present, emphasizing changing purposes and rationales. It was only in the nineteenth century that ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10006 HIST 2815   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weil, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10007 HIST 2815   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10008 HIST 2815   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2853

Before Jewish politics, Jewish identity and Jewish philosophy, there was Jewish law. No other institution is more important to the history of Judaism and to the Jewish way of life. In this lecture course, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 2853RELST 2853

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 10009 HIST 2853   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Litvak, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2860

The French Revolution was one of the most dramatic upheavals in history, sweeping away centuries of tradition and ushering in the political and cultural modernity we arguably still live in today. Although ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: FREN 2860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17856 HIST 2860   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Friedland, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17874 HIST 2860   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17876 HIST 2860   DIS 202

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18002 HIST 2860   DIS 203

    • W
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18058 HIST 2860   DIS 204

    • R
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18060 HIST 2860   DIS 205

    • T
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18062 HIST 2860   DIS 206

    • W
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2905

What is war? How has it changed over time? How and why do states engage in war and what social, economic and political factors determine when and what kind of war breaks out? Who fights wars and why? This ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10038 HIST 2905   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lawlor, R

      Mulder, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10039 HIST 2905   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10040 HIST 2905   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10041 HIST 2905   DIS 203

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10042 HIST 2905   DIS 204

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2920

Provides an introduction to the role computing and information technologies played in political public life, from tabulating machines used to calculate the census to Big Tech's impact on democratic procedures, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16940 HIST 2920   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Vidan, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 2981

This course offers a broad understanding of the crucial roles East Asian women played in culture, the economy, and society from antiquity to the early twentieth century. By rethinking the pervasive stereotype ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2281CAPS 2281FGSS 2281

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  1779 HIST 2981   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Son, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10349 HIST 2981   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Son, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10350 HIST 2981   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Son, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 3002

Independent Study based supervised research with a history faculty member. Student must complete an on-line Independent Study form with a faculty supervisor to determine requirements and for permission. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9721 HIST 3002   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9722 HIST 3002   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9723 HIST 3002   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9724 HIST 3002   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9725 HIST 3002   IND 605

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9726 HIST 3002   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chen, Z

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9727 HIST 3002   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9728 HIST 3002   IND 608

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Friedland, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9729 HIST 3002   IND 609

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Craib, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9730 HIST 3002   IND 610

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9731 HIST 3002   IND 611

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Falk, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9732 HIST 3002   IND 612

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9733 HIST 3002   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9734 HIST 3002   IND 614

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Florea, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9735 HIST 3002   IND 615

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hinrichs, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9737 HIST 3002   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Clark, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9738 HIST 3002   IND 618

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Juni, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9739 HIST 3002   IND 619

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9740 HIST 3002   IND 622

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Litvak, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9741 HIST 3002   IND 623

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Loos, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9743 HIST 3002   IND 625

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Minawi, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9744 HIST 3002   IND 626

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Mulder, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9745 HIST 3002   IND 627

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rebillard, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9746 HIST 3002   IND 628

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9747 HIST 3002   IND 629

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9748 HIST 3002   IND 630

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9749 HIST 3002   IND 631

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sachs, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9750 HIST 3002   IND 632

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9751 HIST 3002   IND 633

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tagliacozzo, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9752 HIST 3002   IND 634

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Travers, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9753 HIST 3002   IND 635

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Schmitt, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9754 HIST 3002   IND 636

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weil, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9755 HIST 3002   IND 637

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Suarez, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9756 HIST 3002   IND 638

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9757 HIST 3002   IND 639

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Verhoeven, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9758 HIST 3002   IND 640

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9760 HIST 3002   IND 642

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • King-O'Brien, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

HIST 3021

This course examines the long, complicated history of Korea’s relationship with China, focusing on the period from the fourteenth century to the present. Rather than having a nation-bound interpretation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3021CAPS 3021

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 10368 HIST 3021   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Joo, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 3200

This course aims to familiarize students with the history of Scandinavia, ca. 800-1100 ad. Although well known as a dramatic chapter in medieval history, this period remains enigmatic and often misunderstood. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: JWST 3200MEDVL 3200NES 3200

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9761 HIST 3200   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Falk, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9762 HIST 3200   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 3415

How does the state draw political power from nature? What is the relationship between the environment and national and/or imperial identity? How does the environment resist political control, or support ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3435RUSSL 3435

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1257 HIST 3415   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 3448

Sufism, popularly understood as Islamic mysticism, is a loose name given to a broad and diverse collection of beliefs, practices and groups that range and vary across time and space. Going from a small ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •  1445 HIST 3448   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lawrence, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 3571

America has fought two wars in the 21st century, in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were the longest wars in American history and ended badly, amid much ambivalence about the defense policies that created them. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18021 HIST 3571   LEC 001

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Silbey, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: students participating in the Cornell in Washington, Brooks DC Connect program.

HIST 3602

This course examines the history of culture in North America from the pre-contact era to present. We will examine how Native, African, European, Asian, and Latino/a influences, along with colonization, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3602

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10043 HIST 3602   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Clark, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 3616

Julius Caesar is one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in world history. His ruinous overreach forever changed the course of Roman history, and his reform of the calendar is still with us. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3616

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8572 HIST 3616   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fontaine, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 3835

This course will explore Holocaust survivor testimonies, from the multilayered history of their recording across the globe and their increasing institutionalization after the 1980s to their current uses ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3825JWST 3825SHUM 3825

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1457 HIST 3835   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Burzlaff, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 3953

This course explores the Cold War as a global conflict that reshaped the twentieth century and is many ways shaped the world we live in today. Beginning with its origins in the aftermath of World War II, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10067 HIST 3953   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Florea, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10068 HIST 3953   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 3960

Surveys the modern history of Southeast Asia with special attention to colonialism, the Chinese diaspora, and socio-cultural institutions. Considers global transformations that brought the West into people's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 3396ASIAN 6696HIST 6960

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9769 HIST 3960   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tagliacozzo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9770 HIST 3960   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4000

This seminar is an introduction to the theory, practice, and art of historical research and writing. One key purpose of this course is to prepare students to work on longer research projects-especially ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9773 HIST 4000   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9774 HIST 4000   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4002

This course is designed to facilitate student's successful completion of their History Department Honors theses through regular deadlines and small group writing workshops. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one research.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9775 HIST 4002   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Travers, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9776 HIST 4002   RSC 701

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

HIST 4076

How did the U.S. and China reach this precarious moment? Are they on the brink of a hot war, or can diplomacy still prevent the worst? Is a cold peace even possible? This course critically examines the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 10077 HIST 4076   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10078 HIST 4076   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4127

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17930 HIST 4127   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17937 HIST 4127   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4243

This class moves beyond the traditional disciplinary confines of academic history to examine museums, archival collections, parks, monuments, podcasts, op-eds, maps, and more as sites of historical inquiry, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 6243SHUM 4243SHUM 6243

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10069 HIST 4243   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Martin, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10070 HIST 4243   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Martin, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4345

This seminar explores how ancient empires developed and were administered as well as how the experience of empire in the modern world and the writing of its history in the ancient world are intertwined. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: CLASS 4645NES 4345

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10079 HIST 4345   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Prussin, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10080 HIST 4345   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4422

This course explores the method of oral history in theory and practice, across different topics, contexts, and geographic/national terrains. It will consider questions like: what sorts of insights do oral ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 6422SHUM 4422

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10045 HIST 4422   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10046 HIST 4422   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4466

Sunset, polar night, Times Square, satellites in space—these are just four lightscapes. Light is essential to humanity in multifaceted ways. It both reflects and shapes human interactions with the environment. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4460STS 4460VISST 4460

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4971 HIST 4466   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 4542

This senior/graduate seminar will tackle some of the main debates in the historiography of the Middle Eastern, by focusing on the history of Middle East during the period of Ottoman rule. The Middle East ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 6442NES 4542

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9863 HIST 4542   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Minawi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9864 HIST 4542   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 4634

During Europe's colonial era, the modern museum emerged as a site of cultural and scientific authority. This course investigates the history of imperial collections and collectors, with a focus on Britain ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  4966 HIST 4634   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ratcliff, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 4666

This reading seminar will explore the expansion and influence of mass media in the Middle East from the late nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. We will examine how the intersection of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6666NES 4666NES 6666

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1410 HIST 4666   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 4674

The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4674AMST 4674SHUM 4674

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10013 HIST 4674   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 4711

This seminar will introduce students to some of the classic and more recent works that have allowed historians to re-think geographical and temporal scales, paying particular attention to the definitions, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6711SHUM 4710SHUM 6710

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1767 HIST 4711   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 4950

It is a truism that early modern society was a 'patriarchal' one in which men had authority -- but how did that authority operate and what were its limits? How did the exercise of power between men and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: FGSS 4950

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9777 HIST 4950   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weil, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9778 HIST 4950   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6000

This seminar is devoted entirely to the writing of a substantive research paper, the dissertation prospectus, or fellowship proposal. Students will share research proposals, annotated bibliographies, outlines ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9849 HIST 6000   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: History graduate students.

  •  9850 HIST 6000   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6002

This workshop-style course provides a weekly opportunity for graduate students across all the fields of History and related disciplines to learn about different skills and competencies to succeed in graduate ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 10017 HIST 6002   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 6006

This course is a forum, organized jointly by students and the Director of Graduate Studies, for the reading and discussion of precirculated papers, written mainly by graduate students in the History program. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  9948 HIST 6006   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: History graduate students.

HIST 6010

A research colloquium designed for European history graduate students. The colloquium will offer a forum for students to present papers and to discuss the work of Europeanists at Cornell as well as visiting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  9781 HIST 6010   SEM 101

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Florea, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 6076

How did the U.S. and China reach this precarious moment? Are they on the brink of a hot war, or can diplomacy still prevent the worst? Is a cold peace even possible? This course critically examines the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 10053 HIST 6076   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10054 HIST 6076   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6115

What is the history of knowledge? Over the last decades, historians of science have examined a range of figures from artisans and scholars to itinerant healers and household experimenters. This body of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: STS 6115

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10059 HIST 6115   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Schneider, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10060 HIST 6115   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6127

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 17946 HIST 6127   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17951 HIST 6127   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6243

This class moves beyond the traditional disciplinary confines of academic history to examine museums, archival collections, parks, monuments, podcasts, op-eds, maps, and more as sites of historical inquiry, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4243SHUM 4243SHUM 6243

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10073 HIST 6243   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Martin, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10074 HIST 6243   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Martin, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6278

Long hair, colorful clothes, psychedelic music, free love, and stormy demonstrations: this is the image that the 1970s engraved in our collective imagination. Framed by two waves of strikes - victorious ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 6280

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18048 HIST 6278   SEM 101

    • T
    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 6304

This course will introduce graduate students to transnational histories of the African continent. We will be reading at least a monograph per week. We will meet weekly to have robust conversations about ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10063 HIST 6304   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10064 HIST 6304   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6422

This course explores the method of oral history in theory and practice, across different topics, contexts, and geographic/national terrains. It will consider questions like: what sorts of insights do oral ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4422SHUM 4422

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10065 HIST 6422   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10066 HIST 6422   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6442

This senior/graduate seminar will tackle some of the main debates in the historiography of the Middle Eastern, by focusing on the history of Middle East during the period of Ottoman rule. The Middle East ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4542NES 4542

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9912 HIST 6442   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Minawi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9913 HIST 6442   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6448

Sufism, popularly understood as Islamic mysticism, is a loose name given to a broad and diverse collection of beliefs, practices and groups that range and vary across time and space. Going from a small ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •  1450 HIST 6448   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lawrence, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 6482

This seminar is a readings course on works from the past two decades that have wrestled theoretically, empirically, and narratively with the boundary between geography and history. The course is purposefully ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: LATA 6482

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  9851 HIST 6482   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Craib, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9852 HIST 6482   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6626

The French Revolution has fascinated, enraged, and perplexed some of the greatest writers of the last two centuries. In this seminar, we will be reading the whole range of these texts: from theorists like ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9946 HIST 6626   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Friedland, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9947 HIST 6626   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

HIST 6634

During Europe's colonial era, the modern museum emerged as a site of cultural and scientific authority. This course investigates the history of imperial collections and collectors, with a focus on Britain ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  4969 HIST 6634   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ratcliff, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 6666

This reading seminar will explore the expansion and influence of mass media in the Middle East from the late nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. We will examine how the intersection of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4666NES 4666NES 6666

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1421 HIST 6666   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 6711

This seminar will introduce students to some of the classic and more recent works that have allowed historians to re-think geographical and temporal scales, paying particular attention to the definitions, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4711SHUM 4710SHUM 6710

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1765 HIST 6711   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 6960

Surveys the modern history of Southeast Asia with special attentions to colonialism, the Chinese diaspora, and socio-cultural institutions. Considers global transformations that brought the West into people's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 3396ASIAN 6696HIST 3960

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9829 HIST 6960   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tagliacozzo, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9830 HIST 6960   DIS 201

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 7937

The Proseminar in Peace Studies offers a multidisciplinary review of issues related to peace and conflict at the graduate level. The course is led by the director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 7937STS 7937

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6561 HIST 7937   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Slayton, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

HIST 8004

Independent Study based supervised reading with a history faculty/field member. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9782 HIST 8004   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9783 HIST 8004   IND 601A

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9784 HIST 8004   IND 601B

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9785 HIST 8004   IND 601C

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9786 HIST 8004   IND 601E

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chen, Z

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9787 HIST 8004   IND 601G

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Friedland, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9789 HIST 8004   IND 601I

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Craib, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9790 HIST 8004   IND 601J

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9791 HIST 8004   IND 601K

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Falk, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9792 HIST 8004   IND 601L

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Garcia, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9793 HIST 8004   IND 601M

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9794 HIST 8004   IND 601O

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9795 HIST 8004   IND 601P

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hinrichs, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9799 HIST 8004   IND 601T

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Glickman, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9801 HIST 8004   IND 601V

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kline, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9802 HIST 8004   IND 601X

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9803 HIST 8004   IND 601Z

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Litvak, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9804 HIST 8004   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Loos, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9805 HIST 8004   IND 602A

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bassi Arevalo, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9806 HIST 8004   IND 602B

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Minawi, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9807 HIST 8004   IND 602C

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Mulder, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9808 HIST 8004   IND 602E

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9809 HIST 8004   IND 602F

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9810 HIST 8004   IND 602G

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Powers, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9811 HIST 8004   IND 602H

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9812 HIST 8004   IND 602I

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9813 HIST 8004   IND 602J

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9814 HIST 8004   IND 602K

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sachs, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9815 HIST 8004   IND 602L

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sakai, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9816 HIST 8004   IND 602M

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9817 HIST 8004   IND 602N

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Seth, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9818 HIST 8004   IND 602O

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Traverso, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9819 HIST 8004   IND 602P

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9820 HIST 8004   IND 602Q

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Tagliacozzo, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9821 HIST 8004   IND 602R

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Taylor, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9822 HIST 8004   IND 602S

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Travers, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9823 HIST 8004   IND 602T

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Verhoeven, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9824 HIST 8004   IND 602V

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weil, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9825 HIST 8004   IND 602W

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9826 HIST 8004   IND 602X

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Altschuler, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9827 HIST 8004   IND 602Y

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Martinez-Matsuda, V

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9828 HIST 8004   IND 602Z

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rana, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.