Global/Transnational
In the last few decades, Global (or World/Transnational) History has become one of the most intellectually vibrant and rapidly growing subfields within the discipline of history. UC San Diego has a number of faculty members whose teaching and research engages with the approaches and debates that constitute Global History as a specific field of inquiry. Questions of comparison and reciprocity as well as cross-cultural encounter and connectivity are central both to their scholarship and teaching. Additionally, UC San Diego faculty members share a concern for asking what constitutes ‘global’ at various historical moments and tracing global connections long before the 20th century, which is often hailed as unique for its startling degree of market integration, cultural exchange, and human migration.
Faculty members offer special graduate training in Global History through a minor field. The minor familiarizes students with methodologies and theories for writing and teaching history in transoceanic, transregional, and transnational perspectives. Coursework stresses the importance of long-distance connectivities and exchanges in human history, with special emphasis on the early modern and modern eras. In transcending regional, continental, and national historiographies, the minor field provides an analytical tool-kit useful for research in the major field and helps students develop strategies and expertise for teaching Global History. Interested students are able to deepen their training as Teaching Assistants in the five-quarter, lower-division survey Making of the Modern World sequence, offered by UCSD’s Eleanor Roosevelt College. Several courses in the History Department offer similar Teaching Assistant experience.
The following History courses fulfill the global content requirement for History Majors.
HIAF 111. Modern Africa since 1880 (4)
HIAF 112. West Africa since 1880 (4)
HIAF 113. Small Wars and the Global Order: Africa and Asia (4)
HIAF 123. West Africa from Earliest Times to 1800 (4)
HIAF 161. Special Topics in African History (4)
HIEA 113. The Fifteen-Year War in Asia and the Pacific (4)
HIEA 116. Japan-U.S. Relations (4)
HIEA 125. Women and Gender in East Asia (4)
HIEA 126. The Silk Road in Chinese and Japanese History (4)
HIEA 130. End of the Chinese Empire, 1800–1911 (4)
HIEA 131. China in War and Revolution, 1911–1949 (4)
HIEA 139GS. An Introduction to Southeast Asia (circa 800–1900) (4)
HIEA 144. Topics in East Asian History (4)
HIEA 150. Modern Korea, 1800–1945 (4)
HIEA 151. The Two Koreas, 1945–Present (4)
HIEA 152. History and Cultures of the Korean Diaspora (4)
HIEA 164/264. Seminar in Late Imperial Chinese History (4)
HIEA 180. Topics in Modern Korean History (4)
HIEA 199. Independent Study in East Asian History (4)
HIEU 100. Byzantine History (4)
HIEU 103. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (4)
HIEU 104. Byzantine Empire (4)
HIEU 105. The Early Christian Church (4)
HIEU 105S. Devotions, Doctrines, and Divisions: Religion in Early Modern European Society (4)
HIEU 106. Egypt, Greece, and Rome (4)
HIEU 106GS. Constantinople: Imperial Capital (4)
HIEU 107. Pagan Europe and its Christian Aftermath (4)
HIEU 108S. Sex and Romance in the Ancient World (4)
HIEU 109. Blood, Soil, Boundaries: Nationalism in Europe (4)
HIEU 110. The Rise of Europe (4)
HIEU 111. Europe in the Middle Ages (4)
HIEU 112S. Ancient Explorers (4)
HIEU 115. The Pursuit of the Millennium (4)
HIEU 116A. Greece and the Balkans in the Age of Ottoman Expansion (4)
HIEU 116B. Greece and the Balkans in the Age of Nationalism (4)
HIEU 116C. Greece and the Balkans during the Twentieth Century (4)
HIEU 116CD. Greece and the Balkans during the Twentieth Century (4)
HIEU 117A. Greece and the Balkans in the Age of Nationalism (4)
HIEU 117B. Greece and the Balkans during the Twentieth Century (4)
HIEU 118. Americanization in Europe (4)
HIEU 120. The Renaissance in Italy (4)
HIEU 121GS. Scotland and the English Civil War, 1601–1689 (4)
HIEU 123. Ancient Greece from Classical Athens to Cleopatra (4)
HIEU 123GS. Origins of Law and Religious Freedom in England and America, 1530–1971 (4)
HIEU 125. Reformation Europe (4)
HIEU 127. Sport in the Modern World (4)
HIEU 127D. Sport in the Modern World (4)
HIEU 128. Europe since 1945 (4)
HIEU 130. Europe in the Eighteenth Century (4)
HIEU 131. The French Revolution: 1789–1814 (4)
HIEU 134. The Formation of the Russian Empire, 800–1855 (4)
HIEU 135. Sun, Sea, Sand, and Sex: Tourism and Tourists in the Contemporary World (4)
HIEU 135GS. Sun, Sea, Sand, and Sex: Tourism and Tourists in the Contemporary World (4)
HIEU 136B. European Society and Social Thought, 1870–1989 (4)
HIEU 137. History of Colonialism: From New Imperialism to Decolonization (4)
HIEU 139. Sex and Gender from the Renaissance to the French Revolution (4)
HIEU 140. History of Women and Gender in Europe: From the French Revolution to the Present (4)
HIEU 140GS. Art and Society in Nineteenth-Century London (4)
HIEU 141. European Diplomatic History, 1870–1945 (4)
HIEU 142. European Intellectual History, 1780–1870 (4)
HIEU 143. European Intellectual History, 1870–1945 (4)
HIEU 144. Topics in European History (4)
HIEU 145. The Holocaust as Public History (4)
HIEU 146. Fascism, Communism, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Europe 1919–1945 (4)
HIEU 146S. The Meaning of Life in the Modern World: Existentialism, Fascism, and Genocide (4)
HIEU 150. Modern British History (4)
HIEU 152. The Worst of Times: Everyday Life in Authoritarian and Dictatorial Societies (4)
HIEU 153. Topics in Modern European History (4)
HIEU 156. History of the Soviet Union, 1905–1991 (4)
HIEU 157. Religion and the Law in Modern European History (4)
HIEU 159. Three Centuries of Zionism, 1648–1948 (4)
HIEU 159S. Three Centuries of Zionism 1648–1948 (4)
HIEU 162/262. Topics in Byzantine History (4)
HIEU 163/263. Special Topics in Medieval History (4)
HIEU 164/264. Special Topics in Early Modern Europe (4)
HIEU 167/267. Special Topics in the Social History of Early Modern Europe (4)
HIEU 171/271. Special Topics in Twentieth-Century Europe (4)
HIEU 172/272. Comparative European Fascism (4)
HIEU 176/276. Politics in the Jewish Past (4)
HIEU 178/278. Soviet History (4)
HIEU 181/281. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity in Contemporary European Society (4)
HIEU 182/282. The Muslim Experience in Contemporary European Society (4)
HIEU 183/283. Social History and Anthropology of the Mediterranean (4)
HILA 100. Conquest and Empire: The Americas (4)
HILA 100D. Latin America: Colonial Transformation (4)
HILA 101. Nation-State Formation, Ethnicity, and Violence in Latin America (4)
HILA 102. Latin America in the Twentieth Century (4)
HILA 102D. Latin America in the Twentieth Century (4)
HILA 103. Revolution in Modern Latin America (4)
HILA 106. Changes and Continuities in Latin American History (4)
HILA 110. Lord and Peasant in Latin America (4)
HILA 113D. Lord and Peasant in Latin America (4)
HILA 114. Dictatorships in Latin America (4)
HILA 114D. Dictatorship in Latin America (4)
HILA 115. The Latin American City, a History (4)
HILA 117. Indians, Blacks, and Whites: Family Relations in Latin America (4)
HILA 118. Subverting Sovereignty: US Aggression in Latin America, 1898–Present (4)
HILA 124A. History of Women and Gender in Latin America (4)
HILA 126. From Columbus to Castro: Caribbean Culture and Society (4)
HILA 133S. Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America (4)
HILA 134. Indians of Colonial Latin America (4)
HILA 144. Topics in Latin American History (4)
HILA 145. People and Nature in Amazonia: An Unwritten History (4)
HILA 161/261. History of Women in Latin America (4)
HILA 162/262. Special Topics in Latin American History (4)
HILA 164/264. Women’s Work and Family Life in Latin America (4)
HILA 167/267. Scholarship on Latin American History in the Colonial Period (4)
HILA 168/268. Scholarship on Latin American History in the Nineteenth Century (4)
HILA 169/269. Scholarship on Latin American History in the Twentieth Century (4)
HILA 171/271. Topics in Latin American History Since 1910 (4)
HINE 100. The Hebrew Bible and History (4)
HINE 102. The Jews in Their Homeland in Antiquity (4)
HINE 103. The Jewish Diaspora in Antiquity (4)
HINE 108. The Middle East before Islam (4)
HINE 109. History of the Middle East (1200–1800): The Ottoman Empire (4)
HINE 113. Ancient Near East Mythology (4)
HINE 114. History of the Islamic Middle East (4)
HINE 115. Death and Dying in Antiquity (4)
HINE 116. The Middle East in the Age of European Empires (1798–1914) (4)
HINE 118. The Middle East in the Twentieth Century (4)
HINE 119. US Mid-East Policy Post-WWII (4)
HINE 120. The Middle East in the New Century (4)
HINE 125. Jews in the Greek and Roman World (4)
HINE 135GS. Introduction to Contemporary Israeli Society and Culture (4)
HINE 136GS. Zionism and Post Zionism (4)
HINE 144. Topics in Middle Eastern History (4)
HINE 145. Islam and Science: The History of Science in the Middle East (600–1950) (4)
HINE 160/260. Special Topics in the Bible and Ancient Near East (4)
HINE 162/262. Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible (4)
HINE 165/265. The Colonial Mandates in the Middle East (4)
HINE 166/266. Nationalism in the Middle East (4)
HINE 171. Topics in Early Judaism and Christianity (4)
HINE 186/286. Special Topics in Middle Eastern History (4)
HISC 102. Technology in World History (4)
HISC 103. Gender and Science in Historical Perspective (4)
HISC 104. History of Popular Science (4)
HISC 105. History of Environmentalism (4)
HISC 106. The Scientific Revolution (4)
HISC 107. The Emergence of Modern Science (4)
HISC 109. Invention of Tropical Disease (4)
HISC 110. Historical Encounters of Science and Religion (4)
HISC 111. The Atomic Bomb and the Atomic Age (4)
HISC 114. The Darwinian Legacy (4)
HISC 115. History of Modern Medicine (4)
HISC 116. History of Bioethics (4)
HISC 118. History of Sexology (4)
HISC 119. Biology and Society (4)
HISC 130. Technology in the Twentieth Century (4)
HISC 131. Science, Technology, and Law (4)
HISC 163/263. History, Science, and Politics of Climate Change (4)
HISC 165. Topics in Twentieth-Century Science and Culture (4)
HISC 169. Topics in Pre-Renaissance Science (4)
HISC 173/273. Seminar on Darwin and Darwinisms (4)
HISC 174/274. History of Localization of Brain Function (4)
HISC 175/275. The Historical Sciences in the Nineteenth Century (4)
HISC 176. History of Medicine in East and Southeast Asia (4)
HISC 180/280. Science and Public Policy (4)
HITO 101. Jews, Christians, and Muslims (4)
HITO 103S. Gnosis and Gnosticism (4)
HITO 104. The Jews and Judaism in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (4)
HITO 105. Jewish Modernity from 1648 to 1948 (4)
HITO 106. Love and Family in the Jewish Past (4)
HITO 114. History of Modern Vietnam (4)
HITO 115/115GS. The Global Cold War (4)
HITO 115S. Myth, History, and Archaeology (4)
HITO 116. Car Wars: A Global History of the World since 1900 through Cars (4)
HITO 117. World History 1200–1800 (4)
HITO 119/HMNR 100. Human Rights l: Introduction to Human Rights and Global Justice (4)
HITO 123. The Global History of Soccer (4)
HITO 124. Mystical Traditions (4)
HITO 126. A History of Childhood (4)
HITO 133. War and Society: The Second World War (4)
HITO 133D. War and Society: The Second World War (4)
HITO 134. International Law—War Crimes and Genocide (4)
HITO 136. Jews and African Americans: Slavery, Diaspora, Ghetto (4)
HITO 140. History of Emotions (4)
HITO 150GS. The Scottish Enlightenment and the Founding of the United States (4)
HITO 155. Race, Sport, and Inequality in the Twentieth Century (4)
HITO 156. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the United States and Europe: Multiple
Multiculturalisms (4)
HITO 164/264. Jews and Other Ethnics in the American Past (4)
HITO 165/265. Topics—LGBT History (4)
HITO 166/266. Death Penalty Global Perspectives since 1492 (4)
HITO 167/267. Global History of Sports in the Cold War (4)
HITO 168/268. The U.S. and Germany from the 1890s to the 1960s: Transitional Relations and
Competing Modernities (4)
HITO 172/272. War in the Twentieth Century: A Psychological Approach (4)
HITO 178/278. A History of Seafaring in the Age of Sail (4)
HITO 180/280. Housing in the Developing World (4)
HIUS 103. The United States and the Pacific World (4)
HIUS 104. The Revolutionary Atlantic (4)
HIUS 114A. California History 1542–1850 (4)
HIUS 133. The Golden Age of Piracy (4)
HIUS 133GS. The Golden Age of Piracy (4)
HIUS 135. The Atlantic World, 1492–1803 (4)
HIUS 178/278 The Atlantic World, 1400–1800 (4)
History courses that fall outside of this list, such as course work completed abroad, would need to be petitioned individually on a case-by-case basis and be reviewed by the undergraduate faculty adviser for approval.