To earn this concentration, History students must fulfill at least 18 of the 36 hours required for the History Major with courses in the LHS concentration per the distribution below. Although students are encouraged to take more than 18 hours in the LHS concentration, they are not required to do so. Note: Courses in bold are offered (pretty) regularly.
The minimum requirements for the LHS concentration are:
Any TWO of these lower-level courses (for a total of 6 credit hours):
- HIST 1018: The U.S. Constitution in Historical Perspective
- HIST1020: LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
- HIST1089: Human Rights & Security: Seeking Balance in a Free Society
- HIST 2000: Histories of Social Protest & Institutional Change
- HIST 2006: History of France 1450-1789
- HIST 2007: History of France 1789-present
- HIST 2013: African American History Before 1861
- HIST 2014: African American History 1861-Present
- HIST 2020: The Coming of Civil War
- HIST 2021: The Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 2022: Native American History
- HIST 2023: Environmental Activism
- HIST 2024: Global Environmental History
- HIST 2030: Global History of Modern Genocide
- HIST 2045: Race and Ethnicity in American Culture
- HIST 2047: American South to 1865
- HIST 2048: American South since 1865
- HIST 2053: Colonial America: Competition and Authority Before the Revolution
- HIST 2056: U.S. Women’s History 1890 to the Present
- HIST 2067: Drugs in the Americas and in Global Perspective
- HIST 2068: Home Grown: The History of Marijuana in Mexico
- HIST 2071: FDR’s America: Culture Politics and the Creation of Modern American Society
- HIST 2077: Queer in the City
- HIST 2082: History of Irregular Warfare
- HIST 2090: Pirates, Brigands, and Tyrants: The Rule of Law Under Siege
- HIST 2100: History of ‘Western’ Legal Traditions
- HIST 2103: Women, Sexuality, and Society in South Asia
- HIST 2117: Slavery and Race in American History
- HIST 2154: Revolutionary America
- HIST 2167: Drugs and Other Addictions Since 1980
Any FOUR of these upper-level courses (for a total of 12 credit hours) :
- HIST 3003: Witchcraft and Religion in Early America
- HIST 3005: Colonial America
- HIST 3009: Women, Sex, and Conquest in Latin America
- HIST 3011: Revolutionary America
- HIST 3017: Slavery in America
- HIST 3022: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations I
- HIST 3023: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations II
- HIST 3031: African American Women’s History
- HIST 3036: Black Liberation Struggles
- HIST 3039: Lincoln and His World
- HIST 3040: History of the Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 3042: Rulers, Rebels, & Rights: Early Modern Britain 1485-1689
- HIST 3056: The European Renaissance, Power, Politics, & Persuasion
- HIST 3075: Urban African American History in the 20th Century
- HIST 3087: Immigration Across the Disciplines
- HIST 3088: Global Protest Movements 1960s-2000s
- HIST 3102: Great Trials in History
- HIST 3108: Athenian Democracy
- HIST 3135: Women in South Asia
- HIST 3155: Nazi Medicine
- HIST 3187: Refugees & Immigration, America & the World
- HIST 3191: Soldiers, Saints, and Slaves: Afro-Latin America 1492-1888
- HIST 3192: Aztec, Inka, and Maya: Indigenous Empires in Latin America
- HIST 3197: Uncomfortable Truths: From Africa to #GeorgeFloyd in “American” History
- HIST 4002: From Natural Law to Human Rights?
- HIST 4011: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in Early America
- HIST 4026: The American State
- HIST 4028: Gender in Britain and North America 1600-1850
- HIST 4044: History of the American South to 1865
- HIST 4045: History of the American South Since 1865
- HIST 4092: The Inquisition in Spain and the New World
- HIST 4115: Human Rights in History
- HIST 4167: Drugs and Addiction Since 1980 in the Americas and in Global Perspective
- HIST 5115: Human Rights in History
- HIST 5120: Seminar on the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 5122: Refugees & International Crises
- HIST 5125: Women in South Asia
- HIST 5126: The Unsustainable City
- HIST 5146: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Era