Approved Core Curriculum Courses

This is an up-to-date, sortable list of all approved Core Curriculum courses. To search for courses that meet specific Core foundations or proficiencies, use the search tool below to filter by the ‘Requirement/Proficiency’ and/or the ‘Department’ columns [which can be cleared to begin a new search].

HIS 280 (Ethnicity in the Ancient World) [Effective Summer 2018-Spring 2023]
Diversity ProficiencyOral Communication Proficiency
History
HIS 298 (Early Modern East Asia) [Effective Fall 2012]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 299 (Modern East Asia) [Effective Spring 2015]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 301 (History of the Vietnam War) [Effective Fall 2025]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 310 (The Rise and Fall of the British Empire) [Effective Spring 2023 for Diversity, Effective Spring 2026 for Civic Engagement]
Civic Engagement ProficiencyDiversity Proficiency
History
HIS 334 (Men and Women in Medieval Society) [Effective Fall 2012]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 341 Ancient Horror and the Grotesque [Effective Fall 2022]
Diversity ProficiencyIntensive Writing Level I Proficiency
History
HIS 342 (History of the Middle East to 1920) [Effective Fall 2019]
Diversity ProficiencyIntensive Writing Level II Proficiency
History
HIS 344 (Colonialism and Nationalism in Modern Africa) [Effective Fall 2014]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 345 (History of the Modern Middle East) [Effective Spring 2014 for Diversity & Fall 2016 for Intensive Writing II]
Diversity ProficiencyIntensive Writing Level II Proficiency
History
HIS 347 (The Civil Rights Movement) [Effective Fall 2024]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 352 (Global Feminism in an Age of Empire and Beyond) [Effective Fall 2012]
Diversity ProficiencyIntensive Writing Level II Proficiency
History
HIS 368 (Modern Japan) [Effective Spring 2014]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 369 (Modern China) [Effective Spring 2014]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 370 Special Topics (Marriage in Africa) [Effective Fall 2024]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 370 Special Topics (Modern India: History of the World’s Largest Democracy) [Effective Spring 2022]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 374 (History of Modern India) [Effective Fall 2026]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 387 (Marriage in Africa) [Effective Spring 2026]
Diversity Proficiency
History
HIS 479/ART 479 (Modern Korea: The Colonial Period, the Cold War, and Beyond) [Effective Spring 2023]
Diversity ProficiencyFine Arts Core Requirement
Studio Art
HIS 481 (Maymester: Spain and Portugal: History and Myth of the Road to Santiago de Compostela) [Effective Maymester 2016 only]
Diversity Proficiency
History