Course Listings
The History of Ideas minor allows students to take courses in a wide array of subjects. Courses accepted for your HOID curriculum are decided in consultation with the Program Director. The courses listed here and on the Registrar's site will give an idea of some areas of study (but not all) that are likely to be approved.
Click here to view the registrar's complete list of offerings.
Courses:
AMST:
AMST 100B 1 Twentieth-Century American Culture
AMST 149B 1 The Future as History
AMST 150 A 1 The History of Childhood and Youth in America
AMST/ ENG 167B 1 Writing the Nation: James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison
ANTH:
ANTH 5A 1 Human Origins
BIO/CHEM:
BIOL 103B 1 Mechanisms of Cell Functions
CHEM 142 A 1 Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy
CLAS:
CLAS 133 1 The Art and Archeology of Ancient Greece
CLAS 134B 1 The Art and Archeology of Ancient Rome
CLAS 156B 1 Living and Dying in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
CLAS 172A 1 Ancient Athenian Drama in Translation
CLAS 115B 1 Topics in Greek and Roman History
ECON:
ECON 122B 1 The Economics of the Middle East
ECS:
ECS 100B 1 European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Making of European Modernity, 1250-1650
ENG:
ENG 103B 1 Medieval Women in Print
ENG 165B 1 Victorian Poetry and its Readers
ENG/ MUS 55B 1 If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree
ENVS:
ENVS 19B 1 Evolution of the Earth
FA:
FA 149A 1 The Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer
FREN:
FREN 11A 2 The Republic
GRK:
GRK 120B 1 Greek Prose Authors
HSSP:
HSSP 135A Special Topics in Public Health: U.S. History and Policy
HSSP 192B Sociology of Disability
HISP:
HISP 104B Peoples, Ideas, and Language of the Hispanic World
HISP 165B The Storyteller: Short Fiction in Latin America
HIST:
HIST 66A 1 History or South Asia (2500 BCE-1971)
HIST 110B The Civilization of the High and Late Middle Ages
HIST 113B Crazy Rich Europeans: Wealth and Inequality in Modern History
HIST 124B 1 Universities and Colonialism
HIST 135B 1 Get Up, Stand Up: A Century of Revolutions in the Middle East
HIST 157B 1 Marginalized Voices and the Writing of History
HIST 158B Social History of the Confederate States of America
HIST 160B American Legal History II
HIST 179B 1 Labor, Gender, and Exchange in the Atlantic World, 1600-1850
HIST 162A 1 Writing on the Wall: Histories of Graffiti in the Americas
HUM:
HUM 10A 1 The Western Canon
JAPN:
JAPN 130A 1 The Literature of Multicultural Japan
LGLS:
LGLS 143B 1 Law, Crime and Punishment in Dante's Inferno
MATH:
MATH/ MUS 121 B Math and Music
NEJS:
NEJS 192A 1 Islamic Ethics: Theory and Application
NEJS 173A Trauma and Violence in Israeli Literature and Film
NEJS 123B Gender, Species, and Ethnicity in Early Judaism
NEJS 23A 1 The Bible and Contemporary Arts, Literature and Film
NEJS 126B 1 Agadic Literature: The Ethics of the Fathers with Avot d'Rabbi Nathan
NEJS 157 B 1 Arab-Jewish Modern Thought and Culture
NEJS 166A 1 Carnal Israel: Exploring Jewish Sexuality from Talmudic Times to the Present
NEJS 116A 1 Mesopotamian Mythology
NYPSY:
NYPSY 176B 1 Constructing Reality
PHIL:
PHIL 111A 1 What is Justice?
PHIL 114B 1 Topics in Ethical Theory
PHIL 138B 1 Philosophy of Mathematics
PHIL 150B 1 Topics in Epistemology and Metaphysics
PHIL 162B 1 Aristotle
PHIL 168A 1 Kant's Pure Critique of Pure Reason
POL:
POL 161B 1 Good Neighbor or Imperial Power: The Contested Evolution of US-Latin American Relations
POL 187B 1 Conservative Political Thought
POL 189A 1 Marx, Nietzsche, and Twentieth-Century Radicalism
PSYC:
PSYC 31A Personality
PSYC 36B 2 Adolescence and the Transition to Maturity
REL:
REL 151 A 1 The Buddha: His Life and Teachings
RECS:
RECS 134B 1 Writer, Dramatist, Physician: Chekhov and the Healing Arts
SOC:
SOC 1A 1 Order and Change in Society
SOC 10B 1 Introduction to Sociological Theory
SOC 115A 1 Masculinities
SOC 129A 1 Sociology of Religion
SOC 150B 1 Culture of Consumption
SOC 192A 1 Sociology of Mental Illness
THA:
THA 11B 2 European Theater Texts and Theory II
THA 102B 1 Shakespeare: On Stage and Screen