Course Listings

The History of Ideas minor allows students to take courses in a wide array of subjects. Below is a list of courses eligible for credit towards the minor; they are listed by course code and title (for the Spring 2023 semester) and are arranged alphabetically by department.

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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