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