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 website 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:
American Studies
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
Anthropology
ANTH 5A 1 Human Origins
Biology/Chemistry
BIOL 103B 1 Mechanisms of Cell Functions
CHEM 142 A 1 Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy
Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies
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
Economics
ECON 122B 1 The Economics of the Middle East
Eastern European Studies
ECS 100B 1 European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Making of European Modernity, 1250-1650
English
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
Environmental Studies
ENVS 19B 1 Evolution of the Earth
Fine Arts
FA 149A 1 The Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer
French and Francophone Studies
FREN 11A 2 The Republic
Greek
GRK 120B 1 Greek Prose Authors
Health Sciences and Social Policy
HSSP 135A Special Topics in Public Health: U.S. History and Policy
HSSP 192B Sociology of Disability
Hispanic Studies
HISP 104B Peoples, Ideas, and Language of the Hispanic World
HISP 165B The Storyteller: Short Fiction in Latin America
History
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
Humanities
HUM 10A 1 The Western Canon
Japanese
JAPN 130A 1 The Literature of Multicultural Japan
Legal Studies
LGLS 143B 1 Law, Crime and Punishment in Dante's Inferno
Mathematics
MATH/ MUS 121 B Math and Music
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
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
Neuroscience
NYPSY 176B 1 Constructing Reality
Philosophy
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
Politics
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
Psychology
PSYC 31A Personality
PSYC 36B 2 Adolescence and the Transition to Maturity
Religious Studies
REL 151 A 1 The Buddha: His Life and Teachings
Russian Studies
RECS 134B 1 Writer, Dramatist, Physician: Chekhov and the Healing Arts
Sociology
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
Theater Arts
THA 11B 2 European Theater Texts and Theory II
THA 102B 1 Shakespeare: On Stage and Screen