History Major

Students who major in history must complete ten courses:

Course List

Course	Title	Credits
One Understanding Historical Change course 1		3
One Medieval History course		4
One European History course		4
One American History course		4
One Global History course (African, Asian, Latin American, Middle East, or other approved course)		4
Three upper-level history courses 2		12
One additional history elective 2		3 to 4
One Seminar course 3		4

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A list of courses fulfilling the Understanding Historical Change requirement can be seen on the Core Curriculum page and have the HC attribute. Students in the FCRH Honors Program may fulfill this requirement with HPRH 1203 Foundational Topics: History.

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Students in the FCRH Honors Program may count HPRH 2102 Focused Study: History towards either, but not both, of these requirements.

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Seminar courses include any course numbered HIST 4600-4998, any 5000 level course, or (for Honors Program students), HPRH 4001 Senior Thesis.

Students may substitute a second Understanding Historical Change for one of required upper-level courses. Any HIST course numbered HIST 3000-4599 may fulfill the upper-level course requirement, in addition to the courses listed below with the HIUL attribute. 

An AP History score of 4 or 5 can replace two of the student's upper-level electives in history.

In addition, up to two History courses from study abroad can count for upper-level electives.

Medieval History courses 

Courses in this group have the HIMH attribute.

Course List

Course	Title	Credits
HIST 1850	Understanding Historical Change: Jews in the Ancient and Medieval World	3
HIST 3012	Medieval France	4
HIST 3014	Medieval Feud, Ordeal, and Law	4
HIST 3018	Medieval Nobility: Love, War, and Devotion	4
HIST 3050	Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Iberia	4
HIST 3051	The Black Death, 1348-1450	4
HIST 3145	Medieval Barbarians	4
HIST 3203	Medieval Family Life	4
HIST 3204	Sex & Celibacy in the Middle Ages	4
HIST 3205	Medieval Medicine	4
HIST 3206	Global Middle Ages: Culture, Communication, and Conquest	4
HIST 3207	Late Medieval Religion and Society	4
HIST 3208	The Medieval Other	4
HIST 3209	The Origins of Christianity from the Apostles to the 4th Century	4
HIST 3210	King, Court, Crusade: Writing Knightly Life in the High Middle Ages	4
HIST 3211	Medieval Sin, Sinners, and Outcasts	4
HIST 3212	The History of Medieval Christianity	4
HIST 3213	Monsters, Magic, and the Undead in Medieval Europe	4
HIST 3214	Plagues and Peoples: Health and Disease in Medieval Europe	4
HIST 3215	Middle Ages and West	4
HIST 3216	Rich and Poor in the Middle Ages	4
HIST 3217	Islamic History, 1000–1600	4
HIST 3220	Medieval Hollywood	4
HIST 3230	Criminals, Outlaws, and Bandits: Solving Crime in Medieval Europe	4
HIST 3260	Medieval Ireland to 1691	4
HIST 3270	The Crusades	4
HIST 3300	The History of the Medieval Book in the Latin West	4
HIST 3301	Medieval Women's Lives	4
HIST 3302	Gender and the Body in the Middle Ages	4
HIST 3305	Medieval Warfare	4
HIST 3310	Medieval England: From Viking Invasions to Henry VIII	4
HIST 3322	The Reformation Era	4
HIST 3638	Technology From Antiquity to Middle Ages	4
HIST 3700	Sickness and Health in Early Ma	4
HIST 4007	Medieval Autobiographies	4
HIST 4654	Medieval London	4
HIST 4666	SEM Know Your Enemy: The Devil in History	4
HIST 4704	Seminar: The First Crusade: Themes and Sources	4
HIST 4705	Seminar: Disease in the Middle Ages	4
HIST 7026	Classics in the Middle Ages	4
MVST 3210	King, Court, and Crusade: Writing Knightly Life in the High Middle Ages	4
MVST 3215	Medieval Fashion and Its Meanings	3
MVST 3700	Medicine, Magic, and Miracles: Sickness and Health in the Early Middle Ages	4
MVST 4005	The Medieval Traveler	4
MVST 4654	Medieval London	0-4
MVST 4998	Study Tour: Medieval Spain	4

European History courses

Courses in this group have the HIEH attribute.

Course List

Course	Title	Credits
ARHI 4435	Art of the Tudor Courts	4
FREN 3456	20th-Century France: A Blast from the Past	4
HIST 3303	CSI Then and Now: Forensic Medicine in Medieval and Modern Europe	4
HIST 3322	The Reformation Era	4
HIST 3362	Crime and Punishment in Europe	4
HIST 3364	Environmental History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1650	4
HIST 3411	Tudor and Stuart England	4
HIST 3412	The Tudors	4
HIST 3413	Reformation England	4
HIST 3414	Cabbages and Kings	4
HIST 3415	European Women: 1500-1800	4
HIST 3416	European Women: 1800-Present	4
HIST 3417	Civil Wars and Revolution in the British Isles	4
HIST 3420	The English Renaissance	4
HIST 3425	Henry VIII's England	4
HIST 3430	The World of Queen Elizabeth I	4
HIST 3455	20th Century Ireland	4
HIST 3456	Britain: 1688-1867	4
HIST 3457	Britain: 1867-Present	4
HIST 3458	Ireland: 1688-1923	4
HIST 3459	Transgender History	4
HIST 3503	Modern France: 1900 to Present	4
HIST 3505	The History and Politics of Cartoons and Caricature from the Middle Ages to the Present	4
HIST 3512	The French Revolution	4
HIST 3513	Old Regime and French Revolution	4
HIST 3515	Media History: 1400 to Present	4
HIST 3517	The Belle Époque	4
HIST 3541	Modern Italy	4
HIST 3543	The Connecting Sea: The Mediterranean Since 1800	4
HIST 3545	Race and Nation in Modern Europe	4
HIST 3549	Global Italy	4
HIST 3550	Fascism from Mussolini to the Present	4
HIST 3555	Hitler's Germany	4
HIST 3556	The History of the European Union (1948 to the Present): Foundations, Structures, Challenges	4
HIST 3558	Europe: 1900-1945: Total War	4
HIST 3559	Europe Since 1945	4
HIST 3562	Memory, Myth, and History in Post-1945 Europe	4
HIST 3566	War and Imperialism	4
HIST 3568	America and the Making of Europe: 1945 to Present	4
HIST 3614	Revolutionary and Soviet Russia	4
HIST 3619	World's Fair	4
HIST 3620	20th Century Europe	4
HIST 3622	Great Trials	4
HIST 3624	European Cities	4
HIST 3626	Social History of Architecture	4
HIST 3635	Science in Popular Culture	4
HIST 3636	Social History of Technology	4
HIST 3812	Jews in the Early Modern World	4
HIST 3815	East European Jewish History	4
HIST 3925	The Holocaust	4
HIST 4105	The Early Modern World: Art and Science	4
HIST 4115	Communication and Media in History: From Gutenberg to Google	4
HIST 4152	The Italian Renaissance	4
HIST 4353	Renaissance and Renewal	4
HIST 4435	Art of the Tudor Courts	4
HIST 4708	Seminar: The Great War	4
HIST 4711	Seminar: Post-WWII Britain	4
HIST 4858	Seminar: Modern European City	4
HIST 5553	Book History: Texts, Media and Communication	4

American History courses

Courses in this group have the HIAH attribute.

Courses in this group have the HIGH attribute.

Course List

Course	Title	Credits
AFAM 3037	Being and Becoming Black in the Atlantic World	4
AFAM 3140	Contemporary Africa	4
AFAM 3148	History of South Africa	4
AFAM 3150	Caribbean Peoples and Culture	4
AFAM 3939	History of Global Popular Music: From Africa to the Americas and Back	4
AFAM 3955	Slavery Freedom/Atlantic World	4
HIST 1551	Understanding Historical Change: Representations of China and The West	3
HIST 3192	The United States, Africa, and the Cold War	4
HIST 3474	The Arab Israeli Conflict: Cultural Perspectives	4
HIST 3538	The Good Earth?	4
HIST 3543	The Connecting Sea: The Mediterranean Since 1800	4
HIST 3567	A Global History of Communism	4
HIST 3634	Modern South Asian History	4
HIST 3638	Technology From Antiquity to Middle Ages	4
HIST 3670	The Modern Middle East	4
HIST 3675	History of Modern Israel	4
HIST 3809	Jews in the Modern World	4
HIST 3812	Jews in the Early Modern World	4
HIST 3858	The Global Cold War	4
HIST 3900	Global Histories of Forensic Science	4
HIST 3915	Contemporary China	4
HIST 3918	Cultural Revolution: China in Context	4
HIST 3919	Christianity in China	4
HIST 3920	Modern Japan	4
HIST 3922	East Asian Cities	4
HIST 3924	East Asian Capitalisms	4
HIST 3931	Colonialism and South Asia	4
HIST 3939	History of Global Popular Music: From Africa to the Americas and Back	4
HIST 3942	Race, Sex, and Colonialism	4
HIST 3944	Africa in the Age of Decolonization	4
HIST 3946	African Economies and Humanitarianism	4
HIST 3948	Gandhi: A Global Intellectual History	4
HIST 3951	Popular Education and Social Change in the Americas	4
HIST 3955	Slavery Freedom/Atlantic World	4
HIST 3961	Rebellion and Revolution in Latin America and the Atlantic World	4
HIST 3962	Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America	4
HIST 3963	Afro-Latin America	4
HIST 3965	Colonial Latin America	4
HIST 3967	Modern Central America	4
HIST 3968	Mexico	4
HIST 3969	Latin America and the U.S.	4
HIST 3972	Revolution in Central America	4
HIST 3974	Spaniards and Incas	4
HIST 3975	The Caribbean	4
HIST 3977	Latin American History Through Film	4
HIST 3982	The Islamic World and the Crusades, 1099-Ca.1700	4
HIST 3983	Apocalypticism and Messianism in Islamic Thought and History	4
HIST 3985	Ottoman Empire/ 1300-1800	4
HIST 3986	Religion and Politics in Islamic History	4
HIST 3989	History and Cinema: The Middle East and North Africa in Film	4
HIST 3992	Capitalism	4
HIST 3994	Climate and Society	4
HIST 4048	Israel: History, Society, Politics and Culture	4
HIST 4111	Modern African Stories	4
HIST 4295	Confucianism in Three Keys: The History, Philosophy, and Politics of Confucianism	4
HIST 4308	Antisemitism	4
HIST 4310	Africa, Race, and the Global Cold War	4
HIST 4331	US in the Middle East: 1945-Present	4
HIST 4510	Conquest, Conversion, Conscience	4
HIST 4591	Seminar: Race, Sex, and Colonialism	4
HIST 4631	Seminar: US in the Mid East: 1945-Pres	4
HIST 4772	Seminar: Colonial Latin America	4
HIST 4922	“Freedom Now”: Black Political Thought	4
INST 3859	Post-1945: A Global History	4
LALS 3951	Popular Education and Social Change in the Americas	4
LALS 3962	Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America	4
LALS 3963	Afro-Latin America	4
LALS 3967	Modern Central America	4
LALS 3968	Mexico	4
LALS 3972	Revolution in Central America	4
LALS 3977	Latin American History Through Film	4
LALS 4510	Conquest, Conversion, Conscience	4

Upper-Level elective courses

Any HIST course numbered HIST 3000-4599 may fulfill this requirement, in addition to the courses listed below. Courses in this group have the HIUL attribute. HIST courses do not need the HIUL attribute code.

Course List

Course	Title	Credits
AFAM 2005	American Pluralism	4
AFAM 3030	African American Women	4
AFAM 3037	Being and Becoming Black in the Atlantic World	4
AFAM 3112	The Sixties	4
AFAM 3134	From Rock-N-Roll to Hip-Hop	4
AFAM 3140	Contemporary Africa	4
AFAM 3150	Caribbean Peoples and Culture	4
AFAM 3955	Slavery Freedom/Atlantic World	4
AFAM 4000	Affirmative Action and the American Dream	4
ARHI 4435	Art of the Tudor Courts	4
CLAS 3033	Slavery in Ancient Greece	4
ENGL 4548	World War II: History, Literature, and Film	4
FREN 3456	20th-Century France: A Blast from the Past	4
HIST 1999	Tutorial	1
HIST 3001	African American History I	4
HIST 3002	African American History II	4
HIST 3071	Honors Research Seminar I	0
HIST 3072	Honors Research Seminar II	4
HIST 3192	The United States, Africa, and the Cold War	4
HIST 3206	Global Middle Ages: Culture, Communication, and Conquest	4
HIST 3217	Islamic History, 1000–1600	4
HIST 3230	Criminals, Outlaws, and Bandits: Solving Crime in Medieval Europe	4
HIST 3300	The History of the Medieval Book in the Latin West	4
HIST 3301	Medieval Women's Lives	4
HIST 3302	Gender and the Body in the Middle Ages	4
HIST 3310	Medieval England: From Viking Invasions to Henry VIII	4
HIST 3363	Europe and Early Modern World	4
HIST 3416	European Women: 1800-Present	4
HIST 3430	The World of Queen Elizabeth I	4
HIST 3505	The History and Politics of Cartoons and Caricature from the Middle Ages to the Present	4
HIST 3515	Media History: 1400 to Present	4
HIST 3538	The Good Earth?	4
HIST 3541	Modern Italy	4
HIST 3545	Race and Nation in Modern Europe	4
HIST 3550	Fascism from Mussolini to the Present	4
HIST 3556	The History of the European Union (1948 to the Present): Foundations, Structures, Challenges	4
HIST 3562	Memory, Myth, and History in Post-1945 Europe	4
HIST 3563	New York City History in Film	4
HIST 3567	A Global History of Communism	4
HIST 3568	America and the Making of Europe: 1945 to Present	4
HIST 3570	Genocide	4
HIST 3657	American Constitution	4
HIST 3682	The United States in the 1950s and the Illusion of Happiness	4
HIST 3780	The Era of the Civil War	4
HIST 3785	Robber Barons and Reformers: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the U.S.	4
HIST 3799	Race and American Popular Music	4
HIST 3812	Jews in the Early Modern World	4
HIST 3817	Technology and the Changing Papacy	4
HIST 3818	The History of Islam in the U.S.	4
HIST 3823	History of Labor in the United States	4
HIST 3826	Modern US Women's History	4
HIST 3827	Wealth & Poverty in the US: Capitalism, Social Welfare & Inequality	4
HIST 3830	History of American Women and Gender	4
HIST 3845	The History of U.S. Foreign Relations, 1898 to the Present	4
HIST 3846	The History of U.S. Foreign Relations, 1974 to Present	4
HIST 3854	Where the Right Went Wrong: American Conservatism 1945–The Present	4
HIST 3860	The "Long" 1990s in United States History (1989-2008)	4
HIST 3869	1960s America: Gender, Race and Youth	4
HIST 3881	New York City's Cold War	4
HIST 3900	Global Histories of Forensic Science	4
HIST 3924	East Asian Capitalisms	4
HIST 3950	Latino History	4
HIST 3955	Slavery Freedom/Atlantic World	4
HIST 3962	Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America	4
HIST 3963	Afro-Latin America	4
HIST 3967	Modern Central America	4
HIST 3969	Latin America and the U.S.	4
HIST 3989	History and Cinema: The Middle East and North Africa in Film	4
HIST 4011	Why America Fights	4
HIST 4048	Israel: History, Society, Politics and Culture	4
HIST 4104	Food and Drink in Modern Society	4
HIST 4111	Modern African Stories	4
HIST 4115	Communication and Media in History: From Gutenberg to Google	4
HIST 4195	The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem	4
HIST 4331	US in the Middle East: 1945-Present	4
HIST 4363	SEM: Europe and the Early Modern World	4
HIST 4435	Art of the Tudor Courts	4
HIST 4548	World War II: History, Literature, and Film	4
HIST 4654	Medieval London	4
HIST 4725	Seminar: Global Histories and Stories	4
HIST 4743	Sem: Fascism from Mussolini to the Present	4
HIST 4905	Seminar: History of Food	4
HIST 4933	Seminar: Cold War Science and Technology	4
HIST 5553	Book History: Texts, Media and Communication	4
HIST 5650	Approaches to Global, Transnational, & Intellectual Histories	4
HIST 5750	Ethnicity, Race, and Politics in NYC	4
HPRH 2102	Focused Study: History	3
INST 3859	Post-1945: A Global History	4
LALS 2005	American Pluralism	4
LALS 3962	Narratives of Truth and Justice in Latin America	4
LALS 3963	Afro-Latin America	4
LALS 3967	Modern Central America	4
MEST 3620	Islam in America	4
MVST 3501	Between Conquest and Convivencia: The Spanish Kingdoms of the Middle Ages	4
MVST 3502	The Clerkenwell Tales: England's Literature	4
MVST 4005	The Medieval Traveler	4
MVST 4998	Study Tour: Medieval Spain	4
SOCI 3425	Racial Segregation: An American Story	4
WGSS 3002	Feminist and Women's Studies	4

Availability

The major in history is available at Fordham College at Rose Hill, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Rose Hill, Lincoln Center, and Westchester. 

Fordham College at Rose Hill students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum.

Fordham College at Lincoln Center students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum.

Professional and Continuing Studies students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the PCS Core Curriculum and any additional electives that may be required to earn a minimum of 124 credits.

Fordham College at Rose Hill students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum.

Fordham College at Lincoln Center students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum.

Professional and Continuing Studies students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the PCS Core Curriculum and any additional electives that may be required to earn a minimum of 124 credits.