- Twelve credits of lower-level history, including 6 credits of 200-level courses.
- All History Majors must take the fourth-year capstone course HIST 490 Seminar for History Majors, or its equivalent:
- HIST 490 (3) Seminar for History Majors
- HIST 468 (3) Comparative Topics in Indigenous History
- HIST 466 (3) Topics in Indigenous History of Canada
- HIST 403 (3) Seminar in the History of International Relations
- Of the 30 Upper-division credits required for the major, no more than 24 credits are allowed in any one field (such as Canadian or North American, Modern European, Asian, etc.).
- Although some courses taught in other departments may be applied to the History Major, more than half of the Upper-division credits toward the History Major should be earned through courses listed as HIST in the UBC Calendar. Exceptions are made for students who earn History credit while on exchange. See page 9 for the general policy on the assigning of History credit for courses from other UBC departments.
- Of the 42 total minimum history credits, at least 6 credits must be substantially pre-modern in content. A list of courses fulfilling this requirement is below.
HIST 101 World History to Oceanic Contact (6 credits)
HIST 102 World History from 1500 to the 20th Century (6 credits)
HIST 202 Gateway to the Middle Ages (3/6 credits)
HIST 220 History of Europe (3/6 credits)
HIST 235 History of Canada (3 credits)
HIST 237 History of the United States (3/6 credits)
HIST 240 Health, Illness and Medicine I: From the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period (3 credits)
HIST 256 History of Africa (3 credits)
HIST 259 Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (3 credits)
HIST 270 China in World History (3/6 credits)
HIST 271 Japan and Global History, 1550-1900 (3 credits)
HIST 273 History of India (3 credits)
HIST 280 Islamic World History (3 credits)
HIST 306 History of France, 1461-1715 (6 credits)
HIST 307 French North America to 1803 (6 credits)
HIST 310 The British Empire to 1850 (3 credits)
HIST 314 Early Modern Britain (6 credits)
HIST 323 Empires, Wars, and Revolutions in Europe and the Americas, 1763-1838 (3 credits)
HIST 328 Rebels in America: Revolution to Civil War, 1763-1865 (3 credits)
HIST 334 Senegambia to South Carolina, Ghana to Georgia: African American History 1450-1850 (3 credits)
HIST 341 Medieval Jewish History (3 credits) Equivalency: RELG 331
HIST 344 Ancient Regime France (6 credits)
HIST 347 Medieval and Imperial Russian History, 998 to 1800 (3 credits)
HIST 363 Europe in the Early Middle Ages (3 credits)
HIST 364 Europe in the Late Middle Ages (3 credits)
HIST 365 Europe during the Renaissance (3 credits)
HIST 366 Europe during the Reformation (3 credits)
HIST 367 Europe in the Age of the Enlightenment (3 credits)
HIST 377 History of Cantonese Worlds (3 credits) Equivalency: ASIA 323
HIST 378 History of Early China (3 credits) Equivalency: ASIA 320
HIST 379 History of Later Imperial China (3 credits) Equivalency: ASIA 340
HIST 387 Voices from Medieval India (3 credits)
HIST 388 India in the Early Modern World: Mughals, Merchants, and Marauders (3 credits)
HIST 392 Scientific Revolution: Circulation of Knowledge in the Early Modern World (3 credits)
HIST 401 Seafaring in the Age of Sail (3 credits)
HIST 424 Economic History of Pre-Modern Europe (3 credits)
HIST 425 War and Society
HIST 436 European Social History (6 credits)
HIST 444 Slave Societies in the Americas (3 credits)
HIST 464 First Contacts in the Pacific (3 credits)
HIST 470 Seminar in Medieval History (6 credits)
HIST 473 Women in the Middle Ages (3 credits)
HIST 474 Ideas and Religions of the Middle Ages (3 credits)
HIST 476 Law and Society in the Middle Ages (3 credits)
HIST 477 Constitutional History of Medieval Europe (3 credits)
HIST 478 Medieval Portraits and Personalities (3 credits)
HIST 479 Cultural History of Imperial China (3/6 credits) Equivalency: ASIA 440
HIST 484 East Asian Military Systems and Warfare (3 credits)
ASIA 100 Introduction to Traditional Asia (3 credits)
ASIA 314 Premodern Japan (3 credits)
ASIA 315 Japan from Feudal to Modern State (3 credits)
ASIA 317 The Rise of Korean Civilization (3 credits)
ASIA 318 Premodern India (3 credits)
ASIA 320 History of Early China (3 credits) Equivalency: HIST 378
ASIA 340 History of Later Imperial China (3 credits) Equivalency: HIST 379
ASIA 390 History of the Indian Ocean World
ASIA 393 History of Iran from the Sasanians to the Safavids (3 credits)
ASIA 410 International Relations in Premodern East Asia (3 credits)
ASIA 440 Cultural History of Imperial China (6 credits) Equivalency: HIST 479
ASIA 484 The History of the Choson Dynasty (3 credits)
CLST 110 Golden Age of Athens (3 credits)
CLST 111 Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome (3 credits)
CLST 231 Ancient Greece (3 credits)
CLST 232 Ancient Rome (3 credits)
CLST 260 Gladiators, Games, and Spectacle in the Greek and Roman World (3 credits)
CLST 306 Ancient Technology: Greece and Rome (3 credits)
CLST 311 Women in the Bronze Age, Classical Greek, and Hellenistic Culture (3 credits)
CLST 312 Women in the Roman World of Republican and Imperial Times (3 credits)
CLST 319 The Roman Army (3 credits)
CLST 320 Slavery in the Ancient Greek and Roman World (3 credits)
CLST 329 Ancient Greek Warfare (3 credits)
CLST 352 The Roman Republic (3 credits)
CLST 353 The Early Roman Empire (3 credits)
CLST 355 The Athenians and their Empire (3 credits)
CLST 356 Alexander the Great and his Empire (3 credits)
CLST 401 Seminar in Classical History
NEST 301 Early Empires of the Ancient Near East (3 credits)
NEST 303 History of Ancient Egypt (3 credits)
NEST 310 History of Women in Early to Late Medieval Muslim Societies (3 credits)
All courses with a HIST number are treated toward the History Major without limitation. This includes all the following courses which are cross-listed with another department.
| HIST 260 | = PHIL 260 | (3) Science and Society in the Contemporary World |
| HIST 270 | = ASIA 270 | (6) China in World History |
| HIST 341 | = RELG 331 | (3) Medieval Jewish History |
| HIST 342 | = RELG 332 | (3) Modern Jewish History |
| HIST 373 | = ASIA 373 | (3) History of Hong Kong |
| HIST 377 | = ASIA 323 | (3) History of Cantonese Worlds |
| HIST 378 | = ASIA 320 | (3) Early China |
| HIST 379 | = ASIA 340 | (3) Later Imperial China |
| HIST 393 | = PHIL 360 | (3) Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science |
| HIST 394 | = PHIL 364 | (3) Darwin, Evolution and Modern History |
| HIST 479 | = ASIA 440 | (6) Cultural History of Late Imperial China |
Subject to the approval of the Department, a maximum of 12 credits of the following courses which are taught and listed in other departments may count toward the 30 upper-division courses required for Major in History:
CLST 306, 311, 312, 319, 320, 329, 352, 353, 355, 356, 401
NEST 301, 303, 310
ECON 334, 336, 337, 436
GEOG 321, 327, 328, 426
ASIA 309, 310, 313, 314, 315, 317, 318, 337, 338, 344, 346, 376, 390, 393, 410, 411, 418, 428, 438, 456, 475, 484, 488
To meet the needs of a particular student's program, the History Department will consider counting a course not specifically listed as a History course (or its equivalent) towards the requirements of a Major in History if the course can be shown to be substantially historical in content and context.
Please Note
We may suggest students take such courses as an elective, but we do, however, wish to allow a legitimate degree of flexibility and imagination in the program of a History major.