History Course Distributions (2024)

Below are lists of course distributions for all listed History courses. Check out the History Course Catalog for more information on each course.

Depending on the topic and focus of the course, History courses may fall into one, two, or three of the following four specific overlays:

European Courses

*Course counts toward more than one overlay

**HIST 301 may also count, depending on the topic

U.S. Courses

*Course counts toward more than one overlay

**HIST 301 may also count, depending on the topic

HIST 301 - Topics in History**
HIST 311 - Race & US Foreign Relations
HIST 320 - History of Technology
HIST 502 - Off-Campus American Studies
HIST 511 - Environmental History
HIST 515 - History of Sport
HIST 519 - Science and Technology in the United States
HIST 520 - Death and Dying in History*
HIST 522 - Religion in American History
HIST 524 - The History of Baseball in American Culture
HIST 525 - Colonial America*
HIST 526 - The American Revolution*
HIST 527 - The Early National Period
HIST 528 - America in the Age of Jackson
HIST 529 - Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 530 - United States in the 19th Century
HIST 531 - The United States in the Twentieth Century
HIST 533 - Topics in the History of the Americas
HIST 534 - Social History of Medicine
HIST 536 - The American West
HIST 537 - History of the Indians of North America*
HIST 538 - Women in Sport
HIST 539 - African-American History
HIST 540 - Women in America, 1600 to the Civil War*
HIST 542 - Women in America, Civil War to the Present
HIST 543 - U.S. World Affairs to 1920
HIST 544 - U.S. and World Affairs since 1920
HIST 546 - History of American Military Affairs
HIST 547 - Economic History of the United States
HIST 551 - History of Family Violence
HIST 553 - History of American Culture
HIST 554 - History of the South
HIST 555 - American Constitutional History
HIST 556 - Bill of Rights in American History
HIST 557 - History of American Agriculture
HIST 558 - History of Kansas
HIST 564 - History of Mass Communications in America
HIST 589 - Lost Kansas Communities
HIST 593 - The Vietnam War*

Non-Western Courses

*Course counts toward more than one overlay

**HIST 301 may also count, depending on the topic

HIST 301 - Topics in History**
HIST 303 - Latin American History and Civilization
HIST 311 - Race & US Foreign Relations
HIST 330 - History of East Asian Civilizations*
HIST 331 - Introduction to Japan
HIST 332 - Introduction to China
HIST 333 - War and Conquest in Hispanic America*
HIST 501 - Japan’s Samurai Age*
HIST 504 - Intellectual History of Early China*
HIST 505 - South Asian Civilizations
HIST 506 - Modern India and South Asia
HIST 507 - China Since 1644
HIST 508 - Introduction to Modern East Asia
HIST 509 - Japan Since 1550
HIST 516 - The Modern Middle East
HIST 517 - Iranian People Since Antiquity
HIST 549 - Modern Africa from 1850
HIST 559 - History of Aztecs, Inca, and Maya*
HIST 560 - Latin American Nations
HIST 561 - Colonial Hispanic America*
HIST 562 - Modern Mexico
HIST 593 - The Vietnam War*
HIST 598 - Topics in Non-Western History*

Pre-1800 Courses

*Course counts toward more than one overlay

**HIST 301 may also count, depending on the topic

HIST 301 - Topics in History**
HIST 330 - History of East Asian Civilizations*
HIST 333 - War and Conquest in Hispanic America*
HIST 501 - Japan’s Samurai Age*
HIST 504 - Intellectual History of Early China*
HIST 520 - Death and Dying in History*
HIST 521 - History of Christianity
HIST 523 - A History of the Occult and Witchcraft
HIST 525 - Colonial America*
HIST 526 - The American Revolution*
HIST 537 - History of the Indians of North America*
HIST 540 - Women in America, 1600 to the Civil War*
HIST 559 - History of Aztecs, Inca, and Maya*
HIST 561 - Colonial Hispanic America*
HIST 565 - History and Culture of Greece*
HIST 566 - History and Culture of Rome*
HIST 567 - Europe in the Middle Ages*
HIST 568 - The Renaissance*
HIST 569 - The Reformation*
HIST 570 - Europe in the Seventeenth Century*
HIST 571 - Eighteenth-Century Europe*
HIST 576 - European International Relations to 1815*
HIST 579 - The British Isles to 1603*
HIST 583 - History of France, 1400-1715*
HIST 585 - Medieval Christianity*
HIST 591 - The Russian Empire*
HIST 595 - French Revolution, 1789-1815*

Depending on the topic, courses in HIST 597 – Topics in European History and in HIST 598 – Topics in Non-Western History can count towards the Pre-1800 overlay.

Non-Specified Courses

These courses are not modeled into overlays, or the topics are considered to be too broad to fit into the overlays.

HIST 399 - Honors Seminar in History
HIST 498 - Senior Thesis
HIST 499 - Honors Project
HIST 503 - Historical Study in International Setting
HIST 513 - Battles and Leaders
HIST 514 - World War II
HIST 545 - War in the Twentieth Century
HIST 650 - Internship in History
HIST 798 - Readings in History
HIST 799 - Problems in History