History at Boston College
Boston College History courses: 124 listings with descriptions, sections, instructor ratings, and teaching history.
History at Boston College offers 124 courses in the current catalog, from HIST1001 Europe in the World 1 to HIST9898 Dissertation Seminar. Each course page on Linden Study shows the catalog description, credits and prerequisites, the sections offered each term, and the instructors who have taught it, with aggregate ratings from Boston College's published course evaluations and the number of responses behind each one. Teaching records here cover 122 instructors across 17 terms, from Fall 2021 to Spring 2027.
1000-level courses
- HIST1001 Europe in the World 1
- HIST1006 Asia in the World II
- HIST1012 Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy
- HIST1027 Modern History I
- HIST1028 Modern History II
- HIST1030 Global Environmental History I
- HIST1068 America and the World II
- HIST1077 Globalization I
- HIST1091 Roman History
- HIST1093 Modern History I
- HIST1627 Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics & Engineering
- HIST1630 The Meaning of Boston: History and Memory
- HIST1717 Consumer Culture: Past, Present, and Sustainable Futures
- HIST1718 How Sports Explain America: The History of Sports in the United States
- HIST1731 Creative Women: Society and Culture During the Renaissance
- HIST1736 Urban Paradoxes: Histories of Cities, Power, and Environment in the Americas
- HIST1737 Take Me to the River: The History and Science of U.S. Waterways
- HIST1739 Data, Power, and the Making of Modern Science: Historical Perspectives
- HIST1801 The Age of Revolutions
- HIST1803 The American Pacific
- HIST1810 The History of the End of the World
- HIST1822 Core Topics: Europe from the Outside In
- HIST1833 Resisting and Rebelling II
- HIST1841 Core Topics: When Worlds Collide: From Contact to the Constitution
2000-level courses
- HIST2001 Early to Feudal Japan: Peasants, Nobles, & Shoguns
- HIST2052 The People's Republic of China, 1949-present
- HIST2180 Africa Since 1850
- HIST2201 Greek History
- HIST2203 Greco-Roman Egypt
- HIST2232 Imperialism and Decolonization in the Modern World
- HIST2245 Horrors!
- HIST2250 Buddhism and Western Thought
- HIST2254 A Social History of Money in the World
- HIST2258 The British Empire: Its Rise and Fall
- HIST2259 When Women Ruled the British World: From Tudor England to Stuart Britain
- HIST2260 Britain in the reign of Queen Victoria until World War I
- HIST2270 Germany Divided and Reunited
- HIST2297 The Russian Empire under the Tsars
- HIST2302 Modern Latin America
- HIST2304 Latinx History
- HIST2401 U.S. History I
- HIST2402 U.S. History II
- HIST2406 This Land is Your Land: U. S. Environmental History
- HIST2412 The Pacific Northwest
- HIST2414 Dutch and Nordic America: Balancing the Individual and Community
- HIST2442 Fire and Disaster in American History
- HIST2453 Counterintelligence: An American Social History
- HIST2454 The FBI: A Legal & Cultural History
- HIST2463 We Gon' Be Alright: A Pop History of America
- HIST2469 Korean America
- HIST2475 America's War in Vietnam
- HIST2481 African American History I
- HIST2489 The Contested American South
- HIST2502 Introduction to Feminisms
- HIST2520 Industrial Revolution in the World
- HIST2521 The Deep Past: History, Biology, Culture
- HIST2804 Irish America
- HIST2807 Ireland and Empire
- HIST2817 The U.S. Presidency
- HIST2824 American Urban and Suburban History
- HIST2837 Multiculturalism in the Roman Empire
- HIST2855 Human Rights in East Asia
- HIST2857 Global History of Colonialism since 1800
- HIST2875 Development and Social Justice in Korea
3000-level courses
- HIST3160 The Study and Writing of History: African Decolonization in Global Perspective
- HIST3256 Study and Writing of History: Odd Women to the New Women
- HIST3321 Study and Writing of History: Resisting Dictatorship in Latin America
- HIST3473 Study and Writing of History: Immigration and Citizenship in Modern America
- HIST3493 The Study and Writing of History: Post-1950s Boston Social Movements
- HIST3506 The Study and Writing of History: Total Institutions: Prisons, Camps, and Ghettos
4000-level courses
- HIST4005 The Asia Pacific War: A Transnational History
- HIST4047 Framing Modern China: A Century of Revolution and Change Through Photography
- HIST4202 The Culture of Athenian Democracy
- HIST4211 Roman Religion
- HIST4221 The Vikings
- HIST4225 The Witch, the Church, and the Law
- HIST4227 Critical Theory and Post-Structuralism
- HIST4235 A Nation Once Again: Irish Cultural Nationalism
- HIST4236 Britain in the Great War 1914-1918
- HIST4244 Global Political Catholicism
- HIST4258 Suspicious Minds: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
- HIST4267 Life and Death under Stalin
- HIST4268 Brave New Worlds: Communist Utopias and Dystopias
- HIST4281 Film, Media, and Modern Ireland
- HIST4282 The Northern Ireland Troubles Through Film and Media
- HIST4291 War Crimes Trials
- HIST4292 War and Genocide
- HIST4294 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- HIST4412 Age of the American Revolution
- HIST4415 U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST4443 America in the 1990s
- HIST4454 Early American Women
- HIST4458 Nannies, Maids, and Mail Order Brides: Gender and Migration in U.S. History
- HIST4495 U.S. Foreign Policy I
- HIST4496 U.S. Foreign Policy II, 1945-Present
- HIST4513 Neurodiversity Past and Present
- HIST4807 Religious Freedom in South Asia and Middle East
- HIST4808 Race, Religion and Labor Migration in the Indian Ocean
- HIST4837 Women in Ireland, 1880-1945: The Rights and Duties of Citizenship
- HIST4838 Newsworthy Women: British & Irish Women's Press History
- HIST4901 Readings and Research: Independent Study
- HIST4921 Advanced Independent Research
- HIST4961 Honors Seminar
- HIST4962 Honors Thesis
5000-level courses
- HIST5009 Senior Colloquium: The Question of Palestine
- HIST5231 Senior Colloquium: Women Making History
- HIST5407 Senior Colloquium: Reading Reconstruction
- HIST5460 Senior Colloquium: Student Activism in 20th and 21st Century America
7000-level courses
- HIST7220 Debates in American, European, and World History
- HIST7303 Colloquium: Gender History and the Scholar's Craft Today
- HIST7311 Colloquium: Law and History
- HIST7313 Graduate Colloquium: Race, Culture and Power
- HIST7345 Law, Literature, and Culture in the Dissolution of the First Republic: 1840-1860
- HIST7400 Graduate Seminar: Thinking History Globally
- HIST7515 Graduate Colloquium: Intellectual History: European, American, Global
- HIST7801 Graduate Colloquium: U.S. History to 1877
- HIST7830 Graduate Colloquium: The American Revolution in History and Memory
- HIST7888 Graduate Colloquium: Digital Humanities
- HIST7901 Colloquium for Master's Degree Students
8000-level courses
- HIST8000 Colloquium: Introduction to Doctoral Studies
- HIST8214 Seminar: Early Modern (European) History
- HIST8220 Graduate Seminar: U.S. Before 1900
- HIST8275 Capstone: Designing, Executing, and Publishing Digital Humanities Projects