Department of History

Writing Designated Courses

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Writing Designated Courses

The History Department offers a wide variety of courses that can fulfill the College's Writing Designated (WRIT) requirement.

Detailed information about each WRIT course offered the current semester can be found on Courses@Brown

Fall 2024

  • HIST 0559C, Archives and Activism, Naoko Shibusawa

  • HIST 0657A, Early American Lives, Christopher Grasso

  • HIST 0202, African Experiences of Empire, Nancy Jacobs

  • HIST 1120, At China's Edges, Rebecca Nedostup
  • HIST 1149, Imperial Japan, Kerry Smith
  • HIST 1266C, English History, 1529-1660, Tim Harris
  • HIST 1457, Understanding the Palestinians, Beshara Doumani
  • HIST 1553, Empires in America to 1890, Naoko Shibusawa
  • HIST 1825H, Science, Medicine, Technology, Harold Cook

  • HIST 1964I, England without Monarchy 1649-1660, Tim Harris

  • HIST 1964L, Slavery in Early Modern World, Adam Teller

  • HIST 1965E, Politics/Intellectual 20th Century Europe, Holly Case

  • HIST 1968A, Approaches to the Middle East, Beshara Doumani

  • HIST 1971D, From Emancipation to Obama, Francoise Hamlin

  • HIST 1976N, History of Economic Thought, Lukas Rieppel

Spring 2025

  • HIST 0537A, Popular Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jennifer Lambe

 

 

  • HIST 0658D, Walden and Woodstock, Ken Sacks
  • HIST 0690E, Gender, Sexuality in Cold War Americas, Marina Adams
  • HIST 0285A Modern Genocide and Other Crimes, Omer Bartov
  • HIST 1032, South Africa: Apartheid and After, Nancy Jacobs
  • HIST 1101, Chinese Political Thought, Cynthia Brokaw
  • HIST 1155, Japan's Pacific War: 1937-1945, Kerry Smith
  • HIST 1262M, Truth on Trial: Justice in Italy 1400-1800, Caroline Castiglione
  • HIST 1266D,  British History, 1660-1800, Tim Harris
  • HIST 1962F, Assembling Chinese History, Rebecca Nedostup
  • HIST 1970F, Early American Money, Seth Rockman
  • HIST 1974P, Modernity's Crisis: Jewish History, Adam Teller
  • HIST 1977I, Gender, Race, Medicine in Americas, Daniel Rodriguez
  • HIST 1978J, Laboring Against Automation, Ellis Garey 

Additional Course Information

Overview of Courses

A brief guide to some of the history department’s course offerings for the academic year.

Race, Power, and Privilege Courses

In their content and their objectives, Race, Power, and Privilege (RPP) courses examine issues of structural inequality, racial formations and/or disparities, and systems of power within a complex, pluralistic world