Department of History

Timothy Jenks, Chair
Mona Russell, Undergraduate Director

Students may major in history through the Bachelor of Arts program. They may minor in either history or public history.

ECU undergraduate history students with a 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA and a 3.5 minimum GPA in history courses may also apply for admission to the department’s accelerated program after completing a minimum of 75 eligible undergraduate semester hours. If admitted to this highly selective program, students may count up to 12 s.h. of approved graduate-level courses towards completion of both the bachelor’s and the master’s degrees.

More information is available on the department website.

Faculty

https://history.ecu.edu/dept-directory/

Programs

Accelerated

History, BA/History, MA

Bachelor’s

History, BA

Minor

History Minor
Public History Minor

Courses

History

HIST 1030 - World Civilizations to 1500
HIST 1031 - World Civilizations Since 1500
HIST 1050 - American History to 1877
HIST 1051 - American History Since 1877
HIST 1552 - Honors, World History to 1500
HIST 1776 - Documentary Foundations of American Democracy
HIST 2000 - Introduction to History
HIST 2005 - Selected Topics in History
HIST 2012 - American Business History
HIST 2150 - Shop Til You Drop: Consumerism
HIST 2200 - Witch Hunts through History
HIST 2300 - Passion and Sex in Asian History
HIST 2444 - The History of Sports in Western Society
HIST 2600 - Maritime Heritage of the Outer Banks
HIST 2700 - History of Piracy
HIST 2800 - African History through Film, Newspapers and Music
HIST 3000 - History: Its Nature and Method
HIST 3005 - Selected Topics in History
HIST 3010 - Constitutional History of the United States to 1888
HIST 3011 - Constitutional History of the United States Since 1888
HIST 3100 - North Carolina History
HIST 3110 - History of African-Americans
HIST 3121 - American Military History to 1900
HIST 3122 - American Military History Since 1900
HIST 3140 - Women in American History
HIST 3170 - History of Native Americans
HIST 3200 - Diplomatic History of the United States
HIST 3210 - Colonial America to 1763
HIST 3215 - American Revolution and the Federal Era, 1763-1800
HIST 3225 - The Era of Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1877
HIST 3230 - The Birth of Modern America, 1865-1892
HIST 3240 - The Age of Franklin Roosevelt, 1919-1945
HIST 3245 - The United States Since 1945
HIST 3260 - The United States and the Middle East, 1783 to the Present
HIST 3340 - The Ancient Middle East from Prehistory to Muhammad
HIST 3350 - War and Society
HIST 3405 - History of Ancient Greece to 146 BC
HIST 3406 - War and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
HIST 3410 - History of Ancient Rome
HIST 3412 - A History of Christianity to 1300
HIST 3413 - A History of Christianity 1300-Present
HIST 3415 - The Middle Ages
HIST 3420 - Early Modern Europe to 1648
HIST 3430 - History of Europe, 1815-1914
HIST 3435 - History of Europe Since 1914
HIST 3445 - Modern France, 1815-present
HIST 3460 - Germany, 1790-1914
HIST 3461 - Germany Since 1914
HIST 3462 - History of the Holocaust
HIST 3480 - Britain to 1688
HIST 3482 - Britain, 1688-1832
HIST 3484 - Britain from 1832
HIST 3551 - Medieval Russia, 862-1682
HIST 3552 - Imperial Russia, 1682-1917
HIST 3553 - Soviet Russia, 1917-1991
HIST 3615 - History of Traditional Japan
HIST 3620 - History of Modern Japan
HIST 3625 - Field Study in Japanese Historical Culture
HIST 3626 - Field Study in Japanese Historical Texts
HIST 3629 - History of Traditional China
HIST 3630 - History of Modern China
HIST 3635 - Samurai History and Cinema
HIST 3669 - History of the Middle East, 600-1500
HIST 3670 - History of the Middle East Since 1500
HIST 3680 - Women and Gender in the Middle East
HIST 3710 - Introduction to Latin-American History: Colonial Period
HIST 3711 - Introduction to Latin-American History: Since 1808
HIST 3780 - Mexico and Central America
HIST 3810 - History of Africa
HIST 3820 - History of South Africa
HIST 3830 - Africa and Islam
HIST 3832 - African and Caribbean Maritime Archaeology and History
HIST 3840 - Africa and the Atlantic World
HIST 3850 - Kingdoms, Empires and States of Pre-Colonial Africa
HIST 3900 - Introduction to Public History
HIST 3907 - Pirate Nation: An ECU History
HIST 3980 - Shipwreck Archaeology
HIST 3981 - History and Archaeology of Small Watercraft
HIST 3985 - History of American Architecture
HIST 3993 - Approaches to Historical Objects
HIST 4000 - Senior Seminar
HIST 4005 - Selected Topics in History
HIST 4170 - Native American Maritime History
HIST 4531 - Directed Readings in History
HIST 4533 - Directed Readings in History
HIST 4550 - Honors
HIST 4551 - Honors
HIST 4940 - Public History Internship
HIST 4948 - Internship in Historic Site Administration
HIST 5005 - Selected Topics
HIST 5122 - Social and Cultural History of the United States Since 1865
HIST 5130 - Comparative History of New World Slavery and Race Relations
HIST 5135 - Problems in North Carolina History
HIST 5140 - The Old South
HIST 5141 - The South Since 1877
HIST 5220 - Selected Topics in US Women’s History
HIST 5230 - Themes in African American History
HIST 5300 - Comparative History of Non-Western Civilizations
HIST 5340 - The Ancient Near East
HIST 5350 - The Renaissance in European History
HIST 5360 - The Reformation, 1450-1598

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