YEAR 1 COURSES

Semester 1	Course Title	Instructor
HIST1017	Modern Hong Kong	Tim Yung

Semester 2	Course Title	Instructor
HIST1016	The Modern World	Devika Shankar
HIST1018	Europe in the long nineteenth century, 1789-1914	Pavel Krejčí

Summer Semester	Course Title	Instructor
HIST1017	Modern Hong Kong	Tim Yung
	The course takes place from June 23 to July 12, 2024, running Monday through Friday between 2:30 PM and 5:20 PM, in CPD2.14.

YEAR 2-4 COURSES

In their second to fourth years students may take all their courses in history, or they may combine some history courses with courses from the departments and programmes in the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Social Sciences. Different modes of learning are reflected in the structuring of the History curriculum into ‘Survey’ and ‘Seminar’ courses.

Survey Courses

Survey courses are intended to introduce the history of a geographical area or a specific period.

Semester 1	Course Title	Instructor
HIST2013	Twentieth-century Europe, Part I: The European Civil War, 1914-1945	Adam Sacks
HIST2021	Nineteenth century Russia, 1800-1905	Adam Sacks
HIST2031	History through Film	Staci Ford
HIST2091	The British Empire	Uther Charlton-Stevens
HIST2144	History of the Second World War in the West, 1939-1945	Uther Charlton-Stevens
HIST2158	Women in Hong Kong history： Private Lives and Public Voices	Alison So
HIST2161	Making race	Michael Rivera
HIST2192	Introduction to modern Southeast Asian history	Nicolo Ludovice
HIST2204	Technology and History: A Modern History	Ghassan Moazzin
HIST2205	Digital history: From concordances to big data	Javier Cha

Semester 2	Course Title	Instructor
HIST2014	Twentieth-century Europe, Part II: Europe divided and undivided, 1945-1991	Adam Sacks
HIST2107	The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1931-1952	Charles Schencking
HIST2178	Trials of history: The courtroom from historical perspective	Alastair Mcclure
HIST2198	World Prehistory	Rebecca Hopkins
HIST2199	The Mongol empire in world history	Francesco Calzolaio
HIST2203	The Philippines and the Asia-Pacific world	Claudia Montero

Seminar Courses

Seminar courses involve more advanced study of special topics in history and a higher level of training in the use of primary documents or historiography.

Semester 1	Course Title	Instructor
HIST3075	Directed Reading	History Staff
HIST3082	Birth counts: The politics of reproduction in the modern world	Carol Tsang

Semester 2	Course Title	Instructor
HIST2070	Stories of self: History through autobiography	Staci Ford
HIST2186	Death and Destruction from Above	Charles Schencking
HIST3075	Directed Reading	History Staff
HIST3078	Cold War science fiction	Oscar Sanchez-Sibony