Courses Offered in 2022-2023 | Timetable
First Year Courses
Second to Fourth Year Survey Courses
Second to Fourth Year Seminar Courses
Capstone Experience Courses
Common Core Courses run by Us
Courses Offered by Other Departments
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Year 1 Courses
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST1016 | The Modern World |
Insisa |
| HIST1017 | Modern Hong Kong |
Yung |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST1021 | Introduction to Modern Legal History |
McClure |
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. These courses usually involve two lectures per week.
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST2015 | The United States before 1900 |
Ford |
| HIST2103 | Russian States and society in the 20th century |
Sanchez-Sibony |
| HIST2130 | The civilizing mission and modern European imperialism |
Yung |
| HIST2161 | Making race |
Rivera |
| HIST2184 | China and Japan since the 19th century
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Insisa |
| HIST2190 | Animals in History
|
Ludovice |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST2176 | Doing business in modern China, 1800 to the present |
Moazzin |
| HIST2181 | A sea of stuff: Commerce and colonialism in the Indian Ocean, 1500-2000 |
Shankar |
| HIST2185 | A history of propaganda in East Asia |
Insisa |
| HIST2189 | Terrorism: A Global History from Anarchists to ISIS |
Insisa |
| HIST2193 | A history of energy and humankind: From deep history to the present |
Sanchez-Sibony |
| HIST2194 | Food and Empire in Colonial Asia |
Ludovice |
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. These courses will normally offer no more than one lecture per week, but will also include at least one hour of seminar, tutorial or workshop classes each week.
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST3075 | Directed Reading |
History Staff |
| HIST3076 | Tourism and history |
Carroll |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST2118 | Chinese and Americans: A cultural and international history |
Xu |
| HIST2195 | The United States and China: An International and Transnational History, since 1945
|
Millwood |
| HIST2197 | The Chinese Revolution, 1921-1949: A documentary approach |
Dikotter |
| HIST3029 | Transnational history: a new perspective on the past |
Shankar |
| HIST3075 | Directed Reading |
History Staff |
Capstone Experience Courses
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST4015 | The theory and practice of history |
Ludovice |
| HIST4023 | History Research Project |
History Staff |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST4023 | History Research Project |
History Staff |
| HIST4024 | Writing Hong Kong history (capstone experience) |
Carroll |
| HIST4035 | History applied: Internship in historical studies (capstone experience) |
Adonis Li |
| Whole Year | ||
| HIST4017 | Dissertation Elective |
History Staff |
Common Core Courses
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