History at College of the Holy Cross

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate HIST coursework.

• HIST 200The Historian's Craftopens 13 courses (12.2 directly)
• HIST 420Fourth Year Thesisopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• HIST 101Themesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIST 196African Colonial Livesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIST 255Eur:Mass Polit/Tot War 1890-1945opens 1 course (0.2 directly)
• HIST 256Europe & Superpowers:1939-1991opens 1 course (0.2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate HIST work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 25 HIST and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 70 more HIST courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HIST. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIST 198

  1. HIST 196African Colonial Lives
  2. HIST 198Modern Africa Since 1800

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIST 206

  1. HIST 101Themes
  2. HIST 206US in 20C II 1945-Present

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIST 305

  1. HIST 200The Historian's Craft
  2. HIST 305America's First Global Age

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIST 421

  1. HIST 420Fourth Year Thesis
  2. HIST 421Fourth Year Thesis

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HIST yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HIST yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

History does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Holy Cross campus feed.