World History & Global Awareness
Updated: April 17, 2026
The following courses satisfy the World History & Global Awareness requirement for the General Education program. A course can fulfill another domain area when an additional domain name is listed along with World History & Global Awareness (or Western Civilization or Major Cultures for the Legacy program).
Approved General Education Courses | Legacy Program (Prior to Fall 23 Entry) | Current Program (Entry to OW in Fall 23 or later) |
| CP2050 Nature and Development of Science | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI1010 World Religions – West | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI1020 World Religions - East | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI1240 Comparative Cultures | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI2200 Science in Western Civilization | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI2511 World History I: The Non-Western World | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI2521 World History II: Western Civilization | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI2681 Introduction to European History: 1350 - Present | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI2810 Geography: Earth and People | Major Cultures / Social Science | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| HI3002 Rise of Reason: Class Origin of Western Culture | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3003 Environments in World History I: Antiquity - 1500 | Western Tradition / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3005 Environmental World History II: 1500 - Present | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3011 Foundation of the Judeo-Christian Tradition | Western Tradition / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3021 Europe in the Middle Ages | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3030 From God to the Machine: Europe from 16th-18th Centuries | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3080 Asian Cultures | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3091 African Cultures | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3102 Hispanic Heritage | Western Tradition / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3110 Latin American Culture | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3120 Latin America Environment & Society | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3244 History of the Arab-Israeli Wars {not in the Catalog} | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3323 Buddhism | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3455 Modern European Revolutions | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3458 Frontier of Science and Technology in the 20th Century | Western Tradition / Humanities {Spring 21- } | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3558 Classical Greco-Roman History | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3640 African History | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3692 Modern Asian History | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3703 Modern Philosophy | Western Tradition / Humanities {Spring 14- } | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3704 African Religion & Philosophy | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3835 Islamic Cultures | Major Cultures / Humanities {Fall 15- } | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI3840 Crescent and Cross: Islam and Christianity in History | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI3452 Women in the Medieval Europe | Western Tradition / Diversity | World History & Global Awareness / DEISJ |
| HI4305 Islam and the Quran | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI4306 Golden Age of Islam | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI4308 History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI4415 Europe of the Dictators | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI4557 Renaissance & Reformation in Europe | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI4632 Japanese History Through Literature | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI4800 History of India | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| HI4850 Domesticity in the 19th and Early 20th Century | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| HI4905 Chinese Civilization | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| MA2500 History of Mathematics | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| ML2550 Intro to Spanish, Latin-American and Latino Cultural Studies | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| ML3150 Modern Italian Civilization | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| ML3410 Latino Writers in the United States | Humanities / Diversity | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities / DEISJ |
| ML3800 Modern French Culture: France and the Francophone World | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| ML4450 Hispanic Women Writers | Humanities / Diversity | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities / DEISJ |
| ML4540 Latin America Culture & Literature | Major Cultures {Fall 2016-} / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| ML4545 Civilization & Culture of Latin America | Major Cultures / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |
| ML4630 Latin American Literature | Humanities / Diversity | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities / DEISJ |
| PE3100 International Relations | Major Culture / Social Science {Spring 2010-} | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| PE3400 The Global South (Previously Political Economy of the Third World) | Major Cultures / Social Science {Spring 2010-} | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| PE3440 International Economics | Major Cultures {Spring 2010-} / Social Science | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| PE3610 Conflict & Revolution in the 20th Century | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| PE4470 History of Economic Thought | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| PE4580 Origins of the Capitalist Economy | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| PE4620 Political & Social Thought | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| PE4660 Politics of India & the Region (So. Asia) | Major Cultures / Social Science {Spring 2010-} | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| PE4665 Human Rights | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| PE4690 Politics of Latin America & the Caribbean | Major Cultures / Social Science {Spring 2010-} | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| PH3400 International Study Abroad | Major Cultures | World History & Global Awareness |
| PH3700 Medical Anthropology | Major Cultures / Social Science | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| SY4500 Global Sociology (Previously Cross Cultural Analysis) | Major Cultures / Social Science | World History & Global Awareness / Social Science |
| SY4530 Sociological Theory I | Western Tradition | World History & Global Awareness |
| WS4420 Domesticity 19th &20th Century India {dual listed with HI4850} | Major Culture / Humanities | World History & Global Awareness / Humanities |