From: Philip D. Curtin curtinpd@jhu.edu
The Johns Hopkins University, (November 1995)

The Hopkins world history program at the undergraduate level is simply advice on program planning within the regular requirements for a major in history. The following one-page sheet summarizes that advice:

The Johns Hopkins University
Department of History
The Undergraduate Comparative World History Concentration

Some Guidelines:

1. A concentration is a particular direction given to work within the existing History major.
2. In place of the old requirement of two semesters of Occidental Civilization, a student with this concentration should take of introductory history in Russian, Latin American, African, or East Asian history.
3. When possible, the subject of whatever paper term paper a student might otherwise write should involve a cross-cultural topic involving two of the four non-Occidental fields---possibly occidental history and one of the other four.
4. In the Junior and Senior Years, of the four advanced courses required, two should be chosen from the cross-cultural offerings at that level: They are:

100.215 The Afro-Atlantic World
100.491 The Age of Exploration
100.492 Comparative Urban History
100.495 The World and the West: The Preindustrial Age 100.496 The World and the West: The Revolution of Modernization 100.497 Comparative Agrarian History

5. At least one advanced course should be in the same geographical field as the two-semester introductory sequence taken as a freshman or sophomore.

6. Where possible, the senior thesis should be on a tropic that crosses at least two different culture areas.

7. Where appropriate courses are available, students should support their work in history with language or other courses in their field of particular interest.

Philip D. Curtin
Department of History
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-7583
Fax: 410-516-7586

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