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Department of History

Course Offerings

Below is a listing of courses currently offered in Fall 2025 and a tentative listing of those that will be offered in the Spring 2026. Majors should take HS 400 The Historian's Craft in their sophomore year if at all possible. For course descriptions, please refer to  Course Catalog.

FALL 2025 

  • HS 100 Encountering the Past (Borges, Carey, Gibson, Haider, Jalali, Klug, Okoh, Parks, Parlopiano, Sandler, and Scalenghe). See our HS 100 course description page for details on sections.
  • HS 206 US Since Reconstruction (Haider)
  • HS 212 America Since 1945: Cold War Years (Chiles)
  • HS 221 Africa in the Age of Globalization (Okoh)
  • HS 226 Introduction to the Modern Middle East (Jalali)
  • HS 246 History of Modern China (Parks)
  • HS 254 History of Christmas (Walsh)
  • HS 319 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (Sandler)
  • HS 328 Sex and the City (Ross)
  • HS 344 History of Afghanistan (MWF 9 - 9:50, Jalali)
  • HS 364 War Memory (TH 1:40 - 2:55, Parks)
  • HS 394 Race and Geopolitics in the American Century (MWF 12 - 12:50, Klug)
  • HS 400 Historian's Craft (Scalenghe)
  • HS 497 Seminar: The Wonderful, Weeping World of Margery Kempe (W 3 -5:30, Parlopiano) Needs written permission of the instructor to register

Spring 2026

  • HS 100  Encountering the Past (Borges, Haider, Jalali, Klug, Okoh, Parks, Parlopiano, Ross, Sandler, and Scalenghe). See our HS 100 course description for details on sections.
  • HS 220 Colonial Africa (Okoh)
  • HS 223 Women and Gender in Middle East (Jalali)
  • HS 227 Introduction to Modern Latin America (Staff)
  • HS 241 Revolutionary America (Staff)
  • HS 242 Human Rights and Civil Rights Law (Haider)
  • HS 257 The Golden Age of Athens (Taylor)
  • HS 265 The First World War (Sandler)
  • HS 277 History of Poverty (Parlopiano)
  • HS 308 Medieval Bodies (Parlopiano)
  • HS 368 Palestinian and Isreali Conflict (Scalenge)
  • HS 386 History of the Police (Ross)
  • HS 392 Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome (McCreight)
  • HS 463 Colonial British America (Mulcahy) Needs written permission of the instructor to register
  • HS 495 East Asia in the Global 1960's (Parks) Needs written permission of hte instructor to register
  • HS 499 History Capstone (Okoh) 

 

 

Override Requests

Visit Student Planning for a list of the courses offered by the History department in Fall 2025. Students wishing to register for a closed (full) course must visit the Academic Advising Website and submit a course override request form (the link will be on the page under Fall 2025 Course Override Requests) requesting an override. Please do not submit your request directly to the course instructor or to the Department Chair. All course overrides are reviewed by the department chair and are only approved if there are extenuating circumstances. The override request will not be processed if there is a time conflict with your existing schedule, you do not have 6th course permission from your advisor, or if there is a financial hold on your account.