Graduate Classes Spring 2026
Classes meet in person unless otherwise noted.
Graduate classes require permits. Please email sfarrel1@niu.edu and Juliana Yarmolovych at yyarmolovych@niu.edu with your request, including the field below and your Z-ID.
- HIST 542: History of Buddhist Southeast Asia (online asynchronous)
- HIST 545: The Chinese Revolution
- HIST 561: The American Revolution
- HIST 568: America Since 1960
- HIST 580: Spies, Lies and Secret Wars: CIA in the World (online asynchronous)
Graduate Reading Seminars (HIST 610s)
- European Expansion and Imperialism
- Atlantic World
Graduate Research Seminars (HIST 710s)
- Law and Society
- Gender and Sexuality
Independent Study (HIST 736) and Independent Research (HIST 756)
These courses require contracts between the professor and student.
Undergraduate Classes Spring 2026
Classes meet in person unless otherwise noted.
Lower Division
- HIST 110: History of the Western World I (online asynchronous and in-person options)
- HIST 170: World History I
- HIST 171: World History II (online asynchronous and in-person options)
- HIST 260: American History to 1865 (online asynchronous and in-person options)
- HIST 261: American History since 1865 (online asynchronous and in-person options)
Group A
- HIST 323: History of Science (online asynchronous)
- HIST 348: African History to 1600 (online asynchronous)
- HIST 381: Colonial Latin America (online asynchronous)
Group B
- HIST 341: History of India: 1740-1957
- HIST 355: History of Black American Music
- HIST 388: The Cuban Revolution and Its legacy (online asynchronous)
- HIST 442: History of Buddhist Southeast Asia (online asynchronous)
- HIST 445: The Chinese Revolution
Group C
- HIST 373: Strikes, Riots, and Uprisings in U.S History
- HIST 379: American Military History (online asynchronous)
- HIST 461: The American Revolution
- HIST 468: America Since 1960
- HIST 480: Spies, Lies and Secret Wars: CIA in the World (online asynchronous; no assigned group - still counts in the major)
- HIST 395: Historical Methods (online asynchronous and in-person options)
- HIST 400: Student Teaching in History/Social Sciences for Secondary Educators (educator licensure only)
- HIST 401: Third Clinical Secondary School Experience in History/Social Sciences (educator licensure only)
- HIST 495: Senior Thesis
- HIST 496: History and Social Science Instruction for Secondary and Middle Grades Educators (educator licensure only)