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Graduate Classes Spring 2024

Graduate classes require permits. Please email pchalland1@niu.edu, yyarmolovych@niu.edu and abruno2@niu.edu with your request, including your Z-ID. 

  • HIST 566: Corporate America
  • HIST 568: America since 1960
  • HIST 580: Spies, Lies and Secret Wars: CIA in the World
  • HIST 588: Transatlantic Slavery, 1492-1867
  • HIST 591: Special Topics—Early Modern France
  • HIST 610-01: Reading Seminar on Religious Violence
  • HIST 610-02: Reading Seminar on Environmental History
  • HIST 710-01: Research Seminar on Popular Culture
  • HIST 710-01: Research Seminar on Labor and Capitalism

Independent Study (HIST 736), Directed Research (HIST 756) and Doctoral Research and Dissertation (HIST 799) require contracts between the professor and student.

Undergraduate and Graduate Classes Summer 2024

All summer classes are online and asynchronous. For classes with multiple numbers, undergraduates should register at the 300/400 level and graduate students at the 500 level.

  • HIST 261-01: Amer Hist Since 1865 (undergraduate only) 
  • HIST 346-01: Women in Asian History  
  • HIST 363-01: US Sport History  
  • HIST 381-01: Colonial Latin America  
  • HIST 390-01: Film and History  

Undergraduate Classes Fall 2024

Classes meet in person unless otherwise noted.

*online asynchronous; #online synchronous; ^ in-person and online synchronous hybrid

Lower Division:

  • HIST 110-01: History of the Western World I  
  • HIST 170-01: World History I  
  • HIST 171-01: World History II** 
  • HIST 171-02: World History II  
  • HIST 260-01: American History to 1865** 
  • HIST 260-03: American History to 1865  
  • HIST 260-02: American History to 1865  
  • HIST 261-01: American History since 1865
  • HIST 261-02: American History since 1865 
  • HIST 261-03: American History since 1865  

Group A:

  • HIST 304-01: Late Antiquity & Fall of Rome** 
  • HIST 323-01: History of Science** 

Group B:

  • HIST 481-01: Indigenous Mexico 
  • HIST 388-01: The Cuban Revolution and it’s Legacy 
  • HIST 480-01: Spies, Lies, Secret Wars: CIA 

Group C:

  • HIST 464-01: Civil War Era  
  • HIST 364-01: African American History to 1865   
  • HIST 379-01: American Military History*** 
  • HIST 381-01: Colonial Latin America  

No assigned group (still count in the major!):

  • HIST 359-01: History of Illinois # (Educator Licensure only) 
  • HIST 395-01: Historical Methods  
  • HIST 395-02: Historical Methods  
  • HIST 400-01: Student Teacher History  
  • HIST 401-01: Third Clinical  
  • HIST 496-01: History & Social Sciences # (Educator Licensure only) 
  • HIST 495-01: Senior Thesis** 
  • HIST 495-02: Senior Thesis** 

Graduate Classes Fall 2024

Classes meet in person unless otherwise noted.

*online asynchronous; #online synchronous; ^ in-person and online synchronous hybrid

Graduate classes require permits. Please email yyarmolovych@niu.edu with your request, including the field below and your Z-ID.

Graduate Reading Seminars (HIST 610s)

  • History and Theory  
  • Nation and Empire  
  • HIST 695: Seminar in College Teaching of History– required for new teaching assistants, recommended for all new students 

Graduate Research Seminars (HIST 710s)

  • Gender and Violence  
  •  Atlantic World  

Independent Study (HIST 736) and Independent Research (HIST 756)

These courses require contracts between the professor and student.

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