Graduate Courses
The History Department offers numerous courses each semester that cover a broad range of topical areas. Please visit this site often as the contents are updated for each semester's course offerings.
Please visit the Graduate Course Catalog for more information on all of our course offerings.
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See below for Summer & Fall 2025 Course Offerings
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History 5313 | Early American History
Field | United States History
Term | Fall, 2025A seminar based on selected topics in the Colonial Revolutionary and Early National periods of the United States history. May be repeated with different emphasis.
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History 5316B | Women and Empire
Field | World History
Term | Fall 2025From 1492 until World War II the globe was dominated by imperialism. This course considers the ways that women, in the metropoles of Europe and throughout colonial settings, found their lives shaped by empire.
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History 5324B | Race, Class, and Nation in Modern Latin America
Field | World History
Term | Fall 2025A seminar that examines the relationship between race, class, and nation building in Latin America, beginning with independence in the nineteenth century and continuing to contemporary times.
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History 5324E | Modern Latin American Revolutions
Field | World History
Term | Summer 1, 2025The course is a seminar that examines and compares the causes, consequences and results of Latin America's twentieth century revolutions.
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History 5345D | Oral History: Theory & Practice
Field | Public History
Term | Fall 2025A seminar based upon developing a theoretical and practical understanding of the techniques of oral historical research and document preservation and presentation.
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History 5345M | History of Utopian Communities
Field | United States History
Term | Summer 1, 2025This seminar examines utopian experiments in American History. Starting with John Winthrop’s 1630 “City upon a Hill,” the course explores both religious and secular communal ventures through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course concludes with an examination of counter-cultural, twentieth-century communes, intentional communities, and cultic separatists.
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History 5351C | Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in American Labor History
Field | United States History
Term | Fall 2025This graduate seminar explores the impact of race, gender, and ethnicity upon American Labor History. Readings integrate race, gender, and ethnicity as categories of analysis into the study of class formation, experiences, and consciousness within the American labor force. The focus will be on unorganized as well as organized workers in the context of their social, cultural, political, and workplace environments.
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History 5361 | Historiography and Methods
Field | Core Curriculum
Term | Fall 2025A general introduction to key concepts, approaches, and challenges involved in reading, researching, and writing history at the professional level.
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History 5369 | Music and Social Movements
Field | United States History
Term | Fall 2025This course examines the historical role music has played in a variety of social movements related to race, gender, ethnicity, religion, politics, economics, education, labor, civil rights, and other issues in U.S. history.
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History 5371 | The Practice of Public History
Field | Public History
Term | Fall 2025A seminar addressing the definition, evolution, and philosophy of public history.
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History 5375O | Records Management & Institutional Archives
Field | Public History
Term | Fall 2025This course will introduce students to the principles and theories in records management and institutional archives. It will provide practical experience creating a records retentions schedule, researching retention requirements and best practices, appraising records with enduring value, and establishing archival series to accommodate ongoing acquisition of institutional records.
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History 5381 | Chinese Communism
Field | World History
Term | Fall 2025The Chinese Communist movement from 1919 to the present. Will focus on:
- urban and rural aspects of Chinese Communism;
- the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party on mainland China in 1949; and
- the construction of the Party-State and Socialism in the People’s Republic of China.
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History 5398 | General Research Seminar
Field | Core Curriculum
Term | Fall 2025A seminar designed to enhance research and writing skills in history. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
