Catalogue of Courses
This list is a "library" of descriptions for History courses, which are posted here regardless of when those courses are offered. Longer descriptions are often available directly from instructors who regularly teach a course, but in most cases those descriptions are not syllabi: they only indicate in general terms what the teachers typically do when they teach the course.
For specific course information, please contact David Hays (dhays1@luc.edu) who will put you in touch with the instructor that teaches that course.
To view a short course description, click on a course-level below, then click the number of the specific course that interests you.
- HIST 101: The Evolution of Western Ideas and Institutions to the Seventeenth Century
- HIST 102: The Evolution of Western Ideas and Institutions since the Seventeenth Century
- HIST 103: American Pluralism
- HIST 104: Global History since 1500
Note: Beginning in Fall 2017, HIST 103 (American Pluralism) and HIST 104 (Global History since 1500) will cover Tier 1 of the University Core. Prior to Fall 2017, these courses were numbered HIST 203 and HIST 204 and were part of Tier 2 offerings.
- HIST 208: East Asia Since 1500
- HIST 209: Survey of Islamic History
- HIST 210: Introduction to Latin American History
- HIST 211: The United States to 1865
- HIST 212: The United States Since 1865 *
- HIST 213: Introduction to African History
Note: Beginning in Fall 2017, American Pluralism (now HIST 103, was HIST 203) and Global History since 1500 (now HIST 104, was HIST 204) will be part of Tier 1 of the Core Curriculum. For students who took HIST 203 or HIST 204 prior to Fall 2017, these classes count as part of Tier 2 Core Curriculum.
* We regularly offer special topics-based versions of HIST 212:
- HIST 212-040 The United States Since 1865: War and Diplomacy
- HIST 212-050: The United States Since 1865: Medicine, Disease, and Health
- HIST 212-060: The United States Since 1865: American Business
- HIST 300A: Topics
- HIST 300B: Topics in Premodern History
- HIST 300C: Topics in European History (post-1700)
- HIST 301A: History of Western Education
- HIST 301B: Pre-Industrial City in Europe
- HIST 307: A History of Greece to Alexander the Great
- HIST 308A: A History of Rome to Constantine
- HIST 308B: Pompeii and Herculaneum
- HIST 308C: History of Early Christianity
- HIST 308D: Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity
- HIST 309: Shipwreck Archaeology
- HIST 310: The Middle Ages
- HIST 310A: The Medieval World, 1100-1500
- HIST 310B: Medieval Culture
- HIST 310C: Medieval Women
- HIST 310D: Medieval Popular Religion
- HIST 310F: Medieval Inquisitions and Heresy
- HIST 311: The Vikings
- HIST 311B: The Crusades: Christianity and Islam
- HIST 312: England to 1485
- HIST 314: Renaissance
- HIST 314A: The Jesuits: Life and History
- HIST 315: The Reformation
- HIST 316: History of Poland
- HIST 317: The Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment
- HIST 318A: Early Modern England, 1485-1760
- HIST 318B: English Social History, 1450-1750
- HIST 318C: London 1550 – 1715
- HIST 320: Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
- HIST 321: Europe in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1900
- HIST 322: Modern France
- HIST 323: 19th Century German Politics and Culture
- HIST 324: Italy in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- HIST 325: Modern Britain: Empire, Industry, Democracy
- HIST 325A: The British Empire: Barbados to Brexit
- HIST 326: Ireland: From Colony to Nation State
- HIST 328: Russia pre-1917: Empire Building
- HIST 328A: Russian Empire and Literature
- HIST 329: Women's Sphere in Past Societies
- HIST 330: Europe in the 20th Century, 1900-1945
- HIST 331A: Food, Hunger, and Power in the Modern World
- HIST 333: 20th Century German Politics and Culture
- HIST 334A: The Nazi Revolution
- HIST 334B: The Holocaust and Twentieth Century Genocide
- HIST 335: The Second World War
- HIST 336: Contemporary Europe, 1945 to the Present
- HIST 337: Rise & Fall of Soviet Union
- HIST 338A: History of European Communism
- HIST 338B: Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
- HIST 339A: Twentieth-Century Peacemaking
- HIST 339C: Modern Europe and the Arts
- HIST 300A: Topics
- HIST 300E: Topics in World History
- HIST 340A: Egypt's International Age
- HIST 340B: Introduction to Islamic History
- HIST 341: The Modern Middle East
- HIST 341A: History of Iraq
- HIST 341B: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- HIST 341C: Tunisia on Site: Arab Spring, Democratic Change, Islam
- HIST 342A: African History to 1600
- HIST 342B: African History Post-1600
- HIST 342C: The History of Islam in Africa
- HIST 342D: African Diaspora in the Middle East and South Asia
- HIST 343: Modern South Asia
- HIST 345A: Traditional China from Antiquity to 1550
- HIST 345B: Pre-Modern Chinese History
- HIST 346A: Early Modern China: 1550-1800
- HIST 346B: Reform and Revolution in China 1800-1949
- HIST 346C: History of Christianity in China
- HIST 347A: China Since 1949: The People’s Republic
- HIST 347B: Modern Chinese History
- HIST 347C: Cultural Revolution-China
- HIST 347D: Chinese History through Film
- HIST 348A: Japan 1640-1945: From Isolation to Empire
- HIST 348B: Japan WW II to the Present
- HIST 349A: Women in East Asia
- HIST 350: Colonial Latin America
- HIST 351: Latin America Independence -1750-1830
- HIST 352: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
- HIST 353: Latin America in Recent Times
- HIST 355: The Caribbean and Central American in Colonial and Modern Times
- HIST 356: Mexican History from Ancient to Modern Times
- HIST 357: The Mexican Revolution in Popular Imagination
- HIST 358: Women in Latin American History
- HIST 359 Teaching World History
- HIST 359A: Inter-American Relations
- HIST 359B: History of Canada
- HIST 359C: Nationalist Politics: A Global Perspective
- HIST 359D: The Ottoman Empire: A Global Perspective
- HIST 359E: Concentration Camps: A Global History
- HIST 300D: Topics in U.S. History
- HIST 360: Colonist and Natives in Early America: 1500-1763
- HIST 361: Creation of the American Republic: 1763-1801
- HIST 361A: Pirates & Sailors in the Revolutionary Atlantic
- HIST 362: Building a Nation: 1800-1850
- HIST 363: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
- HIST 364: Emergence of Industrial America: 1870-1900
- HIST 365: Workers in Industrial America
- HIST 366: The United States: 1890-1940
- HIST 366A: World War I and American Culture
- HIST 367: Contemporary United States, 1940 to the Present
- HIST 368: 19th Century U.S. Popular Culture
- HIST 369: 20th Century U.S. Popular Culture
- HIST 370: American Economic & Business History
- HIST 371: American Social History
- HIST 372: American Constitutional & Legal History to 1865
- HIST 373: American Constitutional & Legal History Since 1865
- HIST 373A: Crime and Punishment
- HIST 374: Black Politics
- HIST 376: History of the American Frontier Movement
- HIST 376A: The History of the American Indian
- HIST 377: History of Illinois & Midwest
- HIST 378: Hispanics in the United States
- HIST 379: African-American History to 1865
- HIST 380: African-American History since 1865
- HIST 380A: Islam in the African-American Experience
- HIST 381: Rebels & Reformers in U.S. History
- HIST 382: Immigration
- HIST 383: Polish America
- HIST 384: The Irish Diaspora in America
- HIST 385: The History of Chicago
- HIST 386: Creation of the American Metropolis
- HIST 387: History of American Education
- HIST 388: U.S. Wars
- HIST 388A: The Vietnam War
- HIST 389A: Asian American History
- HIST 389B: Gender, Race, and Class in US History
- HIST 389C: Men and Women in US History
- HIST 389D: History of Sexuality in the U.S.
- HIST 389E: American Culture and Society on Film
- HIST 3989F: The Sixties
- HIST 389G: History of the U.S. Environment
- HIST 389H: American Icons: Heroes, Images, Ideas
- HIST 389K: Autobiography and Memoir in Recent US History
