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.
Visit the Texas State Schedule of Classes to view course offerings by semester or register for classes.
Please visit the Graduate Course Catalog for a comprehensive listing of our graduate courses.
View the Spring 2026 Graduate Class Schedule.
See below for Spring 2026 Course Offerings
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Core Curriculum
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History 5313 | Early American History
Field | United States History
A 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 5336 | East European History
Field | European History
A seminar based on selected topics in recent East European history.
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History 5343 | The Progressive Era
Field | U.S. History
This course is a seminar on the rise of industrial capitalism and corporate power and the public response to the related restructuring of the social and economic order between 1890 and 1920, with particular emphasis on the strengths and weaknesses of progressivism as a democratic movement for reform.
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History 5345U | Dark Tourism: Interpreting Historic Sites of Oppression, Death, and Disaster
Field | Public History
This course examines issues and effective methods of interpreting historic sites open to visitors associated with tragic historical events and practices, such as battlefields, concentration camps, massacre sites, and plantation houses, that are to the public. Dark tourism sites in the United States and around the world will be examined.
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History 5346 | African American History
Field | U.S. History
This course is an intensive readings and research seminar in African American History. Through the uses of lectures, biographies, institutional histories and community studies, students will be introduced to the different interpretive themes and methodologies that have created the myriad of historical interpretations and reinterpretations of African American History.
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History 5361 | Historiography and Methods
Field | Core Curriculum
A general introduction to key concepts, approaches, and challenges involved in reading, researching, and writing history at the professional level.
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History 5372 | The Practice of Museum Studies and Material Culture
Field | Public History
A seminar addressing the history, organization, and functions of history museums.
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History 5375E | Management & Administration in Historical Organizations
Field | Public History
This course provides an introduction to the non-profit based management, leadership, and administration issues and practices for historical organizations.
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History 5376 | Local and Community History
Field | Public History
A seminar applying historical methods to the study of U.S. communities.
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History 5395J | Foreigners in Japan, 1850-2000
Field | World History History
This course investigates a central question that arises in discussions of Japan: What have been the effects of foreign influences on Japanese society? Materials for study focus on memoirs written by foreigners – from Europe, the Americas, and East Asia – as they describe their lives in the country through various eras since 1850.
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History 5398 | General Research Seminar
Field | Core Curriculum
A seminar designed to enhance research and writing skills in history. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.