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 Undergraduate Course Catalog for more information on all of our course offerings.
Visit the Texas State Schedule of Classes to register for classes.
To assist in schedule planning, you can also download a PDF version of the Spring 2026 course offerings (Fall 2026 coming soon).
See below for Summer & Fall 2026 Course Offerings
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General History Survey
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Group A | World History
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Group B | European History
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Group C | U.S. History
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Group D | Capstone and Teacher Prep
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Fall 2026
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History 1310 | History of the United States to 1877
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1, 2 & Fall 2026A general survey of the history of the United States from its settlement to the end of Reconstruction.
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History 1320 | History of the United States, 1877 to Date
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1, 2 & Fall 2026A general survey of the history of the United States from Reconstruction to present.
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History 2310 | Western Civilization to 1715
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2026A general survey of western civilization from earliest times to the end of the 17th century.
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History 2311 | History of World Civilization to the 17th Century
Group | General History Survey
Term | Fall 2026A general survey of world civilization from the earliest times to the 17th Century.
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History 2312 | History of World Civilization from the 17th Century
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2026A general survey of world civilization from the 17th Century to the present.
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History 2320 | Western Civilization, 1715 to Date
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2026A general survey of western civilization from the Treaty of Utrecht to the present.
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History 3310 | History of Europe, 1815-1919
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2026The background, course, and results of World War I, with emphasis on imperialism, diplomatic alliances, and nationalistic rivalries from the Congress of Vienna to the Paris peace settlements.
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History 3315 | History of England to 1603
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2026The development of the English nation from prehistoric times to the end of the Tudor Dynasty in 1603.
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History 3322 | Colonial History of Latin America to 1828
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2026A study of the colonial period of Latin America from the early Spanish and Portuguese colonization to the beginning of the period of independence.
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History 3324 | Latin America from Independence to Present
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2026This course examines the history of Latin America from independence to present. Explores the challenges of formation and consolidation of the new states; of economic policy and development; the rise of Populism and the age of reforms; revolutions and revolutionary movements; and present challenges.
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History 3333 | Dictatorships and Democracy in Modern Spain, 1808 to Present
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2026This course covers over two hundred years of Spanish history, beginning during Europe’s revolutionary era through Spain’s fall into fascism, its transition to democracy and integration into the European Union. Students will engage with issues related to Spain’s history and culture, considering issues of religion, race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and class.
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History 3340 | The Soviet Union and After: Histories of Eurasia Since 1917
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2026This course examines the histories of the diverse peoples–from Ukraine to eastern Siberia–that came under the control of the Bolsheviks. It surveys the rise, fall, and aftermaths of Soviet power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Topics covered include the lived experiences of the region’s multiethnic inhabitants through social, cultural, intellectual, and gender frameworks.
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History 3353 | The U.S. - Mexico Border and its Communities: A History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course is a thematic examination of the region including Texas, California and the states that include the Great Basin, the Southern Rockies, and the Sonoran Desert from Mexican Independence in 1821 to the present.
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History 3359 | African American History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026A survey of African-American history, 1619 to the present. Emphases include African and European backgrounds, hemispheric slavery, slavery in early America, the antislavery movement, the Civil War and Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction culture and society, and Civil Rights movement.
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History 3366 | Introduction to Public History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course offers an introduction to the work of public historians who interpret history outside the classroom in settings like museums, historic sites, archives, and national parks. Topics explored in this course include: methods used by public historians to preserve historic buildings and exhibit museum collections; how to engage the public with the past through storytelling and digital history projects; and the challenges faced by public historians to mediate popular memory and myth.
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History 3368U | Cuban Relations
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course will provide students with an overview of relations between the United States and Cuba from 1865 to 2006. Themes include economic, political, military, and cultural inter-development through Cuban independence movements, U.S. military occupation, shared cultural and economic movements, and the growing animosity from Castro's Revolution to recent years.
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History 3371B | Health and Illness in American History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026From concerns epidemics might undermine proper American racial orders to anxieties over democracy and health care financing (Obamacare), health and illness have reflected and shaped the ways Americans understand themselves, their policies, and their societies. This course examines two centuries of this complicated and fascinating history.
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History 3372 | Texas History: A Survey
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026A one-semester survey of Texas History which will emphasize political, economic and social development from prehistory to the twentieth century.
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History 3373C | The History of Rural Women
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course surveys rural women in the United States from the founding of the nation to the present. Topics include women’s work in the agricultural economy, female influence in community and agrarian organizations, and the relations ship between rural and government services from regional, national, and global perspectives.
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History 3376 | American Religious History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course in religious history explores the theological, social, and political evolution of religions and the development of the leading trends in religious beliefs and practices in the United States from pre-European encounters to the present.
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History 3378 | History of the Blues
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course examines the evolution of the blues and other forms of African-American music throughout American history, with an emphasis on how blues music reflects the rich and complex traditions of the African-American community and helped give birth to rock & roll.
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History 3381| Democracy and Education
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course provides an overview of the relationship (and tension) between democracy and education in the U.S. between 1865 and 1930, when emancipation, westward expansion, rural poverty, and growing immigrant and working-class populations motivated reassessment and reform of public education in an attempt to meet individual and societal needs.
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History 3382 | Immigration and US History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course examines the history of immigration to the United States beginning with the colonial era and extending through present day. It considers the causes of immigration; the social, cultural and economic experiences of various immigrant groups; the development of immigrant group identities; and American responses to immigration.
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History 4304 | Ancient Rome and the Mediterranean 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Summer 1, 2026A survey of Roman History from the Republican period to the fall of the Western Empire with emphasis on its Mediterranean milieu.
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History 4317 | Tudor-Stuart England, 1485-1689
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2026This course explores the constitutional, social, political, and religious developments in England during the Tudor-Stuart dynasties from 1485 to 1689.
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History 4320 | The Evolution of Christianity, 300-1500
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2026This course surveys the contested and contingent development and subsequent rupture of the traditions, thought, and institutions that came to define pre-modern European Christianity from 300 to 1500. Chronological units include Imperial Christianity, Early Medieval Institutionalization, High Medieval Christendom, and late Medieval Crisis and Reform, while addressing themes such as war, women and gender, devotional practice, race and religion, and processes of institutionalization.
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History 4324 | A Global History of Pandemics
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2026This course investigates the history of pandemics. Topics covered include the Justinian plague of the 6th century, the Black Death of 1347-1353, the smallpox pandemic caused by the Spanish Empire, the influenza outbreak of 1918, the polio pandemic, the influenza pandemic of 1957, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Diabetes pandemic.
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History 4331 | Piracy Through the Ages
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2026An activity based on greed, and sometimes survival, piracy has existed since humans took to the seas. This course investigates the global history of piracy beginning with the Vikings. The history of piracy in the Caribbean, Asia, and the Mediterranean will be covered and compared to the piracy of today.
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History 4348 | Mahatma Gandhi and Nonviolence
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2026This course will offer students the opportunity to explore Mahatma Gandhi's leadership of the movement against British colonialism in India and the legacy of Gandhi's strategies of non-violent non-cooperation in other political movements of the twentieth century.
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History 4350D | Empire and Identity in Central Asia
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Summer 2, 2026This course explores the historical development of local, ethnic, and national identity in Central Asia from the 13th-century Mongol conquest to the present. The course concludes with explorations of the transnational links within the region and the challenges and possibilities for the five Central Asian republics in the post-Soviet era.
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History 4364 | Military History of the United States
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Summer 1, 2026A specialized study of the military problems of the United States since 1789 and their impact upon non-military problems.
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History 4365 | Age of Revolution in North America, 1763-1789
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026A history of the American people during the age of the American Revolution, from the beginning of the crisis with Britain to the adoption of the Constitution.
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History 4372 | Latina/o/x Histories
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2026This course is a survey of the political, economic, and social-cultural role of Latinas/os in the United States.
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History 4399 | Senior Seminar
Group | Group D: Capstone and Teacher Prep
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2026This course is required for History majors. In this course students refine skills and techniques essential to the historical profession. Students analyze primary and secondary sources, apply methods, and write a term paper. (WI) Prerequisite: 24 semester credit hours in History with a grade point average of at least 2.25 in those hours.
