Undergraduate Classes Fall 2026
Classes meet in person unless otherwise noted.
Graduate classes require permits. Please contact Sean Farell at sfarrel1@niu.edu and Juliana Yarmolovych at yyarmolovych@niu.edu with your request, including the field below and your Z-ID.
Lower Division
- HIST 110: History of the Western World I
- HIST 170: World History I
- HIST 171: World History II
- HIST 260: American History to 1865
- HIST 260: American History to 1865 (online asynchronous)
- HIST 261: American History since 1865
Group A
- HIST 310: Spanish Inquisition (online asynchronous)
- HIST 350: Japan to 1600
- HIST 381: Colonial Latin America (online asynchronous)
Group B
- HIST 434: Civil War Era
- HIST 346: Women in Asian History
- HIST 402: Gender and Sexuality in History (online asynchronous)
- HIST 443: History of Islamic Southeast Asia (online asynchronous)
Group C
- HIST 355: History of Black American Music
- HIST 367: U.S. LGBT History
- HIST 374: Latinos/as in the United States History (online asynchronous)
- HIST 467: U.S. in Depression and War, 1929-1960
No assigned group (still count in the major!):
- HIST 359: History of Illinois (online synchronous, Educator Licensure only)
- HIST 384: History of War since 1500 (online asynchronous)
- HIST 395: Historical Methods
- HIST 400: Student Teacher History
- HIST 401: Third Clinical
- HIST 496: History and Social Sciences (online synchronous, Educator Licensure only)
- HIST 495: Senior Thesis
Graduate Classes Fall 2026
Classes meet in person unless otherwise noted.
Graduate classes require permits. Please contact yyarmolovych@niu.edu with your request, including the field below and your Z-ID.
- HIST 502: Gender and Sexuality in History
- HIST 543: History of Islamic Southeast Asia (online asynchronous)
- HIST 567: U.S. in Depression and War, 1929-1960
Graduate Reading Seminars (HIST 610s)
- Indigenous History
- Slavery and Emancipation
- HIST 695: Seminar in College Teaching of History– required for new teaching assistants, recommended for all new students
Graduate Research Seminars (HIST 710s)
- Nation and Empire
- Civil Rights/Human Rights Movements in the Modern World
Independent Study (HIST 736) and Independent Research (HIST 756)
These courses require contracts between the professor and student.