2025/2026 Online History Courses to Explore This Summer

HIST 200A: Asia and the World

• Instructor: Dr. Kelly McCormick
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: Learn about the political, economic, social, cultural, and human interactions between Asia and the world, inter-Asian relations, Asian diaspora, colonialism, war and the social consequences of conflict, decolonization, industrial growth, and developing world issues.

HIST 204: History Through Video Games

• Instructor: Dr. Shoufu Yin
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: Fascinating exploration of global histories through video games and uses of video games for research by historians.

HIST 207: Global Environmental History

• Instructor: Dr. Eagle Glassheim
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: Analyze the impact humans have had on the environment, and the ways in which the physical environment has shaped human history: climate, agriculture, energy use, and urbanization.

HIST 235: History of Canada: Moments that Matter

• Instructor: Dr. David Borys
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: An introduction to major turning points in Canadian history. Exploration of the social, political, cultural, and environmental transformations/revolutions that have shaped Canada from early European colonialism to the twenty-first century.

HIST 237A: History of the United States

• Instructor: Dr. Crystal Sheffield
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: Survey from colonial period to present examining political system, slavery, Civil War, race relations and civil rights, westward expansion, industrialization, feminism, expanding international presence, Cold War, and modern culture.

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HIST 252: Modern Caribbean History

• Instructor: Dr. Alycia Hall
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: A survey of social, cultural and political history of Anglophone, Francophone and Spanish Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the present.

HIST 348: History of the Holocaust

• Instructor: Dr. Jay Eidelman
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: A study of the systematic attempt to destroy European Jewry during the Nazi regime, 1933- 1945. Topics of special importance include: the motivations and behaviour of the perpetrators; the reactions of the victims; the roles of bystanders.

HIST 350A: The Soviet Union – The Soviet Union

• Instructor: Dr. Alexei Kojevnikov
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: Learn about the history of the Soviet Union. Topics may include the political, social, and cultural history of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet successor states from 1900 to the present.

HIST 359: A History of Brazil: From Colony to Nation

• Instructor: Dr. David Borys
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: The cultural and political history of Brazil, from the earliest arrival of the Portuguese to Brazil’s emergence as one of the economic powerhouses of the twenty-first century.

HIST 372: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1945

• Instructor: to be confirmed
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: U.S. foreign policy and international history. Political, economic, and cultural relationships between the United States and other peoples, organizations, and states worldwide.

HIST 373: History of Hong Kong

• Instructor: Dr. Clement Tong
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: Examine the complex history, culture, and various identities of Hong Kong from the early 1800s all the way to the present.

HIST 385: India from Raj to Republic

• Instructor: to be confirmed
• Schedule: fully online and asynchronous
• Course Description: Exploration of the rise of the East India Company as territorial power, the formation of a colonial society in India, competing responses to British rule, the struggle for independence, and the legacies of partition.