2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue
History
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Office: Humanities Center, Room 322A
Telephone: 410‑617‑2326
Website: www.loyola.edu/academics/history
Chair: Willeke Sandler, Associate Professor
Professors: David Carey, Jr.; Charles W. Cheape (emeritus); Kelly R. DeVries; Steven C. Hughes (emeritus); Matthew Mulcahy; Thomas R. Pegram (emeritus); Sara Scalenghe; Elizabeth Schmidt (emerita); Martha C. Taylor; Joseph J. Walsh
Associate Professors: Charles Borges, S.J.; Katherine Stern Brennan (emerita); Bill M. Donovan (emeritus); Angela Leonard (emerita); Andrew I. Ross; Willeke Sandler
Assistant Professors: Miya Carey-Agyemang; Oghenetoja Okoh
Assistant Teaching Professors: Austin Parks, Brandon Parlopiano
The history major, traditionally a preparation for careers in law, politics, teaching, museum work, business, research, and other fields, trains students to read carefully, communicate effectively, and critically think about current issues. History majors learn how to assess arguments, complete original research, and understand the complexity of a globalized world. It combines rigorous study with close personal interaction between students and faculty. In addition to classroom contacts, departmental colloquia and events held periodically during the academic year keep history majors, minors, and faculty members current with new research and helps foster a sense of community around shared inquiry into past events and issues.
History major and minor requirements are deliberately flexible in order to accommodate a wide variety of other subjects of study, as well as study abroad. History advisors will work with students to tailor the most appropriate individual program of study at Loyola. History majors have the opportunity to pursue an optional specialization in the history of gender and sexuality, the history of health, environment, science, and technology, or the history of law, politics, and society. A departmental honors project, centered on an extensive research paper or senior thesis, is available to selected seniors. Application is made in the junior year.
Learning Aims
Students who graduate with a history major will:
- understand how to think historically and apply historical understanding to contemporary issues and everyday challenges;
- conceptualize and develop an argument based on original research and that draws on existing historiography;
- conduct and complete extensive research using both primary and secondary sources and express that research in writing and/or orally;
- carry on intellectual debate that offers critical appraisal of evidence and knowledge of counter-arguments;
- understand the diversity of global cultures both in the past and in the present and recognize the ways power relationships in the past have shaped inequality over time.
ProgramsMajorMinorCoursesHistory- HS 352 - America Since 1945: The Cold War Years
- HS 354 - Modern Iran Between Monarchy, Democracy, and Theocracy
- HS 355 - African American History as Public History
- HS 358 - African American History through the Civil War
- HS 359 - African American History through Film
- HS 360 - African American History Since Emancipation
- HS 361 - A History of American Capitalism
- HS 362 - Introduction to Public History
- HS 363 - A Century of Diplomacy: United States Foreign Policy Since 1890
- HS 364 - War Memory
- HS 366 - The Civil Rights Era
- HS 367 - African American Women's History
- HS 370 - History of Science, Medicine, and Health
- HS 372 - The Vietnam War through Film and Literature
- HS 373 - Contesting Empire: Nationalism and Decolonization in the Afro-Atlantic World
- HS 374 - East Asia on Film
- HS 375 - Indian History, Culture, and Religion through Film
- HS 376 - East Asian Empires Since 1600
- HS 377 - History of Modern China
- HS 378 - History of Modern Japan
- HS 380 - History of South Asia in the Twentieth Century
- HS 381 - Search for the Divine: Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Ways in India
- HS 382 - Crime and Punishment in Latin America
- HS 383 - Violence and Holiness in Twentieth-Century El Salvador
- HS 385 - The History of Mexico
- HS 388 - Colonial Africa
- HS 389 - Gender and Power in Modern Africa
- HS 390 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
- HS 391 - The Middle East in the Media
- HS 393 - Introduction to Islamic History
- HS 396 - The Modern Middle East through Film
- HS 397 - Women and Gender in the Middle East
- HS 398 - Global Histories of Disability
- HS 399 - Global Environmental History
- HS 400 - The Historian's Craft
- HS 401 - Intensive Independent Study I
- HS 403 - History Honors I
- HS 404 - History Honors II
- HS 405 - History Internship
- HS 406 - Seminar: History Honors Thesis I
- HS 407 - Seminar: History Honors Thesis II
- HS 408 - Capstone Project in American Studies
- HS 410 - Gender, Race, and Class in Modern Europe
- HS 413 - Medieval Military History
- HS 416 - Sex and the City
- HS 417 - Germans in Africa, Africans in Germany
- HS 419 - Medieval Bodies
- HS 423 - Disasters in American History
- HS 424 - Policing and Borders: Race, Violence, and Empire in U.S. History
- HS 425 - Race and Childhood in America
- HS 429 - History of American News Media
- HS 430 - African American Women's History
- HS 431 - Introduction to Public History
- HS 432 - Loyola: Slavery and Its Repercussions
- HS 441 - Gender and Power in Modern Africa
- HS 442 - Health and Illness in Latin America
- HS 445 - Modern Iran Between Monarchy, Democracy, and Theocracy
- HS 447 - War Memory
- HS 450 - History of Afghanistan
- HS 460 - Seminar: American Revolution in Global Context
- HS 462 - Seminar: The U.S. in the 1960's
- HS 463 - Seminar: Colonial British America
- HS 465 - Seminar: Inside the Civil War
- HS 466 - Seminar: Revolutionary Lives: Biography and the New Nation
- HS 470 - Seminar: European Imperial Societies
- HS 474 - Seminar: Holocaust Memory in Germany and America
- HS 475 - Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World
- HS 476 - Seminar: Italy in the Middle Ages
- HS 477 - Seminar: Legends in Medieval History
- HS 478 - Seminar: Global Histories of Sexuality
- HS 481 - Seminar: Ethnicity and Political Violence in Modern Africa
- HS 485 - Seminar: Oral History and Philanthropy in the Americas
- HS 489 - Seminar: America in the Middle East
- HS 490 - Seminar: Environmental History in Latin America
- HS 492 - Seminar: Minority Identity and Citizenship in the Modern World
- HS 493 - Seminar: Slavery and Freedom in Baltimore
- HS 495 - Seminar: East Asia in the Global 1960's
- HS 498 - Seminar: Histories of Intellectual Disabilities
- HS 499 - History Capstone
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