The History Department of Michigan State University is offering online courses in two summer sessions. You can take 100, 200, 300, and 400 level courses online from anywhere in the world and make progress on your degree. All you need is a sustainable, broadband connection to the internet. You can finish a 100 or 200 level survey courses in World, U.S., Asian, and African History. You can take courses such as History of Michigan and ISS 328, Global Culture of Soccer, that fill requirements of the university or a variety of majors. You can also take 300– or 400– level specialty courses on a range of topics from Modern US Military History to the History of Sport in America to the History of Sexuality to much more (see full list below).
If you are interested in our online courses, please visit our registration information page. You do not have to be an MSU student to take our courses. Students at other universities can take them and may qualify for low in-state rates. Further, most of our courses count for credit toward degrees elsewhere. For transfer-credit information, see http://www.michigantransfernetwork.org/
If you have questions, please contact us at history@msu.edu
Summer 2019 Online Courses
- History 140 World History to 1500, with Liam Brockey (1st Session)
- History 150 World History since 1500, with Charles Keith (2nd Session)
- History 202 U.S. History to 1876, with Helen Veit (1st Session)
- History 203 U.S. History since 1876, with Tim Retzloff (2nd Session)
- History 210 Modern East Asia, with Ethan Segal (1st Session)
- History 250 History of the Digital Age, with Sharon Leon (2nd Session)
- History 255 American Cinema and American Century, with Javier Pescador (1st Session)
- History 304 The American Civil War, with Dean Rehberger (1st Session)
- History 320 History of Michigan, with Roger Rosentreter (1st Session)
- History 321 History of the American West, with Dean Rehberger (1st Session)
- History 324 History of Sport in America, with Walter Hawthorne (1st Session)
- History 328 Modern U.S. Military History, with Roger Rosentreter (2nd Session)
- History 329 College Sports History in the US, with Javier Pescador (2nd Session)
- History 394 History of the Space Age, with Dean Rehberger (2nd Session)
- History 420 History of Sexuality, with Aminda Smith (1st Session)
- History 425 American & European Health Care since 1800, with John Waller (1st Session)
- History 493 History Internship
- History 489 Seminar in Digital History: Migration with Walter Hawthorne and Dean Rehberger (2nd Session)
ISS
- ISS 325 section 730: Wars and Revolutions in Modern Asia, with Sidney Lu (1st Session)
- ISS 328 section 731: Global Culture of Soccer, with Peter Alegi (1st Session)
- ISS 330A: African History, Culture and Society, with Nwando Achebe (1st Session)
- ISS 330B: Japanese History and Culture, with Ethan Segal (1st and 2nd Session)
- ISS 335 section 734: Sex Research and Social Science, with Aminda Smith (2nd Session)
- ISS 335 section 730 Gender, Sex, and Science, with Georgina Montgomery (1st Session)
- ISS 335 section 733 Black Film: Culture and Politics, with Alyssa Lopez (2nd Session)
