Fall 2026

HST 4971 / Senior Seminar โ€“ Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Andrea Sinn

This senior seminar provides history majors the opportunity to write a senior thesis on important issues and problems central to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state and/or historical debates that continue to surround the origins, implementation, and aftermath of the Holocaust โ€“ the systematic, industrialized mass murder of an estimated six million European Jews, as well as homosexuals, communists, Roma and Sinti, handicapped, and other victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during WWII. พรพรศศ may choose from a variety economic, political, social, cultural, diplomatic, scientific, or intellectual approaches to the study of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in a substantial research paper that advances a significant argument and presents evidence from a variety of sources, both primary and secondary.

Spring 2026

HST 4976 / Senior Seminar – Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

Michael Matthews

This seminar will introduce students to the main problems, issues, trends, etc. that historically shaped nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialism as well as engage the major debates on the topic that have developed among scholars from different academic fields. This course examines the changing interconnection between imperialism, industrialization, and capitalism from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century. The course stresses how imperialism began a process of rapidly changing social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental structures over time – not only in the colonial world but in the nations of the colonizers as well. In this regard, the course asks students to think about the diverse ways that colonized peoples and the colonizers influenced and shaped one another’s worlds, both in the past and today. By emphasizing how imperialism spurred a series of global processes that shape and continue to shape the world today, the course encourages students to analyze their own lives as the product of ongoing and dynamic processes of social, cultural, political, and economic change.