HIST 400

Spring 2026 All Classes

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War, Soc, Politics, & Culture

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

3 undergraduate hours. 2 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours in the same or subsequent terms if topics vary.

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HIST 400 class schedule data for spring 2026
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32400	Lecture-Discussion	G2	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	104 English Building	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 2 hours Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
58590	Lecture-Discussion	G4	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	104 English Building	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Catastrophe in Modern Times Description: In this interdisciplinary course, we will explore “catastrophe and the modern imagination,” pairing non-fiction with fiction and thus analyses of catastrophe with the politics of its representation. We will begin the course with an examination of “crisis” and “polycrisis,” and then proceed to an in-depth literary investigation of the plague in London in 1665 (Defoe) in order to launch a study of how “modern times” incurs “catastrophe.” As we proceed, our nineteenth- and twentieth-century topics will include the science of extinction as well as revolution, colonialism, economic depression, the world wars, genocide, and, finally, global warming and the political condition of globalism in the present day. Students will participate actively in the class and write a series of critical essays about selected readings across the semester. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
58591	Lecture-Discussion	U3	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	104 English Building	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Catastrophe in Modern Times Description: In this interdisciplinary course, we will explore “catastrophe and the modern imagination,” pairing non-fiction with fiction and thus analyses of catastrophe with the politics of its representation. We will begin the course with an examination of “crisis” and “polycrisis,” and then proceed to an in-depth literary investigation of the plague in London in 1665 (Defoe) in order to launch a study of how “modern times” incurs “catastrophe.” As we proceed, our nineteenth- and twentieth-century topics will include the science of extinction as well as revolution, colonialism, economic depression, the world wars, genocide, and, finally, global warming and the political condition of globalism in the present day. Students will participate actively in the class and write a series of critical essays about selected readings across the semester. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.