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DePaul University Catalog.
History at Night
Every year, the history department offers its core courses at night at least once. With careful planning, it is possible to complete a standard concentration history major entirely with nighttime courses. For help with planning a nighttime major, please contact the department.
Gateway and Capstone Courses
Students in all of the HST major concentrations are required to take a pair of linked courses that includes a topical 300-level HST course in one quarter (called the “gateway course”) and the linked HST 390 research practicum, which is also the major’s Senior Capstone Seminar, on the same topic and taught by the same instructor the following quarter. Upcoming Gateway-Capstone sequences are as follows:
| HST 317 (Gateway) Individual and Society in Renaissance Italy |
HST 390 Capstone in Historical Research and Writing |
| HST 340 (Gateway) Culture and Gender in Japan |
HST 390 Capstone in Historical Research and Writing |
| HST 338 (Gateway) The Great War, 1914-1918 |
HST 390 Capstone in Historical Research and Writing |
| HST 376 (Gateway) The United States Since 1940 |
HST 390 Capstone in Historical Research and Writing |
| Gateway: HST 338: The Great War, 1914-1918 (Beiriger) |
HST 390 Capstone in Historical Research and Writing |
| Gateway: HST 330: The Age of Enlightenment in Europe (Tikoff) |
HST 390 Capstone in Historical Research and Writing |
| Gateway: HST 396: The Material Culture of Chicago Women's Activism (Tyson) |
HST 390 Capstone in Historical Research and Writing |