Spring 2026
Program Course # Section Title Seats Available Day & Time
UMD - Communication Program COMM 449E ESG1 Special Topics in Digital Communication; Communication, Sport, and Media 5 MW
11:00am - 12:15pm
Prerequisites

none

UMBC - History Program HIST 306 1 The First World War 5 MW
10:30am - 11:45am
Prerequisites

Any 100-level social science course, junior/senior status or permission of the instructor.

Description

Origins, nature and impact of the First World War. Particular emphasis is placed on the military, diplomatic, social, scientific and technological developments, events of the war years, and how this first total war affected the subsequent history of the United States and Europe

UMBC - History Program HIST 373 1 The History of the Holocaust 5 M
4:30pm - 7pm
Prerequisites

Any 100-level Social Science course or junior/senior status.

Description

An interdisciplinary examination of the attempted destruction of the Jews of Europe and their culture, as well as the persecution of others on the basis of physical and emotional disabilities, ethnicity, politics, religion and sexual orientation at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators during WWII. The course will briefly survey the migration of Jews to Europe, the history of anti-Semitism and “scientific” racism, the circumstances in Europe that allowed the rise of the National Socialist movement and the pre-WWII Nazi policies of discrimination. It then will focus on the perpetrators, victims and bystanders of the “Final Solution” and conclude with an analysis of the legacy of the Holocaust.

UMBC - History Program HIST 466 1 The Reformation 5 TuTh
10am - 11:15am
Prerequisites

HIST 100 or HIST 110, or HIST 111, plus junior/senior status.

Description

The economic and political conditions, the popular movements and the theological controversies that led to the overthrow of the Catholic Church’s monopoly of religious loyalties, thereby turning Europeans against one another on a national/religious basis. Attention is focused on the lives and ideas of the leading reformers.

UMBC - History Program HIST 347 2 The United States since 1945 5 MW
1pm - 2:15pm
Prerequisites

Any 100 level Social Science.

Description

An examination of American history from the 1940s through the 1990s. Primary emphasis is given to political, social and economic history.

UMD - Communication Program COMM 498L ESG1 Writing for Film and Digital Media (Screenwriting) 5 W
4:45pm - 7:15pm
Prerequisites

none