Course description
Year 1
- One credit from HIST 1F95, 1F96, or HIST 1P98 and 1P99
- LABR 1F90
- one of ECON 1P91 and 1P92, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, SOCI 1F90
- one language credit other than English
- one Science context credit
Year 2
- Two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above
- LABR 2P03 and 2P06
- one LABR credit
- one elective credit
Year 3
- One HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above
- one HIST credit numbered 3(alpha)00 or above
- LABR 3P03 and 3P06
- one LABR credit
- one elective credit
Year 4
- One LABR credit numbered 2 (alpha) 90 or above
- one LABR credit numbered 3 (alpha) 90 or above
- two HIST credits numbered 3(alpha)90 or above
- one elective credit
HIST 1F95
World History since 1914
Major political, social, economic and cultural trends of the 20th century, focusingon developments in Europe and the way they have affected the rest of the world; the decline of Europe in global political and economic terms. Topics include the world wars, the Russian Revolution, fascism, the Holocaust, the Cold War, decolonization and conflict and its resolution in the international, political and social spheres.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
HIST 1F96
The Americas
Comparative themes in the history of the Americas from pre-Columbian times to the present, emphasizing class, colonialism, economics, gender, labour, political systems, race, religion, revolution and war.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
HIST 1P98
Western European Society and Politics to 1800
Social and political themes in the history of Western Europe before 1800.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
HIST 1P99
Western European Ideas and Worldviews to 1800
Turning points in European intellectual and cultural life from the Middle Ages through the Age of Revolutions. Topics include major intellectual trends such as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
HIST 2F20
The Origins of Modern Britain, 1485-1832
Political, religious and economic forces that shaped British society and led to the country's emergence as an industrial and global power.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2F62
The Middle East
Arab and Islamic history in the Middle East and Northern Africa from before the birth of Muhammad to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
*HIST 2F80
History of Science
(also offered as GBLS 2F80)
Activities of scientists and engineers from the ancient world to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), GBLS majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2F92
Modern East Asia
East Asian history from the 17th century to the present focusingon China and Japan.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P01
Pre-Confederation Canada
Canadian history from the pre-contact period to 1867.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P02
Post-Confederation Canada
Canadian history from 1867 to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
*HIST 2P03
Early Medieval Britain 400-1000: Celts, Saxons and Vikings
(also offered as IASC 2P03)
The end of Roman Britain to the Danish invasions and conquest of 1013-16. Migrations, invasions and settlements of Anglo-Saxons, Scots and Vikings; Romano-British and Brittonic society; quest for King Arthur; processes of state formation; heroic society; warfare; conversion to Christianity.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), IASC majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
*HIST 2P04
Medieval Britain 1000-1485: The Four Nations
(also offered as IASC 2P04)
Medieval Britain from the Danish invasions and conquest of 1013-16 until the Wars of the Roses. Emphasis on Celtic societies; Norman Conquest and impact; kings and kingship; church and monasticism; Anglo-Celtic relations, including the Scottish Wars of Independence and the English conquest of Wales.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), IASC majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P08
Colonial Latin America
Introduction to the history of Latin America from pre-hispanic times through 1810 focusing on the clashes, alliances and negotiations among indigenous peoples, conquistadores, slaves and missionaries.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3F81.
HIST 2P09
Modern Latin America
Introduction to the history of Latin America from the struggles for independence (1810) to the present. Topics include peasants, immigrants, workers and women in revolution, populism, dictatorship and democracies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3F81.
#HIST 2P10
United States Economic History
(also offered as ECON 2P10)
United States economic development from the colonial era to the late 20th century. Topics include the effect of British mercantilist policy on the colonial economy, westward expansion, financial development under central and free banking, comparison of Northern and Southern agriculture, slavery and emancipation, industrialization and industrial organization, transportation, impact of wars, the changing role of women and the interaction of government and market.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: ECON 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
#HIST 2P11
European Economic History
(also offered as ECON 2P11)
The pre-industrial economy of the Middle Ages, the commercial expansion of Europe in the 16th century, the 17th century depression and the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Technical progress, capital accumulation, growth of demand and new forms of economic organization as sources of economic change. The spread of industrialization between countries, the role of Europe in the world economy and the changing economic role of the state.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: ECON 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 2P15
Glory and Despair: The United States 1607-1865
United States history and culture from earliest European settlement in North America to the Civil War. Topics include early contact between Europeans and Native Americans, the developing cultures of colonial America, slavery, the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, Jeffersonian America, Jacksonian Democracy, 19th-century social reform, Manifest Destiny and causes of the Civil War.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 2P79 and 2P82.
HIST 2P16
Ambiguities of Greatness: The United States 1865 to the Present
United States history since the Civil War. Emphasis on Reconstruction, industrialization immigration, labour and reform, imperialism and the world wars, the Great Depression, Cold War, consumer, culture, race and gender, social protest and popular culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 2P83.
#HIST 2P19
Canadian Economic History
(also offered as ECON 2P19)
Growth and change in the Canadian economy from earliest European contact to the 20th century. Theories of growth, and of technical, institutional and demographic change. Topics include early fish, fur and timber trades, agriculture, the development of the West and the National Policy.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: ECON 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ECON 2P09.
*HIST 2P25
Revolutions in Communication
(also offered as IASC 2P25)
Major developments in the history of communication from the invention of writing until the modern information age.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), IASC majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P29
History, Historians and Historiography
History of historical writing focusing on sources, methods and individual historians.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P41
Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715-1789
Demographic, economic and structural changes as they affected the nobility, bourgeoisie and popular classes; changes in patterns of criminality, riot and popular mentality; war as a stimulus of social reform; the Enlightenment in its social and cultural context and the origins of the French Revolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P42
Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815
The French Revolution and its European impact emphasizing its origins, its role in the development of European political culture and its impact on the experience of women. Topics include the failure of the constitutional monarchy and the counter-revolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P51
Europe, 1815-1914
Political, social and cultural changes in Europe when it was still dominant globally.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P52
Twentieth-Century Europe
Themes in 20th-century European history.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P53
Totalitarian Temptation: The 20th Century
Ideologies and politics of Nazism, Fascism, Communism and other 20th-century European developments.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P55
The Culture of War from the Renaissance to the 20th Century
Changing character of warfare and its consequences since 1500.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
*HIST 2P56
Gender in Modern European History
(also offered as WISE 2P56)
Men's and women's roles and experiences, and changing notions of femininity and masculinity, from the French Revolution to the present day. Intersection of gender with citizenship, nationalism, imperialism, class, work, education and war.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WISE (single or combined) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
#HIST 2P60
Medical History
(also offered as CHSC 2P60)
Rise of the medical professions through history. Development of the role of health care professionals in society and the formation of public policy.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), CHSC, CHLH, HLSC, PHTH majors and HIST minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: one HIST credit or CHSC 1F90.
*HIST 2P62
Africa to 1800
(also offered as INTC 2P62)
Sources available for the study of African history, historical geography, social, political and economic institutions, and the slave trade.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors, HIST and INTL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in INTL 2P62.
*HIST 2P63
Africa Since 1800
(also offered as INTC 2P63)
Abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, legitimate commerce, religious movements, European imperialism and African response, independence, and post-independence politics and economy.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors, HIST and INTL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in INTL 2P63.
HIST 2P70
The Middle East, 600 - 1800
Major themes in Middle Eastern history from theadvent of Islam to 1800 A.D. Art, culture, religions, migration, minorities, slavery and political developments.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P72
Modern Middle East
Major developments in the Middle East including nationalism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, colonialism, Middle Eastern states, modernity and Islam, the Iranian Revolution, political economy, the Gulf and Iraq-Iran wars, as well as Islam and politics from the Ottoman and Qajar dynasties to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P91
Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650
Origins, course and consequences of the division of Western Christendom into Protestant and Catholic factions in the 16th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 2F90.
HIST 2P96
Early Russia
Russian history from its beginnings in the Kievan period (ninth century) to the end of Catherine the Great's reign (1796).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2P98
Modern Russia
Politics, society and culture from 19th-century Imperial Russia to the Soviet Union.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
*HIST 2P99
Ideas and Culture before 1850
(also offered as GBLS 2P99)
Major developments in European intellectual and cultural life, such as the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the emergence of modern ideologies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), GBLS majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2Q90
Canada: Nations Transformed
Themes in late 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian history.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2Q91
Modern Canada
Themes in 20th-century Canadian history emphasizing national identities after 1930.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2Q92
The United States, 1870-1930
Emergence of the United States as a global economic, cultural and military power.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
*HIST 2Q93
Women in North America to 1865
(also offered as WISE 2Q93)
Major themes in the history of women in Canada and the United States: native and European women in New France and British North America; women in the American Revolution; the lives of enslaved women; women and industrialization; women in the west; and social reform.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WISE (single or combined) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST (WISE) 2Q95.
*HIST 2Q94
Women in North America, 1865 to the Present
(also offered as WISE 2Q94)
Major themes in the history of women in Canada and the United States: emancipation; industrialization and immigration; suffrage and social movements; gender, race and ethnicity; women and the two world wars; and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WISE (single or combined) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST (WISE) 2Q95.
HIST 2Q96
Women in the Pre-Modern World
Women's lives before 1800; how women's experience of historical phenomena differed from that of men; special problems in studying "women's history."
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2Q97
Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada
Relationship between Aboriginal people and the newcomers to their lands from the contact era, to military alliance and trade, treaty-making and reserves, emphasizing the roots of current debates and disputes.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2Q98
Everyday Life in Early America
Themes in the day-to-day life of early Americans, from colonial times to the early 19th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
HIST 2V90-2V99
History in its Environment
Study of the history of a country or region in its own cultural and geographical context. Background preparation and research preceding an intensive study period on location.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: students are responsible for travel, accommodation and other expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 2V90-2V99.
HIST 3F20
Modern Britain
Politics, economy, society and culture in the British Isles from the early 19th century to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2F20 recommended.
#HIST 3F90
Survey of Humanities Computing
(also offered as IASC 3F90)
Research and concepts associated with the emerging discipline of humanities computing. Topics may include use of computer games in the humanities, hypertext design and delivery and current theory treating the use of multimedia as an instrument for expression.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students who have completed 10.0 overall credits.
Note: enrolment limited to 20 students.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HUMA 3F90.
*HIST 3P00
Ideas and Culture since 1850
(also offered as GBLS 3P00)
Intellectual and cultural developments in Europe and America during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), GBLS majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3P08
God's Country? Religion in North America before 1850
Influence of religious practices and beliefs on social and political life in North America from contact to 1850. Emphasis on popular religious activity outside of institutional churches and how belief shaped cultural experiences, gender relations and racial politics.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P01 recommended.
HIST 3P09
The Church Besieged: Religion in North America after 1850
Internal and external challenges to Christianity from the late 19th century into the modern era. Emphasis on the effects of scientific discoveries, global conflict and cultural change, feminism and socialism; and the rise of reactionary and fundamentalist religious groups.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.
HIST 3P15
American Enlightenment
Intellectual and cultural history of the thirteen colonies and the early republic. Origins, manifestation and decline of the Enlightenment as seen through the life and writings of seminal American thinkers and less well-known figures. Transatlantic focus on dissemination of ideas and their impact.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P15 recommended.
HIST 3P16
The American Revolution
Historical and historiographical points of view, combining the perspectives of intellectual, political, cultural, military and social history.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P15 recommended.
HIST 3P18
Modern American Popular Culture
Replacement of Victorian ideals with modern popular culture in the 20th century. Multidisciplinary view of American popular culture through the media of literature, art, film and music.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P16 recommended.
HIST 3P21
Race, Class and Gender in Latin America
How questions of race or ethnicity, class and gender affect the way we understand the construction of a specific modern Latin American nation or region.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99, or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3P25
History of Modern Political Thought
Historical political ideas and thinkers from early modern England to the formation of the modern state.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3P30
The Viking Age
Follows the Vikings from their Scandinavian homelands as they raid, trade and settle throughout Europe and the North Atlantic, convert to Christianity, establish new kingdoms and eventually assimilate into medieval Christendom.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3Q90 or 3V96.
HIST 3P34
The Age of Religious Wars and Absolutism, 1559-1715
Religious division in continental Europe from the Wars of Religion to the reign of Louis XIV and its role in the rise of absolutism. Political, religious and social developments in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Prussia.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3P35
North America's First Nations
Topics in the history of North American Aboriginal peoples.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: one of HIST 2P01, 2P02, 2P15, 2P16 is recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3P91.
HIST 3P40
France and its Empire Since the Revolution
Political, social, intellectual history domestically, and expansion and stresses abroad.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P41 or 2P42 recommended.
HIST 3P45
United States Foreign Policy Since 1945
United States foreign policy during the Cold War eraincluding the rise to superpower status, consequent global responsibilities the search for global economic hegemony, the national security state, cultural diplomacy, covert operations and military intervention.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P16 recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3P97.
HIST 3P52
African American Experience
History and culture since the introduction of peoples from Africa to the North American continent to the present day. Topics include origins of slavery, development of slave culture, varied forms of slave resistance, Civil War and emancipation, rise of sharecropping, formation of ghettos, segregation, the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans in the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, urban housing and social problems, rise of rap music.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P16 recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3Q92.
HIST 3P56
Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
Rise and fall of Germany's first republic emphasizing the political effects of the social and cultural developments of the interwar period. Topics include the ' New Woman' and gender relations; Berlin cabaret; Brecht; Bauhaus; art, literature, cinema, modernity and Nazism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
*HIST 3P60
The World of Genghis Khan: Inner Asia since 500 BC
(also offered as INTC 3P60)
History of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang. Political, economic, social and cultural topics. Emphasis on the nomadic encounter with the settled world (China, Russia), including the medieval nomadic invasions, the Great Game and nationalistic policies in the 20th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors, HIST, INTC and INTL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: seminars will include films and primary sources (in translation). HIST 2P96 recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in INTL 3P60.
*HIST 3P62
Global Economic History, 1700-1880
(also offered as INTC 3P62)
Cotton, china and opium: development of the world economy in an age of industrial growth.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors, HIST, INTC and INTL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in INTL 3P62.
HIST 3P64
Africa and the African Diaspora
Voluntary and involuntary movements of peoples of African ancestry across the continental homeland, their subsequent dispersion around the world and return to Africa.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P62 or 2P63 recommended.
HIST 3P66
African Economic History
The African economy, emphasizing the question of economic development and underdevelopment. Labour, land, production and distribution systems, viewing the economy as deeply interconnected to global political, social and cultural forces.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P62 and 2P63 recommended.
HIST 3P74
Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History
Immigrants, immigration movements, problems of adjustment and government policies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P01 or 2P02 recommended.
*HIST 3P75
Canadian Labour History
(also offered as LABR 3P75)
Canadian workers and the labour movement from the mid-19th century to the present, combining studies of trade unions with the broader context of the social, community and political life of workers. How gender and race/ethnicity have shaped the working class experience.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), LABR majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST (CANA/LABR) 3Q95.
HIST 3P76
Canadian Regional History
Selected themes in the history of Canada's regions.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3Q91.
HIST 3P77
The Canadian West
The fur trade era when Aboriginal cultures and economies dominated, through the era of mass immigration, to the Depression and its legacy of social, political and medical innovation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 3Q91 and HIST 3P76.
HIST 3P81
History of Technology
The role of machines and technology in shaping Western culture from the Industrial Revolution to the Internet; developments in power, information, communication, transportation and military technologies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3P85
Minorities of the Middle East
Politics of modern Middle Eastern states, the formation of national identity, the changes in the position of ethnic and religious minorities, Christians, Jews and Muslim relations, sectarians, slavery and gender.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3P87
The American West
Colonial rivalries and ethnic struggles in the settlement of the American West until the present day.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P15 or 2P16 recommended.
HIST 3P89
Chinese Social History
Social and cultural history of China from 221 BC to the mid 20th century. Topics include cultural values and religious beliefs, rural and urban life, family, kinship and gentry, social stratification and conflict, women and gender, lifestyle and regional differences.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2F92 recommended.
HIST 3P90
The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire
The Russian empire and its components over the past 500 years. Topics include expansion, nationalities, diplomacy and the politics of dissolution in the post-Soviet era.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P96 or 2P98 recommended.
HIST 3P98
French Canada
Cultural, economic and political institutions of French Canada. Sources of French-English conflict, emphasizing such issues as education, cultural values, imperial defence and conscription.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3P99
The Challenge to Social Order in 18th-Century England
The basis of Hanoverian stability and the threat to it from political factionalism, popular dissent and economic upheaval.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2F20 recommended.
HIST 3Q93
The Crusades
The Crusading Movement 1095-1291, including its growth in western Europe, the crusader kingdoms, crusades outside the Holy Land and the Islamic response to the crusades.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3V95.
HIST 3Q94
Revolution in Latin America
Social, economic and intellectual roots of revolution in Mexico and Central America. Comparison of how revolutionary leaders used class, race and gender to recruit allies or isolate enemies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P08 and 2P09 (3F81) recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3P94 and SPAN 3Q94.
HIST 3Q97
History and the North American Environment
Overview of human interaction with nature in North America; nature and natural resources as they shape patterns of human life; how attitudes toward nature shape cultural and political life; the consequences of human alterations of the natural world for natural and human communities.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: one of HIST 2P01, 2P02, 2P15, 2P16 recommended.
HIST 3Q99
The Sixties
Social movements and social change in the United States in the 1960s; student, civil rights, antiwar, women's and other forms of activism; global context; causes and consequences of '60s revolts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
HIST 3V90-3V94
Topics in Canadian History
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: one of CANA 2P91, 2P92 (2F91), two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.
HIST 3V90
Nineteenth-Century Canadian History
Major themes in social and political history of Nineteenth-Century Canada.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: one of CANA 2P91, 2P92 (2F91), two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.
*HIST 4F30
Topics in History and Computing
(also offered as IASC 4F30)
Historians' use of the computer to support interpretation, expression and teaching. Material presented through readings and an applied exercise: 3D model construction. Use of photographs, maps and 3D modelling software to generate models of historic buildings.
Note: no programming or software experience required.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HUMA 4F30.
#HIST 4P00
Literature of the English Revolution
(also offered as ENGL 4P00)
Literary, critical, historical and theoretical perspectives on texts from the 1640s to the Restoration, including Areopagitia, Baislike, female prophesy and Agreement of the People.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum major average of 60 percent or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
HIST 4P38
The Russian Revolution
Causes of the Romanov dynasty's collapse and its replacement by Bolshevism.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grad and earned credit in HIST 4V38.
HIST 4P41
The Holocaust
Origins, nature and legacy of the Holocaust.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grad and earned credit in HIST 4V41.
HIST 4P43
Censorship: A Comparative Approach
Comparison of attitudes and approaches to censorship in a number of contexts including the Inquisition, the English Civil War, absolute monarchy, the French Revolution and the totalitarian state between the Middle Ages and the 20th century.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grad and earned credit in HIST 4V43.
HIST 4P50
Directed Research
Directed research on a selected topic.
Restriction: permission of the instructor and the Department.
Note: A research proposal must be submitted by March 31 before entering year 4.
HIST 4P90
Advanced Seminar
Graduate level seminar on a selected topic.
Restriction: permission of the instructor and the Department.
HIST 4P99
Honours Tutorial
Directed reading in a selected field.
Restriction: permission of the instructor and the Department.
Note: application must be submitted by March 31 before entering year 4.
HIST 4V00-4V05
Themes in Literature and History
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V06-4V79
Topics in History
Studies of selected problems in different eras of Canadian, American and European history. Topics studied in any given year will focus on a particular theme.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and HIED majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V08
2008-2009: Slavery in Africa
Historiography of African slavery from 1400 to the present. Specificities of African slavery, family, women and children, urban/rural, African/Muslim/Euro-American factors, resistance, emancipation and manumission of slaves, related forms of unfree labour.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V11
2008-2009: Topics in Canadian History
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V14
2008-2009: Sex and the Physician: Canadian Medicine and Sexuality in Comparative Perspective
Professional and amateur medical and psychological regulation of sexual health and sexuality from late 19th to late 20th centuries. Emphasis on the conflict between medical professionals, individuals and the state.Topics include reproduction, eugenics, homosexuality, birth control and abortion, the sexual revolution, STDs and the AIDS epidemic.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V18
2008-2009: Women and Gender in African History
Women's changing status and opportunities in the social, political and economic structures of African states and polities from early times to the present. Varieties of social constructions of gender and gender relationships with the changing historical contexts of state formation, trade, religion, imperialism and popular culture.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V26
2008-2009: Topics in Latin American History
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V33
2008-2009: The United States and the Cold War
Examinations of Cold War through such themes as atomic science, the Red Scare, popular culture, sex and gender, civil rights and Third World nationalism.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the department.
HIST 4V34
2008-2009: Topics in Modern European Military History
Topics primarily in French, German, Russian and British military history since 1700.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V40
2008-2009: Topics in Eastern European History
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V44
2008-2009: The French Revolution
The intersection of the ideals of the French revolutionaries with late 18th-century views about social hierarchy, gender, property and race. Topics include the collapse of absolute monarchy, the origins of the important ideals of the revolutionaries and the obstacles faced in their implementation.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V53
2008-2009: Nations and Nationalism in 20th-Century Europe
Evolution of European nations, nationalisms and national identities over the course of the "short 20th century." Major theories of nationalism, conflicting concepts of the nation, historiographical controversies and recent research.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V56
2008-2009: Intellectuals and Revolution in 20th-Century China
Major themes in the history of Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century, especially their involvement in the Communist revolution and the development of the People's Republic of China.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V59
2008-2009: Women of the Middle East
The significance of religion, culture, economy and politics in shaping the role of women and their contributions to modern Middle Eastern societies. The changing status of Middle Eastern women, and their images in tradition and Islamic law as well as Western literature.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V62
2008-2009: Religious Radicalism
Religious dissent and nonconformity examined using the principles of inquiry-based learning.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V64
2008-2009: Slavery in the Middle East
Comparative analysis of the institution of slavery in the Middle East since 1800. Political, economic, social and legal ideologies for the organization of the slave trade, the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of slaves.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V65
2008-2009: First Nations in Modern Canada
Selected topics in the history of Aboriginal people in Canada. Topics include colonialism, interactions with missionaries, treaties and Aboriginal sovereignty, education and residential schools, health and health care policies, activism, oral narratives, land claims and resource exploitation.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V67
2008-2009: The World We Have Lost: Comparative Rural History
Examination of major patterns of international rural history, emphasizing cultural, political and social questions.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
HIST 4V68
2008-2009: Science, God and Nature in the Victorian World
Intersections of the histories of science, religion and the environment in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Topics include the place of natural history in the 19th-century sciences, the place of religion in understanding that science and especially the debate over creation, evolution and the condition of the natural world.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
#HIST 4V71
2008-2009: The Modern City as a Cultural Object
(also offered as GBLS 4V71 and VISA 4V71)
The city as the site of modernity in literature, poetry, philosophy, social science, music, technology, architecture, art and other forms of visual culture, focussing on Paris from 1839-1939 as a case study. Other cities to be considered include Berlin, London, New York and Vienna.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GBLS and VISA (single and combined) majors with a minimum of 10.0 overall credits, and to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to
