Brock University Undergraduate Calendar

COURSES

Aboriginal Studies (ABST)

Accounting (ACTG)

Adult Education (ADED)

Administration (ADMI)

Applied Language Studies (APLS)

Astronomy (ASTR)

Biochemistry (BCHM)

Biology (BIOL)

Biotechnology (BTEC)

Canadian Studies (CANA)

Chemistry (CHEM)

Community Health Sciences (CHSC)

Child and Youth Studies (CHYS)

Classics (CLAS)

Communications (COMM)

Computer Science (COSC)

Dramatic Arts (DART)

Economics (ECON)

Education (all courses) (EDUC)

English Language and Literature (ENGL)

Entrepreneurship Studies (ENTR)

Environment (ENVI)

Earth Sciences (ERSC)

Film Studies (FILM)

Finance (FNCE)

French (FREN)

Great Books/Liberal Studies (GBLS)

Geography (GEOG)

German (GERM)

Greek (GREE)

History (HIST)

International Studies (INTL)

Italian (ITAL)

Information Technology Information Systems (ITIS)

Japanese (JAPA)

Labour Studies (LABR)

Latin (LATI)

Applied Language Studies (LING)

Mandarin Chinese (MAND)

Mathematics (MATH)

Management (MGMT)

Marketing (MKTG)

Modern Languages, Literatures and Culture (MLLC)

Music (MUSI)

Neuroscience (NEUR)

Nursing (NUSC)

Organizational Behaviour (OBHR)

Oenology and Viticulture (OEVI)

Operations Management (OPER)

Popular Culture (PCUL)

Physical Education and Kinesiology (PEKN)

Philosophy (PHIL)

Physics (PHYS)

Political Science (POLI)

Portuguese (PORT)

Psychology (PSYC)

Recreation and Leisure Studies (RECL)

Russian (RUSS)

Sociology (SOCI)

Spanish (SPAN)

Sport Management (SPMA)

Studies in Arts and Cultures (STAC)

Tourism Studies (TOUR)

Visual Arts (VISA)

Women's Studies (WISE)

Writing (WRIT)

History Courses

HIST 1F95

World History since 1914

Major political, social, economic and cultural trends of the 20th century, with prime focus on 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 1P92

Early Medieval Europe

Western Europe from the late Roman Empire to the year 1000 emphasizing political, social, religious and economic change as the Roman Empire fragmented and was replaced with regional power blocs and identities. Division of the Roman Empire, development of Germanic successor states, rise of Christianity, conversion processes, rise of Europe, and nature of society.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

HIST 1P93

The High Middle Ages

Expansion of European society 1000-1350 and the 'age of adversity' marking the end of the middle ages, 1350-1500. Thematic treatment of royal and papal power, Norman Conquests and Crusades, monastic, intellectual and architectural expansion, as well as late medieval crises in church and society including Hundred Years War and the Black Death.

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.

HIST 2F92

Modern East Asia

Survey of East Asian history from the 17th century to the present focussing on China and Japan.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

HIST 2P01

Pre-Confederation Canada

Canadian history from the pre-contact period to 1867.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P07 and 2P11.

HIST 2P02

Post-Confederation Canada

Canadian history from 1867 to the present.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P11 and 2P12.

HIST 2P03

Early Medieval Britain 400-1000: Celts, Saxons, and Vikings

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.

HIST 2P04

Medieval Britain1000-1485: The Four Nations

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.

*HIST 2P05

Women Thinkers in Western History

(also offered as WISE 2P05)

Key women thinkers, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beavoir, examined in historical context emphasizing European and British intellectuals; nature and special problems associated with studying "women's history."

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

HIST 2P15

Glory and Despair: The United States 1607-1865

United States history and culture from the invasion of the North American continent by Europeans to the break-up of the Union in the Civil War. Topics include contact with Native peoples, origins of slavery, Puritanism, economic development, the Revolution, the Constitution, growth of transportation, political parties, abolitionism, sectional conflict, and the Civil War.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P79 and 2P82.

HIST 2P16

Ambiguities of Greatness: The United States 1860 to the Present

United States since the Civil War. Emphasis on industrialization and post-industrialism, empire building, race, gender relations, world wars, Cold War, consumerism, youth rebellion and popular culture.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P83.

HIST 2P25

Revolutions in Communication

Major developments in the history of communication from the invention of writing until the modern information age.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

HIST 2P34

Seventeenth-Century Europe, 1566-1715

Survey of the history of continental Europe between the Netherlands Revolt and the death of Louis XIV. Topics include absolutism and its limits, religious controversy, developments in science, the witch craze and the effects of colonial expansion.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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.

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.

HIST 2P51

Europe, 1815-1914

Political, social and cultural changes in the subcontinent when liberal, imperialist and industrializing Europe was still a dominant global power.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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.

*HIST 2P61

Columbus' World, 1400-1600

(also offered as INTL 2P61)

Comparison of the major civilizations of the Americas, Asia, and Europe, as well as the growing contacts between them.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

*HIST 2P62

Early Africa

(also offered as INTL 2P62)

Social political, cultural and economic history of Africa before and during the era of European colonialism until the end of the 19th century.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

*HIST 2P63

Modern Africa

(also offered as INTL 2P63)

Social political, cultural and economic history of modern Africa.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade 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.

HIST 2P98

Modern Russia

Politics, society and culture from 19th-century Imperial Russia to the Soviet Union.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

*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.

HIST 2Q90

Canada: Nations Transformed

Themes in late 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian history.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

*HIST 2Q95

Women in North America

(also offered as WISE 2Q95)

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; suffrage and social reform; women and the two world wars; and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

*HIST 2Q96

Women in the Pre-Modern World

(also offered as WISE 2Q96)

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.

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: given in English. Students are responsible for travel, accommodation and other expenses.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade 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.

Note: HIST 2F20 recommended.

HIST 3F81

Modern Latin America

Latin America since 1810. Emphasis on wars of independence, personalistic rule, labour, immigration, the role of the Roman Catholic Church, militarism, revolutions, failures of modernization and inter-American relations.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

*HIST 3P00

Ideas and Culture since 1850

(also offered as GBLS 3P00)

Intellectual and cultural developments in Europe and North America during the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: one or more of HIST 2F20, 2P02, 2P16, 2P51 recommended.

HIST 3P01

Canadian Prime Ministers, 1867 to the Present

Themes in Canadian history and historiography, focussing on prime ministers.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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.

Note: HIST 2P15 recommended.

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.

Note: HIST 1P92 or 1P93 recommended.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 3Q90 or 3V96.

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.

Note: HIST 2P41 or 2P42 recommended.

HIST 3P50

Directed Research

In exceptional circumstances, a student with honours standing may be permitted to pursue directed research using primary sources. Topics to be defined in consultation with a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student.

Restriction: permission of the Department.

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.

Note: HIST 2P16 recommended.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 3Q92.

*HIST 3P60

The World of Genghis Khan: Inner Asia since 500 BCE

(also offered as INTL 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.

Note: seminars will include films and primary sources (in translation). HIST 2P96 recommended.

*HIST 3P61

Diplomacy of the Pacific Rim

(also offered as INTL 3P61)

History of relations among the major powers around the Pacific Ocean focussing on China and Japan, and their interaction with the world since the 16th century.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: HIST 2F92 recommended.

*HIST 3P62

Global Economic History, 1700-1880

(also offered as INTL 3P62)

Cotton, china and opium: development of the world economy in an age of industrial growth.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: at least one second-year history course recommended.

*HIST 3P63

Selected Themes in the History of Europe's Global Influence, 1600-1950

(also offered as INTL 3P63)

Europe's impact on the world and regional responses.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: HIST 2P51 recommended.

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.

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.

*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.

Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST (CANA/LABR) 3Q95.

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.

Note: HIST 2P96 or 2P98 recommended.

HIST 3P91

North America's First Nations

Topics in the history of North American aboriginal peoples.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

*HIST 3P94

Revolution in Latin America

(also offered as SPAN 3Q94)

Social, economic, and intellectual roots of revolutions in Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Cuba and Nicaragua. Seminal role of the Mexican Revolution.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: HIST 3F81 recommended.

HIST 3P97

United States Foreign Policy since 1945

U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era; rise of the U.S. to superpower status; consequent global responsibilities.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: HIST 2P16 recommended.

HIST 3P98

French Canada

The cultural, economic and political institutions of French Canada; analysing the sources of French-English conflict emphasizing such questions as education, cultural values, imperial defence and conscription.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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.

Note: HIST 2F20 recommended.

HIST 3Q05

Canadian Politics in the 20th Century

Political developments, themes and institutions in Canada from Laurier to Chretien. Emphasis on the evolution of Canada's political culture, complex relationship between politicians, the electorate and media, and enduring strengths and weaknesses of Canada's parliamentary system.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: HIST 2P02 recommended.

HIST 3Q91

Canadian Regional History

Selected themes in the history of Canada's regions.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: HIST 2P02 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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 3V95.

HIST 3Q96

Medieval Social and Cultural History

Selected topics in European history between 500 and 1500.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

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.

Note: a second-year American or Canadian history course recommended.

HIST 3Q98

Myth, Memory and Meaning in Canadian Cultural History

(also offered as CANA 3Q98)

How different groups and individuals have remembered, commemorated and assigned meanings to the past, focussing primarily on the post-Confederation period.

Prerequisite: CANA 2P91, 2P92 (2F91) or two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST (CANA) 3V91.

HIST 3V90-3V94

Topics in Canadian Cultural History

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: 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 3V95-3V99

Topics in Medieval History

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

HIST 4F99

Honours Tutorial

Directed reading and discussion in the student's selected field in preparation for a comprehensive examination.

Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until the date specified in the BIRT guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.

Note: students must make arrangements before the end of April for tutorials to begin the following school term. Honours students who are interested in this course may begin their reading for HIST 4F99 in year 3.

HIST 4V00-4V09

Themes in Literature and History

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until the date specified in BIRT guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.

HIST 4V10-4V69

Problems 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) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until the date specified in the BIRT guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.

HIST 4V12

2004-2005: Human Rights in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa

Debates and conditions of human rights discourse in Africa in the colonial and post-colonial periods.

HIST 4V16

2004-2005: Populism in Latin America

How industrialization and urbanization in Latin America led to mass mobilizations and creation of populist regimes. Traditional liberal and Marxist interpretations of these histories, and newer cultural approaches, emphasizing race and gender.

HIST 4V28

2004-2005: Origins of Liberalism and Modernity

Rise and critique of liberal ideas in the history of political thought from the early modern period to the 20th century. Challenges inherent in liberal modernity, centering on issue of inequality and social alienation.

HIST 4V29

2004-2005: Topics in Medieval History

Selected topics in Medieval history.

HIST 4V38

2004-2005: The Russian Revolution

Causes of the Romanov dynasty's collapse and its replacement by Bolshevism.

HIST 4V41

2004-2005: The Holocaust

Origins, nature, and legacy of the Holocaust.

HIST 4V43

2004-2005: Censorship: A Comparative Approach

Comparison of attitudes and approaches to censorship in a number of contexts (the Inquisition, the English Civil War, absolute monarchy, the French Revolution and the totalitarian state) between the Middle Ages and the 20th century.

HIST 4V61

2004-2005: Histories of the End: Apocalypticism in Perspective

History of apocalyptic thought and millenarian movements studied from a comparative perspective.