World History since 1914
Major political, social, economic and cultural trends of the 20th century, focussing 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.
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.
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.
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.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
History of Science and Technology
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Modern East Asia
East Asian history from the 17th century to the present focussing on China and Japan.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Post-Confederation Canada
Canadian history from 1867 to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Women Thinkers in Western History
(also offered as WISE 2P05)
Key women thinkers, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, examined in historical context emphasizing European and British intellectuals.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and WISE (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Colonial Latin America
Introduction to the history of Latin America from pre-hispanic times through 1810 focussing 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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3F81.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3F81.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 2P79 and 2P82.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 2P83.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
History, Historians and Historiography
History of historical writing focussing on sources, methods and individual historians.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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)and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Twentieth-Century Europe
Themes in 20th-century European history.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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, and HLSC majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: one HIST credit or CHSC 1F90.
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 among them.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History or International Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History or International Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Modern Africa
(also offered as INTL 2P63)
Social, political, cultural and economic history of modern Africa.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 2F90.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and GBLS majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History or Great Books/Liberal Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and WISE (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and WISE (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History or Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Everyday Life in Colonial 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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
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) and GBLS majors 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: students minoring in History or Great Books/Liberal Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Canadian Prime Ministers, 1867 to the Present
Themes in Canadian history and historiography, focussing on prime ministers.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: one HIST 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3Q90 or 3V96.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3P91.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
United States Foreign Policy Since 1945
United States foreign policy during the Cold War era; the rise to superpower status; consequent global responsibilities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3P97.
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.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3Q92.
The World of Genghis Khan: Inner Asia since 500 BC
(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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History or International Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History or International Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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: students minoring in History or International Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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 2P51 or 2P61 recommended. Students minoring in History or International Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
South African society and economy, the creation of Apartheid, popular and political resistance, and the collapse of the regime.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: 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: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History or Labour Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST (CANA/LABR) 3Q95.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3Q91.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3V95.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST 3P94 and SPAN 3Q94.
Medieval Social and Cultural History
Selected topics in European history between 500 and 1500.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
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.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined), HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and CANA majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: CANA 2P91, 2P92 (2F91) or two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in History or Canadian Studies may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HIST (CANA) 3V91.
The Sixties: A Global Perspective
Student organizing and social protest in United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia and France; labour unions, women's rights groups, nationalist movements and organizing among people of colour. Causes and consequences of '60s revolts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Topics in Canadian Cultural History
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors 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. Students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Topics in Medieval History
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisites: two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in History may register prior to date specified in Registration guide. Contact the History Department.
Computing and Historical Analysis
(also offered as IASC 4F30)
Overview of the ways that historians have used the computer to support their teaching and research. Topics include quantitative computing, geographic information systems software, photo-editing and animation, and rendering software.
Prerequisite: one HIST credit.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in HUMA 4F30.
Honours Tutorial
Directed reading and discussion in the student's selected field in preparation for a comprehensive examination.
Restriction: 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.
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.
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.
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) 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.
Human Rights in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
The debates and conditions of human rights discourse in Africa in the colonial and post-colonial periods.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) 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.
2006-2007: Workers and Women in Latin American History
New historiography of labour, gender, race and ethnicity in Latin America.
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.
2006-2007: Topics in the History of the Atlantic 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.
2006-2007: Material and Sensory Worlds in the Early Modern Atlantic
Probate records, architectural history and historical archaeology, used to interpret the visible and audible components of lived experience in the early modern Americas from 1600 to 1800.
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.
Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in the United States
The experiences of various ethnic groups in the development of the United States from the 19th century to present.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and HIED majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until the date specified in the Registration guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
2006-2007: Wallace, Bruce and the Wars of Scotland, 1286-1346
Period of the Wars of Independence. Who these men were, what they fought for, and why they remain prominent figures in Scottish history and legend.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) and 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.
2006-2007: 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.
2006-2007: 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.
2006-2007: Queen Elizabeth I and Her Court
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.
2006-2007: Topics in the History of Science
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.
2006-2007: Topics in 20th-Century 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.
2006-2007: Topics in East Asian 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.
2006-2007: Topics in Middle Eastern 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.