![important](/study/2021-2022/files/study.2021-2022/exclamation-point-small.png)
Note: This is the 2017–2018 eCalendar. Update the year in your browser's URL bar for the most recent version of this page, or .
Note: This is the 2017–2018 eCalendar. Update the year in your browser's URL bar for the most recent version of this page, or .
36 credits selected from the areas of History course lists (The Americas, Europe, Asia/Africa/Middle East, and Global/Thematic) with the following stipulations:
A maximum of 12 credits at the 200 level or lower.
6 credits at the 400 level or above.
A maximum of 24 credits from any one area.
3 credits in history of the pre-1800 period.
3 credits in history of the post-1800 period.
3 non-HIST credits pertinent to historical studies may be counted towards a major program in History with the written approval of a program adviser. Faculty regulations stipulate that such courses must not be double-counted between programs.
Students should see an adviser to plan a program that suits their needs. Please consult the Department website for the most up-to-date list of course offerings for the current academic year.
History : This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
Maximum 25 students
History : A survey of early Canada, from periods known mainly through archaeological records to the Confederation era. Social, cultural, economic and political themes will be examined.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Nerbas, Donald (Fall)
Fall
History : A survey of the development of Canada from Confederation to the present day. Social, economic and political history will be examined in a general way.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Madokoro, Laura; Morton, Suzanne (Winter)
History : Introduction to the history of colonial North America and the United States up to the Civil War, in their Atlantic context.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Opal, Jason (Winter)
Fall
History : Examines the defining moments and movements in the U.S. since Reconstruction, including populism, progressivism, the World Wars, the New Deal, the Cold War, the sixties and its consequences. Emphasis on the political, social and ideological transformations that ensued.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Fitzpatrick, Shanon (Winter)
Fall
History : The history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas on the eve of contact with Europeans and through the period of colonization.
Terms: Fall 2017, Summer 2018
Instructors: Greer, Allan (Fall) Dionne, Fannie; Davis, Michael (Summer)
History : Surveys the history of American mass media. It covers the rise of various communications technologies and genres within national and transnational contexts and interrogates the relationship between media, politics, culture, identity, and power.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Fitzpatrick, Shanon (Fall)
Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or consent of instructor
History : Covering Quebec history from New France to contemporary times, this course will include themes like ethnic relations, citizenship, gender and material culture. It is of particular interest to students in Education who foresee teaching about Quebec.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The social, cultural, and economic aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean in the colonial period. Topics include: pre-Columbian and hispanic cultures in conflict, plantation empires, and the transition to independence. The sequel to this course is HIST 360.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Corbeil, Laurent (Fall)
Fall
History : The social, economic, and political consequences of industrialization in the history of the United States between 1877 and 1914. Emphasis on the rise of mass production, urbanization, immigration, rural protest, the labour movement, social and political reform.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or consent of instructor
History : History of consumption in Canada since 1600 in relation to subsistence and the early market; modern class and gender relationships; conceptions of citizenship.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Analyzes the origins, contingencies, and outcomes of the American Revolution. Spanning the decades from the 1760s to 1820s, it also seeks to place the Revolution in an Atlantic-wide context and to offer a foundation for studying American institutions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 211 or permission of instructor.
History : Follows the full 600-year history of the Ottoman Empire from its foundation in the early fourteenth century to its final dissolution at the end of World War I. Topics to be covered include: the origins of the Ottoman state; the reasons for its success and surprising longevity; the legal and economic foundations of Ottoman rule; dynastic politics; religion; inter-communal relations; modernization; its decline and ultimate fall; and the Ottoman legacy in the modern world.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The history of the United States from the Great War to the end of the 1940s. Social change and conflict, political conservatism, economic prosperity and the culture of consumption during the 1920s; the consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: A course in U.S. history or permission of instructor.
History : Encounters between indigenous peoples and French newcomers in Canada and other parts of North America, 16th - 18th century. Through an examination of exploration, Catholic missions, trade, military alliances and colonization, the course focuses on the motives, outlooks and actions of both natives and Europeans.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Desbarats, Catherine (Fall)
Prerequisite: Any course in history or permission of instructor
History : Social, political, and cultural history of France's ancien régime settlement colonies in North America. Topics include the nature of the absolutist colonial state and French imperialism; society; family; the Church; gender; and religion.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Desbarats, Catherine (Winter)
Prerequisite: Any history course or permission of instructor
History : The social and intellectual history of science and medicine in Canada, from early exploration, through the rise of learned societies, universities and professional organizations, to World War II.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Wright, David John (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 212
History : Examines the historical development of Canada and the World from 1867 to the present. Particular emphasis will be placed on key themes in the history of Canada’s international relations including imperialism and race. Attention will also be paid to major global developments such as wars, peace-making and international governance. The course will consider traditional inter-state relations as well as international relations from a non-governmental, grassroots perspective to include migration, development and humanitarianism.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Madokoro, Laura (Fall)
History : This course examines women's contribution to the economic and social development of Canada as well as the changes in the image and status of women. Special emphasis will be on the relationship between women's roles in the private sphere and the public domain.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 203
History : Aspects of American history from the gilded Age through the Cold War era.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Tone, Andrea (Winter)
Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or consent of instructor
History : The history of Montreal from its beginnings to the present day. Montreal's economic, social, cultural and political role within the French and British empires, North America, Canada, and Quebec; the city's linguistic and ethnic diversity.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Hamon, Michael (Winter)
History : Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence. Emphasis on the domestic history of the region, with some attention to relations with the United States and Europe.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: LeGrand, Catherine C (Winter)
History : This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : This course will examine Canada and Canadian society between 1914 and 1945. It will focus on the social, political, economic and cultural impact of the two World Wars and the economic crisis of the 1930s. Among the topics will be Canadian external relations, political and social protest, popular culture, demographic changes and prohibition.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Zucchi, John (Fall)
History : Exploration of a specific topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Elements of Canada's political, social, economic, and cultural history since World War II. Topics will include constitutional questions, gender and class issues, the role of the state, regionalism, consumer society, the Quiet Revolution, and nationalism in Canada.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Pre-requisite(s): HIST 203 or permission of instructor
History : Explores a topic related to the political history of Canada.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 203 or permission of instructor
Topics vary from year to year.
History : The social, economic, political, and constitutional history of citizenship and civil rights in the United States from the end of Reconstruction through the 1930s. Emphasis on segregation and disfranchisement; immigration restrictions, americanization and national identities; civil rights movements and organizations; women's suffrage; voting rights and representation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or consent of instructor
History : This course explores themes in labour and working class history in Canada.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 203 or equivalent or consent of instructor
History : Major events in politics and international affairs, culture and society, and the economy in the U.S. during and after World War II. Topics include: The War and American society; the first years of the Cold War; economic prosperity and social change; the civil rights movement; Vietnam to 1965.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Moore, Leonard J (Winter)
Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or consent of instructor
History : Major events in politics and international affairs, culture and society, and economy in the U.S. since 1965. Topics include: social and political upheaval 1965 - 1975; Vietnam to 1975; conservative politics; Nixon and Watergate; economic change in the 1970s and 1980s; presidential leadership from Carter on.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or consent of the instructor
History : The causes of the American Civil War; the social, economic, political and military forces that shaped the conflict, attempts to restructure race relations, Southern and American societies after the war.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Moore, Leonard J (Fall)
Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or permission of instructor
History : Immigration, ethnicity and race in Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics will include the migration process, government policy and legislation, urban and rural migration, acculturation, nativism and multiculturalism.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Zucchi, John (Winter)
History : Analysis of institutional structures in Quebec with emphasis on the 19th century. Particular attention will be given to legal and property institutions in transition.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 203 or consent of instructor
History : The nature and consequences of encounters between American native peoples and Europeans.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 202
History : In-depth discussion and research on a circumscribed topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Corbeil, Laurent (Fall)
History : A cultural history of Canada, with culture defined in both the anthropological sense as comprising an entire way of life-,material, intellectual and spiritual- and in the familiar sense of embodying the life of the intellect and the arts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The study of various topics and themes in the area of migration, ethnicity and race in Canada. Topics vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Zucchi, John (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 397 or permission of instructor
History : Various topics in United States history.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Fitzpatrick, Shanon (Fall)
Prerequisite: By permission of instructor.
History : This course will study the social-cultural and political development of British North American colonies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: An introductory course in history or consent or instructor
History : The history and historiography, approaches and interpretations, of American foreign relations from the pre-Revolutionary era to the present.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Fitzpatrick, Shanon (Winter)
Prerequisite: one course in U.S. history or permission of instructor.
Restriction: Enrolment limit 25.
History : Readings in and discussion of a theme in the history of Colonial America.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 556 and HIST 557 with the same topic.
1.Topics will vary by year.
2. Students must register for both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2.
3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : Readings in and discussion of a theme in the history of Colonial America.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 556D1
Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 556 and HIST 557 with the same topic.
1. Topics will vary by year.
2. Students must register for both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2.
3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : This seminar counts as part of the North American concentration for Honours students.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 564D1 and HIST 564D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 564D1 and HIST 564D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 564D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 564D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 564D1 and HIST 564D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in historical interpretation. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Soske, Jon (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 570D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Tousignant, Noemi Rachel (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 570D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : This seminar will examine European and Native encounters throughout the Americas, from the late 15th century to the mid-nineteenth century. The aim is to introduce students to key primary sources related to contact, and to the methods used to interpret them.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of instructor. Priority is given to Graduate students
Students must register for both HIST 580D1 and HIST 580D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 580D1 and HIST 580D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 580D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 580D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 580D1 and HIST 580D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in Canadian social history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Morton, Suzanne (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 587D1 and HIST 587D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 587D1 and HIST 587D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 587D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Morton, Suzanne (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 587D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 587D1 and HIST 587D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : A history of Montreal.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 588D1 and HIST 588D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 588D1 and HIST 588D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 588D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 588D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 588D1 and HIST 588D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : A research seminar on the history of women in Canada since Confederation. Students will get familiar with primary sources and are expected to produce a major research paper in the second term.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 589D1 and HIST 589D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 589D1 and HIST 589D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 589D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 589D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 589D1 and HIST 589D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : An honours seminar on the history of politics in Canada.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or permission of instructor
Restrictions: Open to undergraduate honours students and graduate students in history and advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 462D1/D2.
Students must register for both HIST 592D1 and HIST 592D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 592D1 and HIST 592D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : See HIST 592D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 592D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 592D1 and HIST 592D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : The emergence of French Atlantic Worlds from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Regions include West Africa, Brazil, Canada, Acadia and the Caribbean. Themes will include transatlantic commerce and slavery, colonialism, and indigenous peoples, debates over citizenship and the Haitian Revolution.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Dew, Nicholas (Fall)
Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or HIST 215 or permission of instructor.
Restriction: Restricted to graduate students and honours students or advanced students who have permission of instructor.
Students must register for both HIST 593D1 and HIST 593D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 593D1 and HIST 593D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : See HIST 593D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Dew, Nicholas (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 593D1 and HIST 202 or HIST 203 or HIST 215 or permission of instructor.
Restriction: Restricted to graduate students and honours students or advanced students who have permission of instructor.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 593D1 and HIST 593D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : Topics in modern U.S. history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Moore, Leonard J (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 598D1 and HIST 598D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 598D1 and HIST 598D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 598D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Moore, Leonard J (Winter)
History : This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Gooding, Philip (Fall)
History : While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Examines the rise and development of an Indian Ocean World "global" economy from the first millennium C.E. and Africa's role within it.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Vankeerberghen, Griet; Ho, Ka Ki Alan; Christopher, Jordan (Fall)
History : A survey of Roman history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Luthi, Lorenz (Winter)
Winter
History : Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Abisaab, Malek (Fall)
History : An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : A survey of the cultural, social, political, and economic history of modern Japan, from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present day, encompassing the formation of the modern Japanese nation-state, war and reconstruction, and the period of high growth to the recessionary 1990s. Major themes of the place of Japan in modern East Asia, the history of colonialism, the formation of capitalism, and postwar Japan under US hegemony, will be discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Tai, Jeremy (Winter)
Prerequisite: one previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
History : The political, military, and diplomatic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with a focus on a number of historiographical debates over specific issues, such as the 1948 and 1967 wars, and the failures of the various peace initiatives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Open to U2 or U3 students only or permission of instructor.
History : Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : An introduction to traditional Chinese ideas about human beings and their relationship with heaven and earth. Special emphasis on the history of medicine and the body, alchemy, geomancy and divination techniques, agriculture and sericulture, astronomy, and engineering and their relation to changing social and cultural formations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 208 or permission of instructor
History : An overview of the history of foreign intervention and anticolonial resistance in 19th and 20th century Africa. Topics include: theories of colonialism, the scramble for Africa, colonialism and disease, indirect rule, labour, nationalism and resistance, and changing gender roles.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
History : A comparative analysis of the political cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and China, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE, exploring societal distinctions through topics such as the role of historical traditions, power configurations, public oratory, elite representation, funerary rites and political spaces.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Beck, Hans; Vankeerberghen, Griet (Fall)
History : The history of gender and sexuality in modern China. Topics include Chinese femininities and Chinese masculinities, theories of sexuality, and changing conceptions of gender identity under Confucianism, Western Imperialism, and socialism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: A 300-level course in the History of China or Gender/Sexuality or permission of instructor.
History : This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: a previous course in Chinese history
History : An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Madokoro, Laura (Fall)
Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
History : History of the British Colonies in Africa and Asia.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : From the schism in the Orthodox Church to the year of the Decembrist insurrection, this course aims to acquaint those unable to read Russian with the writings and ideas that have helped to shape the social and political consciousness of modern Russia. Emphasis on thinkers whose attitudes defined Russia's perception of the West, with some discussion of the broader impact of major European luminaries on the Russian culture. the sequel to this course is HIST 456.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 216, or a course in European intellectual history, or consent of instructor
History : The history of Chinese law and society from early pre-imperial to late imperial times. Themes include the philosophical basis of Chinese law; development of different forms of legislation; practice of pre-modern law; law and social and political change; military law; legal cases translated from primary sources.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: Any 300-level course in Chinese history or permission of the instructor.
History : A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Readings in and discussion of a theme in African history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 200 or HIST 201 or HIST 382 or permission of the instructor.
Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 486D1/D2.
1. Topics will vary by year.
2. Students must register for both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2.
3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : Readings in and discussion of a theme in African history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 579D1.
Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 486D1/D2.
1. Topics will vary by year.
2. Students must register for both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2.
3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 568D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 568D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in historical interpretation. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Soske, Jon (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 570D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Tousignant, Noemi Rachel (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 570D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 578D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 578D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : A survey of Mediterranean history from the Bronze Age until the 6th century AD, focusing on Greek and Roman civilization.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Fronda, Michael; Straub, Corey; Fu, Wentian; Christopher, Jordan (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 209 prior to September 2006.
History : Covers European History from the decline of the Roman Empire to the seventeenth century. The objective of the course is to provide students with both a knowledge of the major developments in pre-modern history and experience in the reading, interpretation and writing of history.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Bruce, Travis; Walsh, Christopher; Pullen, Nicholas; La Monica, Michael (Fall)
History : A social, economic, political and cultural survey of European History from the early seventeenth century to the present.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Lewis, Brian D A (Winter)
History : A survey of Russian history, from the origin of the Slavs to the establishment of the Kievan State, the coming of the Mongols, the emergence of Muscovy, and the rise of the Russian Empire.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Introductory survey of east central and southeastern European history from the twilight of nineteenth-century imperialism to the most recent expansion of the European Union. Consideration will be given to the two world wars and their consequences; nationalism, fascism, and socialism; and the revolutions of 1989.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Krapfl, James (Fall)
History : A history of Russia from 1801 to 1991.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Ironside, Kristy (Winter)
History : Survey of the development of the multinational state in the British Isles and Ireland from antiquity to the seventeenth century revolutions. Emphasis on state making and ethnicity formation in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as English overseas territories in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : A survey of Roman history from the foundation of Rome to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken HIST 205.
History : An examination of important problems in the postwar history of east central Europe. Topics include: the establishment of Communist regimes; Stalinism and de-Stalinization; everyday life under Communism; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Prague Spring, and Solidarity; political opposition; culture; and the revolutions of 1989.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Szapor, Judith (Fall)
History : Analyses of primary sources (in translation) related to the social, economic and institutional history of the Jews in Poland and their place in the East European Jewish community. Topics include: the Jews during "The Flood'' (1648 - 1667), the communal crisis of the late 17th century, the Frankist movement, and Hasidism.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)
Prerequisite: any course in Jewish history or East European History
History : History of the central European Habsburg Monarchy from its consolidation in the Thirty Years' War to its demise in the Great War. Topics include: counter-Reformation and the baroque, enlightened absolutism, the partitions of Poland, the revolutions of 1848, the rise of nationalism, and fin-de-siècle society and culture.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Krapfl, James (Winter)
Prerequisite: A course in European history or permission of instructor.
History : Reform and Revolutions: a comparison of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and of the Tsarist Empire and Provisional Government in 1917, with some discussion of the reforms that anticipated each cataclysm.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Ironside, Kristy (Fall)
Prerequisite: A course in Russian, Soviet or European history
History : The cultural and intellectual history of Europe from the late Middle Ages to the to the 18th century traces the origins of the modern sense of self in popular culture and in the texts of Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire and Rousseau.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Hellman, John William (Fall)
History : An examination of Western Europe from the late 14th to the end of the 16th century. Topics will include the Renaissance, in and outside Italy, the Reformations, the religious wars of the 16th century and the Scientific Revolution.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 214 or permission of instructor
History : An introduction to concepts of women and the realities of women's lives in western Europe from the Black Death to ca. 1700. Topics will include marriage and the family, female education and literacy, varieties of spirituality and the emergence of a proto-feminism during the Renaissance.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 214 or permission of instructor
History : An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Clarke, Paula C (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 214 or consent of instructor
History : Examines the emergence of a modern nation state in the Balkans out of the Ottoman empire and its evolution until its present status as a member state of the European Union. A story of Greece and Greeks within the broader regional and global context.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : An overview of the history of women in modern continental Europe, focusing on women's changing roles in the family and society at large, in the context of work, family life, education, and culture, and the changing notions of citizenship, femininity, and masculinity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisites: One course in European history or permission of Instructor
History : The history of ideas about the human body, disease and therapeutics and the diverse practices of medicine in western Europe in the Middle Ages (ca. AD 300-1500), with particular attention to their social, intellectual, cultural and religious context.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The Classical period of Greek history, from the end of the Persian wars to the death of Alexandra the Great (479-323 BC).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Roman history from the Gracchi to the death of the emperor Nero, 133 BCE to 68 CE. The collapse of the Roman republic, the reorganization of the Roman state under Augustus, and the Roman empire and society under the early emperors.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Transformation of the Roman world, 1st-7th CE. Considers various perspectives and narratives of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire based on historical and material evidence.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Fabbro, Eduardo (Fall)
History : History of Western Europe from the later Roman Empire through the 15th century: sub-roman and Carolingian civilization, feudal monarchy; the Church and the laity; domestic life and social institutions; cultural developments.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Bruce, Travis (Fall)
History : Cultural, intellectual, political, economic and social history of Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth century; the era of the creation of the United Kingdom and the rise of a great commercial and imperial power.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Cowan, Brian (Fall)
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor.
History : Cultural, intellectual, political, economic and social history of Britain and Ireland in an era of unprecedented economic and cultural change as the United Kingdom became the world's first industrial nation and leading imperial power.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor
History : From a range of perspectives, including cultural, intellectual, political, economic and social history, this course examines Britain from the height of its power, through two world wars, the building of a welfare state, the dissolution of Empire and entry into Europe, to the start of the 21st century. consensus, decolonisation, immigration, culture and society, Northern Ireland, Scottish and Welsh nationalism, Thatcherism, the European Union.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Lewis, Brian D A (Fall)
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor
History : The political, social, and cultural history of France, from the accession of Louis XV (1715) to the rise of Napoleon (1799), including the French Revolution.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Dew, Nicholas (Winter)
History : Rome's rise from city-state to world power, 338 - 133 BCE, the nature Roman conquest, and the impact of empire on Roman society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : English, Scottish and Irish history during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the origins and consequences of the regicidal revolution of 1649 and the glorious revolution of 1688.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: A course in European history or permission of instructor.
History : Topics in Italian history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 214
History : A comparative analysis of the political cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and China, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE, exploring societal distinctions through topics such as the role of historical traditions, power configurations, public oratory, elite representation, funerary rites and political spaces.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Beck, Hans; Vankeerberghen, Griet (Fall)
History : Selected topics in the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle Ages. Emphasis on modern critical approaches to medieval culture, including literature, the supernatural, religious experience.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Bruce, Travis (Winter)
History : A survey of 19th century French and European cultural/intellectual history. The sequel to this course is HIST 415.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Hellman, John William (Fall)
History : Examination of a selected topic in Russian history from the reign of Peter the Great to the present time.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: A prior course in Russian or European history
History : An in-depth look at various topics in ancient history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Ancient history at the 300-level or permission of instructor.
History : Women and gender in modern Britain (1850 on). Topics include early feminist political agitation, including the suffrage movement; working-class women; changing notions of gender, sexuality and women's role; women and empire.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or a course in British history or permission of instructor
History : The history of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English nationalisms in the British context from 1688 to the present.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Lewis, Brian D A (Fall)
Prerequisite: A course in modern British history or permission of instructor.
History : Varying subjects of topical interest regarding early-modern Europe.
Terms: Summer 2018
Instructors: Clarke, Paula C (Summer)
Prerequisite: a course in Early Modern Europe
History : A history of food and drink in European history. Topics include: feasts and famines; the introduction of new foods and drinks from Asia and the Americas; table manners and the origins of the restaurant.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor.
History : Selected topics in intellectual and cultural history of Britain and Ireland, focusing on discussion of primary texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or a course in British history or permission of instructor
History : The theory and the practice of using books, manuscripts and periodicals in Early Modern British history. Topics include literacy and orality; the print revolution; censorship; readers and reading practices; newspapers and journalism; the origins of scientific persuasion and intellectual property rights.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Cowan, Brian (Winter)
Prerequisite: A 300-level course in British history or permission of instructor.
History : An investigation of the changing historical construction of "deviant" and "normal" sexualities in Britain since 1700, and how queer women and men discovered ways of surviving and perhaps even flourishing in the face of persecution and hostility from the state, the churches and the medical profession.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Lewis, Brian D A (Winter)
History : An in-depth look at particular aspects of European history.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Szapor, Judith (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
History : The evolution of ideas about the human body, disease, and therapeutics, and the diverse practices of medicine in Graeco-Roman antiquity (ca 800BC - ca 600CE), with particular attention given to their social, political, cultural and religious context.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Wallis, Faith (Winter)
History : Different methods and strategies employed by Ancient historians, including numismatics, epigraphy, and papyrology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: 3 credits at the 300-level in Ancient history or permission of the instructor.
History : The evolution of the concept and phenomenon of revolution from the 1640s in England to 1989 in eastern Europe. How the experiences of 1789, 1848, and 1917 changed the theory and practice of revolution.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Krapfl, James (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor
History : A study of selected topics in 20th century French and European intellectual and cultural history and popular culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Topics in ancient Mediterranean history, focusing on Greek and/or Roman society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): 6 credits at the 300 or 400 level in Ancient history or permission of instructor.
Restriction: Honours students or advanced undergraduates who have permission of the instructor. Also open to graduate students.
Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 551.
Students must register for both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2. No credit wil be given for this course unless both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : Topics in ancient Mediterranean history, focusing on Greek and/or Roman society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): 6 credits at the 300 or 400 level in Ancient history or permission of instructor. HIST 550D1.
Restriction: Honours students or advanced undergraduates who have permission of the instructor. Also open to graduate students.
Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 551.
Students must register for both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2. No credit wil be given for this course unless both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
History : Readings in and discussion of a theme in Modern British history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 566.
Students must register for both HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 together are equivalent to HIST 565
History : Readings in and discussion of a theme in Modern British history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 565D1
Restrictions :Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 566.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 together are equivalent to HIST 565
History : Models of the body, disease and medical intervention current in western Europe between 400 and 1500 AD will be examined through analysis of primary sources in translation, and modern historical scholarship.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 567D1 and HIST 567D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 567D1 and HIST 567D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Models of the body, disease and medical intervention current in western Europe between 400 and 1500 AD will be examined through analysis of primary sources in translation, and modern historical scholarship. The sequel to this course is HIST 496.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 567D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 567D1 and HIST 567D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in historical interpretation. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Soske, Jon (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 570D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Tousignant, Noemi Rachel (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 570D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Seminar on the Italian renaissance.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 571D1 and HIST 571D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 571D1 and HIST 571D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 571D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 571D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 571D1 and HIST 571D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in comparative history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Greer, Allan (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 574D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Greer, Allan (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 574D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : A study of topics on Germany. Topic vary by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Hoffmann, Peter C W (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 575D1 and HIST 575D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 575D1 and HIST 575D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 575D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Hoffmann, Peter C W (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 575D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 575D1 and HIST 575D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in Russian history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Ironside, Kristy (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 576D1 and HIST 576D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 576D1 and HIST 576D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 576D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Ironside, Kristy (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 576D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 576D1 and HIST 576D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Seminar on topics from Antiquity to Reformation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 577D1 and HIST 577D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 577D1 and HIST 577D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 577D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 577D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 577D1 and HIST 577D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in early modern British history.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Cowan, Brian (Fall)
Prerequisite: any university course in British history or consent of instructor
Note: Topics will vary from year to year.
Restriction: Undergraduate Honours students or Masters students in history.
Students must register for both HIST 594D1 and HIST 594D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 594D1 and HIST 594D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 594D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Cowan, Brian (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 594D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 594D1 and HIST 594D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : This course is intended to offer advanced analytical and research training in a selected theme in western European history during the period from the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
Students must register for both HIST 595D1 and HIST 595D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 595D1 and HIST 595D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 595D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 595D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 595D1 and HIST 595D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : An introduction to the discipline of history through an in-depth look at a topic.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1 who may take only one FYS.
Students who register for more than one FYS will be obliged to withdraw from all but one. Maximum of 25 students.
History : A survey, using translated primary and selected secondary sources, of the ways in which Jews represented Christians from late antiquity to the present. Legal, liturgical, literary and other sources are examined with the focus on the Medieval and Early Modern periods.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
Maximum 25 students.
For first year students only.
History : An introduction to the constitutive intellectual traditions of world history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
Maximum 25 students
Restriction: For first year students only
History : An introduction to some of the major theories of nationalism; an exploration of the many varieties of nationalism and forms of nation-building; a particular focus on the historical background to case studies of current interest.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
Maximum 25 students
History : An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216
History : A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Greenwood, Jonathan (Fall)
History : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Winter)
History : An introduction to the history of science, with attention to conceptual development and to institutional and social settings. Coverage will vary by instructor, but will include a range of periods (from antiquity to the 20th century), geographical settings, and themes (e.g. instrumentation; visualisation; experiment; science and society).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Wallis, Faith; Schlich, Thomas Andreas (Fall)
Note: Also available to first-year medical students in their options program.
History : Sketch of the history of the material aspects of human interaction with the rest of nature. Included will be a historian's view of the social, technical, and ecological implications of the great variety of activities devised by our species. Though global in outlook, this course will emphasize the relevant historiography of France, England and North America.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The history of international relations during the era of the four global wars, the expansion of the West in world affairs, the changes in the balance of power in Europe, the rise and fall of the colonial empires, and the ascendancy of the flank powers, Russia and the United States.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: one course in post-1800 History or permission of instructor.
History : The history of the Cold War. Special attention will be paid to the different viewpoints and experiences of the Cold War participants by studying the historiography and archival materials released in the Eastern Block and Western World.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Historical phenomena that transcend the boundaries of nation-status and contributed to the long-term development of globalization.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Abisaab, Malek; Abisaab, Rula (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 213 or Permission of Instructor.
History : Examines the unifying features that linked the entire region from eastern Africa to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East from early times to c.1900.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Campbell, Gwyn (Fall)
Prerequisite: A 200-level African or Asian history course or a political science course or an Islamic Studies course or permission of instructor.
History : The intellectual and cultural history of science and technology, in Europe and in the wider world, from the time of Leonardo to the time of Newton (c. 1500-c.1700).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: A 200-level course in European history, or permission of instructor.
History : Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. The cultural meanings and social institutions that create the historical context for sexual behaviours. Possible topics include: Greek homosocial and homosexual culture; sex and citizenship; wives and concubines in the ancient world; Christianity and aestheticism; misogyny and gender in Medieval Europe; adultery and lineage.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Partner, Nancy F (Winter)
History : 1700 to the present, with a particular focus on Europe and North America. Possible topics include: patterns of fertility and sexual practice; prostitution; religion and sexuality; the medical and legal construction of sexualities; the rise of sexology; gay liberation movements; queer politics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Explores the relationship between the natural sciences and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Examination of works in post-Newtonian science as well as their broader cultural meaning, the history of material practices, the origins of social science, and the role of geography and international context beyond Western Europe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor.
History : A world-wide political, social, economic, cultural and military survey, from the origins of the Great War to the Treaty of Versailles.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Hoffmann, Peter C W (Fall)
History : A world-wide political, social, economic, cultural and military survey, from the Treaty of Versailles to the first years of the Cold War.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Hoffmann, Peter C W (Winter)
History : This course examines the negatives and positives of African health since independence: the rise of new pathogens, especially HIV/AIDS, and the revitalization of old ones, such as drug resistant tuberculosis and malaria. Also examined are the growth of health infrastructure, and international successes such as the eradication of smallpox.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : The nature and functions of history; changing conceptions of time and of the past; techniques historians use to find and appraise evidence; methods of reconstructing the past. Emphasis will be given not only to documentary sources but also to the range of techniques used by historians to find and appraise evidence.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Dew, Nicholas; Partner, Nancy F (Fall) Madokoro, Laura (Winter)
Prerequisite: 6 credits of History
History : The nature and consequences of encounters between American native peoples and Europeans.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 202
History : Specific theme in the history of science, such as scientific instruments, experimental practices, uses of the body, knowledge and museums, scientific institutions, or science and empire.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Boddice, Robert (Winter)
Prerequisite: A prior course on history of science or HPSC 300 or permission of Instructor.
Restriction(s): Not open to U0 or U1 students
Themes (and/or periods) vary year to year.
History : Exploration of a specific theme in Atlantic history, 1500 to 1850.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Gender, sexuality, and medicine since the colonial era, with a focus on North American experience. Topics will include reproductive medicine (puberty, childbirth, fertility control, menopause), changing perceptions of men's and women's health needs and risks, and ideas about sexual behaviour and identity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: A 300-level History course in gender, sexuality or medicine or permission of instructor.
History : A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 307 or a course in East-European history or consent of instructor
History : Selected topics in the history of medicine in the 19th, 20th and/or 21st centuries will be explored through discussion of primary and secondary historical sources.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Wright, David John (Fall)
History : One large aspect of Cold War, either thematic or regional, will be explored.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Luthi, Lorenz (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 304 or other 300-level course relevant to the current topic of the course or permission on the instructor.
History : This course examines why and how books are classified as fiction or history. Topics include: social expectations and uses of literature; evidence and verification; the author as authority. Readings include history and fiction from various historical periods, and relevant scholarship.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Partner, Nancy F (Winter)
Prerequisite: 6 credits at the 300 level in either history or literature
History : The history of coffee and coffeehouses from the discovery of coffee in the late medieval Ottoman empire until the present day. Topics include the putative 'golden age' of coffeehouse culture in the early modern era, the transformations of the coffeehouse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the development of a modern consumer society, and forms of public association and communication often described as the bourgeois public sphere.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Any 300-level history course or permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken HIST 436 when topic was "Cafes and Coffeehouses".
History : Topics in the history of British formal and informal imperialism and the colonial encounter from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Approaches to the interpretation and understanding of historical evidence which are outside the traditional historical discipline - reading of central texts in, for example, psychoanalytic theory, gender theory, or literary criticism and exercises in the use of these theories for historical research.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Walker, Gavin (Fall)
History : The shifting historical context of female labour and family in selected western and non-western countries; the interaction between labour and gender relations with special focus on women's experiences on the shop floor and in the family.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: A 300 or 400-level course in women's history or labour history or permission of instructor
Restriction: Restricted to students in History and Women's Studies
History : Examines the impact of war on individuals, families and societies. Studies the experiences of women and children in exile, mass persecutions, and punishments associated with social unrest, revolution or wars during twentieth century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): A 300 or 400-levelcourse in women's history or permission of instructor
History : This course studies pivotal topics in Indian Ocean World (IOW) history. Topics may include (i) the rise and development of the IOW global economy; (ii) The Swahili Civilisation and the IOW; (iii) Islam and the IOW; (iv) Imperialism in the IOW; (v) IOW Slavery and Slave Trades; (vi) History of Madagascar.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Campbell, Gwyn (Fall)
Prerequisite: Any 200 or 300 level history course or any course on Africa, Asia, global or labour studies or permission of instructor
History : The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
History : Individualized guided research on an approved topic.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Restricted to History Honours and Joint Honours program students. Not open to students who have taken HIST 490D1/D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 599D1 and HIST 599D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Individualized guided research on an approved topic.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Restricted to History Honours and Joint Honours program students. Not open to students who have taken HIST 490D1/D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 599D1 and HIST 599D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Honours two-part seminars in the list below: HIST 558/HIST 559
History : Readings on and discussion of a theme in the history of international relations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 553.
Students must register for both HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D1 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D1 together are equivalent to HIST 552
History : Readings on and discussion of a theme in the history of international relations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and HIST 552D1
Restriction: Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 553.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D2 together are equivalent to HIST 552
History : The emergence of scientific medicine, medical professionalization, the development of public health and the process of medical specialization since 1700.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Weisz, George (Fall)
History : Supervised design, research, writing, and discussion of a major research paper on a theme in the history of modern medicine since 1700.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Weisz, George (Winter)
History : Readings on and discussion of a theme in world history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Restrictions: Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 561.
Students must register for both HIST 560D1 and HIST 560D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 560D1 and HIST 560D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
560D1 and HIST 560D2 together are equivalent to HIST 560
History : Readings on and discussion of a theme in world history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 560D1
Restrictions: Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 561.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 560D1 and HIST 560D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
560D1 and HIST 560D2 together are equivalent to HIST 560
History : Topics in historical interpretation. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Soske, Jon (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 570D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Tousignant, Noemi Rachel (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 570D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : Topics in comparative history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Greer, Allan (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 574D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Greer, Allan (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 574D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
The following course(s) may be chosen by History Major concentration and Honours students as part of their programs.
Please consult with History Department program advisers for courses that do not appear here.
Please consult with History Department program advisers.
Please consult with History Department program advisers.
Please consult with History Department program advisers.
Jewish Studies : The interaction of Jewish and American historical traditions in forging the American Jewish experience. The themes of acculturation, immigration and political behaviour will be treated.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Issues affecting American Jewry in the post-World War I era until today and the American Jewish community's responses to those issues. Special emphasis on understanding the community responses and reactions to developments in both the American society and in the Jewish world.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in Eastern Europe from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in North America from the last quarter of the 19th century to WWI.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Please consult with History Department program advisers.