History (HIST)
An introductory survey of the cultural history of the Western world from the ancient Greeks to the present. Students may not hold credit for HIST 1200 and any of: HIST 1201 or HIST 1350 or HIST 1360.
Equiv To: HIST 1201
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The history of cultural change focusing on such topics as leisure and popular culture, sexuality and history, and the social consequences of creativity and genius. The specific content will vary from year to year.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The history of the social and cultural impact of factors such as changes in technology and communication, warfare, and revolution. The specific content will vary from year to year.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
An introductory survey of the cultural history of the Western World from the earliest civilizations to 1500. Students may not hold credit for HIST 1350 and any of: HIST 1200 or HIST 1201.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
An introductory survey of the cultural history of the Western World from 1500 to the present. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 1360 and any of: HIST 1200 or HIST 1201.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A study of the forces which created the modern world, including the rise of capitalism and the encounter of Western and non-Western societies. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 1370 and the former HIST 1500.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 1500
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A study of the forces which created the modern world, including industrialization, imperialism, decolonization, and the emergence of revolution and counter-revolution. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 1380 and the former HIST 1500.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 1500
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A study of settler colonialism and the creation of Canada, from its colonial origins to Confederation and the consolidation of nationhood through war and expansion. Emphasis is on understanding Canada in a transimperial perspective that foregrounds the connections between empire, Indigenous-settler relations, French Canada, American relations, and early social, political, and economic life. May not be held with HIST 1401, HIST 1403, HIST 1440 or the former HIST 1441.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A study of the national development of Canada to the present. Emphasis is placed on French Canada, the regional life and social organization of the country, the impact of continentalism, the development of the economy, and the rise of a national sentiment. May not be held with HIST 1401, HIST 1403, HIST 1440 or the former HIST 1441.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A study of major themes in the history and culture of China and Japan, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia from ancient times to around 1500. Also offered as Asian Studies ASIA 1420. May not be held with ASIA 1420 or the former HIST 1410.
Equiv To: ASIA 1420
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 1410
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A study of major themes in the history and culture of China and Japan, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia in modern times. Also offered as Asian Studies ASIA 1430. May not be held with ASIA 1430 or the former HIST 1410.
Equiv To: ASIA 1430
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 1410
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey history of the areas that became Canada from earliest times to the present day. Major themes include Indigenous societies before and after European contact, settler colonialism, the fur trade, French Canada, industrialism and modernization, immigration, nationalism and Canada’s relationships with the world. In addition to political and economic history, a major focus of this course will be social history. Themes such as social class, gender, and ethnicity will be explored in an attempt to understand the roots of change in Canadian society. Students may not hold credit for HIST 1440 and any of: HIST 1390, HIST 1400, HIST 1401, HIST 1403, or the former HIST 1441.
Equiv To: HIST 1441
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A historical survey of Indigenous peoples in Canada from early times to the present. The course will cover pre-contact peoples, responses to the European arrival, military alliances, the fur trade, the Métis, treaties, government policies and Indigenous responses, and cultural resurgence and political organizing since 1945. Also offered as INDG 2012. May not be held for credit with INDG 2012, the former NATV 2012, or the former HIST 2280.
Equiv To: INDG 2012, NATV 2012
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2280
Attributes: Humanities, Written English Requirement
A history of the Métis in Canada. Also offered as INDG 2020. May not be held for credit with INDG 2020 or the former NATV 2020.
Equiv To: INDG 2020, NATV 2020
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
This course will provide an introduction to a topic in history of the instructor's choosing. The content varies but may include a focus on a specified geographic region, time period, thematic or methodological approach to history. Consult the History Department for particulars. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
Attributes: Humanities, Written English Requirement
A survey of the major developments in Latin America from the Indigenous cultures and European Conquest to Independence in 1821.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey of the major developments in Latin America from Independence in 1821 to the present.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The history of Roman Catholicism from the first century to 1540. Emphasis will be placed on the external forces and internal developments that have shaped Catholicism.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
This course explores the history of working people's struggles, victories and defeats in Canada, with attention to gender, "race" and ethnicity. Topics include the origins and evolution of labour unions and workplace rights and the role of politics and social movements. Also offered as LABR 2200. May not be held with LABR 2200.
Equiv To: LABR 2200
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A general survey of British history from 1485 to the present. Emphasis is placed on constitutional, political, and diplomatic themes; social, economic, and cultural factors are also discussed. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 2210 and HIST 2211.
Equiv To: HIST 2211
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The history of Ireland from 1500 to the end of the twentieth century focusing on changes in political, social, religious, economic and cultural relationships in shaping Modern Ireland.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey of the development of the American people and their institutions from Colonial times to the present day. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2230 and any of: HIST 2750 or HIST 2760 or HIST 2761.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey of the role of the Jewish minority in Christian Europe over the past two thousand years. First term will focus on the evolution of anti-Jewish ideas and policies. Second term will be a study of the Nazi German Holocaust and, in particular, the role of antisemitism as a causal factor therein. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 2240 and the former JUD 2940.
Equiv To: JUD 2940
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A social, economic, and political history of the Jewish experience from the beginnings of the Jewish diaspora to the present, covering Jewish communities in medieval and modern Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
This course examines the "invention" and "reinvention" of Canada both before and after Confederation. It examines the process of invention from a range of different perspectives: political, cultural, economic, and social.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
Since the First World War, Canada has grappled simultaneously with modern pressures and the legacies of its colonial foundations. This course delves into topics such as: social change and continuity, economic boom and bust, political trends, struggles for equality, Indigenous life, international and internal affairs, immigration, and nationalism. May not be held with the former HIST 2970, the former HIST 2971, or the former HIST 3050.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2970, HIST 2971, HIST 3050
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
This course examines how Canadian democracy has historically been contested, debated, and challenged. It will focus on the post-Confederation history of social movements, citizen engagement, and state responses to dissent. The course will discuss grassroots movements of workers, the poor, women, indigenous peoples, and racial and ethnic minorities. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 2288 and the former HIST 2284.
Equiv To: HIST 2284
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The History of Europe during the French Revolution and the conservative reaction to it, focusing on political ideologies and national and international politics. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 2350 and the former HIST 2370.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2370
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The history of Europe since 1870, focusing on industrialisation, imperialism, political ideologies, and national and international politics. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2360 and either HIST 2361 or the former HIST 2370.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2370
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
This course is a survey of early modern European history. It will include such major topics as the Renaissance, the printing revolution, the Reformation, European interactions with the rest of the world and imperialism, the military revolution, the witch trials and the Enlightenment.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
Introductory course examining the emergence of the modern human rights era and social justice movements globally. Possible topics of study: human rights as global norm; non-Western conceptions of rights; workplace rights; indigenous rights; women's and gender rights.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey of the society and culture of the Middle Ages, from 500-1500.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A broad survey of African history from pre-colonial times through colonialism to the post-colonial present.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2215
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A history of Ukraine and its people, beginning with medieval Kievan Rus' and ending in the 18th century with Ukraine's absorption into Russian and Austrian empires.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A history of cultural, religious, economic and political forces, in the period 1800 to the present, that stimulated Ukraine's struggle for national independence from foreign domination.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
This course examines the history of the People's Republic of China from its founding in 1949 through the present day. The course considers continuity and change between the Maoist and post-1976 periods as well as changing meanings of socialism and their impact on state power and social orders.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2089
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
Attention will be given in particular to the Russian Revolution, the nature of the Soviet political system, the major social and economic experiments, and the Soviet role in international politics. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2660 and any of: HIST 2661 or the former HIST 2490 or the former HIST 3471.
Equiv To: HIST 2661
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2490, HIST 3471
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A study of the emergence and evolution of the capitalist system stressing its effects on human culture from the 15th to the 20th Centuries. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 2670 and HIST 2671.
Equiv To: HIST 2671
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The history of socialism, both revolutionary and nonrevolutionary from the French Revolution to the present. The course covers the history of theory and political action, and of both European and non-European socialism.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A global economic, social, political and cultural history of the twentieth century history from World War I to the eve of the Cold War, emphasising the impact of war and economic crisis. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2730 and any of: HIST 2381 or the former HIST 2380.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2380, HIST 2381
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A global, economic, social, political and cultural history of the twentieth century from the onset of the Cold War and decolonization to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2732 and any of: HIST 2381 or the former HIST 2380 or the former HIST 2720.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2380, HIST 2381, HIST 2720
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A global, economic, social, political and cultural history of the twenty-first century, emphasizing the on-going development of the post Cold War international economic and political order. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2734 and any of: HIST 2381 or the former HIST 2380 or the former HIST 2720.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2380, HIST 2381, HIST 2720
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey of the development of the American people and their institutions from Colonial times to Reconstruction. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2750 and any of: HIST 2230 or HIST 2041.
Equiv To: HIST 2041
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2230
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey of the development of the American people from Reconstruction to the present. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2760 and any of: HIST 2761 or HIST 2230.
Equiv To: HIST 2761
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2230
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
A survey of the historical development of Russia from its beginnings to the end of the Imperial period. Students may not hold credit for HIST 2840 and any of: HIST 2841 or the former HIST 2490 or the former HIST 3471.
Equiv To: HIST 2841
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 2490, HIST 3471
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The content of this course will vary from year to year. A description of the course is available in advance at the History Department Office. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
The history of Roman Catholicism from about 1540 to the present. Emphasis will be placed on Catholic responses to the modern world and to movements of theological and institutional reform. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 2990 and HIST 2991.
Equiv To: HIST 2991
Attributes: Humanities, Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
Major developments since 1945 on the continent of South America, with special emphasis on major political movements, Marxism and populism, the impact of industrialization, and South America's international role.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Examines fundamental topics and themes in Canada's politics, economy and society from the 1960s to the present, including: Quebec nationalism after 1960; western regionalism and the reassertion of provincial rights since the 1970s; the women's movement and first nations' activism since the 1960s; constitutional reform, patriation and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the 1980s and 1990s; free trade and globalization since the 1980s.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course will undertake a detailed and comprehensive study of Canada's relationship with its neighbour from the eighteenth century to the present. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3054 and the former HIST 3220.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3220
Attributes: Humanities
The history of Germany from 1618 to the present with a focus on the experience of German Jewry. Students may not hold credit for HIST 3062 and any of: the former HIST 3060 or the former HIST 3064 or the former HIST 3066.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3060, HIST 3064, HIST 3066
Attributes: Humanities
This course will trace the development of American consumer society from the colonial era to the present. Topics addressed include the histories of: branding, mass distribution, department stores, advertising, mass-market magazines, consumer organizing, and consumer protest.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
The content of this course will vary. It is designed to provide in-depth examination of specialized themes or areas in modern Asian history. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
An opportunity for the intensive study of selected topics or themes in history. The content varies, but may include work in social and cultural history or on specialized subjects. Consult the History Department and the Registration Guide for particulars. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
An examination of the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Italian peninsula during the later Middle Ages. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3138 and the former HIST 3140.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3140
Attributes: Humanities
This course explores the past and present of sweated work in various industries in the Global North and South. We explore circumstances that support sweatshops, including off-shoring and the new international division of labour, migrant, child and female labour forces; global supply chains and the role of retailers and contractors. We also compare and evaluate strategies to eliminate sweatshops, include NGO activities, government regulations, consumer boycotts and the international labour, student and social justice movements. Also offered as Labour Studies LABR 3220. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3212 and LABR 3220.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of History or written consent of the department head] or [three credit hours of 1000 level Labour Studies or written consent of the Labour Studies coordinator].
Equiv To: LABR 3220
Attributes: Humanities
This course traces the emergence and evolution of Canada's left from the late nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on its two main streams, communism and social democracy. Topics include the relationship between popular, party, labour, and ethnic lefts; left parties and mainstream politics; the left in the evolution of human rights and in other public policies; the treatment within various lefts of gender, race, sexuality and ethnicity; popular movements; legal constraints and state repression. Also offered as LABR 3214. Not to be held with LABR 3214.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of History or written consent of department head] or [three credit hours of 1000 level Labour Studies or written consent of Labour Studies coordinator].
Equiv To: LABR 3214
Attributes: Humanities
This course deals with the history of Canada in an international context. While focused mainly on the period after 1867, Canada’s colonial origins are also emphasized. The course surveys other topics, including Canada’s dealings with First Nations, empires, and wartime enemies, global developments (like wars and trade deals), the Cold War, the threat of nuclear destruction, and migration.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: a grade of C or better in six credit hours of history or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course will scrutinize the intersection of commerce and governance in Europe from c.500 to the present, paying particular attention to the way that debates about commerce, war and peace have generated notions of human rights over the past three centuries. We will explore whether and how debates about the proper way to govern trade played important roles not only in the creation of the modern categories of the "state" and the "economy," but also in understandings of the person as a rational actor of politics with substantial rights.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A study of the dispossession of the Métis Nation after 1870, their resurgence in the 1950s and contemporary issues affecting Métis people in Canada. Also offered as INDG 3270. May not be held for credit with INDG 3270 or the former NATV 3270.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of Canadian History] or written consent of department head.
Equiv To: INDG 3270, NATV 3270
Attributes: Humanities
This course offers a social, cultural, economic, and political exploration of the United States from World War II to the present day. It examines how actual military conflicts (World War II, Vietnam) and metaphoric wars (the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs) have shaped American Society.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course will examine the social-cultural meanings of computer and communications technologies. The course will predominantly treat the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining the evolution of technologies from the 1930s to today. Focused on the global west, the course will also consider the worldwide implications and reach of digital cultures and technologies. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3340 and the former HIST 3120 with the topic "History of Digital Culture."
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
An examination of the political structure, constitutional developments, colonial problems, and social and religious changes, the impact of the industrial revolution, and the reaction to the French Revolution in Britain during this period.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course examines topics in the history of race, colonization, and migration in Canada. It explores histories of colonialism and migration, how ideas of race, nation, and ethnicity have been shaped by them, and how these histories have shaped the experience of Indigenous people, racialized people, and Canada as a whole. Specific topics may include colonization and imperialism, slavery, immigration policy, as well as racialized, Indigenous, and ethnic communities. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3442 and HIST 3780 with the topic "Race and Immigration in Canadian History."
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3780
Attributes: Humanities
An examination of the apartheid system and its impact with special emphasis on local and international struggles against the system. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3504 and HIST 3110 with the topics "Nelson Mandela from Prisoner to President" and "Apartheid and the Struggle for Democracy and Human Rights."
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3110
Attributes: Humanities
This course explores the various intersections of statecraft, the economy, society and identity by looking at how resources, labour and political control played out in changing mechanisms of power, accommodation and resistance in South Africa during the colonial and apartheid eras. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3506 and HIST 3110 with the topic "History of South Africa: from Jan van Riebeck to Nelson Mandela."
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3110
Attributes: Humanities
A history of crime and the institutions for its control and punishment in England from the Tudor period to the turn of the nineteenth century. We will trace the connections between crime and larger processes such as war, the economy and urbanization. Topics will include the changing patterns of crime, the role of gender in the application of law, the reform of the criminal law and the emergence of imprisonment.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course will emphasize the relationship between disease and imperialism, capitalist development, and war; and examine social and state responses. The course will explore connections between the biological and the cultural aspects of infectious disease experiences. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3574 and HIST 3110 with the topics "History of Disease" and/or "History of Health and Disease."
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course examines the history of women, gender, and sexuality in Canada's past. Specific topics may include women, gender and sexuality in Indigenous peoples, English and French colonization, nation-building, immigration and urbanization, politics, race, migration and racialization, violence, war, and protest. This course is also offered as WOMN 3576. May not be held with WOMN 3576, the former HIST 3570, or the former HIST 3572.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in History; or 3 credit hours in Women’s and Gender Studies; or written consent of department head.
Equiv To: WOMN 3576
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3570, HIST 3572
Attributes: Humanities
An in-depth treatment of selected topics in world history since 1945. The content of the course will vary from year to year, and a precise description is available in advance from the History department office. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course traces the history of modern day Western Canada, through exploring the social, political, and economic forces that shaped the environments and societies that have emerged since European contact. Topics may include the history of Indigenous polities, trade and alliance, the fur-trade, Metis society and politics, gender and settler-colonization, environment and economy, labour and radical politics, and Indigenous resistance and decolonization.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: a grade of C or better in six credit hours of history or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
The contents of this course will be announced each year. Consult the History Department. It is designed to provide in-depth studies of specialized subjects and themes in modern Latin American history. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A study of indigenous peoples in modern Latin America. Topics to be discussed will include the construction of racial hierarchies and exclusionary nation-states, indigenous engagements with leftist politics and revolution as well as struggles for political autonomy and cultural rights. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3750 and HIST 3740 with the topic "Indigenous Peoples and the Nation-State in Modern Latin America."
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
The subject matter of this course will be announced each year. Consult the History department. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different. Students may not hold credit for both HIST 3760 and HIST 3761.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Equiv To: HIST 3761
Mutually Exclusive: HIST 3095
Attributes: Humanities
This is a Special Topics course. The content will be set by the instructor each time it is offered. For more information check with the course instructor. Students can earn multiple credits for this course, but not for the same course topic. May not be held with the former HIST 3781 when the topic is the same.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: a grade of C or better in six credit hours of history or written consent of Department Head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course explores the history of Winnipeg. Topics covered will include Cree and Annishinaabeg histories around the forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, the development of Red River settlement, the creation of the settler colonial city of Winnipeg, histories of Indigenous people, women, and migrants, protest and politics in the city, and health and medicine. May not be held with the former HIST 3790 when titled "History of Winnipeg."
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [a grade of "C" or better in six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A history of the Ukrainian community in Canada. Topics to be discussed will include immigration, social and political organizations, churches, cultural assimilation, Ukrainian contributions to Canada, and relations with Ukraine.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of history] or written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course will provide a systematic introduction to advanced research seminars, paying particular attention to the development of: oral skills and public presentation of ideas and research; focused historiographical discussion and analysis; and advanced historical research and writing skills. This course provides the skills and preparation for Year IV of the History Honours program.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: [six credit hours of History] and written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
The content of this course will vary. It is designed to provide students with specialized topics and themes in History. A description of the course is available in advance at the History Department Office. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Studies in the theories and practise of imperialism from an historical perspective.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Selected topics in economics, social, cultural, art, and religious history of the later medieval world.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Selected themes in the history of England's long eighteenth century, from 1660-1840. Specific topics will vary from year to year, but will generally include the transformation of political culture, the consequences of war, the question of national identities, the emergence of commercial society and the changes in social structure.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of the department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Gender history explores the roles, images, and experiences of masculinity and femininity in the past. This course will familiarize students with the changing theoretical and historiographical terrain of gender history. It will draw on the international literature but focus on the history of gender in Canada, examining how historians analyse masculinity, femininity, the family, sexuality, politics, race/ethnicity, moral regulation, class, nation, and colonialism.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
The content of this course will vary. Emphasis will be on analysis of important issues and recent developments in the history and historiography of modern Asia. Consult the History Department for particulars. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
An examination of United States history from the close of the Reconstruction era to the present. Students will gain exposure to the political, economic, social and/or cultural history of the United States. Course content may vary according to the instructor.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A seminar course whose content will vary. A description of the course is available in advance at the History department office. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head. .
Attributes: Humanities
A study of Aboriginal rights from early contact to the present with a particular emphasis on treaties, the courts, and Aboriginal efforts to enforce specific forms of rights.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Readings on the history of Latin America since colonial times, focused on the dynamic relationship between different social groups and the state. Based on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this historical overview will cover different geographical areas, issues, and social factors.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A seminar course focusing on various themes in the cultural history of the place called Canada. How have people there expressed their understanding of factors like religion, gender, war, empire, class, etc.? What have historians done to help us understand the beliefs, works of art, popular movements, laws, or institutions that emerged?
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
The content of this course will vary. It is designed to provide students with specialized topics and themes in Social history. A description of the course is available in advance at the History department office. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Advanced historical study of topics in world and global history. Specific thematic, methodological, and theoretical approaches may vary by instructor.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A thorough introduction to archival theory and practise with special emphasis on the history and development of archives and their place in modern society, terminology, collection development, appraisal arrangement, access, conservation, research aids and related archival principles.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A study of historical methods and historiography.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This seminar examines issues relating to Jewish history and historiography in the context of European history and historiography.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
The readings of a select number of modern and classical historians. Preparation of a research paper on a particular historiographic problem.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Introduction to some of the principal issues and approaches in the history of health and disease. It is not meant to be a strictly chronological survey. Topics and themes may include the development of nursing and medical professions; transformation of the hospital; mental health; alternative therapies; colonization, infectious disease and aboriginal health; and health and the state.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
This course explores the history of health and health care in Canada, with a focus on the late 19th and 20th centuries. Topics will include colonization, infectious disease, and Aboriginal health; the evolution of medical and nursing professions; the emergence of the modern hospital; mental health, psychiatry and the asylum; cancer; alternative therapies; childbirth; health and old age; and health and the state. Analytical categories of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality will run throughout the material.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A study of selected historical developments in Latin America since the Cuban Revolution, with emphasis on most recent themes.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
Canadian Social History focuses on the ways in which people's lives shaped and were shaped by their physical and social environments, relationships of power, and legal and political forces.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A seminar course whose content will vary from year to year. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of department head.
Attributes: Humanities
A program of independent reading and/or research on selected topics, undertaken and arranged by a student in consultation with prospective instructor, upon the written approval of the department head. The course content may vary. Students can earn multiple credits for this course only when the topic subtitle is different.
Attributes: Humanities