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History 1401E - Modern Europe, 1715 to the Present: Conflict and Transformation
Examines central events and themes of modern European history, including: origins and impact of the French and industrial revolutions; Napoleonic wars; liberalism and reaction; socialism; nationalism; women's emancipation movements; imperialism, national rivalries and world wars; the Russian Revolution, Communist rule, and the collapse of the Soviet Union; Nazism; European integration.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour, 1.0 course.
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History 1601E - Survey of East Asian History
The history of China, Korea and Japan from earliest development until modern times.  The course emphasizes that although they are independent nations their histories are intertwined.
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History 1803E - Introduction to the History of Business and Commerce
Examines the emergence of modern business techniques and structures in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and the further development of these techniques and structures in Canada.
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History 1805E - Science, Technology and Global History
A survey of global history with a focus on mathematics, science, technology, medicine and environment.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
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History 1807 - The History of Business
This course examines the history of business and capitalism from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Particular attention will be paid to the history of credit, banking, the stock market, the corporation, and globalization.
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History 1810E - Wars that Changed the World
This course examines four transformational wars in the history of the world in detail, both in lectures and in small discussion groups that will also focus on the development of foundational analytical and writing skills. Topics include the implications and effects of war for civilians, trade, popular culture and technology.
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History 2110A/B - Fragile Freedoms? Human Rights in Canada
This course examines the history of human rights in Canada. It explores the creation of rights linked to ethnicity, gender, language, religion, region, class and other characteristics. It asks both why rights have been created and what factors have limited the development of rights.
Antirequisite(s): History 2187
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History 2120A/B - Northern Enterprise:  Canadian Business and Labor History
The development and effect of business in Canada from the late nineteenth century, with special emphasis on its social impact and the emergence of a Canadian labor movement.
Antirequisite(s): History 2125F/G, the former History 2213F/G
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History 2121 - Building Modern Canada, 1845-1945
This course examines Canada’s dramatic transformation from a rural-agrarian to an urban-industrial nation. Lectures focus on the economic, technological and social forces that created modern Canada.
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History 2122A/B - Building Modern Canada, 1845-1945
This course examines Canada’s dramatic transformation from a rural-agrarian to an urban-industrial nation. Lectures focus on the economic, technological and social forces that created modern Canada.
Antirequisite(s): History 2121
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History 2124A/B - Sounds, Sights & Bits: Explorations in 20th Century Canadian Popular Culture
Canadian popular culture: poor-quality imitation of American, or crucial element of Canadian identity, worthy of “Canadian Content” regulations and financial support? This course traces the 20th century evolution of “Canadian popular culture,” offering glimpses into music, film, television, sport and more. What was enjoyed, why, and was it “Canadian ?”
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2124F/G.
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History 2125F/G - Northern Enterprise: Canadian Business and Labor History
The development and effect of business in Canada from the late nineteenth century, with special emphasis on its social impact and the emergence of a Canadian labor movement.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2213F/G.
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History 2127F/G - In Search of Canada: Postwar to Present
An examination of selected social themes shaping postwar Canada. Topics covered include modernization, immigration and multiculturalism, rights issues, regionalism, and the multifaceted search for a "Canadian" society and culture.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2207F/G, 2217F/G.
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History 2128A/B - In Search of Canada:  Postwar to Present
An examination of selected social themes shaping postwar Canada. Topics covered include modernization, immigration and multiculturalism, rights issues, regionalism, and the multifaceted search for a "Canadian" society and culture.
Antirequisite(s): History 2127F/G, the former History 2207F/G, 2217F/G
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History 2129A/B - Why is Canada so Big? A History of Canada’s Size
This course tells a history of Canada by exploring the nation’s growth, and the subsequent role that size and the natural environment have played in developing our national character.
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History 2131A/B - The Presidency in American History
Examines the development of the modern presidency in terms of the challenges facing presidents and their success or failure in responding to the needs of the time. Special attention will be given to the evolution of presidential power and its historical consequences.
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History 2132A/B - From Coney Island to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: The History of American Popular Culture
This course traces the evolution of American popular culture from its emergence as an increasingly inclusive “mass” culture in the nineteenth century to the more fragmented and kinetic cultural productions that are disseminated by American media—art, literature, television, film, music, the internet, etc.—today.
Antirequisite(s): History 3307E
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History 2134A/B - "Talkin' 'Bout My Generation": Youth, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll
This course uses the cultural phenomenon of rock 'n' roll as a lens to explore the connections between youth and rebellion and societal change in the latter half of the twentieth century. The spectacle of the performers and their lyrics will be used as historical texts to understand this change.
Antirequisite(s): History 2706E.
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History 2135A/B - African-American History:  Racism and the Struggle for Freedom in America
This course explores African-American history from the end of slavery to today. We trace the diverse experiences of people of African descent in the United States, including slavery and the struggle to end it, the segregated Jim Crow period, the Black Freedom/civil rights movement, hip-hop culture, and more recent developments.
Antirequisite(s): History 3311F/G, History 3313F/G.
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History 2137A/B - Draft Dodgers, Hippies, and Black Panthers:  The U.S. in the 1960s
The 1960s is often perceived as a period of radical change, especially in the United States. We examine the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, the Free Speech and Women’s Liberation movements, Great Society programs, and the development of a counterculture.
Antirequisite(s): History 3327F/G.
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History 2138A/B - The American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1840-1877
This course examines the causes, events, and consequences of the American Civil War. Topics include the expansion of slavery, national politics, and the failure to resolve the crisis in the 1850s; race and emancipation; battles and strategies; total war; Reconstruction; and the legacy of the War
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History 2140 - Women in Canadian History: Changing Roles and Diverse Social Realities
A survey of Canadian women’s history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women’s lived experience as recorded through biography.
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History 2141 - Western Civilization: Divine Kingdoms to Democratic Communities
A lecture and discussion course surveying the main political, social, economic and cultural developments of Western Civilization from ancient Greece and Rome to the present.
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History 2145A/B - Twentieth Century Totalitarianism
This course is a comparative study of two of the principal totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century -- Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The course will compare the leadership, institutions, and policies of each regime.
Antirequisite(s): History 1403E.
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History 2147A/B - Nazi Germany
We analyze how the Nazi Party came to power; the regime’s use of propaganda, intimidation and terror within Germany after 1933; Hitler’s foreign policy; Nazi methods in occupied Europe; anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and other programs of mass murder; resistance within Germany, and the reasons for the regime's defeat.
Antirequisite(s): History 1403E, History 2145A/B.
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History 2148A/B - Police Work and Forensics in Victorian Britain
Late Victorian Britain was the setting for Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional 'consulting detective,' Sherlock Holmes, whose afterlife in television and film would have astonished his creator.  We examine Holmes' world.  Our subjects include the nineteenth century obsession with murder and the history of policing and detection.
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History 2149A/B - Medieval Lives
An introduction to medieval western Europe through an examination of the lives of some of its inhabitants, with a particular focus on their daily lives. The historical reality of such lives is juxtaposed against contemporary popular notions about the middle ages. What can these lives tell us about their society.
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History 2162A/B - A Basic Introduction to the History of the Middle East
This course examines the peoples, cultures, religions, and politics of the Middle East. It begins by exploring the rise of Islam and ends with an examination of the impact of colonialism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and oil production and wealth, as well as the forces that brought about the Arab Spring.
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History 2164A/B - Communist China from Mao to the Present
This course will examine the People’s Republic of China beginning with the emergence of communist policies during the Second Sino-Japanese War of the 1930s-40s. It will analyze the development of Maoism, the emergence of a free-market economy in the Deng Xiaoping era, and more recent changes.
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History 2171A/B - Greed is Good: The History of Modern Capitalism
This course explores American capitalism in the 1980s - a decade defined by materialism, greed, and scandal on Wall Street. It examines, in particular, the rise of finance capitalism and considers this rise within political and cultural context of the era.
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History 2173 - War in the Ancient and Medieval World
A consideration of technical, cultural, social and political aspects of warfare. The course ends with the fall of Constantinople and the use of gunpowder.
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History 2179 - The Two World Wars
An examination of the causes, course and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, stressing comparison of the two conflicts. Students will be asked to consider a variety of historical analyses of both wars and to study the process of interpretation as well as events.
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History 2181A/B - Sexual History: Expression, Regulation and Rights in the West since 1800
This course examines the history of sexuality from the nineteenth century to the present, investigating sexual desire, behaviour, and ideologies. Topics include the body, marriage, reproduction, prostitution, same-sex relations, and religious, medical and psychiatric intervention, and help demonstrate that sexuality has been the object of social scrutiny and political regulation.
Antirequisite(s): History 2185.
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History 2182A/B - Social History of Women in Canada
A survey of Canadian Women's History from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience through biography.
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History 2183A/B - Women in the Work Force 1700-1990
Explores women's experience of employment including women's paid labor in pre-industrial settings; domestic service; sexual division of labor; work in industrial settings; entering the professions; feminization of clerical work; women's war work; female professions; women and organized labor; feminism and women workers and globalization.
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History 2185 - A History of Sex and Sexuality in the Western World
This course examines the history of sexuality across time and cultures, exploring how sexual ideologies, desire, and behavior relate to topics including marriage, reproduction, same-sex relations, religious, medical, and psychiatric intervention, and demonstrating that sexuality as a social construction has been the object of intense social scrutiny and political regulation.
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History 2186A/B - Zombie Apocalypse: Panic and Paranoia from the Black Death to Y2K
This course examines the impact of fear, panic, and paranoia in human history. It considers how and why concern changes into panic in some situations and not in others, and the factors that make a descent into panic possible and even likely in some circumstances.
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History 2188A/B - Pirates & Piracy on the World’s Seas and in the Public Imagination
This course examines the history of pirates and piracy from antiquity through the present day.  Among its major themes are changing definitions of piracy, the reasons individuals, groups, and nations have practiced or supported piracy, and how pirates have been depicted in popular culture.
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History 2189A/B - History at the Movies
This course explores representations of history on film, and the strengths and weaknesses of film as a medium for history, in both fictional film and documentaries from more than a century of historical movie-making.

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History 2201E - Canada: Origins to the Present
An examination of the most important aspects of Canada's history from its beginnings to the present.
Antirequisite(s): History 1201E, 2203E, 2205E, the former 2207F/G.
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History 2208E - Women in Canadian History: Changing Roles and Diverse Social Realities
A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience as recorded through biography.
Antirequisite(s): History 2182A/B, History 2140; Women's Studies   2139A/B, Women Studies 2140.
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History 2209E - First Nations in Canadian History
First Nations peoples are the original inhabitants of Canada. This course will examine history recorded since European contact with all possible efforts to privilege an Aboriginal point of view and the contribution Aboriginal peoples have made and continue to make to Canada as a nation-state and as a cultural community.
Antirequisite(s): First Nations Studies 2901E
Prerequisite(s): First Nations Studies 1020E or Anthropology 1025F/G or the former 020E or History 1401E or 1201E or 1701E.
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History 2291E-2295E - Selected Topics in Canadian History
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History 2296F/G-2299F/G - Selected Topics in Canadian History
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History 2301E - The United States, Colonial Period to the Present
Emphasis first term upon the emergence of the American nation, the egalitarian impulse, national expansion and sectional conflict; second term, upon the great transformations of the modern era: the growth of industrialism, big government, a pluralistic society, and international predominance.
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History 2303F/G - The Crucible of the Modern World: The United States and the International Community, 1935 to the Present
This course explores the modern origins of the American Empire. A primary theme concerns the rise, in the middle of the Twentieth Century, and then the subsequent decline of the United States’ moral authority.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 298G if taken between 2001-02 and 2007-08
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History 2391E-2395E - Selected Topics in US History
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History 2396F/G-2399F/G - Selected Topics in US History
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History 2401E - Medieval Europe
From the 4th to the 15th centuries.
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History 2403E - Europe & England in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Cultural, social, economic, and political themes including the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the rise of absolutism; the commercial revolution; heresy, witchcraft, and scepticism; plague and health problems; the origins of modern science; demographic trends; the Puritans; baroque art and music; Cromwell, Gustavus Adolphus, and the creation of the modern army.
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History 2404E - Europe, 1789-1918: An Era of Revolutionary Change
European history in the period between the French revolution and the First World War was marked by cataclysmic change, political, economic, social, and cultural. History 2404E analyzes the causes and consequences of these changes and the relationships among them.
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History 2405E - Thrones Games: the English Monarchy from the Anglo-Saxons to the death of Richard III
The course begins with the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy (seven kingdoms) and ends in 1485. We shall study such themes as the means used to attain and keep power, the nature of rebellions and the relationship between rulers and ruled. Students will undertake document work  and a Computer Module assist analysis.
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History 2409E - History of Russia-USSR
From the early beginnings (pre-historical, Kievan, and later) through the Soviet period.
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History 2415F/G - The History of Crime
An exploration of criminality as a way of studying social, political, and intellectual history through cases. The course examines Roman law, medieval crimes, the formation of the state and crimes prosecuted by central authority; scientific definitions of crime; and concludes with modern celebrity crime.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 299F if taken in 2002-08.
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History 2421F/G - France in the Twentieth Century: Decline, Defeat, and Renewal?
After a long decline, France was traumatized by the Great War, social and political struggles, occupation, and decolonization. Thirty years later, France was prosperous, enjoying a dynamic demography, a rich social model, an outstanding infrastructure, European leadership - and a surprising political consensus. What forces explain this history?
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History 2423F/G - Russia and Ukraine: Past and Present
This course examines the causes and consequences of the current conflict in Ukraine. By looking at Russian and Ukrainian history, placing it in international context and exploring concepts such as state, empire, nation, and the role of mass media, it provides a larger framework for understanding what is happening today.
Antirequisite(s): Political Science 2423F/G.
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History 2491E-2495E - Selected Topics in European History
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History 2496F/G-2499F/G - Selected Topics in European History
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History 2501E - History of Latin America
An introduction to Latin America. The first term emphasizes the colonial foundations of Spanish and Portuguese civilization in the New World; the second term emphasizes the growth of the individual republics, personalist rule, federalism vs. centralism, revolution, and the "static society".
Antirequisite(s): The former History 291E if taken at King’s 2004-2005, the former History 391E if taken at King’s 2003-2004.
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History 2503F/G - Heresy, Witchcraft, and Social Control: The Inquisition in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires 1478-1800
The Inquisition, one of the most notorious and controversial institutions in European history, left a profound legacy in the Iberian Peninsula and its American colonies.  Witnesses’ testimonies provide a wealth of information about the daily lives of common men and women that is absent from other sources.
Antirequisite(s): History 2596G, taken in 2013-14.
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History 2591E-2595E - Selected Topics in Latin American or Pacific History
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History 2596F/G-2599F/G - Selected Topics in Latin American or Pacific History
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History 2601E - History of Modern China
A study of China beginning with the decline of the Ming dynasty (ca 1600), continuing through the rise and fall of the Qing dynasty, and concluding with the rise of modern China in the late-20th century.
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History 2605E - Survey of Japanese History
The political, economic, social and cultural history of Japan from prehistoric times to the present.
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History 2606E - The Making of the Modern Middle East
This course moves from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire through the formation of independent Turkey and the Arab and Jewish states to a consideration of social, economic and political developments such as the development of secular nationalism, socialism, pan-Islamism, and the challenges facing the modern Middle East.
Antirequisite(s): History 2608F/G, the former History 2161E.
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History 2607F/G - The History and Civilization of Medieval Islam
The course introduces the main events and themes of Islamic history and civilization and their place in world history. Topics include: Muhammad and the Qur'an, the Islamic legal system, social structure and political institutions, literature, philosophy, theology, art and architecture, medicine and science, interaction with Europe, the Crusades, and trade.
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History 2608F/G - The History of the Modern Middle East
The course surveys the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the transformation of political institutions, the formation of independent Arab states in the 20th century, Arab nationalism, fundamentalism, the impact of European and American imperialism, and the challenges of modernity for the family and status of women.
Antirequisite(s): History 2606E and the former History 2161.
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History 2611E - Survey of Korean History
A survey of Korean history from the formation of the first Korean states to the present, focusing on domestic developments and the role of the Korean peninsula in the international system in East Asia.      
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History 2691E-2695E - Selected Topics in Asian, African or Middle Eastern History
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History 2696F/G-2699F/G - Selected Topics in Asian, African or Middle Eastern History
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History 2703F/G - The Cultural Mosaic and the Melting Pot
A comparative analysis of ethnic relationships in Canada and the United States in the Twentieth Century.
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History 2705E - The Western Tradition in International Relations Theory and Practice
History 2705E is a ‘great books' course. The purpose is to examine critical works of international relations theory in context. The focus is “the Western tradition”. Thinkers to be considered include: Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Erasmus, Grotius, Hobbes, Frederick of Prussia, von Clausewitz, Angell, and Morgenthau.
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History 2791E-2795E - Selected Topics in International or Comparative History
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History 2796F/G-2799F/G - Selected Topics in International or Comparative History
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History 2801E - Saints and Sinners: Christianity in Historical Context from Ancient to Modern Times
This course examines the early Christian movement and diverse approaches to doctrine, governance, and worship, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The course also addresses the role of the Church at various political, social, and cultural cross-roads in western civilization, including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation, and the Enlightenment.
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History 2807F/G - Entrepreneurship in the United States and Canada since 1800
A lecture and seminar course examining theories of entrepreneurship and their historical relationship to such essential business activities as finance, marketing, manufacturing, transportation, labour relations, and mangement. The focus is on the careers and business innovations of leading American and Canadian entrepreneurs in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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History 2811F/G - Contacts: Indigenous and European People
An overview of first contacts between Indigenous People and Europeans in the Americas. First contact took many forms – from prophecy to physical meetings – since the late 1400s. Students will use a combination of primary and secondary sources to explore a series of different first contacts throughout the Americas.
Antirequisite(s): First Nations Studies 2910F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts or Social Science 1.0 or 0.5 Essay course.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 2812E - Plague, Pox and Flu: Disease in Global History
This course examines the role of disease in history, exploring how disease swept through cities, devastated populations, and transformed politics, public health and economies. Spanning from antiquity to present day, this global survey investigates society’s experience with, and response to, such diseases as the plague, leprosy, smallpox, and AIDS/HIV.
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History 2814F/G - The History of Aviation
This course explores the history of aviation from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It focuses on the key events and personalities associated with the history of aviation from the romantic era of flight to the development of the modern aviation industry.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2215F/G.
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History 2815E - Jewish History  from Abraham to the Modern Era
This course emphasizes turning points in Jewish history, including  the writing of the Bible, the rise and fall of the Hebrew kingdoms, relations with Hellenism and Christianity,  the place of Jews in the Islamic world and in medieval, early modern, and modern Europe, the Holocaust, and the foundation of Israel.
Antirequisite(s): History 2809E, History 3811E
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History 2816A/B - Introduction to Digital History
In this course students will learn how historical content is produced, presented and published online; how to find and evaluate digital primary and secondary sources; and how to use computational techniques to work with digital resources. No previous background in the subject area is required.
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Extra Information: 4.0 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 2891E-2895E - Selected Topics in Historiography or Thematic or Methodological History
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course
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History 2896F/G-2899F/G - Selected Topics in Historiography or Thematic or Methodological History
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History 2901E - Conceptions of Humanity and Society in Western Culture
This course examines debates that helped define the cultural climate of the eras in which they took place and influenced the subsequent history of Western culture. Assigned authors or texts include: Homer and Aristotle; the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and St. Augustine; Erasmus and Luther; Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau and Burke.
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History 3203E - French Canada
Selected topics since the sixteenth century. Emphasis on demographic and economic change; the evolution of social, religious, and political structures; francophone nationalism and French-English relations.
Antirequisite(s): History 3204F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3204F/G - French Canada
An overview of the cultural, political, and economic history of French Canada since the Conquest of 1759. Particular attention will be paid to the growth of nationalism, the formation of identity, as well as the development of cultural, religious, and political institutions.
Antirequisite(s): History 3203E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3205E - Identities in Conflict: Canadian Social History since 1800
This course examines the social history of Canada since 1800, including such topics as industrialization, urbanization, class struggle, labour strife, rural depopulation, immigration and migration, ethnic tension, racism, gender struggle, sexuality, social reform, religion, culture, and regionalism. Considerable attention will be paid to the historiography and/or methodologies of the field.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3207E - The History of Canadian Culture
An examination of the evolution of Canadian culture, including art, literature, film, and electronic media. The course traces the historical development of distinct Canadian cultural forms, and explores such issues as the role of the state in promoting culture and the relationship between culture and nationalism.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 hour seminar course, 1.0 course.
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History 3208F/G - Life, Love & Death in Early Canada
This course explores everyday life in Canada between 1760 and 1914. Topics include birth, family and home, dress and etiquette, love and marriage, food, health, morality, death and mourning. Analytical themes include race, class, gender, social memory and identity.
Antirequisite(s): History 4213F/G, History 4496F if taken in 2011.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3215E - The Evolution of Canadian Political Parties, 1867-Present
An examination of the factors which have influenced party politics in Canada (including economic nationalism, continentalism, imperialism, regionalism and urbanism).
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3221E - Topics in Ontario History
Topics include aspects of the political, social and economic history of the province.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3223E - Canada's North: History and Imagery
This course examines Canada’s "Far” and “Middle” Norths along with the “idea of North”. Topics include the First Nations and Southern explorations; underdevelopment; cultural colonialism and Northern reawakening; administrative evolution and Northern self-government and more. Attention is paid to both the “real” and imagined Canadian Norths.
Antirequisite(s): First Nations Studies 3931E
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course
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History 3226F/G - Canadian Political Leadership
This course focuses on leadership styles of the most influential, innovative, and frequently controversial prime ministers and provincial premiers from the 1860s to the present. Emphasis is placed on the interplay of character, circumstance, pragmatism and principle in governing a nation as ethnically diverse and regionally fragmented as Canada.
Antirequisite(s): History 3297F/G taken in 2009 and 2010.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3227F/G - Political Protest in Canadian History
This course focuses on the many expressions, from peaceful to violent, of political protest in Canada between the 1820s and the present. Protest groups examined include the Upper and Lower Canadian rebels, laborers and agrarians, intellectuals, left- and right-wing extremists, youths and students, feminists, Quebec separatists, and First Nations.
Antirequisite(s): History 3298F/G taken in 2009 and 2010.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3231F/G - Yours to Discover: A History of Ontario
The course is a survey in seminar format of Ontario’s rich and varied past commencing with its founding as the colony of Upper Canada in the aftermath of the American Revolution and stretching to the modern day.
Antirequisite(s): History 3221E
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above
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Extra Information: 3 seminar hours. 0.5 course.
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History 3291E-3295E - Selected Topics in Canadian History
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course  
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History 3296F/G - Selected Topics in Canadian History
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.   
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History 3299F/G - Selected Topics in Canadian History
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3301E - Colonial British America
Seminar on British exploration and settlement of America, imperial rivalries with other European empires, relations with Native Americans, free and enslaved migration to America, the development and diversity of colonial American societies, British imperial integration, the American Revolution, and the formation of the United States. Covers 1550 to 1800.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3305E - The United States, 1783-1916
How territorial expansion, slavery, economic change influenced U.S. society from the Constitution through Civil War and beyond; analysis of American Exceptionalism and the idea that U.S. history is the story of “progress”; short contextual lectures mixed with discussion, emphasis on critical engagement with scholarly arguments and interpretation of primary sources.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3320E - Global America: The United States in World Affairs, 1700 to the present
Throughout its history the United States has imagined itself as a global project. To better understand America’s role in the world and the impact of international developments on the United States, this seminar explores the political, economic, military, and cultural dimensions of U.S. interaction with the world since the 18th century.
Antirequisite(s): History 3319E
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2300, 3300 or 4300 level or enrolment in the Honors Specialization in International Relations.
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History 3321E - Topics in American Social and Cultural History, 1607 to the Present
The course examines major themes in social and cultural formation in the American past, including the histories of race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, religiosity and recreation; the development of American regions with distinctive cultures; and the implications of the production and consumption of commercial mass culture since the late nineteenth century.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 393E if taken in 2006-07 or 2007-08.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3326F/G - Atomic America: The United States During the 1950s
This seminar examines some key aspects of political, social, and cultural life in the United States during the 1950s. Topics include social classes, urban and suburban growth, family and gender relations, McCarthyism, and civil rights movements. The impact and legacy of events and issues of the 1950s are evaluated.
Antirequisite(s): History 3396F/G if taken in 2011-2012
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course
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History 3327F/G - The Rebellious Decade: Culture and Conflict in the U.S. in the 1960s
This course will focus on key social movements of the 1960s (including The Great Society, civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, free speech, anti-Vietnam War, and the Counterculture) and examine the roots of these movements, the context in which they began and operated, and their successes and failures.
Antirequisite(s): History 2137A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3391E-3395E - Selected Topics in US History
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Prerequisite(s): 1 .0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course
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History 3396F/G-3399F/G - Selected Topics in US History
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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History 3401E - The European Renaissance
This course follows the Renaissance from its origins in Northern Italy and investigates how it developed and flourished in diverse environments, both in Italy and later in Northern Europe. We will consider the art, but will focus on the political, cultural and social developments which inspired and paid for it.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3405F/G - The Peoples of the "British" Isles: Conquest, Communication and Culture 1066-1543
This course asks how the later domination by England has affected perceptions of the relationship between the four nations known as “The British Isles” between 1100 and 1500, and whether that domination was inevitable. Focus will be on the Celtic countries rather than on England.
Antirequisite(s): History 3497G if taken in 2010-11
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours. 0.5 course
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History 3407F/G - Themes in European Environmental History: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
This course explores the history of European attitudes toward the natural world. We will reach back to Antiquity, but the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and, above all, the early-modern period will draw most of our attention. The multi-disciplinary nature of environmental history will suggest a broad range of topics.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3408F/G - Europe, Nature, and History: Opportunities and Crises
Was Ancient Greece ruthlessly deforested? Was medieval expansion born of a climatic Optimum - and ruined by over-exploitation or the Little Ice Age? This course will examine the ways in which natural forces and social imperatives interacted to shape European attitudes to nature - and their impact across the world.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3411E - The British Isles from 1688: Glorious Revolution to 'Broken Britain'
This is course covers British history from the constitutional revolution of 1688/9 through Britain's triumph as the first industrial nation and a great imperial power to the post-industrial, post-imperial present often described as 'Broken Britain'. Themes include the development of parliamentary democracy but also class, race and gender relations.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3412F/G - Britain's Sailors, Soldiers and Empire: 1689 to 1902
This course examines the emergence of Britain as an imperial power in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the military means by which that empire was acquired (and lost). It explores both soldiers' and sailors' lives and the effects of war on state formation and national identity within Britain.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 seminar hour, 0.5 course.
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History 3413E - France, 1715 to the Present
Examines the development of France from the decline of the old regime to the political and economic transformation after the Second World War. Lectures, book discussion and examination of selected topics in seminars.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3415E - Modern Germany, 1815 to the Present
An examination of the conflict between liberalism and reaction in the nineteenth century; the effects of industrialization; unification and its consequences; the causes and consequences of the First World War; the rise of Nazism and the nature of Nazi rule; the post-war German states; and Germany in the post-unification era.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3417E - Russia
An emphasis on intellectual history in a context of political, social, and economic changes from the eighteenth century to 1921. Broad topics will include the first and second European enlightenments, conservative thought, populism, anarchism, and Marxism. The Revolutions of 1917 will be treated intensively.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3418F/G - Representations of the Past in Eastern Europe and Russia
This course looks at how history has been constructed, used, and misused to justify the existence of imperial and modern national projects in Eastern Europe and Russia. The focus will be on Russia, Poland and Ukraine, on both political and cultural factors, and how these processes changed over time.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3419F/G - The Rise and Fall of Communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe
Europe Communism had a great impact on the politics and history of Europe and parts of Asia in the twentieth century. This course explores the form of communism which turned the collapsing Russian empire into the USSR, spread to Eastern Europe after World War Two and eventually collapsed in 1989-91.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 439E, Political Science 3340F/G, the former Political Science 249E.
Prerequisite(s): History 1401E or Political Science 2231E or 2245E or International Relations 2701E.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3420F/G - The Soviet Experiment
The rise and fall of the Soviet Union had a profound impact on European and global affairs. Yet for many, Russia remains an enigma. This course examines the politics, economics, social issues, cultures and religions of the peoples who lived in the USSR, Russians and non-Russians, and how they interacted.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 439E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3421E - History of European International Relations: Communities and Conflicts
This course examines major conflicts, key personalities, alliances, challenges to the nation-state, relations with the world beyond Europe, and the evolution of Europe’s international relations from the mid-19th century to the present.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3422F/G - Ever Closer? The European Union in Historical Context
This course explores the historical roots of European integration. The first half of the twentieth century brought unprecedented destruction to Europe; the postwar years witnessed the construction of a successful supranational organization, the European Union (EU). We will explain this apparently dramatic reversal and the end of fierce inter-state rivalry.
Antirequisite(s): History 3496F/G taken in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.
Prerequisite(s): History 1401E and 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3423F/G - North of the Wall: Scotland From Foundations to 1603
The creation of the kingdom of Scotland and of a sense of Scottish identity, from beginnings up to the union of the crowns of Scotland and England in 1603. Topics include Scottish geography, the racial composition of the Kingdom and the role of church and crown in uniting the country.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 399F if taken between 2003-04 and 2006-07
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3425F/G - History of Scotland: From 1603 to 1999
An investigation of the maintenance of Scottish identity after 1603, exploring the relationship between the Scots and the Stuarts, the importance of religion, the Jacobite movement, the Enlightenment, Scots involvement in Empire building, the social and economic results of industrialization, and the twentieth-century revival of nationalism.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 398G-001 if taken in 2003-04 and 2007-08.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3426F/G - Making a Living in the Middle Ages: Farmers, Guild Artisans and Merchants
This course provides an overview of select critical debates about the medieval western European economy by examining the lives of its most important actors: farmers, guild artisans and merchants. Students will also learn how to analyse some of the historical documents employed by historians in these debates.
Antirequisite(s): Economics 3318F/G
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour, 0.5 course.
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History 3427E - The Holocaust
This course explores the evolution of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in the broader context of German and Jewish history and anti-Semitic ideologies. The Holocaust is analyzed from the perspective of the perpetrators, victims and bystanders. The ultimate goal is to enable students to understand how and why the Holocaust happened.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 394E if taken in 2006-07.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 3.0 seminar hours, 1.0 course
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History 3429F/G - Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe
This seminar analyses the forces unleashed upon Europe by the French Revolution, examining 25 years of radical proclamations, unprecedented initiatives, recurrent conflicts, and reactions. Our focus will be the relations between France and its neighbours - placing these fiery decades in a trans-national context to understand their impact upon Europe.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above
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Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course
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History 3431F/G - Cities, Spaces and Minority Identities in Modern Europe: The Experiences of Jews and Muslims
This course focuses on the role of the city and urban spaces in the lives of religious and ethnic minorities in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, we will explore the experiences of Jews and Muslims in European society, as well as interactions between the two communities.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 Course in History at the 2200 level or above.
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Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course
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History 3491E-3495E - Selected Topics in European History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.  
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History 3497F/G-3499F/G - Selected Topics in European History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course  
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History 3513F/G - The Cuban Revolution: Origins and Legacy
The Cuban Revolution was a seminal event that affected Cuba and all Latin American countries, and shaped their relations with the United States during the second half of the twentieth century. This course analyzes the causes of the Cuban Revolution and consequences for Cuba and the rest of Latin America.
Antirequisite(s): History 3596G taken in 2010 or summer 2011
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course
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History 3591E-3595E - Selected Topics in Latin American or Pacific History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course. 
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History 3596F/G-3599F/G - Selected Topics in Latin American or Pacific History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 3601E - Chinese Nationalism in History
A thematic exploration of the crucial developments and problems in Chinese history since 1800.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3603E - Modern Japan: Nation, Society, and Culture
Traces the historical development of Japan from 1600 to the present, with an emphasis on the social, political, economic, and cultural factors that influenced these changes. The impact of these developments on Japanese society and Japan’s role in the international system will also be assessed.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3605E - Crusaders & Moslems in the Twelfth Century
Aspects of Frankish and Moslem Societies and Cultures in the Middle East.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3607F/G - Cold War East Asia
This course investigates the domestic and international factors affecting the East Asian regional system during the Cold War period. Topics may include the U.S. occupation of Japan, Japan’s external relations with the U.S.A., U.S.S.R. and China, the rise of communist China, the Cultural Revolution, and the division of Korea.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3608F/G - Israel: People, Politics and Culture
The course introduces students to the varied nature of Israeli culture, society and politics. Beginning with an overview of Zionist ideology and mandate Palestine, the course explores the critical divisions in contemporary Israel: between secular and religious, Jews and Arabs, and Jews of different backgrounds.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 Course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course
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History 3609F/G - Japan Since 1945
Selected topics, such as Japan's phenomenal economic growth, its competitive drive for the control of world markets, big business in politics, the debates on the Constitutional revision and remilitarization, student radicalism and the changing roles of women in contemporary Japan, are examined.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3611E - Empire, Conflict, and Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific
An investigation of historical developments within the international system in the Asia-Pacific and the region's interactions with the wider world, mainly concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries.   
Antirequisite(s): The former History 396E if taken in 2007-08.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above or International Relations 2701E.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour, 1.0 course.
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History 3613F/G - The Koreas Since 1945
This course will investigate developments in North and South Korea since 1945. Topics will include the Korean War; economic development, military dictatorship, and democratisation in South Korea; the consolidation of the Kim family state in North Korea; and the role of the Korean peninsula in international relations in the Asia-Pacific.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above or International Relations 2701E.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours 0.5 course.
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History 3691E-3695E - Selected Topics in Asian, African or Middle Eastern History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3696F/G-3699F/G - Selected Topics in Asian, African or Middle Eastern History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 3701E - Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
This course explores the rise of modern slavery, the Atlantic Slave Trade, the experience of enslavement, the relationship between bound labour and plantation agriculture, the emergence of abolitionist/antislavery activism and the process of Emancipation.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3702F/G - Slavery, Resistance and Emancipation in the Caribbean
This course explores the rise of Caribbean slavery, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Caribbean region, the experience of enslavement, the relationship between bound labour and plantation agriculture, the forms and impact of slave resistance, the various processes which led to emancipation and the legacies of Caribbean slavery.
Antirequisite(s): History 3701E
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours 0.5 course
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History 3707F/G - The Business of Wine
This course explores the role of wine, through time, in fostering business activity and its attendant institutions, the organization of production, marketing, commerce, and the creation of demand. Students will relate this to social and economic developments in local, regional and international contexts.
Antirequisite(s): History 3796F/G taken in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3709E - Iberian Empires: Portugal, Spain and their American Colonies in a Global Context, 1400-1810
This course will examine the history and legacy of Portugal, Spain and their American colonies in a global context. It will focus on the political, economic, social, geographic, scientific and technological factors that contributed to the formation and development of the first European transatlantic empires.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3715F/G - The Pursuit of Peace in the Transatlantic World, 1815-1991
This international history course examines how individuals, states, and non-state actors have tried to create a peaceful world order. We will study peace settlements, the ideas of peace activists and policymakers, cooperation and conflict amongst states, as well as the relationship between war and peace.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course
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History 3717F/G - The Global Cold War
This seminar examines the development of the Cold War from its ideological and political origins to its sudden, and arguably unexpected, end. It traces the evolution of the conflict from Europe to Asia to Africa, concluding with an assessment of how this geopolitical conflict has defined the modern world.
Antirequisite(s): History 3797F/G, if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3721F/G - Climate of the Past, Present, and Future
This course explores the role of climate in history, from the last ice age to the present. There are special emphases on Canadians’ relationship with climate, the development of meteorology in the 19th and 20th century, and the part that history plays in documenting and understanding climate change.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above or Geography  2133A/B.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3722F/G - 'Killing Fields': Genocide in Modern History
This seminar explores the causes, elements, and consequences of genocide in modern history through historical case studies and multidisciplinary perspectives.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 history course at the 2200 level or above
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 hours, 0.5 course
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History 3791E-3795E - Selected Topics in International or Comparative History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.  
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History 3797F/G-3799F/G - Selected Topics in International or Comparative History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3807E - The Jewish Immigrant Experience in North America, 1880-1945
A lecture course that examines the struggles and achievements of Jewish immigrants and their offspring in the United States and Canada, and the ways in which they conformed to and rebelled against against the dominant culture. The course will highlight a variety of themes related to ethnicity, religion, gender, and class.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 291E if taken in 2003-06.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1.0 course
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History 3808F/G - Jewish Life in North America since 1880
This course examines the history of Jews in the United States and Canada, highlighting their changing family, spiritual, social, and work lives, exploring themes of identity, assimilation, activism, and upward mobility, and considering how Jews have helped shape North American life through their struggles and achievements.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3813E - Public History
An exploration of history as it is understood by and interpreted for the public in varied venues and media, including museums, historic sites, historical fiction, the internet, and film. Topics include the history of public history, ethical practice, the relationships between form and content and between public and academic history.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3.0 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3814F/G - Kicking and Screaming: Women's Protest Movements in 19th and 20th Century Canada and the United States
This course will focus on female protest movements whose primary goal was to better the lives of women. With attention to issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class, it will explore various conditions that gave rise to rebellion, and will assess the movements' strategies and achievements.
Antirequisite(s): History 2813F/G
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3815E - Women in North American History
This course will examine Canadian and American women’s history from pre-industrial times to the present by investigating the experiences of women within the family, the labour force, and religious, political, and social reform movements. The course will also emphasize historiographical questions and theoretical and feminist concerns.
Antirequisite(s): History 2803E, History 3209E, the former 2805E.
Prerequisite(s):
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
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History 3816F/G - Introduction to Digital History
In this course students will learn how to produce, present, and publish historical content on-line; how to find and evaluate digital primary and secondary sources; and how to use computational techniques to work with digital resources. No previous background in the subject area is required.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2.0 hours, 0.5 course
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History 3825F/G - Making Numbers Work for You In Historical Research
Acquiring a knowledge of quantitative methods will allow you to powerfully increase the scope and depth of your historical research. No prior knowledge of statistics is required in this course that will take you from start to finish in the employment of these methods, as they pertain to historical documents.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 hours, 0.5 course.
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History 3891E-3895E - Selected Topics in Historiography or Thematic or Methodological History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.  
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History 3896F/G-3899F/G - Selected Topics in Historiography or Thematic or Methodological History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course
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History 4203F/G - Topics in First Nations History
Students will research a variety of specialized historical subjects relating to political, social, and economic interactions with non-Natives. After sampling secondary writings, students will draw on archival, visual, and oral records to offer first-hand experiences in dealing with the complexity of source materials.
Antirequisite(s): First Nations Studies 4901F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 4207E - Canada and the Age of Conflict, 1896-1945
“Modern” Canada was shaped between 1896 and 1945, decades that witnessed a massive immigration boom, two world wars, and an economic depression. This course will examine such issues as politics, regionalism, culture, gender, sexuality, modernity, class, race, ethnicity, religion, industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, foreign affairs, and age/generation during this period.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4208F/G - Canada and the Age of Conflict, 1896-1945
"Modern" Canada was largely shaped between 1896 and 1945, decades that witnessed a massive immigration boom, two world wars, and an economic depression. This upper-year seminar course will examine such issues as politics, war, regionalism, culture, gender, sexuality, modernity, class, race, ethnicity, religion, industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, foreign affairs, and age/generation.
Antirequisite(s): History 4207E
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 4211F/G - The Rebellions in the Canadas, 1837-1838
The Rebellions were a significant social, economic and political upheaval that was accompanied by extreme violence in both Upper and Lower Canada. This course examines the background, conduct and implications of these events and strives to place them in their neglected international context.
Antirequisite(s): History 4297G if taken in 2011-2012
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course
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History 4213F/G - Life, Love & Death in Early Canada
This course explores everyday life in Canada between 1760 and 1914. Topics include birth, family and home, dress and etiquette, love and marriage, food, health, morality, death and mourning. Analytical themes include race, class, gender, social memory and identity.
Antirequisite(s): History 4496F if taken in 2011
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course
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History 4291E-4295E - Selected Topics in Canadian History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.  
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History 4296F/G-4299F/G - Selected Topics in Canadian History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 4301E - The United States in the Twentieth Century
A survey of American history, 1901 to the present, with emphasis upon political, social, and economic developments. Intensive examination of selected topics in seminar.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: Restricted to Honors Students.
2 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4303E - Liberty in America, 1607-2001
Throughout U.S. history, liberty has been a rallying cry, an individual and collective ambition, a central political ingredient, a religious and a judicial principle, a hope realized and frequently a dream deferred. This course examines liberty’s multi-dimensional roots from early English settlement (Jamestown, 1607) to the Patriot Act (2001).
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2.0 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4391E-4395E - Selected Topics in US History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course  
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History 4396F/G-4399F/G - Selected Topics in US History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.   
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History 4410F/G - Crime and Society in England, 1800-1900
This seminar explores nineteenth-century reform of the criminal law: the rise of modern policing and the transformation of both the criminal trial and punishment. It considers the impact of gender and class on definitions of crime and the treatment of offenders as well as the historiography of criminal justice.
Antirequisite(s): History 4411E
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 4411E - Crime and Society in England 1660-1900
This seminar explores crime and the administration of English criminal justice from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Topics will include the reform of the criminal law, the rise of modern policing, the transformation of prosecution and trial, and developments in penal policy.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 498G-001 if taken in 2005-6 or 2006-7, the former History 499F-001 if taken in 2005-6.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4412E - The Tudors and the Stuarts: Early Modern England
This course considers the Tudor and Stuart dynasties, 1485-1714. Areas covered include the political and religious: how radical was the English reformation, how ‘glorious’ the revolution of 1688? Cultural topics will also be integral. What rituals dominated people’s lives? How riotous were the English?
Antirequisite(s): The former History 495E (2004-2008), History 4493E (2008-2010).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4421E - Medieval Villages, Medieval Worlds
Welcome to the worlds present in a single medieval village! Students in this methodology research-oriented seminar course will reconstruct a fourteenth century English village and analyze the behaviors of its inhabitants. Questions to be examined include the nature and significance of violence, co-operation, governance and women’s roles.
Antirequisite(s): History 4491E offered in 2009-10, 2011-12.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4491E-4495E - Selected Topics in European History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.    
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History 4496F/G-4499F/G - Selected Topics in European History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 4501F/G - The First Multicultural Experiment: Imposition, Adoption and Adaptation in Spanish and Portuguese America, 1490-1800
This course examines the Portuguese and Spanish American empires (1492-1800) concentrating on the transfer of European ideologies and institutions and on the subjugated peoples' ability to adopt, adapt and reject their new circumstances. It also includes the important role of women of all races played in a multicultural society.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 4591E-4595E - Selected Topics in Latin American or Pacific History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.   
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History 4596F/G-4599F/G - Selected Topics in Latin American or Pacific History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 4603F/G - Silk Roads and Spice Routes: Ancient and Medieval Asia and World Contacts
This course will investigate the economic, political, religious, cultural, and technological impact of long distance land and sea trade between Asia and other world regions in ancient and medieval times up to around 1500.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 4607F/G - History of Women and Gender Relations in Africa
In the past African women were powerful leaders, strong economic contributors and respected members of their extended families. This course will examine these historical roles as well as factors that undermined African women's status and changed gender relations, such as slavery, economic forces and colonialism.
Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 4607F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History or Women's Studies, taken at the 2200 level or above if they are History courses or at the 2000 level or above if they are Women's Studies courses.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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History 4691E-4695E - Selected Topics in Asian, African or Middle Eastern History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.  
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History 4696F/G-4699F/G - Selected Topics in Asian, African or Middle Eastern History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 4701E - Canada and the United States
This course analyses and compares a variety of themes which have been important in the development of both Canadian and American society. It also examines the involved and often difficult relationship of Canada and the United States, with an emphasis on the patterns of political, social, economic and military interaction.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
Restricted to Honors Students.
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History 4707E - Technology and Society in North America
An introduction to the social history of Canadian and American technology, this course examines interactions between technology and society during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Viewing technology as an aspect of culture, the main theme will be the development of distinctive national technical styles.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4708F/G - Histories of the Circumpolar Norths: 'The Last Imaginary Places'
This course examines the circumpolar Norths - Alaska, Kalaallit Nunaat , Nunavut, Siberia, Saami homelands and more. These regions have long been coveted by resource-hungry southerners and home to "Northerners", Indigenous and otherwise. Coverage includes Indigenous lives, southern imperialism, and how various Norths were conceived and re-conceived in the South.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course.
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History 4709E - The First World War: A Revolutionary Experience
The seminar examines in-depth the events associated with the period from 1900 to 1924.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4720E - The Vietnam Wars: Between Decolonization and the Cold War
This course explores the Vietnam Wars from both a Vietnamese and western perspective. It considers these conflicts in the light of the two great forces that shaped the international system at the mid-point of the twentieth century: Decolonization and the Cold War.
Antirequisite(s): History 4791E if taken 2010-11, 2011-12, or 2012-13.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4791E-4795E - Selected Topics in International or Comparative History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.  
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History 4796F/G-4799F/G - Selected Topics in International or Comparative History
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Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 4803E - Topics in Gender History
A seminar course that examines selected topics to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada and America.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 hours, 1.0 course.
Restricted to Honors Students.
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History 4805E - Warfare
Selected topics in the history of warfare.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 497E if taken in 2005-06.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
This course may be counted as a principal course in the honors Political Science program.
Restricted to Honors Students.
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History 4807E - Business History
A comparative approach to business history in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States since 1700. Emphasis is on the emergence of modern management, the development of techniques of production and marketing, the role of entrepreneurship, business organization, business-government interaction, and labor relations.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
Restricted to Honors Students.
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History 4813E - Smallpox to SARS: Disease and Medicine in History
This course examines a variety of 19th and 20th century disease outbreaks – including smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, HIV-AIDS and SARS – to discuss how these outbreaks affected political, economic and social structures. We shall also explore debates surrounding medical technology, disease campaigns, human experimentation and the HPV vaccine.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 493E if taken in 2004-05, 2007-08, former History 4205E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 1.0 course.
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History 4815F/G - Indigenous Historical Research and Methodologies
This course examines Indigenous constructions of history as well as issues and tensions between Indigenous peoples and the contemporary discipline of history. Themes will include Indigenous historical methodologies (including but not limited to oral histories), re-examining the colonial historic record, and contemporary Tribal Nation history projects.
Antirequisite(s): FNS 4903F/G, History 4298F taken in 2011
Prerequisite(s): History 2209E or FNS 2901E, and one other History course at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours, 0.5 course
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History 4817F/G - Land Claims and Primary Historical Research Methods
This course offers students practical skills to conduct historical research into land claims and their historical context in Canada. The course focuses upon government documents and explores topics including oral history, comprehensive and specific claims process, claims and the courts, role of industry, and governments’ duty to consult First Nations.
Antirequisite(s): First Nations Studies 4902F/G
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 First Nations Studies or History courses at the 2200 level or above
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course
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History 4891E-4895E - Selected Topics in Historiography or Thematic or Methodological History
See History Department for current offerings
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.   
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History 4896F/G-4899F/G - Selected Topics in Historiography or Thematic or Methodological History
See History Department for current offerings.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.  
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History 4901E - Directed Readings in History
The subject will be selected by students in consultation with an instructor of their choice willing to give the course. This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honors students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 1.0 course.
Restricted to Honors Students.
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History 4902F/G - Directed Readings in History
The subject will be selected by students in consultation with an instructor of their choice willing to give the course. This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honors students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third year history courses.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 0.5 course.
Restricted to Honors Students.
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History 4903E - Senior Thesis
This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honors students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): Restricted to Fourth Year Honors History Students.  Permission of the Chair is also required.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 1.0 course.
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Academic Calendar 2015 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE INFORMATION History (SS)
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