Academic Calendar - 2024
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
History
Understanding the history of the 20th century world is an important element in participating in modern society. This course will examine the origins of the historical political, economic, social and cultural forces that shape the modern world. The emphasis in this course will be on ideas that govern actions, motivate people and provide structure to our understanding of the world.
Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in the Preliminary Year Program (Brescia University College).
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of the political and social highlights of North American society from 1600 to the present. Only for students registered in the Preliminary Year program.
Antirequisite(s): Grade 12 U (or equivalent) History.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Understanding the history of the 20th century world is an important element in participating in modern society. This course will examine the origins of the historical political, economic, social and cultural forces that shape the modern world from the end of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War.
Antirequisite(s): History 0011.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Preliminary Year program at Brescia University College.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Understanding the history of the 20th century world is an important element in participating in modern society. This course will examine the origins of the historical political, economic, social and cultural forces that shape the modern world from the beginnings of the Cold War to our 21st century world.
Antirequisite(s): History 0011.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Preliminary Year program at Brescia University College.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines Canadian experience from the earliest times to the present. Lectures and tutorials stress varied historical interpretations and divergent opinions concerning Canada's growth.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines Canadian experience from the earliest times to the present. Lectures and tutorials stress varied historical interpretations and divergent opinions concerning Canada's growth.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines Canadian experience from the earliest times to the present. Lectures and tutorials stress varied historical interpretations and divergent opinions concerning Canada's growth.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines controversial issues in Canadian History from European colonization to the present. The focus is on debates over the meaning of events, people, and policies. Topics include Indigenous-settler conflicts, expulsion of the Acadians, John A. Macdonald, residential schools, religious and language rights, and wartime treatment of minorities.
Antirequisite(s): History 1201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This experiential learning course is designed to introduce first year students to Canadian history, how history is made, and communicated to the public. Traveling to places that challenge how we think about Canada, students will study historical documents, historian’s reflections about them, and how this history is communicated in place.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines central events and themes of European history from the start of the Enlightenment through the First World War, including: origins and impact of the French and industrial revolutions; selected political thinkers from Montesquieu to Nietzsche; German and Italian unification; working-class movements; women's emancipation movements; imperialism; the First World War.
Antirequisite(s): History 1401E.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines the Russian Revolution and Stalinism; Hitler’s rise to power, goals, and methods of rule; the Second World War; the Cold War; decolonization; post-war social changes; European integration; the collapse of the Soviet empire; Vladimir Putin’s rise and rule; and European responses to immigration, climate change, and other challenges.
Antirequisite(s): History 1401E.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the theory and practice of totalitarianism through a comparative study of regimes established by Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Topics include the seizure of power, personality cults, culture, education and propaganda, bio-politics, terror, war, the Holocaust, resistance movements.
Antirequisite(s): History 2147A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An introduction to the theory and practice of totalitarianism through a comparative study of regimes established by Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Topics include the seizure of power, personality cults, culture, education and propaganda, bio-politics, terror, war, the Holocaust, resistance movements.
Antirequisite(s): History 2147A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This half course examines the historical context of several thorny issues facing China at both international and domestic fronts: the strategic competition with the US, South China Sea disputes, and border tensions with Japan and India, as well as the separatist/autonomist movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus on the innovative use of primary sources to examine alternative histories to traditional nationalist narratives. Themes will include historiography and historical method, social and cultural history, history from below, local histories, indigenous histories, histories of the emotions and
micro-histories.
Antirequisite(s): History 1802E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Designed to provide a broad historical background and to develop analytical skills, this course examines several themes underlying the development of the modern world.The course further emphasizes historical debates about these themes and seeks to familiarize students with the concept of historiography.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Designed to provide a broad historical background and to develop analytical skills, this course examines several themes underlying the development of the modern world.The course further emphasizes historical debates about these themes and seeks to familiarize students with the concept of historiography.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will focus on the innovative use of primary sources to examine alternative histories to traditional nationalist narratives. Themes will include social and cultural history, history from below, local histories, indigenous histories, histories of the emotions and micro-histories.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines market and economic infrastructures, institutions, and actors shaping global markets from the early Empires to today. Considering economic exchange across Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Africa, the Americas, and Europe provides a platform to probe historic business elements, with special attention given to various waves of economic globalization.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course uses influential and short historical documents to introduce students to the study of history. Designed for students intending to major in history, each week students will study a new primary document that had global reach and implication in the daily lives of millions of people, living in both the past and present.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The rise of nations created the ‘international’ as a space, community, experience and ideology. This course examines international actors, experiences, and belief systems and traces their effects on peoples’ lives and on international relations, 1880s to the 1990s. Topics include war, peace, migration, human rights, and international relations.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines major revolutions and `turning points' that changed history. Topics include the Renaissance and Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the 'Sexual Revolution' of the 1960's. Political revolutions to be studied include the American and French Revolutions, and 20th century revolutions in China, Russia and Iran.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course investigates how religious conflict shaped our world. We examine the relationship between religious belief, social identity, secular ideology and political violence in such cases as the spread of Islam and the Crusades, the European wars of religion, and modern global religious conflicts.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of the relationship between history and the law that examines how change in society, politics, culture and the economy has shaped the development of law and legal institutions. It also examines how judges and lawyers use (and misuse) historical thinking in their legal arguments and reasoning.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What is love? How have concepts of love changed over time? This course will examine sources associated with the history of love: letters, films, sentimental jewelry, travel literature, opinion surveys, folklore, literature, newspapers, political speeches, sermons and medical treatises, to discover what they reveal about the histories of love.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What defines an action as violent? How have these definitions of violence in past societies changed over time? This course will explore these questions with examples of violence from the classical, medieval and modern periods, looking at warfare, everyday violence, assassination, suicide, duels, infanticide, paramilitary violence and terrorism.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Knowledge of the past is necessary to understand the political crises of our present. This class will teach students how to curate knowledgeably the flood of news in the modern global media, by asking them to research and assess six historical claims in contemporary headlines.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores how precious objects such as religious relics, ancient artifacts, luxury goods, and commodities have shaped global history. Using the lens of comparative material culture, students will investigate how diverse cultures have interpreted, competed over, and used objects of desire in religion, diplomacy, trade, war, imperialism, and migration.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Who decides what makes a monster? Using primary sources drawn from various global histories and political contexts, the course examines shifting ideas of “the monstrous” and asks what the monstrous reveals about concepts of nature and the natural, gender, race, reason, spectacle, belief, power, modernity, and what makes us human.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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See History Department for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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See History Department for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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See History Department for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will explore a different theme year, reflecting faculty research interests. Weekly seminar meetings will feature intensive discussion of assigned readings. Students will gain experience critically examining both primary and secondary sources. Written assignments will develop Brescia competencies. The curriculum may include guest lecturers and/or field trips.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines the rise of graphic history—historically-themed graphic novels—as a means of communicating and understanding the past. In exploring how this visual medium utilizes sources, forms an argument, and creates narrative, the lecture course also introduces students to the historical discipline.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to university-level history, using the idea of time travel to “visit” historical events as if we were there. Exploring pivotal moments from throughout human history, we investigate the building blocks of historical thinking: evidence and argument, cause and consequence, empathy and ethics, counterfactual history, and more.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The History unit of the King's Foundations in the New Liberal Arts introduces students to major processes, personalities, and events in the historical development of the modern world and what is described as "the West", while developing and refining students' fundamental skills in historical methodology.
Antirequisite(s): History 1801E.
Prerequisite(s): Must be registered in the King's Foundations in the New Liberal Arts, or the former Western Thought and Civilization.
Corequisite(s): English 1901E and Philosophy 1901E
Extra Information: 3 hours. There may be additional costs associated with field trips.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Cultural, social, economic, and political themes including the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the rise of absolutism; the commercial revolution; heresy; witchcraft, and skepticism; 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.
Antirequisite(s): History 2403E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The European Witchcraze (1480-1700) was a fascinating and disturbing episode in European history. Widespread belief in witchcraft and judicial torture of the accused spread across Europe and Colonial America (Salem). The course adopts a variety of perspectives: social, religious, political, intellectual, legal, anthropological as well as gendered and environmental interpretations.
Antirequisite(s): History 2408F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 labour movement.
Antirequisite(s): History 2125F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Issues in the history of Canadian conservation and environmentalism since 1600. The political, social, ecological, regional, economic, and intellectual factors which have shaped environmental problems are explored. Students are introduced to changing ideas about the interaction of human society with other aspects of the natural world.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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): Interdisciplinary Studies 2100A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the creation and impact of editorial cartoons from colonial times to the present. Analysis of the political, social, and economic context for powerful visual critiques in the popular press. Themes include power and authority, social and moral regulation, and humour as a weapon.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 2202, History 2205E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 2202, History 2205E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 2202, History 2205E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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, Interdisciplinary Studies 2100A/B, the former History 2207F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The purpose of this course is to explore a variety of cults, terrorists and extremist groups that have emerged in modern American history, including Neo-Nazis, Scientology, and Al Qaeda.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course uses the cultural phenomenon of rock 'n' roll to explore the connections between youth and rebellion and societal change in the United States 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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British history after 1945 is explored through the lens of popular music, from the Who and the Kinks to the Clash and the Slits. Themes to be examined include the Empire and decolonization, Northern Ireland, urban decay, immigration and racism, gender identities, class divisions, and economic inequalities.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 1404E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course applies a world historical lens to the First World War, examining the causes, course of events, and global ramifications of the conflict. Students will be asked to consider a variety of historiographical schools of thought concerning the war.
Antirequisite(s): History 2177A/B, History 2179.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course applies a world historical lens to the Second World War, examining the war's cause, course of events, and global consequences, including its influence on the post-1945 world order. Students will be asked to consider a variety of historiographical schools of thought concerning the war.
Antirequisite(s): History 2177A/B, History 2179.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the role played by food in human conflicts. It examines the ways in which competition over access to food has led to violent domestic and international struggles and how food has been used as a weapon in such conflicts and more generally as an instrument of domination.
Antirequisite(s): Foods and Nutrition 3460F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the role of food in world history with an emphasis on international exchange and cultural interaction following the discovery of the Americas. Students will consider the impact and influence of food upon politics, trade, conflict, and other aspects of society and culture.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the lives of European women 1500 to 1700. Students will analyze early modern perceptions of women, female life cycles, and the various roles of women: wife, mother, nun, martyr, midwife, citizen, soldier, worker, property owner, and artist, plus female rulers and regents.
Antirequisite(s): History 2459F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A social and cultural history of Korea from ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the Three Kingdoms, Silla, Koryo, and Choson periods.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A social and cultural history of Korea in the twentieth century. The course will focus on the early 20th century Japanese colonialism, the Korean war, and post war Korea.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will introduce social, cultural and political developments in South Korea via films, music and popular culture. Referring to earlier periods and to North Korea when necessary and continuing to the present-day Korean Wave, we will explore Korean popular culture to understand the modern history of Korea.
Extra Information: 3.0 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is an introduction to the economic history of East Asia from the rise of a marketdominated society in China during the Tang-Song transition until the “Great Divergence” and relative decline of China compared to Western Europe.
Antirequisite(s): Economics 2187F/G taught in 2016-2017 and Economics 2199F/G, taught in
2014-2015.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course highlights the environment as an historical force. It examines changing relationships between people and other aspects of the natural world. Topics include Aboriginal resource use, impacts of European colonization, attitudes toward nature, social conflicts over government policies affecting fish, forest, and wildlife, and the rise of environmental advocacy.
Antirequisite(s): History 2123, History 2211E, and History 2296G at Brescia (Winter 2009 and Winter 2011).
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines conflicts over parks and other protected areas in Canada and the United States. It emphasizes changing ideas, shifting land use pressures, and power relations among diverse interests. Controversies over park establishment, management policies, and their environmental impacts will be discussed. Course requirements may include a field trip.
Antirequisite(s): History 2296G at Brescia (Winter 2009 and Winter 2011).
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 the political and cultural context of the era.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course offers an overview of a growing field of study. Drawing on a series of historical examples from antiquity to the present, the course examines the relationship of sport to nationalism, race, class, gender, politics and war, consumer culture, and economics.
Antirequisite(s): History 1820F if taken 2018-19, 2019-20.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours. Cannot be used towards completion of a Kinesiology module.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines many narratives in hockey historiography, including experiences and traditions across time, space, and peoples. Primary emphasis is on North America, but developments elsewhere are discussed. Topics include competing claims of origins, changing rules, amateurs vs. professionals, masculinity and violence, nationalism, women’s hockey, race, commercialization, and international competition.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of selected armed conflicts within North America from the Spanish Conquest to the 20th Century. Topics may range from declared wars to civil conflicts including organized ethnic, racial, and labor violence. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of armed conflict upon society.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This survey course is aimed at expanding students’ knowledge of the World Wars as part of a larger, collective cataclysm. It considers these conflicts as part of a thirty-year crisis out of which the contemporary world emerged, fundamentally different from what might have been projected had they not occurred.
Antirequisite(s): History 2179.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2177A/B.
Antirequisite(s) at King’s campus: History 2151A/B, History 2152A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2177A/B.
Antirequisite(s) at King’s campus: History 2151A/B, History 2152A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2177A/B.
Antirequisite(s) at King’s campus: History 2151A/B, History 2152A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Death and taxes are said to be the only certainties in life but most people arguably know more about taxes than they do about death. This course explores the ideas and understandings surrounding death and dying and how they have changed from antiquity to present.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the changing relationships between women, men, and technology in North America. The course examines critical perspectives on technology and its role in history. Themes include: domestic technologies, technologies of consumption, sexual division of labour; reproductive medical technologies; and the gendering of technologies.
Antirequisite(s): History 2802E.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How did Canadians and Americans make a difference in the development of an inclusive and democratic society? This course examines various protest movements that have shaped Canadian and American History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 3-hour screening.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An analysis of crime and law enforcement in the United States and Canada within the context of urban growth and industrial capitalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific types of criminal activity will be examined, as will the development of police, prisons and vice laws.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines the business, social and cultural history of the brewing and consumption of beer, from its origins in antiquity, through its production and use in the Roman and Medieval periods, to its impact on Renaissance commerce, and the revolutions in technology, advertising, corporatization, globalization and localization during the modern age.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours. (online)
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the major conspiracy theories in American history in order to understand where these conspiracy theories came from, why they became so popular, and what this says about America and Americans, in general.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses the history of baseball in the United States to explore major themes in American history including race, gender, foreign policy, and capitalism.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course will examine the social and economic impact of epidemic disease in North America by discussing outbreaks of yellow fever, cholera, diphtheria, smallpox, Spanish influenza, polio and encephalitis. Also analyzed will be the evolution of public health services, medical theories and governmental regulations in response to such epidemics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the development of global capitalism, 1500's to present. Topics include theories and varieties of capitalism, the role of the state, social institutions and technological innovation in capitalist development, migration and labour relations, the rise of the transnational corporation and modern banking, responses to underdevelopment and global inequality.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course emphasizes the interplay of regional and national factors in Canadian history since 1867, address political, social, and economic issues, surveys the regional histories of the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, and places these regional histories in their national context.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of Canadian history to 1867. This course provides students in Canadian history with a broad knowledge of the regional particularities which have marked Canadian history from its beginnings. It deals with the main economic, social and political features of pre-Conquest Canada, the Maritime colonies, and of Lower and Upper Canada.
Prerequisite(s): History 1201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of Canadian history to 1867. This course provides students in Canadian history with a broad knowledge of the regional particularities which have marked Canadian history from its beginnings. It deals with the main economic, social and political features of pre-Conquest Canada, the Maritime colonies, and of Lower and Upper Canada.
Prerequisite(s): History 1201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys Canadian history since Confederation, focusing on political, economic, and social developments. It addresses key moments of tension within Canada's past, and introduces a variety of historical theories and methodologies, and considers both the development of the Canadian nation-state, and how historians have interpreted its past.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E and History 2205E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course emphasizes the interplay of regional and national factors in Canadian history since 1867, addresses political, social, and economic issues, surveys the regional histories of the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, and places these regional histories in their national context.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E, History 2202.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course emphasizes the interplay of regional and national factors in Canadian history since 1867, addresses political, social, and economic issues, surveys the regional histories of the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, and places these regional histories in their national context.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E, History 2202.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of Canadians.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Canadian history has relied on nationalist interpretations that reduce the role of Indigenous People. This course challenges these ideas by demonstrating the permanency of Indigenous Peoples and the continuity of their beliefs, practices, and political systems. Topics discussed include the Northwest Resistance, the World Wars, and the TRC.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2209E, the former Indigenous Studies 2901E, Indigenous Studies 2210F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 1000-level or above, or 1.0 course in Anthropology at the 1000-level or above, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2210F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Issues in the history of Canadian conservation and environmentalism since 1600. The political, social, ecological, regional, economic and intellectual factors which have shaped environmental problems are explored. Students are introduced to changing ideas about the interaction of human society with other aspects of the natural world.
Antirequisite(s): History 2123.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the creation and impact of editorial cartoons from colonial times to the present. Analysis of the political, social, and economic context for powerful visual critiques in the popular press. Themes include power and authority, social and moral regulation, and humour as a weapon.
Antirequisite(s): History 2126A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course highlights the environment as an historical force. It examines changing relationships between people and other aspects of the natural world. Topics include Indigenous resource use, impacts of European colonization, attitudes toward nature, social conflicts over government policies affecting fish, forest, and wildlife, and the rise of environmental advocacy.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines conflicts over parks and other protected areas in Canada and the United States. It emphasizes changing ideas, shifting land use pressures, and power relations among diverse interests. Controversies over park establishment, management policies, and their environmental impacts will be discussed. Course requirements may include a field trip.
Antirequisite(s): History 2170A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is a survey of the social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of the United States, paying particular attention to the interplay among the shifting constructs of race and gender, and to the sources, interpretations, and recurring themes that give shape to narratives of the recent American past.
Antirequisite(s): History 2301E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In the increasingly polarized culture of the US, one American’s dream often seems to be another American’s nightmare. This course introduces key ideas in American culture (the American Dream, American Exceptionalism, and American Identity), and examines recent socio-political movements such as #Black Lives Matter, #Me Too, and White Nationalism.
Antirequisite(s): American Studies 2310F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course surveys the history of the United States from Reconstruction to the present day. Topics include the political history of the United States; the growth of American capitalism and mass culture; changing meanings of race, gender, and difference; and the United States’ place in the world.
Antirequisite(s): History 2301E, History 2302F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This survey of American history from 1600 to the 1860s will focus on the most important trends and developments in the emergence of the American nation, including settlement, the egalitarian impulse, national expansion, and sectional conflict.
Antirequisite(s): History 2301E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course examines the transformation of European economies, political structures, religious and social institutions, and cultures in the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the European voyages of discovery, and the degree to which ordinary people shaped their societies and affected the course of historical change.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The European Witchcraze (1480-1700) was a fascinating and disturbing episode in European history. Widespread belief in witchcraft and judicial torture of the accused spread across Europe and Colonial America (Salem). The course adopts a variety of perspectives: social, religious, political, intellectual, legal, anthropological as well as gendered and environmental interpretations.
Antirequisite(s): History 2108F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the concept, history, and experience of modernity in Europe from the nineteenth century to the present, paying particular attention to the key economic, political, social and cultural roles of the city.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will trace the transformations of everyday life in twentieth-century Britain through its social history and vibrant popular culture. We will examine how a country with a long history of political stability and cultural creativity was also one divided by rigid lines separating class, gender, ethnicity and nationality.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the social, cultural, political, and military history of Europe and European empires from the 1790s to the 1820s. Themes examined include the rise of modern nationalism and imperialism; print culture, art, and propaganda; warfare and society; industrialization; myth and memory; slavery and abolition; and the global impact of the Napoleonic Wars.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 Course in History.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores daily life in Britain during the extraordinary events of the Second World War. Each week students will use diaries, letters, photographs, films and propaganda to examine wartime rationing, the black market, bombing raids, refugees and foreign soldiers, crime and violence, and the mass evacuation of children.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course traces the history of Russia from ancient times to the present. It looks at events on the territory of present-day Russia through imperial expansion, reforms, and revolutions into the 21st century. It explores domestic, regional, and international factors, and how this complex history has been narrated.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the 16th through 18th centuries as a period of social, political, religious, and emotional anxiety for Europeans experiencing the tumultuous transition from medieval to modern. Topics include socio-economic pressures, religious reformations, state centralization, warfare, revolt, crime and punishment, witch hunts, and climate change.
Extra Information: 2 lecture and 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores Europe’s role in global networks of commercial, cultural, and biological exchange between 1450 and 1800. Topics include continental and overseas empire-building, imperial rivalries and wars, the rise of global capitalism, the slave trade, hardening concepts of racial difference, as well as the impact of non-Europeans within Europe.
Extra Information: 2 lecture and 1 tutorial hour.
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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans wrestled with the legacy of antiquity, and religious dissent within Catholicism triggered violent upheaval. This course explores the culture of the Renaissance, European efforts to reconcile ancient learning with awareness of a “new” American continent, and the breakdown of Christian religious unity.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the lives of European women 1500 to 1700. Students will analyze early modern perceptions of women, female life cycles, and the various roles of women: wife, mother, nun, martyr, midwife, citizen, soldier, worker, property owner, and artist, plus female rulers and regents.
Antirequisite(s): History 2159A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
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This course explores the social and intellectual forces that transformed European societies and their relations with peoples beyond Europe. As scientific discoveries reshaped approaches to the natural world, European nations conducted warfare and commerce on a vastly larger scale, while encounters with other peoples reshaped European politics and culture.
Antirequisite(s): History 2403E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
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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".
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Beginning with broad themes in early African history such as the Bantu migrations and the spread of Islam this course provides an overview of pre-colonial African history and seeks to convey a history of Africa on its own terms, divorced from a Eurocentric perspective.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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The first term examines central themes in pre-modern Chinese history. The second term covers the modern and contemporary periods, with attention to the role of history and tradition in building the Chinese nation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Beginning with the French invasion of Algeria in 1830 and ending with the end of apartheid in South Africa, this course examines theories of imperialism, the period of the European colonization of most of Africa, colonial rule on the continent, African resistance to colonialism, and the process of decolonization.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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A survey of Japan's political, social, economic, and cultural development from prehistoric times to the present. Themes will include the foundation of the early aristocratic state, warrior regimes, the rise of the Japanese empire in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Japan's recovery and economic development after World War II.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
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This half course aims to help students sharpen their analytical skills in understanding the cultural and gender differences in China, Japan, and Korea while at the same time learn more about the imperial, modern, and contemporary societies of the three East Asian countries.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
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This course studies the long Chinese tradition of women’s biography by critically analyzing a variety of biographical sources, including records on “chaste women” in dynastic histories. It also examines how women’s biography served particular political, social, and cultural enterprises of the imperial Chinese state and society.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
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Explores the interaction between China and the rest of the world from the Mongol conquest of the 13th century to the Republic of China in the mid-20th century, to understand how China has been globally integrated through conquest, the exchange of goods and ideas, and the migration of peoples.
Extra information: Two lecture hours per week.
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This course examines China’s efforts to reinvent itself as a globally relevant
nation-state in the mid-20th and 21st centuries. We discuss the ways in which China’s leadership envisioned the “New China,” the ways governing bodies tried to make those visions a reality, and the ways the Chinese people responded.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Do you dream of an African safari, or working for an NGO or a missionary organization there? Or have you ever wondered why this resource-rich continent has so many seemingly intractable problems? This course explores contemporary African issues through a historical lens. Your African trip will never be the same.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
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Explores cultural, social, religious and economic interactions both within East Asia and between East Asia and the rest of the world before the age of European dominance.
Antirequisite(s): History 2691E (2013-14).
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course stresses the interaction over time of major world civilizations. Emphasis is given to historical developments that have influenced more than one civilization or cultural region.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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The course examines ten separate days/events in world history since 1609 with an emphasis on the key role of interactions across cultures. Moving among the case studies, the goal of the course is not to gain total knowledge of the world, but to understand the processes by which we claim to know the world.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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The course examines historical international relations theory critically and in context, not only the "canon" of Western thinkers but also international voices often marginalized in IR theory. In doing so, the course considers the role of race, gender, imperialism, religion, and more in the development of IR theory.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will examine twentieth-century youth cultures in Canada, Britain and the United States: flappers, `Swing Kids', rebellious teenagers, mods, hippies, punks, and hip hop, to discover their changing natures, their relationship to the dominant society and the official reactions to them.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will investigate the history of nineteenth-century crime and punishment in Canada, the UK and the US, examining how the shared legal pasts of these countries diverged in the era of industrialization and urbanization. Topics include the establishment of police forces, early crime statistics, and capital punishment.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will compare the diverging histories of twentieth-century crime and punishment in Canada, the UK and the US. Topics include international policing, the use of forensic science in detecting and proving crime, the abolition of capital punishment, and the role of media in modern perceptions of crime.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course examines currents of change flowing through the Atlantic world, from the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 to the founding of the Republic of Haiti in 1804. Themes will include: the influence and limitations of Enlightenment thought; shifting concepts of nature, natural rights and individualism; empire and revolution; and the histories of racial slavery and emancipation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course examines the history of North America from 1450 to 1867. The course addresses the histories of North American, European and African peoples and their interactions with each other. Key themes covered in this course are imperial and colonial expansion, slavery and indigeneity, religion, and political revolution.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E, History 2301E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course explores tyranny in human history, from ancient to modern times, with a focus on the early modern West and its global expansion. It will explore the evolution of the concept of the tyrant, the idea of legitimate vs illegitimate rule, and the resistance and agency of oppressed peoples.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Focusing on the circulation of Enlightenment thought and ideas in print culture, this course explores the origins and influence of the Enlightenment across the Atlantic world, with an emphasis on the place of natural science and religion, political revolution, women and Enlightenment, slavery and abolition, and recent critical historiography.
Antirequisite: The former History 2704E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course examines the global impact of European joint stock companies from their inception as sixteenth-century trading expeditions to their central role in the history of imperialism, colonialism, and the development of the global capitalist economy. Topics include the rise of the corporation, expansion of global trading networks, imperial warfare, cultural contact and exchange, slavery and exploitation, colonial resistance and oppression, and the complex relationship between companies and imperial governments.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 Course in History or permission of instructor.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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A problem-based approach to the practical aspects of historical study: conducting research, utilizing evidence, writing, and the public presentation of history. The course also considers the related fields of museology, material culture, archeology, and Biblical exegesis, and concludes by examining historical malpractice, including conspiracy theories and fraud.
Antirequisite(s): History 3801E if taken at King's University College 2009-12 inclusive.
Extra Information: 1.0 lecture hour, 2.0 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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By exploring heated debates and controversies surrounding public interpretations of the past, this course introduces the practical skills, theory, and ethical awareness vital for public historians and heritage professionals. Attention is paid to how government, businesses, media, and historians influence public awareness of the past.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course explores the changing relationships between women, men, and technology in North America. The course examines critical perspectives on technology and its role in history. Themes include: domestic technologies, technologies of consumption, sexual division of labour; reproductive medical technologies; and the gendering of technologies.
Antirequisite(s): History 2184.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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North Atlantic Society since 1800. A survey of the ideas about women, and their activities, with emphasis on changes in concepts and practices and the effects on societies.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History department at Brescia for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History at Brescia for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours lecture and seminar.
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This introduction to historical thinking examines topics including the emergence of historical writing, the rise of "scientific" history, Marxist historiography, and the role of moral judgment in history. The course also considers critiques of the empiricist historical tradition mounted by postmodernist, feminist, post-colonial, and non-European scholars.
Antirequisite(s): History 3801E if taken at King's University College, 2009-12 inclusive.
Extra Information: 1.0 lecture hour; 2.0 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Beginning with the French Revolution and ending with the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this course examines themes in gender and modern European history.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Students in this course will collaborate with local museums on class projects, exploring the context in which Canadians engage with the past, and the ethical obligations required of historians. The course develops the resources and skills that will need to work with local community partners and agencies on historical topics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 2818F/G, History 2819F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines selected themes in the history of women¿s social and political movements in the Atlantic world, 1750-present. Topics include: women and revolution; abolition, temperance and women's rights; suffrage/anti-suffrage movements, and the rise and intersection of modern feminisms.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: Two hours per week.
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Studies the history of North Americans who claim identities, create social worlds, and build movements based on the fact that they desire members of the same sex, or challenge gender boundaries of male/female. Students will learn when, why, and how sexuality became a mode of human social and political identity.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2817F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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From ancient 'plague' pestilences to the Black Death to outbreaks in London and Marseille, this course examines the disruption and uncertainty that characterized these disease episodes. How society and medicine understood disease causation, treatment options, and regulation will be examined through the lens of power, class, race, and gender.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2812E.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in any program above first year.
Extra Information: Two hours per week; lecture; no tutorials.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, this course investigates the disruption and changes arising from disease outbreaks. Disease can permanently alter society, with lives lost, community practices modified, and individual habits scrutinized. The role of government, society’s expectations, science and medicine, power, class, race, and gender will be explored.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2812E.
Extra Information: Two lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the history of Jews and Judaism as a history of cultural development, change, and negotiation. How have Jews interacted with other cultures? How has the nature of Jewish identity, culture, and religion varied and shifted over time? The class will focus on major events, issues, and developments.
Antirequisite(s): Jewish Studies 2821F/G.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 2821F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to the major events, figures, and themes of Jewish history from the Spanish Expulsion to the post-WWII era, including the Enlightenment and Emancipation, Zionism, the Holocaust, and the foundation of Israel.
Antirequisite: Jewish Studies 2822F/G.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 2822F/G.
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This course examines writing about nature in English by various authors in Canada and the United States from the colonial period to the present. Course material will emphasize historical context, multiple perspectives, and changing attitudes to nature. Sources will include Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Cross-listed with English 2830F/G.
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This course examines the history of museums and exhibitions and their changing role in society across the globe from the ancient world to the 21st century. Themes include the rise of anthropology and natural sciences; looting; professionalization; colonialism; representation of the ‘other’; museums as political and cultural tools; and repatriation.
Antirequisite(s): Museum and Curatorial Studies 2610F/G.
Extra Information: two lecture hours weekly.
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This course examines the animal/human relationship through history, including animals as resource and entertainment, ethical frameworks concerning animal treatment, animals in culture, and the rise of pets. Our relationship with animals is complex – sometimes symbiotic, often exploitative – and history helps us to understand why we treat animals as
we do.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in any program at the second year or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
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This course introduces students to the biographical method, including consideration of its value and limitations. Students will develop skills in researching, understanding, and interpreting the lives of individuals within a particular historical context.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
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A survey of the interaction between North American First peoples and expanding European communities from the sixteenth century to the present. Particular attention will be paid to the effects of European colonialism on Indigenous peoples as well as to First Nations' responses, including resistance, survivance and accommodation.
Antirequisite(s): History 3219E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
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This course examines the social history of Canada since 1800. Focusing on the lives of everyday people and utilizing issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality, this course explores topics related to industrialization, urbanization, immigration, family, crime, and social reform. Considerable attention is paid to the historiography/methodologies of the
field.
Antirequisite(s): History 3205E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 Seminar hours.
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This course examines the social history of Canada since 1800. Focusing on the lives of everyday people and utilizing issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality, this course explores topics related to industrialization, urbanization, immigration, family, crime, and social reform. Considerable attention is paid to the historiography/methodologies of the
field.
Antirequisite(s): History 3205E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 Seminar hours.
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hour seminar course.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics include native women's lives at the time of European contact; the frontier experience; "separate spheres" in the British North American context; paid work before and after industrialization; religion, education and social reform; origins and impact of feminist movements.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The historical study of the natural environment, its socio-economic use by various peoples, and changing perceptions of the natural world in what is now Canada, from pre-European time to the late twentieth century. Reference will be made to similar processes in North America and elsewhere.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will analyze various Canadian social movements in terms of their historical factors, strategies and tactics; organizational challenges they faced; and the role that mass media, the state, individual personalities, and counter-movements played in determining their success and failures. Canadian social movements will be placed in their international context.
Antirequisite(s): History 3292E taught in 2009-10.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of public violence from the French regime to the present.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Limited enrollment.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics include aspects of the political, social and economic history of the province.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Note at Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
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Topics include aspects of the political, social and economic history of the province.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Note at Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course invites students to learn about the experiences of immigrants to Canada from the historical perspective. It will consider such varied themes as the politics of Immigrant Food-ways, Identity and Wartime, Black migration to Canada-Searching for More than Freedom, Religion and identity and the relationship between Immigration and Indigeneity.
Antirequisite(s): History 3296G if taken in 2020-2021 and History 3296F if taken in 2021-2022.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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This course uses Mi'kmaw and Acadian archival case studies to teach digital historical methods. Students will become familiar with the complex ways Indigenous, colonial, and imperial spatial understanding shaped eighteenth-century northeastern North America. They will also develop skills in digital mapping, social network analysis, distant reading, and digital annotation software.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will survey the long history of what is now the Province of Ontario by profiling a number of distinct communities. These range from Tkahaa’nayg’n, the birthplace of the Haudenosaunee Peacemaker, to the planned suburbs of Etobicoke, envisioned by developer Rex Heslop in the mid-1950s.
Antirequisite(s): History 3221E.
Extra information: 3 lecture and seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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An historical study of the discourses and practices of childhood and youth. Students will explore how and why various actors, groups, or movements have participated in and shaped growing-up in Canada.
Antirequisite: Childhood and Social Institutions 3361F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 3rd or 4th year standing.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of racism in Canadian society from the eighteenth century to the present, including the racist targeting of Canada’s Black, Chinese, Indigenous, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, and South Asian communities, focusing specifically on institutional racism. Governmental and citizenbased anti-racism initiatives are also studied.
Extra information: 2 seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Indian Residential School System has been recognized by the Canadian Parliament as an act of genocide. This course explores the long history of residential schools in Canada, from early initiatives in New France in the 1640s through the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 3267F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 1000-level or above, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 3267F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines Canadian external relations since 1840, with an emphasis on the twentieth century and how diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military interactions with other states have shaped Canada's development and identity. Relations with the United Kingdom, the United States, Asia, and the developing world will be considered.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Note at King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): One Senior U.S. History course.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Note at King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 3306F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Open to students in the three-year program (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 3306F/G.
Prerequisite(s): One Senior U.S. History course.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Open to students in the three-year program (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores social change, economic and territorial expansion, and slavery in 19th century U.S. history. Students learn to identify and question the frameworks that shape how historians narrate this history to students and to the public, especially American Exceptionalism and the idea that American history is a story of "progress."
Antirequisite(s): History 3305E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the development of American popular culture and its relation to American society. The topics covered include music, literature, radio, movies, sports and television. The course also explores how American popular culture portrayed and was influenced by African Americans, women, youth and other ethnic Americans.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 essay course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will explore, in lectures and seminars, a number of major conspiracy theories in American history. Lectures will provide an overview of the theories and theorists, while seminars will delve into the primary sources in print and online.
Antirequisite(s): History 2193A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History essay course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the
Department.
Extra Information: 2.0 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A thematic examination of the social, economic, political and cultural development of the U.S. South from the colonial era to the present.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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What defines being “American”? How is the American identity constructed, and how and why is it frequently contested? This course employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the meaning(s) and definition(s) of American identity from multiple viewpoints, and within the context of US history, politics, regions, values, and culture.
Antirequisite(s): American Studies 3310F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above OR enrolment in an American
Studies module.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course explores themes in African American history from 1600 through the Civil War and the collapse of Reconstruction. Topics include histories of slavery and resistance; abolition, antislavery and the underground railroad; links to African Canadian history; freedom and emancipation; reconstruction, racial politics, and segregation at the end of the 19th century.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the modern civil rights movement in the wider context of African American political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, from the "strange career of Jim Crow" in the 1890s to the end of the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines themes in American history--including race, empire, dispossession, political power, personal aspiration, freedom and modernity--using California as a critical frame. Students will work with primary evidence from material, textual and visual culture and will consider questions that have defined California’s political, social, and intellectual history.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A study of the interaction between domestic forces - ideological, political, and economic - and external forces in the development of United States foreign policy.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 history course at the 2300, 3300 or 4300 level.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 Honours Specialization in International Relations.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus on the 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 contexts in which they began and operated, and their successes and failures.
Antirequisite(s): History 2137A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the histories of people of African descent in the United States and Canada from the earliest days of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present, through biographies and autobiographies. It explores such themes as agency, resistance, intersectionality, identity, freedom, and creativity.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 3340F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cross-listed with GSWS 3340F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines conflicts over gender and power, concerning the legitimacy of female rule in Europe 1450-1800. It emphasizes the political role and challenges of female rulers as queens regnant, queen-consorts, queen-mothers, and regents, who collaborated in the transmission of dynastic power through official and unofficial channels.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Homer's Odyssey, Aristotle's Ethics, the Hebrew Bible, and St. Augustine's Confessions, which influenced both the ages in which they were composed and subsequent Western thought, depict distinctive and often conflicting ideals for the individual and society. The class examines these ideals and the larger debates they embody and reflect.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The class examines and compares the work of key Enlightenment thinkers, including Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, as well as authors who responded to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and interpreted contemporary changes taking place in Europe, including Edmund Burke, Friedrich Hegel, Alexis de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the importance of gender, relationships and the body to crime in modern Britain. We examine the history of crimes explicitly linked to gender including infanticide, shoplifting, rape and domestic assault, and the history of institutions charged with discovering, prosecuting and punishing crime.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of the influence of naval and maritime issues on European development. Topics include early exploration, first overseas empires, growth of commercial classes and cities, warship development and professional navies, maritime warfare, navies as first industrial conglomerates, Pax Britannica, impact of steam, iron and oil, new empires of later 19th century, 20th century arms races, the two world wars.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/discussion hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores social and cultural connections within the British Empire through the themes of sexuality, crime, and publishing. These examples are used to examine the passionate historical debate surrounding Empire.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 Essay course at the 2000-level or above
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 seminar hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar examines the worldviews of men and women in nineteenth-century Britain: economic, political, social, and scientific, taking into account both conservative and radical perspectives. It also explores the domestic ideology commonly associated with the period, and the challenges posed to the Victorian domestic ideal.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Two seminar hours weekly
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines why and how the Nazi government undertook to murder European Jews, and also the educated elite of Poland, Soviet POWs, Roma and Sinti, and the mentally handicapped. We examine the roles played by Hitler and close associates, contemporary responses to the murders, and the postwar historiography of the subject.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: The former History 3427E.
Antirequisite(s) at Huron: Jewish Studies 3416F/G, the former History 3427E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly (Main). 3 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 3416F/G (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines why and how the Nazi government undertook to murder European Jews, and also the educated elite of Poland, Soviet POWs, Roma and Sinti, and the mentally handicapped. We examine the roles played by Hitler and close associates, contemporary responses to the murders, and the postwar historiography of the subject.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: The former History 3427E.
Antirequisite(s) at Huron: Jewish Studies 3416F/G, the former History 3427E.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly (Main). 3 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 3416F/G (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines dramatic changes and striking contrasts of British society from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Topics include imperial pageantry, poverty and urban squalor, crime, class rigidity, and bold individuality. There will be some focus on women’s experiences, at home and abroad.
Antirequisite(s): History 4420F/G, History 4423E, the former History 3423F/G,
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Germany was arguably the dominant state in continental Europe from its founding until 1945. Since reunification it has again begun to play this role. Its achievements and its crimes cast long shadows on all its neighbors. We examine all aspects of this history, including domestic politics, social divisions, and culture.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3415E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: Two hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Early modern Europe was defined by religious conflict: warfare between Christians and Muslims, the breakdown of Christian unity, and persecution of smaller Jewish minorities. But warfare was not the entire story. This course explores ideologies, conflicts, and reciprocal cultural influences among societies that viewed religion as a pillar of identity.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The history of Victorian Britain is characterized by dramatic changes and striking contrasts. This course introduces students to various and competing strands of British and imperial society, considering social, political, economic, religious, intellectual, cultural, gender, and environmental dimensions of Victorian Britain and its empire.
Antirequisite(s): History 4420F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 Course in History 2400 level or above, or written Special Permission.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Virgin Queen or Glorianna, Elizabeth I is the most studied Briton of the early modern period. Using primary and secondary sources including literature and film, this research seminar examines Elizabeth's role as a leader, woman, and queen, exploring her self-representation and later use of her image and memory.
Antirequisite(s): History 3441F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Elizabeth I, or Gloriana, fascinated scholars for centuries, reaching new heights with developments in women’s and gender history, but more recently with studies of “Queenship and Power.” Using primary sources, this seminar will explore the historiography, history, literature, portraiture and films that surround the myth and memory of Gloriana.
Antirequisite(s): History 3440E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 Seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Latin America popular cultural forms will be studied through specific practices such as music, dance, theatre, popular religious beliefs, sports and movies. This foray into popular culture will highlight how traditional categories like politics and economies can be understood through different types of historical evidence and innovative historical dynamics.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This survey course will study Latin America from 1900 to the present, with emphasis on Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela. It will provide students with a basic knowledge of modern Latin America, and show how different approaches to historical themes affect how we study and interpret the past.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the historical processes that have shaped Latin American religiosity, including relations of power, gender, and cosmology, while also endeavouring to capture the fluid nature of these processes and the ever-changing features of religious practise and beliefs among people of various ethnicities, classes and social conditions.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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A thematic exploration of the crucial developments and problems in Chinese history since 1800.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines the social and economic factors behind the Crusades, both in medieval Europe and in the Middle East. It explores the Crusaders kingdom in the context of medieval Islam and Christianity, as a neighbor of the Islamic states, and as a link to Mediterranean Europe.
Antirequisite(s): History 3605E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: two-hour seminar.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will investigate Japan's historical development during the Tokugawa shogunate between 1600 and 1868. Themes will include social and political structures, intellectual and cultural developments, commerce and urbanization, and Tokugawa Japan's relations with other countries.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3603E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the social and economic factors behind the Crusades, both in medieval Europe and in the Middle East. It explores the Crusaders kingdom in the context of medieval Islam and Christianity, as a neighbor of the Islamic states, and as a link to Mediterranean Europe.
Antirequisite(s): History 3602F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An investigation of the processes that created Japan's modern nation-state and Asia-Pacific empire between the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945. Themes will include political and economic developments and their impact on society and culture in both Japan and its imperial possessions.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3603E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above or the former International Relations 2701E.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This half-year course examines competing legal concepts and their proponents, the principles of the Chinese legal system, and various types of crime and forms of punishment in imperial China. It also explores the impact of imperial legal practice on traditional Chinese society and contemporary Chinese policies, laws, and legal praxes.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An investigation of historical developments within the international system in the Asia-Pacific and the region’s interactions with the wider world and how the interplay of political, economic, and cultural factors affected the developments in empire, conflict and diplomacy from the late 18th century to 1910.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3611E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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An investigation of the background and consequences of the First and Second World Wars in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on Asian as well as outside actors. It will also deal with political, economic, cultural, and social aspects of this period and how these affected imperialism, nationalism, conflict, and diplomacy.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3611E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the dynamics of culture, politics, religion, belief and social change in Korea during the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Antirequisite(s): History 3696F if taken in 2015-16.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the history of Korea from the tenth to sixteenth centuries, during a period of transformative change in northeast Asia.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will involve a detailed exploration of key debates (past and present) concerning the statecraft and economics of East Asian during the early modern period, from the Tang-Song transition of the tenth century to the beginning of European dominance in the nineteenth.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above, or Economics 2150A/B and
Economics 2152A/B, or by permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the historical background of select contemporary world crises. Its object is threefold: to increase students' understanding of current global events; to demonstrate the value of historical inquiry when examining such conflicts; to encourage students to engage politically as historians.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines political assassinations in the twentieth century, surveying both the murders of key political figures and those of enemies of the state in a variety of national and international contexts. Emphasis is given to discussion of the phenomenon of assassinations, motivations of assassins, and impacts of these killings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course considers the role of animals in histories of imperialism, colonialism and resistance movements. Focusing on primary sources and recent historiography, the course examines topics including animals and economies of empire; animals in colonial discourse; animals and imperial spectacle; environmental histories; and animals’ engagement in struggles for human liberation.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course, which concludes with a 10-day program in Belgium and France, explores commemorative practices that emerged after the World Wars. Topics include the presentation of history through monumental architecture, the preservation of battlefields, and museums, and how these sites have informed identity and efforts to reconcile former enemies.
Antirequisite(s): History 4710F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, and permission of the Department.
Extra Information: Additional cost to be borne by students. Limited enrollment. Application and interview are required, see the Department of History website for more information. Cross-listed with History 4710F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the problem of mass violence in the 20th century with a focus on the role of the state and the social dynamics of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Topics include theories of genocide and case studies that may include the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, Stalinism, Mao's China, and Rwanda.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is a comparative history of fascist movements and fascist states in the 20th century. Topics include theories of fascism, social origins of fascist movements, the seizure of power in Italy and Germany, unsuccessful European fascist movements, fascism outside Europe, and neo-fascism.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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, taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of the spatial, political and social evolution of cities within a North American context. The emphasis will be on the urban development of the United States and Canada that includes a comparative approach to the study of the major themes and problems of city life.
Antirequisite(s): History 2792E (2009-10).
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 seminar hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above or Geography 2133A/B.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar explores the causes, elements, and consequences of genocide in modern history through historical case studies and multidisciplinary perspectives.
Antirequisite(s): Political Science 2293F/G, Political Science 4426F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Humans of late have exerted so much influence on the Earth, and created what are essentially permanent changes to it, that some scientists and scholars argue we are in a new age not just in human history, but in Earth history: the Anthropocene. This seminar course is a global environmental history of the recent past.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This lecture and seminar course surveys the global history of populism and its main populist actors from the early nineteenth century to the present, focusing on Russia, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Ghana, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia, and India.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course investigates the profound changes that flowed from contact between American, African, and European peoples. Topics include conflicts among Europeans and Indigenous societies in Meso-America; demographic impacts of intercontinental contact; early contacts in North America; the formation of an Atlantic economy; and the influence of Atlantic exchanges upon Europe.
Antirequisite(s): History 3797F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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This course examines the history of the historical profession, varieties of history, where research should start, the nature and limitations of evidence, methods of interpretation, research techniques in specialized areas, and problems of causal explanation.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron). Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines the history of the historical profession, varieties of history, where research should start, the nature and limitations of evidence, methods of interpretation, research techniques in specialized areas, and problems of causal explanation.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron). Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the origins of, and developments in, modern Catholic social thought from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a chronological and thematic framework, the course pivots between historical and contemporary dimensions of Catholic thought, teaching and practice. It examines how historical thinking can contribute to ethical decision-making.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 senior History course(s) at the 2100 level or above; or Social Justice and Peace Studies 1025F/G, Social Justice and Peace Studies 1026F/G, or the former Social Justice and Peace Studies 1020E and Social Justice and Peace Studies 2200E; or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar course will examine what is now the Greater Toronto Area from multiple perspectives, including Indigenous and settler cultures. Topics include colonization, environmental change, urban development, shifting demographics, and popular culture. Course material will emphasize diverse interpretations, encouraging students to explore the lived experience of various peoples.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Note: A field trip will be required.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History at Brescia for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An introduction to changes in family life since 1500 with regard to demography, structure, and emotional content. Topics may include the internal workings of the family and its relationship to other institutions, particularly the state and the public economy; the influence of race, ethnicity, national traditions, religion, class, and changing constructions of masculinity and femininity. The family in Western Europe and North America will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History at Brescia for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 the dominant culture. The course will highlight a variety of themes related to ethnicity, religion, gender, and class.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course applies historical methods and ethical reasoning to analysing current events. The class identifies a current public policy issue about which to pursue historical research. Working individually and in groups, students prepare a policy briefing that shows the relevance of history and ethics to issues we face today.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores misconceptions, distortions, and manipulations of history. The course examines case studies in the abuse of history, the creation of usable pasts, and the role of false narratives in shaping historical events. Students will apply the historical method to confront the challenge of pseudohistory in popular media.
Antirequisite(s): History 3308E.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above; or History 2811F/G and
enrolment in the Minor in Public History.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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History 3814F/G KICKING & SCREAMING: WOMEN'S PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN 19TH & 20TH CENTURY CANADA & 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.
Extra Information: Two hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): Digital Humanities 2130A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A thematic introduction to 21st-century history focused on phenomena that characterize our age: the global connectivity of supply chains, planetary-scale computation, the War on Terror, and unprecedented ecological change. Contemporary events are contextualized in an interdisciplinary fashion at time scales ranging from days to millions of years.
Prerequisite(s): Any 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines writing about nature in English by various authors in Canada and the United States from the colonial period to the present. Course material will emphasize historical context, multiple perspectives, and changing attitudes to nature. Sources will include Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Using 10 objects as entry points into the history of medicine, this course explores the changes and continuities in Western medical knowledge and practice since the 18th century. New and old medical treatments, different medical theories, professional authority, socio-cultural expectations, and issues of power, class, race, gender will be explored.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Using a case-based approach, this course tackles some thorny issues in the history of medicine. We shall attempt to make sense of several controversial events by exploring themes of risk, innovation, authority, the role of “experts” and “publics,” health care access, issues of power, individual agency, experimentation, and more.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of the making of the working class in North America with the rise of industrial capitalism. Students will examine industrial discipline, labour commodification and dislocation, the experience of poverty and unemployment, family wage earning strategies, workers' religious, political, and labour organizations, among other aspects of the formation of working class consciousness.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of legal culture and institutions that structured the rise of capitalism in North America. Students will examine the fundamentals of law that arose within market society such as an instrumental conceptualization of law and property, the will theory of contract, and actuarial conceptions of risk.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the history of the Holocaust, especially the historical, ethical and theological dimensions of religious involvement in this genocide. Themes to be considered include the relationship between religious anti-Judaism and political anti-Semitism, Christian responses to the Holocaust, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the legacy of the Holocaust for interfaith relations.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is an invitation to the discipline of history through the lens of Indigenous ways of knowing the past from around the world. The offerings include sources and methods in Indigenous ways, that teach students lifelong skills for relational work toward a flourishing planet for humans and all beings.
Antirequisite(s): History 3896F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Preparatory consultation with a faculty mentor, and 4-8 month placement with an NGO, governmental, education institution, or private business/practice. Following the internship, the student will produce a written report.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of 2nd year in either the Honours Specialization or Major in History, with a minimum average of 70% (or by permission of the Department).
Extra Information: Notes: This credit cannot be included in the number of courses counted towards any degree or program. Successful completion of History 3900 will be recognized on the student's transcript. International students are not permitted to register in this course unless they are able to secure an internship placement in a jurisdiction where they may legally be employed.
Course Weight: 0
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level.
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above or permission of the Department. History department and instructor consent required.
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the Department. History department and instructor consent required.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the Department. History department and instructor consent required.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of Canada's wartime experience, both overseas and on the home-front. Topics include economic mobilization, conscription and domestic dissent, the wars in social memory, tactical innovation and failure on fighting fronts, and current controversies related to ongoing historiographical debates.
Antirequisite(s): History 4201E (if taken prior to September 2009), History 4292E if taken in 2005-2010 at King's University College.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the changing meaning of literacy and learning between 1600 and 1850 as Indigenous peoples confronted the arrival and imposition of European epistemologies and institutions. Key concepts developed during this course relate to settler colonialism, indigeneity, schooling and literacy.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How have Canadians thought about rights throughout our history? This course explores this question by examining rights campaigns in 19th and 20th century Canada. Themes include indigenous rights, gender and sexuality, race, and conflict and rights.
Antirequisite(s): History 4296F/G if taken in 2019-20.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In 1763 New France was “conquered” by Britain; in 1867 the colonies of British North America were federated into the Dominion of Canada. This course examines the development of the area that would become Canada in the century before Confederation, with an emphasis on Indigenous relations, French-English relations, and industrialization.
Extra information: Two seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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"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): The former History 4207E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 3208F/G, History 4496F if taken in 2011.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This reading intensive seminar course examines the Canadian experience in the First World War. Topics include the social and cultural impact of the war, victory and defeat on the fighting fronts, and domestic politics and repression. Students will produce a research paper based substantially on primary sources.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 4209E, History 4292E if taken in 2014-15, History 4296F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History essay course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the
Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This reading and research-intensive course examines Canadian success and failure on fighting fronts, political, social, and economic organization for war, domestic paranoia and repression, and the emergence of the Canadian welfare state. Students will write a major research paper based on primary documents.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 4210E, History 4297F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History essay course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the
Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar explores the history of death, cemeteries, and burials in North America, beginning in 1812. Themes include mourning, memorialization, material culture, gender, spirituality, heritage, tourism, colonialism, repatriation, social justice, and treatment of human remains.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Immigration has played a central role in Canada's history, especially during the 19th and 20th centuries. But immigration is more than an historical phenomenon; it is also our current lived experience. In addition to the historical focus, discussions in this course will also engage current debates, issues, and events.
Antirequisite(s): History 4292E if taken in 2014-15, 2015-16.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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In the wake of 9/11, many Americans seemed shocked that their country was the target of terrorist attacks. They should not have been. This course will explore the history of domestic and foreign terrorist attacks against the US and the many reasons why these attacks were undertaken.
Antirequisite(s): History 4392E (if taken in 2011-12, or 2012-13).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of American history, 1901 to the present, with emphasis upon political, social, and economic developments. Intensive examination of selected topics in seminar.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students. 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of American history, 1901 to the present, with emphasis upon political, social, and economic developments. Intensive examination of selected topics in seminar.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students. 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of American history, 1901 to the present, with emphasis upon political, social, and economic developments. Intensive examination of selected topics in seminar.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students. 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will explore, via case studies, a number of significant social, political, economic, diplomatic and cultural events that defined Cold War America.
Antirequisite(s): History 4392E if taken in 2009-2010, or 2010-2011.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is a critical exploration of American efforts to "begin the world over again." It examines diverse histories of American social reform and experiment, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Topics include revolutionary millennialism, religious and political radicalism, free thought, literary utopias,
communitarian experiments, abolition, and feminism.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar course examines American women's suffrage movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the consequences of those movements for women's political, social, intellectual, and cultural power. Throughout the course we will pay attention to the intersection of suffrage movements with discourses of
race, region, gender, sexuality, and social justice.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will examine the history and legacies of American slavery by reading awardwinning texts. About half of these readings will recount how slavery emerged and developed in North America, where it was shaped by European, African, and Indigenous societies; other texts will frame slavery in comparative, international, and transnational perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 Seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Early North American empires (1500-1800), both settler and Indigenous, clashed militarily, socially, and culturally. This comparative course explores various settler societies: New France, New Spain, New England, New Netherlands, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, and their interactions with each other and local Indigenous Nations, to highlight cultural similarities and differences.
Extra information: 2 seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of American captivity narratives as an historiographical genre. Examples to be studied include colonial-era captivity accounts involving indigenous peoples and white settlers, African American slave narratives, POW memoirs, prison writings, and modern captivity stories. What do these narratives reveal about ethnic, racial, and gender boundaries in America?
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Two seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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An examination of the political, social, economic and religious history of France from 1789 to 1815, and the influence of the French Revolution on Europe.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): History 4496F, History 4410F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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): History 4493E (2008-2010).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines the crimes, terror, and repression caused in the twentieth century by fascist, communist, and authoritarian regimes in various parts of the world. Topics include Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and non-democratic regimes in post-colonial Asia, Africa and Latin America. Specific themes include the Holocaust, and genocide after 1945.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Britain's culture of secrecy will be examined in both the public and the private spheres through the themes of the Official Secrets Acts, MI5 and MI6, spies and double agents, royalty and the media, birth control, crime investigations, electric monitoring and anti-terrorism laws.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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During the early modern period, tens of thousands of people, mostly women, were executed as suspected witches in Europe and its colonies. Witchcraft trials are remarkable windows into everyday life. This course explores the social conditions that enabled witchcraft accusations and considers their impact between ca. 1450 and 1700.
Antirequisite(s): History 2108F/G, History 2408F/G.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines dramatic changes and striking contrasts of British society from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Topics include imperial pageantry, poverty and urban squalor, class rigidity, bold individuality, and the critics of empire. Students will consider political, social, religious, gender, intellectual and environmental dimensions.
Antirequisite(s): History 3432F/G, History 4423E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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London's people, institutions, culture and geography have been integral to twentieth-century English histories of crime. This course traces broad changes in policing, punishments, crime statistics and popular news reporting, as well as examples of race riots, terrorism, prostitution, forensic science, organized crime, theft, fraud and serial killers.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines dramatic changes and striking contrasts of British society from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Topics include imperial pageantry, poverty and urban squalor, class rigidity, bold individuality, and the critics of empire. Students will consider political, social, religious, gender, intellectual and environmental dimensions.
Antirequisite(s): History 3432F/G, History 4420F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the history of the Holocaust from the perspective of Catholic-Jewish relations in Europe from the late 19th century to World War Two. Topics include anti-Judaism and political anti-Semitism, the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, and Catholic responses to the Holocaust, from collaboration, to resistance and rescue.
Antirequisite(s): History 4491E (if taken in 2010-11).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will examine the issues of slavery and slave societies
within a comparative framework although the main focus of study will be slave systems within Latin America. Themes such as the slave trade, ethnicity, demography, and culture will be explored in order to re-create the context of slave experience.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the formative issues that shaped the Latin American Colonial worlds. Relations between ethnicities, genders and classes will be explored to trace the creation of Latin American cultures as African, Indigenous and Europeans came together with explosive force.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the long historical development of human rights discourses, advocacy, and abuses in Latin America. It focuses upon the struggle for justice for, and by, indigenous and African populations from contact to the authoritarianism and institutionalized human rights violations of the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will investigate the economic, political, religious, cultural, and technological impact of long distance land and sea trade between Asia and other world religions in ancient and medieval times up to around 1500.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course analyzes the effects of five crucial wars fought during the period of 1840-1953 in East Asia, especially those of the excesses committed by the dominant armies. It also provides the students with an opportunity to study various interpretations of the events and reflect on war, war crimes, and collective memories.
Prerequisite(s): History 1601E and 1.0 History course numbered 2200 or above; or 2.0 History courses numbered 2200 or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines state regulation of sexuality in imperial China as manifested in the official treatment of adultery, rape, female chastity, prostitution, and violation of social taboos. It also investigates the life of people excluded from accepted patterns of marriage and family.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): GSWS 4607F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History or Gender, Sexuality, and 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 Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies courses.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the foreign relations of the People’s Republic of China from its inception in 1949 through to the present day. The focus of the course will be on China’s political and security relations with global powers, including the Soviet Union/Russian Federation, Japan, India, Iran, and the USA.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In this course, we will read, research, and write about structural and quotidian racism in colonial Southern Africa in the 20th century. Concomitantly, we will study the resistance movements and their leadership skills in antiracist work locally and globally. Herein is potential to change lives and futures.
Antirequisite(s): History 4896F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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) at Main Campus: History 4703F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students (Main).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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) at Main Campus: History 4703F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students (Main).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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) at Main Campus: History 4703F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students (Main).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This seminar will examine major themes of European Imperialism.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): History 4701E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: three-hour seminar.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines environmental issues in Canada and the United through biography, focusing on leadership by individuals and groups in historical context. Issues include changing ideas of nature, conservation of renewable resources, preservation of habitats, air and water pollution, energy projects, and human health/environmental justice.
Antirequisite(s): History 4705E.
Prerequisite(s): Two courses in History or Political Science at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics include: the relationship between humans and their environment; ideas on conservation and the environment; the science of ecology; and the history of the conservationist and environmental movements.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics include: the relationship between humans and their environment; ideas on conservation and the environment; the science of ecology; and the history of the conservationist and environmental movements.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is a comparative history of Italian Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism. Topics include Marxism and fascism as ideologies, the cultural and social roots of communist and fascist movements, the seizure of power, church-state relations, racial bio-politics, war and political violence, ethnic cleansing, resistance, and authoritarian legacies.
Antirequisite(s): History 4413E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 senior history courses at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This research-intensive course provides an examination of selected aspects of the First World War in various combatant nations. Among the themes to be discussed are the alliance system, the experience of battle, home-front conflicts, war culture, gender, strategic and tactical decision-making, and the memory of the war.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course, which concludes with a 10-day program in Belgium and France, explores commemorative practices that emerged after the World Wars. Topics include the presentation of history through monumental architecture, the preservation of battlefields, and museums, and how these sites have informed identity and efforts to reconcile former enemies.
Antirequisite(s): History 3710F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, and permission of the Department. (Please note, because of the limited enrolment and special circumstances of international travel associated with this course, students will also be interviewed before their registration is finalized.).
Extra Information: 3 hours. Additional cost to be borne by students. Limited enrollment. Application and interview are required. Cross-listed with History 3710F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an examination of selected aspects of the First World War in various combatant nations. Among the themes to be discussed are the alliance system, the experience of battle, home-front conflicts, war culture, gender, strategic and tactical decision-making, and the memory of the war.
Antirequisite(s): History 4709E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will work individually on an extended research project in the history of the First World War. Themes include engaging with primary documents, presenting research in a conference setting, preparing for publication, and identifying other opportunities for the dissemination of research.
Antirequisite(s): History 4709E.
Prerequisite(s): History 4711F/G.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the popular Spiritualist movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which held that life continued after bodily death and that the spirits of departed souls could be contacted by trained mediums during seances. What certainties did spiritualists hope to discover, and what frauds did their detractors unmask?
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Huron, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia).
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Huron, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia).
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Huron, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia).
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Seminar. Selected topics in the history of Amerindian-white relations.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will introduce students to gender theory generally and masculinity theory specifically. It will also survey critical debates in the history of masculinities while dealing with major themes in modern history.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A seminar course that examines selected topics to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada and America.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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What makes murder a crime? This course explores the legal evolution of murder and of the adversarial murder trial. Each week students examine a different type of murder - infanticide, domestic murder, serial killings - using coroners’ records, trial transcripts, police files, popular broadsides, newspaper reports, and other relevant primary sources.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in the history of warfare.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 history courses at the 2200 level or above. Year 3 or 4 Honours Specialization History or Honours Double Major History, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours. This course may be counted as a principal course in the Honours Political Science program. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will critically examine archival sciences relating to Indigenous peoples. Long perceived as politically neutral, the collection of records is now identified as an act of settler-colonialism that displaces Indigenous peoples and their historical practices. A class project, alongside relevant case studies, considers themes of power, intersectionality, and reconciliation.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 4806F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200-level or above, or 2.0 Indigenous Studies courses at the 2000-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 4806F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course places students with agencies and organizations in the community in order to complement classroom learning with experienced-based knowledge of how influence is exercised in public life. Students will work to satisfy both specified learning objectives and placement job requirements.
Antirequisite(s): Political Science 4428A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar course examines the social impact of the automobile and automotive technology from the late nineteenth century to the present. Technology, industrial design, corporate management styles and the rise of popular automotive culture are among the topics to be examined.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the ideas, historiography and practice of active history, an historiographical practice that is responsive to communities of study, the discussion of the work of historians among public audiences. The course examines key themes and the work of prominent historians who have modeled a practice of Active History.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This project-based studio course is a research capstone for students in the History of the Book module.
Prerequisite(s): English 2731F/G and English 2732F/G.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2130A/B, Digital Humanities 3902F/G, the former History 2816A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in any academic program at the second-year level or above.
Extra Information: 4 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines public history as it relates to Indigenous peoples, including statues and monuments, representation in mass media, recognition of cultural landscapes, and the repatriation of ancestral remains. Indigenous responses, including protest and criticisms of the “nature” and “culture” divide, provide a theoretical foundation for future analysis.
Antirequisite(s): History 4296G if taken in 2021-22, Indigenous Studies 4001G if taken in 2021-22, Indigenous Studies 4818F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year Indigenous Studies with a minimum average of 70%, or 1.0 History courses at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 4818F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to close reading and how historians can use the techniques of structured intelligence analysis. Working individually and in groups, students will analyze a series of historical case studies from the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics include espionage, cyber war, terrorism, organized crime, homeland security, counterintelligence, and decision support.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores human rights history, focussing on the language and practice of rights in the French Revolution. Students examine the foundational rights texts of the revolutionary era, and the expansion, limitation, denial of rights for women, religious minorities and people of African origins, enslaved and free, in colonial contexts.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the roots of the contemporary human rights movement in the era of Nazism-Fascism and the Holocaust, from the interwar period to the decades after 1945 and the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Topics include the role of faithbased organizations as advocates for human rights.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): Restricted to Fourth Year Honours History Students. Permission of the Chair is also required.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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History
Understanding the history of the 20th century world is an important element in participating in modern society. This course will examine the origins of the historical political, economic, social and cultural forces that shape the modern world. The emphasis in this course will be on ideas that govern actions, motivate people and provide structure to our understanding of the world.
Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in the Preliminary Year Program (Brescia University College).
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of the political and social highlights of North American society from 1600 to the present. Only for students registered in the Preliminary Year program.
Antirequisite(s): Grade 12 U (or equivalent) History.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Understanding the history of the 20th century world is an important element in participating in modern society. This course will examine the origins of the historical political, economic, social and cultural forces that shape the modern world from the end of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War.
Antirequisite(s): History 0011.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Preliminary Year program at Brescia University College.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Understanding the history of the 20th century world is an important element in participating in modern society. This course will examine the origins of the historical political, economic, social and cultural forces that shape the modern world from the beginnings of the Cold War to our 21st century world.
Antirequisite(s): History 0011.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Preliminary Year program at Brescia University College.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines Canadian experience from the earliest times to the present. Lectures and tutorials stress varied historical interpretations and divergent opinions concerning Canada's growth.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines Canadian experience from the earliest times to the present. Lectures and tutorials stress varied historical interpretations and divergent opinions concerning Canada's growth.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines Canadian experience from the earliest times to the present. Lectures and tutorials stress varied historical interpretations and divergent opinions concerning Canada's growth.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines controversial issues in Canadian History from European colonization to the present. The focus is on debates over the meaning of events, people, and policies. Topics include Indigenous-settler conflicts, expulsion of the Acadians, John A. Macdonald, residential schools, religious and language rights, and wartime treatment of minorities.
Antirequisite(s): History 1201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This experiential learning course is designed to introduce first year students to Canadian history, how history is made, and communicated to the public. Traveling to places that challenge how we think about Canada, students will study historical documents, historian’s reflections about them, and how this history is communicated in place.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 1402F/G; History 1403F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines central events and themes of European history from the start of the Enlightenment through the First World War, including: origins and impact of the French and industrial revolutions; selected political thinkers from Montesquieu to Nietzsche; German and Italian unification; working-class movements; women's emancipation movements; imperialism; the First World War.
Antirequisite(s): History 1401E.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines the Russian Revolution and Stalinism; Hitler’s rise to power, goals, and methods of rule; the Second World War; the Cold War; decolonization; post-war social changes; European integration; the collapse of the Soviet empire; Vladimir Putin’s rise and rule; and European responses to immigration, climate change, and other challenges.
Antirequisite(s): History 1401E.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the theory and practice of totalitarianism through a comparative study of regimes established by Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Topics include the seizure of power, personality cults, culture, education and propaganda, bio-politics, terror, war, the Holocaust, resistance movements.
Antirequisite(s): History 2147A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An introduction to the theory and practice of totalitarianism through a comparative study of regimes established by Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Topics include the seizure of power, personality cults, culture, education and propaganda, bio-politics, terror, war, the Holocaust, resistance movements.
Antirequisite(s): History 2147A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This half course examines the historical context of several thorny issues facing China at both international and domestic fronts: the strategic competition with the US, South China Sea disputes, and border tensions with Japan and India, as well as the separatist/autonomist movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus on the innovative use of primary sources to examine alternative histories to traditional nationalist narratives. Themes will include historiography and historical method, social and cultural history, history from below, local histories, indigenous histories, histories of the emotions and
micro-histories.
Antirequisite(s): History 1802E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Designed to provide a broad historical background and to develop analytical skills, this course examines several themes underlying the development of the modern world.The course further emphasizes historical debates about these themes and seeks to familiarize students with the concept of historiography.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Designed to provide a broad historical background and to develop analytical skills, this course examines several themes underlying the development of the modern world.The course further emphasizes historical debates about these themes and seeks to familiarize students with the concept of historiography.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will focus on the innovative use of primary sources to examine alternative histories to traditional nationalist narratives. Themes will include social and cultural history, history from below, local histories, indigenous histories, histories of the emotions and micro-histories.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines market and economic infrastructures, institutions, and actors shaping global markets from the early Empires to today. Considering economic exchange across Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Africa, the Americas, and Europe provides a platform to probe historic business elements, with special attention given to various waves of economic globalization.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course uses influential and short historical documents to introduce students to the study of history. Designed for students intending to major in history, each week students will study a new primary document that had global reach and implication in the daily lives of millions of people, living in both the past and present.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The rise of nations created the ‘international’ as a space, community, experience and ideology. This course examines international actors, experiences, and belief systems and traces their effects on peoples’ lives and on international relations, 1880s to the 1990s. Topics include war, peace, migration, human rights, and international relations.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines major revolutions and `turning points' that changed history. Topics include the Renaissance and Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the 'Sexual Revolution' of the 1960's. Political revolutions to be studied include the American and French Revolutions, and 20th century revolutions in China, Russia and Iran.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course investigates how religious conflict shaped our world. We examine the relationship between religious belief, social identity, secular ideology and political violence in such cases as the spread of Islam and the Crusades, the European wars of religion, and modern global religious conflicts.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of the relationship between history and the law that examines how change in society, politics, culture and the economy has shaped the development of law and legal institutions. It also examines how judges and lawyers use (and misuse) historical thinking in their legal arguments and reasoning.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What is love? How have concepts of love changed over time? This course will examine sources associated with the history of love: letters, films, sentimental jewelry, travel literature, opinion surveys, folklore, literature, newspapers, political speeches, sermons and medical treatises, to discover what they reveal about the histories of love.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What defines an action as violent? How have these definitions of violence in past societies changed over time? This course will explore these questions with examples of violence from the classical, medieval and modern periods, looking at warfare, everyday violence, assassination, suicide, duels, infanticide, paramilitary violence and terrorism.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Knowledge of the past is necessary to understand the political crises of our present. This class will teach students how to curate knowledgeably the flood of news in the modern global media, by asking them to research and assess six historical claims in contemporary headlines.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores how precious objects such as religious relics, ancient artifacts, luxury goods, and commodities have shaped global history. Using the lens of comparative material culture, students will investigate how diverse cultures have interpreted, competed over, and used objects of desire in religion, diplomacy, trade, war, imperialism, and migration.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Who decides what makes a monster? Using primary sources drawn from various global histories and political contexts, the course examines shifting ideas of “the monstrous” and asks what the monstrous reveals about concepts of nature and the natural, gender, race, reason, spectacle, belief, power, modernity, and what makes us human.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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See History Department for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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See History Department for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will explore a different theme year, reflecting faculty research interests. Weekly seminar meetings will feature intensive discussion of assigned readings. Students will gain experience critically examining both primary and secondary sources. Written assignments will develop Brescia competencies. The curriculum may include guest lecturers and/or field trips.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines the rise of graphic history—historically-themed graphic novels—as a means of communicating and understanding the past. In exploring how this visual medium utilizes sources, forms an argument, and creates narrative, the lecture course also introduces students to the historical discipline.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to university-level history, using the idea of time travel to “visit” historical events as if we were there. Exploring pivotal moments from throughout human history, we investigate the building blocks of historical thinking: evidence and argument, cause and consequence, empathy and ethics, counterfactual history, and more.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The History unit of the King's Foundations in the New Liberal Arts introduces students to major processes, personalities, and events in the historical development of the modern world and what is described as "the West", while developing and refining students' fundamental skills in historical methodology.
Antirequisite(s): History 1801E.
Prerequisite(s): Must be registered in the King's Foundations in the New Liberal Arts, or the former Western Thought and Civilization.
Corequisite(s): English 1901E and Philosophy 1901E
Extra Information: 3 hours. There may be additional costs associated with field trips.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Cultural, social, economic, and political themes including the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the rise of absolutism; the commercial revolution; heresy; witchcraft, and skepticism; 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.
Antirequisite(s): History 2403E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The European Witchcraze (1480-1700) was a fascinating and disturbing episode in European history. Widespread belief in witchcraft and judicial torture of the accused spread across Europe and Colonial America (Salem). The course adopts a variety of perspectives: social, religious, political, intellectual, legal, anthropological as well as gendered and environmental interpretations.
Antirequisite(s): History 2408F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 labour movement.
Antirequisite(s): History 2125F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Issues in the history of Canadian conservation and environmentalism since 1600. The political, social, ecological, regional, economic, and intellectual factors which have shaped environmental problems are explored. Students are introduced to changing ideas about the interaction of human society with other aspects of the natural world.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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): Interdisciplinary Studies 2100A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the creation and impact of editorial cartoons from colonial times to the present. Analysis of the political, social, and economic context for powerful visual critiques in the popular press. Themes include power and authority, social and moral regulation, and humour as a weapon.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 2202, History 2205E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 2202, History 2205E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 2202, History 2205E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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, Interdisciplinary Studies 2100A/B, the former History 2207F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The purpose of this course is to explore a variety of cults, terrorists and extremist groups that have emerged in modern American history, including Neo-Nazis, Scientology, and Al Qaeda.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course uses the cultural phenomenon of rock 'n' roll to explore the connections between youth and rebellion and societal change in the United States 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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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British history after 1945 is explored through the lens of popular music, from the Who and the Kinks to the Clash and the Slits. Themes to be examined include the Empire and decolonization, Northern Ireland, urban decay, immigration and racism, gender identities, class divisions, and economic inequalities.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 1404E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course applies a world historical lens to the First World War, examining the causes, course of events, and global ramifications of the conflict. Students will be asked to consider a variety of historiographical schools of thought concerning the war.
Antirequisite(s): History 2177A/B, History 2179.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course applies a world historical lens to the Second World War, examining the war's cause, course of events, and global consequences, including its influence on the post-1945 world order. Students will be asked to consider a variety of historiographical schools of thought concerning the war.
Antirequisite(s): History 2177A/B, History 2179.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the role played by food in human conflicts. It examines the ways in which competition over access to food has led to violent domestic and international struggles and how food has been used as a weapon in such conflicts and more generally as an instrument of domination.
Antirequisite(s): Foods and Nutrition 3460F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the role of food in world history with an emphasis on international exchange and cultural interaction following the discovery of the Americas. Students will consider the impact and influence of food upon politics, trade, conflict, and other aspects of society and culture.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the lives of European women 1500 to 1700. Students will analyze early modern perceptions of women, female life cycles, and the various roles of women: wife, mother, nun, martyr, midwife, citizen, soldier, worker, property owner, and artist, plus female rulers and regents.
Antirequisite(s): History 2459F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A social and cultural history of Korea from ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the Three Kingdoms, Silla, Koryo, and Choson periods.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A social and cultural history of Korea in the twentieth century. The course will focus on the early 20th century Japanese colonialism, the Korean war, and post war Korea.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will introduce social, cultural and political developments in South Korea via films, music and popular culture. Referring to earlier periods and to North Korea when necessary and continuing to the present-day Korean Wave, we will explore Korean popular culture to understand the modern history of Korea.
Extra Information: 3.0 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is an introduction to the economic history of East Asia from the rise of a marketdominated society in China during the Tang-Song transition until the “Great Divergence” and relative decline of China compared to Western Europe.
Antirequisite(s): Economics 2187F/G taught in 2016-2017 and Economics 2199F/G, taught in
2014-2015.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course highlights the environment as an historical force. It examines changing relationships between people and other aspects of the natural world. Topics include Aboriginal resource use, impacts of European colonization, attitudes toward nature, social conflicts over government policies affecting fish, forest, and wildlife, and the rise of environmental advocacy.
Antirequisite(s): History 2123, History 2211E, and History 2296G at Brescia (Winter 2009 and Winter 2011).
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines conflicts over parks and other protected areas in Canada and the United States. It emphasizes changing ideas, shifting land use pressures, and power relations among diverse interests. Controversies over park establishment, management policies, and their environmental impacts will be discussed. Course requirements may include a field trip.
Antirequisite(s): History 2296G at Brescia (Winter 2009 and Winter 2011).
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 the political and cultural context of the era.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course offers an overview of a growing field of study. Drawing on a series of historical examples from antiquity to the present, the course examines the relationship of sport to nationalism, race, class, gender, politics and war, consumer culture, and economics.
Antirequisite(s): History 1820F if taken 2018-19, 2019-20.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours. Cannot be used towards completion of a Kinesiology module.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines many narratives in hockey historiography, including experiences and traditions across time, space, and peoples. Primary emphasis is on North America, but developments elsewhere are discussed. Topics include competing claims of origins, changing rules, amateurs vs. professionals, masculinity and violence, nationalism, women’s hockey, race, commercialization, and international competition.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of selected armed conflicts within North America from the Spanish Conquest to the 20th Century. Topics may range from declared wars to civil conflicts including organized ethnic, racial, and labor violence. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of armed conflict upon society.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This survey course is aimed at expanding students’ knowledge of the World Wars as part of a larger, collective cataclysm. It considers these conflicts as part of a thirty-year crisis out of which the contemporary world emerged, fundamentally different from what might have been projected had they not occurred.
Antirequisite(s): History 2179.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2177A/B.
Antirequisite(s) at King’s campus: History 2151A/B, History 2152A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2177A/B.
Antirequisite(s) at King’s campus: History 2151A/B, History 2152A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2177A/B.
Antirequisite(s) at King’s campus: History 2151A/B, History 2152A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Death and taxes are said to be the only certainties in life but most people arguably know more about taxes than they do about death. This course explores the ideas and understandings surrounding death and dying and how they have changed from antiquity to present.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the changing relationships between women, men, and technology in North America. The course examines critical perspectives on technology and its role in history. Themes include: domestic technologies, technologies of consumption, sexual division of labour; reproductive medical technologies; and the gendering of technologies.
Antirequisite(s): History 2802E.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How did Canadians and Americans make a difference in the development of an inclusive and democratic society? This course examines various protest movements that have shaped Canadian and American History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 3-hour screening.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An analysis of crime and law enforcement in the United States and Canada within the context of urban growth and industrial capitalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific types of criminal activity will be examined, as will the development of police, prisons and vice laws.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines the business, social and cultural history of the brewing and consumption of beer, from its origins in antiquity, through its production and use in the Roman and Medieval periods, to its impact on Renaissance commerce, and the revolutions in technology, advertising, corporatization, globalization and localization during the modern age.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours. (online)
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the major conspiracy theories in American history in order to understand where these conspiracy theories came from, why they became so popular, and what this says about America and Americans, in general.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses the history of baseball in the United States to explore major themes in American history including race, gender, foreign policy, and capitalism.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course will examine the social and economic impact of epidemic disease in North America by discussing outbreaks of yellow fever, cholera, diphtheria, smallpox, Spanish influenza, polio and encephalitis. Also analyzed will be the evolution of public health services, medical theories and governmental regulations in response to such epidemics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the development of global capitalism, 1500's to present. Topics include theories and varieties of capitalism, the role of the state, social institutions and technological innovation in capitalist development, migration and labour relations, the rise of the transnational corporation and modern banking, responses to underdevelopment and global inequality.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of everyday Canadians.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G, History 2202, History 2206.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 1201E, History 1202F/G, History 2203E, History 2204F/G, History 2205E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course emphasizes the interplay of regional and national factors in Canadian history since 1867, address political, social, and economic issues, surveys the regional histories of the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, and places these regional histories in their national context.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of Canadian history to 1867. This course provides students in Canadian history with a broad knowledge of the regional particularities which have marked Canadian history from its beginnings. It deals with the main economic, social and political features of pre-Conquest Canada, the Maritime colonies, and of Lower and Upper Canada.
Prerequisite(s): History 1201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of Canadian history to 1867. This course provides students in Canadian history with a broad knowledge of the regional particularities which have marked Canadian history from its beginnings. It deals with the main economic, social and political features of pre-Conquest Canada, the Maritime colonies, and of Lower and Upper Canada.
Prerequisite(s): History 1201E.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys Canadian history since Confederation, focusing on political, economic, and social developments. It addresses key moments of tension within Canada's past, and introduces a variety of historical theories and methodologies, and considers both the development of the Canadian nation-state, and how historians have interpreted its past.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E and History 2205E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course emphasizes the interplay of regional and national factors in Canadian history since 1867, addresses political, social, and economic issues, surveys the regional histories of the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, and places these regional histories in their national context.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E, History 2202.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course emphasizes the interplay of regional and national factors in Canadian history since 1867, addresses political, social, and economic issues, surveys the regional histories of the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, and places these regional histories in their national context.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E, History 2202.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course surveys the history of Canada with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples, colonialism and imperialism; the history of warfare and international relations; immigration, industrialization and state formation; and the diverse ways that gender, class and race shaped the lives of Canadians.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Canadian history has relied on nationalist interpretations that reduce the role of Indigenous People. This course challenges these ideas by demonstrating the permanency of Indigenous Peoples and the continuity of their beliefs, practices, and political systems. Topics discussed include the Northwest Resistance, the World Wars, and the TRC.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2209E, the former Indigenous Studies 2901E, Indigenous Studies 2210F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 1000-level or above, or 1.0 course in Anthropology at the 1000-level or above, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2210F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Issues in the history of Canadian conservation and environmentalism since 1600. The political, social, ecological, regional, economic and intellectual factors which have shaped environmental problems are explored. Students are introduced to changing ideas about the interaction of human society with other aspects of the natural world.
Antirequisite(s): History 2123.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the creation and impact of editorial cartoons from colonial times to the present. Analysis of the political, social, and economic context for powerful visual critiques in the popular press. Themes include power and authority, social and moral regulation, and humour as a weapon.
Antirequisite(s): History 2126A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course highlights the environment as an historical force. It examines changing relationships between people and other aspects of the natural world. Topics include Indigenous resource use, impacts of European colonization, attitudes toward nature, social conflicts over government policies affecting fish, forest, and wildlife, and the rise of environmental advocacy.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines conflicts over parks and other protected areas in Canada and the United States. It emphasizes changing ideas, shifting land use pressures, and power relations among diverse interests. Controversies over park establishment, management policies, and their environmental impacts will be discussed. Course requirements may include a field trip.
Antirequisite(s): History 2170A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2311F/G, History 2312F/G, History 2710F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia, Huron, King's Campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is a survey of the social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of the United States, paying particular attention to the interplay among the shifting constructs of race and gender, and to the sources, interpretations, and recurring themes that give shape to narratives of the recent American past.
Antirequisite(s): History 2301E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In the increasingly polarized culture of the US, one American’s dream often seems to be another American’s nightmare. This course introduces key ideas in American culture (the American Dream, American Exceptionalism, and American Identity), and examines recent socio-political movements such as #Black Lives Matter, #Me Too, and White Nationalism.
Antirequisite(s): American Studies 2310F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course surveys the history of the United States from Reconstruction to the present day. Topics include the political history of the United States; the growth of American capitalism and mass culture; changing meanings of race, gender, and difference; and the United States’ place in the world.
Antirequisite(s): History 2301E, History 2302F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This survey of American history from 1600 to the 1860s will focus on the most important trends and developments in the emergence of the American nation, including settlement, the egalitarian impulse, national expansion, and sectional conflict.
Antirequisite(s): History 2301E, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines the transformation of European economies, political structures, religious and social institutions, and cultures in the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the European voyages of discovery, and the degree to which ordinary people shaped their societies and affected the course of historical change.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at Brescia and Huron campus: History 2103.
Antirequisite(s) at King's campus: History 2103, History 2431F/G, History 2432F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Brescia, Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The European Witchcraze (1480-1700) was a fascinating and disturbing episode in European history. Widespread belief in witchcraft and judicial torture of the accused spread across Europe and Colonial America (Salem). The course adopts a variety of perspectives: social, religious, political, intellectual, legal, anthropological as well as gendered and environmental interpretations.
Antirequisite(s): History 2108F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the concept, history, and experience of modernity in Europe from the nineteenth century to the present, paying particular attention to the key economic, political, social and cultural roles of the city.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will trace the transformations of everyday life in twentieth-century Britain through its social history and vibrant popular culture. We will examine how a country with a long history of political stability and cultural creativity was also one divided by rigid lines separating class, gender, ethnicity and nationality.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the social, cultural, political, and military history of Europe and European empires from the 1790s to the 1820s. Themes examined include the rise of modern nationalism and imperialism; print culture, art, and propaganda; warfare and society; industrialization; myth and memory; slavery and abolition; and the global impact of the Napoleonic Wars.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 Course in History.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores daily life in Britain during the extraordinary events of the Second World War. Each week students will use diaries, letters, photographs, films and propaganda to examine wartime rationing, the black market, bombing raids, refugees and foreign soldiers, crime and violence, and the mass evacuation of children.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course traces the history of Russia from ancient times to the present. It looks at events on the territory of present-day Russia through imperial expansion, reforms, and revolutions into the 21st century. It explores domestic, regional, and international factors, and how this complex history has been narrated.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the 16th through 18th centuries as a period of social, political, religious, and emotional anxiety for Europeans experiencing the tumultuous transition from medieval to modern. Topics include socio-economic pressures, religious reformations, state centralization, warfare, revolt, crime and punishment, witch hunts, and climate change.
Extra Information: 2 lecture and 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores Europe’s role in global networks of commercial, cultural, and biological exchange between 1450 and 1800. Topics include continental and overseas empire-building, imperial rivalries and wars, the rise of global capitalism, the slave trade, hardening concepts of racial difference, as well as the impact of non-Europeans within Europe.
Extra Information: 2 lecture and 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans wrestled with the legacy of antiquity, and religious dissent within Catholicism triggered violent upheaval. This course explores the culture of the Renaissance, European efforts to reconcile ancient learning with awareness of a “new” American continent, and the breakdown of Christian religious unity.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide critical perspectives on the lives of European women 1500 to 1700. Students will analyze early modern perceptions of women, female life cycles, and the various roles of women: wife, mother, nun, martyr, midwife, citizen, soldier, worker, property owner, and artist, plus female rulers and regents.
Antirequisite(s): History 2159A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the social and intellectual forces that transformed European societies and their relations with peoples beyond Europe. As scientific discoveries reshaped approaches to the natural world, European nations conducted warfare and commerce on a vastly larger scale, while encounters with other peoples reshaped European politics and culture.
Antirequisite(s): History 2403E.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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".
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Beginning with broad themes in early African history such as the Bantu migrations and the spread of Islam this course provides an overview of pre-colonial African history and seeks to convey a history of Africa on its own terms, divorced from a Eurocentric perspective.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The first term examines central themes in pre-modern Chinese history. The second term covers the modern and contemporary periods, with attention to the role of history and tradition in building the Chinese nation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Beginning with the French invasion of Algeria in 1830 and ending with the end of apartheid in South Africa, this course examines theories of imperialism, the period of the European colonization of most of Africa, colonial rule on the continent, African resistance to colonialism, and the process of decolonization.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of Japan's political, social, economic, and cultural development from prehistoric times to the present. Themes will include the foundation of the early aristocratic state, warrior regimes, the rise of the Japanese empire in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Japan's recovery and economic development after World War II.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
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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.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This half course aims to help students sharpen their analytical skills in understanding the cultural and gender differences in China, Japan, and Korea while at the same time learn more about the imperial, modern, and contemporary societies of the three East Asian countries.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course studies the long Chinese tradition of women’s biography by critically analyzing a variety of biographical sources, including records on “chaste women” in dynastic histories. It also examines how women’s biography served particular political, social, and cultural enterprises of the imperial Chinese state and society.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
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Explores the interaction between China and the rest of the world from the Mongol conquest of the 13th century to the Republic of China in the mid-20th century, to understand how China has been globally integrated through conquest, the exchange of goods and ideas, and the migration of peoples.
Extra information: Two lecture hours per week.
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This course examines China’s efforts to reinvent itself as a globally relevant
nation-state in the mid-20th and 21st centuries. We discuss the ways in which China’s leadership envisioned the “New China,” the ways governing bodies tried to make those visions a reality, and the ways the Chinese people responded.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Do you dream of an African safari, or working for an NGO or a missionary organization there? Or have you ever wondered why this resource-rich continent has so many seemingly intractable problems? This course explores contemporary African issues through a historical lens. Your African trip will never be the same.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Explores cultural, social, religious and economic interactions both within East Asia and between East Asia and the rest of the world before the age of European dominance.
Antirequisite(s): History 2691E (2013-14).
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course stresses the interaction over time of major world civilizations. Emphasis is given to historical developments that have influenced more than one civilization or cultural region.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course examines ten separate days/events in world history since 1609 with an emphasis on the key role of interactions across cultures. Moving among the case studies, the goal of the course is not to gain total knowledge of the world, but to understand the processes by which we claim to know the world.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The course examines historical international relations theory critically and in context, not only the "canon" of Western thinkers but also international voices often marginalized in IR theory. In doing so, the course considers the role of race, gender, imperialism, religion, and more in the development of IR theory.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will examine twentieth-century youth cultures in Canada, Britain and the United States: flappers, `Swing Kids', rebellious teenagers, mods, hippies, punks, and hip hop, to discover their changing natures, their relationship to the dominant society and the official reactions to them.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will investigate the history of nineteenth-century crime and punishment in Canada, the UK and the US, examining how the shared legal pasts of these countries diverged in the era of industrialization and urbanization. Topics include the establishment of police forces, early crime statistics, and capital punishment.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will compare the diverging histories of twentieth-century crime and punishment in Canada, the UK and the US. Topics include international policing, the use of forensic science in detecting and proving crime, the abolition of capital punishment, and the role of media in modern perceptions of crime.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course examines currents of change flowing through the Atlantic world, from the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 to the founding of the Republic of Haiti in 1804. Themes will include: the influence and limitations of Enlightenment thought; shifting concepts of nature, natural rights and individualism; empire and revolution; and the histories of racial slavery and emancipation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course examines the history of North America from 1450 to 1867. The course addresses the histories of North American, European and African peoples and their interactions with each other. Key themes covered in this course are imperial and colonial expansion, slavery and indigeneity, religion, and political revolution.
Antirequisite(s): History 2201E, History 2301E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course explores tyranny in human history, from ancient to modern times, with a focus on the early modern West and its global expansion. It will explore the evolution of the concept of the tyrant, the idea of legitimate vs illegitimate rule, and the resistance and agency of oppressed peoples.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Focusing on the circulation of Enlightenment thought and ideas in print culture, this course explores the origins and influence of the Enlightenment across the Atlantic world, with an emphasis on the place of natural science and religion, political revolution, women and Enlightenment, slavery and abolition, and recent critical historiography.
Antirequisite: The former History 2704E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the global impact of European joint stock companies from their inception as sixteenth-century trading expeditions to their central role in the history of imperialism, colonialism, and the development of the global capitalist economy. Topics include the rise of the corporation, expansion of global trading networks, imperial warfare, cultural contact and exchange, slavery and exploitation, colonial resistance and oppression, and the complex relationship between companies and imperial governments.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 Course in History or permission of instructor.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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A problem-based approach to the practical aspects of historical study: conducting research, utilizing evidence, writing, and the public presentation of history. The course also considers the related fields of museology, material culture, archeology, and Biblical exegesis, and concludes by examining historical malpractice, including conspiracy theories and fraud.
Antirequisite(s): History 3801E if taken at King's University College 2009-12 inclusive.
Extra Information: 1.0 lecture hour, 2.0 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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By exploring heated debates and controversies surrounding public interpretations of the past, this course introduces the practical skills, theory, and ethical awareness vital for public historians and heritage professionals. Attention is paid to how government, businesses, media, and historians influence public awareness of the past.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the changing relationships between women, men, and technology in North America. The course examines critical perspectives on technology and its role in history. Themes include: domestic technologies, technologies of consumption, sexual division of labour; reproductive medical technologies; and the gendering of technologies.
Antirequisite(s): History 2184.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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North Atlantic Society since 1800. A survey of the ideas about women, and their activities, with emphasis on changes in concepts and practices and the effects on societies.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History department at Brescia for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History at Brescia for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours lecture and seminar.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This introduction to historical thinking examines topics including the emergence of historical writing, the rise of "scientific" history, Marxist historiography, and the role of moral judgment in history. The course also considers critiques of the empiricist historical tradition mounted by postmodernist, feminist, post-colonial, and non-European scholars.
Antirequisite(s): History 3801E if taken at King's University College, 2009-12 inclusive.
Extra Information: 1.0 lecture hour; 2.0 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Beginning with the French Revolution and ending with the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this course examines themes in gender and modern European history.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Students in this course will collaborate with local museums on class projects, exploring the context in which Canadians engage with the past, and the ethical obligations required of historians. The course develops the resources and skills that will need to work with local community partners and agencies on historical topics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): History 2818F/G, History 2819F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines selected themes in the history of women¿s social and political movements in the Atlantic world, 1750-present. Topics include: women and revolution; abolition, temperance and women's rights; suffrage/anti-suffrage movements, and the rise and intersection of modern feminisms.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Extra Information: Two hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Studies the history of North Americans who claim identities, create social worlds, and build movements based on the fact that they desire members of the same sex, or challenge gender boundaries of male/female. Students will learn when, why, and how sexuality became a mode of human social and political identity.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2817F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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From ancient 'plague' pestilences to the Black Death to outbreaks in London and Marseille, this course examines the disruption and uncertainty that characterized these disease episodes. How society and medicine understood disease causation, treatment options, and regulation will be examined through the lens of power, class, race, and gender.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2812E.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in any program above first year.
Extra Information: Two hours per week; lecture; no tutorials.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, this course investigates the disruption and changes arising from disease outbreaks. Disease can permanently alter society, with lives lost, community practices modified, and individual habits scrutinized. The role of government, society’s expectations, science and medicine, power, class, race, and gender will be explored.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 2812E.
Extra Information: Two lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the history of Jews and Judaism as a history of cultural development, change, and negotiation. How have Jews interacted with other cultures? How has the nature of Jewish identity, culture, and religion varied and shifted over time? The class will focus on major events, issues, and developments.
Antirequisite(s): Jewish Studies 2821F/G.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 2821F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to the major events, figures, and themes of Jewish history from the Spanish Expulsion to the post-WWII era, including the Enlightenment and Emancipation, Zionism, the Holocaust, and the foundation of Israel.
Antirequisite: Jewish Studies 2822F/G.
Extra Information: 2.0 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 2822F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines writing about nature in English by various authors in Canada and the United States from the colonial period to the present. Course material will emphasize historical context, multiple perspectives, and changing attitudes to nature. Sources will include Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Cross-listed with English 2830F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the history of museums and exhibitions and their changing role in society across the globe from the ancient world to the 21st century. Themes include the rise of anthropology and natural sciences; looting; professionalization; colonialism; representation of the ‘other’; museums as political and cultural tools; and repatriation.
Antirequisite(s): Museum and Curatorial Studies 2610F/G.
Extra Information: two lecture hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the animal/human relationship through history, including animals as resource and entertainment, ethical frameworks concerning animal treatment, animals in culture, and the rise of pets. Our relationship with animals is complex – sometimes symbiotic, often exploitative – and history helps us to understand why we treat animals as
we do.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in any program at the second year or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to the biographical method, including consideration of its value and limitations. Students will develop skills in researching, understanding, and interpreting the lives of individuals within a particular historical context.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
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A survey of the interaction between North American First peoples and expanding European communities from the sixteenth century to the present. Particular attention will be paid to the effects of European colonialism on Indigenous peoples as well as to First Nations' responses, including resistance, survivance and accommodation.
Antirequisite(s): History 3219E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
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This course examines the social history of Canada since 1800. Focusing on the lives of everyday people and utilizing issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality, this course explores topics related to industrialization, urbanization, immigration, family, crime, and social reform. Considerable attention is paid to the historiography/methodologies of the
field.
Antirequisite(s): History 3205E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 Seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the social history of Canada since 1800. Focusing on the lives of everyday people and utilizing issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality, this course explores topics related to industrialization, urbanization, immigration, family, crime, and social reform. Considerable attention is paid to the historiography/methodologies of the
field.
Antirequisite(s): History 3205E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 Seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hour seminar course.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics include native women's lives at the time of European contact; the frontier experience; "separate spheres" in the British North American context; paid work before and after industrialization; religion, education and social reform; origins and impact of feminist movements.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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The historical study of the natural environment, its socio-economic use by various peoples, and changing perceptions of the natural world in what is now Canada, from pre-European time to the late twentieth century. Reference will be made to similar processes in North America and elsewhere.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will analyze various Canadian social movements in terms of their historical factors, strategies and tactics; organizational challenges they faced; and the role that mass media, the state, individual personalities, and counter-movements played in determining their success and failures. Canadian social movements will be placed in their international context.
Antirequisite(s): History 3292E taught in 2009-10.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of public violence from the French regime to the present.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Limited enrollment.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics include aspects of the political, social and economic history of the province.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Note at Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics include aspects of the political, social and economic history of the province.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Note at Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course invites students to learn about the experiences of immigrants to Canada from the historical perspective. It will consider such varied themes as the politics of Immigrant Food-ways, Identity and Wartime, Black migration to Canada-Searching for More than Freedom, Religion and identity and the relationship between Immigration and Indigeneity.
Antirequisite(s): History 3296G if taken in 2020-2021 and History 3296F if taken in 2021-2022.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses Mi'kmaw and Acadian archival case studies to teach digital historical methods. Students will become familiar with the complex ways Indigenous, colonial, and imperial spatial understanding shaped eighteenth-century northeastern North America. They will also develop skills in digital mapping, social network analysis, distant reading, and digital annotation software.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will survey the long history of what is now the Province of Ontario by profiling a number of distinct communities. These range from Tkahaa’nayg’n, the birthplace of the Haudenosaunee Peacemaker, to the planned suburbs of Etobicoke, envisioned by developer Rex Heslop in the mid-1950s.
Antirequisite(s): History 3221E.
Extra information: 3 lecture and seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An historical study of the discourses and practices of childhood and youth. Students will explore how and why various actors, groups, or movements have participated in and shaped growing-up in Canada.
Antirequisite: Childhood and Social Institutions 3361F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 3rd or 4th year standing.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of racism in Canadian society from the eighteenth century to the present, including the racist targeting of Canada’s Black, Chinese, Indigenous, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, and South Asian communities, focusing specifically on institutional racism. Governmental and citizenbased anti-racism initiatives are also studied.
Extra information: 2 seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Indian Residential School System has been recognized by the Canadian Parliament as an act of genocide. This course explores the long history of residential schools in Canada, from early initiatives in New France in the 1640s through the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 3267F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 1000-level or above, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 3267F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines Canadian external relations since 1840, with an emphasis on the twentieth century and how diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military interactions with other states have shaped Canada's development and identity. Relations with the United Kingdom, the United States, Asia, and the developing world will be considered.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Note at King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): One Senior U.S. History course.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Note at King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 3306F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Open to students in the three-year program (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 3306F/G.
Prerequisite(s): One Senior U.S. History course.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Open to students in the three-year program (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores social change, economic and territorial expansion, and slavery in 19th century U.S. history. Students learn to identify and question the frameworks that shape how historians narrate this history to students and to the public, especially American Exceptionalism and the idea that American history is a story of "progress."
Antirequisite(s): History 3305E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the development of American popular culture and its relation to American society. The topics covered include music, literature, radio, movies, sports and television. The course also explores how American popular culture portrayed and was influenced by African Americans, women, youth and other ethnic Americans.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 essay course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will explore, in lectures and seminars, a number of major conspiracy theories in American history. Lectures will provide an overview of the theories and theorists, while seminars will delve into the primary sources in print and online.
Antirequisite(s): History 2193A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History essay course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the
Department.
Extra Information: 2.0 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A thematic examination of the social, economic, political and cultural development of the U.S. South from the colonial era to the present.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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What defines being “American”? How is the American identity constructed, and how and why is it frequently contested? This course employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the meaning(s) and definition(s) of American identity from multiple viewpoints, and within the context of US history, politics, regions, values, and culture.
Antirequisite(s): American Studies 3310F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above OR enrolment in an American
Studies module.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course explores themes in African American history from 1600 through the Civil War and the collapse of Reconstruction. Topics include histories of slavery and resistance; abolition, antislavery and the underground railroad; links to African Canadian history; freedom and emancipation; reconstruction, racial politics, and segregation at the end of the 19th century.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the modern civil rights movement in the wider context of African American political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, from the "strange career of Jim Crow" in the 1890s to the end of the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines themes in American history--including race, empire, dispossession, political power, personal aspiration, freedom and modernity--using California as a critical frame. Students will work with primary evidence from material, textual and visual culture and will consider questions that have defined California’s political, social, and intellectual history.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A study of the interaction between domestic forces - ideological, political, and economic - and external forces in the development of United States foreign policy.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 history course at the 2300, 3300 or 4300 level.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 Honours Specialization in International Relations.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus on the 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 contexts in which they began and operated, and their successes and failures.
Antirequisite(s): History 2137A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the histories of people of African descent in the United States and Canada from the earliest days of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present, through biographies and autobiographies. It explores such themes as agency, resistance, intersectionality, identity, freedom, and creativity.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 3340F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cross-listed with GSWS 3340F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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This course examines conflicts over gender and power, concerning the legitimacy of female rule in Europe 1450-1800. It emphasizes the political role and challenges of female rulers as queens regnant, queen-consorts, queen-mothers, and regents, who collaborated in the transmission of dynastic power through official and unofficial channels.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Homer's Odyssey, Aristotle's Ethics, the Hebrew Bible, and St. Augustine's Confessions, which influenced both the ages in which they were composed and subsequent Western thought, depict distinctive and often conflicting ideals for the individual and society. The class examines these ideals and the larger debates they embody and reflect.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The class examines and compares the work of key Enlightenment thinkers, including Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, as well as authors who responded to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and interpreted contemporary changes taking place in Europe, including Edmund Burke, Friedrich Hegel, Alexis de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the importance of gender, relationships and the body to crime in modern Britain. We examine the history of crimes explicitly linked to gender including infanticide, shoplifting, rape and domestic assault, and the history of institutions charged with discovering, prosecuting and punishing crime.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of the influence of naval and maritime issues on European development. Topics include early exploration, first overseas empires, growth of commercial classes and cities, warship development and professional navies, maritime warfare, navies as first industrial conglomerates, Pax Britannica, impact of steam, iron and oil, new empires of later 19th century, 20th century arms races, the two world wars.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/discussion hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores social and cultural connections within the British Empire through the themes of sexuality, crime, and publishing. These examples are used to examine the passionate historical debate surrounding Empire.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 Essay course at the 2000-level or above
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 seminar hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar examines the worldviews of men and women in nineteenth-century Britain: economic, political, social, and scientific, taking into account both conservative and radical perspectives. It also explores the domestic ideology commonly associated with the period, and the challenges posed to the Victorian domestic ideal.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Two seminar hours weekly
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Examines why and how the Nazi government undertook to murder European Jews, and also the educated elite of Poland, Soviet POWs, Roma and Sinti, and the mentally handicapped. We examine the roles played by Hitler and close associates, contemporary responses to the murders, and the postwar historiography of the subject.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: The former History 3427E.
Antirequisite(s) at Huron: Jewish Studies 3416F/G, the former History 3427E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly (Main). 3 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 3416F/G (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Examines why and how the Nazi government undertook to murder European Jews, and also the educated elite of Poland, Soviet POWs, Roma and Sinti, and the mentally handicapped. We examine the roles played by Hitler and close associates, contemporary responses to the murders, and the postwar historiography of the subject.
Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: The former History 3427E.
Antirequisite(s) at Huron: Jewish Studies 3416F/G, the former History 3427E.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly (Main). 3 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 3416F/G (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines dramatic changes and striking contrasts of British society from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Topics include imperial pageantry, poverty and urban squalor, crime, class rigidity, and bold individuality. There will be some focus on women’s experiences, at home and abroad.
Antirequisite(s): History 4420F/G, History 4423E, the former History 3423F/G,
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Germany was arguably the dominant state in continental Europe from its founding until 1945. Since reunification it has again begun to play this role. Its achievements and its crimes cast long shadows on all its neighbors. We examine all aspects of this history, including domestic politics, social divisions, and culture.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3415E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: Two hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Early modern Europe was defined by religious conflict: warfare between Christians and Muslims, the breakdown of Christian unity, and persecution of smaller Jewish minorities. But warfare was not the entire story. This course explores ideologies, conflicts, and reciprocal cultural influences among societies that viewed religion as a pillar of identity.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The history of Victorian Britain is characterized by dramatic changes and striking contrasts. This course introduces students to various and competing strands of British and imperial society, considering social, political, economic, religious, intellectual, cultural, gender, and environmental dimensions of Victorian Britain and its empire.
Antirequisite(s): History 4420F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 Course in History 2400 level or above, or written Special Permission.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Virgin Queen or Glorianna, Elizabeth I is the most studied Briton of the early modern period. Using primary and secondary sources including literature and film, this research seminar examines Elizabeth's role as a leader, woman, and queen, exploring her self-representation and later use of her image and memory.
Antirequisite(s): History 3441F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Elizabeth I, or Gloriana, fascinated scholars for centuries, reaching new heights with developments in women’s and gender history, but more recently with studies of “Queenship and Power.” Using primary sources, this seminar will explore the historiography, history, literature, portraiture and films that surround the myth and memory of Gloriana.
Antirequisite(s): History 3440E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 Seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Latin America popular cultural forms will be studied through specific practices such as music, dance, theatre, popular religious beliefs, sports and movies. This foray into popular culture will highlight how traditional categories like politics and economies can be understood through different types of historical evidence and innovative historical dynamics.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This survey course will study Latin America from 1900 to the present, with emphasis on Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela. It will provide students with a basic knowledge of modern Latin America, and show how different approaches to historical themes affect how we study and interpret the past.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the historical processes that have shaped Latin American religiosity, including relations of power, gender, and cosmology, while also endeavouring to capture the fluid nature of these processes and the ever-changing features of religious practise and beliefs among people of various ethnicities, classes and social conditions.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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A thematic exploration of the crucial developments and problems in Chinese history since 1800.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines the social and economic factors behind the Crusades, both in medieval Europe and in the Middle East. It explores the Crusaders kingdom in the context of medieval Islam and Christianity, as a neighbor of the Islamic states, and as a link to Mediterranean Europe.
Antirequisite(s): History 3605E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: two-hour seminar.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will investigate Japan's historical development during the Tokugawa shogunate between 1600 and 1868. Themes will include social and political structures, intellectual and cultural developments, commerce and urbanization, and Tokugawa Japan's relations with other countries.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3603E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the social and economic factors behind the Crusades, both in medieval Europe and in the Middle East. It explores the Crusaders kingdom in the context of medieval Islam and Christianity, as a neighbor of the Islamic states, and as a link to Mediterranean Europe.
Antirequisite(s): History 3602F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An investigation of the processes that created Japan's modern nation-state and Asia-Pacific empire between the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945. Themes will include political and economic developments and their impact on society and culture in both Japan and its imperial possessions.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3603E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above or the former International Relations 2701E.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This half-year course examines competing legal concepts and their proponents, the principles of the Chinese legal system, and various types of crime and forms of punishment in imperial China. It also explores the impact of imperial legal practice on traditional Chinese society and contemporary Chinese policies, laws, and legal praxes.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An investigation of historical developments within the international system in the Asia-Pacific and the region’s interactions with the wider world and how the interplay of political, economic, and cultural factors affected the developments in empire, conflict and diplomacy from the late 18th century to 1910.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3611E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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An investigation of the background and consequences of the First and Second World Wars in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on Asian as well as outside actors. It will also deal with political, economic, cultural, and social aspects of this period and how these affected imperialism, nationalism, conflict, and diplomacy.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 3611E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the dynamics of culture, politics, religion, belief and social change in Korea during the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Antirequisite(s): History 3696F if taken in 2015-16.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the history of Korea from the tenth to sixteenth centuries, during a period of transformative change in northeast Asia.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will involve a detailed exploration of key debates (past and present) concerning the statecraft and economics of East Asian during the early modern period, from the Tang-Song transition of the tenth century to the beginning of European dominance in the nineteenth.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above, or Economics 2150A/B and
Economics 2152A/B, or by permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the historical background of select contemporary world crises. Its object is threefold: to increase students' understanding of current global events; to demonstrate the value of historical inquiry when examining such conflicts; to encourage students to engage politically as historians.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines political assassinations in the twentieth century, surveying both the murders of key political figures and those of enemies of the state in a variety of national and international contexts. Emphasis is given to discussion of the phenomenon of assassinations, motivations of assassins, and impacts of these killings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course considers the role of animals in histories of imperialism, colonialism and resistance movements. Focusing on primary sources and recent historiography, the course examines topics including animals and economies of empire; animals in colonial discourse; animals and imperial spectacle; environmental histories; and animals’ engagement in struggles for human liberation.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course, which concludes with a 10-day program in Belgium and France, explores commemorative practices that emerged after the World Wars. Topics include the presentation of history through monumental architecture, the preservation of battlefields, and museums, and how these sites have informed identity and efforts to reconcile former enemies.
Antirequisite(s): History 4710F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, and permission of the Department.
Extra Information: Additional cost to be borne by students. Limited enrollment. Application and interview are required, see the Department of History website for more information. Cross-listed with History 4710F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the problem of mass violence in the 20th century with a focus on the role of the state and the social dynamics of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Topics include theories of genocide and case studies that may include the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, Stalinism, Mao's China, and Rwanda.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is a comparative history of fascist movements and fascist states in the 20th century. Topics include theories of fascism, social origins of fascist movements, the seizure of power in Italy and Germany, unsuccessful European fascist movements, fascism outside Europe, and neo-fascism.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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, taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of the spatial, political and social evolution of cities within a North American context. The emphasis will be on the urban development of the United States and Canada that includes a comparative approach to the study of the major themes and problems of city life.
Antirequisite(s): History 2792E (2009-10).
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 seminar hour.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above or Geography 2133A/B.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar explores the causes, elements, and consequences of genocide in modern history through historical case studies and multidisciplinary perspectives.
Antirequisite(s): Political Science 2293F/G, Political Science 4426F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Humans of late have exerted so much influence on the Earth, and created what are essentially permanent changes to it, that some scientists and scholars argue we are in a new age not just in human history, but in Earth history: the Anthropocene. This seminar course is a global environmental history of the recent past.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This lecture and seminar course surveys the global history of populism and its main populist actors from the early nineteenth century to the present, focusing on Russia, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Ghana, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia, and India.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course investigates the profound changes that flowed from contact between American, African, and European peoples. Topics include conflicts among Europeans and Indigenous societies in Meso-America; demographic impacts of intercontinental contact; early contacts in North America; the formation of an Atlantic economy; and the influence of Atlantic exchanges upon Europe.
Antirequisite(s): History 3797F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Antirequisite(s) at Main Campus: History 3717F/G if taken in 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia, Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the history of the historical profession, varieties of history, where research should start, the nature and limitations of evidence, methods of interpretation, research techniques in specialized areas, and problems of causal explanation.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron). Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines the history of the historical profession, varieties of history, where research should start, the nature and limitations of evidence, methods of interpretation, research techniques in specialized areas, and problems of causal explanation.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron). Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the origins of, and developments in, modern Catholic social thought from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a chronological and thematic framework, the course pivots between historical and contemporary dimensions of Catholic thought, teaching and practice. It examines how historical thinking can contribute to ethical decision-making.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 senior History course(s) at the 2100 level or above; or Social Justice and Peace Studies 1025F/G, Social Justice and Peace Studies 1026F/G, or the former Social Justice and Peace Studies 1020E and Social Justice and Peace Studies 2200E; or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar course will examine what is now the Greater Toronto Area from multiple perspectives, including Indigenous and settler cultures. Topics include colonization, environmental change, urban development, shifting demographics, and popular culture. Course material will emphasize diverse interpretations, encouraging students to explore the lived experience of various peoples.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Note: A field trip will be required.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History at Brescia for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An introduction to changes in family life since 1500 with regard to demography, structure, and emotional content. Topics may include the internal workings of the family and its relationship to other institutions, particularly the state and the public economy; the influence of race, ethnicity, national traditions, religion, class, and changing constructions of masculinity and femininity. The family in Western Europe and North America will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History at Brescia for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3.0 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 the dominant culture. The course will highlight a variety of themes related to ethnicity, religion, gender, and class.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course applies historical methods and ethical reasoning to analysing current events. The class identifies a current public policy issue about which to pursue historical research. Working individually and in groups, students prepare a policy briefing that shows the relevance of history and ethics to issues we face today.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores misconceptions, distortions, and manipulations of history. The course examines case studies in the abuse of history, the creation of usable pasts, and the role of false narratives in shaping historical events. Students will apply the historical method to confront the challenge of pseudohistory in popular media.
Antirequisite(s): History 3308E.
Prerequisite(s): 0.5 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above; or History 2811F/G and
enrolment in the Minor in Public History.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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History 3814F/G KICKING & SCREAMING: WOMEN'S PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN 19TH & 20TH CENTURY CANADA & 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.
Extra Information: Two hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): Digital Humanities 2130A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A thematic introduction to 21st-century history focused on phenomena that characterize our age: the global connectivity of supply chains, planetary-scale computation, the War on Terror, and unprecedented ecological change. Contemporary events are contextualized in an interdisciplinary fashion at time scales ranging from days to millions of years.
Prerequisite(s): Any 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines writing about nature in English by various authors in Canada and the United States from the colonial period to the present. Course material will emphasize historical context, multiple perspectives, and changing attitudes to nature. Sources will include Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Using 10 objects as entry points into the history of medicine, this course explores the changes and continuities in Western medical knowledge and practice since the 18th century. New and old medical treatments, different medical theories, professional authority, socio-cultural expectations, and issues of power, class, race, gender will be explored.
Extra information: 2 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Using a case-based approach, this course tackles some thorny issues in the history of medicine. We shall attempt to make sense of several controversial events by exploring themes of risk, innovation, authority, the role of “experts” and “publics,” health care access, issues of power, individual agency, experimentation, and more.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of the making of the working class in North America with the rise of industrial capitalism. Students will examine industrial discipline, labour commodification and dislocation, the experience of poverty and unemployment, family wage earning strategies, workers' religious, political, and labour organizations, among other aspects of the formation of working class consciousness.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of legal culture and institutions that structured the rise of capitalism in North America. Students will examine the fundamentals of law that arose within market society such as an instrumental conceptualization of law and property, the will theory of contract, and actuarial conceptions of risk.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the history of the Holocaust, especially the historical, ethical and theological dimensions of religious involvement in this genocide. Themes to be considered include the relationship between religious anti-Judaism and political anti-Semitism, Christian responses to the Holocaust, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the legacy of the Holocaust for interfaith relations.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is an invitation to the discipline of history through the lens of Indigenous ways of knowing the past from around the world. The offerings include sources and methods in Indigenous ways, that teach students lifelong skills for relational work toward a flourishing planet for humans and all beings.
Antirequisite(s): History 3896F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Extra Information: 3 hours (Brescia, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Preparatory consultation with a faculty mentor, and 4-8 month placement with an NGO, governmental, education institution, or private business/practice. Following the internship, the student will produce a written report.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of 2nd year in either the Honours Specialization or Major in History, with a minimum average of 70% (or by permission of the Department).
Extra Information: Notes: This credit cannot be included in the number of courses counted towards any degree or program. Successful completion of History 3900 will be recognized on the student's transcript. International students are not permitted to register in this course unless they are able to secure an internship placement in a jurisdiction where they may legally be employed.
Course Weight: 0
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level.
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above or permission of the Department. History department and instructor consent required.
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the Department. History department and instructor consent required.
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This is an independent study course based on voluntary or paid workplace experience in a History-related field or in a position where the skills of the discipline will be employed. Students will work with an approved faculty advisor on a project related to their work experience.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the Department. History department and instructor consent required.
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An examination of Canada's wartime experience, both overseas and on the home-front. Topics include economic mobilization, conscription and domestic dissent, the wars in social memory, tactical innovation and failure on fighting fronts, and current controversies related to ongoing historiographical debates.
Antirequisite(s): History 4201E (if taken prior to September 2009), History 4292E if taken in 2005-2010 at King's University College.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the changing meaning of literacy and learning between 1600 and 1850 as Indigenous peoples confronted the arrival and imposition of European epistemologies and institutions. Key concepts developed during this course relate to settler colonialism, indigeneity, schooling and literacy.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How have Canadians thought about rights throughout our history? This course explores this question by examining rights campaigns in 19th and 20th century Canada. Themes include indigenous rights, gender and sexuality, race, and conflict and rights.
Antirequisite(s): History 4296F/G if taken in 2019-20.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In 1763 New France was “conquered” by Britain; in 1867 the colonies of British North America were federated into the Dominion of Canada. This course examines the development of the area that would become Canada in the century before Confederation, with an emphasis on Indigenous relations, French-English relations, and industrialization.
Extra information: Two seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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"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): The former History 4207E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 3208F/G, History 4496F if taken in 2011.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This reading intensive seminar course examines the Canadian experience in the First World War. Topics include the social and cultural impact of the war, victory and defeat on the fighting fronts, and domestic politics and repression. Students will produce a research paper based substantially on primary sources.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 4209E, History 4292E if taken in 2014-15, History 4296F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History essay course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the
Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This reading and research-intensive course examines Canadian success and failure on fighting fronts, political, social, and economic organization for war, domestic paranoia and repression, and the emergence of the Canadian welfare state. Students will write a major research paper based on primary documents.
Antirequisite(s): The former History 4210E, History 4297F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History essay course at the 2200 level or above, or permission of the
Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar explores the history of death, cemeteries, and burials in North America, beginning in 1812. Themes include mourning, memorialization, material culture, gender, spirituality, heritage, tourism, colonialism, repatriation, social justice, and treatment of human remains.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Immigration has played a central role in Canada's history, especially during the 19th and 20th centuries. But immigration is more than an historical phenomenon; it is also our current lived experience. In addition to the historical focus, discussions in this course will also engage current debates, issues, and events.
Antirequisite(s): History 4292E if taken in 2014-15, 2015-16.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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In the wake of 9/11, many Americans seemed shocked that their country was the target of terrorist attacks. They should not have been. This course will explore the history of domestic and foreign terrorist attacks against the US and the many reasons why these attacks were undertaken.
Antirequisite(s): History 4392E (if taken in 2011-12, or 2012-13).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of American history, 1901 to the present, with emphasis upon political, social, and economic developments. Intensive examination of selected topics in seminar.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students. 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of American history, 1901 to the present, with emphasis upon political, social, and economic developments. Intensive examination of selected topics in seminar.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students. 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of American history, 1901 to the present, with emphasis upon political, social, and economic developments. Intensive examination of selected topics in seminar.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students. 2 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will explore, via case studies, a number of significant social, political, economic, diplomatic and cultural events that defined Cold War America.
Antirequisite(s): History 4392E if taken in 2009-2010, or 2010-2011.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is a critical exploration of American efforts to "begin the world over again." It examines diverse histories of American social reform and experiment, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Topics include revolutionary millennialism, religious and political radicalism, free thought, literary utopias,
communitarian experiments, abolition, and feminism.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar course examines American women's suffrage movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the consequences of those movements for women's political, social, intellectual, and cultural power. Throughout the course we will pay attention to the intersection of suffrage movements with discourses of
race, region, gender, sexuality, and social justice.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will examine the history and legacies of American slavery by reading awardwinning texts. About half of these readings will recount how slavery emerged and developed in North America, where it was shaped by European, African, and Indigenous societies; other texts will frame slavery in comparative, international, and transnational perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 Seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Early North American empires (1500-1800), both settler and Indigenous, clashed militarily, socially, and culturally. This comparative course explores various settler societies: New France, New Spain, New England, New Netherlands, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, and their interactions with each other and local Indigenous Nations, to highlight cultural similarities and differences.
Extra information: 2 seminar hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of American captivity narratives as an historiographical genre. Examples to be studied include colonial-era captivity accounts involving indigenous peoples and white settlers, African American slave narratives, POW memoirs, prison writings, and modern captivity stories. What do these narratives reveal about ethnic, racial, and gender boundaries in America?
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: Two seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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An examination of the political, social, economic and religious history of France from 1789 to 1815, and the influence of the French Revolution on Europe.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): History 4496F, History 4410F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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): History 4493E (2008-2010).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines the crimes, terror, and repression caused in the twentieth century by fascist, communist, and authoritarian regimes in various parts of the world. Topics include Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and non-democratic regimes in post-colonial Asia, Africa and Latin America. Specific themes include the Holocaust, and genocide after 1945.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Britain's culture of secrecy will be examined in both the public and the private spheres through the themes of the Official Secrets Acts, MI5 and MI6, spies and double agents, royalty and the media, birth control, crime investigations, electric monitoring and anti-terrorism laws.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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During the early modern period, tens of thousands of people, mostly women, were executed as suspected witches in Europe and its colonies. Witchcraft trials are remarkable windows into everyday life. This course explores the social conditions that enabled witchcraft accusations and considers their impact between ca. 1450 and 1700.
Antirequisite(s): History 2108F/G, History 2408F/G.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines dramatic changes and striking contrasts of British society from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Topics include imperial pageantry, poverty and urban squalor, class rigidity, bold individuality, and the critics of empire. Students will consider political, social, religious, gender, intellectual and environmental dimensions.
Antirequisite(s): History 3432F/G, History 4423E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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London's people, institutions, culture and geography have been integral to twentieth-century English histories of crime. This course traces broad changes in policing, punishments, crime statistics and popular news reporting, as well as examples of race riots, terrorism, prostitution, forensic science, organized crime, theft, fraud and serial killers.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course examines dramatic changes and striking contrasts of British society from the early nineteenth century to the First World War. Topics include imperial pageantry, poverty and urban squalor, class rigidity, bold individuality, and the critics of empire. Students will consider political, social, religious, gender, intellectual and environmental dimensions.
Antirequisite(s): History 3432F/G, History 4420F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the history of the Holocaust from the perspective of Catholic-Jewish relations in Europe from the late 19th century to World War Two. Topics include anti-Judaism and political anti-Semitism, the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, and Catholic responses to the Holocaust, from collaboration, to resistance and rescue.
Antirequisite(s): History 4491E (if taken in 2010-11).
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will examine the issues of slavery and slave societies
within a comparative framework although the main focus of study will be slave systems within Latin America. Themes such as the slave trade, ethnicity, demography, and culture will be explored in order to re-create the context of slave experience.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the formative issues that shaped the Latin American Colonial worlds. Relations between ethnicities, genders and classes will be explored to trace the creation of Latin American cultures as African, Indigenous and Europeans came together with explosive force.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the long historical development of human rights discourses, advocacy, and abuses in Latin America. It focuses upon the struggle for justice for, and by, indigenous and African populations from contact to the authoritarianism and institutionalized human rights violations of the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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This course will investigate the economic, political, religious, cultural, and technological impact of long distance land and sea trade between Asia and other world religions in ancient and medieval times up to around 1500.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course analyzes the effects of five crucial wars fought during the period of 1840-1953 in East Asia, especially those of the excesses committed by the dominant armies. It also provides the students with an opportunity to study various interpretations of the events and reflect on war, war crimes, and collective memories.
Prerequisite(s): History 1601E and 1.0 History course numbered 2200 or above; or 2.0 History courses numbered 2200 or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines state regulation of sexuality in imperial China as manifested in the official treatment of adultery, rape, female chastity, prostitution, and violation of social taboos. It also investigates the life of people excluded from accepted patterns of marriage and family.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): GSWS 4607F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History or Gender, Sexuality, and 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 Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies courses.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the foreign relations of the People’s Republic of China from its inception in 1949 through to the present day. The focus of the course will be on China’s political and security relations with global powers, including the Soviet Union/Russian Federation, Japan, India, Iran, and the USA.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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In this course, we will read, research, and write about structural and quotidian racism in colonial Southern Africa in the 20th century. Concomitantly, we will study the resistance movements and their leadership skills in antiracist work locally and globally. Herein is potential to change lives and futures.
Antirequisite(s): History 4896F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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) at Main Campus: History 4703F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students (Main).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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) at Main Campus: History 4703F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students (Main).
Course Weight: 1.00
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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) at Main Campus: History 4703F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students (Main).
Course Weight: 1.00
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This seminar will examine major themes of European Imperialism.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): History 4701E.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: three-hour seminar.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines environmental issues in Canada and the United through biography, focusing on leadership by individuals and groups in historical context. Issues include changing ideas of nature, conservation of renewable resources, preservation of habitats, air and water pollution, energy projects, and human health/environmental justice.
Antirequisite(s): History 4705E.
Prerequisite(s): Two courses in History or Political Science at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics include: the relationship between humans and their environment; ideas on conservation and the environment; the science of ecology; and the history of the conservationist and environmental movements.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics include: the relationship between humans and their environment; ideas on conservation and the environment; the science of ecology; and the history of the conservationist and environmental movements.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course is a comparative history of Italian Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism. Topics include Marxism and fascism as ideologies, the cultural and social roots of communist and fascist movements, the seizure of power, church-state relations, racial bio-politics, war and political violence, ethnic cleansing, resistance, and authoritarian legacies.
Antirequisite(s): History 4413E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 senior history courses at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This research-intensive course provides an examination of selected aspects of the First World War in various combatant nations. Among the themes to be discussed are the alliance system, the experience of battle, home-front conflicts, war culture, gender, strategic and tactical decision-making, and the memory of the war.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course, which concludes with a 10-day program in Belgium and France, explores commemorative practices that emerged after the World Wars. Topics include the presentation of history through monumental architecture, the preservation of battlefields, and museums, and how these sites have informed identity and efforts to reconcile former enemies.
Antirequisite(s): History 3710F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above, and permission of the Department. (Please note, because of the limited enrolment and special circumstances of international travel associated with this course, students will also be interviewed before their registration is finalized.).
Extra Information: 3 hours. Additional cost to be borne by students. Limited enrollment. Application and interview are required. Cross-listed with History 3710F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an examination of selected aspects of the First World War in various combatant nations. Among the themes to be discussed are the alliance system, the experience of battle, home-front conflicts, war culture, gender, strategic and tactical decision-making, and the memory of the war.
Antirequisite(s): History 4709E.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will work individually on an extended research project in the history of the First World War. Themes include engaging with primary documents, presenting research in a conference setting, preparing for publication, and identifying other opportunities for the dissemination of research.
Antirequisite(s): History 4709E.
Prerequisite(s): History 4711F/G.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the popular Spiritualist movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which held that life continued after bodily death and that the spirits of departed souls could be contacted by trained mediums during seances. What certainties did spiritualists hope to discover, and what frauds did their detractors unmask?
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Huron, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Huron, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia).
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Huron, King’s); 2 seminar hours (Brescia).
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Seminar. Selected topics in the history of Amerindian-white relations.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will introduce students to gender theory generally and masculinity theory specifically. It will also survey critical debates in the history of masculinities while dealing with major themes in modern history.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A seminar course that examines selected topics to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada and America.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 2 hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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What makes murder a crime? This course explores the legal evolution of murder and of the adversarial murder trial. Each week students examine a different type of murder - infanticide, domestic murder, serial killings - using coroners’ records, trial transcripts, police files, popular broadsides, newspaper reports, and other relevant primary sources.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200-level or above or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in the history of warfare.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 history courses at the 2200 level or above. Year 3 or 4 Honours Specialization History or Honours Double Major History, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours. This course may be counted as a principal course in the Honours Political Science program. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will critically examine archival sciences relating to Indigenous peoples. Long perceived as politically neutral, the collection of records is now identified as an act of settler-colonialism that displaces Indigenous peoples and their historical practices. A class project, alongside relevant case studies, considers themes of power, intersectionality, and reconciliation.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 4806F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200-level or above, or 2.0 Indigenous Studies courses at the 2000-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 4806F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course places students with agencies and organizations in the community in order to complement classroom learning with experienced-based knowledge of how influence is exercised in public life. Students will work to satisfy both specified learning objectives and placement job requirements.
Antirequisite(s): Political Science 4428A/B.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 3 seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This seminar course examines the social impact of the automobile and automotive technology from the late nineteenth century to the present. Technology, industrial design, corporate management styles and the rise of popular automotive culture are among the topics to be examined.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course explores the ideas, historiography and practice of active history, an historiographical practice that is responsive to communities of study, the discussion of the work of historians among public audiences. The course examines key themes and the work of prominent historians who have modeled a practice of Active History.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This project-based studio course is a research capstone for students in the History of the Book module.
Prerequisite(s): English 2731F/G and English 2732F/G.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Antirequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2130A/B, Digital Humanities 3902F/G, the former History 2816A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in any academic program at the second-year level or above.
Extra Information: 4 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines public history as it relates to Indigenous peoples, including statues and monuments, representation in mass media, recognition of cultural landscapes, and the repatriation of ancestral remains. Indigenous responses, including protest and criticisms of the “nature” and “culture” divide, provide a theoretical foundation for future analysis.
Antirequisite(s): History 4296G if taken in 2021-22, Indigenous Studies 4001G if taken in 2021-22, Indigenous Studies 4818F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year Indigenous Studies with a minimum average of 70%, or 1.0 History courses at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 4818F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to close reading and how historians can use the techniques of structured intelligence analysis. Working individually and in groups, students will analyze a series of historical case studies from the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics include espionage, cyber war, terrorism, organized crime, homeland security, counterintelligence, and decision support.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200-level or above.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours weekly.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores human rights history, focussing on the language and practice of rights in the French Revolution. Students examine the foundational rights texts of the revolutionary era, and the expansion, limitation, denial of rights for women, religious minorities and people of African origins, enslaved and free, in colonial contexts.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the roots of the contemporary human rights movement in the era of Nazism-Fascism and the Holocaust, from the interwar period to the decades after 1945 and the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Topics include the role of faithbased organizations as advocates for human rights.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200-level or above, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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 honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third year history courses.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: Restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): Restricted to Fourth Year Honours History Students. Permission of the Chair is also required.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will normally be open only to fourth-year honours students who have achieved an average of at least 80% in their third-year history courses.
Note at Brescia, Huron, King's campus: Restricted to Honours Students.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 History courses at the 2200 level or above; restricted to Honours Students.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours
Course Weight: 1.00
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Consult Department for details of current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History at the 2200 level or above.
Extra Information: 3 hours