World History since 1914
Major political, social, economic and cultural trends of the 20th century, with prime focus on developments in Europe and the way they have affected the rest of the world; the decline of Europe in global political and economic terms. Topics include the world wars, the Russian Revolution, fascism, the Holocaust, the Cold War, decolonization and conflict and its resolution in the international, political and social spheres.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
The Americas
Comparative themes in the history of the Americas from pre-Columbian times to the present, emphasizing class, colonialism, economics, gender, labour, political systems, race, religion, revolution and war.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Early Medieval Europe
Societies and culture of Western Europe from the late Roman Empire until the Crusades and the 12th-century Renaissance. The agricultural base of society, its cultural context, the nature and roles of early Christianity and the ultimate survival and expansion of Christendom in the face of both pagan and Muslim challenges.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
The High Middle Ages
Economy, society, culture and politics of Western Europe, 1050 -1350. Ecclesiastical problems, religious beliefs, scholasticism, material culture and family structures in the context of urban and mercantile expansion.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
The Origins of Modern Britain, 1485-1832
Political, religious, and economic forces that shaped British society and led to the country's emergence as an industrial and global power.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Modern East Asia
Survey of East Asian history from the 17th century to the present focusing on China and Japan.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Pre-Confederation Canada
Canadian history from the pre-contact period to 1867.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P07 and 2P11.
Post-Confederation Canada
Canadian history from 1867 to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P11 and 2P12.
Glory and Despair: The United States 1607-1865
United States history and culture from the invasion of the North American continent by Europeans to the break-up of the Union in the Civil War. Topics include contact with Native peoples, origins of slavery, Puritanism, economic development, the Revolution, the Constitution, growth of transportation, political parties, abolitionism, sectional conflict, and the Civil War.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P79, 2P80, 2P81 and 2P82.
Ambiguities of Greatness: The United States 1860 to the Present
United States since the Civil War. Emphasis on industrialization and post-industrialism, empire building, race, gender relations, world wars, Cold War, consumerism, youth rebellion and popular culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2P83.
Revolutions in Communication
Major developments in the history of communication from the invention of writing until the modern information age.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Seventeenth-Century Europe, 1566-1715
Survey of the history of continental Europe between the Netherlands Revolt and the death of Louis XIV. Topics include absolutism and its limits, religious controversy, developments in science, the witch craze and the effects of colonial expansion.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715-1789
Demographic, economic and structural changes as they affected the nobility, bourgeoisie and popular classes; changes in patterns of criminality, riot and popular mentality; war as a stimulus of social reform; the Enlightenment in its social and cultural context and the origins of the French Revolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815
The French Revolution and its European impact emphasizing its origins, its role in the development of European political culture and its impact on the experience of women. Topics include the failure of the constitutional monarchy and the counter-revolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Europe, 1815-1914
Political, social and cultural changes in the subcontinent when liberal, imperialist and industrializing Europe was still a dominant global power.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Renaissance to the 20th Century
Changing character of warfare and its consequences since 1500.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Columbus' World, 1400-1600
(also offered as INTL 2P61)
Comparison of the major civilizations of the Americas, Asia, and Europe, as well as the growing contacts between them.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Early Africa
(also offered as INTL 2P62)
Social political, cultural and economic history of Africa before and during the era of European colonialism until the end of the 19th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Modern Africa
(also offered as INTL 2P63)
Social political, cultural and economic history of 20th-century Africa. Topics include colonialism, the drive for independence and the emergence of modern African States.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650
Origins, course and consequences of the division of Western Christendom into Protestant and Catholic factions in the 16th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 2F90.
Early Russia
Russian history from its beginnings in the Kievan period (ninth century) to the end of Catherine the Great's reign (1796).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Modern Russia
Politics, society and culture from 19th-century Imperial Russia to the Soviet Union.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Ideas and Culture before 1850
(also offered as GBLS 2P99)
Major developments in European intellectual and cultural life, such as the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the emergence of modern ideologies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Canada: A Nation Transformed
Themes in late 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian history.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Women in North America
(also offered as WISE 2Q95)
Major themes in the history of women in Canada and the United States: native and European women in New France and British North America; women in the American Revolution; the lives of enslaved women; women and industrialization; women in the west; suffrage and social reform; women and the two world wars; and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Women in the Pre-Modern World
(also offered as WISE 2Q96)
Women's lives before 1800; how women's experience of historical phenomena differed from that of men; special problems in studying "women's history."
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
History in its Environment
Study of the history of a country or region in its own cultural and geographical context. Background preparation and research preceding an intensive study period on location.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: given in English. Students are responsible for travel, accommodation and other expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SPAN 2V90-2V99.
Modern Britain
Politics, economy, society and culture in the British Isles from the early 19th century to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Modern Latin America
Latin America since 1810. Emphasis on wars of independence, personalistic rule, labour, immigration, the role of the Roman Catholic Church, militarism, revolutions, failures of modernization and inter-American relations.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Ideas and Culture since 1850
(also offered as GBLS 3P00)
Intellectual and cultural developments in Europe and North America during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Canadian Prime Ministers, 1867 to the Present
Themes in Canadian history and historiography, with prime ministers as a focus.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Directed Research
In exceptional circumstances, a student with honours standing may be permitted to pursue directed research using primary sources. Topics to be defined in consultation with a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
The World of Genghis Khan: Inner Asia since 500 BCE
(also offered as INTL 3P60)
History of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang. Political, economic, social and cultural topics. Emphasis on the nomadic encounter with the settled world (China, Russia), including the medieval nomadic invasions, the Great Game and nationalistic policies in the 20th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: seminars will include films and primary sources (in translation).
Diplomacy of the Pacific Rim
(also offered as INTL 3P61)
History of relations among the major powers around the Pacific Ocean focusing on China and Japan, and their interaction with the world since the 16th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Global Economic History, 1700-1880
(also offered as INTL 3P62)
Cotton, china and opium: development of the world economy in an age of industrial growth.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Selected Themes in the History of Europe's Global Influence, 1600-1950
(also offered as INTL 3P63)
Europe's impact on the world and regional responses.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
History
Immigrants, immigration movements, problems of adjustment and government policies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Canadian Labour History
(also offered as LABR 3P75)
Canadian workers and the labour movement from the mid-19th century to the present, combining studies of trade unions with the broader context of the social, community and political life of workers. How gender and race/ethnicity have shaped the working class experience.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST (CANA/LABR) 3Q95.
The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire
The Russian empire and its components over the past 500 years. Topics include expansion, nationalities, diplomacy and the politics of dissolution in the post-Soviet era.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
North America's First Nations
Topics in the history of North American aboriginal peoples.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions
(also offered as SPAN 3Q94)
The social, economic, and intellectual roots of revolutions in Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Cuba and Nicaragua. The seminal role of the Mexican Revolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
United States Foreign Policy since 1945
U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era; rise of the U.S. to superpower status; consequent global responsibilities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
French Canada
The cultural, economic and political institutions of French Canada; analysing the sources of French-English conflict emphasizing such questions as education, cultural values, imperial defence and conscription.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
The Challenge to Social Order in 18th-Century England
The basis of Hanoverian stability and the threat to it from political factionalism, popular dissent and economic upheaval.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
The Viking Age
Follows the Vikings from their Scandinavian homelands as they raid, trade and settle throughout Europe and the North Atlantic; as they convert to Christianity; as they establish new kingdoms and are eventually assimilated into medieval Christendom.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 3V96.
Canadian Regional History
Selected themes in the history of Canada's regions.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
African American Experience
African American history and culture since the introduction of peoples from Africa to the North American continent to the present day. Topics include the origins of slavery, the development of slave culture, the varied forms of slave resistance, the Civil War and emancipation, the rise of sharecropping, the formation of ghettos, segregation, the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans in the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, urban housing and social problems, the rise of rap music.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
The Crusades
The Crusading Movement 1095-1291, including its growth in western Europe, the crusader kingdoms, crusades outside the Holy Land and the Islamic response to the crusades.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in HIST 3V95.
Medieval Social and Cultural History
Selected topics in European history between 500 and 1500.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Environment
Overview of human interaction with nature in North America; nature and natural resources as they shape patterns of human life; how attitudes toward nature shape cultural and political life; the consequences of human alterations of the natural world for natural and human communities.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Topics in Canadian Cultural History
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: CANA 2F91, two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Topics in Medieval History
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Honours Tutorial
Directed reading and discussion in the student's selected field in preparation for a comprehensive examination.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until the date specified in the BIRT guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
Note: students must make arrangements before the end of April for tutorials to begin the following school term. Honours students who are interested in this course may begin their reading for HIST 4F99 in year 3.
Themes in Literature and History
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until the date specified in BIRT guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
Problems in History
Studies of selected problems in different eras of Canadian, American and European history. Topics studied in any given year will focus on a particular theme.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to HIST (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) until the date specified in the BIRT guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.
2003-2004: Canadian Biography
(also offered as CANA 4V20)
Biography as a genre and as a methodology for writing Canadian history. Fiction, history and film biographies of prominent and not-so-prominent Canadians.
2003-2004: Topics in Latin American History
2003-2004: Revolutionary America, 1740-1800
Origins, events and impact of the American Revolution focusing on intellectual, political, social and cultural themes. Topics include life in the 13 colonies, an Imperial crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the rise of political parties in the United States.
2003-2004: Science, God and Nature in the Victorian World
Intersections of the histories of science, religion, and the environment in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Topics include the place of natural history in the 19th-century sciences, the place of religion in understanding that science and especially the debate over creation, evolution, and the condition of the natural world.