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.
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.
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.
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 (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 (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 (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 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.
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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 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 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 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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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 Huron, King's campus: History 2302F/G, 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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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 Huron, King's campus: History 2302F/G, 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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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 Huron, King's campus: History 2302F/G, 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 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 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 (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 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 (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 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 (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".
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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.
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This course is designed to introduce the study of African history, from the deep past to the contemporary period. Students will leave with an appreciation of the African continent and its islands: the land, its peoples, and all creatures that call that continent home.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History department for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
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Consideration of issues, themes, topics, and people relating to women in history. See History department for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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This course covers concepts of ownership and property in the places that are now known as Canada. Students will be introduced to Indigenous, French, and English legal systems, as they relate to land, territory, and property, as well as treaty-making.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
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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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
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.
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.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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 surveys the history of what is now called the Province of Ontario, from its initial peopling roughly 10,000 years ago to the present day. By taking this long view and engaging both Indigenous and settler histories, we gain a deeper understanding of the place where we reside.
Antirequisite(s): History 3221E.
Extra information: 3 lecture and seminar hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours (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, 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, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, 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 (Main, 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 (Main, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, 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 (Main, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
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.
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.
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.
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 (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 (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 (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.
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 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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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 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 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 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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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 Huron, King's campus: History 2302F/G, 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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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 Huron, King's campus: History 2302F/G, 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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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 Huron, King's campus: History 2302F/G, History 2710F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 lecture hours (Huron, King's).
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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.
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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 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 (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 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 (Huron, King's).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: History 2103, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.
Antirequisite(s) at 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 (Huron, King's).
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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.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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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This course is designed to introduce the study of African history, from the deep past to the contemporary period. Students will leave with an appreciation of the African continent and its islands: the land, its peoples, and all creatures that call that continent home.
Extra Information: 2 hours.
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.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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 for current offerings.
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 for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 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.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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.
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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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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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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This course covers concepts of ownership and property in the places that are now known as Canada. Students will be introduced to Indigenous, French, and English legal systems, as they relate to land, territory, and property, as well as treaty-making.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
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.
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.
Course Weight: 1.00
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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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 2 seminar hours.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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 surveys the history of what is now called the Province of Ontario, from its initial peopling roughly 10,000 years ago to the present day. By taking this long view and engaging both Indigenous and settler histories, we gain a deeper understanding of the place where we reside.
Antirequisite(s): History 3221E.
Extra information: 3 lecture and seminar hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
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): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours (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, 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, Main). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, 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 (Main, 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 (Main, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year or above, any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours (Main, 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 (Main, King's). 2 seminar hours (Huron).
Course Weight: 1.00
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