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Faculty


University Professors Emeriti
J.M. Beattie, MA, Ph D, FRSC (U)
J.M. Bliss, MA, Ph D, FRSC

Professors Emeriti
R.D. Accinelli, MA, Ph D
S. Aster, MA, Ph D, FRHS (University of Toronto Mississauga)
C.C. Berger, MA, Ph D, FRSC
W.C. Berman, MA, Ph D
P. Blanchard, BA, Ph D
R.C. Brown, MA, Ph D, FRSC (U)
J.S. Brownlee, MA, M Phil
J.C. Cairns, MA, Ph D
W.J. Callahan, MA, Ph D, FRHS (V)
J. Dent, BA, Ph D (I)
W. Dowler, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
H.L. Dyck, MA, Ph D
M. Eksteins, B Phil, D Phil (University of Toronto Scarborough)
J.M. Estes, MA, Ph D (V)
M.G. Finlayson, MA, Ph D (U)
W.A. Goffart, AM, Ph D, FRHS, FRSC
A. Greer, MA, Ph D
P.F. Grendler, MA, Ph D
R.J. Helmstadter, MA, Ph D (V)
D.C. Higgs, MA, Ph D, ChPA (U)
J.N. Ingham, MA, Ph D
M. Israel, MA, Ph D
J.L.H. Keep, BA, Ph D
M.A. Klein, MA, Ph D (N)
J. Kornberg, AM, Ph D (N)
T.O. Lloyd, MA, D Phil
M.R. Marrus, CM, MA, Ph D, MSL, FRHistS, FRSC (T)
J.S. Moir, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
D.P. Morton, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
W.H. Nelson, MA, Ph D (U)
D.L. Raby, BA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
I. Robertson, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
A. Robson, MA, Ph D (V)
A. Rossos, MA, Ph D
P.F.W. Rutherford, MA, Ph D
R.A. Spencer, MA, D Phil (T)
B. Todd, MA, D Phil
S. Van Kirk, MA, Ph D
N.K. Wagle, MA, Ph D
M. Wayne, MA, Ph D
N.P. Zacour, MBE, MA, Ph D

Professor and Chair of the Department
K. Mills, MA, D Phil

Professor and Associate Chair (Omnibus)
D. Bergen, MA, Ph D

Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Graduate Studies)
R. Kazal, MA, Ph D

Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Undergraduate)
C. Chin, MA, Ph D

University Professor
L. Viola, MA Ph D

Professors
K.R. Bartlett, MA, Ph D (V)
D. Bergen, MA, Ph D
R. Bothwell, MA, Ph D, FRSC (T)
J. English, MA, Ph D (Adjunct)
T. Fujitani, MA, Ph D
M. Gervers, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
J.W. Goering, MA, Ph D
R. Halpern, MA, Ph D
F. Iacovetta, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
E.T. Jennings, MA, Ph D
R.E. Johnson, BA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
J. Kivime, BA, Ph D
T. Lahusen, MA, Ph D
L.S. MacDowell, M Sc (Econ), Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
M. MacMillan, B Phil, D Phil (T)
P.R. Magocsi, MA, Ph D, FRSC
M.G. McGowan, MA, Ph D (SM)
M.D. Meyerson, MA, Ph D
A.C. Murray, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
D.J. Penslar, MA, C Phil, Ph D, FRSC
R.W. Pruessen, MA, Ph D
I. Radforth, MA, Ph D
J. Retallack, BA, D Phil, FRSC
E.L. Shorter, MA, Ph D, FRSC
G. Silano, MA, Ph D (SM)
D. Smyth, BA, Ph D, FRHS (T)
M. Tavakoli-Targhi, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
C. N. Terpstra, MA, Ph D
D.A. Wilson, MA, Ph D, FRHS (SM)

Associate Professors
L.J. Abray, MA, M Phil, Ph D
D. Bender, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
R. Birla, M Phil, Ph D
E. Brown, MA, M Phil, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
C. Chin, MA, Ph D
I. Cochelin, MA, Ph D
P. Cohen, Ph D
N. Everett, BA, Ph D
J. Hanssen, D Phil (University of Toronto Mississauga)
S. Hawkins, MA, Ph D
J. Jenkins, MA, Ph D
M. Kasturi, MA, M Phil, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
R. Kazal, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
C. Keil, MA, Ph D (I)
T. Lam, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
L. Loeb, M MST, Ph D
J. Mori, BA, Ph D
M. Murphy, BA, Ph D
N. Musisi, MA, Ph D (N)
M.J. Newton, BA, D Phil
J. Noel, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
S. Penfold, MA, Ph D
S. Rockel, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
J. Ross, MA, Ph D
A. Smith, MA, Ph D
A. Tambe, MS, Ph D
N. Tran, BA, Ph D
S. Varani, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
W. Wark, MA, Ph D
R. Wittmann, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
P. Wrobel, MA, Ph D

Assistant Professors
H. Bohaker, MA, Ph D
L. Chen, MA, JD, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
Y. Eyal, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
P. Hastings, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
R. King, MA, Ph D
H.K. Kwee, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Mississauga)
M. MacDonald, MA, LLB, Ph D (Trinity College)
S. Mills, MA, PhD
M. Morgan, MPhil, Ph D (Trinity College)
W. Nelson, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
N. Rothman, MA, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)
J. Sharma, Ph D (University of Toronto Scarborough)

Introduction

Historians study the past to understand it on its own terms, to gain insight into how our world has developed, and in order to influence the present. The study of History covers a wide and diverse range of topics, from the history of aboriginal societies, conquistadors, ethnicity, fascism, labour, psychiatry, patterns of settlement and migration, politics, the Renaissance, revolution, to the automobile, slavery, international relations, trade unions, women studies, and more.

The study of history is the core of any liberal arts education.  In order to make sense of political, social, economic, and cultural development, it is essential to understand historical change and continuities. History is also integral to most area studies (East Asian Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Canadian or American Studies, etc.) and is a crucial part of the study of political science, economics, sociology, international relations, Religion, Art, English—nearly every discipline in the humanities and social sciences.  History as a discipline partakes of both the humanities and social sciences: it is a social science because it studies societies and the processes of change, but the method and analytical approach are those of the humanities.  Close analysis of problems, critical examination of evidence, and persuasive oral and written communication are all hallmarks of historical inquiry.

History graduates will gain both a broad overview of the contours of history and in-depth knowledge of one or more specific regions, time periods, or thematic specializations.  They will understand how social processes, political ideologies, economic trends, and environmental changes have intersected with individual and collective human actions to shape historical change and, ultimately, the world we live in today. History graduates will comprehend how history is written, including the skills and methods of historical research, the use and interpretation of textual and other evidence, and the choices involved in various theoretical and analytical frameworks.  They will be able to critically read and assimilate large amounts of information, weigh evidence, draw well-informed conclusions, and present cogent, analytical arguments.

The analytical and communication skills one develops by studying History are critical to a great variety of careers. History graduates put their training directly to use in such fields as law, politics, business, government service, museums, libraries and archives, documentary filmmaking, journalism, international relations, urban planning, teaching, and many other areas. With emphasis on how to analyze issues, read critically, do productive research, delineate a case, and present evidence in support of that case, studying history equips one with both the skills and knowledge for an ever-changing workplace and society.

Curriculum

The History curriculum is designed to give students a solid grounding in a variety of interpretive and methodological approaches, while allowing them a great deal of flexibility to follow their own particular interests. Breadth requirements (detailed below) ensure that students achieve chronological depth and geographic range.  There are courses at most levels in American, Asian, African, Latin American and Caribbean, British, Canadian, European, Russian and East European history. Thematic clusters such as medieval history, gender, international relations, and colonialism/post-colonialism help students pursue areas of particular interest.

The 100-series courses are designed for students who are new to the University. They cover a wide chronological period or a wide geographical area and introduce students to the craft and tools of historical research and writing.  The 200-series courses survey specific national,  geographic or thematic histories over a broad period of time. Although they are designated as 200-series courses they are open to first-year students and have no prerequisites, and students without previous university experience should be able to complete them without difficulty. The 300-series courses enable students to pursue topics in greater depth and methodological sophistication. They are not open to first-year students and frequently have prerequisites. The 400-series courses represent the culmination of an undergraduate’s study of history. They are taught as small-group seminars in which students draw upon the skills they have developed through the course of their History program in research, analysis, and oral and written presentation.


Courses in other departments:
   a) Equivalent Courses: the History Department website lists a number of history courses offered by other departments, such as East Asian Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, and Classics which can be taken for program credit.  Typically these courses are taught by faculty members who are trained as historians but whose primary appointment is in another department; they may include subjects not covered by HIS offerings. These are considered equivalent to HIS courses for the purpose of all program requirements except the 100-level requirement, and there is no limit on the number of these courses that can be included in a student's program.
   b) Related Courses: the History Department website also lists a number of courses in other departments that may be substantially historical in content but that differ in methodology or approach from an HIS course.  A limited number of these may be taken for program credit:  Specialists may use up to 2.0 FCEs and Majors up to 1 FCE of these related courses as part of their History program.

More detailed information concerning the department, history programs and particular courses can be found on our website: www.history.utoronto.ca. There is a History Students’ Association in the Department and there is student participation in the Department meetings and major standing committees.


Undergraduate Administrator:
Ms. Vicki Norton, Room 2074, Sidney Smith Hall (416-978-3362)
email: hisugsec@chass.utoronto.ca

General enquiries:

Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Room 2074 (416-978-3363)

History Programs


History Programs

Students may also use certain history courses offered by CLA, EAS, and NMC to fulfill Department of History program requirements (see History website).

History Specialist (Arts program)

This is a limited enrolment POSt that can only accommodate a limited number of students.  Eligibility will be based on a student’s marks in the required courses.  The precise mark thresholds outlined below are an estimate of what will be required in the coming POSt admission cycle.   Achieving those marks does not necessarily guarantee admission to the POSt in any given year.

Required courses: 2.0 HIS FCE, one of which must be at the 100-level. A final mark of at least 73% in 2.0 HIS FCE is required.


(10 full courses or their equivalent)


First Year: 1.0 HIS FCE at the 100-level; in addition, students may take 1.0 HIS FCE at the 200-level.
Higher Years: Additional HIS courses to a total of 10 FCEs overall, meeting the following requirements:
 1. At least 5 FCEs at the 300-level or above, including 1.5 FCEs at the 400-level
 2. 1 FCE from each of the following Divisions*:
        I.  Asia/Africa/Middle East
       II. Canada/United States/Latin America/Caribbean
      III. Europe
3. 1 FCE in pre-modern (before 1800) history*.


* Courses that satisfy the Pre-modern and Divisional requirements are listed on the History website.  Specialists may draw up to 2 FCEs from the list of Related Courses offered in other departments (see above) to fulfill items 1 through 3 of the Specialist program.  A 100-level related course may be applied toward the Divisional or Pre-modern requirements but does not take the place of  the required 100-series HIS course.

History Major (Arts program)

This is a limited enrolment POSt that can only accommodate a limited number of students.  Eligibility will be based on a student’s mark(s) in the required course(s).  The precise mark thresholds outlined below are an estimate of what will be required in the coming POSt admission cycle.   Achieving those mark(s) does not necessarily guarantee admission to the POSt in any given year.

Required courses: 1.0 HIS FCE at the 100-level; students must achieve a final mark of at least 65% in this or another 1.0 HIS FCE.


(7 full courses or their equivalent)


First Year: 1.0 HIS FCE at the 100-level; in addition, students may take 1.0 HIS FCE at the 200-level.


Higher Years:
Additional HIS courses to a total of seven*, meeting the following requirements:
1. At least 2.0 FCEs at the 300-level or above, including 0.5 FCE at the 400-level
2. 1 FCE from each of the following divisions*:
      I.  Asia/Africa/Middle East
     II. Canada/United States/Latin America/Caribbean
    III. Europe.
3. 1 FCE in pre-modern (pre-1800) history*.


* Courses that satisfy the Pre-modern and Divisional requirements are listed on the History website.  Majors may draw up to 1 FCE from the list of Related Courses offered in other departments (see above) to fulfill items 1 through 3 of the Major program.  A 100-level related course may be applied toward the Divisional or Pre-modern requirements but does not take the place of the requirement for a 100-series HIS course.

 

History Minor (Arts program)

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(4 full courses or their equivalent)

First Year:
1.0 HIS FCE at the 100-level is required. It is recommended that students complete this requirement prior to enrolling in the minor program.


Higher Years:
Additional HIS courses to a total of 1.0 FCE*, including at least 1.0 FCE at the 300- or 400-level.

* Minor may draw up to 1.0 FCE from the list of Related courses offered in other departments (see above). A 100-level Related course does not take the place of the requirement for a 100-series HIS course.

History Courses


Note

Note:  Many of these courses are not taught every year. Please check the Arts & Science timetable or the HIS Department website for the list of courses offered in 2012-13.


First Year Seminars

The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here.


100-Series Courses

All 100-series HIS courses are mutually exclusive. Students may enrol in only one 100-series History course.  Students enrolled in more than one of these courses (or who have completed one of these courses or a previous HIS 100-series course with a mark of 50% or greater) will be removed at any time.  First-Year students may take 200-series courses.


HIS101Y1    Histories of Violence[48L/24T]

Ranging widely chronologically and geographically, this course explores the phenomenon of violence in history.  It examines the role and meanings of violence in particular societies (such as ancient Greece and samurai Japan), the ideological foundations and use of violence in the clash of cultures (as in slavery, holy wars, colonization, and genocide), and the effects and memorialization of violence. 

Prerequisite: None
Exclusion: Any 100-level HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2) + Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS102Y1    Empires, Encounters and Exchanges: From the Silk Road to the Present[48L/20T]

Interactions among peoples, empires, and cultures, with particular attention to the non-European world.  Can we speak of “international relations” before the modern concept of nation-states was established?  What forms did globalization take in the pre-modern era?  Covering a broad chronological sweep from before the Silk Road to the present day, we will look at exchanges of goods and technologies; dissemination of ideas and religions; voyages of migration and exploration; and episodes of conquest and colonization. 

Exclusion: any 100-level HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2) + Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS103Y1    Statecraft and Strategy: An Introduction to the History of International Relations[48L/20T]

An analysis of the development of the international system, from 1648 to 1945, which highlights the role of war as an instrument of national policy, as a determinant of the system of states and as a threat to international society.

Exclusion: any 100-level HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a None course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS104Y1    Ten Days that Shook the World[48L/20T]

The events since 1600, the consequences of which continue to resonate through primary documents, historical additional reconstructions, students are exposed to the processes by which the past is given meaning. Students are encouraged to be aware of the impact of events and be sensitive to the inter-connectedness of the past.

Exclusion: any 100-level HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS106Y1    Natives, Settlers and Slaves: Colonizing the Americas, 1492-1804[48L/20T]

North and South America and the Caribbean from Columbus to the American Revolution: aboriginal cultures, European exploration, conquest and settlement, the enslavement of Africans, the ecological impact of colonization.

Exclusion: any 100-level HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS107Y1    Approaches to East Asian History[48L/20T]

This course draws on the history of China, Korea and Japan between 1600 to 1950 to explore historical issues of gender, nationalism, war and relations with the West.

Exclusion: any 100-level HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS109Y1    The Development of European Civilization, 1350-1945[48L/20T]

The shape of traditional society; the forces at work on the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual structures of Western Europe since the high Middle Ages: the structure of Traditional Society; the First Period of Challenges, 1350-1650; the Second Period of Challenges, 1650-1815; Confidence, Stability and Progress, 1815-1914; the Collapse of the Old Order and the Condition of Modern Europe, 1914-1945.

Exclusion: any 100-level HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

200-Series Courses
HIS202H1    Gender, Race and Science[24L/10T]

This course examines scientific ideas about human difference from the 18th-century to the present. It explores how scientists and their critics portrayed the nature of race, sex difference, and masculinity/femininity in light of debates over nation, citizenship, colonialism, emancipation, knowledge and equality. The course will also introduce students to the uses of gender and race as analytic categories within the practice of history. While the course draws much of its subject matter from the history of the United States, it also explores selective issues in European and colonial contexts.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS205Y1    Topics in Women's History[48L/12T]

This course introduces students to the diverse experiences of women from a comparative perspective. Students will study how women’s strategies have shaped the major cultural, economic, political and social processes in the world and how these processes have affected women’s experiences in their particular societies.  By studying women’s history from both local and global perspectives, students will engage critically with claims that women’s history is universal.  The local focus of the course will rotate between Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, depending on the expertise of the instructors.

Exclusion: HIS245Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2) + Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS208Y1    History of the Jewish People[48L/20T]

An introduction to the history of the Jews throughout the world over the past two thousand years.

Recommended Preparation: HIS103Y1/HIS108Y1/HIS109Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS220Y1    The Shape of Medieval Society[48L/20T]

Economic, political, religious, and educational ideas and institutions of the Middle Ages, from the late Roman period to the fifteenth century.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS241H1    Europe in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914[24L/10T]

An introduction to modern European history from Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. Important political, economic, social, and intellectual changes in France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and other countries are discussed: revolution of 1848, Italian and German unification, racism and imperialism, the evolution of science, art, and culture, labour protest, and the coming of war.

Exclusion: EUR200Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS103Y1/HIS109Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS242H1    Europe in the 20th Century[24L/10T]

The evolution of European politics, culture, and society from 1914: the two world wars, Fascism and Nazism, the post-1945 reconstruction and the movement towards European integration.

Exclusion: EUR200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS243H1    Early Modern Europe, 1450-1648[24L/10T]

The political, social, economic, and intellectual history of continental Europe. The Renaissance, the Reformation, Counter-reformation, growth of the territorial monarchies, the religious wars.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS244H1    Early Modern Europe, 1648-1815[24L/10T]

The political, social, economic, and intellectual history of continental Europe. Development of royal absolutism, social change and the crisis of the ancient regime, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS250H1    History of Russia, 860-1991 (formerly HIS250Y1)[24L/10T]

This course is an introductory survey that examines the political, social, and cultural developments that shaped the Russian empire from the settlement of Kiev in the 9th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Exclusion: HIS250Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS251Y1    History of East Central Europe[48L/20T]

The Polish, Czech, and Hungarian background; the Balkans in the late medieval and early modern periods. Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-reformation, decline and national awakening to the beginning of the 19th century. Partitioned Poland, nationalism in the 19th century; World War I, Peace Settlement, interwar years and the Communist period.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS263Y1    Introduction to Canadian History[48L/15T]

An introductory survey to the major events and trends that have shaped the political, social and economic history of Canada, including the challenges of indigenous-newcomer and French-English relations over more than four centuries of interactions.

Exclusion: HIS262Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS271Y1    American History Since 1607[48L/20T]

A survey of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the United States from the colonial era to present times.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS280Y1    History of China[48L/20T]

A broad overview of the history of China from earliest times to the present. The emphasis is on how the meaning of China and the Chinese people has changed through history.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS281Y1    History of Modern Japan[48L/20T]

Political, military, social, economic, and intellectual history of Japan from beginning of Tokugawa period (1603) to the present. Emphasis on the long term modernization and democratization of Japan, and passage through imperialism and militarism to peace.

Exclusion: EAS223H1/EAS223Y1/HIS281H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS282Y1    History of South Asia[48L/20T]

An introductory survey addressing major themes in the history of South Asia, examining South Asian political economy, social history, colonial power relations and the production of culture. Emphasis is on the period after 1750, particularly the study of colonialism, nationalism, and postcolonial citizenship and modernity.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS283Y1    Southeast Asian Crossroads[48L/20T]

This course surveys the historical experiences of the states that constitute present-day Southeast Asia and examines how long term socio-economic trends affected the daily lives of Southeast Asians. Lectures introduce the major themes while weekly readings explore the major themes of the course: state structure; cultural commonalities; ethnic, class and gender relations; religious practice and trade.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS284Y1    Viet Nam: Crossroads of Asia[48L/20T]

Examines the history of Viet Nam from its mythical origins to the contemporary period,exploring the countrys long experience with Chinese and South Asian cultural influence. Themes include Sinicization and Indianization; constructions of gender; state formation; the introduction and impact of the world religions; colonization and nationalism; and the impact of globalization.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS291Y1    Latin America: The Colonial Period[48L/20T]

The evolution of Spanish and Portuguese America from pre-Columbian civilizations to the wars of independence.

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS292Y1    Latin America: The National Period[48L/20T]

A survey of Latin American history from the wars of independence to the present day.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS294Y1    Caribbean History & Culture: Indigenous Era to 1886[48L/20T]

An exploration of changes in the structure of Caribbean society beginning in 1492, including European contact, the conquest of native peoples, the emergence of large plantations, the impact of slavery, patterns of resistance and revolt and the changes brought about by emancipation.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS297Y1    History of Africa from a Gender Perspective[48L/20T]

This survey of African history is analytical rather than narrative in its approach. It rethinks the way that African history has hitherto been conceptualized and taught by placing the question of gender at the center of the story of Africa.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS299Y1    Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

300-Series Courses

Note:

First-year students are not permitted to enrol in 300-series HIS courses.


HIS300H1    Energy Cultures in North American History[24L/6T]

This course examines the history of energy in North America from the perspective of political economy, environment and social-cultural history. Particular attention is paid to twentieth-century developments and to the relationship between energy and social power. Examples are drawn from both Canada and the United States.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y/271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JSH300H1    Literature and History in Russia [24L]

History and Literature were always interconnected in Russia. Writers not only sought to reflect the society around them, but were themselves often social critics and political figures. The course examines key texts in Russian literary tradition both as works of art and as primary sources for the historian. All readings in English.

Recommended Preparation: HIS250Y1 or SLA240H1/SLA241H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HIS301H1    Imperial Spain (formerly HIS301Y1)[48L]

This course treats the political, social, and religious history of Spain and its empire ca.1450-1714, including the history of colonial Latin America.

 

Exclusion: HIS301Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS243H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS302H1    Material Culture in Victorian Britain (formerly HIS302Y1)[24L]

An examination of the products of the first and second industrial revolutions in Victorian England. This course focuses on the cultural history of commercialization and consumerism.

Exclusion: HIS302H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS239H1/HIS339Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS303H1    The Mediterranean, 600-1300: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora[36L]

The course treats contact and conflict between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the premodern Mediterranean world. Within the framework of broad political and economic developments, the course explores a range of topics, including holy war, slavery, religious polemics, colonialism, the commerce in goods and ideas, and ethnic relations.

Recommended Preparation: HIS220Y1 or NMC273Y1 or some medieval history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS304H1    Topics in Middle East History[24L]

An in-depth examination of Middle East historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See History Website for more details.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JHP304Y1    Ukraine: Politics, Economy and Society [48L]

The history of Ukraine from earliest times to the present. Economic, political, and cultural movements; Kievan Rus’, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Cossack state, national revival, twentieth century statehood, and unification. As this course is designed as an introductory course, the professor welcomes first- and second-year students to enroll, as well as upper-level students. (Given by the Departments of History and Political Science)

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS305H1    Popular Culture and Politics in the Modern Caribbean[24L]

This course examines the connections between popular culture and politics in the modern Caribbean. Aspects of popular culture such as sport, religion, and social constructions of gender will be discussed. The impact of post-war migration, race and racial nationalism and the upheavals of the 1960s on popular culture in the Caribbean will also be themes.

Prerequisite: HIS294Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS306H1    Culture, Society and Gender in England, 1560-1730 (formerly HIS306Y1)[24L]

Some of the main themes in English political, social, religious and intellectual history in the 17th century: the origins, character, and consequences of the English Civil War, the nature and effects of social change, and the changing role of religious forces in society.

Exclusion: HIS306Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS238H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS307H1    Canadian Political Issues[36L]

Ten key issues in Canadian politics from the 1850s to the 1990s:  background, partisan divisions, debates, mobilization of support and opposition, outcomes.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS308H1    The Mediterranean, 1300-1700[36L]

This course continues with the themes treated in HIS303H1, specifically in the context of relations between the Ottoman empire and European states and the growing impact of the Atlantic world on the Mediterranean.

Prerequisite: HIS303H1
Exclusion: HIS303Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS220Y1/HIS243H1/NMC273Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS309H1    The European Reformations[36L]

What happens when a culture changes its religious organization and beliefs? Social and intellectual upheavals beginning in fifteenth century Europe created the split between catholic and protestant Christians and reshaped the spiritual and political landscape of sixteenth century Europe. Issues covered include religion and politics, toleration, gender, popular piety, class.

Prerequisite: HIS243H1 / VIC240Y1 or permission of the instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS310H1    Histories of North American Consumer Culture [24L/6T]

 This course examines the emergence of a modern ‘consumer society’ in North America from about 1850 to recent times. The aim is to combine political, social, economic and cultural history to chart changing relationships between North Americans, consumer commodities, and identities.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1 or HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS311Y1    Introduction to Canadian International Relations[48L/10T]

Canadian international affairs in a broader context. Anglo-American as well as Canadian-American relations; the European background to questions such as the League of Nations, appeasement and rearmament, which directly affected Canada without this country being consulted.

Recommended Preparation: A course in Canadian history or politics
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS312H1    Immigration to Canada[24L/5T]

The peopling of Canada by immigrant groups from the 1660s to the 1970s. Immigration and multiculturalism policies; migration and settlement; ethnic communities; relations with the host society.

Recommended Preparation: HIS262Y1/263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS313H1    Canadian Labour and the Left (formerly HIS313Y1)[24L]

Canadian labour history from political action to collective bargaining in the period from Confederation to the present.

Prerequisite: ECO244Y1/HIS262Y1/HIS263Y1/WDW244H1/WDW244Y1
Exclusion: HIS313Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS314H1    Quebec and French Canada (formerly HIS314Y1)[24L]

A general survey tracing the political, social, and cultural development of a distinct society in Quebec and the rise of self-conscious French-speaking communities elsewhere in Canada.

Exclusion: HIS314Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS315H1    Narratives of Viet Nam[24L]

This course introduces students to the multiple ways in which the diverse populations inhabiting the geographic space of Viet Nam construct their histories. Perspectives from Chinese, Charn, ethnic minority and Vietnamese majority populations will be explored.

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS316H1    History of Advertising[48L]

The rise of advertising as an economic, moral, and cultural force in the 19th and 20th centuries. Attention to advertising as a form of communication, the role of the mass media, stereotyping and the culture of consumption. Majority of course material deals with the experiences of the United States and Canada, focusing on the period after 1945.

Recommended Preparation: HIS262Y1/HIS263Y1/HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS317H1    20th Century Germany (formerly HIS317Y1)[24L]

A survey of modern German history in the twentieth century. Topics include World War I and the postwar settlement, the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist dictatorship, the Holocaust, the division of Germany, the Cold War, German reunification, Germany and the European Union, nationalism, political culture, war and revolution, religious and ethnic minorities and questions of history and memory.

Prerequisite: HIS241H1, HIS242H1 or HIS103Y/EUR200Y
Exclusion: HIS317Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS318H1    Histories of the West in Canada[24L/7T]

 focused study of the western Canadian provinces from the 1850s to the present. Topics include the idea of the west as a site of colonial expansion, colonial and territorial beginnings ,indigenous-newcomer relations, entering Confederation, the provinces in Confederation, western politics and western alienation.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS319H1    Renaissance France and the Wars of Religion, 1483-1610[24L]

Considers the expansion of the French state at the close of the 100 Years War, cultural and social change during the Renaissance, religious change and the Protestant Reformation, the emergence of religious conflict and the Wars of Religion. A range of primary sources and historiographical perspectives will be considered.

Prerequisite: HIS243H1/HIS309H1/HIS388H1/HIS443H1 or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS320H1    Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Roman Empire[24L/5T]

Covers major events and themes for the period 300-600, including decline of Greco-Roman paganism, conversion to Christianity, individual barbarian groups (Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, Burgundians, Vandals, Franks, Lombards), their culture and impact on empire, Justinians reconquests.

Recommended Preparation: HIS220Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS321H1    Dark Age Europe, 7th 10th Centuries[24L/5T]

Surveys major events and figures for the period c. 600-1000, including: Pope Gregory the Great, the Morovingian Franks, Lombard Italy, Byzantine civilization, the rise of Islam, Charlemagne, the Carolingian Renaissance, the Vikings, Anglo-Saxon England to King Alfred, the Ottonians.

Exclusion: HIS320Y1
Recommended Preparation: Some ancient history, ancient Greek or Latin language, early Christianity, Celtic history, Old Irish and Old English languages.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS322Y1    The High Middle Ages[48L/10T]

Chronological survey of the history of medieval Europe from 1100 to approximately 1450. The three main topics are: the formation of the modern states, the impact of urban development, and the evolution of spirituality.

Prerequisite: HIS220Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS323H1    Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages (formerly HIS323Y1)[24L/5T]

Reflecting on the life cycle and rites of passage in the medieval period gives the opportunity to study the daily lives of peasants, nobles, monks, nuns, and burghers, and to observe from an interesting angle the differences between female and male life experiences.

Prerequisite: A course in medieval history such as HIS220Y1
Exclusion: HIS323Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS325H1    Imperial Russia (formerly HIS325Y1)[24L]

This course focuses on the history of imperial Russia, tracing the development of its political institutions, social and economic structures and cultural values. Examining the reign of Peter I, the age of Empresses, and Catherine the Great, we see not only internal changes within the Russian Empire itself, but also its emergence as a European power.

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1/permission of instructor
Exclusion: HIS325Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS326H1    Topics in Chinese History[24L]

Selected topics on a specific period in Chinese history. Topics in any given year depend on the instructor.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS328H1    Modern China (formerly HIS328Y1)[24L]

An examination of political, social and economic developments in modern Chinese history fto the present day. Main topics may include the decline of the Imperial order and the challenge of Western imperialism; the Republican period; the rise of the Communist movement; the Peoples Republic of China.

Prerequisite: HIS280Y1/EAS102Y1
Exclusion: JMC201Y1, HIS328Y1, ASI430H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS380Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS329H1    Globalization and History[24L]

This course will explore ways in which globalization is a profoundly significant and deeply rooted historical process. Although emphasis will be placed on the 19th and 20th centuries, some of the economic, political, cultural, and technological forces shaping the past millennium will also be considered.

Recommended Preparation: HIS103Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS330H1    Germany from Frederick the Great to the First World War (formerly HIS317Y1)[24L]

Topics include German reactions to the French Revolution, Napoleonic occupation, the Wars of Liberation, industrial expansion, the Revolutions of 1848, unification in 1871, Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, everyday life, gender relations, local and regional identities, workers culture, avant-garde culture, nationalism, anti-Semitism, colonialism, and the Great War of 1914-18.

Prerequisite: EUR200Y1/HIS241H1
Exclusion: HIS317Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS331H1    Modern Baltic History (formerly HIS331Y1)[24L]

The history of the Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 1900 to the present day, with emphasis on the emergence of independent Baltic states, World War II, communist era, the Baltic Revolution, the restoration of independence and European integration.

Exclusion: HIS331Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS250Y1/HIS251Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS332H1    Crime and Society in England, 1500-1800 (formerly HIS332Y1)[24L]

The changing nature of crime and criminal justice in early-modern England; the emergence of modern forms of policing, trial and punishment.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of 8 full credits, including one full HIS credit
Exclusion: HIS332Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS238H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS334H1    East Central Europe and the Great Powers in the Short 20th Century, 1914-1991 (formerly HIS334Y1)[24L]

The diplomatic, economic and military activities of Russia, Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain and the U.S. vis a vis Central Europe. Russian and German expansion, partitions of Poland, disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the Napoleonic and World Wars, political systems created in Vienna, Versailles and Yalta, the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet outer empire.

Prerequisite: EUR200Y1/HIS251Y1/permission of the instructor
Exclusion: HIS334Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS335H1    Soviet Cultural History[24L]

This course explores Russian culture - art, architecture, film and literature - from 1917 to the post-Soviet present. Readings and screenings trace the relation between culture, history, and revolution from the Russian Avant-Garde and proletarian culture to socialist realism, and from Krushchevs thaw to examples of Soviet postmodernism.

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HIS336H1    Medieval Spain[36L]

This course emphasizes the interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews, and the cultural and political distinctiveness of Castile and Aragon in the development of state, society, and culture in medieval Spain.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS337H1    Culture, Politics and Society in 18th Century Britain (formerly HIS337Y1)[48L]

Major themes in late seventeenth and eighteenth century British history with a thematic focus on intellectual, cultural and social developments. Topics include the English urban renaissance, the birth of a consumer society, the Scottish Enlightenment and the early stages of the British industrialisation.

Exclusion: HIS337Y1
Recommended Preparation: EUR200Y1/HIS109Y1/238H1/239H1/243H1/244H1/ 368H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS338H1    The Holocaust, to 1942 (formerly HIS338Y1/398Y1)[24L/5T]

German state policy towards the Jews in the context of racist ideology, bureaucratic structures, and varying conditions in German-occupied Europe. Second Term considers responses of Jews, European populations and governments, the Allies, churches, and political movements.

Prerequisite: Completion of six undergraduate full-course equivalents
Exclusion: HIS388Y1/398Y1
Recommended Preparation: A course in modern European history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS339Y1    English History in the 19th Century[48L]

Major aspects of English history from the end of the 18th century to the death of Queen Victoria: the Industrial Revolution, the rise of parliamentary democracy, the role of social class, the development of modern cities, the emergence of the modern state, Victorian religion, the Victorian family, the role of aristocracy in an industrialized society.

Recommended Preparation: EUR200Y1/HIS238H1, HIS239H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS340H1    A Survey of Australian History[24L]

This course introduces students to some of the principal themes in the history of Australia since well before the British occupation in 1788. Topics covered include the dispossession and recent partial re-possession of land by the indigenous population, the consequences of its creation as a convict colony, the creation of the Labour Party and later political and social developments.

Prerequisite: one full-year HIS course or equivalent
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS341Y1    Germany Among the Global Empires 1840-2010[48L/12T]

This course places German history in a transnational and global context, exploring Germany's place among the global empires starting in the mid- nineteenth century. The central events of its political, social and cultural development are analyzed through a framework focused on the development of the world economy after 1850. Particular attention is paid to the interplay between strategies for global expansion and transformations in national culture.

Prerequisite: Two HIS courses from the following: HIS102Y/103Y/109Y/241H/242H/243H/244H/EUR200Y
Recommended Preparation: HIS102Y/109Y/241H/242H
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS342H1    Pre-Petrine Russia: Russia Before 1700[24L]

This course examines modern Russias political predecessors, their contacts with Byzantium, Western Europe, and the Mongol Empire, and resulting cultural, religious, and social changes.

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS343Y1    History of Modern Espionage[48L]

An introduction to the historical origins and evolution of modern intelligence services. Topics to be studied include: intelligence in wartime; technological change; intelligence failures; covert operations; counter-espionage; the future of spying. The impact of the popular culture, both in fiction and film is also examined.

Recommended Preparation: HIS103Y1 or an equivalent introduction to modern international relations
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS344Y1    Conflict and Co-operation in the International System Since 1945[48L]

An examination of the conduct and consequences of international politics in an atomic/nuclear age when the stakes of the Great Game were not just the fates of states and nations, but the survival of humanity itself. The diplomatic, strategic and economic aspects of international relations will all receive appropriate elucidation.

Recommended Preparation: EUR200Y1/HIS103Y1/HIS241H1, HIS242H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS345H1    History and Film[24L/12P]

This course is designed to further students knowledge of films relationship to the events they depict and their undeniable power as representational systems to render history effectively. This will necessarily entail both close examination of the formal systems film rely upon and an understanding of the distinction between fictional and non-fictional forms in film.

Prerequisite: 2 full courses in history or permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: INI212Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS346H1    Rice and Spice in Southeast Asia: a Regional Food History[24L]

This course examines the importance of food products in the livelihoods of the inhabitants of Southeast and in the world economy.  It traces the circulation of these products within the Southeast Asian region in the pre-modern period, into the spice trade of the early modern era, and the establishment of coffee and sugar plantations in the late colonial period, and the role of these exports in the contemporary global economy. 

Recommended Preparation: HIS283Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HIS348H1    Topics in Gender History[24L]

An in-depth examination of issues in gender history. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See History website for more details.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS349H1    The British Search for Identity: 1800 to the Present (formerly HIS239H1)[24L/5T]

An introduction to the history of modern England with emphasis on the search for identity with reference to the nation, the crown, class, gender, age, political parties, race and ethnicity.

Exclusion: HIS239H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS351Y1    History of Twentieth-Century Russia[48L]

A survey of the history of Twentieth-Century Russia. The social, economic, and political development of Twentieth-Century Russia, with an emphasis on the Russian Revolution and Stalinism. Stress is placed on modern historiographical issues.

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1/250H1/242H1, POL204Y
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS352H1    Secularism and Strife: Modern Jewish Politics and Culture[24L]

A survey of the relationship between Jewish identity, politics and culture in the modern age.

 

Exclusion: HIS356Y1
Recommended Preparation: one course in European, Middle Eastern or Jewish history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS353Y1    Poland: A Crossroads of Europe[48L]

Social and political history of Poland from the 10th to the 20th century. Analysis of the political history in a broader, central European context; consequences of Christianization of medieval Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian union; Sarmatian culture, Antemurale, Polish Messianism and Cordon sanitaire.

Prerequisite: HIS251Y1/permission of the instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS354H1    Men, Gender and Power in Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revolution (formerly HIS354Y1, 399H1, 399Y1)[24L]

An investigation of how ideas of masculinity and gender roles shaped the exercise of private and public power in early modern Europe.

Exclusion: HIS354Y1, HIS399H1, HIS399Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS356H1    Zionism and Israel (formerly HIS356Y1)[24L]

A survey of the history of Jewish nationalism, the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the 1880s to the present, with particular focus on continuity and rupture between Palestines pre-1948 Jewish community and the Israeli state.

Exclusion: HIS356Y1
Recommended Preparation: A course in modern European, Jewish or Middle Eastern history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS357Y1    A Social History of Renaissance Europe (formerly HIS357H1)[48L]

A social history of the 15th and 16th centuries set against the cultural and political background. Emphasis on changes in customs and living conditions resulting from economic, legal, intellectual, and religious developments of the period.

Exclusion: HIS357H1
Recommended Preparation: A course in Renaissance or Early Modern European history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS358H1    Political Culture in Early Modern Europe[24L]

Deals with negotiations of authority in political arenas from c. 1500 to 1750. Topics to be covered include court culture, legal ceremony, diplomatic etiquette, urban ritual and riot. Some background in medieval or early modern history recommended.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS359H1    Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean[24L]

The role of nationalism, race and ethnicity, class conflict and ideologies in the recent development of Caribbean societies; Europes replacement by the United States as the dominant imperial power in the Caribbean; how this mixture of regional and international pressures has led to widely differing political systems and traditions.

Recommended Preparation: HIS294Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS360H1    African Canadian History, 1606 Present (formerly HIS360Y1)[24L]

This course traces the earliest known arrival of people of African descent in Canada from the early seventeenth century to the time of their more recent postwar immigration trends. Using socio-historical and multidisciplinary approaches, setttlement, community and institutional building and survival will be examined within the framework of other Canadian historical developments.

Exclusion: HIS360Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS361H1    The Holocaust, from 1942[24L/5T]

Follows on HIS338H1. Themes include: resistance by Jews and non-Jews; local collaboration; the roles of European governments, the Allies, the churches, and other international organizations; the varieties of Jewish responses. We will also focus on postwar repercussions of the Holocaust in areas such as justice, memory and memorialization, popular culture and politics.

Prerequisite: completion of 6 undergraduate full-course equivalents and HIS338H1
Exclusion: HIS338Y
Recommended Preparation: a course in modern European history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS362H1    The Hansa: The World of Merchants[24L]

The history of the Hanseatic League in medieval Europe from the late 12th to the late 16th century, with emphasis on the organization of the German Hansa, maritime activities, Hanseatic trade, and daily life of the Hanseatic merchants in Western and Eastern Europe.

Prerequisite: HIS220Y1 or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS363H1    Dynamics of Gender in Canadian History[24L]

A lecture course which deals thematically with gender issues in Canadian history (including familial roles, changing patterns of work and employment, and participation in the public sphere).

Prerequisite: HIS262Y1/HIS263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS365H1    History of the Great Lakes Region[24L/6T]

A survey of the Great Lakes Region as a trans-national space from fur trade to free trade. Attention is given to the political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural histories that affected the development of the region.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1/HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS366H1    Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1815 to the Present[24L/5T]

Explores the history of Aboriginal peoples (Indigenous and Mtis) living in the Great Lakes Region after the Great Lakes were effectively split between British North America (later Canada) to the north and the united States to the south, when a rapidly increasing newcomer population on both sides of the border marginalized Indigenous peoples and settled on their land. Topics include a comparative examination of Indigenous experiences of colonialism, including treaties and land surrenders as well as the development of government policies aimed at removing and/or assimilating Great Lakes peoples. This course will also study resistance by First National and Tribal Councils to those programs over nearly two centuries and assess local strategies used for economic and cultural survival.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1/HIS271Y1
Exclusion: HIS369Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS368H1    Early Modern Britain, 1485-1660 (formerly HIS238H1)[24L/5T]

An introduction to the history of early modern England with reference to politics, religion and social structure.

Exclusion: HIS238H1
Recommended Preparation: EUR200Y1, HIS109Y1/239H1/243H1/244H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS369H1    Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1500 to 1830[24L/5T]

Explores the history of Aboriginal peoples (Indigenous and Mtis) living in the Great Lakes Region from the 16th century to the aftermath of the war of 1812. Weaving together interdisciplinary sources, this course examines central events in Great Lakes history including the formation of the Wendat and Haudenosaunee Confederacies and key Anishinaabek alliances, the arrival of European newcomers into an Indigenous landscape, the social-political impact of new diseases, reactions to European missionaries, the fur trade, major conflicts and peace processes including the Great Peace of Montreal, the Treaty of Niagara and the 60 Years War for the Great Lakes; and ending with the period of significant encroachment of new settlers on Indigenous lands. Tutorials, primary source analysis, essay, exam.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1/HIS271Y1/ABS201Y1
Exclusion: HIS369Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS370H1    The Black Experience in the United States Since the Civil War[24L]

A survey of the economic, social, political, and cultural history of black America from Reconstruction until recent times. Among the central issues dealt with are: segregation and disfranchisement; the Great Migration; the rise of the ghetto; the Civil Rights Movement; emergence of an underclass.

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS371H1    19th Century Imperial Russia (formerly HIS325Y1)[24L]

This course focuses on the political, social, intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia. Major topics include the rise of a Russian intelligentsia, reform and counter-reform, the nationality question, modernization, the woman question, and revolutionary movements.

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1 or permission of the instructor
Exclusion: HIS325Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS373H1    United States & Great Depression[24L]

U.S. experiences during the global economic crisis of THE 1930s – set against the broader historical context within which the crisis unfolded. What factors caused the Great Depression? What social, political, and cultural impact did it have on the U.S.? How did the domestic crisis intertwine with the escalating international problems that led to World War II?

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1
Recommended Preparation: previous work in US history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS374H1    American Consumerism - The Beginnings[24L/6T]

This course looks at the early origins of American consumerism. It begins with 17th-century England and the economic imperatives within the Atlantic World, then traces the changing attitudes of 18th-century Americans towards consumer goods, fashion and style that led to the mass consumption of the 19th century.

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1 and at least 6 completed undergraduate courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS375H1    Politics and Protest in Postwar North America[24L]

This course will explore the background, experience, and legacy of protest movements in North America during the post-1945 era.  The course will draw on cutting edge historical literature, and will compare and contrast the American and Canadian contexts.  Topics will include the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, feminism, nationalism, environmentalism, labour, and the New Left.

Prerequisite: Completion of a minimum of 4.0 FCEs
Recommended Preparation: HIS263Y1/271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS376H1    The United States: Now and Then[24L]

An exploration of some of the historical roots of issues that are of particular importance to understanding the United States of the early 21st century: e.g., the war in Iraq and U.S. global leadership (or hegemony); the impact of globalization on the domestic economy; cultural innovation vs. neo-conservatism.

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS377H1    20th-Century American Foreign Relations (formerly HIS377Y1)[24L]

A survey of the history of American foreign relations from 1898 to the present. Themes include imperial expansion and the uses of power; the relationship of business and government in U.S. foreign policy; and the role of culture and ideas in Americas relations with the world.

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1/POL208Y1
Exclusion: HIS377Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS378H1    America in the 1960s[24L]

A survey of one of the most turbulent decades in American history. Examines the political, social, economic and cultural revolutions that transformed the face of America.

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS380H1    Late Imperial China (formerly HIS380Y1)[24L/6T]

The political, social, and economic history of China from the period of political and economic reorganization in the Song dynasty to the final glory of the imperial order down to the end of the 18th century and its decay in the 19th.

Prerequisite: EAS102Y/HIS280Y1/JMC201Y1
Exclusion: HIS380Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS381H1    African Historiography: Knowledge and Identity[24L]

Rather than a survey of African History, this course examines popular representations of the past in Africa, looking at the philosophical and methodological challenges that these multiple histories raise for academic historians. It asks students to think critically about the basis of historical knowledge and the ownership of history

Recommended Preparation: NEW150Y1 and NEW250Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS382H1    African Historiography: Time and Space[24L]

Rather than a survey of African history, this courses examines the ways in which concepts of time and space have been used to create a false sense of a separate and distinct historical field. The courses critiques ideas of tradition and modernity and challenges concepts of physical remoteness and historical isolation.

 

Recommended Preparation: NEW150Y1 and NEW250Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS383H1    Women in African History (formerly HIS383Y1)[24L]

Major themes in the history of African women. Themes include: sources and methodologies of studying African women, cultural construction of gender, changing modes of production, women and state formation, ideology and social control, education, law, race, class and gender, female resistance to colonial rule and African womanisms versus Western feminisms.

Prerequisite: NEW150Y1/HIS295Y1
Exclusion: HIS383Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS384H1    Colonial Canada[24L]

Early Canadian history (ca. 1500-1800), emphasizing colonization, Native peoples of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes; establishment of French and British colonies; interaction of natives and European colonizers.

Prerequisite: HIS106Y1/HIS262Y1/HIS263Y1 or permission of the instructor
Exclusion: HIS362Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS385H1    The History of Hong Kong [24L]

A study of political, economic, and social change in the British colony of Hong Kong from 1842 until the present day.

Exclusion: Students cannot take both the Y and H version of HIS385
Recommended Preparation: HIS280Y1/HIS232Y1/JMC201Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS385Y1    The History of Hong Kong [48L]

A study of political, economic, and social change in the British colony of Hong Kong from 1842 until the present day.

Exclusion: Students cannot take both the Y and H version of HIS385
Recommended Preparation: HIS280Y1/HIS232Y1/JMC201Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS386H1    Islamic Culture(s) in South Asia (formerly HIS386Y1)[24L]

Social and political history of Muslims of South Asia since A.D. 712. The growth of Muslim community, conversion, social stratification, and social structure; mediaeval Muslim legacy in administration, art, literature, and religion. Muslim identity, nationalism, and Islamic modernism as reflected in the writings of intellectuals such as Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Iqbal, Jinnah, Abul-Kalam Azad, Mawdudi, and Parwiz.

Exclusion: HIS386Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101Y1/HIS282Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS387H1    France, 1610-1848 (formerly HIS388Y1)[24L]

This course considers the history of France, from the rise of absolutist monarchy under the seventeenth-century, Bourbon monarchs, through the Enlightenment, the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire, and the Restoration, to the fall of the constitutional monarchy in 1848.

Prerequisite: one HIS/FRE course
Exclusion: HIS388Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS388H1    France Since 1848 (formerly HIS388Y1)[24L]

A study of French society, politics and culture from the Paris Commune to the 1990s. Special attention is paid to watersheds like the Dreyfus Affair and the Vichy regime, to issues of regionalism/nationalism, cultural pluralism, womens rights, intellectual and cultural trends, and decolonization.

Prerequisite: EUR200Y1/one course in HIS/FRE
Exclusion: HIS388Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS389H1    Topics in History[24L]

In-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details.

Prerequisite: Varies from year to year; consult department.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS389Y1    Topics in History [48L]

In-depth examination of historical issues.  Content in any given year depends on instructor.  See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details.

Prerequisite: Varies from year to year; consult department.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS390Y1    Latin American in the Age of Revolution[48L]

This course examines how Latin America and Latin Americans responded to the American, French, Haitian, Latin American, and industrial revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Prerequisite: 2 HIS courses
Recommended Preparation: HIS291Y1/292Y1/294Y1/LAS200Y1/GGR240Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS391Y1    Black Freedom in the Atlantic World[72L]

Black writers and historical actors were at the vanguard of re-conceiving, implementing, and realizing much of the Enlightenment project of freedom.  Africans and people of African descent significantly affected its meaning in the Atlantic world.  The course sets out to explore this history as well as the contemporary practice of freedom.

Prerequisite: A course in African or European history
Exclusion: HIS296Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS393H1    Slavery and the American South[24L]

An examination of the role of slavery in the development of the American South from the early colonial period through the Civil War. Topics include: the origins of slavery, the emergence of a plantation economy, the rise of a slaveholding elite, the structure of the slave community, and the origins of the war.

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JHA394H1    The Asia Pacific War[24L]

This course examines the Second World War in the Asia Pacific region and highlights: (1) how imperialism and colonialism of both the Euro-American and Japanese varieties were central to the War's outbreak, conduct, and “resolution”;  (2) various “local” rather than simply national experiences and memories of the War, including those of marginalized groups in Japan and its colonies, “comfort women,” victims of war atrocities, Asian North Americans, African Americans, and Pacific Islanders.

Prerequisite: HIS107Y1/HIS242H1/HIS250H1/HIS251H1/HIS263Y1/HIS271Y1/HIS280Y1/HIS281Y1/HIS282Y1/HIS283Y1/HIS284Y1/HIS292Y1/HIS311Y1/HIS317H1/HIS328H1/HIS338H1/HIS343Y1/HIS344Y1/HIS351Y1/HIS361Y1/HIS377H1/HIS385H1/HIS385Y1
Recommended Preparation: One or more courses on Japan, China, Korea, or Southeast Asia in any department.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS398H0    Independent Experiential Study Project

An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS399Y0    Independent Experiential Study Project

An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

400-Series Courses

Note

Enrolment in 400-level HIS courses is limited, and demand for these courses is high. The Department of History reserves the right to REMOVE STUDENTS who enrol in more than the required number for program completion (Specialists: 1.5, Majors: .5).

Students in 400-level seminars MUST ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS or contact the professor to explain their absence. Failure to do so may result in the Department withdrawing the student from the seminar in order to free up space for other interested students.



HIS400H1    The American War in Vietnam[24S]

This course examines the French and American Wars (1945-75) in Vietnam and its effects on the population of Vietnam and Southeast Asia.  It begins with a brief overview of pre-colonial Vietnamese history and moves into a study of  the impact and legacies of colonial rule and centres on the impact of the Wars on the cultures, economies, and societies of Southeast Asia.

Prerequisite: By permission of the Instructor
Exclusion: HIS315H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS401H1    History of the Cold War (formerly HIS401Y1)[24S]

This course covers international relations from World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Topics include the breakdown of the wartime alliance, Soviet predominance in eastern Europe, the Western response, NATO, atomic weaponry.

 

Prerequisite: HIS311Y1/HIS344Y1/HIS377Y1
Exclusion: HIS401Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS402H1    Canada and Decolonization[24S]

This course will explore the multi-faceted ways in which Canada was shaped by and was an active participant in global decolonization following the Second World War.  An emphasis will be placed on the larger global context in which post-war Canadian history unfolded.  Topics will include Aboriginal politics, changing migration patterns, Quebec nationalism, diasporic politics, anti-colonial thought and oppositional social movements.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y
Recommended Preparation: HIS307H1/312H1/314H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS403H1    Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (formerly HIS403Y1)[24S]

The course focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian relations ca.300-1600, such as royal and ecclesiastical Jewish policies; religious polemics; intellectual collaboration; social and economic interaction; anti-Judaism and religious violence. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Exclusion: HIS403Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS206Y1/HIS220Y1/HIS243H1/HIS322Y1/ HIS357Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS404H1    Topics in North American Environmental History[24S]

This seminar interdisciplinary and studies past environmental change in North America. Topics include: theory and historiography; the pre-European environment; contact; resource development; settlement, industrial urban environments; ideas about nature in religion, literature and North American culture; conservation and the modern environmental movement. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: 8 full courses
Exclusion: HIS318Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS405Y1    Canadian Foreign Relations[48S]

A course on Canadian external relations since 1945. Topics include Canada and the Cold War, the Korean War, the Suez crisis and the war in Vietnam, membership in international organizations, and bilateral relations with other countries. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Prerequisite: HIS311Y1/POL312Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS406H1    Advanced Topics in Gender History[24S]

An in-depth examination of issues in gender history. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See History website for more details.

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS407H1    Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 (formerly HIS407Y1)[24S]

Historiographical controversies and the latest empirical findings concerning social conflict and political mobilization under Bismarck and Wilhelm II. Problems raised by competing schools of interpretation include definitions of the authoritarian state, bourgeois hegemony, localism and regionalism, radical nationalism, workers culture, and gender relations. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: HIS317Y1 or permission of the instructor
Exclusion: HIS407Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS408Y1    History of Race Relations in America[48S]

Relations between blacks and whites in the United States from the colonial period to recent times with emphasis on slavery.

 

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS409H1    One Day in Vietnamese Religious History: the Meeting of the Four Religions[24S]

This course examines the religious traditions of Viet Nam through a meeting between the ruling Trinh Lord in Northern Viet Nam and a Buddhist monk, a Taoist Priest, a Confucian scholar, and a Catholic Missionary. Students will read the English translation of the meeting along with scholarly readings and primary documents.

 

Prerequisite: HIS283Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS410H1    Spectacle, Crowds, and Parades in Canada[24S]

Social and cultural approaches to understanding spectacles, crowd behaviour, and parades in the Canadian past, 1660s - 1980s.

Prerequisite: HIS262Y1/HIS263Y1/HIS367H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS411H1    Great Trials in History[24S]

This seminar course will study a handful of great trials still to be selected in close detail. Using materials from the modern period in Europe and North America, we will look at the clash of ideas represented in these high-profile cases, the historical setting in which they were embedded, the human drama, legal and sometimes constitutional issues, and their impact both on their societies and our own.

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS412Y1    Crusades, Conversions and Colonialization in the Medieval Baltic (formerly HIS412H1)[48S]

Explores the impact of crusades, religious conversion and colonialization on medieval Baltic history through analysis of two medieval chronicles in English translation. Topics include culture clash, medieval colonialism, Europeanization as well as German expansion eastwards, the role of the Teutonic Knights and the strategies of survival of the native Baltic people after conquest and Christianization.

 

Exclusion: HIS412H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS250Y1/353Y1/permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS413H1    Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World[24S]

Examines the process and consequences of slave emancipation in the Atlantic World, beginning with the French and Haitian Revolutions and concluding with slavery and abolition in West Africa in the early 20th century.Students are introduced to the major literature and historiographical debates surrounding emancipation.

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS414H1    Down and Out in Medieval Europe[24S]

Explores the life conditions of individuals on the lower echelons of medieval society (the poor, servants and apprentices, the exiled, prisoners, slaves, foreigners and lepers).  In parallel, we will discuss the various conceptions of poverty that prevailed in the Middle Ages.  These objectives will allow us to glimpse the European Middle Ages from an unusual angle as well as reflect on important socio-economic and religious changes.

Prerequisite: HIS220Y1 or a course on the Middle Ages
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS415Y1    Nationalism & Memory in Modern Europe (formerly HIS415H1)[48S]

Investigates the modern concept of the nation and its connections to the idea of collective memory in twentieth-century Europe. Through reading and discussing seminal works on nationalism and national memory, we will discuss the connections between modern notions of nation and practices of remembering.

 

Prerequisite: two European history courses
Exclusion: HIS415H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS416H1    Orientalism and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany[24S]

In 1771, with the translation of the Zend-Avesta by the French Scholar Anquetil-Duperron, a new era opened in German national culture. From the philosophy of Johann Gottfried von Herder to the novels of Thomas Mann, this course analyzes the ways in which German writers defined the substance and place of national culture in their writings about India, Central Asia and the East. Prerequisite: HIS241H1, 242H1/317H1/Y1

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS418H1    Women and Gender in Russian History (formerly HIS418Y1)[24S]

Focus is on the history of women and systems of gender in Russia and the Soviet Union. Themes include gender and authority during the age of empresses; pre-revolutionary radical movements; the impact 1917 Revolution and its impact on womens lives; the resurrection of conservative gender conventions during Stalins regime; the experience of women during perestroika.

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1/HIS351Y1/HIS325H1/HIS325Y1
Exclusion: HIS418Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS419H1    Canada By Treaty: Alliances, Title Transfers and Land Claims[24S]

A detailed study of the treaty process between indigenous peoples and newcomers in Canadian history, with examination of the shift between alliance treaties to land surrender agreements from the colonial period through to the signing of recent treaties including the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and the Nisga’a Final Agreement.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS420H1    Russia’s Great Patriotic Wars[24S]

The course examines Russia’s wars with Napoleon and Hitler, both as military campaigns and as important nation-building events, largely through memoir literature.

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1/HIS325H1/HIS351Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS421Y1    Soviet History Seminar (formerly HIS421H1)[48S]

A seminar on the history of Soviet Russia in its formative years, 1917 to 1939. The revolutions of 1917, the civil war and war communism, NEP Russia, the Stalin revolution, the purges, and the great retreat are explored. Emphasis is on issues, interpretations and historiography, problems of study, and periodization. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: HIS351Y1 (with a mark of at least 80%)
Exclusion: HIS421H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS422H1    Vichy France, 1940-1944[24S]

This course examines the rise, fall, workings and legacies of a xenophobic, collaborationist regime that came to power in France in 1940. It pays special attention to everyday practices under Vichy, to individual choices, to ideological battles, and to trauma. Other major themes include anti-Semitism, issues of memory and amnesia, and socio-cultural shifts.

 

Recommended Preparation: HIS242H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS423H1    Social History of Medicine in the 19th& 20th Centuries (formerly HIS423Y1)[24S]

Introduces students to some of the main issues in the new field of the social history of medicine. Readings from the secondary historical literature are distributed and discussed in class, covering such topics as the history of the doctor-patient relationship, changes in physicians social status, changing attitudes towards the body, and the history of obstetrics and gynaecology. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: A minimum of one course in HIS/PSY/SOC
Exclusion: HIS423Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS424H1    Violence in Medieval Society (formerly HIS424Y1)[24S]

This seminar explores the social function and meaning of violence in medieval society, and the development of rituals and institutions to control violence. Among the topics treated: Germanic blood feud, aristocratic violence and chivalry, criminal justice systems, violence against minorities, and violence and gender. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Prerequisite: HIS220Y1/HIS304Y1/HIS320Y1/HIS322Y1
Exclusion: HIS424Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS425H1    Historiography[24S]

A look at some basic problems of historical study, approached by means of an analysis of the work of a number of historians and philosophers of history, representing different schools of thought and time periods from ancient times to the present.

 

Recommended Preparation: Three HIS courses
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS426H1    Medieval Italy, 400-1000[24S]

This course surveys the major developments and figures of Italian history by focusing on key primary texts (in translation) with a particular view to urban and legal history which will form the backdrop to understanding artistic and literary achievements in context.

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS427H1    History and Historiography in the Golden Legend[24S]

The Golden Legend or Readings on the Saints, compiled by Jacobus de Voragine C. 1260, serves as the basis for a seminar on the relation of history and legend as understood in the High Middle Ages. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: HIS220Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS428H1    Medieval Institutes of Perfection[24S]

The first goal of this seminar is to help students read the sources with a more critical eye, especially narrative sources (Lives of Saints) and normative sources (rules and customaries). The second goal is to study the evolution of the monastic ideal from its origin to the 12th century. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: A course in Medieval history such as HIS220Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS429H1    Canada and Empire in the Twentieth Century [24S]

 This course explores the ways in which twentieth century Canada was shaped by its complex relationship to empire. Course readings place Canadian historiography into dialogue with new theoretical and methodological approaches drawn from postcolonial studies, new imperial history, feminist and critical race theory. Topics include the meaning of empire in everyday life, migration, the impact of global decolonization, and Aboriginal politics.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS430H1    Canadians and the World Wars[24S]

Topics in the political, social, cultural, and military history of Canadians during the First and Second World Wars. Emphasis on the home front.

 

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS431H1    Gender and the Holocaust [24S]

An examination of the Holocaust and the ways it has been studied and represented through the lens of gender. In what ways did being male or female make a difference for the people who were part of the Holocaust; what did Nazi ideology preach about ideas of masculinity and femininity and how did German authorities implement those notions; what roles did sex, sexuality, and sexual violence play in the Nazi assault on Jews and other groups; how have assumptions about gender shaped memories and representations of the Holocaust?

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS432H1    Topics in Medieval History[24S]

The students define together with the professor eight different topics (e.g. relics, masculinity, leprosy, clothes, recluses, peasants houses, gynecology and the peace of God). Each topic is approached through a class discussion, on the basis of a common corpus of secondary sources, plus presentations by the students.

 

Prerequisite: A course in Medieval history such as HIS220Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS433H1    Polish Jews Since the Partition of Poland[24S]

To explore the history of Polish Jews from the Partitions of Poland to the present time, concentrating on the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries: situation of Polish Jews in Galicia; Congress Kingdom of Poland; Prussian-occupied Poland before 1914; during World War II; and post-war Poland. Focus on an analysis of primary sources. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: HIS208Y1/251Y1/permission of the instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS434Y1    Kievan Rus[48S]

The origin of Rus, international trade, the impact of nomadic peoples, the introduction of Christianity, the economic system an the problem of feudalism, the political structure and the dilemma of princely succession; literature and architecture; the displacement of political power centres and depopulation, the preservation of the Kievan heritage. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Prerequisite: One of the following: HIS220Y1/HIS250Y1/ HIS320Y1/HIS322Y1/JHP204Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS436H1    Culture and the Cold War (formerly HIS436Y1)[24S]

The impact of the Cold War on life in the West through a study of selected popular culture themes and modes of production that helped shape the era. Four themes include Living with the Bomb, Living with the National Security State, Living with Spies, and Women Living with the Cold War.

 

Exclusion: HIS436Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS437H1    Telling Lies About Hitler: Frauds and Famous Feuds Among German Historians[24S]

Examines historiographical controversies and their public reception. Topics include the forged Hitler diaries, the David Irving trial, monarchical scandals befORE 1914, German responsibility FOR 1914, Daniel Goldhagen’s “eliminationist” thesis, Auschwitz as an “Asiatic deed,” Wehrmacht complicity in the Holocaust, retrospective films about East Germany, and Germany’s “special path to modernity.”

Recommended Preparation: HIS242H1/HIS317H1/HIS330H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS438H1    Inquisition and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe[24S]

Examines historiographical controversies and their public reception. Topics include the forged Hitler diaries, the David Irving trial, monarchical scandals before 1914, German responsibility for 1914, Daniel Goldhagens eliminationist thesis, Auschwitz as an Asiatic deed, Wehrmacht complicity in the Holocaust, retrospective films about East Germany, and Germanys special path to modernity. Focusing on the institution of the inquisition, this seminar explores the response of ecclesiastical and secular authorities to religious heterodoxy. Among the groups prosecuted by the inquisition discussed: Cathar heretics in France, crypto-Jews, and crypto-Muslims in Spain, and witches in Italy.

 

Recommended Preparation: HIS220Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS439H1    Russias Empire[24S]

This course examines ways in which the Russian Empire and Soviet Union expanded their territories, the ways they controlled those colonies, and the ways in which they dealt with rising nationalism both at home and abroad. Prerequisite: HIS250Y1

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS440H1    Maps and History[24S]

Examines the use of maps through the ages to depict spatial relationships and political, social, or cultural authority. Explores the visual display of quantitative information, the evolution of historical atlases, and cartographic crime. Such topics as Lebensraum and gerrymandering illustrate how maps can distort historical processes and communal relationships.

Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor.
Recommended Preparation: at least three History courses at the 200/300 level
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS441H1    Conversion & Christianities in the Early Modern Spanish World[24S]

Investigates religious conversion and cultural change in the Spanish world ca. 1450-1750. Principal settings include the late medieval Spanish kingdoms, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, and the Philippines archipelago. Fall 2007 is special: our seminar readings and assignments will take best advantage of The Virgin, Saints and Angels, an exhibition of baroque paintings from Spanish South America in the UofT Art Centre.

Recommended Preparation: HIS106Y1 or HIS291Y1 may be useful
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS443H1    Society, Culture and Religion in the Renaissance and Reformation (formerly HIS443Y1)[24S]

Developments in popular/lay/local religion as expressed in a variety of cultural, political, and social forms from 1400-1600; the relation of these forms to both Catholic and Protestant institutional churches. Impact of Renaissance humanism on notions of kinship, order, community, perfection.

 

Prerequisite: HIS309H1/340Y1/357Y1 or permission of instructor
Exclusion: HIS443Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS444H1    Topics in Jewish History: Power and Identity in Modern Jewish History[24S]

This seminar will analyze the construction of Jewish identity from the 18th through 20th centuries, with particular emphases on the secularization of modern Jewish life and the Jews’ encounter with new forms of political power in both the diaspora and Israel.  Topics to be covered include:  traditional concepts of Jewish passivity and powerlessness, and the reconfiguration of those concepts by the Jewish Enlightenment; Jewish political and economic influence in 19th –century Europe; the relationship between Jews and communism; Jews as soldiers and revolutionaries; Zionism as a form of modern Jewish politics; the Holocaust’s effect on Jewish self-perception; and the extent and limits of Israeli power.

Prerequisite: A course in modern European or Jewish history
Recommended Preparation: A course in Jewish history
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS445H1    Nationalism[24S]

What is a nation? Are nations ancient or modern, unchanging or malleable? Do nations create states, or does the state create the nation? This course seeks to answer these questions through an examination of nationalism, primarily in Europe, from the 1700s through the present.

 

Prerequisite: Two courses in European history or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS446H1    Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World (formerly HIS446Y1)[48S]

The course examines the relationship between gender and the experience of slavery and emancipating several Atlantic world societies from the 17th-19th centuries. Areas to be covered are the Caribbean, Brazil, the U.S. South, West and South Africa and Western Europe.

Prerequisite: HIS245Y1/HIS291Y1/HIS294Y1/HIS295Y1
Exclusion: HIS446Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS447H1    Sex, Money, and American Empire[24S]

This seminar considers two bodies of scholarship: American empire and its relationship to global capital, militarism, and technoscience; and empire, sex, race, and intimacy.In doing so, the seminar questions how imperial formations shaped life within the United States, as much as it altered distant and not so distant territories, peoples, and diasporas.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS448H1    Gender in East and Southeast Asia (formerly HIS391H1)[24S]

This course explores the history of gender in East and Southeast Asia from a comparative perspective. It will examine how models of Southeast Asian women have been constructed against their East Asian counterparts.

 

Prerequisite: HIS283Y1
Exclusion: HIS391H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS449Y1    Ukrainian National Revival[48S]

The role of the intelligentsia in East European national revivals; the ethnographic and literary revival; the language question; the press and cultural organizations; education; religion; and political movements. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Recommended Preparation: One of the following: JHP204Y1/HIS241H1/HIS251Y1/HIS445H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS450H1    The Writing of Jewish History[24S]

The development of Jewish historical inquiry over the past two centuries is examined against the background of the general phenomenon of modern historicism and the particular religious, cultural and political interests of Jewish communities and institutions in Europe, North America and Israel.

Prerequisite: a course in Jewish history, religion or thought
Recommended Preparation: HIS208Y1/RLG202Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS451H1    World War II in East Central Europe[24S]

The fall of the Versailles system, German and Soviet diplomatic and military activities and their occupational policies in East Central Europe during World War II, economic exploitation, collaboration, resistance, and genocide in the discussed region, its liberation and sovietization in 1944-1945. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: EUR200Y1/HIS251Y1/334Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JHP451Y1    The People from Nowhere[48S]

This course traces from earliest times to the present the evolution of a people called Carpatho-Rusyns and their historic homeland Carpathian Rus’, located in the heart of Europe.  The historic survey will deal with political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments, all the while testing the hypothesis that nationalities are imagined communities.  (Given by the Departments of History and Political Science)

Recommended Preparation: a course in eastern European history, or in nationalism
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS452H1    Science and Society in Britain, 1600-1800[24S]

Covers selected developments in early modern British science between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Addresses science as a socially and culturally constructed system of knowledge rather than a body of absolute truth. Class topics range from astrology to chemistry. Particular attention is given to the reception (or not) of science in the press and consumer culture. Major course themes include gender, class, religion, and governance.

Prerequisite: HIS244H1/HIS337H1/HIS324H1/HIS324Y1/HIS341Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS453H1    Problems of National Survival in Eastern Europe Since 1848[24S]

How the peoples of Eastern Europe tried to organize their domestic affairs, and in what international context they sought to operate, in order to survive as national entities and later to preserve their newly-won independence and territorial integrity. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: HIS251Y1/334Y1 or equivalent
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JHP454Y1    Twentieth Century Ukraine [48S]

World War I and the Russian Revolution: the Ukrainian independence movement; the Soviet Ukraine and west Ukrainian lands during the interwar period; World War II and the German occupation; the Soviet Ukraine before and after the death of Stalin. Socio-economic, cultural, and political developments. (Given by the Departments of History and Political Science) (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Prerequisite: A course in modern European, East European or Russian history or politics such as JHP204Y1/HIS250Y1/HIS351Y1/HIS353Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS455H1    In the Soviet Archives: Text and History[24S]

A tour of Soviet history through recently declassified archival documents (in English translation), first-hand accounts, memoirs, and literature. The primary chronological emphasis of the course will be on the years of Stalin. The focus of the course will be on close textual analysis and a critical reading of the sources. (Joint undergraduate-graduate.)

Prerequisite: HIS351Y1 with a grade of 80 or higher.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS456Y1    Black Slavery in Latin America[48S]

An examination of black slavery in Latin America, with emphasis on the lives of the slaves, from the conquest of America to abolition in the 19th century.

Prerequisite: HIS291Y1/HIS292Y1/HIS294Y1/HIS295Y1/HIS394Y1/HIS408Y1/IAS200Y1/IAS320H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS457H1    The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire[24S]

Explores the central themes in the history of France during the Revolution and the First Empire. We will consider the periods principal political, social and cultural aspects: the causes of the French Revolution; the shift from constitutional monarchy to Republic; the relationship between politics and religion; the invention of a new republican political culture; counterrevolution and Terror; the Directory; Bonapartes rise to power; the Napoleonic Empire; the nature of war during the Empire; the Restoration; and the Revolutions legacy in France and beyond today.

Prerequisite: HIS243H1/HIS244H1/HIS319H1/HIS341Y1/HIS388H1/HIS492Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS458H1    Topics in Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy (formerly HIS458Y1)[24S]

Tsarist and Soviet foreign relations from the Crimean War to the present with emphasis on continuity and change. The seminar examines major themes in Russian and Soviet foreign policy behaviour on the basis of assigned readings.

 

Prerequisite: HIS250Y1 and HIS334Y1/344Y1/351Y1
Exclusion: HIS458Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS459H1    Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946[24S]

The history of Soviet cinema and the importance of film as a historical source. Documentary and fiction film; editing, narration, and sound; film distribution and exhibition; the Soviet school of montage and socialist realism; nationality and gender; the Soviet musical comedy of the Stalin era; resistance and dissidence.

 

Prerequisite: INI115Y1/HIS250Y1
Exclusion: HIS450Y1/SLA233H1/234H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HIS460H1    Soviet History and Film, 1941-1991[24S]

Soviet film as a historical source and the institutional and ideological history of Soviet film production, distribution, and exhibition. Fiction and documentary film during World War II; the cinema of the Cold War and the Thaw; Soviet new realism and the return of the village; avant-garde cinema of the 1960s-80s; memory and historical revision in late Soviet film. Screenings include never-before-seen archival footage, as well as films and film clips subtitled by the instructor.

 

Prerequisite: INI115Y1/HIS250Y1
Exclusion: HIS450Y1/SLA233H1/SLA234H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HIS461H1    Poland in the 20th Century[24S]

The 20th century has been an age of experiments for Poland. Universal, general problems of democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, communism, socialism, free market and centrally planned economies, are examined, as are the ongoing adjustments made by the Polish people. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Prerequisite: HIS334Y1/HIS353Y1/permission of the instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS462H1    Canadian Intelligence and National Security, 1945 Present[24S]

An exploration of Canadian intelligence from the end of World War Two to the present, with an emphasis on understanding policies, institutions and practices in the context of changing perceptions of threats to national security. The Cold War era will provide essential context for understanding the new security environment created in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Recommended Preparation: HIS343Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS463H1    Cloth in American History to 1865[24S]

Cloth was a major commodity in the early modern world.  Positioning early America within a global context and employing a material culture framework, textiles and clothing provide the lens through which to view the social, cultural, economic and industrial development of the United States from pre-European contact until the 1860s.

 

 

Prerequisite: HIS271Y
Recommended Preparation: HIS374H1/VIC224Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS464H1    Religion and Violence in Comparative Perspective[24S]

Examines varying roles of religion in cases of genocide and extreme violence. Seminar proceeds from recent cases (Darfur, Rwanda, wars associated with break-up of Yugoslavia) backward through the 20th century (Cambodia, Indonesia, the Holocaust, Armenians, Herero) and the 19th century (Belgian Congo, Caucasus, native peoples in the Americas).

 

Prerequisite: one course in HIS/REL/Peace and Conflict
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS465Y1    Gender and International Relations[48S]

This seminar explores the use of gender as a category of analysis in the study of international relations. Topics include gendered imagery and language in foreign policymaking; beliefs about women’s relationship to war and peace; issues of gender, sexuality, and the military; and contributions of feminist theory to international relations theory.

 

Prerequisite: HIS103Y1/377H1/POL208Y1 or permission of instructor
Exclusion: JHP440Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2) + Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS466H1    Topics in Canadian History (formerly HIS466Y1)[24S]

Selected topics in a specific period of Canadian history. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Please see the History Department website for complete description.

Prerequisite: HIS262Y1/HIS263Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS467H1    French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film (formerly HIS467Y1)[24S]

Examines French colonial Indochina through several different lenses. Themes include the cross-cultural contact zones between colonial and colonized societies, gender perceptions, imperial culture, expressions of colonial power, and forms of opposition. Colonial novels, translated resistance literature, documentaries, and films are utilized as primary sources to be examined critically.

 

Prerequisite: ANT344Y1/EAS204Y1/GGR342H1/HIS104Y1/HIS107Y1/HIS280Y1/HIS282Y1/HIS283Y/HIS315H1/HIS388Y1/NEW369Y1
Exclusion: HIS467Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS468H1    The Southern Indian Ocean[24S]

This course explores a series of themes relating to Madagascar and the Mascareigne Islands between the eighteenth and the twentieth century. Topics include slavery and its memories, miscegenation, trade, the environment, space and mapping, cultural contact, colonialism, and imperial networks.

 

Prerequisite: a course in African history or African studies
Recommended Preparation: background in the histories of Africa and empire
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS470H1    History, Rights, and Difference in South Asia[24S]

Addressing South Asian history after 1750, this course examines ideas of rights, contract, and the rule of law in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Attention is paid to the intellectual history of rights and the central place of colonial and postcolonial questions within that history. Topics include rights and questions concerning indigenous culture, caste and customary practice, gender and capitalist development.

 

Prerequisite: A mark of 73% or higher in HIS282Y1 or instructors permission
Recommended Preparation: Background in political and social theory and some background in South Asia
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS471H1    United States and Globalization[24S]

This course considers the origins and evolution of U.S. experiences with globalization: attention is paid to economic, technological, cultural, and institutional developments during the past century.

 

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1/377Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS377Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS472H1    Indigenous-Newcomer Relations in Canadian History (formerly HIS472Y1)[24S]

The trajectory of Canadian history has been (and continues to be) shaped ssignificantly by the changing relationships between indigenous peoples and newcomers to what is now Canada. Through discussion of readings on various seminar topics, we will explore the multi-faceted contours of these relationships, from cultural encounters, treaties & alliances, and missionization to colonization , assimilation, residential schools and contemporary issues

 

Prerequisite: HIS262Y1/HIS263Y1 (minimum 73%)
Exclusion: HIS472Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS473Y1    The United States and Asia since 1945 (formerly HIS473H1)[48S]

This seminar examines strategic, economic, ideological, and cultural factors in U.S. relations with East and Southeast Asia. Major themes include the role of cultural and informal diplomacy and the effect of perceptions and misperceptions on both sides of U.S.-Asian interactions.

Prerequisite: HIS271Y/HIS344Y/HIS377H1
Exclusion: HIS473H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS474H1    Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonisation[24S]

This course is a critical intellectual history of Caribbean decolonisation. It begins with the Haitian Revolution, exploring and comparing how history was mobilized to structure anti-colonial theories about the making of postcolonial Caribbean societies. Key conceptual frameworks to be examined include indegenism, noirism, creolization, metissage; Caribbean interpretations of Marxism, Negritude and Pan-Aricanism.

 

Prerequisite: HIS294Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS476H1    Voices from Black America (formerly HIS476Y1)[24S]

The history of Black Americas seen through the eyes of some of the men and women who experienced it. Attention is given to slavery but emphasis is on the twentieth century. Students examine autobiographical works, novels, and film.

 

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1
Exclusion: HIS476Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS477H1    Topics in the Social and Cultural History of Victorian Britain (formerly HIS477Y1)[24S]

Examination of the impact of industrialism on Victorian society and values. Concentration on Victorian social critics including Engels, Owen, Maynew, Dickens and Morris.

 

Exclusion: HIS477Y1
Recommended Preparation: A course in modern British History/Victorian literature
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS478H1    Hellhound on my Trail: Living the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, 1890-1945[24S]

This course examines black life and culture in the cotton South through the medium of recorded blues music. It seeks to restore a voice and a sense of agency to black southerners in the age of Jim Crow. Topics include the plantation economy, agricultural life, mobility, migration, and urban subcultures.

Recommended Preparation: HIS271Y1/USA300H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS479H1    US Foreign Policy Since World War II (formerly HIS479Y1)[24S]

An in-depth study of U.S. behaviour in the global arena since World War II. Particular attention will be paid to the origins and evolution of the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the initiatives of the Nixon-Kissinger years, the end of the Cold War, and the relevance of globalization.

 

Prerequisite: HIS271Y1/377H1
Exclusion: HIS479Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS480H1    Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique[24S]

Engaging with influential perspectives in postcolonial historiography, this seminar tracks three major themes in the history of the idea of modernity from the late 18th through the 20th centuries: political freedom, citizenship and the nation-state; capitalism and its critique; and the relationship of history, memory, and identity. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

Prerequisite: a mark of 73% or higher in HIS282Y1, or instructors permission; HIS470H1
Recommended Preparation: History of colonialism, political theory, or postcolonial literatures
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS481H1    Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Africa[24S]

The role of elite women in twentieth-century Africa has been overshadowed by studies of non-elite women so much so as to suggest that all women lacked power. This course aims to show how a very limited but important group of women negotiated power in a century of increasing patriarchy. It combines gender with class analysis.

Prerequisite: HIS295H1/HIS296Y1/HIS383H1/HIS396H1 or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS482H1    History of the Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance[24S]

This course will explore the cultural history of the body from ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy. From an examination of both bodily practices and discourses about the body we will attempt to gain an understanding of premodern experiences of and attitudes towards the human body.

 

Prerequisite: one course in pre-modern History
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS484H1    The Car in North American History (formerly HIS484Y1)[24S]

This seminar examines the history of the car in North America from the perspective of technology, business, landscape and popular culture. Particular attention is paid to issues of production, consumption, geography, and daily life, and to the importance of class race, gender, region, and age in shaping the meaning and experience of car culture.

Prerequisite: HIS263Y1/HIS271Y1
Exclusion: HIS484Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS485H1    Topics in Chinese History (formerly HIS485Y1)[24S]

A seminar on aspects of Chinese history from 1368 to the present, with emphasis on social history. Topics vary and include: social structure in Ming-Qing China; religion and ritual in Chinese society; Chinese popular culture. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: EAS102Y1/HIS280Y1, HIS380Y1/JMC201Y1
Exclusion: HIS485Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS486H1    Writing and Masculinity in Africa[24S]

Introduces African cultural and intellectual history via a series of important primary texts.  These texts provide important insights into the gendered nature of African intellectual movements for liberation as well as wider political discourses.  It examines how these authors developed and deployed concepts such as authenticity, modernity, nation, and personhood.

Prerequisite: HIS391Y or an equivalent course in African history
Exclusion: HIS395H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS487H1    Animal and Human Rights in Anglo-American Culture[24S]

Examines the parallel discourses of animal and human rights in Anglo-American culture from the eighteenth century to the present. The courses explores issues of subjectivity and consciousness as well as cruelty and pain. Topics include slavery and abolition, animal welfare and antivivisection, anti-colonial liberation movements, and animal rights campaigns.

Recommended Preparation: HIS296Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS488H1    The Secret War, 1939-1945 (formerly HIS488Y1)[24S]

The development of intelligence techniques and operations in wartime conditions; the role of espionage, cryptanalysis and deception in deciding the battles and campaigns of the Second World War.

Prerequisite: Any two courses from: EUR200Y1/HIS103Y1/ HIS241H1, HIS242H1/HIS343Y1/HIS344Y1
Exclusion: HIS488Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS489H1    The History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness[24S]

Introduces students to some of the main issues in the history of psychiatry. Readings from the secondary historical literature are distributed and discussed in class, covering such topics as changes in the nature of psychotic illness, the psychoneuroses, disorders of the mind/body relationship, and the psychiatric diagnosis and the presentation of illness. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)

 

Prerequisite: a minimum of one course in HIS/PSY/SOC
Exclusion: HIS423Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS490H1    Everyday Stalinism[24S]

This seminar explores issues of everyday life in Soviet Russia during the Stalin era. What was the Soviet normal? Topics will include belief systems, dreams and myths, terror, fear, repression, and resistance. Texts include a range of different sources, memoirs, diaries, official state documents, and secondary sources.

 

Prerequisite: grade of A in HIS250Y1/grade of B+ or higher in HIS351Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS494H1    Gandhi’s Global Conversations[24S]

Primary source analysis of global circuits of ethico-political thought via work and life of Gandhi.  Charts transnational environment of Gandhian thought (eg. Ruskin and Tolstoy), its critics (advocates of minority rights, also revolutionary violence) and global afterlife (eg. King, Mandela).  Teaches methods in intellectual and political history of the global.

Prerequisite: HIS282Y1 with a mark of 76% or above
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS495H1    Topics in History (formerly HIS495Y1)[48S]

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details.

 

Exclusion: HIS495Y1
Recommended Preparation: Varies from year to year
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS495Y1    Topics in History [48S]

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details.

Exclusion: HIS495H1
Recommended Preparation: Varies from year to year
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS496H1    Topics in History[24S]

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details.

Prerequisite: Varies from year to year; consult department.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS498H1    Independent Studies[TBA]

These courses assume the form of an undergraduate thesis. Students must find an appropriate supervisor from the Department, receive approval for the project, and submit an Independent Studies ballot. Students must be enroled in either a History Specialist or Major program, with a B+ average in no less than 4 HIS courses, or with special permission of the instructor. Applications must be received in September for first session courses; in December for second session courses.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HIS499Y1    Independent Studies

These courses assume the form of an undergraduate thesis. Students must find an appropriate supervisor from the Department, receive approval for the project, and submit an Independent Studies ballot. Students must be enroled in either a History Specialist or Major program, with a B+ average in no less than 4 HIS courses, or with special permission of the instructor. Applications must be received in September for first session courses; in December for second session courses.

 

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None