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Recently Added History Courses - now open for registration

Courses below are "New" courses or courses added since the registration period opened in April for returning students and in June for new students, and other courses of interest with space available

 
Winter 2014 Term   

HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014
Instructor: tba

HIST 305 Course not available
  - Winter 2014
Prof. John Serrati

HIST 315 Themes in World History 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014
Prof. Subho Basu

Topic:  Gandhi and Gandhism (click for description)

The dominant figure in India’s nationalist movement for nearly thirty years, M. K. Gandhi has also been one of the twentieth century’s most influential peace activists and thinkers. He has been the source of inspiration for peace and civil rights movements throughout the twentieth century. This course charts Gandhi’s career against the background of events in London, South Africa and India. It examines the evolution and practical application of his ideas and techniques of non-violent resistance, and his attitudes toward the economy, society and state. Gandhi’s influence on Indian politics and society is critically assessed and his reputation as the ‘apostle of non-violent revolution’ examined in the light of developments since his death in 1948. Though helpful, a prior knowledge of Indian history is not required for this course.


HIST 327 Age of the American Revolution 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014 (will be opened for registration soon)
Instructor: Alexander DeGuise

HIST 366 Themes in Latin American Hist 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014
Instructor: Geoffrey Wallace
Topic: tba

A course being offered by a professor who joins our department this year as a newly-hired faculty member and specialist in Canadian history, Prof. Laura Madokoro:

HIST 370 Topics: Cdn Political History 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014
Prof. Laura Madokoro

Themes in Canadian Political History (click for description)

This course explores the history of political activism in Canada in the twentieth century. Students will interrogate how notions of the "political" evolved after 1900 at the local, regional and national level. Case studies include organized party politics, nationalism, environmentalism, First Nations' movements, women's rights and civil rights.


Other courses of interest:

HIST 418 Topics: Atlantic World 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014
Dr. Helen Dewar

Topics: Atlantic World  (click for description)

This course looks at the role of corporations in European expansion in the Atlantic and their relationships to developing states and empires.  Through such topics as slavery, sovereignty and law, the course will explore how early modern large-scale corporations such as commercial and colonizing companies helped to shape the modern world.  Its approach is comparative, drawing on Iberian, French, British, and Dutch experiences.  Throughout the course, we’ll consider both the opportunities and limits of the Atlantic framework for studying the interplay between empire building and state building.  Students will write a major primary-source based research paper and be responsible for leading weekly discussions of readings in class.

HIST 423 Topics: Migration & Ethnicity 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

   -  Winter 2014

HIST 431 Topics in U.S. History 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014

Topic:  American Youth Culture (click for description)

This course presents an historical perspective on being young and growing-up in the United States during the twentieth century.  It traces the formation of various American youth sub-cultures, interrogates the changing social and cultural meanings of adolescence, and explores the historical factors that shaped individual and group experiences of being a teenager.  The course also stresses the importance of consumer practices to youth sub-cultures and considers how gender, race, class, and sexuality influenced articulations and representations of youth culture in America.

HIST 436 Topics: European History 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

- Section 002   -  Winter 2014 
Dr. Charles Sharpe
(please note that if you are also interested in registering for HIST 436 Section 001 in the winter term, you may register for this section offered by Dr. Sharpe under HIST 413.  Please contact Meena.Mohan [at] mcgill.ca for a permit to register)

Topics: European History (Section 002) (click for description)

This reading and writing seminar will examine the European displaced persons crisis in the twentieth century. Topics will include the pogroms in Eastern Europe, the conundrum of statelessness, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, the refugee crisis at the end of the Second World War, the politicization of “the refugee” during the Cold War, and the establishment of norms, laws and institutions to manage these problems.


 

 

 

 

 

 

Other courses of interest:

HIST 354 Women in Europe 1700-2000 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014

HIST 373 Canadian Labour History 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014

HIST 409 Topics in Latin American Hist 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  -  Winter 2014

HIST 582 Course not available
  -  Winter 2014

Topic: Britain’s Glorious Revolution, 1688-1715 (click for description)

Readings and research on the Glorious Revolution and its aftermath.  Emphasis will be on the political and intellectual history of religious, dynastic and constitutional conflicts in the British kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland.  We will make extensive use of online databases and research tools for British history.


HIST 583 Course not available
  -  Winter 2014

Topic: "The Making of Canadian Indian Policy"(click for description)

 This course will draw upon primary and secondary sources to study interactions between indigenous peoples of Canada and the emergent Canadian state during the long century between the Royal Proclamation and the Northwest Rebellion. We will explore the meaning of tradition and progress as cultural and political frameworks for those interactions. The course considers the history of settler colonialism in Canada from the top down and from the bottom up, with particular attention to practical experiences and experiments in governance. Students will write a substantial research paper based on primary sources.

 

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