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History Courses by "Area"

All of history courses are listed under one of four "Areas": [1] Americas, [2] Europe, [3] Africa/Asia/Middle East, and [4] Global/Thematic. To encourage breadth, the major programs in History (Major, Honours and Joint Honours) limit the number of courses that students may take in any one area. Students should refer to this list when registering for courses to ensure that they satisfy "area" requirements for their program.

  • Some courses are listed under two areas; students may choose for which area the course will count. This should be indicated on your advising/audit form.
  • HIST 413 Independent Research, HIST 499 Internship: History, and HIST 599D1/D2 Honours Tutorial can be classified in any of the four areas depending on the research topic.  Consult with your program advisor.
  • Exceptionally, with permission of a program advisor, a course may be counted in a different area depending on its content.  This should be indicated on your advising/audit form. Consult with your program advisor.
  • Newly added courses and courses that have been retired may not be included on these lists. Consult with your program advisor if you have taken a course that you have taken does not appear on the lists below.
  • If you have any questions regarding the "Area" a course is listed under and how it fits within your history program, meet with your program advisor.

Americas

First Year Seminars (FYS)

HIST 197. FYS: Race in Latin America.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements.
  • Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
  • Maximum 25 students

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200-level Courses

HIST 202. Survey: Canada to 1867.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

A survey of early Canada, from periods known mainly through archaeological records to the Confederation era. Social, cultural, economic and political themes will be examined.
  • Fall

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HIST 203. Survey: Canada since 1867.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

A survey of the development of Canada from Confederation to the present day. Social, economic and political history will be examined in a general way.

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HIST 211. American History to 1865.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Introduction to the history of colonial North America and the United States up to the Civil War, in their Atlantic context.
  • Fall

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HIST 221. United States since 1865.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Examines the defining moments and movements in the U.S. since Reconstruction, including populism, progressivism, the World Wars, the New Deal, the Cold War, the sixties and its consequences. Emphasis on the political, social and ideological transformations that ensued.
  • Fall

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HIST 223. Indigenous Peoples and Empires.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800.

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HIST 262. Mediterranean and European Interconnections.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description

Introduction to the cultural practices and political experiences that have shaped the Eastern Mediterranean and South-Eastern Europe examined diachronically. Topics adressed include empires and nations, religion, politics of memory and space, archeology and historical legacies, migrations.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken HIST 462.
  • The course is composed of two to four interrelated seminars and includes field excursions. One section of 30 students maximum will be offered.
  • There is a fee of $3,300 (in 2018) for the McGill Summer Studies in Greece activity associated with registration in course HIST 262. The fee includes accommodation based on double room occupancy, meals, onsite visits, course packs and travel within Greece when associated with onsite visits. Students are responsible for their own travel arrangements and travel insurance costs.
  • Des frais spéciaux liés à l'activité d'Etudes estivales en Grèce de McGill d’un montant de $3,300 (en 2018) sont associés à l'inscription au cours HIST 262. Ces frais comportent l'hébergement sur la base d'une chambre double, les répas, les visites aux sites, les coursepacks et les frais de déplacement liés aux excursions/visites en Grèce. Les étudiants sont responsables pour leur propre le voyage vers et de Grèce ainsi que pour les coûts de leur assurance médicale et de rapatriement.

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300-level Courses

HIST 300. History of Law and Society.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of practices, ideas, philosophies of law in society, from Antiquity to the 21st century, including western and non-western legal traditions, in relation to property, crime and violence, slavery and liberty, constitutionalism and internationalism, and the environment.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 213 recommended

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HIST 301. U.S. Mass Media.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Surveys the history of American mass media. It covers the rise of various communications technologies and genres within national and transnational contexts and interrogates the relationship between media, politics, culture, identity, and power.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended

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HIST 303. History of Quebec.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Covering Quebec history from New France to contemporary times, this course will include themes like ethnic relations, citizenship, gender and material culture. It is of particular interest to students in Education who foresee teaching about Quebec.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended
  • The ability to read French is helpful but not mandatory

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HIST 317. Themes in Indian Ocean World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examination of a selected theme or topic in the history of the Indian Ocean World.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206, HIST 208, HIST 209 or HIST 218 recommended.

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HIST 311. The Gilded Age and The Progressive Era.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

The social, economic, and political consequences of industrialization in the history of the United States between 1877 and 1914. Emphasis on the rise of mass production, urbanization, immigration, rural protest, the labour movement, social and political reform.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 312. History of Consumption in Canada.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

History of consumption in Canada since 1600 in relation to subsistence and the early market; modern class and gender relationships; conceptions of citizenship.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 324. Indigenous Identities and Nationhood.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course examines themes in Indigenous history with a particular focus on Indigenous identity formation, articulation, and nationhood. It exposes students to an advanced understanding of the ways in which Indigenous peoples have historically identified themselves and activated their sense of nationhood.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 223 or INDG 200 recommended.

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HIST 327. Age of the American Revolution.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Analyzes the origins, contingencies, and outcomes of the American Revolution. Spanning the decades from the 1760s to 1820s, it also seeks to place the Revolution in an Atlantic-wide context and to offer a foundation for studying American institutions.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 331. The United States Between the Wars.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of the United States from the Great War to the end of the 1940s. Social change and conflict, political conservatism, economic prosperity and the culture of consumption during the 1920s; the consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 333. Indigenous Peoples and French.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Encounters between Indigenous Peoples and French newcomers in Canada and other parts of North America, 16th - 18th century. Through an examination of exploration, Catholic missions, trade, military alliances and colonization, the course focuses on the motives, outlooks and actions of both Indigenous Peoples and Europeans.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202, HIST 214, or HIST 223 recommended.

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HIST 334. History of New France.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Social, political, and cultural history of France's ancien régime settlement colonies in North America. Topics include the nature of the absolutist colonial state and French imperialism; society; family; the Church; gender; and religion.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 or HIST 214 recommended.

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HIST 335. Science and Medicine in Canada.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The social and intellectual history of science and medicine in Canada, from early exploration, through the rise of learned societies, universities and professional organizations, to World War II.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 342. Canada and the World.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores the relationships between the societies of Northern North America, including what is now Canada, and the wider world, from c. 1500 to the present. Key themes include migration, diplomacy, empire, colonialism, business, trade, war, international development, and the circulation of culture and ideas. Attention is paid not only to European empires and the Canadian state but also to Indigenous peoples, nongovernmental organizations, migrants, workers, and activists.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 343. Women in Post-Confederation Canada.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course examines women's contribution to the economic and social development of Canada as well as the changes in the image and status of women. Special emphasis will be on the relationship between women's roles in the private sphere and the public domain.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 351. Themes in U.S. History since 1865.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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Description

Aspects of American history from the gilded Age through the Cold War era.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 353. History of Montreal.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of Montreal from its beginnings to the present day. Montreal's economic, social, cultural and political role within the French and British empires, North America, Canada, and Quebec; the city's linguistic and ethnic diversity.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 357. Cultural Diversity in Canada.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Selected topics in cultural diversity, society and the state in 19th, 20th and/or 21st centuries will be explored through discussion of primary and secondary historical sources.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 360. Latin America since 1825.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 210 or HIST 213 recommended

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HIST 361. Topics in Canadian Regional History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in Canadian regional history. Topics will vary by year.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 363. Canada 1870-1914.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 and HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 364. Canada 1914-1945.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

This course will examine Canada and Canadian society between 1914 and 1945. It will focus on the social, political, economic and cultural impact of the two World Wars and the economic crisis of the 1930s. Among the topics will be Canadian external relations, political and social protest, popular culture, demographic changes and prohibition.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 and HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 366. Themes in Latin American History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Exploration of a specific topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 210 or HIST 213 recommended.
  • Note: Topics will vary from year to year.

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HIST 367. Canada since 1945.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Elements of Canada's political, social, economic, and cultural history since World War II. Topics will include constitutional questions, gender and class issues, the role of the state, regionalism, consumer society, the Quiet Revolution, and nationalism in Canada.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 370. Topics: Canadian Political History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores a topic related to the political history of Canada.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.
  • Topics vary from year to year.

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HIST 371. American Civil Rights 1877-1940.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The social, economic, political, and constitutional history of citizenship and civil rights in the United States from the end of Reconstruction through the 1930s. Emphasis on segregation and disfranchisement; immigration restrictions, americanization and national identities; civil rights movements and organizations; women's suffrage; voting rights and representation.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 373. Canadian Labour History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course explores themes in labour and working class history in Canada.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 374. History of Sexuality in Canada.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Sexuality as theory, culture, and historical experience in Canada from early contact period to the present. Chronological and thematic format. Topics include fertility and its control, prostitution and pornography, sexual repression and liberation in medicine and politics, queer theory and economies of pleasure.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 377. The United States, 1940-1965.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Major events in politics and international affairs, culture and society, and the economy in the U.S. during and after World War II. Topics include: The War and American society; the first years of the Cold War; economic prosperity and social change; the civil rights movement; Vietnam to 1965.
  • Prerequisite: any course in U.S. history or consent of instructor

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HIST 392. The United States since 1965.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Major events in politics and international affairs, culture and society, and economy in the U.S. since 1965. Topics include: social and political upheaval 1965 - 1975; Vietnam to 1975; conservative politics; Nixon and Watergate; economic change in the 1970s and 1980s; presidential leadership from Carter on.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 393. Civil War and Reconstruction.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The causes of the American Civil War; the social, economic, political and military forces that shaped the conflict, attempts to restructure race relations, Southern and American societies after the war.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 211 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 397. Canada: Ethnicity, Migration.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Immigration, ethnicity and race in Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics will include the migration process, government policy and legislation, urban and rural migration, acculturation, nativism and multiculturalism.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 203 recommended
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 423

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400-level courses

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HIST 408. Selected Topics in Indigenous History .

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Selected topics in Indigenous history.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 223
  • Topics will vary from year to year.

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HIST 409. Topics in Latin American History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

In-depth discussion and research on a circumscribed topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 210, HIST 309, HIST 360, HIST 366 or permission of instructor.
  • Note: Topics will vary from year to year.

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HIST 419. Central America.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The study of historical roots of the regional crisis of the 1980s, with particular attention to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 309, HIST 360 or permission of instructor

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HIST 431. Topics in U.S. History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Various topics in United States history.
  • Prerequisite: By permission of instructor.

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HIST 434. British North America 1760-1867.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

This course will study the social-cultural and political development of British North American colonies.
  • Prerequisite: An introductory course in history or consent or instructor

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HIST 437. Topics: Issues in Canadian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A discussion-based, advanced intensive study of selected aspects of Canadian history.
  • Prerequisite(s): A 300-level course in Canadian History or permission of instructor.

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500-level courses, single-semester (not honours seminars)

HIST 510. Environmental History of Latin America (Field).

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Human-nature interactions over different scales of time in Latin America (with an emphasis on neo-tropical environments) and the application of the historical perspective to contemporary environmental issues, including historiography and methodology; cultures of environmental knowledge.
  • This course will be offered in Panama as part of the Panama Field Studies Semester. Language of instruction is in English but fluency in Spanish is required for the fieldwork component of the class.
  • Prerequisites: HISP 218 or HISP 210 or equivalent proficiency

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HIST 522. Topics in Canadian History

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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Description

Advanced study of a selected topic in Canadian history.
  • Prerequisite(s): A 300-level course in Canadian history or permission of the instructor.
  • The topic varies from term to term.

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HIST 530. U.S. Foreign Relations.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history and historiography, approaches and interpretations, of American foreign relations from the pre-Revolutionary era to the present.
  • Prerequisite: one course in U.S. history or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Enrolment limit 25.

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500-level courses, full-year honours seminars

HIST 556D1. Seminar: Colonial America.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Readings in and discussion of a theme in the history of Colonial America.
  • Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 556 and HIST 557 with the same topic.
  • 1.Topics will vary by year.
  • 2. Students must register for both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2.
  • 3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 556D2. Seminar: Colonial America.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Readings in and discussion of a theme in the history of Colonial America.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 556D1
  • Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 556 and HIST 557 with the same topic.
  • 1. Topics will vary by year.
  • 2. Students must register for both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2.
  • 3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 556D1 and HIST 556D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 564D1. Seminar: Latin American History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of a selected topic in Latin America history.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 309, HIST 360, HIST 366, HIST 409 or permission of instructor
  • Students must register for both HIST 564D1 and HIST 564D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 564D1 and HIST 564D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 564D2. Seminar: Latin American History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 564D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 564D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 564D1 and HIST 564D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 580D1. European and Native-American Encounters.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

This seminar will examine European and Native encounters throughout the Americas, from the late 15th century to the mid-nineteenth century. The aim is to introduce students to key primary sources related to contact, and to the methods used to interpret them.
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of instructor. Priority is given to Graduate students
  • Students must register for both HIST 580D1 and HIST 580D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 580D1 and HIST 580D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 580D2. European and Native-American Encounters.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

See HIST 580D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 580D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 580D1 and HIST 580D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 586D1. Canada: Diasporas and the State.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores themes in the history of migration and international diasporas, and state and societal responses to immigrants
  • Prerequisite: HIST 203 or permission of instructor
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 471D1/D2.
  • Students must register for both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 586D2. Canada: Diasporas and the State.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores themes in the history of migration and international diasporas, and state and societal responses to immigrants
  • Prerequisite: HIST 203 or permission of instructor
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 471D1/D2.
  • Students must register for both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 587D1. Topics: Canadian Social History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in Canadian social history. Topic varies by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 587D1 and HIST 587D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 587D1 and HIST 587D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 587D2. Topics: Canadian Social History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 587D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 587D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 587D1 and HIST 587D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 588D1. History of Montreal.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A history of Montreal.
  • Students must register for both HIST 588D1 and HIST 588D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 588D1 and HIST 588D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 588D2. History of Montreal.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 588D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 588D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 588D1 and HIST 588D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 589D1. Topics: History of Women in Canada.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A research seminar on the history of women in Canada since Confederation. Students will get familiar with primary sources and are expected to produce a major research paper in the second term.
  • Students must register for both HIST 589D1 and HIST 589D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 589D1 and HIST 589D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 589D2. Topics: History of Women in Canada.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 589D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 589D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 589D1 and HIST 589D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 592D1. Topics: Canadian Politics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An honours seminar on the history of politics in Canada.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or permission of instructor
  • Restrictions: Open to undergraduate honours students and graduate students in history and advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 462D1/D2.
  • Students must register for both HIST 592D1 and HIST 592D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 592D1 and HIST 592D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 592D2. Topics: Canadian Politics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 592D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 592D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 592D1 and HIST 592D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 593D1. French Atlantic Worlds: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The emergence of French Atlantic Worlds from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Regions include West Africa, Brazil, Canada, Acadia and the Caribbean. Themes will include transatlantic commerce and slavery, colonialism, and indigenous peoples, debates over citizenship and the Haitian Revolution.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or HIST 215 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Restricted to graduate students and honours students or advanced students who have permission of instructor.
  • Students must register for both HIST 593D1 and HIST 593D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 593D1 and HIST 593D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 593D2. French Atlantic Worlds: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 593D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 593D1 and HIST 202 or HIST 203 or HIST 215 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Restricted to graduate students and honours students or advanced students who have permission of instructor.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 593D1 and HIST 593D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 596D1. Seminar: Canadian Health History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An exploration of the social history of public health and medical practice in Canada from the early eighteenth century to the advent of universal health care.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 203 or HIST 335 or permission of instructor
  • Restriction: Open only to history honours and graduate students or advanced students who have permission of instructor
  • Topics will vary from year to year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 596D1 and HIST 596D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 596D1 and HIST 596D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 596D2. Seminar: Canadian Health History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 596D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 596D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 596D1 and HIST 596D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 598D1. Topics in Modern U.S. History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in modern U.S. history. Topic varies by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 598D1 and HIST 598D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 598D1 and HIST 598D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 598D2. Topics in Modern U.S. History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 598D1 for course description.

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Europe

First Year Seminars (FYS)

None currently offered


200-level Courses

HIST 205. Ancient Mediterranean History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

An introduction to the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, focusing on Greek and Roman civilization.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 275.

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HIST 214. Early Modern Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Survey of European history from the Late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

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HIST 215. Modern Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Survey of European history from the eighteenth century to the present.

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HIST 226. East Central and Southeastern Europe in 20th Century.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Introductory survey of east central and southeastern European history from the twilight of nineteenth-century imperialism to the most recent expansion of the European Union. Consideration will be given to the two world wars and their consequences; nationalism, fascism, and socialism; and the revolutions of 1989.

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300-level Courses

HIST 306. East Central Europe, 1944-2004.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

An examination of important problems in the postwar history of east central Europe. Topics include: the establishment of Communist regimes; Stalinism and de-Stalinization; everyday life under Communism; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Prague Spring, and Solidarity; political opposition; culture; and the revolutions of 1989.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 226 or HIST 215 recommended

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HIST 307. Jews in Poland.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Analyses of primary sources (in translation) related to the social, economic and institutional history of the Jews in Poland and their place in the East European Jewish community. Topics include: the Jews during "The Flood'' (1648 - 1667), the communal crisis of the late 17th century, the Frankist movement, and Hasidism.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 207, HIST 219, HIST 226, HIST 216, or HIST 215 recommended

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HIST 310. Themes in European History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of a theme in the history of Europe. Topics vary from year to year.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 207, HIST 214, HIST 215, HIST 226, HIST 249, HIST 250, or HIST 219 recommended.

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HIST 313. Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1918.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

History of the central European Habsburg Monarchy from its consolidation in the Thirty Years' War to its demise in the Great War. Topics include: counter-Reformation and the baroque, enlightened absolutism, the partitions of Poland, the revolutions of 1848, the rise of nationalism, and fin-de-siècle society and culture.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 214 or HIST 215 or HIST 226 recommended.

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HIST 314. Themes: British Isles History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of a theme in British Isles history.
  • Topics will vary from year to year.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 214, HIST 215 or HIST 250 recommended.

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HIST 316. History of the Russian Empire.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

History of the Russian empire from its formal proclamation by Peter the Great to its eventual collapse in 1917; the rise of the Romanov dynasty, imperial conquest, and the dynamics of imperial Russian society, and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 214 or HIST 215 or HIST 216 recommended.

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HIST 320. Themes in Intellectual History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Examination of a selected theme or subject in intellectual history and/or the history of ideas.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 202, HIST 203, HIST 205, HIST 206, HIST 207, HIST 209, HIST 210, HIST 211, HIST 212, HIST 213, HIST 214, HIST 215, HIST 216, HIST 219, HIST 221, HIST 223, HIST 226, HIST 238, HIST 240, HIST 249, HIST 250, HIST 262, or HIST 275 recommended.

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HIST 325. Renaissance-Reformation Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of Western Europe from the late 14th to the end of the 16th century. Topics will include the Renaissance, in and outside Italy, the Reformations, the religious wars of the 16th century and the Scientific Revolution.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 214 or HIST 212 recommended.

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HIST 326. History of the Soviet Union.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991, examining its origins in the collapse of autocracy, early Soviet utopianism, the rise of Stalin, the Second World War, Khrushchev’s reforms, the Cold War and the decline and eventual collapse of the USSR, as well as its legacies in the post-Soviet period.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 213 or HIST 215 or HIST 216 or HIST 226 or HIST 316 recommended.

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HIST 329. History of Yugoslavia.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Origins of the Yugoslav idea in 19th-century national movements; the rise and fall of the interwar Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes; occupation, ethnic cleansing, and partisan warfare during WWII; the evolution of Titoist rule and the interplay between Communism and nationalism; and the violent fragmentation of Yugoslavia after 1989.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 215, HIST 226, HIST 262, or HIST 198 recommended.

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HIST 332. Women in Europe, 1350-1700.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to concepts of women and the realities of women's lives in western Europe from the Black Death to ca. 1700. Topics will include marriage and the family, female education and literacy, varieties of spirituality and the emergence of a proto-feminism during the Renaissance.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 214 or HIST 212 recommended.

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HIST 336. France, 1789 to 1914.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

A study of the history of France from the Revolution to World War I.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 214 or HIST 215 recommended.

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HIST 345. History of Italian Renaissance.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 212 or HIST 214 recommended.

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HIST 346. France, 1914 to the Present.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of the history of France from World War I to the present.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 214 or HIST 215 recommended.

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HIST 349. Greece: From Ottoman to the European Union.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the emergence of a modern nation state in the Balkans out of the Ottoman empire and its evolution until its present status as a member state of the European Union. A story of Greece and Greeks within the broader regional and global context.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 214, HIST 215, HIST 226 or HIST 262 recommended.
  • 2-3 film screenings held in a continuous 3-hour slot.
  • Screenings will replace lecture hours the week of screenings.

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HIST 354. Women in Europe 1700-2000.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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An overview of the history of women in modern continental Europe, focusing on women's changing roles in the family and society at large, in the context of work, family life, education, and culture, and the changing notions of citizenship, femininity, and masculinity.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 214, HIST 215 or HIST 226 recommended.

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HIST 356. Medicine in the Medieval West.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of ideas about the human body, disease and therapeutics and the diverse practices of medicine in western Europe in the Middle Ages (ca. AD 300-1500), with particular attention to their social, intellectual, cultural and religious context.
  • Winter
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 212, HIST 214 or HIST 249 recommended.

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HIST 362. Byzantine History and Historiography.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the political, social, cultural, and economic aspects of the 1000-year story of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine empire, as well as its posterity.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 205, HIST 212 or HIST 275 recommended.

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HIST 368. Greek History: Classical Period.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The Classical period of Greek history, from the end of the Persian wars to the death of Alexandra the Great (479-323 BC).
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 205, CLAS 201 or CLAS 203 recommended.

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HIST 369. Greek History: Early Greece.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Historical study of the period from the Mycenean Age to the end of the Archaic Age.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 205, CLAS 201 or CLAS 203 recommended.

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HIST 375. Rome: Republic to Empire.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Roman history from the Gracchi to the death of the emperor Nero, 133 BCE to 68 CE. The collapse of the Roman republic, the reorganization of the Roman state under Augustus, and the Roman empire and society under the early emperors.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 205, HIST 275, HIST 207 or CLAS 201 recommended.

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HIST 376. Fall of the Roman Empire.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Transformation of the Roman world, 1st-7th CE. Considers various perspectives and narratives of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire based on historical and material evidence.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 205, HIST 275, HIST 212 or CLAS 201 recommended.

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HIST 380. The Medieval Mediterranean .

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 212, HIST 214 or permission of instructor

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HIST 383. Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Cultural, intellectual, political, economic and social history of Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth century; the era of the creation of the United Kingdom and the rise of a great commercial and imperial power.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor.

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HIST 384. Nineteenth-Century Britain.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Cultural, intellectual, political, economic and social history of Britain and Ireland in an era of unprecedented economic and cultural change as the United Kingdom became the world's first industrial nation and leading imperial power.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor

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HIST 386. Twentieth-Century Britain.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

From a range of perspectives, including cultural, intellectual, political, economic and social history, this course examines Britain from the height of its power, through two world wars, the building of a welfare state, the dissolution of Empire and entry into Europe, to the start of the 21st century. consensus, decolonisation, immigration, culture and society, Northern Ireland, Scottish and Welsh nationalism, Thatcherism, the European Union.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor

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HIST 390. Eighteenth-Century France.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The political, social, and cultural history of France, from the accession of Louis XV (1715) to the rise of Napoleon (1799), including the French Revolution.
  • A reading knowledge of French is highly recommended.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 214 or HIST 215 or HIST 225 or permission of Instructor

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HIST 391. Rise of Rome.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Rome's rise from city-state to world power, 338 - 133 BCE, the nature Roman conquest, and the impact of empire on Roman society.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 205, HIST 275, HIST 207 or CLAS 201 recommended.

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HIST 394. British Revolutions 1567-1660 .

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

English, Scottish and Irish history during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with a particular focus on the origins and consequences of the regicides of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587 and King Charles I in 1649.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 214 or HIST 250 recommended.

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HIST 398. Topics in Italian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in Italian history. Topic varies by year.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 214 or HIST 212 recommended.

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400-level courses

HIST 401. Topics: Medieval Culture and Society.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Selected topics in the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle Ages. Emphasis on modern critical approaches to medieval culture, including literature, the supernatural, religious experience.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 214 or HIST 380 or consent of instructor

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HIST 405. Topics in Intellectual History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

In depth analysis of a selected subject or topic in intellectual history and/or the history of ideas.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 320 or permission of the instructor.

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HIST 406. Topics: Russian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examination of a selected topic in Russian history from the reign of Peter the Great to the present time.
  • Prerequisite: A prior course in Russian or European history

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HIST 407. Topics in Ancient History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An in-depth look at various topics in ancient history.
  • Prerequisite: 3 credits in Ancient history at the 300-level or permission of instructor.

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HIST 412. Women and Gender in Modern Britain.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Women and gender in modern Britain (1850 on). Topics include early feminist political agitation, including the suffrage movement; working-class women; changing notions of gender, sexuality and women's role; women and empire.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 215 or a course in British history or permission of instructor

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HIST 417. British and Irish Nationalisms.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English nationalisms in the British context from 1688 to the present.
  • Prerequisite: A course in modern British history or permission of instructor.

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HIST 421. Topics in Early Modern Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Varying subjects of topical interest regarding early-modern Europe.
  • Prerequisite: a course in Early Modern Europe

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HIST 425. Global Food History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A history of food and drink in global history. Topics include: feasts and famines; the exchange of foodstuffs and drinking habits between cultures, especially the early modern 'Columbian exchange'; the history of civilizing processes (e.g, table manners); the origins of the restaurant and the making of modern food systems.
  • Prerequisite: one course in History or permission of instructor.

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HIST 426. Topics: British Cultural History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Selected topics in intellectual and cultural history of Britain and Ireland, focusing on discussion of primary texts.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 215 or a course in British history or permission of instructor

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HIST 428. Topics: History of the Book.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

The theory and the practice of using books, manuscripts, periodicals as well as other communicative media. Topics may include literacy and orality; the print revolution; censorship; readers and reading practices; newspapers and journalism; the origins of scientific persuasion and intellectual property rights.
  • Prerequisite: A 300-level course in history or permission of instructor.

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HIST 433. British Queer History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

An investigation of the changing historical construction of "deviant" and "normal" sexualities in Britain since 1700, and how queer women and men discovered ways of surviving and perhaps even flourishing in the face of persecution and hostility from the state, the churches and the medical profession.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 215 or a course in British History or permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 426 in 200209.

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HIST 436. Topics: European History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An in-depth look at particular aspects of European history.
  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

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HIST 450. Ancient History Methods.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Different methods and strategies employed by Ancient historians, including numismatics, epigraphy, and papyrology.
  • Prerequisite: 3 credits at the 300-level in Ancient history or permission of the instructor.

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HIST 453. History of Revolution in Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

The evolution of the concept and phenomenon of revolution from the 1640s in England to 1989 in eastern Europe. How the experiences of 1789, 1848, and 1917 changed the theory and practice of revolution.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 215 or permission of instructor

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HIST 468. Europe Since 1989.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Though the European continent has changed beyond recognition since 1989, historians are only just beginning to turn their attention to this most contemporary of European epochs. This course therefore provides students an opportunity to conduct ground-breaking research, informed by readings and seminar discussions on such topics as Thatcherism, the round tables and revolutions of 1989, war and genocide in Yugoslavia, European integration, the fall and rise of Russia, technological change, and related transformations of society and culture. The course provides training in methods appropriate for research on contemporary history, and though it does not neglect great powers, it is well suited to students interested in Europe’s small countries.
  • Prerequisite(s): A 300-level course in European history or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken HIST 436 in Winter 2012 or Winter 2014.

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HIST 472. History of European Education.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

A history of school and schooling within the European context since the invention of print. Topics include: passage from private to public practices; modern statehood and education; school and social mobility; school and the civilizing mission; student mobility; universities and the specialization of academic disciplines; Europe and the globalization of the educational field.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 215 or permission of instructor.

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500-level courses, single-semester (not honours seminars)

HIST 503. Topics in Modern European History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced topics in modern European history. Topics will vary by year. The course has a substantial research component.
  • Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students: HIST 215 or permission of instructor; MA students: a prior course in the history of modern Europe pertinent to the subject of the course or permission of the instructor.

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HIST 505. Topics: The British Empire.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in the history of British formal and informal imperialism and the colonial encounter from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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HIST 507. Topics in Early Modern History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Readings and research on a selected topic in early modern history.

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HIST 509. European Intellectual History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Study of selected topics in European intellectual and/or cultural history.

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500-level courses, full-year honours seminars

HIST 550D1. Ancient History: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in ancient Mediterranean history, focusing on Greek and/or Roman society.
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): 6 credits at the 300 or 400 level in Ancient history or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Honours students or advanced undergraduates who have permission of the instructor. Also open to graduate students.
  • Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 551.
  • Students must register for both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2.
  • No credit wil be given for this course unless both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 550D2. Ancient History: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in ancient Mediterranean history, focusing on Greek and/or Roman society.
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): 6 credits at the 300 or 400 level in Ancient history or permission of instructor. HIST 550D1.
  • Restriction: Honours students or advanced undergraduates who have permission of the instructor. Also open to graduate students.
  • Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 551.
  • Students must register for both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2.
  • No credit wil be given for this course unless both HIST 550D1 and HIST 550D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 565D1. Modern Britain: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Readings in and discussion of a theme in Modern British history.
  • Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
  • Restrictions: Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 566.
  • Students must register for both HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 together are equivalent to HIST 565

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HIST 565D2. Modern Britain: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Readings in and discussion of a theme in Modern British history.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 565D1
  • Restrictions :Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 566.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • HIST 565D1 and HIST 565D2 together are equivalent to HIST 565

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HIST 567D1. Seminar: Medieval Medicine.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Models of the body, disease and medical intervention current in western Europe between 400 and 1500 AD will be examined through analysis of primary sources in translation, and modern historical scholarship.
  • Students must register for both HIST 567D1 and HIST 567D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 567D1 and HIST 567D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 567D2. Seminar: Medieval Medicine.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Models of the body, disease and medical intervention current in western Europe between 400 and 1500 AD will be examined through analysis of primary sources in translation, and modern historical scholarship. The sequel to this course is HIST 496.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 567D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 567D1 and HIST 567D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 569D1. Topics: Modern French History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of select topics in modern French history and European intellectual history as it relates to France.
  • Students must register for both HIST 569D1 and HIST 569D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 569D1 and HIST 569D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 569D2. Topics: Modern French History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 488D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 569D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 569D1 and HIST 569D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 571D1. Seminar: Italian Renaissance.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Seminar on the Italian renaissance.
  • Students must register for both HIST 571D1 and HIST 571D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 571D1 and HIST 571D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 571D2. Seminar: Italian Renaissance.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 571D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 571D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 571D1 and HIST 571D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 573D1. Seminar on Central Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A research seminar on selected topics in the history of central Europe, defined as the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, and their successor states. Topics vary by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 573D1 and HIST 573D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 573D1 and HIST 573D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 573D2. Seminar on Central Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 573D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 573D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 573D1 and HIST 573D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 575D1. Topics: Germany.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of topics on Germany. Topic vary by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 575D1 and HIST 575D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 575D1 and HIST 575D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 575D2. Topics: Germany.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 575D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 575D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 575D1 and HIST 575D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 576D1. Seminar: Topics in Russian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Topics in Russian history. Topic varies by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 576D1 and HIST 576D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 576D1 and HIST 576D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 576D2. Seminar: Topics in Russian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

See HIST 576D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 576D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 576D1 and HIST 576D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 577D1. Seminar: Antiquity to Reformation.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Seminar on topics from Antiquity to Reformation.
  • Students must register for both HIST 577D1 and HIST 577D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 577D1 and HIST 577D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 577D2. Seminar: Antiquity to Reformation.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 577D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 577D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 577D1 and HIST 577D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 594D1. Seminar in Early Modern Britain.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in early modern British history.
  • Prerequisite: any university course in British history or consent of instructor
  • Note: Topics will vary from year to year.
  • Restriction: Undergraduate Honours students or Masters students in history.
  • Students must register for both HIST 594D1 and HIST 594D2.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 594D1 and HIST 594D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 594D2. Seminar in Early Modern Britain.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 594D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 594D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 594D1 and HIST 594D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 597D1. Seminar: Modern Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploring aspects of modern European history.
  • Topics will vary from year to year.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 215 or HIST 226 or permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Open only to history honours students and graduate students or advanced students with the permission of instructor.
  • Students must register for both HIST 597D1 and HIST 597D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 597D1 and HIST 597D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 597D2. Seminar: Modern Europe.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploring aspects of modern European history.
  • Topics will vary from year to year.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 215 or HIST 226 or permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Open only to history honours students and graduate students or advanced students with the permission of instructor.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 597D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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Africa/Asia/Middle East

First Year Seminars (FYS)

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200-level Courses

HIST 200. Introduction to African History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.

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HIST 201. Modern African History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.

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HIST 206. Indian Ocean World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

An introduction to the “global” system connecting eastern Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East, from the earliest times to c. 1900.

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HIST 208. Introduction to East Asian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.

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HIST 218. Modern East Asian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
  • Winter

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HIST 240. Modern History of Islamic Movements.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.

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300-level Courses

HIST 300. History of Law and Society.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of practices, ideas, philosophies of law in society, from Antiquity to the 21st century, including western and non-western legal traditions, in relation to property, crime and violence, slavery and liberty, constitutionalism and internationalism, and the environment.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 213 recommended

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HIST 308. Formation of Chinese Tradition.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended

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HIST 317. Themes in Indian Ocean World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examination of a selected theme or topic in the history of the Indian Ocean World.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206, HIST 208, HIST 209 or HIST 218 recommended.

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HIST 328. Themes in Modern Chinese History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of a theme in Modern Chinese history.
  • Prerequisite: HIST218 is recommended.
  • Topic may vary from year to year.

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HIST 338. Twentieth-Century China.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 218 recommended.

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HIST 340. History of Modern Egypt.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 201, HIST 240 or ISLA 210 recommended.

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HIST 341. Themes in South Asian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 209 recommended.
  • Themes may vary from year to year.

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HIST 344. The Chinese Family in History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 208, HIST 218 or EAST 211 recommended.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 390.

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HIST 358. China's Middle Empires.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended.

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HIST 365. China's Early Empires.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Considers China's early imperial period, from ca. 300 BCE to ca. 100 CE, including changing political, social, and economic institutions, court and intellectual life, population management, foreign relations, urban transformations, and textual and material culture. Introduction to the major historiographical sources covering the period, and to newly excavated texts, artifacts, and sites.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 208 recommended.

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HIST 381. Colonial Africa.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An overview of the history of foreign intervention and anticolonial resistance in 19th and 20th century Africa. Topics include: theories of colonialism, the scramble for Africa, colonialism and disease, indirect rule, labour, nationalism and resistance, and changing gender roles.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206 or AFRI 200 recommended.

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HIST 382. History of South Africa.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206 or AFRI 200 recommended.

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HIST 389. Topics: African Country Survey.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

In depth survey of a single African country (other than South Africa), including the pre-colonial history of the region, colonialism, and post-colonial economic, cultural and political history.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206 or AFRI 200 recommended.
  • Country will vary from year to year.

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400-level courses

HIST 404. The History of Confucius.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Confucius is inseparable from the idea of China or even East Asia. This course will unpack the manifold legacies of Confucius and his classics in pre-imperial, imperial, and modern China.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 208 or HIST 218 or EAST 211 or permission of the instructor
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EAST 490.

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HIST 411. Topics in African History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

In depth examination of a specific topic or individual in African or African diasporic history.
  • Prerequisite: A previous course in African history or permission of instructor.

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HIST 420. Gender and Sexuality in Modern China.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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The history of gender and sexuality in modern China. Topics include Chinese femininities and Chinese masculinities, theories of sexuality, and changing conceptions of gender identity under Confucianism, Western Imperialism, and socialism.
  • Prerequisite: A 300-level course in the History of China or Gender/Sexuality or permission of instructor.

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HIST 435. Topics in South Asian History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

In-depth discussion and research on a topic in the history of South Asia.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 310 or HIST 341 or permission of instructor.

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HIST 439. History of Women in China.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
  • Prerequisite: a previous course in Chinese history

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HIST 441. Topics: Culture and Ritual in China.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 208 and HIST 218 and permission of instructor

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HIST 443. Topics: Modern Japan.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.

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HIST 445. Late Imperial China.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 208 or HIST 218

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HIST 478. Pre-modern Chinese Law and Society.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of Chinese law and society from early pre-imperial to late imperial times. Themes include the philosophical basis of Chinese law; development of different forms of legislation; practice of pre-modern law; law and social and political change; military law; legal cases translated from primary sources.
  • Prerequisite: Any 300-level course in Chinese history or permission of the instructor.

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HIST 480. Democracy and Society in India.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A specialized in-depth historical survey of issues and problems in the transformation of India towards democracy in the post-colonial era.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 341 or permission of instructor.

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HIST 481. History of Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines social and political histories of Pakistan and Bangladesh from 1947 to present with attention to the roles of Islam, ethnicity and nationalism.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 341 or permission of instructor.

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500-level courses, single-semester (not honours seminars)

HIST 508. The Art of War in China.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.

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HIST 512. Topics in Chinese History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of a theme in Chinese history
  • Open to upper-level undergraduate students and Masters students
  • Prerequisite: A 300- or 400-level course in Chinese history or permission of instructor.

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HIST 527. Topics: Indian Ocean World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course studies pivotal topics in Indian Ocean World (IOW) history. Topics may include (i) the rise and development of the IOW global economy; (ii) The Swahili Civilisation and the IOW; (iii) Islam and the IOW; (iv) Imperialism in the IOW; (v) IOW Slavery and Slave Trades; (vi) History of Madagascar.
  • Prerequisite: Any 200 or 300 level history course or any course on Africa, Asia, global or labour studies or permission of instructor

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HIST 528. Indian Ocean World Slave Trade.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 200 or HIST 213 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 467.

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500-level courses, full-year honours seminars

HIST 568D1. Topics in Chinese History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
  • Students must register for both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 568D2. Topics in Chinese History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 568D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 568D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 568D1 and HIST 568D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 578D1. Seminar in Japanese History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
  • Students must register for both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 578D2. Seminar in Japanese History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 578D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 578D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 578D1 and HIST 578D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 579D1. Seminar: African History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Readings in and discussion of a theme in African history.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 200 or HIST 201 or HIST 382 or permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 486D1/D2.
  • 1. Topics will vary by year.
  • 2. Students must register for both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2.
  • 3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 579D2. Seminar: African History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

See HIST 579D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 579D1.
  • Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 486D1/D2.
  • 1. Topics will vary by year.
  • 2. Students must register for both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2.
  • 3. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 579D1 and HIST 579D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.

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HIST 591D1. Modern Middle East History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in the history of the modern Middle East.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 240 or HIST 339 or HIST 340 or HIST 448 or permission of instructor.
  • Students must register for both HIST 591D1 and HIST 591D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 591D1 and HIST 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
  • Restriction(s): Open only to history honours and graduate students or advanced students who have permission of instructor.

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HIST 591D2. Modern Middle East History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in the history of the modern Middle East.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 240 or HIST 339 or HIST 340 or HIST 448 or permission of instructor.
  • Students must register for both HIST 591D1 and HIST 591D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 591D1 and HIST 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
  • Restriction(s): Open only to history honours and graduate students or advanced students who have permission of instructor.

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Global/Thematic

First Year Seminars (FYS)

HIST 194. FYS: Jewish Concepts of Others.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A survey, using translated primary and selected secondary sources, of the ways in which Jews represented Christians from late antiquity to the present. Legal, liturgical, literary and other sources are examined with the focus on the Medieval and Early Modern periods.
  • Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
  • Maximum 25 students.
  • For first year students only.

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HIST 195. FYS: Sources of World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to the constitutive intellectual traditions of world history.
  • Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
  • Maximum 25 students
  • Restriction: For first year students only

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HIST 198. FYS: Nation Building and Nationalism.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to some of the major theories of nationalism; an exploration of the many varieties of nationalism and forms of nation-building; a particular focus on the historical background to case studies of current interest.
  • Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
  • Maximum 25 students

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200-level Courses

HIST 207. Jewish History: 400 B.C.E. to 1000.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216

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HIST 213. World History, 600-2000.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed.

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HIST 219. Jewish History: 1000 - 2000.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.

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HIST 238. Histories of Science.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An introduction to the history of science, with attention to conceptual development and to institutional and social settings. Coverage will vary by instructor, but will include a range of periods (from antiquity to the 20th century), geographical settings, and themes (e.g. instrumentation; visualisation; experiment; science and society).
  • Coverage will vary by instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 239 or HIST 335.

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HIST 249. Health and the Healer in Western History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture.
  • Note: Also available to first-year medical students in their options program.

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HIST 292. History and the Environment.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Sketch of the history of the material aspects of human interaction with the rest of nature. Included will be a historian's view of the social, technical, and ecological implications of the great variety of activities devised by our species. Though global in outlook, this course will emphasize the relevant historiography of France, England and North America.

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300-level Courses

HIST 302. International Relations History 1: 1750-1950.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of international relations during the era of the four global wars, the expansion of the West in world affairs, the changes in the balance of power in Europe, the rise and fall of the colonial empires, and the ascendancy of the flank powers, Russia and the United States.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 203, HIST 215, HIST 216, HIST 218, HIST 221 or HIST 226 recommended

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HIST 304. International Relations History 2: Cold War.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

The history of the Cold War. Special attention will be paid to the different viewpoints and experiences of the Cold War participants by studying the historiography and archival materials released in the Eastern Block and Western World.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 203, HIST 215, HIST 216, HIST 218, HIST 221 or HIST 226 recommended

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HIST 315. Themes in World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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Description

Historical phenomena that transcend the boundaries of nation-status and contributed to the long-term development of globalization.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 213 recommended.

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HIST 317. Themes in Indian Ocean World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examination of a selected theme or topic in the history of the Indian Ocean World.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206, HIST 208, HIST 209 or HIST 218 recommended.

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HIST 319. The Scientific Revolution.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The intellectual and cultural history of science and technology, in Europe and in the wider world, from the time of Leonardo to the time of Newton (c. 1500-c.1700).
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 212, HIST 214, HIST 215, HIST 216, HIST 226, HIST 238, HIST 249 or HIST 250 recommended.

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HIST 323. History and Sexuality 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. The cultural meanings and social institutions that create the historical context for sexual behaviours. Possible topics include: Greek homosocial and homosexual culture; sex and citizenship; wives and concubines in the ancient world; Christianity and aestheticism; misogyny and gender in Medieval Europe; adultery and lineage.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 205, HIST 212, HIST 214, HIST 249, HIST 275 or HIST 250 recommended.

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HIST 342. Canada and the World.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores the relationships between the societies of Northern North America, including what is now Canada, and the wider world, from c. 1500 to the present. Key themes include migration, diplomacy, empire, colonialism, business, trade, war, international development, and the circulation of culture and ideas. Attention is paid not only to European empires and the Canadian state but also to Indigenous peoples, nongovernmental organizations, migrants, workers, and activists.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 202 or HIST 203 recommended.

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HIST 347. History and Sexuality 2.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

1700 to the present, with a particular focus on Europe and North America. Possible topics include: patterns of fertility and sexual practice; prostitution; religion and sexuality; the medical and legal construction of sexualities; the rise of sexology; gay liberation movements; queer politics.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 211, HIST 215 or HIST 221 recommended.

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HIST 350. Science and the Enlightenment.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores the relationship between the natural sciences and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Examination of works in post-Newtonian science as well as their broader cultural meaning, the history of material practices, the origins of social science, and the role of geography and international context beyond Western Europe.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 214, HIST 215 or HIST 238 recommended.

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HIST 387. The First World War.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

A world-wide political, social, economic, cultural and military survey, from the origins of the Great War to the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 203, HIST 215, HIST 216, HIST 221 or HIST 226 recommended.

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HIST 388. The Second World War.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A world-wide political, social, economic, cultural and military survey, from the Treaty of Versailles to the first years of the Cold War.
  • Prerequisite(s): HIST 203 , HIST 215, HIST 216, HIST 221 or HIST 226 recommended.

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HIST 399. History and Historiography.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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Description

The nature and functions of history; changing conceptions of time and of the past; approaches to historical evidence; methods of reconstructing the past; how the discipline of history has changed over time.
  • Prerequisite: 6 credits of History
  • Restrictions: History Honours or Joint Honours Program students only, unless permission of instructor.

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400-level courses

HIST 400. Ancient Greece, Rome and China.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A comparative analysis of the political cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and China, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE, exploring societal distinctions through topics such as the role of historical traditions, power configurations, public oratory, elite representation, funerary rites and political spaces.
  • Prerequisite: ARLE 101 or HIST 205 or HIST 208 or permission of instructor

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HIST 408. Selected Topics in Indigenous History .

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Selected topics in Indigenous history.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 223
  • Topics will vary from year to year.

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HIST 410. Topics in History of Science.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Specific theme in the history of science, such as scientific instruments, experimental practices, uses of the body, knowledge and museums, scientific institutions, or science and empire.
  • Prerequisite: A prior course on history of science or HPSC 300 or permission of Instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to U0 or U1 students
  • Themes (and/or periods) vary year to year.

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HIST 418. Topics: Atlantic World.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Exploration of a specific theme in Atlantic history, 1500 to 1850.
  • Prerequisites: any two of the following: HIST 200, HIST 202, HIST 211, HIST 214, HIST 309 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Enrolment limit 25.

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HIST 423. Topics: Migration and Ethnicity.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The study of various topics and themes in the area of migration, ethnicity and race in Canada. Topics vary from year to year.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 397 or permission of instructor

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HIST 424. Gender, Sexuality and Medicine.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Gender, sexuality, and medicine since the colonial era, with a focus on North American experience. Topics will include reproductive medicine (puberty, childbirth, fertility control, menopause), changing perceptions of men's and women's health needs and risks, and ideas about sexual behaviour and identity.
  • Prerequisite: A 300-level History course in gender, sexuality or medicine or permission of instructor.

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HIST 427. The Hasidic Movement.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 307 or a course in East-European history or consent of instructor

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HIST 429. Topics: Gender/Feminist Histories.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of gender, feminism, and sexuality.
  • Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in History or permission of instructor.

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HIST 430. Topics in Modern Medicine.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Selected topics in the history of medicine in the 19th, 20th and/or 21st centuries will be explored through discussion of primary and secondary historical sources.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 249 (or HIST 349 prior to Winter 2006) or permission of the instructor.

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HIST 438. Topics in Cold War History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

One large aspect of Cold War, either thematic or regional, will be explored.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 304 or other 300-level course relevant to the current topic of the course or permission on the instructor.

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HIST 440. Fiction and History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course examines why and how books are classified as fiction or history. Topics include: social expectations and uses of literature; evidence and verification; the author as authority. Readings include history and fiction from various historical periods, and relevant scholarship.
  • Prerequisite: 6 credits at the 300 level in either history or literature

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HIST 442. Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
  • Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor

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HIST 449. Medicine in the Ancient World.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The evolution of ideas about the human body, disease, and therapeutics, and the diverse practices of medicine in Graeco-Roman antiquity (ca 800BC - ca 600CE), with particular attention given to their social, political, cultural and religious context.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 349 or an introductory course in Ancient Greek or Roman history
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 452 and HIST 453

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HIST 452. Topics in Pre-Modern Medicine.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The history of the evolution of ideas about the human body, disease and therapeutics and the diverse practices of medicine prior to the advent of modern clinical and laboratory medicine in the 19th c., with particular attention to social, political, cultural and religious context.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 214 or HIST 249 and a 300-level course in History or permission of instructor.
  • Priority is given to students registered in the Minor Concentration in Social Studies of Medicine

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HIST 454. Marxist Theory .

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Themes in Marxist theory and historiography, from the mid-19th century to the present moment. Topics will include the global intellectual history of Marxism in political and economic thought, diverse Marxisms around the world, contemporary developments in Marxist theory, historical analysis and historiography.
  • Prerequisite: A 200-level history course or permission of instructor.

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HIST 457. Topics in Medical History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course explores different topics in medical history. Topics to be explored include the role of medicine from ancient to modern times.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 349 or HIST 356 or permission of instructor

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500-level courses, single-semester (not honours seminars)

HIST 505. Topics: The British Empire.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in the history of British formal and informal imperialism and the colonial encounter from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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HIST 506. Theory for Historical Studies.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Approaches to the interpretation and understanding of historical evidence which are outside the traditional historical discipline - reading of central texts in, for example, psychoanalytic theory, gender theory, or literary criticism and exercises in the use of these theories for historical research.

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HIST 525. Women, Work and Family in Global History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The shifting historical context of female labour and family in selected western and non-western countries; the interaction between labour and gender relations with special focus on women's experiences on the shop floor and in the family.
  • Prerequisite: A 300 or 400-level course in women's history or labour history or permission of instructor
  • Restriction: Restricted to students in History and Women's Studies

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HIST 526. Women and War.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the impact of war on individuals, families and societies. Studies the experiences of women and children in exile, mass persecutions, and punishments associated with social unrest, revolution or wars during twentieth century.
  • Prerequisite(s): A 300 or 400-levelcourse in women's history or permission of instructor

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HIST 527. Topics: Indian Ocean World History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

This course studies pivotal topics in Indian Ocean World (IOW) history. Topics may include (i) the rise and development of the IOW global economy; (ii) The Swahili Civilisation and the IOW; (iii) Islam and the IOW; (iv) Imperialism in the IOW; (v) IOW Slavery and Slave Trades; (vi) History of Madagascar.
  • Prerequisite: Any 200 or 300 level history course or any course on Africa, Asia, global or labour studies or permission of instructor

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HIST 528. Indian Ocean World Slave Trade.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system.
  • Prerequisites: HIST 200 or HIST 213 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 467.

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500-level courses, full-year honours seminars

HIST 552D1. International Relations: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Readings on and discussion of a theme in the history of international relations.
  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 553.
  • Students must register for both HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D1 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D1 together are equivalent to HIST 552

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HIST 552D2. International Relations Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Readings on and discussion of a theme in the history of international relations.
  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and HIST 552D1
  • Restriction: Restricted to Graduate students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 553.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • HIST 552D1 and HIST 552D2 together are equivalent to HIST 552

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HIST 558. Modern Medicine: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The emergence of scientific medicine, medical professionalization, the development of public health and the process of medical specialization since 1700.

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HIST 559. Modern Medicine: Research.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Supervised design, research, writing, and discussion of a major research paper on a theme in the history of modern medicine since 1700.

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HIST 560D1. World History: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description

Readings on and discussion of a theme in world history.
  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 561.
  • Students must register for both HIST 560D1 and HIST 560D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 560D1 and HIST 560D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • 560D1 and HIST 560D2 together are equivalent to HIST 560

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HIST 560D2. World History: Seminar.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description

Readings on and discussion of a theme in world history.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 560D1
  • Restrictions: Restricted to Graduate Students and Honours students or advanced students with permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken HIST 561.
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 560D1 and HIST 560D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
  • 560D1 and HIST 560D2 together are equivalent to HIST 560

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HIST 570D1. Topics: Historical Interpretation.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in historical interpretation. Topic varies by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 570D2. Topics: Historical Interpretation.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 570D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 570D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 570D1 and HIST 570D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 572D1. Seminar in Jewish History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Seminar in Jewish history. Topic varies by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 572D1 and HIST 572D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 572D1 and HIST 572D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 572D2. Seminar in Jewish History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Seminar in Jewish history. Topic varies by year.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 572D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 572D1 and HIST 572D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 574D1. Topics in Comparative History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Topics in comparative history. Topic varies by year.
  • Students must register for both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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HIST 574D2. Topics in Comparative History.

Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

See HIST 574D1 for course description.
  • Prerequisite: HIST 574D1
  • No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 574D1 and HIST 574D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

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