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HIST
HISTORY
Note: See Page H.1 for abbreviations, course numbers and coding.
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
HIST 1001
Past into Present (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
History starts here, with the news and public debates of today. This general interest course examines how our
understanding of the world we live in is shaped by our knowledge of history. The course is divided into two or three
modules (depending on available instructors), which will vary from year to year, and will range in focus from world
crises to popular culture.
HIST 1002
The World since 1945 (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course examines major themes in global history since the end of the Second World War. Topics
to be examined include the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War; the emergence of new nations in Africa and
Asia; comparative social change; cultural revolutions and the status of women; and recent responses to globalization
and armed conflict.
HIST 1004
War in the Modern World
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course analyzes the history of a current conflict by exploring the domestic and international
contexts and options for ending the conflict. Combines lectures, discussion and simulations, to examine the role of
allies, armies, paramilitaries, agents provocateurs, multinational corporations, non-government organizations and the
United Nations.
HIST 1007
History of the Body (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interst course examines how the body has been imagined, experienced, controlled, and understood, both
historically and today, by art, medicine, technology, religion, science and popular culture. Considers the sexualized
and pregnant body, the sinful and diseased body, the aesthetic and the medicalized body, and the body as machine
from Galen and Descartes to the age of the computer, the cyborg and the gene.
HIST 1008
Religion, Magic and Witchcraft in the Medieval World (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course introduces students to the complex and fascinating realm of religious and scientific beliefs
and magical practices maintained by people living during the high and late Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East,
from about 1200 AD to 1600 AD. Considerable attention will be paid to the development of the Inquisition against
heresy, the growing fear over supposed diabolical conspiracies and the development of the diabolical witch stereotype
in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
HIST 1009
Epidemic Disease from the Middle Ages to the Present (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course explores the changing perceptions of epidemic disease from the fourteenth century
through to the present day. By focusing on infectious illnesses such as plague, smallpox, cholera, and influenza, this
course considers the various socio-cultural, medical, and governmental responses to epidemics throughout this
lengthy period of history. Particular attention will be given to both change and continuity over time, posing (and
seeking answers to) questions such as: how have responses to epidemic disease changed over time? how have they
remained the same?
HIST 1015
World History (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course provides an introduction to some of the major events, persons, and ideas which have
shaped the history of the world. Special attention is given to the role of science, technology, fine art, and other nonpolitical topics. Designed for undergraduates in all faculties. Restriction: not open to students who have taken HIST
2015 .
HIST 1133
Rome: The Eternal City (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course provides an introduction to the history of Rome from the Baroque period to the modern
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age. Normally taught on location. May not be taken by students who have taken HIST 2133 or HIST 3133 .
HIST 1305
Prohibition and Rum-running in Canada, 1827-1948
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course introduces the historical method while exploring the controversial theme of prohibition.
Examines both protagonists in the struggle: prohibitionists, whose ideology was rooted in evangelical religion and an
early strain of feminism, and the "Rummies" who fought to preserve a recreational drinking culture and the economic
opportunities that it made possible.
HIST 1315
Canadian History on Film
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course introduces the challenges of studying history on film by exmaining selected themes in
Canadian history and their representation in documentary and dramatic films.
HIST 1325
Canada since 1945 (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course addresses the major issues of contemporary Canadian history including post-war
reconstruction, the emergence of the welfare state, the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, Canadian external relations,
immigration policy, regional disparity, political leadership, and national identity. Restriction: Not open to students who
have taken HIST 2325 .
HIST 1715
Looking at the Past
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course is designed to acquaint students with the use of visual sources as historical evidence.
Studies a broad range of visual culture, from paintings to advertisements to television, according to their historical
meanings. Considers how historical images accrue meaning for the contemporary. Restriction: Not open to students
who have taken HIST 2715 .
HIST 1815
Military History from Plato to NATO
3 ch (3C) [W]
This general interest course provides an introduction to the study of tactics, technology, battle control, logistics and
management. Developments will be examined by studying selected campaigns and battles. Restriction: Not open to
students who have taken HIST 2815 .
FOUNDATION LEVEL COURSES
HIST 2013
Medieval History Part I: Europe to 1200
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry level course which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, provides a survey of Western
Europe from the end of the Roman Empire and the appearance of the German peoples until the end of the twelfth
century. Focuses especially on the major political and social developments of medieval Europe, such as feudalism, the
revival of towns, the conflict between Popes and Emperors, the crusades, the flourishing of medieval thought and the
role of both women and men in medieval society. Restriction: Not open to students who have completed HIST 1010 or
HIST 1005 .
HIST 2014
Medieval History Part II: Europe 1200-1500
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry-level course, which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, continues the survey of the
history of Medieval Europe, beginning c. l200 and ending with the Renaissance. Focuses especially on the several
crises facing Europeans during the later Middle Ages: popular uprisings, famine, the Black Death, the l00 Years War,
Papal schism and the new heretical and intellectual challenges to orthodoxy. Restriction: not open to students who
have completed HIST 1010 or HIST 1006 .
HIST 2023
Early Modern Europe Part I, 1300-1600 (O)
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry-level course, which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, surveys Western European
history by examining aspects of the Italian and Northern Renaissances, early contact with Non-Western peoples, the
Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the growth of nation states. Emphasizes developments in the economy and
society, education, religion, culture and government. Restriction: Not open to students who have completed HIST
1020 .
HIST 2024
Early Modern Europe Part II, 1600-1800 (O)
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry level course, which is recommended for both first- and second-year students, continues the survey of
Western European history by examining aspects of the rise of absolutist states, the Scientific Revolution, the
Enlightenment, overseas expansion and the French Revolution. Stresses developments in the economy and society,
government, secular thought, culture, international relations and war. Restriction: not open to students who have
completed HIST 1020 .
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HIST 2103
Modern Europe Part I: 1789-1914 (A)
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry level course, which is recommended for both first- and second-year students, surveys European history
from the era of the French and Industrial Revolutions to the eve of the First World War. Topics to be covered include:
the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the working class; evolving political
ideologies and movements; the forging of new nation states; changing class and gender relations; cultural upheaval;
the motives for imperialism; the origins of the First World War. Not open to students who have taken HIST 1100 or
HIST 2100 .
HIST 2104
Modern Europe Part II: 1914 to Present (A)
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry level course, which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, surveys European history from
the First World War to the present. Topics to be covered include: the First World War; the Russian Revolution;
interwar cultural and social change; the Great Depression and political upheaval; the origins and course of the Second
World War; Europe and the Cold War; social change after 1945; the impact of decolonization; the rise of the European
Union; European debates over national identity. Not open to students who have taken HIST 1100 or HIST 2100 .
HIST 2300
An Introduction to Canadian History
6 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry level course, which is recommended for both first- and second year students, is a general study of Canadian
political, economic, and social development from early beginnings to the present. Topics include Native societies, New
France, British North America, Confederation, the National Policy, modern Canada and its regions. Restriction: Not
open to students who have taken HIST 1300 .
HIST 2403
U.S. History Part I: Colonial Period to Civil War
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry-level course, which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, surveys American history from
the earliest European settlement through the Civil War. Topics will include exploration and expansion, the EuropeanAboriginal encounter, colonization and Christianity, revolutionary ideas and independence, the early Republic, the
frontier experience, slavery and resistance, antebellum culture, and sectional discord and conflict.
HIST 2404
U.S. History Part II: Civil War to the Present
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
This entry-level course which is recommended for first-and second-year students, surveys the modern history of the
United States. The course will consider national reconstruction following the Civil War, late nineteenth century
industrial and geographic expansion, social unrest and progressive reform in the early twentieth century, the ‘roaring
twenties’, the ‘dirty thirties’, the New Deal, the ‘Good War’ of the 1940s, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement,
liberalism and conservatism, the ‘Bad War’ in Vietnam, the rebellions of the sixties, the Reagan era and beyond.
Completion of HIST 2403 recommended but not required.
ADVANCED LEVEL COURSES
Ancient History
The History Department will accept for History credit courses in Greek and Roman History to a maximum of 12 ch. See Classics
section of Calendar for course descriptions.
European History
HIST
3001
West Meets East in the Middle Ages, 1050-1450 (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines contact and conflict among the Latin Kingdoms of Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Empire.
Considers the crusades, crusader states, the position of the Jews, and the role of trade and intellectual development in
the period.
HIST
3003
European Women, 1450-1800
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the condition of European women from the end of the Middle Ages till the onset of industrialization.
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Concentrating on Italy, France and England, it considers particular cases as well as general trends. Specific topics
include: attitudes toward woman, women's education, legal status, work and contribution to the economy, place in
religion and the family and alternatives to family life.
HIST
3005
Popes and Preachers, Saints and Sinners: The Catholic Religion in the Late
Medieval and Early Modern Periods (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
This course will examine the central role of religion in society and culture by comparing and contrasting two
interesting eras: the Late Middle Ages (1100 to 1300) and the Renaissance/Counter-Reformation period (1420 to
1600). The course will compare and contrast a variety of intriguing features of religion and culture of the two periods:
the worldview of the Italian people and their beliefs about god, supernatural power, sacraments, saints, relics,
pilgrimage, the devil, magic and witchcraft; the church’s various efforts to shape these, mainly through preaching,
exorcisms, art and the Inquisitions; and the attempts of the popes to maintain political and social control in the face of
difficult and often diverse challenges. It will also examine the relationship between the papacy and the Jews. Normally
taught on location.
HIST
3006
The Protestant Reformation (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Considers the religious, social and political transformations of northern Europe, especially Germany, in the sixteenth
century. Emphasizes the various "Protestant" religious reform movements and their relation to political developments,
social unrest and popular revolt in the sixteenth century.
HIST
3007
The Catholic Reformation (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the reform tradition within the Roman Catholic Church from the fourteenth century to the French Revolution.
Particular attention is paid to the Council of Trent, the new papal bureaucracy, charities and foreign missions. French
examples are most frequently studied; the course should interest students of New France as well as students of
European history.
HIST
3008
European Imperialism (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This course examines the evolution of European colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics to
be examined include: the renewal of European imperial expansion in the nineteenth century; systems of rule; the
responses of indigenous populations and the rise of anti-colonial nationalism; colonial culture; the impact of
imperialism upon gender and race relations; decolonization and the legacies of empire. Comparisons between different
colonial systems will be a key feature of the course.
HIST
3015
Racism in the West from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores how many populations, including the ancient Greeks, Romans, medieval and early-modern Europeans,
molded their particular identities by constructing negative images of the “foreigner” or “other” based on perceived
religious or ethnic differences. It examines in particular the formation and dissemination of religious and racial
stereotypes and the inflaming of prejudicial passions that have led to violence. Particular emphasis will be placed on
the long history of antisemitism, and comparisons will be made with Byzantine and Muslim cultures. While it will focus
on the subject primarily as a historical problem, the course will be interdisciplinary in approach, involving specialists
from a range of disciplines.
HIST
3016
Racism in the West from the Enlightenment to Today (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Building upon HIST 3015 , this course explores how, in the era of the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the
growth of religious tolerance, the rise of nationalism, and the increasing secularization of western society, racism and
antisemitism continued not only to spread, but to be given a pseudo-scientific foundation, resulting in a variety of
conspiracy theories and ultimately leading to the horrific Holocaust and racial and ethnic cleansing of the twentieth
century. While it will focus on the subject primarily as a historical problem, the course will be interdisciplinary in
approach, involving specialists from a range of disciplines.
HIST
3031
France in the Nineteenth Century: Struggles for Citizenship (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the history of France from the Napoleonic Era to the consolidation of the Third Republic at the end of the
nineteenth century. After reviewing the legacy of the Revolution, traces the evolution of conflicting visions of the
proper type of regime for France in their social, economic and cultural contexts. The struggles of various elements of
the French population for the full rights of citizenship form a central theme of the course.
HIST
3033
France in the Twentieth Centrury (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the political, social, and cultural history of France during a century of upheaval. Topics to be covered include
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the Dreyfus Affair; the First World War; culture and society between the wars; the Great Depression and the era of the
Popular Front; the rise of French fascism; the Second World War and the Vichy regime; collaboration and resistance;
postwar social and cultural change; intellectuals and politics; the government of General de Gaulle; and recent
debates over immigration and identity. France’s role as a colonial and postcolonial power is also a central theme in the
course.
HIST
3055
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
The Generation of the Great War (A)
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the First World War, examining its causes, course, and aftermath within a
military, political and social context. It focuses on how the war was experienced on both the war and home fronts, by
soldiers and civilians alike.
HIST
3065
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
The Generation of the Second World War (A)
Examines the Second World War from a social and political perspective and in an international context. Topics to be
covered inlcude: the origins of the war in Europe and Asia, home fronts, the experience of occupation, collaboration
and resistance, wartime attrocities and genocide, the diplomacy of the war, and the impact of the war on social
relationships and political systems in Europe and Asia.
HIST
3085
Germany, 1900-1945 (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Germany's domestic developments and external relations will be examined with a view to explaining why Germany
was the central participant in a world war twice within a generation.
HIST
3095
The Germanies, 1945 to the Present (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
An examination of the division of Germany and of the two German states created in 1949.
HIST
3125
The Cold War: An International History (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the evolution of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. Topics to be examined include: the debate over the
origins of the Cold War; the creation of opposing alliance systems in Europe; the Asian dimensions of the Cold War;
the significance of the Cold War for Africa and Latin America; the rise and fall of détente; the end of the Cold War and
the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Attention will be paid to the social and cultural impact of the Cold War.
HIST
3133
Rome: from the Baroque to the Modern Era (1527 to the Present) (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Studies the impact of the Catholic Reformation on Baroque Rome, the end of Papal Rome with the unification of the
Italian nation, the urban expansion of the late nineteenth century, and Rome's emergence as the capital of Mussolini's
New Empire. The creation of the Vatican City State will be studied, and contemporary Roman life and politics will be
experienced. Normally taught on location.
HIST
3134
Romanticism and Revolution in Rome (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
As the decades of faith in Enlightenment reason gave way to the emotional backlash of the Romantics, Rome provided
a context for many of the aims of the new generation: the balance between Classicism and Romanticism, between the
ruins of civilization and the struggle for a new political order, between nature and the imagination, between the past
and the future. Designed as an interdisciplinary exploration of these subjects as they manifested themselves in late
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rome, this course will consider literature, music, art and philosophy as forces of
innovation that helped shape the experience of social and cultural transformation. By visiting, seeing, reading and
listening to the new styles of expression embodied by Romanticism, we will explore the political issues central to the
new aesthetic that inspired poets and patriots in Rome’s Revolution of 1848. Normally taught on location.
HIST
3135
Contemporary Italy (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the politics, society and culture of Italy from 1945 to the present. Normally taught on location.
HIST
3136
Rome and the Papacy in the Age of Reformation (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Beginning with an examination of the late medieval and Renaissance papacy, this course will focus on the role of the
papacy in and its response to the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. The course will give special attention to Rome
as the catalyst, locus and expression of reform. Normally taught on location.
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3203
Early Modern London (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Early-modern London was an exceptional city in many ways and it played a unique and pivotal part in the history of
England, Europe and increasingly during this period, in a global context. This is an advanced level course designed to
explore the nature of London and Londoners from 1485-1714. Normally taught on location.
HIST
3215
Early Modern British History Part 1: 1485-1688
3 ch (3C) [W]
Surveys major governance, social and cultural themes of British history for the period 1485-1688. Explores religious,
political, dynastic, economic, intellectual, and social transformations in England (and, to a lesser extent, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland) during the Tudor and Stuart eras. Topics include: the rise of the Tudor state; the nature of
English society; the English Reformation; overseas exploration, trade, and settlement; the coming of the Stuart
monarchy; the Scientific Revolution; the Civil Wars and Interregnum; the Glorious Revolution. Not open to students
who have taken HIST 3170 , 3202 , 3204 , or 3242 .
HIST
3216
Early Modern British History Part 2: 1688-1830
3 ch (3C) [W]
Surveys major governance, social and cultural themes of British history for the period 1688-1830. Explores religious,
political, dynastic, economic, intellectual, and social transformations in England, Scotland, and Ireland during the reign
of Stuart and Hanoverian monarchs. Topics include: the Glorious Revolution; the unions of England, Scotland, and
Ireland; the Enlightenment; industrialization; eighteenth-century politics; the quest for empire; the American and
French Revolutions; the Napoleonic Wars. Not open to students who have taken HIST 3170 or HIST 3242 .
HIST
4001
Heretics and Witches in Europe, 1350-1650 (A)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Examines popular religion and magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and official efforts to transform
"popular culture". Emphasizes the medieval inquisitions against heresy (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) and especially
the phenomenon of European witch-hunting (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries). Explanations of the causes of the
witch-hunt, its victims and eventual decline will be highlighted.
HIST
4002
Renaissance Society (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Studies society and culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Focuses on developments in commerce, education,
ideas, administration, demography, social relations and religious practice in Italy and the rest of Europe.
HIST
4003
Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the ways in which the lives of women from Europe, Africa, and the Americas were shaped by "Atlantic
World" experiences from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries. Considers how race and socioeconomic/legal status influenced female experiences of patriarchy, sexuality, work, and agency by placing them into
the broader social, cultural, political, and religious contexts of the early modern Atlantic World.
HIST
4006
The Enlightenment (O)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Examines the social and political thought of the philosophes as well as the nature of the society and government which
were the object of their criticism. Particular attention is paid to France in the period 1730-1789.
HIST
4007
The French Revolution (O)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Analyses the nature of the French Revolution. Studies the successive political regimes but pays particular attention to
the social aspects of the Revolution including the role of the crowd and the sans-culottes movement,
dechristianization, the redistribution of property, the Terror and the White Terror.
HIST
4012
Home Fronts at War (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Will focus on the European home fronts of the First World War, a conflict George Kennan termed THE seminal
catastrophe of the twentieth century. Historians increasingly refer to the First World War as the first “total war”, as
entire societies were scaled toward supporting the massive armies on the fighting fronts. Will take students deep into
the everyday experiences of European men and women on the home fronts.
HIST
4013
The Holocaust: Victims, Perpatrators, Bystanders (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Provides a thematic survey of the Nazi destruction of the European Jews. Examines the ideological underpinnings of
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the genocide, the policies leading up to and including the so-called “Final Solution” of the “Jewish problem”,
perpetrator motivations, and Jewish responses to persecution and survival strategies in the camps. Will also explore
how the Holocaust unfolded in various European countries and the responses of nations, institutions and individuals to
the mass murder of the Jews. Will conclude with an examination of the post-war trials of war criminals and consider
the definition of genocide after the Holocaust. Will discuss primary documents in the lectures, and examine several ongoing historiographical debates during class discussions.
HIST
4014
European Dictatorships (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
A comparative analysis of dictatorships in Europe, concentrating on the period 1914-1945. Topics to be covered
include: the roots of dictatorship; the Russian Revolution and the creation of the Bolshevik regime; the rise of Italian
Fascism; the Nazi seizure of power; Stalinism in the Soviet Union; authoritarian regimes in Eastern and Mediterranean
Europe; dictatorships during the Second World War. Particular attention will be paid to the mechanisms of
authoritarian rule, persecution under the dictatorships, and the experiences of ordinary people.
HIST
4015
The Origins of the Second World War (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the international history of the period between 1919 and 1941. Topics to be covered include the Paris Peace
Settlement of 1919; the attempt to rebuild the international system in the 1920s; the impact of the Great Depression;
the evolution of alliances in the 1930s; the role of ideology on international relations; military and strategic influences
on foreign policy; and the significance of both intelligence-gathering and public opinion. The course will focus on the
foreign policies of Great Britain, France, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States.
HIST
4105
Italy in the Twentieth Century (O)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
From the crisis of Liberal Italy in World War I, this course will study the rise and decline of Mussolini's Fascism and the
establishment of the Christian Democratic hegemony after 1945. The challenge of Italian Communism will be
examined as will the policies of the Vatican in the twentieth century.
HIST 4241
Britain in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1832 (O)
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
Studies Great Britain and Ireland in the years of transition from the age of classicism and aristocracy to the age of
romanticism and liberal reform. Emphasizes social and political history and the modernization of government.
HIST 4242
Victorian Britain
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
Examines the social, cultural, and political life of nineteenth-century Britain through such topics as factory and
environmental reform, education, unionization, missionary work, emancipation of women, parliamentary reform, and
imperial expansion.
HIST 4247
Eighteeth-Century British Society and Culture (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the changing meanings and representations of social status in Britain during the ‘long eighteenth century,’
circa 1688-1832. Considers whether (and to what degree) Georgian Britons may be regarded as “a polite and
commercial people”. Topics include: rank and status; gender roles; manners, politeness, and emulation; consumerism
and consumption; mercantilism, trade, and the pursuit of wealth; the ‘middling sort’ and the rise of the middle class;
urbanization and non-landed elites; early industrialization.
Canadian History
HIST 3316 Immigration and Identity in Canadian History
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Examines the changing pattern of immigration to Canada from the early seventeenth century to the present, and the
contribution of the various immigrant groups to the creation of a sense of Canadian identity.
HIST 3321 Canadian Colonial Society (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the formation and nature of community in pre-industrial English Canada. Particular attention is given to
demography, immigrant and religious traditions, economic and environmental factors, poverty, social structure and
the growth of towns.
HIST 3325 A History of Sexualities (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
A survey of the history of changing ideas, identities and practices associated with sexuality in the modern era, c. 1750
- present. Rather than an unchanging biological force, sexuality is a historical and social construction that involves
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conflict and contestation. Sexuality is also mediated by gender, class, race and ethnicity and has been subject to
considerable regulation over time. Topics include religious attitudes and beliefs in pre-industrial and modern times;
science, medicine and sexuality, courtship and marriage, contraception and abortion, sexual exploitation; violence and
abuse, sexuality and leisure, the regulation of sexuality, the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s and the construction of
alternative sexual identities.
HIST 3326 Gender, Health and Medicine (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores the social history of health, disease, caregiving, and medical practice from a gender perspective. Will focus
on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada and the US. Classes will be arranged to allow for the thematic
discussions on the topics such as changing beauty ideals and their link to "wellness", notions of physical "fitness" and
health promotion, the medicalization of life cycle events such as puberty and child bearing/rearing, as well as the
gendered experiences of a wide variety of health care-providers and patients involved in clinical encounters over the
last two centuries. Intended for multi-disciplinary cohort of students.
HIST 3327 Science, Medicine and Health Care in Canada (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This course explores the history of health and health care in Canada, from the era of First Nations'initial contact with
Europeans, to the present day. Topics will include: Aboriginal and European conceptions of health and illness; the
impact of western infectious diseases on First Nations' society; the health implications of rapid industrialization in the
nineteenth century; the role of the state in sanitary reform and public health; the emergence of the medical and
nursing professions; Canadian scientific research in medicine; the Canadian eugencies movement; and the origins and
development of universal health care in the twentieth century. Race, class, gender, alternative medicine, and regional
inequality will feature in small group discussions.
HIST 3331 The Canadian Worker to 1914
3 ch (3C) [W]
The working-class experience in the age of Canada's industrial revolution, focusing on the transformation of the
workplace and the rise of the labour question.
HIST 3332 The Canadian Worker since 1914
3 ch (3C) [W]
The working-class experience in Canada since the time of the Great War, focusing on the changing relationships
between labour, capital and the state.
HIST 3351 Growing Up in Canada, 1800-1914 (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores various aspects of childhood and adolescence in Canada during the pre-World War I period. Discusses
changes over time and compares the Canadian experience to that of the U.S. and Britain.
HIST 3352 Reform Movements: Seeking Change in Canada before the First World War
3 ch (3C) [W]
Focuses on selected social and political movements. Considers the roles played by women as well as men in such
movements.
HIST 3364 History of Canadian-American Relations (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Surveys the evolving relationship between Canada and the United States from the American Revolution to the Free
Trade Agreement. Stresses the twentieth century when Canada gained autonomy over external affairs. Beside the
major political and economic components of the relationship, will also examine cultural, social and environmental
issues. Restriction: Credit may not be obtained for both HIST 3364 and POLS 3242 (Candian-American Relations).
HIST 3374
Native People and the State: From the Indian Act to the Royal Commission on
Aboriginal People (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the complex relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state from the mid-1800s to the
present. Emphasizes Canadian attempts to assimilate Aboriginal peoples and the means by which Aboriginal peoples
have resisted these measures and sought to preserve their collective identities. Topics include: the Indian Act,
residential schools, the rise of native political organizations, and the quest for Aboriginal rights and self-government.
(Recommended for students in the Law and Society Program.)
HIST 4313 A History of Women in Canadian Society
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
A course in social history focusing on the changing roles of women in the public and private spheres in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, with special emphasis on the role of women in the work force.
HIST 4321 The World We Have Lost (A)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Studies the settlement, growth, economy, family and community life, and decline of the rural community in eastern
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Canada and the Northerneastern United States between 1750-1950.
HIST 4322 Canadian Business History (A)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Explores the development of a Canadian business community in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through
examination of the pre-Confederation business system, the industrial revolution, the role of business in Canadian
development strategies, and the growth of big business.
HIST 4323 The Family in North America (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores selected themes in the history of the North American family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics
include demographic trends, courtship and marriage, household and family structures, inheritance and the family
economy, the gendered division of labour in the home and the relationship between families and the state.
HIST 4341 History of the Atlantic Provinces to Confederation
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Surveys the region from before the advent of written records to its entry into Confederation. It treats the impact of
immigrant cultures, struggles for empire, the development of a cultural mosaic, the emergence of distinctive provincial
societies and the forces which led to union.
HIST 4342 History of the Atlantic Provinces after Confederation
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Surveys the history of the region from Confederation to the present day, with focus on the vicissitudes of the
Maritimes within Confederation and movements for social, economic and political reform.
HIST 4351 New Brunswick, 1784-1860
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Emphasizes social and administrative history. Topics include the establishment of government (especially
administrative and legal systems); Loyalist, British, Acadian and Native interaction; church-state relations; education
and schooling; management of Crown lands and the economy; family, household and society. (This course is
recommended for students in the Law in Society Program.)
HIST 4352 New Brunswick, 1860 to the Present
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Emphasizes the changing role of government in provincial life. Topics include the background of Confederation;
religion, language and education; transformations in local government; the politics of railways, energy and highways;
transfer payments and social welfare; the growth of the provincial bureaucracy; and the emergence of Acadian and
Native issues. (This course is recommended for students in the Law in Society Program.)
American History
HIST 3402
The American Revolution (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the causes, results and nature of the American Revolution. Themes include imperial relations, the internal
development of the colonies and states, the development of revolutionary ideas, and the formation of the federal
government.
HIST 3403
The Loyalists (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Studies the American Loyalists before, during and after the American Revolution. The first half deals with their
emergence, 1763-1776, their role in the War of Independence, their treatment by the rebels, and the Peace Treaty of
1783. The second half deals with their exile in Britain, Sierra Leone, the West Indies, the Bahamas, Bermuda and what
became Canada, to about 1814. An epilogue traces their myths, revivals and long-term effects down to the present.
HIST 3407
The United States: Civil War and Reconstruction (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Deals with the political, economic, diplomatic, and military dimensions of the civil War. Discusses the development of
reconstruction policies both during and after the war and their implementation in the South.
HIST 3408
American Radicalism and Reform (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
A survey of American social and political movements for change from the founding of the United States to the present.
Considers the radical legacy of the revolutionary era, the women's suffrage and abolitionist movements, utopianism,
populism, progressivism, radical unionism, anarchism, socialism, communism, African American struggles for civil
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rights, the new social movements of the sixties, identity politics, and recent resistance to capitalist globalization.
HIST 3411
Modern American Culture
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores culture in twentieth-century America and its relationship to economic, political, and social change.
Emphasizes literature, painting, music and film, but also examines everything from television game shows to shopping
malls. Asks if there is any distinctive identity that unifies American culture, and studies the tensions among rural and
urban, white and black, male and female visions of American life.
HIST 3413
African America (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
A survey of African American history from slave times to the present, the course will focus on culture and politics.
Among the themes we will explore are ideologies of racism, systems of domination, the nature of resistance,
movement building, liberation strategies, African American identity, and the intersection of racial, class, and gender
politics.
HIST 3414
Imperial America (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Surveys the history of the foreign relations of the United States from its emergence as a world power late in the
nineteenth century to its current global pre-eminence. Topics include the "New Imperialism", Wilsonian idealism, interwar isolationism, the "Good War", the Cold War, Vietnam, "realpolitik", the "New World Order", globalization, and the
"War on Terror".
HIST 3415
America at the Movies (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
An exploration of films as reflections of American history and of American history as it is projected in films. Students
will learn to "read" films as historical documents and will consider the role of films in shaping understandings of
history. The course will concentrate on a small number of themes, genres, and problems, and will endeavour to
illuminate these through the critical analysis of select films in historical context.
HIST 3416
Urban North America
3 ch (3S) [W]
Addresses developments within and among North American cities and explores changes in the conceptions of cities in
North American thought and culture. Using New York City as a case study, examines some historical literature of cities
and enters the debates among historians over the significance of class, ethnicity/race, gender and region in urban
history. Also studies the lives of urban dwellers, and chart shifts in the way people organized their lives in cities. Major
themes for this course include the changing physical structure and form of cities over time; processes of urbanization
and sub-urbanization; city planning; the economies of cities; urban institutions; urban populations; and city politics.
Normally taught on location.
HIST 3419
New York City: From Colony to World Capital (O)
3ch (3S) [W]
Examines the development of New York City from its establishment by the Dutch as New Amsterdam in the 1600s,
through its development as one of a handful of "world" cities whose influences extends around the globe today. Will
consider such historical themes as urban form and architecture, city people and populations, culture and recreation,
city politics and social movements, the environment, and economics of cities. Will explore the history of New York City
in comparitive perspective, using this city as our main case study. Normally taught on location.
HIST 4455
The Harlem Renaissance (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Begins by considering some of the major themes, controversies and personalities in African American history, 18651920, in an attempt to contextualize the surge of Black cultural production known as the Harlem Renaissance. The
course then focuses on the Renaissance itself, and particularly on the racial, class and gender politics that informed
the creation of literature, music and art by African Americans in New York City in the '20s. and '30s.
HIST 4495
The United States during the Vietnam Era (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This investigation of American culture, politics, and foreign relations during the third quarter of the twentieth century
focuses, in particular, on the origins, nature, and consequences of the conflict that came to dominate the epoch.
Topics include Cold War doctrine and ideology, the military-industrial complex, the freedom movement and black
power, the new left and the counterculture, women's liberation, nation building and counterinsurgency, the anti-war
movement, the conservative backlash, Watergate, and the "Vietnam syndrome". Prerequisite: HIST 2404 or
permission of instructor.
Far Eastern, African and Latin American History
HIST 3612
Africa in the Twentieth Century (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Studies Africa's intellectual and material response to colonialism; the development of Pan-Africanism, anti-colonial
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organizations and agitations; and the response of settler and colonial powers.
HIST 3615
History of Slavery
3 ch (3C) [W]
Studies ways in which Western slavery and emancipation were experienced, perceived, explained, symbolized and
related to European attitudes. Focuses on the lives of African slaves.
HIST 3635
The Cultural History of China (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Concentrates on the historical evolution of the Chinese culture. Discussion areas include: the emergence of an early
Chinese civilization; Traditional China's social structure, economic organization, political system, religion and
philosophy, art and literature, science and medicine, and material culture. Attention will also be paid to China's
encounter with the Indian civilization as well as with the modern Western civilization.
History of Art and Music
HIST 3701
The Cultural Turn: Cultural Studies in Historical Context (O) (Cross-listed:
WCLS 3701)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Traces the history of cultural studies from its debated foundation through the Birmingham school in post-war Britain,
to its reshaping by post-Marxist, postmodernist, feminist, postcolonial, and diasporic perspectives. Analyses the key
debates in cultural studies at the onset of the twenty-first century, which include the field’s reorientation towards the
study of popular culture, activism through cultural politics, the politicization of knowledge and of the academy, and
“the cultural turn” of the humanities and social sciences.
HIST 3716
Renaissance Art (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Studies the art and architecture of Italy from the early fourteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth century.
Themes include the changing status of the artist, the uses of portraiture, and the paragone (painting vs. sculpture)
debate.
HIST 3725
Baroque Art and Culture in Rome (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores the art and culture of the 17th century, the Baroque, in Rome. Through visits to churches, palaces, galleries,
museums, and public spaces such as fountains, monuments and piazzas, participants will consider a range of key
issues including artistic styles and techniques, the display of religious belief, the assertion of social and political
authority, the status of female artists, and the representation of the body. Normally taught on location.
HIST 3729
Art Now (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Surveys contemporary visual culture produced in Europe and North America from 1950 until the present day. Includes
discussions of painting, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, and photography, as well as conceptual, performance,
installation, and body art.
HIST 3735
The History of Modern Art (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the development of painting, sculpture and architecture from 1863 until approximately 1950 in Europe and
the United States.
HIST 3736
Art for a Nation? Visualizing Twentieth-Century Canada
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the production, diffusion, and consumption of visual and material culture in Canada from the end of the
nineteenth century to present day. Topics include the state use of art for nation-building; modernity and
antimodernism; indigenous self-representation and sovereignty; the intersections of public history with cultural
“difference” and racialization; video art and cultural performance as a site of resistance; and the framing of the local
through artistic practice. From year to year, this course draws on such visual resources as the permanent collection
and temporary exhibitions of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and documentary film and video art.
HIST 3765
History of Music in Medieval and Renaissance Periods (A) (Cross Listed: MUS
3765)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Introduction to music between 800 and 1600, studying representative styles and putting this music in a historical
perspective.
HIST 3775
History of Music in the Late Baroque and Classical Period (A) (Cross Listed:
MUS 3775)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Begins with an examination of the stylistic background of music of the Baroque Period, and follows the development of
musical form and style through the late Baroque and Classical eras, i.e., from c. 1700 - c. 1830. Some attention will
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be given to the role of the musician in the context of the social history of the time.
HIST 3785
History of Music in the Romantic Era (A) (Cross Listed: MUS 3785)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Traces musical development in nineteenth century Europe in its cultural-historical milieu, mainly in France and
Germany. Examines the development of the orchestra, and the French and Austro-German contribution to that
development, the role of nationalism in music and the role of the opera.
HIST 3795
A History of Music in the Twentieth Century (O)(Cross Listed:MUS 3785)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Begins with an examination of the Post-Romantic composers, particularly Mahler and Strauss. Studies Debussy and
the Impressionists, the Second Viennese School (Berg, Schoenberg, Webern) and its impact on twentieth-century
music and the tonalist composers of the first half of the century. Examines music as an art form in North America.
HIST 3796
History of the Music Dramas of Richard Wagner (O) (Cross Listed: MUS 3796)
3 ch (3C) [W]
An examination of the theoretical constructs behind Wagner's music dramas, the compositional histories of some of
the dramas of the 1840's, and then of the Ring Cycle itself. Some attention will be given to the performance history of
the dramas as well.
HIST 4705
Art, Tourism and Modernity
3 ch (3C) [W]
Considers the relationship between artistic practice, tourism, and modernity. Examines objects of art and culture as
they intersect with the structuring of social relations, such as those between centre and periphery, First and Third
Worlds, “developed” and “developing” areas, metropolis and countryside. Makes significant use of historical film and
contemporary video art as visual resources. Note: a field trip may be required. Cost varies to a maximum of $30.
Military History
HIST 3803
War through Film (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines how selected themes in the history of war have been represented in both documentary and dramatic films,
how film has shaped our understanding of the nature of war, and how it is used as an historical document by military
historians.
HIST 3805
Master and Commander – Royal Navy History Through Its Ships, Museums
and Archives (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
This course will introduce students to Royal Navy history through touring the surviving ships and dockyards, study of
naval artifacts in museums, and archival research. Tours will be supported by a limited amount of class-room
instruction in London. Normally taught on location.
HIST 3806
The Mediterranean in the Second World War: Strategic Crossroad of a Global
War (O)
3ch (3C) [W]
Introduces the military and diplomatic history of the Second World War through an in-depth look at the Mediterranean
campaigns, intrigues and deception conducted by the Western Allies against Italy and Germany. These campaigns in
North Africa, Sicily, Italy and the Balkans generated a mixture of tension and compromise between American, British
and Russian decision makers as well as the 27 seperate contributing nations from Commonwealth Canada and India to
free Poland, France and lesser known Brazil and Palestine. Focuses on the formulation of grand strategy, the links
between civil and military war objectives, the problems of multi-national coalition warfare, and the planning and
execution of combat operations in some of the most difficult and rugged terrain of the war.
HIST 3810
The Second World War in Italy (O)
6 ch (6S) [W]
This team-taught course explores the rise of Fascist Italy, its alliance with Nazi Germany and the bitter struggle waged
against them by the Allies and anti-fascist Italians from 1943-45. Will be taught on location throughout Italy, and
centres on visiting historic sites, monuments and battlefields. Italy's unique geography made the campaign especially
difficult for its participants and provides students with the subject for much of their study. Although the course
addresses the campaign as a whole, special attention is paid to the highly successful, yet little-known, Canadian
contribution to the battles at Ortona, the Liri Valley and the Gothic Line.
HIST 3811
Unconventional War in the Modern World (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This course explores the rise to prominence of unconventional warfare since 1945. It discusses the reasons for
dominance of these forms of warfare and the implications of it for governments, military forces and civilian
populations. The course introduces students to the concepts of revolutionary war, guerrilla warfare, terrorism, covert
action, and counter-insurgency, the theories and their theorists. These themes will be illustrated through a series of
case studies, from the insurgencies of the post-1945 anti-colonial period to the ethnic conflicts and genocides of the
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post-Cold War era.
HIST 3812
War and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1914-84 (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the sources and conduct of warfare in the modern Middle East from World War I to the Persian Gulf Conflict,
against the background of emerging nationalism and new states, and great power intervention and diplomacy.
HIST 3814
Conventional War since 1945 (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
This course will examine the causes, conduct, and consequences of the major conventional wars fought since 1945. It
will explain reasons for the shift of war from Europe to the non-European world; changes in the way war has been
conducted, with particular emphasis on technological change and the impact on the battlefield and on noncombatants; and changes in the way military forces are created, commanded and used. These themes will be
illustrated through a series of case studies from the Korean War to the war in Iraq.
HIST 3817
History of Peacekeeping (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
The course introduces students to the study of peacekeeping as a tool of international diplomacy and conflict
management. It explores the pre-Cold War origins of the concept, its 'invention' in 1956, its political utility during the
Cold War era and its impact on the roles and expectations of the United Nations. The course concludes with a
discussion of the decline and transformation of peacekeeping in the post-Cold War era.
HIST 3825
The Nature and Limits of Military Power, 1500-2000 (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores the uses, abuses and development of military power within Western society since 1500. Focuses on how
military power is shaped and limited by the technological, social, political, ideological and economic factors of the day.
Restriction: Credit will not be given for both HIST 1004 and HIST 3825; and this course is not open to students who
have taken HIST 2825 .
HIST 3835
Canada and the Experience of War 1600-2000
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines how Canadian history has been shaped by military action or the threat of it. Studies Canada as a
battleground for European empires in the colonial period, later as an element of British imperial defense policy against
the U.S., and finally Canada's emergence as an independent player in the major conflicts of the twentieth century.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 2835 .
HIST 4801
War and Society in the Age of Black Powder 1550-1865 (O)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Examines the nature of warfare in Europe and North America in the Early Modern period.
HIST 4802
Sea Power and the Rise and Fall of the British Empire (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Surveys the dynamic of commerce, democracy, geography and naval power in the history of the British Empire from
the discovery of Newfoundland to the withdrawal from Hong Kong.
HIST 4803
The First World War (O)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
A military history of the first World War, relating events on the various fronts to their social, political and strategic
contexts and looking at tactical, technological and doctrinal developments in the use of arms.
HIST 4804
The Second World War: The Sea, Land and Air Campaigns (O)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Examines the campaigns, their technical and tactical developments, and principal personalities.
HIST 4807
History of the Canadian Forces, 1867-1953 (A)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
After sketching the period of British military responsibility, this course traces the development of Canadian defence
policy and the emergence of Canada’s military forces from Confederation to the Korean War. The primary focus of the
course is on the way in which hastily mobilized citizen armies fought the two world wars of the twentieth century and
developed a high degree of professionalism in the process.
HIST 4808
History of the Canadian Forces, 1953-Present (A)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
This course traces the evolution of Canadian defence policy and the Canadian Forces through the Cold War and its
aftermath. Special attention is paid to Canada’s role in conflict zones around the world as part of the United Nations,
NATO and other international coalitions, and to the often vexed relationship between Canada and its professional
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Armed Forces
HIST 4815
Seapower and Empires, 1400-1850
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
The use of seapower as an instrument of state policy during the period 1500 to ca. 1850. Examines institutional,
theoretical, economic, political, social, and technological factors which shaped seapower over the period, with
particular attention to Britain's experience.
HIST 4825
Seapower and World Wars
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Focuses on the use of seapower and navies as instruments of state policy in the modern world since 1850. Emphasis
will be placed on technological, political and strategic use of the sea in peace and war, with particular concentration on
the use of seapower in the two world wars of the twentieth century.
HIST 4835
Soldiering Through the Ages (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines the military experience of the soldier from the Greek hoplite to the modern warrior. Focuses on su ch
subjects as recruitment, training and preparation for battle and wartime experience, through the vast primary
literature that chronicles the life of the soldier.
HIST 4841
The Spy in History: Intelligence in War and Diplomacy (A)
3 ch (2C 1T)
[W]
Examines the growth and function of national intelligence communities in Britain, the United States, and the Soviet
Union in the twentieth century. Explores the tradecrafts of intelligence and its impact on decision-makers, on military
operations, and on diplomacy.
HIST 4851
Law and War (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines legal restraints on armed combat since circa 1500. Explores, among other topics, the recent influence of
international legal regimens on military strategy, on land, sea and air action, and on peace-keeping.
HIST 4852
International Governance: The League of Nations and the United Nations (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
The darkest days of the twentieth century concentrated attention on the need for a better way of managing
international conflict. This course will study the origins and history of the League and the UN from the 1920s to the
2008 Iraq crisis, with attention given to sanctions, peace keeping and peace making.
HIST 4861
Terrorism in History (O)
3ch (3C) [W]
This course examines the use of terrorism as an agent of political change and repression in history. It introduces
students to the debates over the definition and nature of terrorism and over the causes of the phenomenon. It
explores the use of terrorism by institutional and state apparatus and by non-state groups, and the theories and
theorists which underpinned its use. The course also discusses the impact on victims and societies, and efforts by
nation-states and the international community to deal with the issue. Cases used to illustrate the course themes will
cover the span of history, but will concentrate primarily on the 20th century.
History of Science
HIST 3905
History of the Physical Sciences (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores the Copernican and Newtonian Revolutions of the seventeenth century; the cultural consequences of the
moving earth and the conception of nature as a great machine; the new world views of the twentieth century
associated with the theory of relativity and the quantum theory; and the political, social, and ethical impact of physics
through electronics, computers, and nuclear weaponry. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 2905 .
HIST 3915
Darwinism: Origins and Impact (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines emergence of evolutionary theory in western science with emphasis on Charles Darwin and his predecessors
Lamarck, Cuvier, and Lyell. Special attention is paid to the religious, social and philosophical controversy surrounding
the reception of the theory, and to the theory's vindication in the twentieth century.
HIST 3925
Technology and Society (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines contemporary ideas about how technology shapes and is shaped by society and culture, historically and
today. Considers theories of technological determinism, technology and religious thought, the role of innovation in
industrialization and economic growth; the problems of regulating risky technologies; the impact of Information
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Technology, and the shaping of Canadian science and technology policy. Restriction: Not open to students who have
taken HIST 2925 .
HIST 3935
Science, Technology, and Society Studies (O)
3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
Surveys the important new field of "STS Studies", largely through case studies of contemporary science. Topics
include the constructivist view of science and the controversies over it; science and gender; techno-scientific
controversies and regulatory politics; science and multiculturalism; and postmodernist analyses of science.
HIST 3965
Healing in Early Modern Europe (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Examines concepts and experience of disease and healing in Early Modern Europe; emphasizes the social, political,
philosophical and religious dimensions of the subject. Topics include plagues and pandemics; astrology and alchemy
as healing arts; the role of guilds, pharmacies and hospitals; art and anatomy; dissection; early theories of infection;
the professionalization of surgery; chemical and herbal remedies; and faith-healing.
HIST 3975
History of the Life Sciences (A)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Explores the struggle between vitalistic and mechanistic conceptions of life in the development of biology, the
emergence of evolutionary theory and its social and religious consequences, and the technological influence of the life
sciences on the rise of modern medicine and genetic engineering. No scientific background expected. Restriction: Not
open to students who have taken HIST 2915 .
HIST 4905
Albert Einstein and the Twentieth Century (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Assesses Einstein's historical significance to twentieth century thought through an examination of his career and
personality and through a survey of his scientific, political, religious and philosophical writings. Einstein's scientific
work, especially the relativity theory, provides the focus for a general examination of the twentieth century revolution
in physical theory and of its consequent political and philosophical impact. Stresses the conceptual rather than the
technical aspects of Einstein's science and no special background in physics is expected of the student.
DIRECTED READING COURSES AND PRACTICUMS
History students require the approval of the reading course/practicum instructor concerned and the Department to enroll in these
courses.
HIST 3554
Directed Reading Course/ Practicum
3 ch (3C) [W]
A detailed study of a specific historical topic. Working under the direction of a member of the Department or an
associate of the Department, the student will complete directed readings, written assignments and/or practicum
requirements. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and the Department.
HIST 5550
Directed Reading Course/Practicum
6 ch (3C) [W]
A detailed study of a specific historical topic. Working under direction of a member of the Department or an associate
of the Department, the student will complete directed readings, written assignments and/or practicum requirements.
Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and the Department.
HIST 3550
Directed Reading Course/ Practicum
6 ch (3C) [W]
A detailed study of a specific historical topic. Working under the direction of a member of the Department or an
associate of the Department, the student will complete directed readings, written assignments and/or practicum
requirements. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and the Department.
HIST 4554
Directed Reading Course/Practicum
3 ch (3C) [W]
A detailed study of a specific historical topic. Working under the direction of a member of the Department or an
associate of the Department, the student will complete directed readings, written assignments and/or practicum
requirements. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and the Department.
HIST 4550
Directed Reading Course/ Practicum
6 ch (3C) [W]
A detailed study of a specific historical topic. Working under the direction of a member of the Department or an
associate of the Department, the student will complete directed readings, written assignments and/or practicum
requirements. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and the Department.
HIST 5554
Directed Reading Course/Practicum
3 ch (3C) [W]
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A detailed study of a specific historical topic. Working under the direction of a member of the Department or an
associate of the Department, the student will complete directed readings, written assignments and/or practicum
requirements. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and the Department.
HONOURS SEMINARS
History Honours students require the approval of the departmental Director of Honours to enroll in these courses. Other students
wishing to enroll in an Honours Seminar must have the approval of the instructor concerned and the Director of Honours.
HIST 5005
Diplomatic History, 1929-1941 (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the history of international relations in the decade preceding the Second World War. Particular attention will
be paid to the social, economic and cultural impact of the Great Depression on the shaping of national foreign policies.
HIST 5011
Reform and Revolt in Europe, 1500-1555 (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the motives behind and relationships between the various movements of reform and popular revolt which
convulsed Northern Europe in the sixteenth century. Topics will include the learned reform proposals of Erasmus of
Rotterdam, Martin Luther and Jean Calvin; the transmission of ideas in the sixteenth century; the rise of popular
movements of reform; the role of women in early reform agitation; the Peasants' Revolt of 1524-26; the beliefs of the
radical reformers (Anabaptists and Spiritualists) and their suppression; the rise of Catholic Counter-Reformation
movements; and the political developments leading to the Peace of Augsburg in 1555. Not open to students who have
taken HIST 5010.
HIST 5012
The Late Reformation and the Rise of Witch-hunting in Europe, 15501648 (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Will focus on the broader effects of the European Reformation(s) upon religion, society and the beliefs and practices of
people in the second half of the sixteenth century. Will examine in particular the relationship between the religious
changes and conflict of the Reformation and developments in the governance and regulation of religion, views about
women, new ideas about science and magic, the increase in the fear of the devil, and the rise of witch-hunting. Not
open to students who have taken HIST 5010 .
HIST 5028
Fascism (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the rise of fascist movements and the development of fascist regimes in twentieth-century Europe. Topics to
be covered include: the social and cultural roots of fascism, the impact of the First World War, the structures of
dictatorship, society and culture under the fascist regimes, racial policy, foreign policy and war, and neo-fascism after
1945. While the course pays particular attention to Italian Fascism and German Nazism, other movements and regimes
will be considered. Students who have taken HIST 5026 and HIST 5027 may not take this seminar for credit.
HIST 5029
Issues in Contemporary Italy (O)
3ch (3S) [W]
Students will explore topics and issues in the politics, society and culture of contemporary Italy through study in
Romeand meeting representative Italians from various walks of life. Normally restricted to History Honours students
and students from other Honours programs. Normally taught on location.
HIST 5032
France, 1870-1970 (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines selected topics in modern French history. Possible topics include: the Third Republic and its enemies; the
nature of the French colonial empire; political polarization; the status of women and the feminist movement; the impact
of the First World War; immigration, xenophobia, and racialist thought; social and cultural transformations; the Second
World War; the Vichy Regime; the Resistance; post-World War II reconstruction; France and the Cold War; Sartre, de
Beauvoir, and intellectual engagement; decolonization and the wars in Indochina and Algeria; the Gaullist regime; the
upheavals of 1968.
HIST 5035
The Holocaust (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
A study of "the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem", the program of genocide developed by German National Socialists
against the Jews of Europe from 1933-1945.
HIST 5102
The Mental World of Europeans, 1300-1600 (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the "mental world" of late medieval/early modern Europeans using the most recent research in the field.
Introduces students to the latest studies of popular culture, mentalités, and the "new social history", as applied to
Europe. Topics of interest will include: the debate over popular vs. elite culture; the universe as conceived by both
learned and unlearned; the differences between "popular" Christianity and official religion; the relationship between
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magic, religion and science; beliefs about illness, health and medicine; views of death and the afterlife; and others.
HIST 5103
Gender, Race, and Disease in the Early Modern Atlantic World History
(O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Investigates early modern gender, race and disease through the movements, interactions, and exchanges between
peoples of the Atlantic World (specifically, Europe, Africa, and the Americas) during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Themes include: disease and 'the body'; climates and geographies of ill health; trade, empire, and disease
environments; constitution, complexion and "race"; gender and sexuality.
HIST 5200
Themes in Tudor and Stuart History
6 ch (3S) [W]
Concentrates on aspects of the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth and/or Charles I.
HIST 5275
Health and Medicine in Early Modern England (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Investigates the social, intellectual, and economic dimensions of early modern English health and medicine, circa 15001800. Themes include: knowledge and practice; medical expertise (lay and commercial); the medical marketplace;
patient-doctor relationships; the role of the hospital. Considers how factors such as age, gender, and socio-economic
status, as well as family and community, shaped various aspects of health and healthcare in England from the sixteenth
through eighteenth centuries.
HIST 5312
Native Peoples and Canadian and American State Policy,1824–1982
(O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the different ways in which the Canadian and American governments have attempted to deal with Native
peoples living inside their borders. Particular attention is paid to the ideological underpinnings of government policy, the
various legislative acts defining the relationship between the immigrant societies and Native peoples, and the responses
of Native peoples to government initiatives.
HIST 5331
Film and History in Canada (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the uses of visual history in the representation and popularization of the Canadian past. Case studies involve
both documentary and feature productions from several periods in the history of Canadian film.
HIST 5332
History of Labour in New Brunswick (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the history of the labour question in New Brunswick. Places the provincial experience in the context of
national and international labour and working-class history.
HIST 5335
A History of the Canadian Left
3 ch (3S) [W]
A course in social, political and intellectual history examining the history of the left in Canada from the eighteenth
century to the present. Topics include the origins of the radical tradition, utopian and cooperative reform, early
socialism and feminism, the Communist Party, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the New Democratic Party,
the New Left and other alternatives.
HIST 5342
Environmental History of North America (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the interaction of the peoples of Canada and the United States with the natural environment. Topics include
the theory and methodology of environmental history, changing patterns of land use, resource depletion and industrial
migration, the environmental implications of urbanization, and the intellectual and institutional development of the
conservation/environmental movement.
HIST 5345
Natural Resources, Industrialization and the Environment in Atlantic
Canada (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Explores the political, economic and environmental implications of the dependence on natural resources in Atlantic
Canada, through an examination of the historical development of the forest, fishing, agricultural and mining industries
from the eighteenth century to the post-Second World War period.
HIST 5352
Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Canada (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Focuses on the world of students and their teachers during the nineteenth century. Changes in education, which
influenced the development of the modern system, will be situated within the broader context of change in Canadian
society. Topics include the feminization of teaching; teacher training; curriculum; the relationship between school
attendance patterns and such factors as sex, age, geographic location and parents' occupations; and the emergence of
free and compulsory education.
HIST 5353
Canadian Women’s History (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
This seminar is designed to encourage students to think about relevant topics and approaches to the history of women
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in Canada. Using both primary and secondary materials, the seminar focuses on themes drawn from the 19th and 20th
century. Themes include, but are not limited to: Major approaches to Canadian women’s history; historiography;
women’s work and family lives; women and politics, migration/immigration; aboriginal women’s lives; women’s
experiences of war; social reform movements; women in professions; women and health; feminism.
HIST 5381
Health and Disease in Historical Perspective (O)
3ch (3S) [W]
Focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century understandings of health and disease in North America. Stresses how
gender, class, race/ethnicity affect historical understandings of disease.
HIST 5388
Understanding the Virtual Past; Making Digital History (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Introduces students to the emerging fields of digital history and virtual museum studies by combining theoretical
readings with practical content on the creation and maintenance of digital archives and web design. At the end of this
course students will be familiar with the ways in which historical documents, artifacts, and other materials can be
framed and reframed digitally to allow for new readings and interactions between them. Depending on enrollments from
year to year, this course will have students digitize historical sources; create interactive websites; and prepare written
assignments on the digitization process and the ways in which new media create and shape historical consciousness.
HIST 5403
The Loyalists
3 ch (3S) [W]
Studies the Loyalists during the American Revolution and in exile in British North America, Great Britain, Sierra Leone,
Bermuda, the Bahamas, the British West Indies and Central America. Also considers their long-term political and social
role particularly in Canada, including the Loyalist myth. One week devoted to local Loyalist remains - houses, museum
and art gallery holdings, etc.
HIST 5445
The United States in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines themes in the history of the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century, including the development of
Populism, Progressivism, imperialism, anti-imperialism, and the impact of America's entry into the First World War.
Explores the social, cultural, and political consequences of industrialization and modernization. Prerequisite: HIST 2404
or permission of instructor.
HIST 5475
Modernist Manhattan (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Explores the innovations and institutions that made New York City the epicentre of North American modernism.
Considers a range of cultural products and processes, including bohemianism, literary and visual culture, the crossfertilization of "black" and "white" forms and traditions, improvisation and the jazz scene, the grounding of critical
authority, the politics of authenticity, and the interplay between the avant-garde and the popular.
HIST 5702
Folk-Mass-Popular: Locating Culture in the Shadow of Capital (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the historical debates surrounding such key terms in cultural studies as “folk,” “mass,” and “popular” culture,
through the lens of late-capitalist visual cultural production and cultural politics. Analyses the modern implications of
folk culture’s invention through Western European philosophy and its historical ties to Romantic nationalism; the
creation of mass culture as a commodity form through the modern and global culture industries; and the modern and
contemporary framing of popular culture as a contested terrain between state and corporate domination, subaltern
resistance, and integral component of everyday life.
HIST 5725
The Art of Public History (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the concept of “public history” as the work that history professionals engage in outside the academy. Each
year, this course will focus on a particular aspect of the intersection of public history with disciplinary knowledge and
cultural institutions. Topics covered from year to year include the historical development of the modern public museum;
the relationship between non-Western cultural production and Western cultural institutions; the modern tourism and
heritage industries; and video and performance art as a site of social activism. Note: a field trip may be required. Cost
varies to a maximum of $50.
HIST 5735
Historians and the Visual (O)
3 ch (3C) [W]
Considers how historians can use visual materials, such as prints, photographs, paintings, and advertisements, in their
research. Students will both discover and evaluate different methods of visual investigation, including content analysis,
formal analysis, iconography, and semiotics. Readings will be drawn from the realms of social, cultural, military,
material, art, medical, women's, and gender history.
HIST 5800
War: Themes and Theorists
6 ch (3S) [W]
An in-depth look at the major developments in the theory and practice of war since the fifteenth century. Examines
important theorists from Machiavelli to Kahn and such major themes as command, the industrialization of war, logistics
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and the impact of changing social and political patterns.
HIST 5803
The First World War (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Reviews the key points of controversy surrounding the origins, personalities and conduct of the war on the Western
Front. Particular attention will be paid to the role of the British Expeditionary Force, of which the Canadian
Expeditionary Force was an increasingly important part.
HIST 5804
The Second World War (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines key events and issues of the military campaigns of the Second World War, and wrestles with how historians
and writers of memoirs have portrayed them. Provides a survey of the major historical problems surrounding the
conduct of the war, including: the collapse of the West, the German invasion of Russia, the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbour, area bombing, Normandy, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
HIST 5805
Seapower
3 ch (3S) [W]
Themes in naval history. Uses selected problems to explore the role of naval power in shaping the modern world.
HIST 5812
Themes of War and Diplomacy in the Modern Middle East (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Explores major themes relating to the history of war and diplomacy in the region in the twentieth century, including
Zionism, pan-Arabism, decolonization, the super powers, the Palestinians, and fundamentalist Islam.
HIST 5815
The Study of War since 1945 (A)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the conduct of war since 1945 through an exploration of the literature on war in theory and practice. Course
will focus on the interaction of strategic theory and doctrine, technology, and society in conventional and revolutionary
war.
HIST 5900
The Nature of History
6 ch (3S) [W]
This course is compulsory for third year Single Honours students. It offers an introduction to the nature of the historical
discipline, examining questions related to the philosophy of history, research skills and techniques, the history of
historical thought and the application of history in the community. Double Honours students may participate in the
course but may not count it as one of their required history courses. Open to History Honours students only.
HIST 5910
Fourth Year Reading/Research
6 ch (R) [W]
A reading research course for fourth year students to be supervised by a professor with whom the student is enrolled in
a 3 or 6 ch seminar. The supervisor's permission must be obtained prior to 1 October. This course is for fourth year
students who are enrolled in at least 12 ch of seminars.
HIST 5920
Honours Thesis
6 ch (R) [W]
A reading and research course open to exceptional Honours students in their fourth year which should be used to
produce an Honours Thesis. Permission to take this course must be sought from the professor in the desired field and
the project must be approved by the Department. This course may be used as an alternative to a seminar in the fourth
year. It requires a CGPA of at least 3.6 in History courses for admission.
HIST 5925
Evolutionary Ideas in Modern Thought (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Examines the emergence of evolutionary ideas in western culture with an emphasis on Darwin and his predecessors,
and with some attention to subsequent scientific debates over the mechanism of evolution. Primary emphasis is on the
impact of evolutionary thinking on religion, philosophy, political and social thought, and ideas of race in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
HIST 5945
The Cultural Origins of Science (O)
3 ch (3S) [W]
Why did the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century occur in Western Europe and not in China, the Islamic
World or the Greco-Roman period? What was the Scientific Revolution and its cause? The course explores these vexed
questions through the historiography on the Scientific Revolution, its medieval and Renaissance background, and the
context of natural philosophy in other cultures.