Note: See Page H.1 for Abbreviations, Course Numbers and Coding

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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 non-political 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 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 .
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 European-Aboriginal 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. 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 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 / The Generation of the Great War (A) / 3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
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 / The Generation of the Second World War (A) / 3 ch (2C 1T) [W]
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]