University of Toronto at Scarborough 2001/2002 Calendar
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(B.A.)
Discipline Representative:
Until June 30, 2001
M. Eksteins (416-287-7148)
July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002
I.R. Robertson (416-287-7146)
The study of history is intended to enhance our understanding
of human society by examining the experiences of particular peoples
and their societies in the past. Its findings depend upon the
precise evaluation of specific evidence. History's concerns and
goals are humanistic; its methods draw from all forms of scholarly
endeavour. History courses, therefore, can play a part in a number
of interdisciplinary Programs and can serve as an adjunct to courses
in Politics, Philosophy, Literature, Economics, Sociology, and
Anthropology. History can also be usefully combined with language
study.
The History curriculum combines a variety of approaches
and teaching in order to satisfy a number of purposes. HISA03Y
provides both a general introduction to the study of history at
the university level, and the preparation for further studies
in World history. A series of survey courses (HISB02-09) provides
a comprehensive foundation of knowledge in particular areas. In
upper-level courses students investigate more specific areas,
periods, or problems. D-series courses are conducted as seminars.
In them students make close and thorough studies of particular
questions and present their findings in discussions and major
essays. There are courses at all levels in the following areas
and periods of history: Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, Britain,
Canada, America and the United States, Russia, Ancient Greece
and Rome, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Supervisor: A.N. Sheps (416-287-7133)
1 Number of Courses
Students must complete at least ten full-course equivalents in History. These ten must include HISA03Y (or HISA01Y) and five upper-level full-course equivalents (C-/D-level courses on the Scarborough Campus, 300/400-level courses on the St. George Campus). At least one of the five must be a D-/400-level course.
2 Pre-1815 Courses
Of the ten at least two full-course equivalents must deal with the period prior to 1815.
3 Areas of Study
a. Students are also required to take courses in
at least three different areas of history from the following groups:
I. Canadian
II. American
III. Medieval
IV. European
V. African, Asian, and Latin American
VI. Ancient Greek and Roman
b. Students must complete at least one course in
Canadian History.
Supervisor: A.N. Sheps (416-287-7133)
1 Number of Courses
Students must complete seven full-course equivalents in History. These seven must include HISA03Y (or HISA01Y) and three upper-level full-course equivalents (C-/D-level courses on the Scarborough Campus, 300/400-level courses on the St. George Campus).
2 Pre-1815 Course
Of the seven at least one full-course equivalent must deal with the period prior to 1815.
3 Areas of Study
Students are also required to take courses in at
least two different areas of history from the following groups:
I. Canadian
II. American
III. Medieval
IV. European
V. African, Asian, and Latin American
VI. Ancient Greek and Roman
Supervisor: A.N. Sheps (416-287-7133)
Students must complete four full courses or the equivalent in History, of which at least one full-course (or two half courses) must be at the C- and/or D-level.
NOTE: Students
are advised to consult the prerequisites for C-level and D-level
courses when planning their individual Programs.
An introduction to world history from the age of imperialism to the modern day, emphasizing both the diversity and the commonality of the modern human experience.
Major themes will include: imperialism and decolonialization, social and political organization, demography, technology and economic development, religion and morality, art and science, international relations and war.
Exclusion: HIS101
An examination of the political, social, economic, and religious forces which transformed an aristocratic society into an industrial power, and of the reasons for the decline of British power in the twentieth century.
The course will be concerned with the problems caused by the transformation of an agrarian into a highly industrialized economy, of an aristocratic into a liberal democratic society, and of a society based on the ideology of the Enlightenment into one committed to that of evangelical humanitarianism. It will also consider why, in the twentieth century, the British abandoned their imperial role and concentrated on the establishment of a welfare state.
Exclusion: HIS239
European Area
Major themes from the Revolution to the present.
The course will focus on such questions as independence, political organization, political parties, territorial expansion, nationalism and sectionalism, reform movements, the slavery and civil rights question, the response to industrialization, progressivism, and the United States as a world power.
Exclusion: HIS271
American Area
The history of Canada from the first European contacts to the present.
Topics studied include: exploration and settlement; the institutions and life of New France; the British Conquest and its results; consequences of the American Revolution; British settlement; Confederation and the constitution; changing patterns of immigration; the impact of two world wars; the Great Depression of the 1930s; Americanization and regionalism; roots of the current crisis in relations between English-speaking and French-speaking Canada.
Exclusion: HIS260, 261, 262, 263
Canadian Area
A chronological survey of economic, political, religious, and social developments in Western Europe (including Britain) from the late Roman period to the fifteenth century.
The object of this course is to familiarize students
with the foundations of Western society as they evolved in conjunction
with the early settlement, colonization, and subsequent expansion
of Europe. Particular attention is paid: (i) to the peculiar circumstances
which determined national boundaries and which led to the divisions
and conflicts of the modern world, and (ii) to the origin and
development of our own religious, legal, educational and political
institutions.
Exclusion: HIS220
Pre-1815 credit
Medieval Area
M. Gervers/T.B.A.
The Russian people, state, and culture, with emphasis on the major social, institutional, and ideological changes from the rise of Moscow to the present.
Wherever possible readings have been selected from
primary source materials so that students will become acquainted
not only with the facts but the flavour of Russian history. Lectures
and discussion.
Exclusion: HIS250
0.5 Pre-1815 credit
European Area
E.W. Dowler
The history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution.
This course covers a tumultuous three centuries,
marked by endemic violence. While the political structures that
existed by 1500 remained little changed through most of this period,
intellectual, religious and social upheavals were constant. We
will examine economic life, social structures and institutions
of government. The renaissance, reformation, witchcraft crisis,
scientific revolution and the Enlightenment will be discussed.
One two-hour lecture plus tutorial each week.
Exclusion: (HISA01) HIS243H; HIS244H
Pre-1815 credit
European Area
J. Pearl
A survey of European developments, social, cultural, economic and political since the French Revolution.
Major themes will include: revolution, industrialization, nationalism, imperialism, war, science, technology, art and literature.
Exclusion: (HISA01), HIS241, 242
European Area
M. Eksteins/T.B.A.
An exploration of changing definitions of femininity and masculinity from the Renaissance to the recent past.
Topics will include: changes in expectations for men and women in their domestic, parental, and public roles (with the latter including education, employment, politics, and war); relations between the sexes; feminism and anti-feminism. The focus will be on the British Isles, Western Europe, and Canada, and on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lecture and discussion: three hours.
Exclusion: (HISB10) HIS308
Prerequisite: One of (HISA01) HISA03, HISB02, HISB03, HISB04, HISB08, HISB09, or WSTA01 (JHSA01)
0.5 pre-1815 credit
An exploration of a tumultuous two and one half centuries.
In this period, the French experimented with many forms of government including monarchy, revolutionary oligarchy, empire and democratic republics of several types. France also underwent dramatic social and economic change, from a hierarchical agrarian nation to an egalitarian highly technological society. This process was accompanied by both civil strife and many foreign wars.
One two-hour lecture plus tutorial each week.
Exclusion: HISB16Y
Prerequisite: (HISA01) HISA03 or a B-level course in History or permission of the instructor.
European Area
An examination of the ideals of the Enlightenment against the background of the social and political reality of Europe in the eighteenth century.
Emphasis will be placed on the incongruity of theory and practice in the writings and policies of the enlightened despots. In the first term the course will focus on the ideas of the Enlightenment and the social, economic, and intellectual milieu which spawned them. In the second term the attempts of the so-called enlightened despots to apply Enlightenment ideas to the life of their states will be examined. Lectures and discussion.
Exclusion: (HISB18) HIS244
Prerequisite: (HISA01) HISA03 or a B-level course in European history.
Pre-1815 credit
European Area
England from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Glorious Revolution, 1485-1688.
The course gives an overview of political, economic,
social, and cultural patterns. Special attention will be given
to four themes: the powers and personalities of the rulers; Parliament
and the rule of law; the great religious crisis and its spillover
into civil war; the cultural heritage. Two lecture hours and one
tutorial per week.
Exclusion: (HISB23) HIS238
Prerequisite: Any B-level full-course equivalent
Pre-1815 credit
European Area
L.J. Abray
A seminar investigating the origins, cause and effect of the American Revolution.
Attention will be paid to the social and political
organization of America, the political ideas of the Revolution,
revolutionary changes in the new states, the significance of the
Constitution, and the effect of the revolution on Canada and Britain.
Exclusion: (HISD34) HISC32Y, HISD32Y
Prerequisite: Any one of HISB02 or HISB03 or HISB04
0.5 Pre-1815 credit
American Area
A.N. Sheps
This course examines the role of cities and urban
culture in the development of the United States in the late 19th
and 20th centuries. In the first term we examine major
themes in American urban history: anti-urbanism in American culture,
immigration and migration, racial and ethnic enclaves, gender
and sexuality, nature in the city, transportation and communication,
architecture and urban planning, "high" and "low"
culture, work and leisure. In the second term we focus our attention
on the two most influential American cities of the age: New York
and Los Angeles.
Exclusion: HISD38H
Prerequisite: HISB03Y or permission of the instructor
American Area
A.M. Blake
An examination of the history of Quebec since the Conquest of New France.
Themes will include "survival" as an issue; "nationalism" and its variants, immigration and the relationship of the majority with minorities; Confederation; the impact of the two world wars; the "Quiet Revolution" in the 1960's; the growth of a movement for independence. Knowledge of the French language is not required. Two lectures and one tutorial per week.
Exclusions: HIS314Y & HIS413H
Prerequisite: HISB04Y
The history of immigrants, immigration policy, and race relations in Canada from the European-Native contact period to the post-World War II era.
Organized partly chronologically and partly by theme, the lectures and reading material will introduce students both to the perspectives and methodologies of the field and to the diversity of the ethnic/racial experience in Canada. Immigrants' lives as pioneer farmers, male sojourners, industrial workers, domestics, entrepreneurs, radicals, and as members of families are considered. The course highlights the experience of such groups as Canada's first peoples, the famine Irish, West Coast Asians, continental Europeans, and American and West Indian Blacks.
Prerequisite: Any four (4) F.C.E.'s
Canadian Area
The Maritime provinces and Newfoundland from the origins to the present.
Subjects include the following: First Nations and the impact of European contact; French regime and the development of a distinctive Acadian people; British settlement; responses to the American Revolution; the Loyalists; colonial economies and social structures; ethnic minorities, including Black Maritimers; literary and intellectual developments; struggles for responsible government, and its eventual loss in Newfoundland; Confederation; economic development in the late 19th century; outmigration; women's history; the development of underdevelopment in the region, and the search for solutions.
One two-hour lecture each week, plus tutorials.
Written work will include two research papers.
Exclusion: (HISB46) HIS468
Prerequisite: HISB04
0.5 Pre-1815 credit
Canadian Area
I.R. Robertson
A study of cultural history of Ethiopia from the fourth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
Particular attention will be paid to the role of the Christian Church, the nature of the monarchy, links with both the Mediterranean world and the Indian subcontinent, and the relationship of the people to their social economic, artistic and geographic environments.
Prerequisite: Any B-level history course or higher which considers Europe, Africa or Asia before the 20th century. HISB06 is highly recommended or HISB01.
African, Latin American, Asian Area
An investigation of mentalities and society in Europe
from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. This course will
explore many areas of popular society, examining how people lived,
and especially what they believed in. We will look at popular
religion, folklore, and witchcraft, in order to observe the interaction
of the world views of different social strata. Two hours of lecture
and one tutorial per week.
Exclusion: (HISB14), (HISC14)
Prerequisite: (HISA01) or a B-level course in History.
0.5 Pre-1815 credit
European Area
J.L. Pearl
A topical study of the cultures, peoples and states of South and Southeast Asia.
Modern India: Topics may include India in the eighteenth
century, establishment of East India Company rule, Official and
Missionary Orientalism, emergence and development of Indian nationalism,
formation of ethnic and gender identities, Muslim revival and
separatism, partition and post-partition politics and society.
Exclusion: HIS364H
Prerequisite: One F.C.E. in History
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
T.B.A.
An examination of the social and political foundations of "modernism," using the cultural ferment of Germany between 1918 and 1933 as model.
Individual artists and thinkers will be considered, but the emphasis will nevertheless be on culture as a social manifestation. Seminar.
Limited enrolment: 15
Exclusion: (HISC19H)
Prerequisite: (HISA01) HISA03 and one B-level course in History.
European Area
A seminar investigating reform movements and forces in the United States throughout the 19th century.
Topics will include the effects of social and economic growth and change, immigration, urbanization, racism and race relations, free blacks, gender and women's movements, anti-slavery, temperance, peace and other reform campaigns, religious revivalism, American utopianism and communal experiments, workers' movements, the major political reform movements, territorial expansion, and frontier society.
Limited Enrolment: 15.
Prerequisite: Any B-level history course or equivalent American Area
This course examines United States culture from the perspectives of those perceived as members of a "minority" by the American majority for reasons of class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, or immigrant status. The class will examine how the meaning and significance of the United States has been variously constructed through the perceptions and representations of such minorities or "others".
Limited Enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB03Y and at least one other B- or C-level course in History
American Area
A seminar investigating the role, lives, and struggles of women in Canada from the time of initial European contacts with the First Peoples to the post-World War Two era.
The course will highlight the changing position of women in Canadian society, the relations between men and women and among women from different class, ethnic/racial, and political backgrounds, and the impact of state policies on women and gender relations. Topics could include native women in fur trade society, rural women, women and the law, sexuality and crime, middle-class women's roles in religion, reform, and politics, working class and radical women, and immigrant and minority women.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisites: Any course in Canadian history or HISC10Y or HISD10H
Canadian Area
Examines the domestic side of Canada's Cold War by exploring the links between the political, social, gender and sexual history of postwar Canadian society. Selected topics include RCMP surveillance and repression of gays and lesbians in the civil service, the moral panics surrounding alleged epidemics in juvenile delinquency, rising divorce and declining morality. We will also explore the impact of Canada's Cold War on immigration and ethnic communities but also the impact of anti-Soviet refugees on shaping Canada's Cold War and democratic discourse, the discourses of sexuality, and the role of women's groups and protest groups, including anti-nuclear groups. Assigned readings include Gary Kinsman, Dieter Buse, and Mercedes Steedman eds., Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies (Between the Lines Press, Toronto, 2000) which includes articles on RCMP spying on women's groups, unions, and high school students; communist and other radical male and female activists, and beauty contests and sexual non-conformists. Students will be encouraged to develop their own research project using newspaper, archival, and other primary source materials.
Prerequisites: HISB04Y and at least one other B- or C-level course in History.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prof. Iacovetta
An intensive study of the prominent secondary interpretations of the Crusades.
The Crusades will be investigated in the broad context
of Western expansion into (i), the Middle East during the course
of the First through Fourth Crusades (1099-1204), (ii), Spain
and southern Europe, and (iii), North-Eastern Europe. Consideration
will also be given to the Western confrontation with the Mongols,
to the role played by the Christian Military Orders and to political
crusades in Europe itself.
Limited Enrolment: 15.
0.5 pre-1815 credit
Prerequisite: HISB06Y
Exclusion: (HISC62) HISD62Y
Medieval Area
M. Gervers
A seminar study of the history of the peoples of
southern Africa, beginning with the hunter-gatherers but concentrating
on farming and industrializing societies. Students will consider
precolonial civilizations, colonialism and white settlement, the
slave trade, the frontier, the mineral revolution, apartheid,
liberation movements, and the impact of the Cold War. Social and
economic change will also receive attention. Given the dynamic
and conflict driven history of the region, interpretations often
sharply differ; hence
historiograph, and questions of race, class, and gender will be important. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
Limited Enrolment: 15
Prerequisites: HISB10H or HISC90Y or any two History courses
African, Asian and Latin American Area
History courses in Classical Studies (see Classical
Studies for full descriptions of courses offered in 2001/2002);
all of the following CLA history courses are Pre-1815 credits
and can be used to fulfill History Program requirements.
HISB05Y3 History of African Since 1800
HISB10H3 Africa in the Twentieth Century
HISB11H3 Topics in Caribbean History
HISC11Y3 France from Reformation to Revolution 1500-1789
HISC12H3 The Sixteenth Century Religious Reformations
HISC31H3 Slavery and the American South
HISC35H3 Twentieth-Century America
HISC37H3 The Black Experience in the United States Since the Civil War
HISC47Y3 The Canadian Left, 1867 to the Present
HISC48H3 Black Canadian History, 1606-1919
HISC49H3 Canada Between the World Wars
HISC78H3 Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1900
HISC79H3 Social History of Revolutionary Russia, 1900 to the Present
HISC87H3 Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries
HISC90Y3 Africa Since 1800
HISD11H3 Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800
HISD15Y3 The Making of Modern Society
HISD17Y3 European Society and Culture in the Twentieth Century
HISD33H3 Reform Movements in the United States, 1790-1860
HISD38H3 From New York to L.A.: The American City 1890-1990
HISD64H3 The Crusades: II
HISD86H3 Revolutionary France, 1780-1800
HISD15Y3 The Making of Modern Society
HISD17Y3 European Society and Culture in the Twentieth Century
HISD33H3 Reform Movements in the United States, 1790-1860
HISD38H3 From New York to L.A.: The American City 1890-1990
HISD64H3 The Crusades: II
HISD86H3 Revolutionary France,1780-1800
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