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History

(B.A.)

Faculty List


J.S. Moir, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), D.D. (Presb. College, Montreal), Professor Emeritus
E.W. Dowler, A.M. (Harvard), Ph.D. (London School of Economics), Professor
M. Eksteins, B.A. (Toronto), B.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxon.), Professor
M. Gervers, M.A. (Poitiers), Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor
I.R. Robertson, M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor
L.J. Abray, M.A. (McMaster) M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale), Associate Professor
F. Iacovetta, M.A., Ph.D. (York, Canada), Associate Professor
J.L. Pearl, M.A., Ph.D. (Northwestern), Associate Professor
A.N. Sheps, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor
A.M. Blake, B.A. (Sussex), Ph.D. (American University), Assistant Professor
S.J. Rockel, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Assistant Professor

Discipline Representative:

M. Eksteins (416-287-7148)

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 (HISB20-91) 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.

SPECIALIST PROGRAM IN HISTORY

Supervisor: Until June 30, 2003, A.N. Sheps (416-287-7133)
From July 1, 2003, F. Iacovetta (416-287-7152)
  1. Number of Courses
    Students must complete at least ten full credits in History. These ten must include HISA03Y or (HISA01Y), HISB01H and five upper-level credits (C-/D-level courses at UTSC or 300/400-level courses on the St. George Campus or at UTM). At least one of the five upper-level credits must be at the D-level.
  2. Pre-1815 Courses
    Of the ten credits at least two full credits must deal with the period prior to 1815.
  3. Areas of Study
    Students must include:
    1. At least one full credit in Canadian History, and
    2. At least one course from at least two of the following areas of history:
      1. American
      2. Medieval
      3. European
      4. African, Asian, and Latin American
      5. Ancient Greek and Roman

MAJOR PROGRAM IN HISTORY

Supervisor: Until June 30, 2003, A.N. Sheps (416-287-7133)
From July 1, 2003, F. Iacovetta (416-287-7152)
  1. Number of Courses
    Students must complete seven full credits in History. These seven must include HISA03Y or (HISA01Y) and three upper-level credits (C-/D-level courses at UTSC or 300/400-level courses on the St. George Campus or at UTM).
  2. Pre-1815 Course
    Of the seven credits at least one full credit must deal with the period prior to 1815.
  3. Areas of Study
    Students must also include at least one course from at least two of the following areas of history:
    1. Canadian
    2. American
    3. Medieval
    4. European
    5. African, Asian, and Latin American
    6. Ancient Greek and Roman

MINOR PROGRAM IN HISTORY

Supervisor: Until June 30, 2003, A.N. Sheps (416-287-7133)
From July 1, 2003, F. Iacovetta (416-287-7152)

Students must complete four full credits in History, of which at least full one credit 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.

NOTE: For Co-op opportunities related to the Specialist and Major Programs in History, please see the Calendar entry for the Humanities Co-operative Program, page 124.

HISA03Y3 The Twentieth Century World

World history from the age of imperialism to the modern day, emphasizing both the diversity and the commonality of human experience in the twentieth century.

Major themes include: imperialism and decolonialization, social and political change, demography, technology and economic development, culture and identity, art and science, world war and revolution.
Exclusion: (HIS101)

HISB01H3 History and Evidence

An examination of the nature and uses of evidence in historical and related studies.

Historians use a wide variety of sources as evidence for meaningful statements about the past. This course explores what is meant by history and how historians evaluate sources and test their reliability as historical evidence.

HISB20H3 Victorian Britain

An introduction to Victorian Britain offering a broad survey of economic, social, and political trends. Central themes include the industrial revolution and workers' movements, popular protest and state responses, women and family, social welfare, Irish nationalism, and the urban poor.
Exclusions: (HISB02Y), HIS239H

European Area

HISB21H3 Twentieth-Century Britain

An introduction to twentieth-century Britain offering a broad survey of economic, social, and political trends. Central themes include gender and war, the "modern" welfare state, Labour party, and post-1945 politics. Attention will be paid to the influence of class, gender, and culture on social experience, ideology, and political movements.
Exclusions: (HISB02Y), HIS239H
Prerequisite: HISB20H

European Area

HISB30H3 History of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War

This course surveys such matters as social, economic and political change in the newly-independent republic, political parties and conflicts, territorial expansion, conflict and war with other nations, reform movements, nationalism and sectionalism, the South and slavery, the Civil War and the ending of slavery.
Exclusions: (HISB03Y), HIS271

American Area

HISB31H3 History of the United States since the Civil War

This course offers a survey of U.S. history from the post-Civil War period through the late 20 th century, examining key episodes and issues such as settlement of the American West, industrialization, urbanization, immigration, popular culture, social movements, race relations, and foreign policy.
Exclusions: (HISB03Y), HIS271
Prerequisite: HISB30H

American Area

HISB40H3 Canadian History to 1885

The history of Canada from the first earliest European contacts to the late 19 th century. Topics include the earliest European contacts, New France, the British Conquest, immigration and settlement, Confederation, the constitution, and the early development of Canada as a transcontinental country.
Exclusions: (HISB04Y), (HIS260), (HIS261), (HIS262), HIS263

Canadian Area

HISB41H3 Canadian History Since 1885

Topics include cultural conflict: the optimism of the Laurier period, the impact of the two world wars, political independence, Americanization and relations with the United States, regionalism, and relations between English-speaking and French-speaking Canada.
Exclusions: (HISB04Y), (HIS260), (HIS261), (HIS262), HIS263
Prerequisite: HISB40H

Canadian Area

HISB60H3 Europe in the Early Middle Ages (305-1053)

This course covers the development of Europe from the Late Roman period to the eleventh-century separation of the Roman and Byzantine Churches. It includes the foundation and spread of Christianity, the settlement of "barbarians" and Vikings, the establishment of Frankish kingship, the Empire of Charlemagne, and feudalism and manorialism.
Exclusions: (HISB06Y), HIS220

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

Medieval Area

HISB61H3 Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages (1053-1492)

An introduction to the social, political, religious and economic foundations of the Western world, including Church and State relations, the Crusades, pilgrimage, monasticism, universities and culture, rural exploitation, town development and trade, heresy, plague and war. Particular attention will be devoted to problems which continue to disrupt the modern world.
Exclusions: (HISB06Y), HIS220
Prerequisite: none, but HISB60H highly recommended

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

Medieval Area

HISB70H3 Kievan Rus and Muscovy, 850-1689

The early history of present-day Ukraine and Russia from origins to the beginnings of empire.

Topics will include Christianization, Kievan society and law, the Mongol conquest, the rise of Muscovy, the growth of the autocratic state, early European contacts and the Church schism.
Exclusions: (HISB07Y), HIS250

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISB71H3 Imperial Russia, 1682-1900

The history of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great to the dawn of the twentieth century.

We will examine through lectures and tutorials the evolution of imperial institutions, war, emancipation of the serfs, industrialization, emergence of social classes, reform and revolution, the flowering of Russian art and literature.
Exclusions: (HISB07Y), HIS250

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISB72H3 Revolutionary Russia, 1900 - Present

The history of Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from the 1905 revolution to the present.

Major topics include the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the experimentalism of the 1920s, collectivization and industrialization, the Stalin cult, the disintegration of Stalinism and the end of the USSR.
Exclusions: (HISB07Y), HIS250

European Area

HISB80H3 Early Modern Europe I: 1450-1650

A period of fundamental, often violent, change in European civilization. Renaissance, humanism, and printing; development of new types of monarchy; religious reformations splitting Western Christendom; local and continental wars; exploration and the first European empires.
Exclusions: (HISA01Y), (HISB08Y), HIS243

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISB81H3 Early Modern Europe II: 1600-1800

Social, political, and intellectual transformations culminating in revolution. Thirty Years War; witchcraft and science; Louis XIV and absolutist statecraft; the Enlightenment; the agricultural revolution; slavery; European empires; the French Revolution.
Exclusions: (HISA01Y), (HISB08Y), HIS244
Prerequisite: none, but HISB80H recommended

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISB90H3 Modern Europe I: The Nineteenth Century

Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War. Major topics include revolution, industrialization, nationalism, imperialism, science, technology, art and literature.
Exclusions: (HISA01), (HISB09Y), HIS241

European Area

HISB91H3 Modern Europe II: The Twentieth Century

Europe from the First World War to the present day. War, political extremism, economic crisis, scientific and technological change, cultural modernism, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the European Union are among the topics covered.
Exclusions: (HISA01), (HISB09Y), HIS242

European Area

HISC13H3 Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe 1450-1650

Ideas about sex and gender, and their social and cultural expression.

Discussion of source material and its modern historical interpretation. How the body worked, what differentiated the sexes, virginity, courtship and marriage patterns, procreative sexuality, parenting, the gendering of everyday life, and power issues between the sexes.
Exclusions: (HISC10), HIS245, VIC343
Prerequisites: HISB80H or (WSTA01Y) or (JHSA01Y) or WSTA01H or WSTA02H

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC18H3 Europe in the Enlightenment, 1700-1789

An examination of the ideals of the Enlightenment against the background of social and political change in eighteenth-century Europe.

This course looks at Enlightenment thought and the ways in which European monarchs like Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great adapted it to serve their goals of state building.
Exclusions: (HISB18Y), (HISC18Y), HIS244, (HIS341)
Prerequisites: (HISA01Y) or HISA03Y or 1.0 FCE at B-level in European history

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC24H3 Early Modern Britain I: From the Wars of the Roses to the Defeat of the Armada, 1458-1588

Overview of political, social and cultural patterns with emphasis on the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth. Powers and personalities of monarchs, major institutions, the religious crisis, international relations.
Exclusions: (HISB23), (HISC23), HIS238
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 FCEs at the B-level

European Area

Pre-1815 credit

HISC25H3 Early Modern Britain II: From the Defeat of the Armada to the Formation of Great Britain, 1588-1707

Overview of political, social and cultural patterns with emphasis on the Civil War and execution of the king, the republican interlude, the foundations of the modern economy and expansion overseas.
Exclusions: (HISB23), (HISC23), HIS238
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 FCEs at the B-level. HISC24H highly recommended

European Area

Pre-1815 credit

HISC31H3 Slavery and the American South

An examination of Southern society and slavery from the colonial period to the Civil War.

Topics will include the origins and growth of slavery and the plantation, the economics of slavery, race relations, daily life under slavery and Southern political and social structure and ideas.
Exclusion: (HISB31)
Prerequisite: (HISB03Y) or HISB30H

American Area

HISC34H3 Revolutionary America, 1760-1790

The origins, cause and effect of the American Revolution.

Attention will be paid to the social and political organization of pre-Revolutionary 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.
Exclusions: (HISD34), (HISC32Y), (HISD32Y), HIS379H
Prerequisite: Any one of (HISB02) or HISB20H or (HISB03) or HISB30H or (HISB04) or HISB40H

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

American Area

HISC35H3 Twentieth-Century America

A topical course examining a major thematic area in recent United States history. Topical focus varies from year to year. Possible topics include: history of sexuality; gender history; popular culture; social movements.
Prerequisite: (HISB03Y) or HISB31H

American Area

HISC37H3 The Black Experience in the United States Since the Civil War

A survey of the economic, social, political, and cultural history of black America from Reconstruction until recent times.

Among the central issues dealt with are: segregation and disfranchisement; the Great Migration; the rise of the ghetto; the Civil Rights Movement; emergence of an "underclass".
Exclusion: HIS370
Prerequisite: HISA03 or (HISB03) or HISB31H

American Area

HISC38H3 Major Themes in American Urban History, 1850-Present

This course examines the role of cities and urban culture in the development of the United States from the mid-19 th century to the present. We examine major themes such as immigration and migration, racial and ethnic enclaves, gender and sexuality, urban nature, transportation, architecture and urban planning, work and leisure.
Exclusion: (HISC39Y)
Prerequisite: (HISB03Y) or HISB31H or permission of the instructor

American Area

HISC39H3 Twentieth Century American Urban Culture

This course focuses on the three major American cities of the 20 th century: New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. In addition to individual assignments, students work in groups to research one of the cities and present their work in a multimedia website.
Exclusion: (HISC39Y)
Prerequisites: [(HISB03Y) or HISB31H] & HISC38H or permission of the instructor

American Area

HISC40H3 Atlantic Canada I

An intensive study of the region: the First Nations; the Acadians; the coming of British settlers; the development of each of the colonies.
Exclusions: (HISB46Y), (HISC46Y), HIS468
Prerequisites: (HISB04Y) or [HISB40H & HISB41H]

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

Canadian Area

HISC41H3 Atlantic Canada II

An intensive study of the region: Confederation and the Maritimes after Confederation; Newfoundland from earliest European contacts to its entry into Confederation.
Exclusions: (HISB46Y), (HISC46Y), HIS468
Prerequisites: [(HISB04Y) or HISB40H & HISB41H] & HISC40H

Canadian Area

HISC44H3 Quebec Since 1759

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 1960s; the growth of a movement for independence. Knowledge of the French language is not required.
Exclusions: HIS314Y & HIS413H
Prerequisite: [HISB40H & HISB41H] or (HISB04Y)

HISC45H3 Immigrants and Race Relations in Canadian History

This course examines aspects of the history of immigrants and race relations in Canada, particularly for the period 1840s-1960s.

It covers various immigrant and racialized groups and explores how class, gender and race/ethnicity shaped experiences and racial/ethnic relations.
Prerequisite: Any four FCE's

Canadian Area

HISC47H3 Canadian Labour History

The development of a working class from the pre-industrial era of independent artisans to the modern period. Topics will include the impact of technology on workers, ethnic factors, the development of unions, such pivotal events as the Winnipeg General Strike, and the relationship of labour to politics.
Exclusions: (HISB47Y), (HISC47Y), HIS313
Prerequisites: (HISB04Y) or [HISB40H, HISB41H]

Canadian Area

HISC48H3 Black Canadian History

An examination of the history and presence of people of African descent from their earliest known arrival in Canada to modern times

Topics will include: black immigration, slavery, Canadian anti-slavery movements, Caribbean immigration, the growth and development of Canada's black communities, and their experiences and institutions.
Prerequisite: (HISB04) or [HISB40H & HISB41H]

Canadian Area

HISC49H3 Canada Between the World Wars

An intensive examination of the leading themes in Canadian political, economic, social, and cultural history in the 1920s and 1930s.

Topics will include the impact of the First World War, the development of Canadian autonomy, and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Prerequisite: (HISB04) or HISB41H

Canadian Area

HISC50H3 Africa in the Nineteenth Century

An introduction to the history of Sub-Saharan Africa, from the era of the slave trade to the colonial conquests. Throughout, the capacity of Africans to overcome major problems will be stressed. Themes include slavery and the slave trade; pre-colonial states and societies; economic and labour systems; and religious change.
Exclusions: (HISC90Y), HIS295, HIS396
Prerequisites: HISA03Y or any modern history credit or permission of the instructor

African, Asian, and Latin American Area

HISC51H3 Twentieth Century Africa

Modern Sub-Saharan Africa, from the colonial conquests to the post-colonial era of structural adjustment. The emphasis is on both structure and agency in a hostile world. Themes include conquest and resistance; colonial economies; gender and ethnicity; religious and political movements; development and underdevelopment, post-colonial conflicts, as well as cultural achievements.
Exclusions: (HISB05), (HISB10H), (HISC90Y), HIS396
Prerequisite: HISC50H or, for 2003/04 only, permission of instructor.

African, Asian, and Latin American Area

HISC52H3 A History of Ethiopia

Ethiopia from the fourth through the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the Christian Church, the monarchy, links with both the Mediterranean world and the Indian subcontinent, and the relationship of individuals to their social, economic, artistic and geographic environments.
Exclusion: (HISC61H)
Prerequisite: A B-level history credit considering Europe, Africa or Asia before 1900.

Highly recommended: HISB01H , (HISB06Y), HISB60H, or HISB62H

African, Latin American, Asian Area

HISC53H3 Topics in Asian History

A topical study of the cultures, peoples and states of South and Southeast Asia. Topics may include India in the eighteenth century, 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: (HISC95H), HIS364H
Prerequisite: One full credit in History

African, Asian, and Latin American Area

HISC78H3 Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1900

The development of Russian society from the revolutionary reforms of Peter the Great to the counter-revolutionary reforms of Alexander III.

Topics include peasant society, the nobility, women, urbanization, and proletarianization.
Exclusion: HIS325H
Prerequisite: (HISB07) or HISB72H or any 2.5 FCE in HIS

0.5 pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC79H3 Social History of Revolutionary Russia, 1900-Present

Social change in Russia and the USSR from the 1905 revolution to the end of the Soviet Union.

Topics include the social processes that produced the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, social experimentation in the 1920s, Stalinism and its disintegration and the social background to the breakup of the USSR.
Exclusion: HIS351
Prerequisite: (HISB07) or HISB72H or any 2.5 FCE in HIS

European Area

HISC80H3 The Sixteenth Century Religious Reformations

Upheavals in Western Christendom leading to the modern western denominations of Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, as well as the baptist and spiritualist traditions. Connections between ideas and social change.
Exclusions: (HISB13), (HISC12H), (HISC83)
Prerequisite: (HISB08Y) or HISB61H or HISB80H

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC81H3 France 1500-1640

In this period, France developed rapidly as a national state in violent rivalry with her neighbours. Civil and foreign wars were continual. We will examine the growth of social and governmental institutions and the central role of the French monarchy. The Reformation, wars of religion, will be examined.
Exclusions: (HISB11Y), (HISC11Y), HIS349
Prerequisite: (HISA01Y) or HISA03Y or a B-level credit in European history

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC82H3 France 1640-1800

In this period, France was the dominant political and cultural power in Europe, the model for absolute monarchy and enlightened thought. By 1800, revolution resulted in the execution of the king and general war.
Exclusions: (HISB11Y), (HISC11Y), HIS349
Prerequisite: HISC81H

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC84H3 Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

This course will explore areas of everyday life in Europe from 1500 to 1800, looking at how people lived and what they believed. We will examine religion, ritual, folklore, magic and witchcraft, observing interactions between different social strata.
Exclusions: (HISB14), (HISC14)
Prerequisite: (HISA01) or a B-level course in History.

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC86H3 Revolutionary France, 1780-1800

The age of revolution and its continuing importance.

The course will study the elements of tradition and continuity in this period as well as the more obvious areas of radical break with the past.
Exclusion: (HISD86)
Prerequisite: (HISA01Y) or any B-level credit in European history.

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISC88H3 Modern France I: 1750-1850

During this period, France underwent dramatic change in government and society. Absolute monarchy gave way to a revolution which led to a long and violent succession of governmental forms. Industrialization took hold, setting the scene for dramatic changes in society.
Exclusion: (HISC16Y)
Prerequisite: (HISA01Y) or HISA03Y or a B-level credit in History or permission of the instructor

European Area

HISC89H3 Modern France II: 1850-Present

France from the Second Empire to the Fifth Republic. We will examine the transformation of France from an agricultural to a modern urban technological society. Many wars and colonial upheavals accompanied this process.
Exclusion: (HISC16Y)
Prerequisite: (HISA01Y) or HISA03Y or a B-level credit in History or permission of the instructor

European Area

HISC90H3 Modern Germany I: The Nineteenth Century

German history from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the outbreak of the First World War. The rise of Prussia, the impact of political and industrial revolution, the unification of modern Germany, the imperial age, science, technology, art and music are among the themes pursued.
Exclusions: (HISB17), (HISC87Y), HIS317
Prerequisite: (HISA01Y) or HISA03Y or (HISB09Y) or HISB90H

European Area

HISC91H3 Modern Germany II: The Twentieth Century

German history from the First World War to the present day. The two world wars, the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, the Third Reich, the Holocaust, the division of Germany, the Cold War, European Union, and German reunification are among the topics covered.
Exclusions: (HISB17), (HISC87Y), HIS317
Prerequisite: (HISA01Y) or HISA03Y or (HISB09Y) or HISB91H

European Area

HISD01H3 Independent Studies: Senior Research Project

This option is available in rare and exceptional circumstances to students who have demonstrated a high level of academic maturity and competence. Qualified students will have the opportunity to investigate an historical field which is of common interest to both student and supervisor.
Exclusion: (HISC01, HISC02, HISC03), HIS497, HIS498, HIS499
Prerequisite: at least 15 FCEs and completion of the requirements for the Major Program in History; written permission must be obtained from the instructor in the previous semester.

History Faculty

HISD33H3 Reform Movements in the United States, 1790-1860

Topics include effects of social and economic growth and change, immigration, urbanization, racism, 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: [(HISB03Y) or HISB30H] and at least 1.0 additional FCE in HIS at the B- or C-level

American Area

HISD37H3 History and Media in the United States

Viewing film documentaries, listening to radio documentaries, and examining websites, we consider how producers in these media have used different types of historical evidence to construct their narratives. Students in the course construct websites addressing the relation between history and the media.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisites: (HISB03Y) or HISB31H & at least one other B- or C-level credit in HIS or permission of the instructor.

American Area

HISD39H3 Seeing America: Minority Perspectives on U.S. Culture, 1890-Present

This course examines United States culture from the perspectives of those perceived as members of "minority" groups (class, racial, ethnic, sexual). We 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
Prerequisites: (HISB03Y) or [HISB30H & HISB31H] or HISC31H and at least one other B- or C-level course in History or permission of instructor.

American Area

HISD46H3 Selected Topics in Canadian Women's History

Weekly discussions of assigned readings.

The course covers a broad chronological sweep but also highlights certain themes, including race and gender relations, working women and family economies, sexuality, and women and the courts. We will also explore topics in gender history, including masculinity studies and gay history.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisites: (HISC10Y) or any credit in Canadian history

Canadian Area

HISD47H3 Cold War Canada in Comparative Contexts

A seminar on Cold War Canada that focuses on the early post-war era and examines Canadian events, developments, experience within a comparative North American context. Weekly readings are organized around a particular theme or themes, including the national insecurity state; reds, spies, and civil liberties; suburbia; and sexuality.
Limited Enrolment: 15
Prerequisites: (HISB04Y) or HISB41H & at least one other B- or C-level credit in History

Canadian Area

HISD50H3 Southern Africa, 1652-1910

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 pre-colonial civilizations, colonialism and white settlement, slavery, the frontier, the mineral revolution and the South African War. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
Limited Enrolment: 15
Exclusion: (HISD91Y)
Prerequisites: (HISB10H) or (HISC90Y) or HISC50H or any two Modern History credits

African, Asian and Latin American Area

HISD51H3 Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Liberation

A seminar study of southern African history from 1910 to the present. Students will consider industrialization in South Africa, segregation, apartheid, colonial rule, liberation movements, and the impact of the Cold War. Historiography and questions of race, class and gender will be important. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
Limited Enrolment: 15
Exclusion: (HISD91Y)
Prerequisite: HISD50H

African, Asian and Latin American Area

HISD52H3 East African Societies in Transition

A seminar study of East African peoples from late pre-colonial times to the 1990s, emphasizing their rapid although uneven adaptation to integration of the region into the wider world. Transitions associated with migrations, commercialization, religious change, colonial conquest, nationalism, economic development and conflict, will be investigated. Student presentations are required.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisites: [one of (HISB10H), HISC50H, (HISC90Y), (HISD91Y)] or any two history credits

African, Asian and Latin American area.

HISD63H3 The Crusades: I

Modern interpretations of the Crusades will be investigated in the broad context of Western expansion into the Middle East (1099-1204), Spain and southern Europe, and, North-Eastern Europe. Also considered will be the Christian Military Orders, the Mongols and political crusades within Europe itself.
Limited Enrolment: 15.

0.5 pre-1815 credit
Exclusion: (HISC62), (HISD62Y)
Prerequisite: (HISB06Y) or [HIS60H & HISB61H]

Medieval Area

HISD64H3 The Crusades: II

An intensive study of the primary sources of the First through Fourth Crusades, including works by Eastern and Western Christian, Arab and Jewish authors. The crusading period will be considered in terms of Western Christian expansion into the Middle East, Spain and Northern Europe in the 11th through 13th centuries.
Limited Enrolment: 15
Exclusion: (HISC62), (HISD62Y)
Prerequisite: (HISB06Y) or [HISB60H & HISB61H]

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

Medieval Area

HISD80H3 Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800

A seminar investigating concepts of law, court systems, and penalties in Early Modern Europe.

The course will examine how legal systems, including both lay and ecclesiastical courts (inquisitions) reflected their societies. The use of torture, corporal, and capital punishment will be examined in the context of societies and their values.
Limited enrolment: 20
Exclusion: (HISD11H)
Prerequisites: [(HISA01Y) or HISA03Y] and one B- or C-level credit in history; or two B- or C-level credits in European history or permission of the instructor

0.5 Pre-1815 credit

European Area

HISD90H3 Weimar Culture

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)
Prerequisites: [(HISA01) or HISA03] and one B-level credit in History.

European Area

History courses in Classical Studies (see Classical Studies for full descriptions of courses); all of the following CLA history courses are Pre-1815 credits and can be used to fulfill History Program requirements.

CLAB05H3 The Mediterranean World I: Greece

CLAB06H3 The Mediterranean World II: Rome

CLAB42H3 Army and Empire in the Roman World

CLAC41H3 Slavery in the Roman Economy

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