Graduate Studies

Joint Master's Program
History Course Offerings


Note: All courses listed below are six credit hour courses. Course offerings vary from year to year. Course listings and departmental regulations for each program may be obtained from the Departments for the current academic year.


AFRICAN and ASIAN

HIST 7703(3) / HIST 7820 ISSUES IN MODERN ASIAN HISTORY 1: SELECTED TOPICS This course analyses important issues and recent developments in the history and historiography of modern Asia. Content of the course varies from year to year. Consult the History Department for particulars.

HIST 7704(3) / HIST 7829 ISSUES IN MODERN ASIAN HISTORY 2: SELECTED TOPICS This course analyses important issues and recent developments in the history and historiography of modern Asia. Content of the course varies from year to year. Consult the History Department for particulars.

HIST-7705(6) / HIST 7930 IMPERIALISM, DECOLONIZATION, AND NEO-COLONIALISM, 1700- PRESENT This course is an exploration of theoretically informed literature that has attempted to engage with and understand Imperialism, and Colonialism, Anti-Colonial Nationalism, National Liberation Movements and Neo-Colonialism.

HIST-7708(6) / HIST 7280 TROPICAL AFRICA IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Emphasis will be placed on the development of the European-African relationship from the end of the slave trade to independence. Specific topics considered will be imperialism, African nationalism, colonialism, independence movements, revolutionary wars, and the European legacy in Africa.


AMERICAN

HIST-7605(6) / HIST 7650 AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY An examination of selected topics in American foreign relations.

HIST-7606(6) / HIST 7240 STATE AND SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA Readings focus on state/society relations in the history of Latin America since colonial times. After considering different theoretical approaches, the course analyzes recent works that cover different historical periods, countries, issues, and social actors.

HIST-7608(6) / HIST 7180 STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 An examination of selected topics in American history from colonial beginnings to Reconstruction. Particular topics will be announced each year.

HIST-7609(6) / HIST 7190 STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877 An examination of selected topics in American history from Reconstruction to the present. Particular topics will be announced each year.

HIST-7701(6) / HIST 7730 MODERN LATIN AMERICA An examination of selected themes such as economic and social change, political modernization, and external influences and intervention in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH

HIST-7304(6) / HIST 7230 NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN A study of British culture, politics, and diplomacy, 1830-1900.

HIST-7309(6) /HIST 7740 ENGLAND IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY This course examines selected themes in the history of England’s long eighteenth century, from 1660 to 1840. Specific topics vary from year to year, but include the transformation of political culture, the consequences of war, the question of national identities, the emergence of commercial society and the changes in social structure.

HIST-7311(6) / HIST 7220 READING SEMINAR IN BRITISH HISTORY This course is a detailed examination of selected topics and problems in British history. Topics and content vary from year to year.


CANADIAN

HIST-7503(6) / HIST 7330 HISTORY OF WESTERN CANADA A research course in western Canadian history. The range of subjects will vary from year to year depending on the interest of the students. The subjects range from the fur trade to modern political, social, and economic issues.

HIST-7506(6) / HIST 7360 CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS A historical survey in which the student may concentrate on such periods and aspects (political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, etc.) as may be of particular interest.

HIST 7507(6) / HIST 7750 GENDER HISTORY IN CANADA This course explores the roles, images, and experiences of masculinity and femininity in the past. The course familiarizes students with the changing theoretical and historiographical terrain of gender history. It draws on the international literature but focuses on the history of gender in Canada, and examines how historians analyze masculinity, femininity, the family, sexuality, politics, race/ethnicity, moral regulation, class, nation and colonialism.

HIST-7509(6) / HIST 7290 READING SEMINAR IN CANADIAN HISTORY, 1860 TO THE PRESENT While the specific course content may vary from year to year, the general approach shall be to ensure a broad sampling of the secondary literature in Canadian history. Political, social and economic themes will be emphasized and particular concern shall be taken with historiographical controversy.

HIST-7510(6) / HIST 7600 NORTHERN HISTORICAL STUDIES This course is based upon a number of studies of various aspects of the North. Particular emphasis is given to the North in relation to the fur trade, exploration, and Canadian development.

HIST-7511(6) / HIST 7810 STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1760-1867 Themes may include the fur trade, Euro-Indian relations, immigration, rural and urban social patterns, the instruments of culture (religion, education, the family, etc.) and the social implications of political and economic development.

HIST-7517(6) / HIST 7670 STUDIES IN CANADIAN HISTORY, 1870-1919 This seminar will focus on social, intellectual, political, and economic themes, with particular emphasis on the western experience. Specific topics will vary from year to year depending upon the interests of students and instructors.


MEDIAEVAL

HIST-7201(6) / HIST 7410 THE CRUSADES An inquiry into the origins of the Crusading movements in the West and into its impact in the East, with special reference to the role it played in hastening the end of the East Roman Empire. HIST-7202(6) / HIST 7420 MEDIAEVAL MONASTICISM Reading and research assignments in the history of Western Monasticism.

HIST-7204(6) / HIST 7440 EUROPE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY Readings and research assignments in the principal developments of the fourteenth century.

HIST-7207(6) / HIST 7470 THE LATER MIDDLE AGES Selected topics in economic, social, cultural, art and religious history of the later medieval world. Students may not hold credit for both HIST-7207(6) / HIST 7470 and the former 011.743.

HIST-7208(6) / HIST 7480 THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES A detailed examination of selected aspects of the early medieval world during the period 313 A.D. — 800 A.D.

HIST-7901(6) / HIST 7460 SCIENTIFIC STUDIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES The seven liberal arts in Greek, Roman, and European school literature and practice will be reviewed with emphasis on arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and harmonics, and the development of experimental science.


MODERN EASTERN EUROPEAN

HIST-7301(6) / HIST 7560 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION The events constituting the Revolution proper (1917-21) will be studied in relation to their historical background and in the light of their subsequent impact both nationally and globally.

HIST-7310(6) / HIST 7800 IMPERIAL RUSSIA  A study of selected problems in Russian Imperial history covering the 18th and 19th centuries.

HIST-7318(6) / HIST 7680 MODERN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE A study of nationalism and communism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -"western" attitudes towards the area will also be discussed. Excludes the Soviet Union.


MODERN EUROPEAN

HIST-7210(6) / HIST 7510 EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY A seminar which studies early modern Europe from the perspectives of new approaches to historiography.

HIST-7302(6) / HIST 7520 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Emphasis on eighteenth century French intellectual history and its relationship to the origins and course of the French Revolution. Some reading knowledge of French is almost essential.

HIST-7305(6) / HIST 7550 TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE An analysis of selected problems in the recent history of Europe.

HIST-7306(6) / HIST 7660 NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE An analysis of selected problems in the nineteenth-century European history.

HIST-7902(6) / HIST 7690 POST-NEWTONIAN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT Selected topics in the history of the physical, geological and biological sciences from the time of Newton through to the early 20th century. The relationships of scientific ideas to other philosophical, religious and social developments will be emphasized throughout.


MODERN WORLD

HIST-7106(6) / HIST 7920 POPULAR RADICALISM IN THE MODERN WORLD Selected topics in the history of popular movements of social and political protest in the modern world. The course considers problems such as the development of radical theory and political practice, and the culture of dissent. Students may not hold credit for both HIST-7106(6) / HIST 7920 and the former 011.726.

HIST-7108(6) / HIST 7910 STUDIES ON MODERN WORLD HISTORY A seminar emphasizing the period since 1945. With the agreement of the instructor and depending on the needs of their degree programs, students may elect a reading or research option.


SOCIAL

HIST-7004(6) / HIST 7270 SPECIAL STUDIES IN SOCIAL HISTORY A seminar course, the content of which will vary from year to year.

HIST-7006(6) /HIST 7760 HISTORY OF ABORIGINAL RIGHTS A study of aboriginal rights from early contact to the present with a particular emphasis on treaties, the courts, and Aboriginal efforts to enforce specific forms of rights.

HIST-7101(6) / HIST 7610 NATIONAL STATES AND NATIONAL MINORITIES A historical approach to the development of nationalism in Canada and the Europe. Special attention paid to the treatment of minority groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in education and cultural fields.

HIST-7107(6) / HIST 7710 HISTORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES A working guide to interdisciplinary approaches to the new field of Cultural Studies, examining its principal theoretical bases and existing and potential applications for the historian.

HIST-7801(6) ADVANCED STUDIES IN ART HISTORY This course addresses interpretations of selected topics in Art History as they have appeared in the literature. Possible topics may include Theories and Methods for Art History or the work of a particular artist, period or movement. Wherever possible topics are examined through the analysis of materials available in local collections. Students are expected to take a leading role in class discussions and to undertake a major research project on a topic of relevance to the course. Each time the course is offered the selected topic will be listed in the Timetable.

HIST-7903(6) HISTORY OF HEALTH AND DISEASE This seminar course introduces students to some of the principal issues and approaches in the history of health and disease. It is not a strictly chronological survey of the history of medicine. Rather, each week we explore a different aspect of the history of health from different historiographical perspectives. Topics include the development of the nursing and medical professions; the transformation of the hospital; mental health and the asylum; alternative therapies; colonization, infectious disease and aboriginal health; the history of disease; and health and the state.


GENERAL

HIST-7005(6) / HIST 7700 HISTORICAL METHODS A seminar and workshop in historical method. The topics covered will encompass conventional research, analysis and writing, as well as the application of social science techniques to the analysis of historical problems, the fundamentals of data processing, and computer applications.

HIST-7090(6) / HIST 7900 INTRODUCTION TO DOCUMENTARY EDITING Examination of the major problems of editing documents, including transcription procedures, palæography, textual collation, editorial apparatus, computer text processing, permissions and copyrights, and publications.


OTHER

HIST-7003(6) / HIST 7770 SELECTED TOPICS A program of independent reading and/or research on selected topics, undertaken and arranged by a student in consultation with a prospective instructor, upon the approval of the Graduate Chair.

Note: Master's students have the option of a History of Science area by combining HIST-7901(6) / HIST 7460 and HIST-7902(6) / HIST 7690. For details please consult the joint departmental brochure.