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 Course-Work Program: Students are required to take FOUR half-courses, in addition to the core course. Thesis-based M.A.: Students are required to take TWO half-courses, in addition to the core course. Students in both streams are asked to select courses pertaining to the fields of study they have identified in their application.
Core CourseHIST 5100Y “Theory, Historiography, Methodology” Course coordinator: Prof. Bryan Palmer Tuesday: 2-6 p.m. 203 Crawford House
This course is compulsory for all History M.A. students. The course offers MA students in the Department of History an opportunity to explore ways of "thinking like an historian." As such, it addresses the ways in which historians have understood their project of writing about the past and of how such an understanding has changed over time. The accent is on modern historiography to the extent that the course addresses three 'moments' in 20th century approaches to doing history: a pre-1960s 'conventional' articulation of historical practice; the engaged histories that emerged out of the 1960s; and the interpretive changes that have emerged in contemporary historical writing in the aftermath of the linguistic turn and the challenges of critical theories often designated postmodern. Students will be introduced to various genres of historical writing (economic, political, intellectual, social, and cultural) as well as approaches, methods, and themes associated with the Annales School, marxism, feminism, and other currents of thought. The accent is on coming to grips with historiographical trends by reading actual works of history associated with these trends, rather than reading commentaries on these trends or texts.
Elective CoursesThemes in Canadian History Prof. Dimitry Anastakis Covering a variety of new approaches and recent debates in the field, this course is designed to give students a solid grounding in the broad sweep of Canadian history. Both disciplinary and interdisciplinary debates animating the field will be explored. Examining key works, the course will explore themes such as: labour and the working class; politics and the state; diplomacy and business; society, race, culture and gender; and white-aboriginal relations. Fields:Canadian History, Social and Cultural History New course to be offered in 2012-13 Political Violence and Memory in Twentieth-Century Europe Prof. Antonio Cazorla Sánchez The course explores, beyond the limits imposed by borders and states, a trans-national historical analysis of: 1) how political violence came about in Europe, 2) the different forms of political violence, 3) how it has been remembered both in the public and private spheres, and 4) how those memories had changed. The main line of argument is that dictatorships and democracies remember political violence in different ways. Fields: European History; Regional and Trans-National History Not offered in 2011-12 The International History of United States-Latin American Relations after 1900 Prof. David Sheinin The history of US-Latin American relations with special emphasis on historical methods, varied analytical approaches, historiographical change, and ideologies in history. Fields: Iberian-American History; Regional and Trans-National History To be offered in 2012-13 Responding to Colonialism: Nationalist Movements in South-East Asia Prof. Vân Nguyen-Marshall This course examines anti-colonial and nationalist responses to colonialism in Southeast Asia (mainly Indochina, Indonesia, Malaya, the Philippines). In each of these colonies there were many competing nationalist visions and thus the process of articulating and constructing an anti-colonial movement involved negotiation and often violence among the colonized themselves. Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Regional and Trans-National History Tuesday: 10 a.m. - noon,
Lady Eaton College S101.1 HIST 5105H/CAST 5701H - Winter 2012 Gender and Women's History in North America Prof. Joan Sangster This course explores themes in North American gender history, with primary focus on the 20th century, and on the debates, differing iinterpretations, and theories that have shaped the field. Fields: Canadian History, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History Monday 12:30-3:30 p.m. To be offered in 2012-13 Cuba and North America Prof. Robert Wright This fall-term course examines the evolution of Canadian and Fields: Canadian History; Regional and Trans-National History, Social and Cultural History Monday: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (by video conference) Values, Emotions, and Identities in the Late Medieval Iberia and Other Parts of Europe Prof. Ivana Elbl The course explores societal values and beliefs that characterized the late medieval Iberian world (Spain and Portugal), in comparison with other parts of Europe and surrounding regions. The topics address political, religious, and social identities; as well as attitudes towards violence, honour, wealth, status, and social mobility. Finally, the course examines the emotions that both generated and were generated by these values, beliefs, and attitudes. Fields: Iberian American History; European History To be offered in 2012-13 The Third Reich: German Politics, Culture and Society under Hitler Prof. Carolyn Kay This course will examine current research within Third Reich historiography on Hitler’s charismatic leadership of Nazi Germany; the complex and chaotic political structure of the Nazi state; the complicity of ordinary Germans in the Third Reich; the planning and execution of the Final Solution; the power and brutality of the SS; the lives of Jewish Germans from 1933-45; the experiences of women and youth under Nazism; and the nature of propaganda and culture in the Hitlerzeit. Fields: European History; Social and Cultural History Not offered in 2011-12 Topics in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa Prof. Tim Stapleton With a specific focus on historiography, this course will explore select aspects of African history. Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Regional and Trans-National History Tuesday: 9 a.m. - 12 noon, 203 Crawford House Making History: Revolution and the Re-construction of the Past Prof. Olga Andriewsky An examination of public and personal constructions of the past, with specific -- though not exclusive -- reference to the early Soviet period (1917-1939). We will be loooking at the various ways in which history is "made": diaries, memoirs, film, celebrations/commemorations, monuments, and public space. Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History Not offered in 2011-12 HIST 5111H - Winter 2012 Women in the Middle Ages Prof. Fiona Harris-Stoertz Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History Wednesday: 9-11 a.m., Lady Eaton College S101.5 To be offered in 2012-13 HIST 5112H - Fall 2011 Enlightenment Cultures & English Society: 1650-1800 Prof. Kevin Siena This course will explore a range of debates that typified the tensions apparent as England experienced what many call the Enlightenment during the "long eighteenth century" (for this course defined as c. 1650-c.1800.) We will explore how a range of actors confronted such issues as nation, race, gender, sexuality, anatomy, and poverty. Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History Wednesday: 3-5 p.m., 203 Crawford House To be offered in 2012-13 HIST/ENGL 5114H -Winter 2012 Visual Culture and the Creation of Publics in Modern America Prof. Finis Dunaway This course explores visual images and public culture in the United States, examining how a wide range of visual texts -- including photography, film, mass media, and modern art -- shaped popular attitudes towards politics and foreign policy, intersected with social movements, and figured into various struggles over identity during the twentieth century. Fields: Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-national History Thursday 10 a.m. - 12 noon, Page Irwin Colloquium Room, 134 Wallis Hall To be offered in 2012-13 HIST 5115H - Fall 2011 Cross-Cultural Relations in the Early Modern Atlantic World Prof. Arne Bialuschewski This course is an introduction to recent literature on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern Atlantic World. Themes include the spread of disease in the Caribbean and its consequences, anti-Spanish alliances in Mesoamerica, arms trade and warfare in North America, the impact of the slave trade on African societies, as well as the emergence of creole societies. The course will take the form of a critical examination of important publications and discussions in the field. Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-national History Friday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Lady Eaton Colleger, N115 To be offered in 2012-13 HIST 5116H A Cultural History of Medicine in the North American Context Prof. Janet Miron This course explores the history of medicine through a comparative approach of both Canada and the United States from the early colonial period to the present. By situating health, disease, and healing in their broader cultural contexts, the course examines how “healthy” bodies have been constructed and how “unhealthy” bodies have been regulated. Fields: Canadian History, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-national History Not offered in 2011-12 HIST 5117H Muslim Women, Islams and Feminisms in the 20th-21st Centuries Prof. Marion Boulby Muslim women in communities across the world today have used new technologies to expand the public sphere, raise consciousness of shared identities and contribute to varied interpretations of feminism, identity and agency. This course has two objectives: first, to study the history of diverse Islams and feminisms from misogynistic exegeses of the Quran through the colonial period to today’s articulation of secular and Islamist feminisms. The second objective is to become acquainted with trends in western scholarship on Muslim women from the 18th century through to the contemporary era. Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-national History To be offered in 2012-13 CSID/HIST 5102H/INDG 6605H - WI 2012 The Study of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: History and Politics Prof. Paula Sherman This course examines the history of inter-cultural relations between Aboriginal peoples and the larger society. The course focuses on topics such as early contact the fur trade, the development of colonial policy, treaties, the reserve system, Aboriginal de-colonization movements, modern political dialogue for constitutional renewal and issues of land claims and self-government. Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Canadian History Thursday 4-7 p.m. (location tba) Approaches to the Study of Culture in Canada Prof. Keith Walden Culture, one of the most complex terms in the scholarly vocabulary, has become an exceedingly popular theme in recent years. There has been a veritable explosion of studies that have been influenced by the ‘cultural turn,’ no less so in Canada than elsewhere. This course investigates some of the major approaches that have been used to investigate and comprehend Canadian culture. Topics include ‘high’ culture, popular culture, media, intellectual traditions, visual culture and cultural transgressions. Fields: Canadian History; Social and Cultural History Wednesday 9-12 noon To be offered in 2012-13 HIST 5500 "Major Research Paper" (MRP) An individual course designed to provide opportunities for intensive study in a particular field of the program. Approval of the relevant instructor and the department’s graduate committee is required. |