Graduate Course Listing

An introduction to historical concepts, the role of theory in historical research, the relationship between history and other scholarly disciplines, developments in historiography, research methods, and ways of practising history. The course is compulsory for all History M.A. students.

This course invites students to study Canadian history in the context of shifting popular and elite conceptions of historical expertise. Topics include the decline of taught history, the "uses and abuses" of history, the "end of history", historians as public intellectuals and activists, and emergent debates over memory, apology and reparation.

This course explores the evolution of Indigenous settler relations in Canada, tracing how they are shaped by economic, social, cultural, religious, political and military factors, and how they differ across regions and First Nations. Themes include comparative imperial policies; treaties, land and space; law and Aboriginal-settler relations; education; religion; the state and policy development; political organization and resistance; gender, familial and sexual relations.

Cross-listed: CSID-5171H, CAST-6171H, SUST-5171H

This course will focus on the social, cultural, and political history of ninteenth and twentieth century Europe, with an emphasis on methods, approaches, and historiography. Topics will include war, revolution, dictatorship, genocide, and historical memory.

An historical survey of relationships between people and other animals across a range of historical periods. Topics include domestication of livestock, animal work, hunting, pet keeping, the rise of zoos, animals in warfare, and the use of animal in science. We will also explore the rise of animal welfare and animal rights as movements. Close attention will be paid to the questions of agency, sentience, and methodological innovation to study them in historical context.

This course explores the political economy tradition in Canada, and specifically the complex relationship between the state, economy, society, politics, and culture. The course content will provide essential grounding in the approaches, methods, and themes that have been critical to the ongoing development of this Canadian tradition.

Cross-listed: CSID-5301H, CAST-6301H

The major research paper MRP will be modelled on a scholarly journal article. The MRP must address a specific analytical research question and make an original contribution in at least two of the following three areas: theory/theoretical framework, historigraphical analysis or work using original data.

A course designed to provide opportunities for intensive study by an individual student in a particular field of the program. Approval of the relevant instructor and the department's graduate committee is required.