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 will consider innovative developments in social and/or cultural history. With an emphasis on methods, approaches, and interdisciplinary perspectives, the course may cover such issues as morality, authenticity, gender, class, modernity, and transnational history. Excludes HIST-5240H.

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. Not open to students with credit for INDG 4201H.

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

With a stress on historiographies and historical methods, this course addresses economic, social, political, and cultural aspects of imperial rule and subject peoples under colonial authority. The approach is topical and may cover problems in race, gender, business, and social hierarchies.

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.

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.

This course explores the scholarly interpretations, debates, and theories that have shaped our understanding of women and gender in the Canadian and North American context. The historical and social construction of gender identity, culture, and sexualities are explored, and topics such as work, reproduction, 'race,' colonialism, political engagement and social movements.

Cross-listed: CUST-5701H, CSID-5701H, SUST-5701H, CAST-6501H