Graduate Course Listing
Course Listings Results Block
Please visit the Academic Timetable to see which courses are presently being offered and in which location(s). Not all courses listed below run every term or in all locations. For specific details about program requirements and degree regulations, please refer to the Academic Calendar.
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HIST-5100Y: The Historian's Craft: Historiography, Theory, Method
Offered:
- Peterborough
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.
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HIST-5105H: Feminist, Gender & Women's Studies
Offered:
- Peterborough
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: SUST-5701H, CSID-5701H, CUST-5503H, CAST-6501H
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HIST-5118H: Themes in Canadian History
Offered:
- Peterborough
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.
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HIST-5171H: Indigenous Settler Relations
Offered:
- Peterborough
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 4801H.
Cross-listed: SUST-5171H, CSID-5171H, CAST-6171H
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HIST-5210H: Themes in Comparative Colonial History
Offered:
- Peterborough
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.
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HIST-5220H: Themes in Medieval and Early Modern World
Offered:
- Online
This course explores topics in medieval and early modern history (pre-1800), including a range of methods, approaches, analyses of primary sources, and major historiographic debates that frame historians' work on this period, equipping students to draw historical conclusions about a place one historian termed "The World We Have Lost."
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HIST-5230H: Themes in Modern European History
Offered:
- Peterborough
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.
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HIST-5301H: Policy, Economy and Society Canada
Offered:
- Peterborough
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