Undergraduate Course Listing

A study of ancient wars fought in desert conditions between the Late Bronze Age and late antiquity. Includes an introduction to the problems of reading primary sources, ancient military history, military operations in deserts, and logistics.

Cross-listed: AHCL-1100H

Subjects covered include the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Enlightenment, among others. Excludes HIST 1200Y.

Subjects covered include the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the nineteenth-century women's movement, the Russian Revolution, the world wars, Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Cold War, among others. Excludes HIST 1200Y.

Terror. An examination of ten events, both "big" and "small," and how they can be linked to larger social, cultural, political, and economic transformations. Not a chronological survey, the course explores the nature of historical change through a series of case studies while introducing students to the basic methods of historical analysis.

Love, sex, and intimacy have played an important role in history but are often obscured by the dictates of various prescriptive ideologies, or by the suspicions and stigmas surrounding them. This course addresses the power and various forms of love, sex, and intimacy from the Middle Ages to the present.

Examines themes in world history before 1800, paying special attention to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Excludes HIST 1400Y, 1700Y.

Examines themes in world history since 1800, paying special attention to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Explores the creation of a global division between rich and poor nations. Excludes HIST 1400Y, 1700Y.

Following upon the successes of the Scientific Revolution, Europe transformed radically during the eighteenth century. This course explores the impact of rapid urbanization, exploding literacy, and the application of science to social issues like gender relations, sexuality, poverty, health care, and race, to chart Europe's development as it raced towards the era of democratic revolution. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Digital Humanities is the fusion of digital tools with humanities research and scholarship. Students learn how to bring a solid grounding within the humanities to technological innovations and development, engaging with the use of digital resources and their application in different ways grounded in the fields of the Humanities. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: ENGL-2020H

Provides an introductory survey of French colonialism in North America, from the first French incursions on the continent to the cession of its colonies to Britain in 1763. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 3020Y.

Cross-listed: CAST-2021H

The late medieval world was devastated by overwhelming calamities, including the Little Ice Age, the Black Death and other forms of "pestilence," famines, economic crises, endless wars, rebellions, breakdown of order, ubiquitous violence, and religious turmoil. The course examines these disastrous developments, as well as the human efforts to cope. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Medieval Europe from the birth of Christianity and collapse of the Roman Empire in the West through the establishment of "barbarian" kingdoms, survival and transformation of the Eastern Roman Empire, spread of Islam, Carolingian Renaissance, ninth- and tenth-century invasions, and Europe's gradual recovery and reorganization around the year 1000. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 2050Y.

Cross-listed: AHCL-2051H

Popularly associated with castles, cathedrals, crusades, and valiant knights, this period also saw the rapid development of powerful centralized governments, cities, international trade networks, technological innovation, universities, improved literacy, book production, art and architecture, church reform, social intolerance, and a new focus on the individual and individual emotion. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 2050Y.

Explores the Renaissance both as a period in European history and a cultural development linked to the changes in European economy and society, religious concerns, political culture, learning, and art. Also examines the Renaissance as a perceived watershed in Western history and in the concept of Europe. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 2050Y.

Explores how war has shaped and been shaped by society in the period before 1800. Specific case studies are chosen by the instructor. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Explores how war has shaped and been shaped by society in the period after 1800. Specific case studies are chosen by the instructor. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

An introduction to ancient history from Archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire, examining both the history of this period and its construction by ancient writers. Excludes AHCL 2100Y, 2102H, 2105H. Prerequisite: 4 university credits.

Cross-listed: AHCL-2103H

Explores the history of the United States from precontact and early European settlement in the 1600s to civil war and reconstruction in the second half of the 1800s. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 2110H. Students may take only one of HIST 2110Y or 2111H for credit.

A study of problems in the development of modern European societies from various perspectives, using a variety of modern and contemporary sources. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 2201H.

Seeks to destabilize conventional narratives of pre-twentieth-century Canadian history, which tend to present the region's history as characterized by peaceful accommodation and "progress." Instead, it looks at how violence was deeply ingrained in the colonial project of what would become Canada, and profoundly influenced social, political, racialized, class-based, and gender relations. Prerequisite: 3.0 univeristy credits.

Cross-listed: CAST-2211H

A study of Ontario as a political, economic, and cultural region. Topics may include provincial political culture and state formation; writers and artists; farms, factories, and cities; education policy; First Nations; the provincial north; Ontario in the Great Depression; Ontario and Canada. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: CAST-2215H, POST-2215H

Explores transformations in Ontario politics, culture, and social and economic life from the Second World War to the present. Themes may include immigration, human rights, Toronto's growth, the Ontario north, economic restructuring from the Autopact to NAFTA, health, education and social policy, and the impact of the common sense revolution. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: CAST-2225H, POST-2225H

The origins and history of the rebellions of 1837 and 1838 in Upper and Lower Canada and the fight over democracy and responsible government in British North America in the 1840s. Course operates in conjunction Season One of the audio podcast series 1867 & All That and students learn to create and edit podcast episodes in a flipped classroom with an intensive writing focus. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the instructor. Excludes CAST-HIST 2235H.

Cross-listed: CAST-2236H

A study of Indigenous involvement in the fur trade and imperial politics of the eighteenth century, the development of European "civilizing" policies, and the growth and ideology of the modern Indigenous political movement. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits, including 1.0 CAST or HIST or INDG credit at the 1000 level with a minimum of 60%. Students may take only one of CAST-HIST-INDG 2255Y or 2256H for credit.

Cross-listed: CAST-2256H, INDG-2256H

Explores the 1960s, a decade of shifting meanings of "Canadian." The accent is on the ironies of Canadian identity. Topics may include fiscal policy, youth cultures, the women's movement, racial identity and the Chuvalo-Ali fight, sex scandals and politics, working-class revolt, upheavals in Quebec, and the challenge of Aboriginal rights. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: CAST-2285H, POST-2285H

Explores Indigenous histories and grounding history in lands, knowledges, languages, and genders. Examines methodologies such as oral narratives, orality, and land-based research along with methods for gathering knowledge related to Indigenous histories. Explores scholarly positionality as historians, research ethics, and the various formats being used to articulate Indigenous histories. Recommended prerequisite: INDG 1001H. Excludes INDG 2305Y.

Cross-listed: INDG-2306H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

Explores the multifaceted encounters that resulted from European colonialism. The focus of the course is on the lives and experiences of Indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific basin to develop a comprehensive understanding of colonialism and resistance on a global scale. Prerequisite: INDG 2306H. Excludes INDG-HIST 2305Y.

Cross-listed: INDG-2307H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

War, politics, and society in Canada from first encounters between Europeans and Indigenous peoples to the period of Confederation. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 2330Y.

Cross-listed: CAST-2331H

An exploration of Canadian history since Confederation. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 2360Y, 2361H.

Cross-listed: CAST-2350Y

Was Louis Riel a traitor who deserved to be executed? Did diplomat Herbert Norman kill himself because of American accusations that he was a Communist? Was the bombing of Air India Flight 182 "Canada's 9/11"? This course uses such episodes to explore political, social, economic, and cultural changes in Canada. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 2350Y. Students may take only one of HIST-CAST 2360Y or 2361H for credit.

Cross-listed: CAST-2360Y

A survey of the continent's history from the colonial conquest of the late nineteenth century to the independent states of the present day. Themes include African resistance to colonial rule, social and economic change, African nationalism and decolonialization, underdevelopment and neo-colonialism, and the search for solutions to poverty and ethnic tensions. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: IDST-2402H

A historical survey of slavery, slave trading, and the contested meanings of freedom in Africa, Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and the Caribbean. We examine revolutions, revolts, being bought and sold, representations of blackness, slave cultures, health, belief systems (Voodoo, Santeria, Obeah), abolition, post-emancipation disporas, and reparations. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Traces the legacies of the heritage which is central to black cultures in the Americas. Those sold from Africa brought skills to replicate communities as well as religious traditions like voodoo. Despite savage efforts to erase them, diasporic populations resisted, maintaining their identities despite sustained violence and trauma. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: IDST-2422H

Topics include Native resistance, colonial domination, slavery, independence, neo-colonialism, nation building, dictatorship, and revolutionary change. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Students may take only one of HIST-IDST 2470Y or 2471H for credit.

Cross-listed: IDST-2471H

Medicine is simultaneously scientific and social. What gets defined as a disease? Who heals? Who can access health care? Such questions reveal how political, cultural, and economic forces have shaped medicine throughout history. We explore topics highlighting this interaction between the scientific and the social in a variety of historical contexts. Prerequisite: 2.5 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: SOCI-2601H

Surveys the social, cultural, institutional, and intellectual histories shaping Western world attitudes about the mind and brain, while exploring the histories of madness, mental deficiencies, insanity, and mental health during the period when psychiatry and psychology emerged as formal scientific disciplines. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: PSYC-2621H

An overview of the history of feminist ideas, strategies, and actions in Canada. We explore the diversity and distinctiveness of Canadian feminism at different historical moments, celebrating the strength and creativity of organized and individual forms of resistance, while also probing the complicated, difficult, and sometimes "messy" workings of feminism. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits, including 0.5 WMST, GESO, CAST, or HIST credit at the 1000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST-CAST 2110H.

Cross-listed: GESO-2711H, CAST-2711H

Examines the political and social developments of China, Japan, and Korea up to the late nineteenth century. The course begins with the rise of some of East Asia's most fascinating and powerful empires. The transformation of this region in the mid-nineteenth century coincided with Western encroachment. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Examines the political and social developments of China, Japan, and Korea from the late nineteenth century onward. While the course explores how East Asians responded to the challenge of the rising West, it also focuses on the internal dynamics of these societies which resulted in wars and revolutions. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Explores the intersections between film and history. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 2800Y.

Considers feature, documentary, animated, and activist films that engage with critical environmental issues. Topics include popular portrayals of animals and endangered species; histories of environmental injustice; the development of environmentalism; the role of storytelling in history, science, and culture; and the challenges of depicting climate change and the Anthropocene. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: CUST-2805H, ERST-2805H, MDST-2805H

Explores how and why foodways have changed in Canada and the Western world between 1492 and the present. It allows students to draw links between global questions and everyday life, gender and politics, and social class and health, while introducing various methods of historical inquiry. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Excludes HIST-CAST-SAFS 2820Y.

Cross-listed: CAST-2821H, SAFS-2821H

Explores the intersections of sport and politics across different regions and time-periods. Draws on historical and other sources to consider how sports have been used to advance political projects and agendas. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

A behind-the-scenes history of everyday life in Canada, exposing the complex histories of such common activities as drinking, barbecuing, gambling, and sex. The course emphasizes the "otherness" of previous moments in time as a way to foster an awareness of the contingency of our current historical moment. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits. Students may take only one of HIST-CAST 3010Y or 3011H for credit.

Cross-listed: CAST-3011H

Provides a detailed investigation of the history of French Canada from 1763 to the late nineteenth century. It covers numerous political transformations as well as economic, social, and cultural developments that shaped French-Canadian nationalism and collective identity. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 3020Y.

Cross-listed: CAST-3021H

Provides a detailed investigation of the history of French Canada and Quebec since 1890. It covers numerous political transformations as well as economic, social, and cultural developments that transformed, modernized, and liberalized French-Canadian nationalism, collective identity and attitudes. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 3020Y.

Cross-listed: CAST-3022H

Examines the first Trudeau era and its enduring legacy vis-a-vis Canadian politics, culture, and society. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 4061H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: CAST-3061H

The art of bringing history to a wider public. This course explores issues of memory, commemoration, heritage preservation and interpretation that face historic sites, museums, heritage societies, and archives in Canada and throughout the world. Excludes HIST-CAST 4071H. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: CAST-3071H

An exploration into our digital world and how we use it to understand the past. From the examination of digitized and born-digital records, to the analysis of websites and e-publications, students will become familiar with the various aspects of historical research, creation, and public diffusion in an electronic environment. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Selected themes in Canadian women's history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on class, race, and gender in shaping women's experiences and on interpretive debates in women's history. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST-WMST-GESO 3161H, 3162H, 4160Y. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: CAST-3160Y, GESO-3160Y

How do we understand our complex and quickly changing twenty-first century world? This course examines contemporary issues in Canada and the United States in historical perspective by utilizing flashpoint issues, individuals, and events to explain longer trends and developments within a continental, cross-border analytical framework. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 4290Y, 4957.

Cross-listed: CAST-3170H

Offers both a survey of the life and deeds of Alexander and an examination of the background, the ancient sources (studied in English), and modern assessments. Prerequisite: 4.0 university. Excludes AHCL 3070H.

Cross-listed: AHCL-3171H

The "New Roman Empire" of Diocletian and Constantine, the emergence of Christianity as the state religion under Constantine, the foundation of Constantinople, and the Gothic Wars of Theodosius I. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes AHCL 3120H, AHCL-HIST 3180H.

Cross-listed: AHCL-3181H

A history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1939. The course examines this history as a series of experiments with a focus on the complexities and contradictions of these transformations. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3250Y.

By critically comparing archaeological and textual evidence with scholarly publications, we will examine attitudes toward culture and self-identification in ancient North Africa (ca. 700 BCE-450 CE), as expressed by both ancient peoples and scholars of the past circa 150 years, a period of tremendous change in political and academic thought. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits. Excludes AHCL 3961H.

Cross-listed: ANTH-3275H, AHCL-3275H

Examines the Nazi program of mass-murder in the context of earlier and later genocides, with particular emphasis on questions of agency and complicity. Topics include Nazi eugenics and race policy, the culture of the concentration camps, the role of ordinary Germans, resistance, and the Holocaust in popular culture. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4310Y. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

A history of comparative genocide that addresses the U.N. definition of genocide. The case studies include the examples of the Cambodian, Rwandan, Armenian, Bosnian, and Ukrainian genocides; we study the historical conditions that led to genocide in each case, the actions of the perpetrators, and the suffering of ordinary peoples. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and provoke the Pacific War? In order to answer this question and examine the impact of the war, this course traces the history of Japan's imperialism and militarization, which led to war with Russia, China, and ultimately the United States. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Examines women's wartime and postwar lives in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. While concerned with wars' brutal impacts, it also considers women's agency and roles. The course also explores how the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class shaped women's wartime experiences. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: GESO-3333H

Examines the First World War from a global perspective. Through assigned readings, written assignments, and online discussions, students examine topics ranging from military operations in all the major theatres to studies of the war's impact on the European and North American home fronts. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3350Y, 4370Y.

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) remains one of the most controversial and disputed conflicts in history. Was the Spanish Republic fighting for democracy against a tide of fascism that would soon swamp Europe? Did Franco save Spain from Stalinist communism? This class tackles these and other questions. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.

During the Second World War there were significant developments in military tactics and technology, but also in societal norms, ideology, and morality. This intensive course provides a detailed chronologicalthematic overview of some of this conflict's most important themes, controversies, and historical debates. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3360Y, 4360Y.

Capitalism and globalization shape our world in profound ways. Utilizing a "glocal" approach that combines global and Canadian cases within a transnational context, this course seeks to interrogate and understand the evolution and development of modern capitalism and globalization from the late nineteenth century into the early twenty-first. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3080Y, 3081H.

Cross-listed: CAST-3390H, ADMN-3390H

An examination of major issues, including the gradual British colonial conquest of the Xhosa people in the Cape, the Boer trek into the interior, African military resistance to colonial expansion, and the impact of mineral discoveries. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: IDST-3401H

Themes include the Union of South Africa in 1910, the development of African nationalism and trade unions, the rise of the Apartheid state from 1948, wars of liberation in Angola and Mozambique, the Rhodesian crisis, South Africa's campaign to destabilize the Frontline States in the 1980s, and post-Apartheid issues. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: IDST-3402H

A survey of the history of France from prehistoric times to the present. Prerequisite: FREN 1100Y or 1102H, and a minimum average of 70% on all FREN credits completed. Excludes FREN-HIST 3505Y. Offered only in Nantes.

Cross-listed: FREN-3506H

An examination of developments in warfare during the European Middle Ages (300-1500 CE). Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4510Y, 4511H, 4050Y (2010-2011). Students may take only one of HIST 3551Y or 3550H for credit.

Explores the phenomenon of witchcraft in early modern Europe and New England (1450-1750) in the context of family and community structures, religious beliefs, the legal system, health care, and dissemination of ideas, including the social-anthropological role of accusations and philosophies, and ideologies facilitating belief in witchcraft and its censure. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4580Y, 4581H. Students may take only one of HIST 3580Y or 3581H for credit.

Examines the changing place of world's oceans in European outlook, from fear-inspiring barriers to eagerly explored and hotly contested highways that enabled the personal fortunes and disasters, establishment of European seaborne empires, and exchanges of goods, germs, ideas, and to the often involuntary mixing of cultures. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Students may take only one of HIST 3600Y or 3601H for credit.

Are famines inevitable? To what extent have modern famines been caused by social, political, and economic policies rather than food shortages? This course examines several case studies of famine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the controversies surrounding them, from the Irish potato famine of the 1840s to Ethiopia in the 1970s. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Explores episodes of major epidemic diseases to chart the social, cultural, demographic, scientific, and political impacts of widespread deadly scourges. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of chair.

A survey of the modern Middle East from nineteenthcentury Ottoman rule to the present day. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Students may take only one of HIST 3650Y or 3641H for credit. Excludes HIST 3952Y (2004-2005).

The figure of the Roma has been both romanticized and denigrated. This course examines the cultural construction of Roma from their first appearance in Europe in the fifteenth century until today. We focus on the cultural and political beliefs that have contributed to the formation of group identity. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the Chair. Excludes HIST 4661H.

Explores the history of incarceration from the late 1700s to the modern day, focusing on the rise of institutions designed to segregate those labelled sick, deviant, or in need of reform. Through secondary and primary literature, incarceration is studied from the perspective of authorities, the public, and inmates. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: FRSC-3711H

Explores the centuries-old obsession among Western elites with the political, technological, and social future of humankind. Special emphasis on anti-capitalist and eco-doom dystopians including Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, and Paul Ehrlich. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes HIST 4730H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

A social history of crime between 1500 and 1900, from the perspective of the prosecutors and the courts as well as that of the criminals. Topics include witchcraft, sodomy, murder, theft, rape, and prostitution. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3850Y, 4751Y, 4850Y. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: FRSC-3751Y

Encompasses developments in the Atlantic World from the turn of the eighteenth century to the revolutionary period. Topics include the settlement of the overseas empires, the social structure of the colonies, plantation societies, interimperial conflicts and wars, and Atlantic revolutions. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3755Y, 3759H

Encompasses developments from the beginning of European settlement in the New World to the prerevolutionary period in the mid-eighteenth century. Topics include the destruction and reconfiguration of indigenous societies, cross-cultural relations, European transatlantic migrations, the slave trade, and overseas trade, as well as war and conflict in colonial empires. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Students may take only one of HIST 3755Y or 3759H for credit. Excludes HIST 3955Y.

Individual courses designed to provide opportunities for more intensive study of particular topics in areas of history offered by the department. Open to undergraduates in the third year of the History program. Permission from relevant instructors and departmental approval is essential before registering. Regular consultation during the year. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Current topic: Medieval Invention. Explores a variety of medieval innovations and their impact including castle and cathedral architecture, armour and weaponry, tournaments, food and drink, clothing and clothmaking, time-keeping, health and sanitation, water power, education, sainthood, printing, and more. Students have the option to recreate a medieval invention for credit. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Examines the first Trudeau era and its enduring legacy vis-a-vis Canadian politics, culture, and society. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST or CAST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 3061H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: CAST-4061H

The art of bringing history to a wider public. Explores issues of memory, commemoration, heritage preservation, and interpretation that face historic sites, museums, heritage societies, and archives in Canada and throughout the world. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST or CAST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 3071H.

Cross-listed: CAST-4071H

Focuses on visual culture in relation to broad themes in modern United States history. Topics include photography and civil rights struggles, gender and visual politics, environmental images, and debates over war and memory. The course emphasizes research methods and the value of images for historical and interdisciplinary scholarship. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CUST-MDST 4090Y, HIST 4958Y.

Cross-listed: CUST-4091H, MDST-4091H

Selected themes in Canadian women's history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on class, race, and gender in shaping women's experiences and on interpretive debates in women's history. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST or CAST or or GESO or WMST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST-WMST 3160Y, 3161H, 3162H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: CAST-4160Y, GESO-4160Y

Seminar on the Holocaust and its victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Topics include Nazi eugenics and race policy, the death camps, the SS and Nazi police battalions in Eastern Europe, the role of ordinary Germans, resistance, and the Holocaust in popular culture. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3310Y.

The rise of Fascism in Europe following the end of World War I, including Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and others. Topics include Fascism's origins, rise, ideology, policies, and effects. What was Fascism and why was it so strong in this period? What is the legacy of Fascism? Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4320Y.

Examines the lives of individuals and families, both famous and ordinary, striving to make their way in the turbulence of the Renaissance period, shaped both by remarkable human achievements and creativity and by never-ending turmoil caused by climate change, epidemics, economic problems, wars, social conflicts, and religious crises. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair

Themes in the history of warfare during the Middle Ages, including knights, chivalry, infantry, archers, guns, fortifications, siege warfare, logistics, tactics, and gender. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes 3551Y, 3550H, 4050Y (2010-2011). Students may take only one of HIST 4510Y or 4511H for credit.

Select aspects of the history of health, healing, and early modern culture. Current topic: Medicine and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Students may take only one of HIST 4550Y or 4551H for credit.

A social history of the changes in family life in England wrought by the Reformation, the Renaissance, civil war, the Enlightenment, and industrialization. While focusing upon plebeian families, it considers broad legal and social trends that affected all families and all members of the English household, including extended family, servants, and apprentices. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3560Y, 3953Y (2005-2006), 4959Y (2005-2006). Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Explores the phenomenon of witchcraft in early modern Europe and New England (1450-1750) in the context of family and community structures, religious beliefs, the legal system, health care, and the dissemination of ideas, including the socialanthropological role of accusations and philosophies, and ideologies facilitating belief in witchcraft and its censure. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3580Y, 3581H. Students may take only one of HIST 4580Y or 4581H for credit.

Current topic: Soviet Union and World War II. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Students may take only one of HIST 4600Y or 4601H for credit.

The figure of the Roma has been both romanticized and denigrated. This course examines the cultural construction of Roma from their first appearance in Europe in the fifteenth century until today. We focus on the cultural and political beliefs that have contributed to the formation of group identity. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the Chair. Excludes HIST 3661H.

Examines how and why our environment and our relationship with it have changed over time. Topics include how to do environmental history, shifts in ideas about natural resources and wilderness, the history of the Trent and Peterborough environments, the urban environment (particularly Toronto), and the history of environmental science and environmental politics. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: ERST-4670H, CAST-4670H

Examines the social and political dimensions of the Vietnam War from the perspective of Vietnam. While the main focus is on the war's impact on Vietnamese society, attention is paid to the roles played by the US, the Communist Bloc, and the Cold War. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3700Y.

Explores the centuries-old obsession among Western elites with the political, technological, and social future of humankind. Special emphasis on anti-capitalist and eco-doom dystopians including Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, and Paul Ehrlich. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes HIST 4730H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

A social history of crime between 1500 and 1900, from the perspective of the prosecutors and the courts as well as that of the criminals. Topics include witchcraft, sodomy, murder, theft, rape, and prostitution. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3751Y, 3850Y, 4850Y, 4953Y.

Cross-listed: FRSC-4751Y

Examines two hundred years of maritime depredations from the first raid of a Spanish treasure fleet in 1523 to the suppression of piracy in 1726. It addresses social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of piracy, the underlying conditions, and the representations of this popular historical theme in the media. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3747H, 4951Y. Students may take only one of HIST 4755H or 4757H for credit.

Examines two hundred years of maritime depredations from the first raid of a Spanish treasure fleet in 1523 to the suppression of piracy in 1726. It addresses social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of piracy, the underlying conditions, and the representations of this popular historical theme in the media. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3747H, 4951Y. Students may take only one of HIST 4755H or 4757H for credit.

This course examines the history of Indigenous-Settler relations in Canada. We focus on the continuities and changes between the past and present, especially in regard to ongoing colonialism and Indigenous resistance and resurgence. Unsettling settler discourses and studying Canada's history from Indigenous perspectives lie at the heart of this course. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST or INDG credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: INDG-4790H

Explores madness in the West from the seventeenth century to the present, seeking to understand how mental illness has been constructed by the medical profession and society, and by those labelled mad. Social and cultural issues are approached through sources including patient narratives, asylum records, and film. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4907Y.

Traces the history of the concept of the self in Western culture, with a special focus on Canada. Examines key debates about the idea of the self through interdisciplinary readings in philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, politics, and history. Includes questions as to the concept's historicity, modernity, and its connections to modern debates about identity politics and political correctness. Prerequisite: 14.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: CAST-4975H