
Undergraduate Course Listing
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-1100H
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War in the Desert
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 |
HIST-1500Y
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Ten Days That Shook the World
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. |
HIST-1601H
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Love, Sex, and Intimacy in History
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. |
HIST-1701H
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World History to 1800
Examines themes in world history before 1800, paying special attention to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Excludes HIST 1400Y, 1700Y. |
HIST-1702H
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World History 1800 to Present
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. |
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HIST-2011H
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The Making of Modernity: Enlightenment
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. |
HIST-2020H
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Digital Humanities: New Tools, Stories
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 |
HIST-2021H
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French Colonialism in Canada, 1500-1763
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 |
HIST-2041H
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The Age of Disasters, 1300-1500
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. |
HIST-2051H
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Early Medieval Europe
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 |
HIST-2061H
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High Medieval Europe
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. |
HIST-2091H
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The History of Childhood
Investigates shifting concepts and experiences of childhood in Europe and North America from the Middle Ages to the Cold War. This course helps students to question some modern-day assumptions of the inherent 'nature' of childhood that guide parents, educators, and policymakers. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. |
HIST-2101H
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War & Society Before 1800
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. |
HIST-2102H
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War & Society Since 1800
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. |
HIST-2103H
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Approaches to Classical Historians
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 |
HIST-2201H
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History of 20th C Europe: 1914-1989
This survey course analyzes Europe's short yet dramatic twentieth century from the beginning of World War I to the fall of Communism. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Excludes HIST 2200Y (220). |
HIST-2211H
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Violence and the Project of Canada
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 |
HIST-2215H
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Ontario Before 1945
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 |
HIST-2225H
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Ontario Since 1945 "the Common Good" to "common Sense"
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 |
HIST-2236H
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Rebellions and Responsible Government
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 with 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 |
HIST-2256H
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Histories of Indigenous Peoples in Canada
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 |
HIST-2306H
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Foundations for Indigenous History (ICR)
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. |
HIST-2307H
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Colonial Encounters (ICR)
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. |
HIST-2360Y
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Canadian History Thro Murder Execution
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 |
HIST-2382H
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Canada At War in the 20th Century
An examination of Canada's participation in military action during the 20th century, including World War I and II, Korea, and more recent conflicts. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. |
HIST-2391H
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Smashers, Rummies, and the State: the Prohibition of Booze in Canada 1855-1948
Using primary documents and scholarly analyses, this course explores the struggles across Canada between the "Smashers" or prohibitionists, who were rooted in evangelical religion and an early strain of feminism, and the "Rummies," who fought to preserve a recreational drinking culture and the economic opportunities that made it possible. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. |
HIST-2422H
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Unchained Africa-Resistance and Survival
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 |
HIST-2471H
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Introduction to Latin America
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 |
HIST-2601H
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Public Health & Medicine Doctors,nurses, and Patients in History
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 |
HIST-2621H
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Psychiatry and Psychology
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 |
HIST-2711H
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Acting Up Feminism & Hist in Canada
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 |
HIST-2751H
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Rise & Fall of Ancient & Imperial Asia
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. |
HIST-2752H
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East Asia in War & Revolution
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. |
HIST-2801H
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Film and History
Explores the intersections between film and history. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 2800Y. |
HIST-2805H
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Green Screen: Film and Environmental
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 |
HIST-2821H
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Food in History
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: SAFS-2821H, CAST-2821H |
HIST-2831H
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Politics of Sport in Modern World
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. |
HIST-2832H
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Sports Cultures in Modern World
Uses sport as a prism through which to approach a range of cultural problems over the past century in societies around the world. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. |
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HIST-3011H
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Everyday History
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 |
HIST-3021H
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The History of French Canada, 1763-1890
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 |
HIST-3022H
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French Canada and Quebec Since 1890
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 |
HIST-3061H
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Trudeau's Canada
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 |
HIST-3071H
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Public History
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 |
HIST-3073H
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Public History in a Digital World
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. |
HIST-3103H
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Ancient Warfare
An in-depth study of the practice of ancient warfare from the Bronze Age to the Arab Invasions. Themes examined for each era include logistics, recruiting, intelligence, strategy, and naval warfare. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including AHCL 2102H or 2105H (or 2100Y). Cross-listed: AHCL-3103H |
HIST-3130H
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Augustan Principate & Its Origins
A study of the political, administrative, social, and cultural history from the assassination of Julius Caesar to the death of Augustus, with special attention paid to the ancient sources. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of instructor. Excludes AHCL 3963H. Cross-listed: AHCL-3130H |
HIST-3151H
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Triumph & Tragedy US Foreign Policy
During the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a predominant world power. Course themes include the empire and expansionism; revolutionary struggle in Latin America, Asia, and Africa; ideological confrontation with the Soviet Union and China; and the impact of rapid cultural and social change in the United States on its international positions. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4150Y, 4151H. Students may take only one of HIST 3150Y or 3151H for credit. |
HIST-3155H
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Current Topics in Ancient History
A focused study of a particular topic in the study of ancient Greek and Roman history. Topics change from year to year but emphasis will be on understanding some aspect of Mediterranean antiquity from a historical perspective. Prerequisite: 8.0 university credits. Cross-listed: AHCL-3155H |
HIST-3170H
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Trump, Trudeau, Trees, Trade,
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 |
HIST-3171H
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Alexander the Great & His Age
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 |
HIST-3181H
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The Age of Constantine
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 |
HIST-3222H
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Mystery Cults
In ancient Greece and Rome, exclusionary rituals and secretive initiation cults like those of Dionysos, Mithras, Isis, and Christianity overturned entrenched social norms and threatened the cohesion of the state. Archaeological and written evidence provide evidence for the origins, impact, and legacy of such practices in the Ancient Mediterranean. Prerequisite: 8.0 university credits including both AHCL 2102H and 2105H (or 2100Y) or both ANTH-AHCL 2205H and 2206H (or 2200Y). Excludes AHCL-ANTH 3220Y. Cross-listed: ANTH-3222H, AHCL-3222H |
HIST-3251H
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The Soviet Experiment 1917-1939
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. |
HIST-3275H
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Cultural Identity & Ancient North Africa
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 |
HIST-3310Y
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Nazi Holocaust & Modern Culture
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. |
HIST-3320H
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A History of Comparative Genocide
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. |
HIST-3330H
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Pearl Harbor, and the Asia-Pacific War
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. |
HIST-3333H
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Women Warriors and Heroic Mothers
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 |
HIST-3351H
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World War I
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. |
HIST-3355H
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The Spanish Civil War
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. |
HIST-3361H
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World War ll
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. |
HIST-3381H
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Espionage National Security Na
Examines the North American national-security state from the Cold War to the present, including domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering, state-sponsored espionage, surveillance, covert action and torture, propaganda, education, academic and medical research, dissidence and other subversive practices, and human rights. Prerequisite: 4.0 univeristy credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4381H. Offered only at Trent University Durham. |
HIST-3390H
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Creating Modern Capitalism: Cases
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 |
HIST-3401H
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Southern Africa in 19C
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 |
HIST-3402H
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Southern Africa in 20C
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 |
HIST-3506H
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French Civilization I
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 |
HIST-3550H
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Medieval Warfare
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. |
HIST-3565H
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Life of Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars
A look at the recruitment, camp, and battlefield adventures of men in the ranks of the British Army from 1803 to 1815. The course encourages students to think about creative ways to understand the daily lives of soldiers through simulated experiential learning. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4565H. |
HIST-3581H
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Witchcraft & Magic in the Western World
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. |
HIST-3601H
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Age of Explorations
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. |
HIST-3625H
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Famine in Modern History
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. |
HIST-3630H
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Plagues, Poxes and Pandemics
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. Cross-listed: SOCI-3630H |
HIST-3651H
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Topics in History of Middle East
An advanced seminar course on select aspects of the history of the Middle East. Specific topics are determined yearly. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 4650Y, 4651H, 4958Y (2004-2005). |
HIST-3661H
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The Roma People: From India to Canada
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. |
HIST-3711H
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History of Incarceration
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 |
HIST-3730H
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The History of the Future
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. |
HIST-3751Y
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History Crime in England
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 |
HIST-3752H
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Caribbean Encounters
Examines social and cultural conflicts that marked the history of the Caribbean during the colonial period. Topics include native societies, colonization, wars and conflicts, and plantation slavery during the early modern period. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. |
HIST-3759H
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Early Modern Atlantic World
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. |
HIST-3790H
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Opium and the Making of the Modern World
Opium consumption, trade, and prohibition have shaped the modern world. As a medical panacea and a social problem, opium has brought relief but also suffering to individuals and society. On a global scale, it has played a critical role in the spread of imperialism, capitalism, and war. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. |
HIST-3810H
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Europe in Religious War, 1500-1700
Selected social, economic, institutional, intellectual, and cultural features of early modern Europe (ca.1500- ca.1800), with special emphasis on popular culture, including such themes as gender relations, sexuality, popular religion, riots, literacy, crime, and popular politics. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Students may take only one of HIST 3800Y or 3810H for credit. |
HIST-3900Y
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Reading Course
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. |
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HIST-4050Y
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Medieval Invention
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. |
HIST-4061H
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Trudeau's Canada
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 |
HIST-4091H
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American Visual Culture
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 |
HIST-4160Y
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Canadian Women's History
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 |
HIST-4310Y
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The Holocaust
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. |
HIST-4381H
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Espionage National Security Na
Examines the North American national-security state from the Cold War to the present, including domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering, state-sponsored espionage, surveillance, covert action and torture, propaganda, education, academic and medical research, dissidence and other subversive practices, and human rights. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3381H. Offered only at Trent University Durham. |
HIST-4500Y
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Renaiisance Lives 1350-1600
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 |
HIST-4511H
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Medieval Warfare
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. |
HIST-4550Y
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Topics in Early Modern Europe
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. |
HIST-4565H
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Life of Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars
A look at the recruitment, camp, and battlefield adventures of men in the ranks of the British Army from 1803 to 1815. The course encourages students to think about creative ways to understand the daily lives of soldiers through simulated experiential learning. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3565H. |
HIST-4581H
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Witchcraft & Magic in the Western World
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. |
HIST-4661H
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The Roma People: From India to Canada
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. |
HIST-4670H
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Environmental History
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 |
HIST-4700Y
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Vietnam War
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. |
HIST-4730H
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The History of the Future
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. |
HIST-4751Y
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History Crime in England
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 |
HIST-4755Y
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Early Modern Piracy
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. |
HIST-4757H
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Early Modern Piracy
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. |
HIST-4790H
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Unsettling the Settler State
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 |
HIST-4800Y
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History of Madness
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. |
HIST-4900Y
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Reading Course
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 fourth year of the Honours program in History. Permission from relevant instructors and departmental approval is essential before registering. Regular consultation during the year. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits. |
HIST-4901H
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Reading Course
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 fourth year of the Honours program in History. Permission from relevant instructors and departmental approval is essential before registering. Regular consultation during the year. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST credits. |
HIST-4975H
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The History of the Self
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 |