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HISA01H3 The Twentieth Century World I
World history from the age of imperialism to the end of World War II, emphasizing both the diversity and the commonality of human experience in the twentieth century. Major themes include imperialism, war, revolution, totalitarian ideologies, social, economic, and cultural change, nationalism.
Exclusion: (HISA03Y)

HISA02H3 The Twentieth Century World II
World history from the end of World War II to the present day, emphasizing both the diversity and the commonality of human experience in the twentieth century.  Major themes include decolonization, economic change, the Cold War, the communications revolution, the development crisis, struggles for human rights and democracy.
Exclusion: (HISA03Y)
Prerequisite: HISA01H

HISA04H3 Themes in World History I
An introduction to history that focuses on a particular theme in world history, which will change from year to year. Themes may include migration; empires; cultural encounters; history and film; global cities.

HISA05H3 Themes in World History II
An introduction to history that focuses on a particular theme in world history, which will change from year to year. Themes may include migration; empires; cultural encounters; history and film; global cities.

HISB01H3 History and Evidence
An examination of the nature and uses of evidence in historical and related studies.
   Historians use a wide variety of sources as evidence for meaningful statements about the past. This course explores what is meant by history and how historians evaluate sources and test their reliability as historical evidence.

HISB02H3 The British Empire: A Short History
The British Empire at one time controlled a quarter of the world's population. This course surveys the nature and scope of British imperialism from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, through its interactions with people and histories of Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the British Isles.

HISB18H3 History on Film
An examination of selected historical events or phenomena and their depiction in film. This course will explore the ways in which historical events, such as revolutions, or phenomena such as slavery, have been portrayed by filmmakers. The topics to be studied will change from year to year.

HISB20H3 Victorian Britain
An introduction to Victorian Britain offering a broad survey of economic, social, and political trends. Central themes include the industrial revolution and workers' movements, popular protest and state responses, women and family, social welfare, Irish nationalism, and the urban poor.
European Area
Exclusion: (HIS239H), HIS349H

HISB21H3 Twentieth-Century Britain
An introduction to twentieth-century Britain offering a broad survey of economic, social, and political trends. Central themes include gender and war, the "modern" welfare state, Labour party, and post-1945 politics. Attention will be paid to the influence of class, gender, and culture on social experience, ideology, and political movements.
European Area
Exclusion: (HIS239H), HIS349H
Prerequisite: HISB20H

HISB30H3 American History to the Civil War
A survey of American history from contact between Indians and Europeans up through the Civil War. Topics include the emergence of colonial societies; the rise and destruction of racial slavery; revolution and republic-making; economic and social change in the new nation; western conquest; and the republic's collapse into internal war.
0.25 pre-1815 credit
American Area
Exclusion: HIS271Y

HISB31H3 History of the United States since the Civil War
This course offers a survey of U.S. history from the post-Civil War period through the late 20th century, examining key episodes and issues such as settlement of the American West, industrialization, urbanization, immigration, popular culture, social movements, race relations, and foreign policy.
American Area
Exclusion: HIS271Y
Prerequisite: HISB30H

HISB40H3 Canadian History to 1885
The history of Canada from the first European contacts to the late 19th century. Topics include the earliest European contacts, New France, the British Conquest, immigration and settlement, Confederation, the constitution, and the early development of Canada as a transcontinental country.
0.25 pre-1815 credit
Canadian Area
Exclusion: (HIS262Y), HIS263Y

HISB41H3 Canadian History Since 1885
Topics include cultural conflict: the optimism of the Laurier period, the impact of the two world wars, political independence, Americanization and relations with the United States, regionalism, and relations between English-speaking and French-speaking Canada.
Canadian Area
Exclusion: (HIS262Y), HIS263Y
Prerequisite: None, but HISB40H highly recommended.

HISB50H3 Africa in the Nineteenth Century
An introduction to the history of Sub-Saharan Africa, from the era of the slave trade to the colonial conquests. Throughout, the capacity of Africans to overcome major problems will be stressed. Themes include slavery and the slave trade; pre-colonial states and societies; economic and labour systems; and religious change.
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
Exclusion: (HISC50H), HIS295H, HIS396H, (HIS396Y).
Prerequisite: Any modern history credit or permission of the instructor.

HISB51H3 Twentieth Century Africa
Modern Sub-Saharan Africa, from the colonial conquests to the post-colonial era of structural adjustment. The emphasis is on both structure and agency in a hostile world. Themes include conquest and resistance; colonial economies; gender and ethnicity; religious and political movements; development and underdevelopment, post-colonial conflicts, as well as cultural achievements.
African, Asian and Latin American Area
Exclusion: (HISC51H), HIS396H, (HIS396Y)
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: HISB50H or (HISC50H)

HISB55H3 Modern Southeast Asia I: 1750-1900
An introduction to the political, socioeconomic, and cultural history of Southeast Asia under the last indigenous dynasties and during the phase of colonial conquest. Topics will include processes of indigenous state formation, the emergence of colonial regimes, and the creation of export-oriented economies.
Pre-1815 course
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
Exclusion: (HISB54H)

HISB56H3 Modern Southeast Asia II: 1900-Present
An examination of the political, socioeconomic, and cultural history of Southeast Asia in the periods of emerging nationalism, decolonization, and independence. Topics will include anti-colonial resistance, the Japanese occupation, wars of independence, liberal and authoritarian modes of government, religious change, export-oriented economic development, separatist movements, and regional cooperation.
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
Exclusion: (HISB54H)
Prerequisite: HISB55H

HISB57H3 Sub-Continental Histories: South Asia in the World
A survey of South Asian history, from ancient times to the present day. The course explores diverse and exciting elements of this long history, such as ecology and landscape, religion, trade, literature, and the arts, keeping in mind South Asia's global and diasporic connections.
African, Asian and Latin American Area.
Exclusion: HIS282Y, HIS282H

HISB58H3 Modern Chinese History
This course provides an overview of the historical changes and continuities of the major cultural, economic, political, and social institutions and practices in modern Chinese history.
African, Asian and Latin American Area
Exclusion: HIS280Y

HISB60H3 Europe in the Early Middle Ages (305-1053)
This course covers the development of Europe from the Late Roman period to the eleventh-century separation of the Roman and Byzantine Churches. It includes the foundation and spread of Christianity, the settlement of "barbarians" and Vikings, the establishment of Frankish kingship, the Empire of Charlemagne, and feudalism and manorialism.
Pre-1815 course
Medieval Area
Exclusion: HIS220Y

HISB61H3 Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages (1053-1492)
An introduction to the social, political, religious and economic foundations of the Western world, including Church and State relations, the Crusades, pilgrimage, monasticism, universities and culture, rural exploitation, town development and trade, heresy, plague and war. Particular attention will be devoted to problems which continue to disrupt the modern world.
Pre-1815 course
Medieval Area
Exclusion: HIS220Y
Prerequisite: none, but HISB60H highly recommended

HISB62H3 The Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500-1800
This course will explore the interplay of culture, religion, politics and commerce in the Mediterranean region from 1500 to 1800. Through travel narratives, autobiographical texts, and visual materials we will trace how men and women on the Mediterranean's European, Asian, and African shores experienced their changing world.
Pre-1815 course
European Area; African, Asian and Latin American Area.

HISB70H3 Kievan Rus and Muscovy, 850-1689
The early history of present-day Ukraine and Russia from origins to the beginnings of empire.
Topics will include Christianization, Kievan society and law, the Mongol conquest, the rise of Muscovy, the growth of the autocratic state, early European contacts and the Church schism.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: HIS250Y

HISB71H3 Imperial Russia, 1682-1900
The history of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great to the dawn of the twentieth century.
We will examine through lectures and tutorials the evolution of imperial institutions, war, emancipation of the serfs, industrialization, emergence of social classes, reform and revolution, the flowering of Russian art and literature.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: HIS250Y

HISB72H3 Revolutionary Russia, 1900 - Present
The history of Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from the 1905 revolution to the present.
Major topics include the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the experimentalism of the 1920s, collectivization and industrialization, the Stalin cult, the disintegration of Stalinism and the end of the USSR.
European Area
Exclusion: HIS250Y

HISB80H3 Early Modern Europe I: 1450-1650
A period of fundamental, often violent, change in European civilization. Renaissance, humanism, and printing; development of new types of monarchy; religious reformations splitting Western Christendom; local and continental wars; exploration and the first European empires.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: HIS243H

HISB81H3 Early Modern Europe II: 1600-1800
Social, political, and intellectual transformations culminating in revolution. Thirty Years War; witchcraft and science; Louis XIV and absolutist statecraft; the Enlightenment; the agricultural revolution; slavery; European empires; the French Revolution.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: HIS244H
Prerequisite: None, but HISB80H recommended

HISB90H3 Modern Europe I: The Nineteenth Century
Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War. Major topics include revolution, industrialization, nationalism, imperialism, science, technology, art and literature.
European Area
Exclusion: HIS241H

HISB91H3 Modern Europe II: The Twentieth Century
Europe from the First World War to the present day. War, political extremism, economic crisis, scientific and technological change, cultural modernism, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the European Union are among the topics covered.
European Area
Exclusion: HIS242H

HISC14H3 Edible History: History of Global Foodways
An exploration of how eating traditions around the world have been affected by economic and social changes, including imperialism, migration, the rise of a global economy, and urbanization. Topics include: immigrant cuisines, commodity exchanges, and the rise of the restaurant. Lectures will be supplemented by cooking demonstrations.
Limited enrolment: 30
Prerequisite: [HISA01H & HISA02H ] or (HISA03Y)

HISC15H3 Europe and the Atlantic World, 1450-1800
This course investigates Europe's encounter with the Americas and western Africa (ca. 1450-1800). Specific topics include European exploration, the transplantation of European societies abroad, the impact of conquest and colonization, and the role played by these non-European peoples in reshaping European ideas about cultural difference, gender, religious belief, and society.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Limited enrolment: 40
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits

HISC18H3 Europe in the Enlightenment, 1700-1789
An examination of the ideals of the Enlightenment against the background of social and political change in eighteenth-century Europe.
This course looks at Enlightenment thought and the ways in which European monarchs like Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great adapted it to serve their goals of state building.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: HIS244H, HIS341Y
Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at B-level in European history

HISC24H3 Early Modern Britain I: From the Wars of the Roses to the Defeat of the Armada, 1458-1588
Overview of political, social and cultural patterns with emphasis on the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth. Powers and personalities of monarchs, major institutions, the religious crisis, international relations.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: (HIS238H), HIS368H
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits at the B-level

HISC25H3 Early Modern Britain II: From the Defeat of the Armada to the Formation of Great Britain, 1588-1707
Overview of political, social and cultural patterns with emphasis on the Civil War and execution of the king, the republican interlude, the foundations of the modern economy and expansion overseas.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: (HIS238H), HIS368H
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits at the B-level. HISC24H highly recommended

HISC32H3 The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1933
Overview of the political and social developments that produced the modern United States in the half-century after 1877. Topics include urbanization, immigration, industrialization, the rise of big business and of mass culture, imperialism, the evolution of the American colour line, and how Americans used politics to grapple with these changes.
American Area
Limited enrolment: 40
Prerequisite: HISB31H

HISC33H3 Modern American Political Culture
This course examines the relationship between culture and politics in modern American history. It considers culture as a means through which Americans expressed political desires. Politics, similarly, can be understood as a forum for cultural expression. Topics include imperialism, immigration and migration, the Cold War, and the "culture wars"
American Area
Limited enrolment: 40
Prerequisite: [HISB30H & HISB31H ] or permission of instructor.

HISC36H3 People in Motion: Immigrants and Migrants in U.S. History
Overview of the waves of immigration and internal migration that have shaped America from the colonial period to the present. Topics include colonization and westward migration, immigrants in the industrial and contemporary eras, nativism, stances towards pluralism and assimilation, and how migration experiences have varied by race, class, and gender.
American Area
Prerequisite: [HISB30H & HISB31H ] or permission of instructor

HISC40H3 Atlantic Canada to 1815
An intensive study of the region: the First Nations; the Acadians; the coming of British settlers; the development of each of the colonies.
Pre-1815 course
Canadian Area
Exclusion: HIS468H
Prerequisite: HISB40H & HISB41H

HISC41H3 Atlantic Canada since 1815
An intensive study of the region: Confederation and the Maritimes after Confederation; Newfoundland from earliest European contacts to its entry into Confederation.
Canadian Area
Exclusion: HIS468H
Prerequisite: HISB40H & HISB41H & HISC40H

HISC44H3 Québec Since 1759
Themes will include "survival" as an issue; "nationalism" and its variants; immigration and the relationship of the majority with minorities; Confederation; the impact of the two world wars; the "Quiet Revolution" in the 1960s; the growth of a movement for independence. Knowledge of the French language is not required.
Canadian Area
Exclusion: HIS314Y, HIS413H
Prerequisite: HISB40H & HISB41H

HISC45H3 Immigrants and Race Relations in Canadian History
This course examines aspects of the history of immigrants and race relations in Canada, particularly for the period 1840s-1960s.
It covers various immigrant and racialized groups and explores how class, gender and race/ethnicity shaped experiences and racial/ethnic relations.
Canadian Area
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits

HISC46H3 Introduction to Canadian International Relations
A survey of Canada's place in the world from its origins to the present day, with an emphasis on the post-Confederation period. Topics covered will include Canada's evolving role in the British Empire, Canadian-American relations, the World Wars, the Cold War, peacekeeping, and the question of national identity.
Canadian Area
Exclusion: HIS311H, HIS311Y
Prerequisite: Any four credits
Recommended preparation: HISB40H & HISB41H

HISC47H3 Canadian Labour History
The development of a working class from the pre-industrial era of independent artisans to the modern period. Topics will include the impact of technology on workers, ethnic factors, the development of unions, such pivotal events as the Winnipeg General Strike, and the relationship of labour to politics.
Canadian Area
Exclusion: HIS313H, (HIS313Y)
Prerequisite: HISB40H & HISB41H

HISC49H3 Canada Between the World Wars
An intensive examination of the leading themes in Canadian political, economic, social, and cultural history in the 1920s and 1930s.
Topics will include the impact of the First World War, the development of Canadian autonomy, and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Canadian Area
Prerequisite: HISB41H

HISC52H3 A History of Ethiopia
Ethiopia from the fourth through the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the Christian Church, the monarchy, links with both the Mediterranean world and the Indian subcontinent, and the relationship of individuals to their social, economic, artistic and geographic environments.
Pre-1815 course
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
Prerequisite: A History credit considering Europe, Africa or Asia before 1900.
Highly recommended: HISB01H , HISB60H , or HISB61H

HISC53H3 Topics in Asian History
A topical study of the cultures, peoples and states of South and Southeast Asia. Topics may include India in the eighteenth century, Official and Missionary Orientalism, emergence and development of Indian nationalism, formation of ethnic and gender identities, Muslim revival and separatism, partition and post-partition politics and society.
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
Exclusion: HIS364H
Prerequisite: One full credit in History

HISC54H3 Economy, Society, and Colonialism in Southeast Asia
An examination, through lectures and discussions, of how colonial rule geared the economic structures of Southeast Asia towards the world market and how it transformed indigenous social structures. Topics include demographic trends, export-oriented primary production, the influence of foreign and indigenous elites, rural living conditions, urbanization, and the Great Depression.
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
Prerequisite: (HISB54H) or HISB55H or permission of the instructor

HISC55H3 War and Society in Modern Africa
Conflict and social change in Africa from the slave trade to contemporary times. Topics include the politics of resistance, women and war, repressive and weak states, the Cold War, guerrilla movements, resource predation. Case studies of anticolonial rebellions, liberation wars, and civil conflicts will be chosen from various regions.
African, Asian and Latin American Area
Prerequisite: HISB50H or HISB51H or (HISC50H) or (HISC51H) or any 2.5 credits in History

HISC57H3 China and the World
This course studies the history of China's relationship with the rest of the world in the modern era. The readings focus on China's role in the global economy, politics, religious movements, transnational diasporas, scientific/technological exchanges, and cultural encounters and conflicts in the ages of empire and globalization.
African, Asian and Latin American Area
Limited enrolment: 40
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits
Recommended: HISB58H

HISC58H3 Delhi and London: Imperial Cities, Mobile People
Delhi and London were two major cities of the British Empire. This course studies their parallel destinies, from the imperial into the post-colonial world. It explores how diverse cultural, ecological, and migratory flows connected and shaped these cities, using a wide range of literary, historical, music, and film sources.
African, Asian, Latin American Area
Prerequisite: [HISA01H & HISA02H ] or 1.0 credit in Modern History

HISC60H3 Old Worlds? Strangers and Foreigners in the Mediterranean, 1200-1700
An exploration of how medieval and early modern societies encountered foreigners and accounted for foreignness, as well as for religious, linguistic, and cultural difference more broadly. Topics include: monsters, relics, pilgrimage, the rise of the university, merchant companies, mercenaries, piracy, captivity and slavery, tourism, and the birth of resident embassies.
Pre-1815 course
European Area; African, Asian and Latin American Area
Limited enrolment: 30
Corequisite: At least one of HISB60H , HISB61H or HISB62H

HISC65H3 Venice and its Empire, 800-1800
Social and cultural history of the Venetian Empire from a fishermen's colony to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1797. Topics include the relationships between commerce and colonization in the Mediterranean, state building and piracy, aristocracy and slavery, civic ritual and spirituality, guilds and confraternities, households and families.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Prerequisite: 1.0 credit in History

HISC78H3 Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1900
The development of Russian society from the revolutionary reforms of Peter the Great to the counter-revolutionary reforms of Alexander III.
Topics include peasant society, the nobility, women, urbanization, and proletarianization.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Exclusion: HIS325H, (HIS325Y)
Prerequisite: HISB72H or any 2.5 credits in HIS

HISC79H3 Social History of Revolutionary Russia, 1900-Present
Social change in Russia and the USSR from the 1905 revolution to the end of the Soviet Union.
Topics include the social processes that produced the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, social experimentation in the 1920s, Stalinism and its disintegration and the social background to the breakup of the USSR.
European Area
Exclusion: HIS351H, HIS351Y
Prerequisite: HISB72H or any 2.5 credits in HIS

HISC85H3 Early Modern France, 1500-1715
This course examines themes in Early Modern French history (ca. 1500-1715). Specific topics include demographic change, the role played by social elites, popular culture and popular revolt, women and the family, the development of French absolutism, military change, the Wars of Religion, witchcraft, and the possibilities for Protestant-Catholic coexistence.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Limited enrolment: 40
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits

HISC90H3 Modern Germany I: The Nineteenth Century
German history from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the outbreak of the First World War. The rise of Prussia, the impact of political and industrial revolution, the unification of modern Germany, the imperial age, science, technology, art and music are among the themes pursued.
European Area
Exclusion: (HIS317H), (HIS317Y), HIS330H
Prerequisite: HISB90H

HISC91H3 Modern Germany II: The Twentieth Century
German history from the First World War to the present day. The two world wars, the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, the Third Reich, the Holocaust, the division of Germany, the Cold War, European Union, and German reunification are among the topics covered.
European Area
Exclusion: HIS317H, (HIS317Y)
Prerequisite: HISB91H

HISD01H3 Independent Studies: Senior Research Project
This option is available in rare and exceptional circumstances to students who have demonstrated a high level of academic maturity and competence. Qualified students will have the opportunity to investigate an historical field which is of common interest to both student and supervisor.
History Faculty
Exclusion: (HIS497Y), HIS498H, HIS499H, HIS499Y
Prerequisite: at least 15.0 credits and completion of the requirements for the Major Program in History; written permission must be obtained from the instructor in the previous session.

HISD03H3 History of Animals and People
This course examines the places of animals in global history. It examines on-going interactions between humans and animals through hunting, zoos, breeding, and pets and the historical way the divide between humans and animals has been measured. Through animals, people have often thought about what it means to be human.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: Any 2.5 credits in History or permission of instructor

HISD04H3 Missionaries and Converts in the Early Modern World
This seminar will explore how early modern people thought about and practiced community, belief, and ritual. We will relate conversion to processes of empire building, and examine whether the "globalization of Christianity" is a useful concept through which to understand the experiences of missionaries and converts from 1500 to 1800.
Pre-1815 course
Limited enrolment: 18
Prerequisite: HISB80H or HISB81H or permission of instructor

HISD05H3 Between Two Worlds? Translators and Interpreters in History
This seminar explores the social history of translators, interpreters, and the texts they produce. Through several case studies from Ireland and Istanbul to Québec, Mexico City, and Goa, we will ask how translators shaped public understandings of "self" and "other," "civilization" and "barbarity" in the wake of European colonization.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: [HISB62H & HISC60H ] or permission of instructor

HISD30H3 Gendering America
The history of gender in the United States from the era of exploration to the present day. The changing social roles of men and women and the evolving constructions of femininity and masculinity. Particular topics include: work, family, sexuality, and state policy.
American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: [HISB30H & HISB31H ] or permission of instructor

HISD31H3 Thinking of Diversity: Perspectives on American Pluralisms
A seminar exploring the evolution of American thinking about diversity -- ethnic, religious, and regional -- from colonial-era defences of religious toleration to today's multiculturalism. Participants will consider pluralist thought in relation to competing ideologies, such as nativism, and compare American pluralisms to formulations arrived at elsewhere, including Canada.
American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: [HISB30H & HISB31H ] or permission of instructor

HISD34H3 Topics in American Social and Cultural History
This fourth-year seminar is funded by the Canada Research Chair in Urban History and is taught by an advanced graduate student in American history. The course, with topics varying from year to year will focus on major themes in American social and cultural history, such as, women's history, labour history, and/or the history of slavery and emancipation.
American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB30H & HISB31H

HISD35H3 The Politics of American Immigration, 1865-present
A seminar that puts contemporary U.S. debates over immigration in historical context, tracing the roots of such longstanding controversies as those over immigration restriction, naturalization and citizenship, immigrant political activism, bilingual education and "English-only" movements, and assimilation and multiculturalism. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB31H

HISD36H3 From New Deal to New Right: American Politics since 1933
The most striking development in U.S. politics in the last half century has been the rebirth and rise to dominance of conservatism. This seminar examines the roots of today's conservative ascendancy, tracing the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism and the subsequent rise of the New Right.
American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB31H

HISD38H3 Topics in American Urban History: New York City
An examination of the rise of American cities and the problems associated with urban life through the lens of the nation's largest and most diverse city, from its founding to the present day. Topics will include: Native Americans, colonial trade, industrialization, social and political movements, urban policy, suburbanization, and immigration.
American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: [HISB30H & HISB31H ] or permission of instructor

HISD40H3 Canadian Political Leadership, 1608 to Present
A seminar course that investigates the tradition of political leadership in Canada, from New France to the present day, with an emphasis on the post-Confederation period and the governing styles of major figures such as Sir John A. Macdonald, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau.
Canadian Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB40H & HISB41H
Recommended preparation: A C-level Canadian History course

HISD42H3 Selected Topics in Canadian Diplomatic and Military History
A seminar course that takes a case-study approach and examines important controversies in the history of Canadian warfare and diplomacy. Specific topics will vary from year to year.
Canadian Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Exclusion: HIS405Y
Prerequisite: [HISB40H & HISB41H ] or HISC46H

HISD46H3 Selected Topics in Canadian Women's History
Weekly discussions of assigned readings.
The course covers a broad chronological sweep but also highlights certain themes, including race and gender relations, working women and family economies, sexuality, and women and the courts. We will also explore topics in gender history, including masculinity studies and gay history.
Canadian Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: Any credit in Canadian history

HISD47H3 Cold War Canada in Comparative Contexts
A seminar on Cold War Canada that focuses on the early post-war era and examines Canadian events, developments, experience within a comparative North American context. Weekly readings are organized around a particular theme or themes, including the national insecurity state; reds, spies, and civil liberties; suburbia; and sexuality.
Canadian Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB41H & at least one other B- or C-level credit in History

HISD50H3 Southern Africa, 1652-1910
A seminar study of the history of the peoples of southern Africa, beginning with the hunter-gatherers but concentrating on farming and industrializing societies. Students will consider pre-colonial civilizations, colonialism and white settlement, slavery, the frontier, the mineral revolution and the South African War. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
African, Asian and Latin American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB50H or (HISC50H) or any 2.5 credits in History or permission of instructor

HISD51H3 Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Liberation
A seminar study of southern African history from 1910 to the present. Students will consider industrialization in South Africa, segregation, apartheid, colonial rule, liberation movements, and the impact of the Cold War. Historiography and questions of race, class and gender will be important. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
African, Asian and Latin American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISD50H

HISD52H3 East African Societies in Transition
A seminar study of East African peoples from late pre-colonial times to the 1990's, emphasizing their rapid although uneven adaptation to integration of the region into the wider world. Transitions associated with migrations, commercialization, religious change, colonial conquest, nationalism, economic development and conflict, will be investigated. Student presentations are required.
African, Asian and Latin American area.
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: [One of HISB50H , HISB51H , (HISC50H), (HISC51H)] or any 2.5 credits in History or permission of instructor

HISD54H3 State Formation in Precolonial Southeast Asia, c. 1750-1870
The seminar will examine the structural changes in Southeast Asian polities during the last century before high imperialism. Case studies on, among other topics, administrative reforms, political ideologies, territorial integration, revenue patterns, and the political role of religion will be related to broader themes such as the origin of imperialist intrusion and the emergence of the modern national state.
Pre-1815 course
African, Asian, and Latin American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: Two B- or C-level credits in History, or permission of the instructor.

HISD56H3 'Coolies' and Others: Asian Labouring Diasporas in the British Empire
'Coolie' labourers formed an imperial diaspora linking South Asia and China to the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, South-east Asia, and North America. The long-lasting results of this history are evident in the cultural and ethnic diversity of today's Caribbean nations and Commonwealth countries such as Great Britain and Canada.
African, Asian, Latin American Area
Prerequisite: HISB20H3 or HISB21H3 or HISB40H3 or HISB50H3 or HISB55H3 or HISB56H3 or HISB57H3 or HISB90H3 or HISC14H3 or HISC25H3 or HISC32H3 or HISC36H3 or HISC45H3 or HISC54H3 or HISC58H3 or HISC60H3 or 2.0 credits at the B- or C-level in Modern History.

HISD59H3 Law and Society in Chinese History
A seminar course on Chinese legal tradition and its role in shaping social, political, economic, and cultural developments, especially in late imperial and modern China. Topics include the foundations of legal culture, regulations on sexuality, women's property rights, crime fictions, private/state violence, laws of ethnicities, prison reforms and modernization.
African, Asian and Latin American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB58H

HISD60H3 Travelling and Travel-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
The development of travel and travel narratives before 1800, and their relationship to trade and colonization in the Mediterranean and beyond. Topics include: Marco Polo, pilgrimage and crusading, the history of geography and ethnography. Extensive reading, oral presentations, and a final paper based on research in primary documents are required.
Pre-1815 course
European Area; African, Asian and Latin American Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB62H .
Recommended preparation: HISC60H

HISD63H3 The Crusades: I
Modern interpretations of the Crusades will be investigated in the broad context of Western expansion into the Middle East (1099-1204), Spain and southern Europe, and, North-Eastern Europe. Also considered will be the Christian Military Orders, the Mongols and political crusades within Europe itself.
Pre-1815 course
Medieval Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB60H & HISB61H

HISD64H3 The Crusades: II
An intensive study of the primary sources of the First through Fourth Crusades, including works by Eastern and Western Christian, Arab and Jewish authors. The crusading period will be considered in terms of Western Christian expansion into the Middle East, Spain and Northern Europe in the 11th through 13th centuries.
Pre-1815 course
Medieval Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: HISB60H & HISB61H

HISD85H3 France and New France, 1500-1763
This senior seminar involves an in-depth study of the history of New France within the framework of the transplantation of a European society abroad. Under this comparative France/New France rubric, specific topics will include French-Amerindian relations, government institutions, Jesuit missionary efforts, social structures, as well as gender and family issues.
Pre-1815 course
European Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: 1.0 C-level credit in European or Canadian History, or permission of instructor.

HISD90H3 Weimar Culture
An examination of the social and political foundations of "modernism," using the cultural ferment of Germany between 1918 and 1933 as model.
   Individual artists and thinkers will be considered, but the emphasis will nevertheless be on culture as a social manifestation.
European Area
Limited enrolment: 15
Prerequisite: One C-level credit in European History.

CLAB05H3 The Mediterranean World I: Greece

CLAB06H3 The Mediterranean World II: Rome

CLAB42H3 Army and Empire in the Roman World

CLAC41H3 Slavery in the Roman Economy
These courses may be used to fulfill History Program requirements. (See the Classical Studies section of this Calendar for full descriptions.)
Pre-1815 courses
Ancient Greek and Roman Area

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