History

History Programs | History Courses

Faculty and Staff List

Professors Emeriti
S. Aster, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., FRHisS.
R.E. Johnson, B.A., Ph.D.
L.S. MacDowell, B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.
D.P. Morton, M.A., Ph.D.
A.C. Murray, B.A., Ph.D.
D.L. Raby, B.A., Ph.D.

Professors
E. Brown, B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
K. Bos, B.A (Hons), M.St., Ph.D.
K. Coleman, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
M. Cowan, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D.
B. Gettler, B.S., M.A., Ph.D.
J. Hanssen, D. Phil.
M. Kasturi, B.A., M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D.
T. Lam, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.
J. MacArthur, Hons. B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
C. Petrakos, M.A., Ph.D.
M. Tavakoli-Targhi, M.A., Ph.D.
R. Wittmann, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Chair
Dr. B. Chrubasik
Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Room 4264
905-828-5283
hs.chair@utoronto.ca

Departmental Manager
Duncan Hill
Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Room 4260
905-569-4913
dl.hill@utoronto.ca

Program Director
Dr. K. Coleman
Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Room 4280
his.historicalstudies@utoronto.ca


Academic Advisor & Program Administrator
Sharon Marjadsingh
Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Room 4272
905-569-4914
hs.advisor@utoronto.ca

 

The U of T Mississauga History program is designed to give its students a wide-ranging perspective on Canada and the world through reflection on the past, both recent and distant. The department provides a diverse and global curriculum, with faculty offering a range of specialized expertise on Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. The curriculum is also characterized by sets of thematic emphases that include imperialism, colonialism and nationalism, culture and society, religion, the environment, source criticism, labour, gender, ethnicity, war and politics.

History is an ancient discipline, but its modern practitioners are often by necessity interdisciplinary and are frequently positioned at the crossroads of the humanities and social sciences. U of T Mississauga's historians actively participate in a variety of interdisciplinary programs, including Canadian Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, European Studies, Industrial Relations, Medieval Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, and the Study of Women and Gender.

A concentration in history can provide students with the critical-thinking and communication skills required to excel in a number of professions. The student of history is in a position to pursue a diversity of career paths from academic research and teaching to media, law, journalism and government service.

A fuller description of the History program is available online at www.utm.utoronto.ca/historicalstudies. This website provides detailed information on course outlines, timetabling and program requirements. It also contains faculty profiles with research interests and publications.

100 and 200 entry-level courses provide intensive introductions to the history of areas and periods; these are typically conducted as a combination of lecture and tutorial; 300- and 400-level courses focus on more specialized or thematic topics. 400-level courses are offered as seminars, allowing students opportunities for collaborative discussion, independent research, and oral presentations.

The department encourages students to take advantage of the various study abroad opportunities available at UTM.

In the major and specialist programs, language courses offered by the Department of Language Studies at U of T Mississauga and by the various departments teaching languages on the St. George campus may be substituted for up to 1.0 History credits. These courses must be relevant for the student’s coursework in History, and will be substituted at the same level as they are offered (e.g., a language at the 200-level will be substituted for a History credit at the 200-level, and a language at the 300-level will be substituted for a History credit at the 300-level). Students are invited to contact the Academic Counsellor for further information.

For more information, refer to the Department of Historical Studies website at www.utm.utoronto.ca/historicalstudies/

Program website: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/historicalstudies/

History Programs

History - Specialist (Arts)

History - Specialist (Arts)

Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment – Students applying to enroll at the end of first year (4.0 credits) must have a CGPA of at least 2.00 and a mark of at least 70% in each of 1.0 HIS credits. Students applying to enroll after second year (8.0 credits) must have a CGPA of at least 2.30 and a mark of at least 70% in each of 2.0 HIS credits.

Completion Requirements:

10.0 credits, meeting the following requirements:

  1. 0.5 credit from HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5. It is recommended that one of these courses be completed in the first year.
  2. At least 1.5 credits at the 200+level must be chosen from at least three different geographical areas below:
  3. At least 1.5 credits at the 200+level must be chosen from at least three different topical areas below:
  4. 3.0 HIS credits at the 300+level
  5. 1.0 HIS credits at the 400-level
  6. 2.5 additional HIS credits at the 200+level
  •  

NOTES:

  • Specialists are permitted to substitute non-HIS courses for up to 2.0 HIS credits. All Classical Civilization and History of Religions courses in the Department of Historical Studies are suitable substitutions. Other substitutions will be considered on a case-by-case basis after the submission of the relevant syllabus. Students are invited to contact the Historical Studies Academic Advisor for further information.
  • In the Specialist program, language courses offered by the Department of Language Studies at U of T Mississauga, and by the various departments teaching languages on the U of T St. George, may be substituted for up to 1.0 History credits. These courses must be relevant for the student’s coursework in History, and will be substituted at the same level as they are offered (e.g., a language credit at the 200-level will be substituted for a History credit at the 200-level, and a language credit at the 300-level will be substituted for a History credit at the 300-level). Students are invited to contact the Historical Studies Academic Advisor for further information.

ERSPE0652

History and Political Science - Specialist (Arts)

History and Political Science - Specialist (Arts)

Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment — Enrolment in this program is limited.

For program entry in the 2023-2024 Academic Year (and beyond): 4.0 credits are required, including the following:

  • 1.0 credits of POL (with a minimum grade of at least 70% in each course)
  • 1.0 credits of HIS (with a minimum grade of at least 70% in each course)
  • ISP100H5
  • A CGPA of at least 2.00

Students enrolling at the end of second year (8.0 credits) must obtain the following:

  • 2.0 credits of POL (with a minimum grade of at least 70% in each course)
  • 2.0 credits of HIS (with a minimum grade of at least 70% in each course)
  • ISP100H5
  • A CGPA of at least 2.30

Completion Requirements:

14.0-14.5 credits, meeting the following requirements:

For students entering the program in 2023-2024 (and beyond): ISP100H5

History: 7.0 credits

  1. 0.5 credit from HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5. It is recommended that one of these courses be completed in the first year.
  2. 1.0 credits at the 200+level from two different geographical areas below:
  3. 2.0 credits at the 300+level
  4. 1.0 credits of HIS at the 400-level
  5. 2.5 additional credits of HIS at the 200+level

Note: 2.0 HIS credits must correspond in region or field to the 2.0 POL credits. Students are invited to contact the Historical Studies Academic Advisor for further information.

Political Science: 7.0 credits

7.0 credits in POL are required, including at least 1.0 credit at the 300 level and 1.0 credit at the 400 level and no more than 1.0 POL credit at the 100 level.

  1. POL200Y5 and POL215H5 and POL216H5 and POL243H5 and POL244H5
  2. 1.0 credit from two of the following three fields:
  3. 2.0 additional credits of POL

Note:

Specialists may substitute acceptable non-HIS courses at UTM for up to 1.0 credit of HIS. Students are invited to contact the Historical Studies Academic Advisor for further information.


ERSPE1045

History - Major (Arts)

History - Major (Arts)

Completion Requirements:

7.0 credits, meeting the following requirements:

  1. 0.5 credit from HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5. It is recommended that one of these courses be completed in the first year.
  2. At least 1.5 credits at the 200+level must be chosen from at least three different geographical areas below:
  3. At least 1.5 credits at the 200+level must be chosen from at least three different topical areas below:
  4. 3.0 HIS credits at the 300+level
  5. 0.5 HIS credit at the 400-level
  •  

NOTES:

  • Majors are permitted to substitute non-HIS courses for up to 1.0 HIS credits. All Classical Civilization and History of Religions courses in the Department of Historical Studies are suitable substitutions. Other substitutions will be considered on a case-by-case basis after the submission of the relevant syllabus. Students are invited to contact the Historical Studies Academic Advisor for further information.
  • In the Major program, language courses offered by the Department of Language Studies at U of T Mississauga, and by the various departments teaching languages on the U of T St. George, may be substituted for up to 1.0 History credits. These courses must be relevant for the student’s coursework in History, and will be substituted at the same level as they are offered (e.g., a language credit at the 200-level will be substituted for a History credit at the 200-level, and a language credit at the 300-level will be substituted for a History credit at the 300-level). Students are invited to contact the Historical Studies Academic Advisor for further information.

ERMAJ0652

History - Minor (Arts)

History - Minor (Arts)

Completion Requirements:

4.0 credits, meeting the following requirements:

  1. 0.5 credit from HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5. It is recommended that one of these courses be completed in the first year.
  2. At least 1.0 credits at the 200+level must be chosen from at least two different geographical areas below:
  3. 1.5 HIS credits at the 200+level
  4. 1.0 HIS credits at the 300+level

ERMIN0652

History Courses

HIS101H5 • Topics in History

This writing-intensive course introduces students to a historical topic as well as to the research and writing skills that are part of the historian's craft. Content in any given year depends on instructor.

Exclusions: HIS102H5 and HIS103H5 and HIS104H5 and HIS105H5 and HIS106H5 and HIS107H5 and HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS102H5 • A History of Discoveries and Inventions in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World.

This course challenges us to reconsider what we think we know about discoveries and inventions, and to reassess how they have shaped our world. It outlines debates around theories of progress, significance, continuity and change, and cause and consequence; guides students through the interpretation of primary and secondary sources; and introduces the discipline of history while helping students develop the research and writing skills that are part of the historian’s craft.

Exclusions: HIS101H5 and HIS103H5 and HIS104H5 and HIS105H5 and HIS106H5 and HIS107H5 and HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: Online, In Class, Hybrid, Online (Summer only)

HIS103H5 • Revolutions in History

Revolutions are sudden, violent, and capable of changing the structure of societies and nations. They are some of the most dramatic events in history because they raise all kinds of questions about how society should be structured, maintained, and organized. Over the course of the term, students will learn about the principle theories of revolution, their impact, and they will reflect on the ways in which our own assumptions and ideologies have been influenced by them.

Exclusions: HIS101H5 and HIS102H5 and HIS104H5 and HIS105H5 and HIS106H5 and HIS107H5 and HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS104H5 • A History of Here

This writing-intensive course introduces students to the histories of Mississauga, the Region of Peel, and the University of Toronto as well as to the research and writing skills that are part of the historian’s craft. We focus on Indigenous peoples, colonialism, immigration, and institution-building, questioning and complicating the celebratory narratives promoted by the University, the city, and the region.

Exclusions: HIS101H5 and HIS102H5 and HIS103H5 and HIS105H5 and HIS106H5 and HIS107H5 and HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS105H5 • A Brief History of Capitalism

This course offers a history of capitalism. In twelve weeks, we study nearly six hundred years of human history, examining how the profit motive has reshaped lives, landscapes, and values. We consider how the drive to accumulate capital has given rise to distinctive legal, racial, and religious regimes.

Exclusions: HIS101H5 and HIS102H5 and HIS103H5 and HIS104H5 and HIS106H5 and HIS107H5 and HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS106H5 • A History of Sex

This course examines the history of sex, the history of the body, and the history of sexuality from the past to the present. Topics include the construction of sexual identities (including non-normative sexualities); desire and its regulation; and the porous boundaries between sex and gender, especially in relationship to trans history.

Exclusions: HIS101H5 and HIS102H5 and HIS103H5 and HIS104H5 and HIS105H5 and HIS107H5 and HIS108H5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS107H5 • Critical Historiography

This writing-intensive course introduces students to critical historical thinking and writing in the humanities and social sciences and explores the emergence of History as a field of academic inquiry. By learning to reason and to write historically, students in this course will acquire the foundational skills that are essential for their educational success in higher level courses.

Exclusions: HIS101H5 and HIS102H5 and HIS103H5 and HIS104H5 and HIS105H5 and HIS106H5 and HIS108H5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS108H5 • Encounters Across the Atlantic

The movement of people, goods, and ideas across the Atlantic Ocean changed the world and shaped the modern age. This course considers how contact among Indigenous Americans, Africans, and Europeans between 1000 and 1800 contributed to ideologies of conquest and colonization; the development of a global economy; forced and voluntary migration on an unprecedented scale; and new forms of resistance.

Exclusions: HIS101H5 and HIS102H5 and HIS103H5 and HIS104H5 and HIS105H5 and HIS106H5 and HIS107H5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS200H5 • Topics in History

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Department of Historical Studies web site at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-studies/students/courses/topic-c… for details.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS201H5 • Introduction to Middle Eastern History

An introduction to the history of Islamic culture from its beginnings to modern times.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: Online, In Class

HIS203H5 • The Making of the Atlantic World (1000-1800)

An introduction to African, European, and American peoples around and across the Atlantic Ocean between 1000 and 1800. Themes include ideologies and practices of exploration, conquest, and colonization; perceptions and misunderstandings; forced and voluntary migration; effects of disease; resistance and revolt; and the "Atlantic World" as a field of study.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS204H5 • History of the Ottoman Empire, 1299-1923

This course provides an overview of the history of the Ottoman Empire, the longest lasting Muslim superpower and a major player in world history, from its inception in 1299 until its dissolution after World War I. Among current members of the United Nations, close to 40 member states were, for periods ranging from 50 to 600 years, integral parts of the Ottoman state. Present-day conflicts in political hot-spots, such as the Middle East, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cyprus and the Caucasus can only be understood through exploring their origin in the Ottoman past. At the same time in many cases the Ottoman Empire was an example of tolerance and accommodation of various ethnic and religious groups.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS210H5 • Introduction to Digital Humanities

What is Digital Humanities? We explore the field's debates, platforms, tools, projects, and critical perspectives, as well as its current core practices: digital exhibits, digital mapping, text analysis, information visualization, and network analysis. We discuss the relationship between technology and knowledge production in historical and critical perspective.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS211H5 • Screening History

This course explores the relationship of media - film, television and new visual technologies - to history: as historical representations, as sources of history, and as history itself. The course examines the impact of popular representations of history on screen and the controversies that emerge over these constructions of the past.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS212H5 • The History of Capitalism

This course historicizes capitalism and all of the subcategories that derive from this mode of production: labour, management, the commodity chain, marketing, advertising, finance, exchange value, and the multinational corporation, to name but a few. Students will be introduced to classic texts as well as to more recent work that uses historical methods to study the social, cultural, environmental, gendered, and ethical aspects of economic life under capitalism. The course takes a global perspective, and the focus will range from examining the historical development of capitalism in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS213H5 • A History of the Present

This course takes as its starting point current world events of global significance. We focus on 3-4 flashpoints/crises/events shaping contemporary global politics and culture, and move back in time to understand how current events have been shaped by longer histories of power, inequality, conflict and contestation.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS214H5 • Comparative Genocide

What are the historical circumstances through which mass killings emerge? An introduction to the history of genocide in comparative perspective, with an emphasis on the 20th century case studies. Course themes include denial and forgetting; justice and truth; and public memory.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS221H5 • Themes in Medieval History

This course is a brief survey of European history from the late Roman Empire to the fifteenth century emphasizing select themes that created the shape of medieval civilization and influenced developments in subsequent centuries.

Exclusions: May not be taken with or after HIS220Y5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: Online, In Class

HIS230H5 • Introduction to European History 1300-1815

European history from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, emphasing the major political, cultural, economic and social changes that created early modern Europe.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS236H5 • Introduction to British History

An introduction to some of the major themes in British history. Depending on the year, these might include examples from prehistoric, Roman, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods. Both developments within Britain itself, and connections between Britain and the wider world, are considered.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS241H5 • Revolution and Social Conflict in Europe: 1789-1890

Nineteenth-Century Europe is arguably the most revolutionary century in human history. Around 1800, Europe was a relative backwater characterized by agricultural economies and monarchial government. By 1900 a new decidedly modern world emerged, shaped by the priorities of industry, capitalism, and democracy. What caused these dramatic changes?

Exclusions: HIS241H1

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS242H5 • Nations, Ideologies, and Conflict in Contemporary European History

Nations, Ideologies, and Conflict offers a sweeping overview of European history from the eve of WWI to the present with attention to the key ideas--Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, Populism, and Globalization--that drive social, political and cultural change.

Exclusions: HIS242H1

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS250H5 • Introduction to Russian History

An introductory survey that examines the political, social, and cultural developments that shaped the Russian empire from the settlement of Kiev in the 9th century to the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in 1917.

Exclusions: HIS250Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: Online, In Class

HIS255H5 • Introduction to Histories of Extraction and the Environment

An introduction to the historical and ongoing disruptions of colonial extraction in Canada and their treatment within the historical record. From natural resources to Indigenous lands and knowledges, this course will deepen students’ understandings of the processes, industries and technologies responsible for settler colonial extraction in Canada.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities, Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS261H5 • Introduction to Canadian History

A survey of the political, social, and economic history of Canada, topically treated from the beginning to the present. This course is intended for students from disciplines outside of History looking for a broad-ranging approach to Canadian history.

Exclusions: HIS263Y1 and may not be taken with or after HIS263Y5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS262H5 • What is Canada?

A broad survey of the history of Canada from the beginning to the present focused on changing notions of the country,its territory, and peoples. We will question widely held beliefs about Canada, both in the past and the present,through deep engagement with primary sources and historiography.

Exclusions: HIS263H5 and HIS263Y5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS271H5 • US History, Colonial Era to 1877

A survey of the main developments and themes of U.S. history from the colonial period to the end of Reconstruction.

Exclusions: HIS271Y1 or HIS272Y5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS272H5 • US History, 1877-present

How did the US move from the Civil War to a world power? What have been the tensions between national ideals of "liberty for all" and US market expansion? Topics covered include: Jim Crow South; immigration and urbanization; Populism and the Progressivism; consumerism; many wars; post-45 social movements; Reaganism and after.

Exclusions: HIS272Y5 and HIS271Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS282H5 • Introduction to South Asian History

A critical introduction to the main themes and questions defining South Asian history from its beginnings to the present. Emphasis will be placed particularly on the period after the 1750s, which saw the emergence of British imperialism, anti-colonial struggles, and the formation of new nation states after 1947.

Exclusions: HIS282Y1 and HISB57H3
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS284H5 • Introduction to East Asian History

A survey of East Asian civilization and history from antiquity to modernity. It particularly explores the interrelations of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultural and political development.

Exclusions: HIS107Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS285H5 • War and Memory in Modern East Asia

This course examines how Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea and the US try to remember the Asian Pacific War. It focuses particularly on the bitterly contested representations of war atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre, the comfort women system, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Exclusions: HIS381H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS290H5 • Introduction to Latin American History

An introduction to the history of Latin America from pre-conquest indigenous empires to the end of the 20th century. Lectures, films, readings, and tutorials explore a set of themes in historical context: nationalism, authoritarianism, religion, racism, patriarchy, and Latin America's multiple interactions with the outside world.

Exclusions: HIS291H1 and HIS292H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS295H5 • Introduction to African History

A survey of African civilization and history from antiquity to modernity. The course also examines the transformation of Africa from colonial domination to postcolonial states, social movements, and ideologies.

Exclusions: HIS295Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS299Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 299Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: Completion of at least 4.0 and not more than 9.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS301H5 • North Africa and Western Asia Before World War I

A cultural history of North Africa and Western Asia from the 1870s to World War I. This late Ottoman period, known in Europe as the fin de siècle, was marked by imperialisms, nationalisms, and revolutions, as well as anxiety and alienation, environmental degradation, famine, and genocide.

Prerequisites: HIS201H5
Exclusions: HIS392H5 (Winter 2019 and Fall 2020)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS305H5 • 1898: Empires and Conflict in Global History

The Klondike Gold Rush, imperial conflict in North Africa, and the Spanish American War: 1898 is a pivotal year in global history. This course investigates the circuits of empire, capitalism, and environmental extraction in a rapidly industrializing and increasingly interconnected world.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS306H5 • The Cold War

This course will review the alliance systems and conflicts that dominated international relations in the period 1945-1991. It will examine specific incidents such as the Berlin Blockade and Airlift of 1948-49, the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Prague Spring, as well as the broader strategies and tactics that followed by the two superpowers and their allies. Particular attention will be given to the documentary evidence that has been declassified in the past two decades, and the light it sheds on earlier developments.

Exclusions: HIS401H1 and HIS401Y1
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS242H5 or HIS250H5).

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS307H5 • The Russian Revolutions of 1917

The fall of the Romanovs and the coming to power of the Bolsheviks have been controversial. This course examines interpretations of the 1917 events using original sources from 1917 in English.

Prerequisites: A course in modern European history.
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS308H5 • Themes in the History of Women Before 1800

This course focuses on the history of women before the 19th century emphasizing select themes in ancient, medieval, and early modern history.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS310H5 • The History of Women Since 1800

This course is a brief survey of the history of women in since 1800 emphasizing select themes in modern history.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS315H5 • Indigenous Peoples and Immigrants in Canada

This course examines the intertwined social, cultural, economic, and political histories of Indigenous peoples and immigrants in Canada. It explores the influence on lived experience of a wide variety of phenomena and ideas including community, place, indigeneity, ethnicity, gender, colonialism, empire, and mobility from the distant to the present.

Recommended Preparation: HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS318H5 • Canadian Environmental History: Contact to Conservation

This course focuses on the interaction of people and the environment. Themes include environmental change as a result of: European exploration and settlement; the transfer of animals, plants and diseases; the impact of contact and the "Columbian exchange" on indigenous peoples; the fur trade; the lumber industry; the destruction of the bison, the reserves system, and immigrant settlers in the West; the emergence of the conservation movement in Canada.

Prerequisites: 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS261H5 or HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS319H5 • Canadian Environmental History: Conservation to the Modern Environmental Movement

This course focuses on the interaction of people and the environment in the 20th Century. Themes include the environmental impact of industrialization, urbanization, and the revolution in transportation, and of resource development in the mining, oil, and gas industries; the destruction and preservation of wildlife; parks and the wilderness idea; the modern environmental movement; the contested world of modern agriculture and the food industry; the collapse of the fisheries; Canadian public policy, environmental law, and Canada's international role concerning the environment.

Prerequisites: 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS261H5 or HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5 or HIS318H5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS321H5 • Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

This course examines the political, social, cultural, and religious history of Scotland during the medieval and early modern periods. Topics include the Anglo-Norman impact, the Wars of Independence, Stewart monarchy, the growth of towns and trade, Highlands and Lowlands, the medieval Church, the Protestant Reformation, and Union with England.

Prerequisites: 0.5 HIS credit
Exclusions: HIS413H5
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS220Y5 or HIS221H5 or HIS230H5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS323H5 • The Rwandan Genocide: History, Violence, and Identity

This course examines the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, situated within larger historical frameworks of the nature of precolonial polities, the impact of colonialism, and the crises of postcolonial state building. Through a close examination of primary sources and historical arguments, this course will explore history and memory, violence and trauma, identity and belonging, justice and reconciliation.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS324H5 • Settler Colonialism, Violence, and Revolution: The Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya

This course examines colonial violence and revolution through the case of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya. Through an examination of primary sources and historical arguments, this course explores settler colonialism; local moral economies and land; gender and generational conflict; propaganda and revolutionary thought; and decolonization, memory, and contemporary legacies of Mau Mau.

Exclusions: HIS395H5 (Fall 2021)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS325H5 • Modern African History

Looking at the last one hundred years of modern African history, this course will examine the consolidation of colonial societies; transformations in gender, sexuality and identity politics; the roots of ethnic patriotisms, racial ideologies and African nationalisms; the role of violence in colonial and postcolonial governance; and the contemporary in historical perspective.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS326H5 • History of Women in Canada

A course on the experiences of women in what is now Canada, from the deep past through the twentieth century. It addresses questions related to the many roles women occupied in Indigenous and settler societies and how these have changed over time. The course explores political, social, and cultural movements alongside personal relationships and lives.

Exclusions: HIS326Y5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS327H5 • The Early Medieval World

Disorder, destruction, the dissolution of old and the creation of new societies, and a cultural revival that continues to influence intellectual and literary traditions: these are the big themes examined in this history of the early medieval world.

Prerequisites: CLA231H5 or CLA370H5 or HIS221H5.
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS330H5 • Politics and Political Change in Latin America

Examines major movements and cultures in Latin American politics from independence to present day. Topics include: nineteenth-century militarism; revolutionary socialism in Cuba and Nicaragua; military dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil and Chile; and recent grassroots and transnational political movements. Emphasizes the integral roles of gender, race and the United States in the region's political processes.

Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and HIS290H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS336H5 • The Imperial Victorian World

This course investigates the development of British politics and the emergence of its global empire from the early nineteenth century to 1900. It engages with key historical issues such as the development of representative government, imperialism, colonial relationships, the industrial revolution, and new political ideologies (i.e. conservativism, liberalism, socialism).

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS337H5 • History of Information and Media

In (mis)information age, it seems that the more we know, the less we understand. This course examines how data, fact, and information all have their own history, and that their production and circulation are shaped by politics, emotion, capital, as well as mediated by technology.

Exclusions: HIS392H5 (Fall 2019 and Fall 2020)
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS338H5 • The Holocaust in Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe

This course provides an expansive survey of the Nazi extermination of European Jews, including the ideological underpinnings of the genocide; the policies leading up to the "Final Solution" in Germany and the rest of Europe, a broad overview of the varied reactions and policies of many countries throughout Europe, the role of the Vatican and the response of the Jews themselves as well as the international community; the motivation of the perpetrators; and the complexities of survival in the ghettoes and concentration camps.

Exclusions: HIS361H1 or HIS338H1
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and a course in modern European history.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/10T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS339H5 • Postwar Germany, 1945-present

This course will explore the history of Germany beginning in 1945. We will examine the evolution of Germany from a dictatorship to a divided state by looking at Allied Policies in the 1940s, the economic wonder of the 1950s, and the tensions between East and West Germany until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. This course will look at both East and West Germany's very different confrontations with the Nazi past, the student movement of the 1960s, domestic terrorism in the 1970s, the breakdown of communism in the 1980s, and the growing pains of reunification that exist to the present day. All of these developments will be seen through legal, political, cultural, and media trends.

Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS242H5 or HIS338H5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS340H5 • The Reformation in Europe

The focus of this course will be the religious movements of sixteenth century that are described collectively as the Reformation: Lutheranism, Calvinism, the Radical Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.

Exclusions: RLG346H5 and HIS309H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS341H5 • England in the Age of Reformation and Revolution

Tudor and Stuart England (1485-1714) is a transformative period in English history. From the reign of Henry VIII, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution, to the execution of Charles I and the Glorious Revolution, this course charts out England’s dramatic development from peripheral backwater to emerging world superpower.

Exclusions: HIS395H5 (Fall 2019)
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS342H5 • History of Quebec and French Canada

This course examines the history of French Canada, focusing in particular on the period from the 1830s to the present. It explores questions of culture, political community, language, and geography, looking to these aspects of historical experience to situate Quebec and French Canada with respect to North America’s English-speaking majority as well as to the French-speaking nations of Europe, Africa, and elsewhere in the Americas. Proficiency in French is not required for students enrolled in HIS342H5, though those with French-language skills will be given the opportunity to work with French-language material. This course is taught in conjunction with FRE342H5.

Exclusions: FRE342H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS355H5 • Histories of Extraction and the Future of the Environment

This course uses Indigenous, transnational and feminist frameworks to examine colonialism’s impact on the environment. From Turtle Island (Canada/U.S.) to Aotearoa (New Zealand), this course dismantles colonial histories, extractive industries and the state apparatuses that govern our relationship to the environment to form alternative understandings of environmental histories and futures.

Recommended Preparation: HIS255H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities, Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS357H5 • The Renaissance

A cultural history of the 15th and 16th centuries set against the socio-economic background. The course will concentrate upon the development of the Renaissance in Italy and will deal with its manifestations in Northern Europe.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS358H5 • Canada Since World War Two

This course examines Canadian developments in the post-war period. It explores the tremendous economic expansion in that period. It surveys trends in immigration and urban development. The course also examines social movements and social change, as well as the growth of nationalism in Canada and Quebec.

Exclusions: HISB41H3
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS366H5 • Diasporic Histories & Cultures

This course explores a number of significant historic diasporas - and sites of diaspora - from Constantinople to Al-Andalus to Shanghai, to the United States and the United Kingdom, and to Tel Aviv and the West Bank, through historical record, fiction, memoir and film.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS367H5 • Diasporic Canada

This course explores the history of Canada as a recipient of diasporic communities, arriving from many parts of the world and bringing a great variety of cultures and experiences.

Exclusions: HIS266H5
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS369H5 • Great Lakes Aboriginal History

Algonkian and Iroquoian history from the eve of European contact to the present in the Great Lakes region of today's Canada and the United States. Algonkian and Iroquoian societies in the 16th century, change over time, material culture, and inter-cultural relations among natives and between natives and Euroamericans.

Exclusions: HIS366H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS371H5 • The Americas: Interaction and Inequality

An introduction to the history of Americas (the present-day territories of the Caribbean, Canada, Latin America and the United States) from pre-conquest indigenous societies to the end of the 20th century. This course will explore the Americas as a zone of connection and interaction between people of distinct environments, cultures and experiences. It surveys the historical continuities and transformations within the region and its linkages to increasingly globalized networks of culture, communication and commerce.

Exclusions: HIS391Y1, HISC70H3

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS372H5 • The United States in the 20th Century

Major developments in the economic, social, political, and cultural life of the United States during the past century as it grew from a burgeoning industrial nation to the leading Superpower.

Exclusions: HIS372H1 and HISD36H3
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS374H5 • Gender and Sexuality in the US, 1945-present

This class historicizes the intersectional analysis of gendered and sexed bodies after 1945. We explore topics such as normative gender expectations; reproductive freedom; masculinities; second-wave feminism; race, class and poverty; conservative backlash; media and gender/sexuality; LGBTQ social movements; trans histories. In terms of methods, I look forward to introducing students to experiments in digital history.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5 or HIS272H5 or HIS272Y5 or WGS101H5 or any course in U.S. History

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS378H5 • East Asian Cities

An examination of the historical transformation of East Asian cities from the imperial to modern times. The course focuses especially on how cities have been planned, depicted, experienced.

Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 and or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and HIS284H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS382H5 • Nations, Borders and Citizenship in South Asia

This course examines the emergence of the connected histories of nation-states, space and border-making in modern South Asia. It is especially interested in engaging the changing political languages, practices and contested visions of citizenship that have animated and shaped languages of space, place and belonging in South Asia.

Prerequisites: HIS282H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS384H5 • International Relations in the Middle East - Regional Perspectives on the 20th Century

The discovery of oil, the establishment of the state of Israel and subsequent wars for Palestine, Pan-Arabism and Political Islam were the over-riding factors in the regional balance of power. This course examines international relations as they were shaped by state- and non-state actors in 20th Century Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS201H5 or HIS236H5 or HIS282H5 or HIS290H5 or HIS295H5 or HIS306H5)
Exclusions: HIS307H1

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS385H5 • Orientalism and Occidentalism

This course reflects on Edward W. Said's seminal Study Orientalism. The first part focuses on the debates around academic representations of the Orient before and after Said's intervention: his critics, alternative perspectives and methodological elaborations. The second part dissects the ways in which Orientalism inhabits political forms of belonging such as romantic nationalism or Islamic fundamentalism, as well as colonial constructions of liberalism, race, gender and sexuality. The third part examines the ramifications of Orientalist knowledge production in the media and in visual culture. The course also raises questions of strategic reversals of Orientalism, and to what extent Occidentalism can be considered the non-Western equivalent to Western constructions of Otherness.

Prerequisites: HIS201H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS386H5 • Gender and History in South Asia

This course seeks to understand the manifold ways in which gender has shaped South Asian history, with a particular emphasis on the period from the colonial era to contemporary times. The themes will include the relationship between gender, kinship, society and politics on the one hand and race, imperialism, nationalism, popular movements and religion on the other.

Prerequisites: HIS282H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS388H5 • Histories of Modern Hinduism in South Asia

This course examines the social, cultural and political history of Hinduism since 1800. Themes include Hindu socio-reform and political movements, public and popular engagements with Hinduism, and the role of religious institutions, sites, beliefs and rituals in crafting contestatory Hindu 'publics' and ideologies. It emphasizes the nexus between gender, class, caste, region and the language of religion in shaping national and transnational political and cultural identities.

Prerequisites: HIS282H5 or RLG205H5
Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and RLG308H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS389H5 • Localities, Regions and Nations in South Asia

This course foregrounds and examines the role of localities and regions in forging social, cultural and political identities and cartographies in South Asian history before and after colonial rule. The course examines the shifting relationship between localities, regions and empires from 1200-1800, and thereafter in the era of colonialism, nationalism and post colonial nation-states. The course is especially interested in how social groups from the margins shaped, or alternatively contested political and spatial articulations of region, locality and nations.

Prerequisites: HIS282H5
Exclusions: HIS382H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS390H5 • Revolutions and Nations in Latin America

Examines social revolutions in Guatemala, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua. It emphasizes the historical linkages between these revolutions and national identity, and stresses the roles of gender, race and the United States in revolutionary processes. This course considers as well the counterrevolutionary politics of the 1970s and 1980s in Central America and the Southern cone.

Recommended Preparation: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and a course in Latin-American history or politics.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS391H5 • Mexico from Aztec to Zapatista

This course examines the origins and evolution of Mexican society, from its prehispanic empires to the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940). Drawing on primary sources, literature, films and secondary texts, the course will track a set of historical themes, including ethnic identity, Catholicism, economic development and migration.

Prerequisites: HIS290H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS392H5 • Topics in Global History

An examination of global historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Department of Historical Studies web site at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-studies for details.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS393H5 • Slavery and the American South

An examination of the role of slavery in the development of the American South from the early colonial period through the Civil War. Among the topics to be dealt with are: the origins of slavery, the emergence of a plantation economy, the rise of a slaveholding elite, the structure of the slave community, and the origins of the war.

Prerequisites: HIS271H5 or HIS272H5 or HIS272Y5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS395H5 • Topics in History

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Department of Historical Studies web site at www.utm.utoronto.ca/historicalstudies for details.

Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: Online, In Class

HIS396H5 • Modernity and Islam

The aim of this course is to engage students in the ongoing historiographical debates on modernity and Islam. Students will critically explore recent public discussions concerning "Islamic Fundamentalism," "Islamic Feminism," and "What Went Wrong" in the Islamic world.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and HIS201H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS282H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS397H5 • Iran's Islamic Revolution

This course explores the making of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 and the subsequent establishment of the Islamic Republic. Framed in a comparative perspective, it explains the cultural and political peculiarities that shaped the Islamist outcome of the Revolution. It examines the staging of the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq War, and the secularization of private lives.

Prerequisites: HIS201H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS398H5 • South Asia in Motion: Circulation, Mobility, Histories

This course examines how the movement of peoples, goods and ideas across land and sea has shaped South Asia’s history. In particular it analyses how far-reaching networks based on trade, pilgrimage, patronage, politics and labour that passed through the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and the Himalayas connected South Asia to Southeast Asia, and East Asia, amongst other spaces. It also foregrounds how these histories of mobility changed under colonial rule and its aftermath. The course focuses on the period from 1200 until the present.

Prerequisites: HIS282H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS382H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS399Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

For senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods, this course offers an opportunity to work on the research project of a professor. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for the following fall-winter session are posted on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: Completion of a minimum of 8.0 to 10.0 credits. (Amended)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS401H5 • Missionaries and Colonization in New France

The relationship between missionaries and colonization in New France was complicated and contested. This course will explore the links between missionary activities and colonial designs through late medieval and early modern European ideas of religion and expansion; early encounters between Indigenous peoples and Europeans; French attempts at settlement; cooperation and conflict between missionaries and the Crown; similarities and differences among different missionary groups; and Indigenous responses to missionary efforts.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5 and HIS230H5 or HIS261H5 or HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS402H5 • Topics in the History of French Canada

An in-depth examination of historical issues in French Canadian history. Content in any given year depends on the instructor. Details of each year's offering will be on the Department web site.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS261H5 or HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS405H5 • Microhistory

Microhistory focuses on a small part of the past to address big questions. By encouraging us to examine evidence up close, it provides a powerful way to investigate the rich texture of earlier societies and think about connections with our own time. This course considers classic microhistorical studies as well as more recent works, balancing theories with examples of the approach.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Exclusions: HIS420H5 (Fall 2020)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS407H5 • Imperial Germany 1871-1918

This course will explore Germany's history beginning with its unification and trace the events that led to the First World War and the end of the Imperial era. We will examine the Imperial period through various different focal points including unification and the legacy of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Sonderweg debate, gender, nationalism, German Jews and the birth of modern antisemitism, German's brief colonial era, the path to war and the revolution of 1918. By reading historical texts, articles, and novels, and by addressing numerous historiographical debates, we will attempt to understand Germany's foundational period in the context of this country's troubled history.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: A course in modern European history

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS409H5 • The Life Cycle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

This course examines the daily lives of medieval and early modern Europeans as they moved through birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, marriage, adulthood, old age and death. Special attention is given to the ways in which gender, social status and local custom shaped thoughts and experiences throughout the life cycle.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and 0.5 credit in medieval or early modern Europe.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS410H5 • Doing Digital History

How have Web 2.0 technologies changed the practice of history? Students learn by doing in this course: researching and writing for the digital medium; learning about the theory and practice of digital history; experimenting with new technologies; and creating a digital history project.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS210H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS420H5 • Topics in Medieval History

Critical evaluation of selected legal, literary and narrative sources. Thematic content will vary from year to year, but there will be an emphasis on social history.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS431H5 • Global China

A critical examination of the making and remaking of China from the eighteenth century to the present. Emphasis will be given to historical literature on colonialism, nationalism, revolution, and global connections.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and HIS284H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS435H5 • The Viking Age

A seminar on the history of Europe from the eighth to the eleventh centuries with emphasis upon the Scandinavians and their relations with western European civilization. Readings will be in both primary and secondary sources.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS438H5 • Remembering Atrocity: The Holocaust and Historical Memory in Europe and North America

This course will examine how Europe and North America confronts the Holocaust through the law, literature, left wing agitation, film, memorials and museums, and political debates. Among the focal points: the Nuremberg and postwar West German trials of Nazis, the fascination with Anne Frank, anti-fascist terror in 1970s Germany, The Berlin Memorial and the US Holocaust Museum, and films such as The Pianist and Schindler's List.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and (HIS242H5 or HIS338H5 or HIS339H5)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS448H5 • Memory, History and South Asia's Contested Pasts

This course focuses on the relationship between memory and the "traditions" of historical writing and remembering in the sub continent from 1200 to the present. It also focuses on the role of politics in mediating the region's multiple, often contesting histories in our period of study.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS382H5 or HIS386H5 or HIS394H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS453H5 • The Klondike Gold Rush

This course investigates the Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska-Yukon, 1896-1900) through the lenses of North American borderlands, environmental, and indigenous history. By viewing the gold rush in the context of growing national and imperial expansion, we will see it was an essential component of a much larger historical process centering on settlement, development, and dispossession.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5 or HIS272H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS454H5 • Race, Gender and Nation in Modern Latin America

This seminar examines the interconnected histories of race, gender and nation in Latin America. It studies the significance of race/racism and gender/patriarchy in the construction of national societies in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Subtopics include: slavery and Indian servitude; acculturation and eugenics; immigration and urbanization; machismo and marianismo; and current Indian and women's movements.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and HIS290H5
Exclusions: HIS441H1

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS462H5 • Indigenous North America

This reading and research-based course focuses on the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States, while also considering Mexico and the Caribbean. It explores a wide variety of methodologies and topics, examining Indigenous social structures, cultures, and economies alongside the influence of colonialism, capitalism, and nation states.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS262H5 or HIS263Y5 or HIS271H5 or HIS272H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS463H5 • Memory and Memorialization in South African History

This course examines the histories of South Africa through the lens of memory and memorialization. Major themes include gender and sexuality, race and nationalisms, youth and resistance, violence and trauma, the intersections and disconnections between different forms of memory (historical, collective, social) and their relationship to historical methodology and practice.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS295H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS464H5 • Decolonizing Africa

This research-intensive seminar looks at alternative histories of decolonization in Africa, including revolutionary nationalisms, secessionist movements, and pan-Africanism– as well as ongoing debates over boundaries, citizenship, and sovereignty in postcolonial Africa.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Exclusions: HIS493H5 (Winter 2020)
Recommended Preparation: HIS295H5 or HIS325H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS475H5 • The French Revolution

A topical survey of the French Revolution dealing with the uprising in France and its repercussions elsewhere by examining such subjects as its causes, its effect on nations, classes and gender, and its relation to nationalism, socialism and democracy.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: A course in European history

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS479H5 • Cold War America

An examination of significant political, economic, social and intellectual developments, including Cold War Foreign policies, economic and social reforms, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights movement, women's liberation, the "counter-culture,"and the Indochina Wars.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS480H5 • Partition and its Aftermath in South Asia

This course examines the everyday effects of the partition of 1947, and its aftermath, when British India gained independence and was also crafted into new nation states. Amongst other issues, it engages with sexual violence, nation-making, territoriality, rehabilitation, citizenship, and spatiality. More broadly it connects these issues to space, place and historical memory.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5 and HIS282H5.
Recommended Preparation: HIS382H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS483H5 • Colonialism in East Asia

This course examines the ideologies and practices of colonialisms, both internal and external, in modern East Asia.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS284H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS484H5 • Religion and Public Culture in South Asian History

The course examines the role played by religion in shaping public culture and everyday practice in South Asian history. It studies key themes on the subject against a longue-duree perspective.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 and HIS282H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS382H5 or HIS386H5 or HIS394H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS489Y5 • History Honours Thesis

Working closely with a faculty member, students choose a topic, develop a research question, conduct original and independent research using both primary and secondary sources, and write a thesis of approximately 60 pages.

Prerequisites: Students must obtain a mark of 77% in each of 4.0 History credits and permission of the instructor.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS490H5 • Religion and Society in Latin America

An interdisciplinary seminar that examines religion and its historical role in shaping culture, society, and politics in Latin America. It considers both the formal institutional practice of religion as well as informal and popular religiosities. A framing theme of the course is the complex relationship between Church and State - and more broadly, between religion and politics - in the region.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5
Recommended Preparation: HIS290H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS493H5 • Advanced Topics in Global History

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Department of Historical Studies website at www.utm.utoronto.ca/historicalstudies for details.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS494H5 • Advanced Topics in the History of the Americas

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Department of Historical Studies website at www.utm.utoronto.ca/historicalstudies for details.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS495H5 • Advanced Topics in European History

An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Department of Historical Studies website at www.utm.utoronto.ca/historicalstudies for details.

Prerequisites: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS497Y5 • Independent Reading

Student-initiated project of reading and research, supervised by a member of the Department. Primarily intended for students in Specialist or Major programs. After obtaining a supervisor, a student must apply to the Department of Historical Studies. A maximum of 1.0 credit in a reading course is permitted.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS498Y5 • Internship in History

Through a part-time, unpaid work placement, a limited number of advanced history students may enrol for field experience relating to expertise they have gained in the program. Placements are made at local libraries, historic sites and foundations, media outlets, public and private institutions. Five previous history courses and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 are required. For application to admission contact the Department of Historical Studies before June 1.

Prerequisites: (HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5) and 5.0 additional HIS credits and a CGPA of 3.0.

Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience
Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS499H5 • Independent Reading

Student-initiated project of reading and research, supervised by a member of the Department. Primarily intended for students in History Specialist, Joint Specialist or Major programs. After obtaining a supervisor, a student must apply to the Department of Historical Studies. A maximum of 2 reading courses, amounting to 1.0 credit, is permitted.


Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

HIS499Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

For senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods, this course offers an opportunity to work on the research project of a professor. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for the following fall-winter session are posted on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: Completion of a minimum of 8.0 to 10.0 credits. (Amended)

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

JBH471H5 • Worlds Colliding: The History and Ecology of Exploration, Contact, and Exchange

An examination of contact in world history through both an ecological and a historical lens. Precise topics will depend on the year, but the focus will be on the creation of global systems and ecological challenges that continue to shape our world. In some years, students may have the option of participating in an international learning experience during Reading Week that will have an additional cost and application process. Students interested in this course will need to be approved for enrollment by the department and course instructors.

Prerequisites: 2.0 HIS credits or 1.0 BIO credit at the 300 level and permission of instructor.
Exclusions: UTM290H5 Winter 2018 or Winter 2019

International Component: International - Optional
Distribution Requirement: Humanities, Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

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