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History
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Careers:
- Educator
- Archivist
- Journalist
- Contract Historian
- Librarian
- Writer
History is our collective memory. History shapes our identity, informing who we are as individuals, communities and nations. In our modern complex and diverse world, the study of history has never been more relevant. Understanding the origins and developments of institutions and ideas, tensions and conflicts, societies and civilizations improves our social awareness and provides insight into the perspectives of others, allowing us to make informed decisions about future courses of action.
Studying history provides students with a tool box of transferable skills that will serve them well in today’s evolving job market. History students are trained to be excellent researchers, tracking down information and communicating their analysis with clarity and confidence. A History degree at UPEI will hone students’ abilities to weigh and assess evidence and expert opinion, to evaluate causes and consequences, and provide them with a foundation from which to develop practical solutions to contemporary problems. Our History graduates are pursuing successful careers in heritage and conservation, law, journalism, education, medicine, social services, policy analysis, business, communications, and digital information management.
History professors at UPEI are award-winning educators and researchers with a wide variety of historical interests. Our course offerings include studies ranging from the local history of PEI to the history of global exploration; from Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the present; and themes encompassing the impact of wars and revolutions on past societies, the history of science and medicine, and the history of gender relations. Our Public History course provides students with an opportunity to gain valuable internship experience in government, heritage and cultural workplaces.
UPEI History professors work closely with individual students, mentoring them to help them achieve their goals. The History Student Society thrives at UPEI, providing history students with a supportive, socially active university community.
Welcome – we look forward to meeting you and sharing our passion for the past and its relevance for the future.
For more information about the History Program or to meet with a member of the department, our contact details can be found on the right of this page.
Edward MacDonald, Chair
UPEI Department of History
Want more information about History? Leave your email address and we'll get in touch!
Careers:
- Educator
- Archivist
- Journalist
- Contract Historian
- Librarian
- Writer
To be admitted to the honours program, the student must submit a letter of application to the Honours Co-ordinator. Applicants must be registered in, or have completed, the major program. Applications are normally submitted during the fourth or fifth semester. Decisions on admission are made by the department acting as a committee of the whole. Admissions decisions will be made on the basis of demonstrated and potential ability to carry out independent research and sustained historical analysis. Meeting the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee admission.
- Applicants must have a minimum average of 70% in all previous University courses. Normally, the Department expects an average of at least 75% in all previous history courses.
- In addition to the courses required for the major, honours students are required to complete History 4970 and 4980.
- Each honours student must prepare a graduating honours essay under the direction of a supervisor. This essay will be evaluated by a three-person committee, one member of which will be from outside the Department.
- The candidate must take a final oral examination on the essay.
- Students intending to enter graduate programs should be aware that many such programs require a reading knowledge of a second language. Undergraduate courses in a second language are a useful preparation for graduate work in history.
An honours program is complete when the student completes:
- a total of 126 semester hours of course credits with a mini- mum overall average of 70%;
- a total of 48 semester hours of course credits in History (6 semester hours in addition to the minimum required for the major), with a minimum average of 75%.
Want more information about History? Leave your email address and we'll get in touch!
Careers:
- Educator
- Archivist
- Journalist
- Contract Historian
- Librarian
- Writer
Major in History
To register as a major in History, a student must complete History 1010/1020 and six semester hours (2 courses) at the 200 level. Students are urged to take History 2010/2020 in the first or second year to satisfy the second requirement. Students may take additional 2000-level courses.
- History 1010/1020, 2010/2020, 2110, and 3120 are compulsory for students in the major program.
- History 1010/1020, 2010/2020, and 2110 should be completed by the end of the fourth semester.
- History 3120 should be completed no later than the end of the sixth semester.
A major program is complete when a student has successfully completed a minimum of 42 hours of credit in History (14 courses) of which a minimum of 9 hours (3 courses) must be at the 3000 level, and 9 hours (3 courses) must be at the 4000 level. Majors must complete courses totalling 6 semester hours of credit at the 2000-4000 levels in three of the five areas of study: Europe, Britain, the USA, Canada, and Global.
Minor in History
To complete a minor in History, the student must complete History 1010/1020 and five other history courses (15 semester hours), including
- one Canadian history,
- one continental European history,
- one course each out of two of the following three fields: British history, USA history, and Global history,
- one other history course.
- At least two of the student’s courses must be at the 3000 level or above.
Minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Visit the Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor program page
Want more information about History? Leave your email address and we'll get in touch!
Careers:
- Educator
- Archivist
- Journalist
- Contract Historian
- Librarian
- Writer
CREDITS FOR CROSS-LISTED COURSES
The Department accepts as part of its major or honours program a maximum of 12 hours (4 courses) of courses cross- credited to History from related disciplines. Of such courses, students can apply 6 hours (2 courses) taken at the 1000 or 2000 levels and 6 hours (2 courses) at the 3000 or 4000 levels. Students must have the prior approval of the Chair of History if credit is to be granted. The courses from related disciplines which may be approved for credit are the following:
Asian Studies 2010 Introduction to West Asia
Asian Studies 2020 Introduction to East Asia
Economics 3110/3120 History of Economic Thought
English 3780 The Medieval Book
Fine Arts History 1010/1020 Art History
Religious Studies 3310/3320 History of Christianity
AREA COURSES
The Department offers the following “streams”—Canadian, USA, British, European, Global, and Others:
Canadian
1010 Canadian History—Pre-Confederation
1020 Canadian History—Post-Confederation
2310 The Atlantic Region
2320 The Atlantic Region
3250 Canadian Social History to World War I
3260 Canadian Social History since World War I
3310 History of Prince Edward Island— Pre-Confederation
3320 History of Prince Edward Island— Post-Confederation
3520 The History of Quebec and French Canada
3530 Canada and The First World War
3850 Women in 19th-Century Canada
3860 Women, the Law, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century Canada
4150 Canada Apologizes: Studies in Historical Apologies
4240 History of Canadian Nationalism and the Canadian Identity
4250 Childhood in Modern Canada
4260 A History of the Canadian Working Classes
4890 20th-Century Prince Edward Island
USA
2410 United States History—From the Colonial Period to Reconstruction
2420 United States History since Reconstruction
3330 Health Care and North American Society in Historical Perspective
3910 The United States from 1900 through World War II
3920 The United States since World War II
3930 The American Mind and Imagination: From the Puritans to the Progressives
3940 20th-Century American Intellectual History
3950 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: A History of Immigration
3960 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: African-American History
3970 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: The Hispanic- American Experience
4410 United States Foreign Policy from the Revolutionary Period through World War I
4420 United States Foreign Policy since World War I
British
2610 Britain in the Age of Revolutions: 1688-1860
2620 Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia: Britain 1860-2000
3100 Tudor England, 1485-1603: Creation of a Nation
3620 Victorian Britain
3630 Modern Irish History
4720 Britain in the 20th-Century: Society, Culture and Identity
4730 The Rise of Consumer Society: British Society in the 18th-Century
European
2010 European Civilization 500 BC-1648
2020 European Civilization 1648 to the Present
3030 Power, Culture and Consumption: the Renaissance in Italy
3050 Martyrs, Marauders, Clerics and Kings: The Culture of the European Middle Ages
3110 Science, Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult in Premodern Europe
3230 Russian History since 1682
3410 German History since 1648
3420 History of France since 1500
4040 Monsters, Gold, and Glory: Travel, Trade and the Problem of Discovery in Premodern Europe
4110 Europe Since Bismarck
4850 The Ideas that changed Modern European History
Global
2150 Foreign Foods: Eating in the Age of Empires
2220 From Magic to the Double Helix: Science and Society in Historical Perspective
3210 History of Christianity to the Reformation
3220 History of Christianity from the Reformation to the Present
3270 Migration to Canada I
3280 Migration to Canada II
3710 The Atlantic World I
3720 The Atlantic World II
3730 The Second World War in Global Context
3750 Tourism in western Society: The Travel Imperative
3760 The History of Genocide
4050 Crusades and Crusading
4320 Britain and the Imperial Experience
4340 Madness and Society
4550 War and Revolution in the 20th Century World
4830 The History of the Environmentalist Movement
Other
1110 Discovering the Past
1130 Crime and Punishment: Historical Themes
1140 Plaque: Historical Themes
1150 Nazi Germany: Historical Themes
1160 The Devil in Western Society: Historical Themes
1170 Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk: Historical Themes
2110 The History Workshop: Skills and Methods in History
3120 Themes and Debates in History
4840 Applied Public History
4910 Directed Studies
4920 Directed Studies
4970 Honours Tutorial in Historiography
4980 Honours Graduating Essay
Normally, students who intend to major in History will choose History 1010/1020 as their introduction to history. These courses include an important tutorial component emphasizing introductory skills and methods of history.
2000-level courses provide introductions to the histories of civilizations, regions, and countries, especially in the areas listed above. They are intended to build upon the skills acquired in first year History courses.
3000-level courses provide more specialized studies in a number of areas.
4000-level courses are usually seminars emphasizing discussion and research in more specialized areas.
While providing courses for students in all faculties, schools, and departments, the Department also provides a minor, major, and honours program for those who have a special interest in the study of history.
Want more information about History? Leave your email address and we'll get in touch!
Careers:
- Educator
- Archivist
- Journalist
- Contract Historian
- Librarian
- Writer
- Andrew Robb, Professor Emeritus
- Sharon Myers, Assistant Professor
- Susan Brown, Associate Professor
- Ian Dowbiggin, Professor
- James Moran, Professor
- Lisa Chilton, Associate Professor
- Richard G. Kurial, Associate Professor
- Edward MacDonald, Associate Professor
- Richard Raiswell, Associate Professor
Overview
History is our collective memory. History shapes our identity, informing who we are as individuals, communities and nations. In our modern complex and diverse world, the study of history has never been more relevant. Understanding the origins and developments of institutions and ideas, tensions and conflicts, societies and civilizations improves our social awareness and provides insight into the perspectives of others, allowing us to make informed decisions about future courses of action.
Studying history provides students with a tool box of transferable skills that will serve them well in today’s evolving job market. History students are trained to be excellent researchers, tracking down information and communicating their analysis with clarity and confidence. A History degree at UPEI will hone students’ abilities to weigh and assess evidence and expert opinion, to evaluate causes and consequences, and provide them with a foundation from which to develop practical solutions to contemporary problems. Our History graduates are pursuing successful careers in heritage and conservation, law, journalism, education, medicine, social services, policy analysis, business, communications, and digital information management.
History professors at UPEI are award-winning educators and researchers with a wide variety of historical interests. Our course offerings include studies ranging from the local history of PEI to the history of global exploration; from Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the present; and themes encompassing the impact of wars and revolutions on past societies, the history of science and medicine, and the history of gender relations. Our Public History course provides students with an opportunity to gain valuable internship experience in government, heritage and cultural workplaces.
UPEI History professors work closely with individual students, mentoring them to help them achieve their goals. The History Student Society thrives at UPEI, providing history students with a supportive, socially active university community.
Welcome – we look forward to meeting you and sharing our passion for the past and its relevance for the future.
For more information about the History Program or to meet with a member of the department, our contact details can be found on the right of this page.
UPEI Department of History
Edward MacDonald, Chair
Honours
To be admitted to the honours program, the student must submit a letter of application to the Honours Co-ordinator. Applicants must be registered in, or have completed, the major program. Applications are normally submitted during the fourth or fifth semester. Decisions on admission are made by the department acting as a committee of the whole. Admissions decisions will be made on the basis of demonstrated and potential ability to carry out independent research and sustained historical analysis. Meeting the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee admission.
- Applicants must have a minimum average of 70% in all previous University courses. Normally, the Department expects an average of at least 75% in all previous history courses.
- In addition to the courses required for the major, honours students are required to complete History 4970 and 4980.
- Each honours student must prepare a graduating honours essay under the direction of a supervisor. This essay will be evaluated by a three-person committee, one member of which will be from outside the Department.
- The candidate must take a final oral examination on the essay.
- Students intending to enter graduate programs should be aware that many such programs require a reading knowledge of a second language. Undergraduate courses in a second language are a useful preparation for graduate work in history.
An honours program is complete when the student completes:
- a total of 126 semester hours of course credits with a mini- mum overall average of 70%;
- a total of 48 semester hours of course credits in History (6 semester hours in addition to the minimum required for the major), with a minimum average of 75%.
Major/Minors
Major in History
To register as a major in History, a student must complete History 1010/1020 and six semester hours (2 courses) at the 200 level. Students are urged to take History 2010/2020 in the first or second year to satisfy the second requirement. Students may take additional 2000-level courses.
- History 1010/1020, 2010/2020, 2110, and 3120 are compulsory for students in the major program.
- History 1010/1020, 2010/2020, and 2110 should be completed by the end of the fourth semester.
- History 3120 should be completed no later than the end of the sixth semester.
A major program is complete when a student has successfully completed a minimum of 42 hours of credit in History (14 courses) of which a minimum of 9 hours (3 courses) must be at the 3000 level, and 9 hours (3 courses) must be at the 4000 level. Majors must complete courses totalling 6 semester hours of credit at the 2000-4000 levels in three of the five areas of study: Europe, Britain, the USA, Canada, and Global.
Minor in History
To complete a minor in History, the student must complete History 1010/1020 and five other history courses (15 semester hours), including
- one Canadian history,
- one continental European history,
- one course each out of two of the following three fields: British history, USA history, and Global history,
- one other history course.
- At least two of the student’s courses must be at the 3000 level or above.
Minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Visit the Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor program page
Cross-listed/Area Courses
CREDITS FOR CROSS-LISTED COURSES
The Department accepts as part of its major or honours program a maximum of 12 hours (4 courses) of courses cross- credited to History from related disciplines. Of such courses, students can apply 6 hours (2 courses) taken at the 1000 or 2000 levels and 6 hours (2 courses) at the 3000 or 4000 levels. Students must have the prior approval of the Chair of History if credit is to be granted. The courses from related disciplines which may be approved for credit are the following:
Asian Studies 2010 Introduction to West Asia
Asian Studies 2020 Introduction to East Asia
Economics 3110/3120 History of Economic Thought
English 3780 The Medieval Book
Fine Arts History 1010/1020 Art History
Religious Studies 3310/3320 History of Christianity
AREA COURSES
The Department offers the following “streams”—Canadian, USA, British, European, Global, and Others:
Canadian
1010 Canadian History—Pre-Confederation
1020 Canadian History—Post-Confederation
2310 The Atlantic Region
2320 The Atlantic Region
3250 Canadian Social History to World War I
3260 Canadian Social History since World War I
3310 History of Prince Edward Island— Pre-Confederation
3320 History of Prince Edward Island— Post-Confederation
3520 The History of Quebec and French Canada
3530 Canada and The First World War
3850 Women in 19th-Century Canada
3860 Women, the Law, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century Canada
4150 Canada Apologizes: Studies in Historical Apologies
4240 History of Canadian Nationalism and the Canadian Identity
4250 Childhood in Modern Canada
4260 A History of the Canadian Working Classes
4890 20th-Century Prince Edward Island
USA
2410 United States History—From the Colonial Period to Reconstruction
2420 United States History since Reconstruction
3330 Health Care and North American Society in Historical Perspective
3910 The United States from 1900 through World War II
3920 The United States since World War II
3930 The American Mind and Imagination: From the Puritans to the Progressives
3940 20th-Century American Intellectual History
3950 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: A History of Immigration
3960 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: African-American History
3970 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: The Hispanic- American Experience
4410 United States Foreign Policy from the Revolutionary Period through World War I
4420 United States Foreign Policy since World War I
British
2610 Britain in the Age of Revolutions: 1688-1860
2620 Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia: Britain 1860-2000
3100 Tudor England, 1485-1603: Creation of a Nation
3620 Victorian Britain
3630 Modern Irish History
4720 Britain in the 20th-Century: Society, Culture and Identity
4730 The Rise of Consumer Society: British Society in the 18th-Century
European
2010 European Civilization 500 BC-1648
2020 European Civilization 1648 to the Present
3030 Power, Culture and Consumption: the Renaissance in Italy
3050 Martyrs, Marauders, Clerics and Kings: The Culture of the European Middle Ages
3110 Science, Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult in Premodern Europe
3230 Russian History since 1682
3410 German History since 1648
3420 History of France since 1500
4040 Monsters, Gold, and Glory: Travel, Trade and the Problem of Discovery in Premodern Europe
4110 Europe Since Bismarck
4850 The Ideas that changed Modern European History
Global
2150 Foreign Foods: Eating in the Age of Empires
2220 From Magic to the Double Helix: Science and Society in Historical Perspective
3210 History of Christianity to the Reformation
3220 History of Christianity from the Reformation to the Present
3270 Migration to Canada I
3280 Migration to Canada II
3710 The Atlantic World I
3720 The Atlantic World II
3730 The Second World War in Global Context
3750 Tourism in western Society: The Travel Imperative
3760 The History of Genocide
4050 Crusades and Crusading
4320 Britain and the Imperial Experience
4340 Madness and Society
4550 War and Revolution in the 20th Century World
4830 The History of the Environmentalist Movement
Other
1110 Discovering the Past
1130 Crime and Punishment: Historical Themes
1140 Plaque: Historical Themes
1150 Nazi Germany: Historical Themes
1160 The Devil in Western Society: Historical Themes
1170 Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk: Historical Themes
2110 The History Workshop: Skills and Methods in History
3120 Themes and Debates in History
4840 Applied Public History
4910 Directed Studies
4920 Directed Studies
4970 Honours Tutorial in Historiography
4980 Honours Graduating Essay
Normally, students who intend to major in History will choose History 1010/1020 as their introduction to history. These courses include an important tutorial component emphasizing introductory skills and methods of history.
2000-level courses provide introductions to the histories of civilizations, regions, and countries, especially in the areas listed above. They are intended to build upon the skills acquired in first year History courses.
3000-level courses provide more specialized studies in a number of areas.
4000-level courses are usually seminars emphasizing discussion and research in more specialized areas.
While providing courses for students in all faculties, schools, and departments, the Department also provides a minor, major, and honours program for those who have a special interest in the study of history.
Faculty
- Andrew Robb, Professor Emeritus
- Sharon Myers, Assistant Professor
- Susan Brown, Associate Professor
- Ian Dowbiggin, Professor
- James Moran, Professor
- Lisa Chilton, Associate Professor
- Richard G. Kurial, Associate Professor
- Edward MacDonald, Associate Professor
- Richard Raiswell, Associate Professor
Overview
History is our collective memory. History shapes our identity, informing who we are as individuals, communities and nations. In our modern complex and diverse world, the study of history has never been more relevant. Understanding the origins and developments of institutions and ideas, tensions and conflicts, societies and civilizations improves our social awareness and provides insight into the perspectives of others, allowing us to make informed decisions about future courses of action.
Studying history provides students with a tool box of transferable skills that will serve them well in today’s evolving job market. History students are trained to be excellent researchers, tracking down information and communicating their analysis with clarity and confidence. A History degree at UPEI will hone students’ abilities to weigh and assess evidence and expert opinion, to evaluate causes and consequences, and provide them with a foundation from which to develop practical solutions to contemporary problems. Our History graduates are pursuing successful careers in heritage and conservation, law, journalism, education, medicine, social services, policy analysis, business, communications, and digital information management.
History professors at UPEI are award-winning educators and researchers with a wide variety of historical interests. Our course offerings include studies ranging from the local history of PEI to the history of global exploration; from Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the present; and themes encompassing the impact of wars and revolutions on past societies, the history of science and medicine, and the history of gender relations. Our Public History course provides students with an opportunity to gain valuable internship experience in government, heritage and cultural workplaces.
UPEI History professors work closely with individual students, mentoring them to help them achieve their goals. The History Student Society thrives at UPEI, providing history students with a supportive, socially active university community.
Welcome – we look forward to meeting you and sharing our passion for the past and its relevance for the future.
For more information about the History Program or to meet with a member of the department, our contact details can be found on the right of this page.
Edward MacDonald, Chair
UPEI Department of History
Honours
To be admitted to the honours program, the student must submit a letter of application to the Honours Co-ordinator. Applicants must be registered in, or have completed, the major program. Applications are normally submitted during the fourth or fifth semester. Decisions on admission are made by the department acting as a committee of the whole. Admissions decisions will be made on the basis of demonstrated and potential ability to carry out independent research and sustained historical analysis. Meeting the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee admission.
- Applicants must have a minimum average of 70% in all previous University courses. Normally, the Department expects an average of at least 75% in all previous history courses.
- In addition to the courses required for the major, honours students are required to complete History 4970 and 4980.
- Each honours student must prepare a graduating honours essay under the direction of a supervisor. This essay will be evaluated by a three-person committee, one member of which will be from outside the Department.
- The candidate must take a final oral examination on the essay.
- Students intending to enter graduate programs should be aware that many such programs require a reading knowledge of a second language. Undergraduate courses in a second language are a useful preparation for graduate work in history.
An honours program is complete when the student completes:
- a total of 126 semester hours of course credits with a mini- mum overall average of 70%;
- a total of 48 semester hours of course credits in History (6 semester hours in addition to the minimum required for the major), with a minimum average of 75%.
Major/Minors
Major in History
To register as a major in History, a student must complete History 1010/1020 and six semester hours (2 courses) at the 200 level. Students are urged to take History 2010/2020 in the first or second year to satisfy the second requirement. Students may take additional 2000-level courses.
- History 1010/1020, 2010/2020, 2110, and 3120 are compulsory for students in the major program.
- History 1010/1020, 2010/2020, and 2110 should be completed by the end of the fourth semester.
- History 3120 should be completed no later than the end of the sixth semester.
A major program is complete when a student has successfully completed a minimum of 42 hours of credit in History (14 courses) of which a minimum of 9 hours (3 courses) must be at the 3000 level, and 9 hours (3 courses) must be at the 4000 level. Majors must complete courses totalling 6 semester hours of credit at the 2000-4000 levels in three of the five areas of study: Europe, Britain, the USA, Canada, and Global.
Minor in History
To complete a minor in History, the student must complete History 1010/1020 and five other history courses (15 semester hours), including
- one Canadian history,
- one continental European history,
- one course each out of two of the following three fields: British history, USA history, and Global history,
- one other history course.
- At least two of the student’s courses must be at the 3000 level or above.
Minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Visit the Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor program page
Cross-listed/Area Courses
CREDITS FOR CROSS-LISTED COURSES
The Department accepts as part of its major or honours program a maximum of 12 hours (4 courses) of courses cross- credited to History from related disciplines. Of such courses, students can apply 6 hours (2 courses) taken at the 1000 or 2000 levels and 6 hours (2 courses) at the 3000 or 4000 levels. Students must have the prior approval of the Chair of History if credit is to be granted. The courses from related disciplines which may be approved for credit are the following:
Asian Studies 2010 Introduction to West Asia
Asian Studies 2020 Introduction to East Asia
Economics 3110/3120 History of Economic Thought
English 3780 The Medieval Book
Fine Arts History 1010/1020 Art History
Religious Studies 3310/3320 History of Christianity
AREA COURSES
The Department offers the following “streams”—Canadian, USA, British, European, Global, and Others:
Canadian
1010 Canadian History—Pre-Confederation
1020 Canadian History—Post-Confederation
2310 The Atlantic Region
2320 The Atlantic Region
3250 Canadian Social History to World War I
3260 Canadian Social History since World War I
3310 History of Prince Edward Island— Pre-Confederation
3320 History of Prince Edward Island— Post-Confederation
3520 The History of Quebec and French Canada
3530 Canada and The First World War
3850 Women in 19th-Century Canada
3860 Women, the Law, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century Canada
4150 Canada Apologizes: Studies in Historical Apologies
4240 History of Canadian Nationalism and the Canadian Identity
4250 Childhood in Modern Canada
4260 A History of the Canadian Working Classes
4890 20th-Century Prince Edward Island
USA
2410 United States History—From the Colonial Period to Reconstruction
2420 United States History since Reconstruction
3330 Health Care and North American Society in Historical Perspective
3910 The United States from 1900 through World War II
3920 The United States since World War II
3930 The American Mind and Imagination: From the Puritans to the Progressives
3940 20th-Century American Intellectual History
3950 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: A History of Immigration
3960 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: African-American History
3970 Race & Ethnicity in American Life: The Hispanic- American Experience
4410 United States Foreign Policy from the Revolutionary Period through World War I
4420 United States Foreign Policy since World War I
British
2610 Britain in the Age of Revolutions: 1688-1860
2620 Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia: Britain 1860-2000
3100 Tudor England, 1485-1603: Creation of a Nation
3620 Victorian Britain
3630 Modern Irish History
4720 Britain in the 20th-Century: Society, Culture and Identity
4730 The Rise of Consumer Society: British Society in the 18th-Century
European
2010 European Civilization 500 BC-1648
2020 European Civilization 1648 to the Present
3030 Power, Culture and Consumption: the Renaissance in Italy
3050 Martyrs, Marauders, Clerics and Kings: The Culture of the European Middle Ages
3110 Science, Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult in Premodern Europe
3230 Russian History since 1682
3410 German History since 1648
3420 History of France since 1500
4040 Monsters, Gold, and Glory: Travel, Trade and the Problem of Discovery in Premodern Europe
4110 Europe Since Bismarck
4850 The Ideas that changed Modern European History
Global
2150 Foreign Foods: Eating in the Age of Empires
2220 From Magic to the Double Helix: Science and Society in Historical Perspective
3210 History of Christianity to the Reformation
3220 History of Christianity from the Reformation to the Present
3270 Migration to Canada I
3280 Migration to Canada II
3710 The Atlantic World I
3720 The Atlantic World II
3730 The Second World War in Global Context
3750 Tourism in western Society: The Travel Imperative
3760 The History of Genocide
4050 Crusades and Crusading
4320 Britain and the Imperial Experience
4340 Madness and Society
4550 War and Revolution in the 20th Century World
4830 The History of the Environmentalist Movement
Other
1110 Discovering the Past
1130 Crime and Punishment: Historical Themes
1140 Plaque: Historical Themes
1150 Nazi Germany: Historical Themes
1160 The Devil in Western Society: Historical Themes
1170 Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk: Historical Themes
2110 The History Workshop: Skills and Methods in History
3120 Themes and Debates in History
4840 Applied Public History
4910 Directed Studies
4920 Directed Studies
4970 Honours Tutorial in Historiography
4980 Honours Graduating Essay
Normally, students who intend to major in History will choose History 1010/1020 as their introduction to history. These courses include an important tutorial component emphasizing introductory skills and methods of history.
2000-level courses provide introductions to the histories of civilizations, regions, and countries, especially in the areas listed above. They are intended to build upon the skills acquired in first year History courses.
3000-level courses provide more specialized studies in a number of areas.
4000-level courses are usually seminars emphasizing discussion and research in more specialized areas.
While providing courses for students in all faculties, schools, and departments, the Department also provides a minor, major, and honours program for those who have a special interest in the study of history.
Faculty
- Andrew Robb, Professor Emeritus
- Sharon Myers, Assistant Professor
- Susan Brown, Associate Professor
- Ian Dowbiggin, Professor
- James Moran, Professor
- Lisa Chilton, Associate Professor
- Richard G. Kurial, Associate Professor
- Edward MacDonald, Associate Professor
- Richard Raiswell, Associate Professor
Want more information about History? Leave your email address and we'll get in touch!
Careers:
Educator
Archivist
Journalist
Contract Historian
Librarian
Writer
Example Courses:
102 - Canadian History - Post-Confederation
231 - The Atlantic Region
405 - Crusades and Crusading
455 - War and Revolution in the 20th Century World
Course Level:
1000 Level
Courses:
HIST-1010 Canadian History - Pre-Confederation
This course surveys topics of historical importance in Canadian history up to and including the attainment of Confederation. The emphasis is on the interaction between political events and change in the economy and society. Tutorials examine various historical interpretations of the Canadian experience. Lecture: Two hours a week Tutorial: One hour a week
3 hours credit
HIST-1020 Canadian History - Post-Confederation
CANADIAN HISTORY-POST-CONFEDERATION This course surveys topics of historical importance in Canadian history in the Post-Confederation period. The emphasis is on the interaction between political events and change in the economy and society. Tutorials examine various historical interpretations of the Canadian experience. Lecture: Two hours a week. Tutorial: One hour a week
3 hours credit
HIST-1110 Discovering the Past
This course is a unique and exciting chance for students to work closely with each other and with a professor in a seminar, applying the techniques of historical investigation to shed light on one particular issue. These techniques include; the careful analysis of primary sources; an appreciation that there are different historical interpretations of the same subject; an understanding of how the subject under investigation changes over time. Instead of regular lectures, in each class students work through a series of carefully selected readings which forms the basis for interactive discussions. Each year, the seminar is devoted to a different historical issue, and is led by a different professor from the History department.
3 hours credit
HIST-1130 Crime and Punishment: Historical Themes
This course provides an introduction to changing ideas and practices surrounding crime and punishment over time. Topics may include who has been identified as a threat to the social order, including thieves, prostitutes, vagrants, and young offenders, and the punishments that societies have deemed appropriate for criminals, including public executions, exile, and imprisonment. Additionally, the course provides opportunities to explore and to develop skills in historical thinking and methods. Three credit hours; lecture, discussion
3 hours credit
HIST-1140 Plague: Historical Themes
This course introduces students to plague, an important aspect of disease and health history. From the devastating outbreaks of the Black Death in medieval Europe, to the contemporary phenomenon of Ebola, the course focuses on the ways in which major outbreaks of infectious disease have shaped societies. The course considers the medical, social, economic, and political consequences of epidemics and pandemics. The course explores how various forms of plague were understood when they happened, and how our views of them have changed over time. This will be done by reading important works on plagues, and by examining original sources that were produced by those living through major disease outbreaks as they unfolded. Three credit hours; lecture, discussion
3 hours credit
HIST-1150 Nazi Germany
This course covers the history of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich (1933-1945) from the origins of the Nazi Party during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) to the post-World War II trials of German war criminals. Topics include Hitler's life and career, the Nazi Party's electoral success, the causes and course of World War II from the German perspective, the Holocaust, and the relations between the churches and the Nazi regime. The course seeks to answer the question: why did Germans support Hitler? Three credit hours
3 hours credit
HIST-1160 The Devil in Western Society
From Megiddo and Patmos, through the sewers of nineteenth-century Paris and into the studios of America's televangelists, this course will examine how the figure of the devil has been made and remade over the centuries in response to broader historical trends. Topics may include: the ancient combat myth; the devil in the Christian scriptures; Satan and Lucifer; the devil and the saints; the idea of hell; monks and demons; demonic witchcraft; the development of exorcism; Protestant devils; the devil in art, literature and film; the demonization of outsiders; devils and the New World and Old; comedic devils; and the devil in the modern American consciousness. Three credit hours
3 hours credit
HIST-1170 Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk
This course explores the social, cultural, and political contexts for the evolution of rock and roll music during the post-Second World War era when a new musical form was grafted onto the popular music industry. Beginning with the roots of rock and roll music in African American communities, the course follows the progress of rock and roll music from the early 1950s to the Punk era of the late 1970s, focusing on the symbiotic relationship between iconic performers and their times. Three credit hours, Lecture and Discussion
3 hours credit
Course Level:
2000 Level
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HIST-2010 European Civilization 500 BC- 1648
This introductory course examines the history of European civilization from the rise of classical Greece to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Lectures analyze the major political, economic, social, and cultural forces which shaped European society during this period. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2020 European Civilization 1648 to Present
This introductory course examines the history of European civilization from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the present. Lectures analyze the main political, economic, social, and cultural forces which shaped Europe from the early modern to the post-industrial period. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the second year level.
3 hours credit
HIST-2110 Workshop: Skills and Methods in History
This introductory course offers students the opportunity to develop their research, writing and critical thinking skills while introducing them to the nature of historical method and inquiry. The course provides instruction and practice in the use of standard print and electronic bibliographic tools and in the writing of research, analytical and critical papers in history. Topics of study include the relationship between history and truth, the uses of evidence and argumentation, and the varieties of historical research. The course features library workshops as well as experience using local archives. Lecture/Discussion/ Workshops: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2150 Foreign Foods: Eating in Age of Empires
Food has been understood in a variety of ways: spices to preserve and mask rotting meats; sugar, chocolate and raisins as cure-alls; cocoa as a hallucinogen; potatoes as a plot to kill off surplus peasants; porridge as a middle-class conspiracy to undermine working-class culture. In this course we use intrinsically interesting case studies to explore important themes in the history of food discovery, distribution, and consumption. Underlying themes may include the use of unfree labour, the expansion of a capitalist economic system, the growth and evolution of European imperialism, and negotiations in social relations along class, gender, and racial/ethnic lines.
3 hours credit
HIST-2220 Science and Society in Hist Perspective
This course evaluates the history of science from the scientific revolution to late twentieth century. It also evaluates how science has been understood differently from one period to the next, how science has been grounded in cultural, social, and political currents, and how scientific understandings and perceptions have influenced how we see the world around us. This survey includes the study of major changes in scientific outlook brought about by thinkers like Isaac Newton, Auguste Comte, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein. Important technological developments and the professionalization of scientific knowledge are also considered. Three semester hours
3 hours credit
HIST-2310 The Atlantic Region
This course examines Atlantic Canada from the early interactions between the Mi'kmaq and Beothuk and the Europeans in the 16th century through to the middle of the 19th century when Atlantic Canadians adopted a modern vision of democratic culture and social improvement. Topics of study will include native-newcomer interactions, the growth of Acadia and the Expulsion of the Acadians, the impact of the Planters and Loyalists, the Land Question on PEI, ethno-religious tension, social reform movements, and the question of Confederation. Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2320 The Atlantic Region
A continuation of History 2310. Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2410 US: Colonial Period to Reconstruction
This survey course in United States History begins with the Colonial period and concludes with an examination of the Civil War and Reconstruction. It covers a variety of topics in social, political, economic, diplomatic, military, and constitutional history. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2420 US History Since Reconstruction
This survey course in modern United States History examines industrial and urban development, modern political trends, social themes, and the development of the United States as a world power. Topics covered include Progressivism, the American role in World War I and World War II, the New Deal, and contemporary American society. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2610 Britain in Age of Revolutions: 1688-1860
This course surveys the major political, social and cultural developments in British history from the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 to the age of the industrial revolution. Topics include the changing role of the monarchy, political patronage and social elites, crime and the law, radical political movements in the era of the French revolution, the growth of industrialization and its impact on working and living conditions, poverty and disease in Victorian cities, Irish nationalism, family life and "Victorian values," and imperial conflicts in India and the Crimea. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2620 Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia
This course surveys British political and social developments from the period of Victorian British imperialism to the era of "Swinging London" and "Cool Britannia" at the end of the 20th century. Topics include the advent of a democratic political system, the rise of the labour movement, suffragette protest, Irish nationalism, the repercussions of World Wars I and II, post-war popular culture, and the era of Thatcherism. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
Course Level:
3000 Level
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HIST-3030 The Renaissance in Italy
This course examines the period bounded by the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It explores the major political, intellectual and cultural developments in Renaissance Italy and their later translation to Northern Europe. Topics may include the place of Italy in the late medieval world; the causes and consequences of the crises of the fourteenth century; the emergence of humanism and the revival of antiquity; the relationship between culture and power; popular piety; new models of gender relations in Renaissance society; the impact of printing; and the unique shape of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. Assignments will stress primary source analysis. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3040 Napoleon & Legacy European Enlightment
This course examines the meteoric career of Napoleon Bonaparte within the larger context of the European Enlightenment. Specific topics include the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the Scientific Revolution, enlightened despotism, romanticism, and nationalism. Lecture: Three hours a week. Prerequisite: Second year standing or above OR permission of the instructor. 3 hours credit
3 hours credit
HIST-3050 The Culture of the European Middle Ages
This course traces the history of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Black Death of the fourteenth century. Topics include the early history of Christianity and Islam, the Carolingian renaissance, the Viking invasions, the growth of the Papacy, the emergence of nation states, and the Crusades Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the third-year level. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3100 Tudor England: Creation of a Nation
This course examines how the kings and queens of the Tudor dynasty transformed England from a crumbling, medieval monarchy into a powerful, centralized nation. It was a bloody process that saw thousands of English men and women lose their lives, but the result was an English nation endowed with a unique sense of identity, culture, and mission in the world. Topics include Henry VIII and the search for a legitimate heir; the Reformation in England; the evolution of queenship under Mary and Elizabeth; the ideological revolution and the problem of dissent; the changing structures of society; and the contrasting worlds of high and low culture. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3110 Science, Magic, Witchcraft and Occult
This course investigates how men and women sought to understand, explain, control and manipulate the natural world in the early modern period. Topics include medieval cosmology and astrology; alchemy and learned magic; changing views of the role of the devil in the natural world; witch belief and witch hunting. Particular attention is paid to how the traditions of learned magic informed the development of science in the seventeenth century. Three semester hours of credit. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3120 Themes and Debates in History
This course introduces students to some of the key theories and debates within current Western historiography (the study of historical writing). History is fundamentally concerned with the analysis of evidence, yet historians often disagree over the interpretation of that evidence and what is considered causally significant. This course will consider major "schools" and concepts of historical analysis that shape how history is interpreted. Topics may include the role of ideas and individuals versus broad economic and social forces; class, gender, race, post-colonialism, post-modernism, oral history, public history, and digital history. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3230 Russian History Since 1682
This course explores the political, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history of Russia since the reign of Peter the Great. It covers topics such as Russia's rise as a European power in the 18th and 19th centuries, the development of Russian autocracy, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the history of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, the nationalities question, the collapse of communism, and Russia since Gorbachev. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3250 Canadian Social History to World War I
This course focuses on selected themes in the day-to-day lives of Canadians within their respective communities to World War I. Topics of study may include native society, pioneering, immigration and outmigration, the Victorian frame of mind, industrialization and urbanization, social and ethnic groups, attitudes and mores, working conditions, reform, the arts, and recreation. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3260 Canadian Social History Since WWI
This course focuses on selected themes in the lives of Canadians within their respective communities since World War I. Topics of study may include immigration and ethnicity, industrialization and urbanization, reform, labour, health, education, welfare, crime and punishment, the arts and recreation. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3270 Migrations to Canada I
This course explores the history of Canadian migrations between the mid-18th century and the First World War. Migrant groups studied include the Loyalists of the late 18th century, African Americans, the Irish Famine, and the Central and East Europeans. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3280 Migrations to Canada II
This course explores the history of Canadian migrations between the First World War and the present. Some of the migrants whose histories will be highlighted are Chinese and Japanese settlers in the west during the early 20th century, Jews, Italians, peoples from the Caribbean islands, and peoples from the Middle East. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3310 History of PEI - Pre-Confederation
This study of Prince Edward Island until 1864 emphasizes the French Regime, the development of colonial institutions, the struggle for the attainment of Responsible Government, and the influence of the land tenure system on the economic, political, and social development of the Island. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3320 History of PEI Post-Confederation
This study of Prince Edward Island from 1864 until the present emphasizes the role of the Island in the Confederation movement, its entry into Confederation, and provincial-federal adjustments as they affected Prince Edward Island's history. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
PREREQUISITE: History 3310
3 hours credit
HIST-3330 Health Care and North American Society
This course explores the history of health, disease and medicine, focussing on North America from the time of contact between Native Peoples and Europeans, to the present. The course is organized around four major themes in the history of health and illness: historical epidemiology, social and political responses to health and disease, the rise of modern medicine and other health care groups, and the recent challenges to regular medical practice by alternative health care providers. Particular attention is paid to the effects of shifting systems of medical practice on patient experience. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3410 German History Since 1648
This course covers the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural history of Germany since the Reformation. It explores topics such as the Thirty Years' War, Austro-Prussian rivalry in the 18th century, German unification in the 19th Century, World War One, Hitler's Third Reich, the division of Germany after 1945, and Germany since the collapse of communism. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3420 History of France Since 1500
This course covers the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural history of France since the Reformation. It explores topics such as the Wars of Religion, the Age of Louis XIV, the French Revolution, Franco-German rivalry, the Dreyfus Affair, the Presidency of Charles DeGaulle, and the student revolts of 1968. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3520 The History of Quebec and French Canada
This course examines the social, economic and political history of Quebec. It examines economic development, political change, secularization, and the rise of nationalist and separatist movements. It also explores the changing relations between Quebec and prominent French Canadian communities else- where in Canada. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3530 Canada and the First World War
This course will examine the underlying causes of the First World War, the experiences of those who fought overseas, and the impact of war on the work and lives of those on the home front. Although the course will consider the international context of war, particular attention will be paid to the Canadian experience of the First World War, including the conscription controversy, post-war commemoration, and the legacy of the First World War for Canadian identity, politics, and culture in the twentieth century. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3620 Victorian Britain
This course explores themes in British social, political and cultural history in the nineteenth century. The course examines the nature of the changes sweeping British society, particularly those associated with Britain's congested cities and the urban working class. The anxieties and fears generated by these changes will constitute the focus of this course. The course challenges many popular stereotypes of the "Victorian Age" through its exploration of family life, poverty, sexuality, crime, drugs, disease and death in the Victorian city. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3630 Modern Irish History
This course examines key developments in Irish history from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing upon scholarly articles, visual images, song, film and documentary evidence, the course explores the various struggles over land, politics and culture that have shaped the past two centuries of Irish history. Two central themes that run through the course are the contested meanings of "the Irish nation" and the uses of history in contemporary commemoration and politics. The course concludes with an inquiry into the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland and the ongoing search for peace and political stability. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3710 The Atlantic World I
This course examines the emergence of an Atlantic world through the European "discovery," conquest, and colonization of the Americas. The interaction of West African, Western European and Aboriginal American peoples, and the societies and institutions they developed, is the focus of the course. Spanish, English, French and Portuguese activity in the Atlantic and the Americas is surveyed, with particular attention given to topics such as labour systems, religious patterns, agriculture, and the nature of colonial societies before 1700. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3720 The Atlantic World II
This course traces the emergence of a maturing Atlantic world from the latter 1600s to the period of independence. The shape and interaction of the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and their colonial empires, together with the continuing relationship with African and Aboriginal American peoples, is the focus of study. Slavery, the plantation system, differing patterns of development, and political independence are given particular attention. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3730 The Second World War in Global Context
This course combines lectures and class discussions and covers the history of the Second World War, its causes, conduct, and impact on twentieth century history. Topics include the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement in Germany; the international crises of the 1930s; the war on land, on sea, and in the air in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East; the Holocaust; the wartime conferences of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt; the use of atomic weapons against Japan; the post-war Nuremberg Trials; the origins of the Cold War; and the impact of the war on society and the home front. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3750 Tourism and Western Society
This course will provide an historical overview of the evolution of tourism with special emphasis on the Western world, beginning with the medieval passion for pilgrimage through the Enlightenment Grand Tour to the birth of the modern tourist trade, one of the world's fastest growing industries. A series of case studies will be used to pursue specific topics, such as the economics of tourism, motivation for travel, the rise of the resort, the transportation revolution, promotion and imaging, the conflicted relationship between visitor and host, sustainability, and the social and cultural impacts of tourism on host societies. Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3760 The History of Genocide
This course covers the history of genocide as both a type of historical event and as a concept which has shaped international policy-making and legal practice. Topics include the Holocaust, the Ukrainian Holomodor, the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan atrocities, and the life and career of Raphael Lemkin, who coined and defined the term. The course seeks to answer the question: what is genocide and how does it differ from ordinary cruelty towards other human beings? Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-3850 Women in 19th Century Canada
This course examines the changes that have taken place in the historical roles of women in Canadian society, and the relationship of these changes to social, economic, and intellectual developments. Using both a thematic and chronological approach, the course examines women's roles from the beginning of the 19th Century to the achievement of suffrage in the 20th Century. (Cross-listed with History 3850). Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-3850 Women in 19th Century Canada
This course examines the changes that have taken place in the historical roles of women in Canadian society, and the relationship of these changes to social, economic, and intellectual developments. Using both a thematic and chronological approach, the course examines women's roles from the beginning of the 19th Century to the achievement of suffrage in the 20th Century. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 3850) Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-3860 Women, The Law, and Civil Rights in 20th Century Canada
This course examines the experiences of women in 20th-Century Canadian society viewed through the prism of law and civil rights. Topics of study include the struggle for the right to vote, the Persons Case, efforts to secure equality in the workplace, the regulation of sexuality and reproduction, and the particular experiences of immigrant and Indigenous women in relation to civil rights. (Cross-listed with History 3860). Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-3860 Women's Rights in 20th Century Canada
This course examines the experiences of women in 20th-Century Canadian society viewed through the prism of law and civil rights. Topics of study include the struggle for the right to vote, the Persons Case, efforts to secure equality in the workplace, the regulation of sexuality and reproduction, and the particular experiences of immigrant and Indigenous women in relation to civil rights. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 3860) Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3910 The United States From 1900 Through WWII
This course examines developments in American society and politics from the turn of the century through World War II. The course covers such topics as Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the "roaring 20s" and the "dirty 30s," as well as World War II. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3920 The United States Since World War II
This course examines developments in American society and politics since World War II. The course covers such topics as the Cold War, anti-Communist crusades, the evolution of the American welfare state, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and competing visions of America's economic and political destiny. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3930 The American Mind and Imagination
This course examines the history of American thought from the Puritans to the Pragmatists. With an emphasis on religion, politics, and economics, it seeks to identify the principal forces, ideas, and traditions affecting the development of a distinctive American intellectual culture and heritage. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3940 20th c. American Intellectual History
This course examines the history of American thought in the 20th century. It emphasizes religion, politics, and economics and includes an examination of major intellects from William James to Richard Rorty. It seeks to illuminate the principal forces, ideas, and traditions affecting the development of a distinctive American intellectual culture and heritage in what has been coined "America's Century." Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3960 American Life: African-American History
This course provides an introduction to African-American history. Beginning with the introduction of slavery into the American colonies, it examines the journey from slavery to freedom, the limits to freedom, and the persistent struggle for civil rights in American society. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3970 The Hispanic-American Experience
This course provides an introduction to Hispanic-American history. Beginning with the Spanish conquest, this course ex- amines the struggle for independence, the American conquest, and the evolution of Chicano culture and La Raza as aspects of the persistent struggle for civil rights in America. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
Course Level:
4000 Level
Courses:
HIST-4040 Problem of Discovery in Premodern Europe
This advanced seminar examines European interaction with Asia and Africa from the time of Alexander the Great and the Ancient Greeks up to the formation of the large trading companies in the early 17th century, when Europeans understood the lands of the far east and south to be inhabited by strange semi-human peoples and the earth filled with gold and precious stones. This course examines the sources and evolution of this lore, noting how it affected the way explorers and merchant adventurers of the 16th century understood the world and interacted with the peoples they encountered. Topics include the development of the Greek and Roman world view; Europe's experience with barbarism; the Pax Mongolica and the development of the medieval world system; medieval geography; the cartographic revolution; explanations of difference and the emergence of race; cross-cultural exchange; and hybridity. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4050 Crusades and Crusading
This advanced seminar course examines the crusading movement of the High Middle Ages from both the Christian and Islamic perspective. Topics may include: the Reconquista; Urban II and the development of early crusading theory; Abbasid-Fatimid relations; the evolution of Christian notions of knighthood and the rise of the military orders; the development and application of Christian and Islamic notions of holy war; Crusading against Christians; the logistics of crusading; Christian-Muslim interaction in the Levant; and the counter- crusade under Salah al-Din and Sultan Baybars. Students will be expected to read and engage with a diverse assortment of primary sources, taken from both Christian and Islamic contexts. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the fourth year level. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4110 Europe Since Bismarck
This seminar course covers the social, political, economic, cultural, military, and diplomatic history of twentieth-century Europe from the age of nationalism in the late nineteenth century to the post-Cold War era of ethnic conflict and economic integration. Topics include imperialism, nationalism, World Wars One and Two, Nazism, decolonization, the Cold War, the European Union, the rise and fall of communism, the Balkan wars of the 1990s, globalization, and the rise of the New Right. Using a comparative perspective, the course examines what forces have united and divided Europe's nations since the end of the nineteenth century. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4150 Canada Apologizes: Historical Apologies
This course considers the phenomenon of the historical apology in the modern Canadian context. Students are introduced to a collection of historical events for which governments and churches have since offered official apologies for their participation. Case studies include: the imposition of the Chinese Head Tax, the denials of entries to the Komagata Maru and the S. S. St. Louis, the internment of the Japanese during World War II, the institutionalization of the Duplessis Orphans, the operation of Indian Residential Schools, the relocation of the Inuit, and the relocation of Africville. This course poses these questions: is it possible to right the wrongs of the past, and to what extent do past wrongs belong to us. Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4210 Canadian Political History 1896-1935
3 hours credit
HIST-4220 Canadian Political History Since 1935
3 hours credit
HIST-4240 Canadian Nationalism and Identity
This seminar course examines the development of Canadian nationalist thought and the evolution of the Canadian identity. Topics to be examined may include the evolution of national symbols, such as the Mountie, hockey, and the canoe, and their roles in the process of Canadian nation building and identity formation. The course also examines the influence of the United States and Great Britain in shaping Canadian identity, and the promotion of a distinctive Canadian culture through a variety of media ranging from tourism pamphlets to the CBC. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4250 Childhood in Modern Canada
This is a seminar course in 19th- and 20th- Century Canadian social history which takes the experiences of children as its central focus. Themes of study may include the rise and decline of child labour, the development of education and child welfare systems, and changing ideas about childhood and the family. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4260 A History of the Canadian Working Class
From fur trader, to factory hand, to fast-food worker, this seminar course explores the historical experiences of working men, women and children in Canada. Topics of study may include early forms of labour, such as slavery; the industrial revolution and its effects on working class families; the growth of scientific management in the workplace; and the dislocations posed by the Great Depression and the growth of industrial legality. Working class culture, organization and resistance are considered, as are certain ideas about workers, such as the respectable worker and the "breadwinner." Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4320 Britain and the Imperial Experience
This advanced seminar course examines Britain's experience of empire and imperialism from its days as a colony of the Roman Empire up to and including decolonisation in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies and cross-cultural and trans-regional thematic comparisons, this course will introduce students to some of the main issues underlying the study of empire, colonialism and the relationship between coloniser and colonised in the British Empire. Topics may include: the ambiguous legacy of Rome; Wales, England's first colonial experience; Ireland and the early pattern of imperialism; England and the Moghul Empire; England and the Caribbean; the rhetoric of Empire; Britain's involvement in the scramble for Africa; the emergence of racial theory; the tools of imperial- ism; culture and imperialism; colonial resistance; decolonisation in South Asia and southern Africa; the post-colonial empire. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4340 Madness and Society
This course examines the history of madness in comparative context from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present with a focus on Europe and North America. Topics include major historical developments in the understanding of madness such as traditional responses to unsoundness of mind, the development of asylums, the rise of professional psychiatry, scientific models of mental illness, and the community care movement. Pivotal theorists, including Freud, Kraepelin, Foucault, and Szasz are discussed. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
POLS-4360 The Ideas That Changed Modern European History
This course covers the history of European ideas since the French Revolution and focuses on the main political ideologies that have arisen over the last two centuries. Topics include conservatism, liberalism, socialism, feminism, imperialism, nationalism, Soviet communism, and environmentalism. The course seeks to determine the fate of these ideologies as the twenty-first century unfolds. Cross-listed with History (cf. History 4850) Seminar: Three hours a week Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above or permission of the instructor
3 hours credit
HIST-4410 US Foreign Policy From Revolution-WWI
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy from the American Revolution through World War I. Topics include neutrality, the changing role of the United States in foreign relations, the interaction between domestic and foreign policy, American expansionism, and political, economic, and cultural relationships between the United States and other countries and peoples. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4420 United States Foreign Policy Since WWI
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy from World War I through the end of the Cold War. Topics include the interwar years, the origins of World War II, post- war American hegemony, the Cold War, the New World Order, and political, economic, and cultural interaction between the United States and other countries and peoples. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4550 War and Revolution in the 20th c. World
This course examines the history of the world since the First World War. It explores crucial events such as the First and Second World Wars; communist revolution in countries such as Russia, China, Cambodia and Cuba; decolonization; the Korean conflict; war in southeast Asia; the Cold War; the collapse of communism in eastern Europe; and the Persian Gulf War. It also focuses on pivotal figures such as Lenin, Churchill, Hitler, Mao, Thatcher, De Gaulle, Gorbachev, and Castro. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
POLS-4610 Seminar in the History of Canadian External Relations
This course centres on the history of Canadian external relations from the mid-Nineteenth Century to the present. Topics will include the changing nature of the "North Atlantic Triangle," the growth of autonomy and representation abroad, Canada's role in the League of Nations and the United Nations, the Cold War, contacts with the developing world, and the complex politico-economic relationship between Canada and the United States. Lecture/discussion: Three hours a week
PREREQUISITE: Political Science 2820. Majors wishing to credit this course toward the international politics field requirement must secure the permission of the Political Science department.
3 hours credit
HIST-4720 Britain in the 20th Centruy
This course explores the construction of British national identities in the twentieth century, in particular how issues of class, gender, race and nationalism have been represented in popular culture. Topics may include the social impacts of World War I, the experience of the Depression era, British Fascist movements, the Blitz, post-war austerity, youth culture, multi-racial Britain, and football violence. Course materials include journalism of the period, film footage, oral history, diaries, pop music and contemporary cinema. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 4740) Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4730 Consumer Society in 18th Century Britain
This course examines the social and cultural changes brought about by the birth of a consumer society in 18th-century Britain. Topics include the rise of commercial society and consumerism, new techniques in marketing and advertising, the debate over fashion and luxury, the emergence of the public sphere of the coffeehouse, the commercialization of theatre and the art market, and the relationship between commerce, crime and punishment. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-4740 Britain in the 20th Century: Society, C ulture and Identity
This course explores the construction of British national identities in the twentieth century, in particular how issues of class, gender, race and nationalism have been represented in popular culture. Topics may include the social impacts of World War I, the experience of the Depression era, British Fascist movements, the Blitz, post-war austerity, youth culture, multi-racial Britain, and football violence. Course materials include journalism of the period, film footage, oral history, diaries, pop music and contemporary cinema. (Cross-listed with History 4720). Seminar: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-4830 History of the Environmentalist Movement
This seminar course covers the history of the environmentalist movement in the United States and Canada since its origins in the late nineteenth century. It describes the changes the movement has undergone thanks to its links to the conservation, eugenics, ecology, birth control, and population control movements. The course also focuses on the writings of key figures in the environmentalist movement, such as Paul Ehrlich, Barry Commoner, Rachel Carson, David Suzuki, and Bill McKibben, as well as the activities of organizations such as the Sierra Club, Zero Population Growth, and Earth First. Students seek to understand the nature of today's environmentalism as a political, social, and cultural movement by examining what it has meant to earlier generations. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4840 Applied Public History
This course introduces students to both the field of public history and the application of history and historical methods in a variety of workplace settings. Public history, which involves the practice and presentation of history outside the academic setting, is the domain of a wide variety of practitioners. While the course deals primarily with the North American context, it also addresses questions of ethics, standards, and audience of broader interest to students of history. Seminar/field work: Three hours a week and eight hours per week of unpaid field work in a public history workplace setting, supervised by a qualified professional acting as a mentor. Semester hours of credit: 6 Restriction: Student must have third or fourth year standing in a history major or honours program, as well as permission of the department.
6 hours credit
HIST-4850 Ideas That Changed Modern European Hist
This course covers the history of European ideas since the French Revolution and focuses on the main political ideologies that have arisen over the last two centuries. Topics include conservatism, liberalism, socialism, feminism, imperialism, nationalism, Soviet communism, and environmentalism. The course seeks to determine the fate of these ideologies as the twenty-first century unfolds. Cross-listed with Political Science (cf. Political Science 4360) Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4890 20th Century Prince Edward Island
This course examines major economic, political, and cultural developments within Prince Edward Island during the 20th century. Topics include the effects of technological change; Maritime Union; federal-provincial relations, including transfer payments and the 15-year Comprehensive Development Plan; "Rural Renaissance"; the constitutional discussions of the 1980s and 1990s; and the debate surrounding construction of the "fixed link." Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4910 Directed Studies
These tutorial courses are intended to encourage independent initiative and study on the part of the student. Reading and research are conducted within specialized areas chosen by the student in close consultation with one or more members of the Department. This course is restricted to qualified Third and Fourth Year students in any discipline, or students with permission of the instructor. Canadian The possible areas of study are: The History of Canadian Native Peoples Western Canadian History Canadian Social History Canadian Women's History Folk History of Prince Edward Island PEI Social and Cultural Atlantic Region Social and Cultural American: U.S. Foreign Policy, 20th-Century 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century America Canadian-American Relations Colonial Societies British and European: British History British Social and Cultural History Western and Central Europe European, Medieval, Modern, and Intellectual History Early Modern Europe-Social and Cultural History Gender in British and European History History of Religion See Academic Regulation 9 for Regulations Governing Directed Studies.
3 hours credit
HIST-4920 Directed Studies
These tutorial courses are intended to encourage independent initiative and study on the part of the student. Reading and research are conducted within specialized areas chosen by the student in close consultation with one or more members of the Department. This course is restricted to qualified Third and Fourth Year students in any discipline, or students with permission of the instructor. Canadian The possible areas of study are: The History of Canadian Native Peoples Western Canadian History Canadian Social History Canadian Women's History Folk History of Prince Edward Island PEI Social and Cultural Atlantic Region Social and Cultural American: U.S. Foreign Policy, 20th-Century 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century America Canadian-American Relations Colonial Societies British and European: British History British Social and Cultural History Western and Central Europe European, Medieval, Modern, and Intellectual History Early Modern Europe-Social and Cultural History Gender in British and European History History of Religion See Academic Regulation 9 for Regulations Governing Directed Studies.
3 hours credit
HIST-4970 Honours Tutorial in Historiography
This is an intensive reading and tutorial course in selected fields offered by the Department. Students should consult with the honours advisor in planning this course. The course normally centres on the historiography of the broad area in which the student's graduating essay is prepared. Tutorial: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4980 Honours Graduating Essay
Students propose, research, and write a major research essay under the supervision of a tutor from the Department. The essay is the subject of a final oral examination. The oral examination committee consists of the major tutor, one additional member from the Department of History, and a faculty member from another Department of the University. Tutorial: Three semester hours of credit. Restriction: Student must have third year or standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
Calendar Courses
HIST-1010 Canadian History - Pre-Confederation
This course surveys topics of historical importance in Canadian history up to and including the attainment of Confederation. The emphasis is on the interaction between political events and change in the economy and society. Tutorials examine various historical interpretations of the Canadian experience. Lecture: Two hours a week Tutorial: One hour a week
3 hours credit
HIST-1020 Canadian History - Post-Confederation
CANADIAN HISTORY-POST-CONFEDERATION This course surveys topics of historical importance in Canadian history in the Post-Confederation period. The emphasis is on the interaction between political events and change in the economy and society. Tutorials examine various historical interpretations of the Canadian experience. Lecture: Two hours a week. Tutorial: One hour a week
3 hours credit
HIST-1110 Discovering the Past
This course is a unique and exciting chance for students to work closely with each other and with a professor in a seminar, applying the techniques of historical investigation to shed light on one particular issue. These techniques include; the careful analysis of primary sources; an appreciation that there are different historical interpretations of the same subject; an understanding of how the subject under investigation changes over time. Instead of regular lectures, in each class students work through a series of carefully selected readings which forms the basis for interactive discussions. Each year, the seminar is devoted to a different historical issue, and is led by a different professor from the History department.
3 hours credit
HIST-1130 Crime and Punishment: Historical Themes
This course provides an introduction to changing ideas and practices surrounding crime and punishment over time. Topics may include who has been identified as a threat to the social order, including thieves, prostitutes, vagrants, and young offenders, and the punishments that societies have deemed appropriate for criminals, including public executions, exile, and imprisonment. Additionally, the course provides opportunities to explore and to develop skills in historical thinking and methods. Three credit hours; lecture, discussion
3 hours credit
HIST-1140 Plague: Historical Themes
This course introduces students to plague, an important aspect of disease and health history. From the devastating outbreaks of the Black Death in medieval Europe, to the contemporary phenomenon of Ebola, the course focuses on the ways in which major outbreaks of infectious disease have shaped societies. The course considers the medical, social, economic, and political consequences of epidemics and pandemics. The course explores how various forms of plague were understood when they happened, and how our views of them have changed over time. This will be done by reading important works on plagues, and by examining original sources that were produced by those living through major disease outbreaks as they unfolded. Three credit hours; lecture, discussion
3 hours credit
HIST-1150 Nazi Germany
This course covers the history of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich (1933-1945) from the origins of the Nazi Party during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) to the post-World War II trials of German war criminals. Topics include Hitler's life and career, the Nazi Party's electoral success, the causes and course of World War II from the German perspective, the Holocaust, and the relations between the churches and the Nazi regime. The course seeks to answer the question: why did Germans support Hitler? Three credit hours
3 hours credit
HIST-1160 The Devil in Western Society
From Megiddo and Patmos, through the sewers of nineteenth-century Paris and into the studios of America's televangelists, this course will examine how the figure of the devil has been made and remade over the centuries in response to broader historical trends. Topics may include: the ancient combat myth; the devil in the Christian scriptures; Satan and Lucifer; the devil and the saints; the idea of hell; monks and demons; demonic witchcraft; the development of exorcism; Protestant devils; the devil in art, literature and film; the demonization of outsiders; devils and the New World and Old; comedic devils; and the devil in the modern American consciousness. Three credit hours
3 hours credit
HIST-1170 Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk
This course explores the social, cultural, and political contexts for the evolution of rock and roll music during the post-Second World War era when a new musical form was grafted onto the popular music industry. Beginning with the roots of rock and roll music in African American communities, the course follows the progress of rock and roll music from the early 1950s to the Punk era of the late 1970s, focusing on the symbiotic relationship between iconic performers and their times. Three credit hours, Lecture and Discussion
3 hours credit
HIST-2010 European Civilization 500 BC- 1648
This introductory course examines the history of European civilization from the rise of classical Greece to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Lectures analyze the major political, economic, social, and cultural forces which shaped European society during this period. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2020 European Civilization 1648 to Present
This introductory course examines the history of European civilization from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the present. Lectures analyze the main political, economic, social, and cultural forces which shaped Europe from the early modern to the post-industrial period. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the second year level.
3 hours credit
HIST-2110 Workshop: Skills and Methods in History
This introductory course offers students the opportunity to develop their research, writing and critical thinking skills while introducing them to the nature of historical method and inquiry. The course provides instruction and practice in the use of standard print and electronic bibliographic tools and in the writing of research, analytical and critical papers in history. Topics of study include the relationship between history and truth, the uses of evidence and argumentation, and the varieties of historical research. The course features library workshops as well as experience using local archives. Lecture/Discussion/ Workshops: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2150 Foreign Foods: Eating in Age of Empires
Food has been understood in a variety of ways: spices to preserve and mask rotting meats; sugar, chocolate and raisins as cure-alls; cocoa as a hallucinogen; potatoes as a plot to kill off surplus peasants; porridge as a middle-class conspiracy to undermine working-class culture. In this course we use intrinsically interesting case studies to explore important themes in the history of food discovery, distribution, and consumption. Underlying themes may include the use of unfree labour, the expansion of a capitalist economic system, the growth and evolution of European imperialism, and negotiations in social relations along class, gender, and racial/ethnic lines.
3 hours credit
HIST-2220 Science and Society in Hist Perspective
This course evaluates the history of science from the scientific revolution to late twentieth century. It also evaluates how science has been understood differently from one period to the next, how science has been grounded in cultural, social, and political currents, and how scientific understandings and perceptions have influenced how we see the world around us. This survey includes the study of major changes in scientific outlook brought about by thinkers like Isaac Newton, Auguste Comte, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein. Important technological developments and the professionalization of scientific knowledge are also considered. Three semester hours
3 hours credit
HIST-2310 The Atlantic Region
This course examines Atlantic Canada from the early interactions between the Mi'kmaq and Beothuk and the Europeans in the 16th century through to the middle of the 19th century when Atlantic Canadians adopted a modern vision of democratic culture and social improvement. Topics of study will include native-newcomer interactions, the growth of Acadia and the Expulsion of the Acadians, the impact of the Planters and Loyalists, the Land Question on PEI, ethno-religious tension, social reform movements, and the question of Confederation. Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2320 The Atlantic Region
A continuation of History 2310. Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2410 US: Colonial Period to Reconstruction
This survey course in United States History begins with the Colonial period and concludes with an examination of the Civil War and Reconstruction. It covers a variety of topics in social, political, economic, diplomatic, military, and constitutional history. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2420 US History Since Reconstruction
This survey course in modern United States History examines industrial and urban development, modern political trends, social themes, and the development of the United States as a world power. Topics covered include Progressivism, the American role in World War I and World War II, the New Deal, and contemporary American society. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2610 Britain in Age of Revolutions: 1688-1860
This course surveys the major political, social and cultural developments in British history from the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 to the age of the industrial revolution. Topics include the changing role of the monarchy, political patronage and social elites, crime and the law, radical political movements in the era of the French revolution, the growth of industrialization and its impact on working and living conditions, poverty and disease in Victorian cities, Irish nationalism, family life and "Victorian values," and imperial conflicts in India and the Crimea. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2620 Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia
This course surveys British political and social developments from the period of Victorian British imperialism to the era of "Swinging London" and "Cool Britannia" at the end of the 20th century. Topics include the advent of a democratic political system, the rise of the labour movement, suffragette protest, Irish nationalism, the repercussions of World Wars I and II, post-war popular culture, and the era of Thatcherism. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-3030 The Renaissance in Italy
This course examines the period bounded by the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It explores the major political, intellectual and cultural developments in Renaissance Italy and their later translation to Northern Europe. Topics may include the place of Italy in the late medieval world; the causes and consequences of the crises of the fourteenth century; the emergence of humanism and the revival of antiquity; the relationship between culture and power; popular piety; new models of gender relations in Renaissance society; the impact of printing; and the unique shape of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. Assignments will stress primary source analysis. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3040 Napoleon & Legacy European Enlightment
This course examines the meteoric career of Napoleon Bonaparte within the larger context of the European Enlightenment. Specific topics include the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the Scientific Revolution, enlightened despotism, romanticism, and nationalism. Lecture: Three hours a week. Prerequisite: Second year standing or above OR permission of the instructor. 3 hours credit
3 hours credit
HIST-3050 The Culture of the European Middle Ages
This course traces the history of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Black Death of the fourteenth century. Topics include the early history of Christianity and Islam, the Carolingian renaissance, the Viking invasions, the growth of the Papacy, the emergence of nation states, and the Crusades Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the third-year level. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3100 Tudor England: Creation of a Nation
This course examines how the kings and queens of the Tudor dynasty transformed England from a crumbling, medieval monarchy into a powerful, centralized nation. It was a bloody process that saw thousands of English men and women lose their lives, but the result was an English nation endowed with a unique sense of identity, culture, and mission in the world. Topics include Henry VIII and the search for a legitimate heir; the Reformation in England; the evolution of queenship under Mary and Elizabeth; the ideological revolution and the problem of dissent; the changing structures of society; and the contrasting worlds of high and low culture. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3110 Science, Magic, Witchcraft and Occult
This course investigates how men and women sought to understand, explain, control and manipulate the natural world in the early modern period. Topics include medieval cosmology and astrology; alchemy and learned magic; changing views of the role of the devil in the natural world; witch belief and witch hunting. Particular attention is paid to how the traditions of learned magic informed the development of science in the seventeenth century. Three semester hours of credit. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3120 Themes and Debates in History
This course introduces students to some of the key theories and debates within current Western historiography (the study of historical writing). History is fundamentally concerned with the analysis of evidence, yet historians often disagree over the interpretation of that evidence and what is considered causally significant. This course will consider major "schools" and concepts of historical analysis that shape how history is interpreted. Topics may include the role of ideas and individuals versus broad economic and social forces; class, gender, race, post-colonialism, post-modernism, oral history, public history, and digital history. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3230 Russian History Since 1682
This course explores the political, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history of Russia since the reign of Peter the Great. It covers topics such as Russia's rise as a European power in the 18th and 19th centuries, the development of Russian autocracy, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the history of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, the nationalities question, the collapse of communism, and Russia since Gorbachev. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3250 Canadian Social History to World War I
This course focuses on selected themes in the day-to-day lives of Canadians within their respective communities to World War I. Topics of study may include native society, pioneering, immigration and outmigration, the Victorian frame of mind, industrialization and urbanization, social and ethnic groups, attitudes and mores, working conditions, reform, the arts, and recreation. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3260 Canadian Social History Since WWI
This course focuses on selected themes in the lives of Canadians within their respective communities since World War I. Topics of study may include immigration and ethnicity, industrialization and urbanization, reform, labour, health, education, welfare, crime and punishment, the arts and recreation. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3270 Migrations to Canada I
This course explores the history of Canadian migrations between the mid-18th century and the First World War. Migrant groups studied include the Loyalists of the late 18th century, African Americans, the Irish Famine, and the Central and East Europeans. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3280 Migrations to Canada II
This course explores the history of Canadian migrations between the First World War and the present. Some of the migrants whose histories will be highlighted are Chinese and Japanese settlers in the west during the early 20th century, Jews, Italians, peoples from the Caribbean islands, and peoples from the Middle East. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3310 History of PEI - Pre-Confederation
This study of Prince Edward Island until 1864 emphasizes the French Regime, the development of colonial institutions, the struggle for the attainment of Responsible Government, and the influence of the land tenure system on the economic, political, and social development of the Island. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3320 History of PEI Post-Confederation
This study of Prince Edward Island from 1864 until the present emphasizes the role of the Island in the Confederation movement, its entry into Confederation, and provincial-federal adjustments as they affected Prince Edward Island's history. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
PREREQUISITE: History 3310
3 hours credit
HIST-3330 Health Care and North American Society
This course explores the history of health, disease and medicine, focussing on North America from the time of contact between Native Peoples and Europeans, to the present. The course is organized around four major themes in the history of health and illness: historical epidemiology, social and political responses to health and disease, the rise of modern medicine and other health care groups, and the recent challenges to regular medical practice by alternative health care providers. Particular attention is paid to the effects of shifting systems of medical practice on patient experience. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3410 German History Since 1648
This course covers the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural history of Germany since the Reformation. It explores topics such as the Thirty Years' War, Austro-Prussian rivalry in the 18th century, German unification in the 19th Century, World War One, Hitler's Third Reich, the division of Germany after 1945, and Germany since the collapse of communism. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3420 History of France Since 1500
This course covers the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural history of France since the Reformation. It explores topics such as the Wars of Religion, the Age of Louis XIV, the French Revolution, Franco-German rivalry, the Dreyfus Affair, the Presidency of Charles DeGaulle, and the student revolts of 1968. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3520 The History of Quebec and French Canada
This course examines the social, economic and political history of Quebec. It examines economic development, political change, secularization, and the rise of nationalist and separatist movements. It also explores the changing relations between Quebec and prominent French Canadian communities else- where in Canada. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3530 Canada and the First World War
This course will examine the underlying causes of the First World War, the experiences of those who fought overseas, and the impact of war on the work and lives of those on the home front. Although the course will consider the international context of war, particular attention will be paid to the Canadian experience of the First World War, including the conscription controversy, post-war commemoration, and the legacy of the First World War for Canadian identity, politics, and culture in the twentieth century. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3620 Victorian Britain
This course explores themes in British social, political and cultural history in the nineteenth century. The course examines the nature of the changes sweeping British society, particularly those associated with Britain's congested cities and the urban working class. The anxieties and fears generated by these changes will constitute the focus of this course. The course challenges many popular stereotypes of the "Victorian Age" through its exploration of family life, poverty, sexuality, crime, drugs, disease and death in the Victorian city. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3630 Modern Irish History
This course examines key developments in Irish history from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing upon scholarly articles, visual images, song, film and documentary evidence, the course explores the various struggles over land, politics and culture that have shaped the past two centuries of Irish history. Two central themes that run through the course are the contested meanings of "the Irish nation" and the uses of history in contemporary commemoration and politics. The course concludes with an inquiry into the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland and the ongoing search for peace and political stability. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3710 The Atlantic World I
This course examines the emergence of an Atlantic world through the European "discovery," conquest, and colonization of the Americas. The interaction of West African, Western European and Aboriginal American peoples, and the societies and institutions they developed, is the focus of the course. Spanish, English, French and Portuguese activity in the Atlantic and the Americas is surveyed, with particular attention given to topics such as labour systems, religious patterns, agriculture, and the nature of colonial societies before 1700. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3720 The Atlantic World II
This course traces the emergence of a maturing Atlantic world from the latter 1600s to the period of independence. The shape and interaction of the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and their colonial empires, together with the continuing relationship with African and Aboriginal American peoples, is the focus of study. Slavery, the plantation system, differing patterns of development, and political independence are given particular attention. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3730 The Second World War in Global Context
This course combines lectures and class discussions and covers the history of the Second World War, its causes, conduct, and impact on twentieth century history. Topics include the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement in Germany; the international crises of the 1930s; the war on land, on sea, and in the air in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East; the Holocaust; the wartime conferences of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt; the use of atomic weapons against Japan; the post-war Nuremberg Trials; the origins of the Cold War; and the impact of the war on society and the home front. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3750 Tourism and Western Society
This course will provide an historical overview of the evolution of tourism with special emphasis on the Western world, beginning with the medieval passion for pilgrimage through the Enlightenment Grand Tour to the birth of the modern tourist trade, one of the world's fastest growing industries. A series of case studies will be used to pursue specific topics, such as the economics of tourism, motivation for travel, the rise of the resort, the transportation revolution, promotion and imaging, the conflicted relationship between visitor and host, sustainability, and the social and cultural impacts of tourism on host societies. Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3760 The History of Genocide
This course covers the history of genocide as both a type of historical event and as a concept which has shaped international policy-making and legal practice. Topics include the Holocaust, the Ukrainian Holomodor, the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan atrocities, and the life and career of Raphael Lemkin, who coined and defined the term. The course seeks to answer the question: what is genocide and how does it differ from ordinary cruelty towards other human beings? Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-3850 Women in 19th Century Canada
This course examines the changes that have taken place in the historical roles of women in Canadian society, and the relationship of these changes to social, economic, and intellectual developments. Using both a thematic and chronological approach, the course examines women's roles from the beginning of the 19th Century to the achievement of suffrage in the 20th Century. (Cross-listed with History 3850). Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-3850 Women in 19th Century Canada
This course examines the changes that have taken place in the historical roles of women in Canadian society, and the relationship of these changes to social, economic, and intellectual developments. Using both a thematic and chronological approach, the course examines women's roles from the beginning of the 19th Century to the achievement of suffrage in the 20th Century. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 3850) Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-3860 Women, The Law, and Civil Rights in 20th Century Canada
This course examines the experiences of women in 20th-Century Canadian society viewed through the prism of law and civil rights. Topics of study include the struggle for the right to vote, the Persons Case, efforts to secure equality in the workplace, the regulation of sexuality and reproduction, and the particular experiences of immigrant and Indigenous women in relation to civil rights. (Cross-listed with History 3860). Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-3860 Women's Rights in 20th Century Canada
This course examines the experiences of women in 20th-Century Canadian society viewed through the prism of law and civil rights. Topics of study include the struggle for the right to vote, the Persons Case, efforts to secure equality in the workplace, the regulation of sexuality and reproduction, and the particular experiences of immigrant and Indigenous women in relation to civil rights. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 3860) Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3910 The United States From 1900 Through WWII
This course examines developments in American society and politics from the turn of the century through World War II. The course covers such topics as Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the "roaring 20s" and the "dirty 30s," as well as World War II. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3920 The United States Since World War II
This course examines developments in American society and politics since World War II. The course covers such topics as the Cold War, anti-Communist crusades, the evolution of the American welfare state, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and competing visions of America's economic and political destiny. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3930 The American Mind and Imagination
This course examines the history of American thought from the Puritans to the Pragmatists. With an emphasis on religion, politics, and economics, it seeks to identify the principal forces, ideas, and traditions affecting the development of a distinctive American intellectual culture and heritage. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3940 20th c. American Intellectual History
This course examines the history of American thought in the 20th century. It emphasizes religion, politics, and economics and includes an examination of major intellects from William James to Richard Rorty. It seeks to illuminate the principal forces, ideas, and traditions affecting the development of a distinctive American intellectual culture and heritage in what has been coined "America's Century." Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3960 American Life: African-American History
This course provides an introduction to African-American history. Beginning with the introduction of slavery into the American colonies, it examines the journey from slavery to freedom, the limits to freedom, and the persistent struggle for civil rights in American society. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3970 The Hispanic-American Experience
This course provides an introduction to Hispanic-American history. Beginning with the Spanish conquest, this course ex- amines the struggle for independence, the American conquest, and the evolution of Chicano culture and La Raza as aspects of the persistent struggle for civil rights in America. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4040 Problem of Discovery in Premodern Europe
This advanced seminar examines European interaction with Asia and Africa from the time of Alexander the Great and the Ancient Greeks up to the formation of the large trading companies in the early 17th century, when Europeans understood the lands of the far east and south to be inhabited by strange semi-human peoples and the earth filled with gold and precious stones. This course examines the sources and evolution of this lore, noting how it affected the way explorers and merchant adventurers of the 16th century understood the world and interacted with the peoples they encountered. Topics include the development of the Greek and Roman world view; Europe's experience with barbarism; the Pax Mongolica and the development of the medieval world system; medieval geography; the cartographic revolution; explanations of difference and the emergence of race; cross-cultural exchange; and hybridity. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4050 Crusades and Crusading
This advanced seminar course examines the crusading movement of the High Middle Ages from both the Christian and Islamic perspective. Topics may include: the Reconquista; Urban II and the development of early crusading theory; Abbasid-Fatimid relations; the evolution of Christian notions of knighthood and the rise of the military orders; the development and application of Christian and Islamic notions of holy war; Crusading against Christians; the logistics of crusading; Christian-Muslim interaction in the Levant; and the counter- crusade under Salah al-Din and Sultan Baybars. Students will be expected to read and engage with a diverse assortment of primary sources, taken from both Christian and Islamic contexts. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the fourth year level. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4110 Europe Since Bismarck
This seminar course covers the social, political, economic, cultural, military, and diplomatic history of twentieth-century Europe from the age of nationalism in the late nineteenth century to the post-Cold War era of ethnic conflict and economic integration. Topics include imperialism, nationalism, World Wars One and Two, Nazism, decolonization, the Cold War, the European Union, the rise and fall of communism, the Balkan wars of the 1990s, globalization, and the rise of the New Right. Using a comparative perspective, the course examines what forces have united and divided Europe's nations since the end of the nineteenth century. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4150 Canada Apologizes: Historical Apologies
This course considers the phenomenon of the historical apology in the modern Canadian context. Students are introduced to a collection of historical events for which governments and churches have since offered official apologies for their participation. Case studies include: the imposition of the Chinese Head Tax, the denials of entries to the Komagata Maru and the S. S. St. Louis, the internment of the Japanese during World War II, the institutionalization of the Duplessis Orphans, the operation of Indian Residential Schools, the relocation of the Inuit, and the relocation of Africville. This course poses these questions: is it possible to right the wrongs of the past, and to what extent do past wrongs belong to us. Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4210 Canadian Political History 1896-1935
3 hours credit
HIST-4220 Canadian Political History Since 1935
3 hours credit
HIST-4240 Canadian Nationalism and Identity
This seminar course examines the development of Canadian nationalist thought and the evolution of the Canadian identity. Topics to be examined may include the evolution of national symbols, such as the Mountie, hockey, and the canoe, and their roles in the process of Canadian nation building and identity formation. The course also examines the influence of the United States and Great Britain in shaping Canadian identity, and the promotion of a distinctive Canadian culture through a variety of media ranging from tourism pamphlets to the CBC. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4250 Childhood in Modern Canada
This is a seminar course in 19th- and 20th- Century Canadian social history which takes the experiences of children as its central focus. Themes of study may include the rise and decline of child labour, the development of education and child welfare systems, and changing ideas about childhood and the family. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4260 A History of the Canadian Working Class
From fur trader, to factory hand, to fast-food worker, this seminar course explores the historical experiences of working men, women and children in Canada. Topics of study may include early forms of labour, such as slavery; the industrial revolution and its effects on working class families; the growth of scientific management in the workplace; and the dislocations posed by the Great Depression and the growth of industrial legality. Working class culture, organization and resistance are considered, as are certain ideas about workers, such as the respectable worker and the "breadwinner." Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4320 Britain and the Imperial Experience
This advanced seminar course examines Britain's experience of empire and imperialism from its days as a colony of the Roman Empire up to and including decolonisation in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies and cross-cultural and trans-regional thematic comparisons, this course will introduce students to some of the main issues underlying the study of empire, colonialism and the relationship between coloniser and colonised in the British Empire. Topics may include: the ambiguous legacy of Rome; Wales, England's first colonial experience; Ireland and the early pattern of imperialism; England and the Moghul Empire; England and the Caribbean; the rhetoric of Empire; Britain's involvement in the scramble for Africa; the emergence of racial theory; the tools of imperial- ism; culture and imperialism; colonial resistance; decolonisation in South Asia and southern Africa; the post-colonial empire. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4340 Madness and Society
This course examines the history of madness in comparative context from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present with a focus on Europe and North America. Topics include major historical developments in the understanding of madness such as traditional responses to unsoundness of mind, the development of asylums, the rise of professional psychiatry, scientific models of mental illness, and the community care movement. Pivotal theorists, including Freud, Kraepelin, Foucault, and Szasz are discussed. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
POLS-4360 The Ideas That Changed Modern European History
This course covers the history of European ideas since the French Revolution and focuses on the main political ideologies that have arisen over the last two centuries. Topics include conservatism, liberalism, socialism, feminism, imperialism, nationalism, Soviet communism, and environmentalism. The course seeks to determine the fate of these ideologies as the twenty-first century unfolds. Cross-listed with History (cf. History 4850) Seminar: Three hours a week Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above or permission of the instructor
3 hours credit
HIST-4410 US Foreign Policy From Revolution-WWI
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy from the American Revolution through World War I. Topics include neutrality, the changing role of the United States in foreign relations, the interaction between domestic and foreign policy, American expansionism, and political, economic, and cultural relationships between the United States and other countries and peoples. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4420 United States Foreign Policy Since WWI
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy from World War I through the end of the Cold War. Topics include the interwar years, the origins of World War II, post- war American hegemony, the Cold War, the New World Order, and political, economic, and cultural interaction between the United States and other countries and peoples. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4550 War and Revolution in the 20th c. World
This course examines the history of the world since the First World War. It explores crucial events such as the First and Second World Wars; communist revolution in countries such as Russia, China, Cambodia and Cuba; decolonization; the Korean conflict; war in southeast Asia; the Cold War; the collapse of communism in eastern Europe; and the Persian Gulf War. It also focuses on pivotal figures such as Lenin, Churchill, Hitler, Mao, Thatcher, De Gaulle, Gorbachev, and Castro. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
POLS-4610 Seminar in the History of Canadian External Relations
This course centres on the history of Canadian external relations from the mid-Nineteenth Century to the present. Topics will include the changing nature of the "North Atlantic Triangle," the growth of autonomy and representation abroad, Canada's role in the League of Nations and the United Nations, the Cold War, contacts with the developing world, and the complex politico-economic relationship between Canada and the United States. Lecture/discussion: Three hours a week
PREREQUISITE: Political Science 2820. Majors wishing to credit this course toward the international politics field requirement must secure the permission of the Political Science department.
3 hours credit
HIST-4720 Britain in the 20th Centruy
This course explores the construction of British national identities in the twentieth century, in particular how issues of class, gender, race and nationalism have been represented in popular culture. Topics may include the social impacts of World War I, the experience of the Depression era, British Fascist movements, the Blitz, post-war austerity, youth culture, multi-racial Britain, and football violence. Course materials include journalism of the period, film footage, oral history, diaries, pop music and contemporary cinema. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 4740) Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4730 Consumer Society in 18th Century Britain
This course examines the social and cultural changes brought about by the birth of a consumer society in 18th-century Britain. Topics include the rise of commercial society and consumerism, new techniques in marketing and advertising, the debate over fashion and luxury, the emergence of the public sphere of the coffeehouse, the commercialization of theatre and the art market, and the relationship between commerce, crime and punishment. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-4740 Britain in the 20th Century: Society, C ulture and Identity
This course explores the construction of British national identities in the twentieth century, in particular how issues of class, gender, race and nationalism have been represented in popular culture. Topics may include the social impacts of World War I, the experience of the Depression era, British Fascist movements, the Blitz, post-war austerity, youth culture, multi-racial Britain, and football violence. Course materials include journalism of the period, film footage, oral history, diaries, pop music and contemporary cinema. (Cross-listed with History 4720). Seminar: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-4830 History of the Environmentalist Movement
This seminar course covers the history of the environmentalist movement in the United States and Canada since its origins in the late nineteenth century. It describes the changes the movement has undergone thanks to its links to the conservation, eugenics, ecology, birth control, and population control movements. The course also focuses on the writings of key figures in the environmentalist movement, such as Paul Ehrlich, Barry Commoner, Rachel Carson, David Suzuki, and Bill McKibben, as well as the activities of organizations such as the Sierra Club, Zero Population Growth, and Earth First. Students seek to understand the nature of today's environmentalism as a political, social, and cultural movement by examining what it has meant to earlier generations. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4840 Applied Public History
This course introduces students to both the field of public history and the application of history and historical methods in a variety of workplace settings. Public history, which involves the practice and presentation of history outside the academic setting, is the domain of a wide variety of practitioners. While the course deals primarily with the North American context, it also addresses questions of ethics, standards, and audience of broader interest to students of history. Seminar/field work: Three hours a week and eight hours per week of unpaid field work in a public history workplace setting, supervised by a qualified professional acting as a mentor. Semester hours of credit: 6 Restriction: Student must have third or fourth year standing in a history major or honours program, as well as permission of the department.
6 hours credit
HIST-4850 Ideas That Changed Modern European Hist
This course covers the history of European ideas since the French Revolution and focuses on the main political ideologies that have arisen over the last two centuries. Topics include conservatism, liberalism, socialism, feminism, imperialism, nationalism, Soviet communism, and environmentalism. The course seeks to determine the fate of these ideologies as the twenty-first century unfolds. Cross-listed with Political Science (cf. Political Science 4360) Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4890 20th Century Prince Edward Island
This course examines major economic, political, and cultural developments within Prince Edward Island during the 20th century. Topics include the effects of technological change; Maritime Union; federal-provincial relations, including transfer payments and the 15-year Comprehensive Development Plan; "Rural Renaissance"; the constitutional discussions of the 1980s and 1990s; and the debate surrounding construction of the "fixed link." Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4910 Directed Studies
These tutorial courses are intended to encourage independent initiative and study on the part of the student. Reading and research are conducted within specialized areas chosen by the student in close consultation with one or more members of the Department. This course is restricted to qualified Third and Fourth Year students in any discipline, or students with permission of the instructor. Canadian The possible areas of study are: The History of Canadian Native Peoples Western Canadian History Canadian Social History Canadian Women's History Folk History of Prince Edward Island PEI Social and Cultural Atlantic Region Social and Cultural American: U.S. Foreign Policy, 20th-Century 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century America Canadian-American Relations Colonial Societies British and European: British History British Social and Cultural History Western and Central Europe European, Medieval, Modern, and Intellectual History Early Modern Europe-Social and Cultural History Gender in British and European History History of Religion See Academic Regulation 9 for Regulations Governing Directed Studies.
3 hours credit
HIST-4920 Directed Studies
These tutorial courses are intended to encourage independent initiative and study on the part of the student. Reading and research are conducted within specialized areas chosen by the student in close consultation with one or more members of the Department. This course is restricted to qualified Third and Fourth Year students in any discipline, or students with permission of the instructor. Canadian The possible areas of study are: The History of Canadian Native Peoples Western Canadian History Canadian Social History Canadian Women's History Folk History of Prince Edward Island PEI Social and Cultural Atlantic Region Social and Cultural American: U.S. Foreign Policy, 20th-Century 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century America Canadian-American Relations Colonial Societies British and European: British History British Social and Cultural History Western and Central Europe European, Medieval, Modern, and Intellectual History Early Modern Europe-Social and Cultural History Gender in British and European History History of Religion See Academic Regulation 9 for Regulations Governing Directed Studies.
3 hours credit
HIST-4970 Honours Tutorial in Historiography
This is an intensive reading and tutorial course in selected fields offered by the Department. Students should consult with the honours advisor in planning this course. The course normally centres on the historiography of the broad area in which the student's graduating essay is prepared. Tutorial: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4980 Honours Graduating Essay
Students propose, research, and write a major research essay under the supervision of a tutor from the Department. The essay is the subject of a final oral examination. The oral examination committee consists of the major tutor, one additional member from the Department of History, and a faculty member from another Department of the University. Tutorial: Three semester hours of credit. Restriction: Student must have third year or standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
Calendar Courses
1000 Level
HIST-1010 Canadian History - Pre-Confederation
This course surveys topics of historical importance in Canadian history up to and including the attainment of Confederation. The emphasis is on the interaction between political events and change in the economy and society. Tutorials examine various historical interpretations of the Canadian experience. Lecture: Two hours a week Tutorial: One hour a week
3 hours credit
HIST-1020 Canadian History - Post-Confederation
CANADIAN HISTORY-POST-CONFEDERATION This course surveys topics of historical importance in Canadian history in the Post-Confederation period. The emphasis is on the interaction between political events and change in the economy and society. Tutorials examine various historical interpretations of the Canadian experience. Lecture: Two hours a week. Tutorial: One hour a week
3 hours credit
HIST-1110 Discovering the Past
This course is a unique and exciting chance for students to work closely with each other and with a professor in a seminar, applying the techniques of historical investigation to shed light on one particular issue. These techniques include; the careful analysis of primary sources; an appreciation that there are different historical interpretations of the same subject; an understanding of how the subject under investigation changes over time. Instead of regular lectures, in each class students work through a series of carefully selected readings which forms the basis for interactive discussions. Each year, the seminar is devoted to a different historical issue, and is led by a different professor from the History department.
3 hours credit
HIST-1130 Crime and Punishment: Historical Themes
This course provides an introduction to changing ideas and practices surrounding crime and punishment over time. Topics may include who has been identified as a threat to the social order, including thieves, prostitutes, vagrants, and young offenders, and the punishments that societies have deemed appropriate for criminals, including public executions, exile, and imprisonment. Additionally, the course provides opportunities to explore and to develop skills in historical thinking and methods. Three credit hours; lecture, discussion
3 hours credit
HIST-1140 Plague: Historical Themes
This course introduces students to plague, an important aspect of disease and health history. From the devastating outbreaks of the Black Death in medieval Europe, to the contemporary phenomenon of Ebola, the course focuses on the ways in which major outbreaks of infectious disease have shaped societies. The course considers the medical, social, economic, and political consequences of epidemics and pandemics. The course explores how various forms of plague were understood when they happened, and how our views of them have changed over time. This will be done by reading important works on plagues, and by examining original sources that were produced by those living through major disease outbreaks as they unfolded. Three credit hours; lecture, discussion
3 hours credit
HIST-1150 Nazi Germany
This course covers the history of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich (1933-1945) from the origins of the Nazi Party during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) to the post-World War II trials of German war criminals. Topics include Hitler's life and career, the Nazi Party's electoral success, the causes and course of World War II from the German perspective, the Holocaust, and the relations between the churches and the Nazi regime. The course seeks to answer the question: why did Germans support Hitler? Three credit hours
3 hours credit
HIST-1160 The Devil in Western Society
From Megiddo and Patmos, through the sewers of nineteenth-century Paris and into the studios of America's televangelists, this course will examine how the figure of the devil has been made and remade over the centuries in response to broader historical trends. Topics may include: the ancient combat myth; the devil in the Christian scriptures; Satan and Lucifer; the devil and the saints; the idea of hell; monks and demons; demonic witchcraft; the development of exorcism; Protestant devils; the devil in art, literature and film; the demonization of outsiders; devils and the New World and Old; comedic devils; and the devil in the modern American consciousness. Three credit hours
3 hours credit
HIST-1170 Rock and Roll From Presley to Punk
This course explores the social, cultural, and political contexts for the evolution of rock and roll music during the post-Second World War era when a new musical form was grafted onto the popular music industry. Beginning with the roots of rock and roll music in African American communities, the course follows the progress of rock and roll music from the early 1950s to the Punk era of the late 1970s, focusing on the symbiotic relationship between iconic performers and their times. Three credit hours, Lecture and Discussion
3 hours credit
2000 Level
HIST-2010 European Civilization 500 BC- 1648
This introductory course examines the history of European civilization from the rise of classical Greece to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Lectures analyze the major political, economic, social, and cultural forces which shaped European society during this period. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2020 European Civilization 1648 to Present
This introductory course examines the history of European civilization from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the present. Lectures analyze the main political, economic, social, and cultural forces which shaped Europe from the early modern to the post-industrial period. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the second year level.
3 hours credit
HIST-2110 Workshop: Skills and Methods in History
This introductory course offers students the opportunity to develop their research, writing and critical thinking skills while introducing them to the nature of historical method and inquiry. The course provides instruction and practice in the use of standard print and electronic bibliographic tools and in the writing of research, analytical and critical papers in history. Topics of study include the relationship between history and truth, the uses of evidence and argumentation, and the varieties of historical research. The course features library workshops as well as experience using local archives. Lecture/Discussion/ Workshops: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2150 Foreign Foods: Eating in Age of Empires
Food has been understood in a variety of ways: spices to preserve and mask rotting meats; sugar, chocolate and raisins as cure-alls; cocoa as a hallucinogen; potatoes as a plot to kill off surplus peasants; porridge as a middle-class conspiracy to undermine working-class culture. In this course we use intrinsically interesting case studies to explore important themes in the history of food discovery, distribution, and consumption. Underlying themes may include the use of unfree labour, the expansion of a capitalist economic system, the growth and evolution of European imperialism, and negotiations in social relations along class, gender, and racial/ethnic lines.
3 hours credit
HIST-2220 Science and Society in Hist Perspective
This course evaluates the history of science from the scientific revolution to late twentieth century. It also evaluates how science has been understood differently from one period to the next, how science has been grounded in cultural, social, and political currents, and how scientific understandings and perceptions have influenced how we see the world around us. This survey includes the study of major changes in scientific outlook brought about by thinkers like Isaac Newton, Auguste Comte, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein. Important technological developments and the professionalization of scientific knowledge are also considered. Three semester hours
3 hours credit
HIST-2310 The Atlantic Region
This course examines Atlantic Canada from the early interactions between the Mi'kmaq and Beothuk and the Europeans in the 16th century through to the middle of the 19th century when Atlantic Canadians adopted a modern vision of democratic culture and social improvement. Topics of study will include native-newcomer interactions, the growth of Acadia and the Expulsion of the Acadians, the impact of the Planters and Loyalists, the Land Question on PEI, ethno-religious tension, social reform movements, and the question of Confederation. Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2320 The Atlantic Region
A continuation of History 2310. Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2410 US: Colonial Period to Reconstruction
This survey course in United States History begins with the Colonial period and concludes with an examination of the Civil War and Reconstruction. It covers a variety of topics in social, political, economic, diplomatic, military, and constitutional history. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2420 US History Since Reconstruction
This survey course in modern United States History examines industrial and urban development, modern political trends, social themes, and the development of the United States as a world power. Topics covered include Progressivism, the American role in World War I and World War II, the New Deal, and contemporary American society. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2610 Britain in Age of Revolutions: 1688-1860
This course surveys the major political, social and cultural developments in British history from the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 to the age of the industrial revolution. Topics include the changing role of the monarchy, political patronage and social elites, crime and the law, radical political movements in the era of the French revolution, the growth of industrialization and its impact on working and living conditions, poverty and disease in Victorian cities, Irish nationalism, family life and "Victorian values," and imperial conflicts in India and the Crimea. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-2620 Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia
This course surveys British political and social developments from the period of Victorian British imperialism to the era of "Swinging London" and "Cool Britannia" at the end of the 20th century. Topics include the advent of a democratic political system, the rise of the labour movement, suffragette protest, Irish nationalism, the repercussions of World Wars I and II, post-war popular culture, and the era of Thatcherism. Lecture: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
3000 Level
HIST-3030 The Renaissance in Italy
This course examines the period bounded by the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It explores the major political, intellectual and cultural developments in Renaissance Italy and their later translation to Northern Europe. Topics may include the place of Italy in the late medieval world; the causes and consequences of the crises of the fourteenth century; the emergence of humanism and the revival of antiquity; the relationship between culture and power; popular piety; new models of gender relations in Renaissance society; the impact of printing; and the unique shape of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. Assignments will stress primary source analysis. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3040 Napoleon & Legacy European Enlightment
This course examines the meteoric career of Napoleon Bonaparte within the larger context of the European Enlightenment. Specific topics include the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the Scientific Revolution, enlightened despotism, romanticism, and nationalism. Lecture: Three hours a week. Prerequisite: Second year standing or above OR permission of the instructor. 3 hours credit
3 hours credit
HIST-3050 The Culture of the European Middle Ages
This course traces the history of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Black Death of the fourteenth century. Topics include the early history of Christianity and Islam, the Carolingian renaissance, the Viking invasions, the growth of the Papacy, the emergence of nation states, and the Crusades Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the third-year level. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3100 Tudor England: Creation of a Nation
This course examines how the kings and queens of the Tudor dynasty transformed England from a crumbling, medieval monarchy into a powerful, centralized nation. It was a bloody process that saw thousands of English men and women lose their lives, but the result was an English nation endowed with a unique sense of identity, culture, and mission in the world. Topics include Henry VIII and the search for a legitimate heir; the Reformation in England; the evolution of queenship under Mary and Elizabeth; the ideological revolution and the problem of dissent; the changing structures of society; and the contrasting worlds of high and low culture. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3110 Science, Magic, Witchcraft and Occult
This course investigates how men and women sought to understand, explain, control and manipulate the natural world in the early modern period. Topics include medieval cosmology and astrology; alchemy and learned magic; changing views of the role of the devil in the natural world; witch belief and witch hunting. Particular attention is paid to how the traditions of learned magic informed the development of science in the seventeenth century. Three semester hours of credit. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3120 Themes and Debates in History
This course introduces students to some of the key theories and debates within current Western historiography (the study of historical writing). History is fundamentally concerned with the analysis of evidence, yet historians often disagree over the interpretation of that evidence and what is considered causally significant. This course will consider major "schools" and concepts of historical analysis that shape how history is interpreted. Topics may include the role of ideas and individuals versus broad economic and social forces; class, gender, race, post-colonialism, post-modernism, oral history, public history, and digital history. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3230 Russian History Since 1682
This course explores the political, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history of Russia since the reign of Peter the Great. It covers topics such as Russia's rise as a European power in the 18th and 19th centuries, the development of Russian autocracy, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the history of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, the nationalities question, the collapse of communism, and Russia since Gorbachev. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3250 Canadian Social History to World War I
This course focuses on selected themes in the day-to-day lives of Canadians within their respective communities to World War I. Topics of study may include native society, pioneering, immigration and outmigration, the Victorian frame of mind, industrialization and urbanization, social and ethnic groups, attitudes and mores, working conditions, reform, the arts, and recreation. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3260 Canadian Social History Since WWI
This course focuses on selected themes in the lives of Canadians within their respective communities since World War I. Topics of study may include immigration and ethnicity, industrialization and urbanization, reform, labour, health, education, welfare, crime and punishment, the arts and recreation. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3270 Migrations to Canada I
This course explores the history of Canadian migrations between the mid-18th century and the First World War. Migrant groups studied include the Loyalists of the late 18th century, African Americans, the Irish Famine, and the Central and East Europeans. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3280 Migrations to Canada II
This course explores the history of Canadian migrations between the First World War and the present. Some of the migrants whose histories will be highlighted are Chinese and Japanese settlers in the west during the early 20th century, Jews, Italians, peoples from the Caribbean islands, and peoples from the Middle East. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3310 History of PEI - Pre-Confederation
This study of Prince Edward Island until 1864 emphasizes the French Regime, the development of colonial institutions, the struggle for the attainment of Responsible Government, and the influence of the land tenure system on the economic, political, and social development of the Island. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3320 History of PEI Post-Confederation
This study of Prince Edward Island from 1864 until the present emphasizes the role of the Island in the Confederation movement, its entry into Confederation, and provincial-federal adjustments as they affected Prince Edward Island's history. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
PREREQUISITE: History 3310
3 hours credit
HIST-3330 Health Care and North American Society
This course explores the history of health, disease and medicine, focussing on North America from the time of contact between Native Peoples and Europeans, to the present. The course is organized around four major themes in the history of health and illness: historical epidemiology, social and political responses to health and disease, the rise of modern medicine and other health care groups, and the recent challenges to regular medical practice by alternative health care providers. Particular attention is paid to the effects of shifting systems of medical practice on patient experience. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3410 German History Since 1648
This course covers the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural history of Germany since the Reformation. It explores topics such as the Thirty Years' War, Austro-Prussian rivalry in the 18th century, German unification in the 19th Century, World War One, Hitler's Third Reich, the division of Germany after 1945, and Germany since the collapse of communism. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3420 History of France Since 1500
This course covers the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural history of France since the Reformation. It explores topics such as the Wars of Religion, the Age of Louis XIV, the French Revolution, Franco-German rivalry, the Dreyfus Affair, the Presidency of Charles DeGaulle, and the student revolts of 1968. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3520 The History of Quebec and French Canada
This course examines the social, economic and political history of Quebec. It examines economic development, political change, secularization, and the rise of nationalist and separatist movements. It also explores the changing relations between Quebec and prominent French Canadian communities else- where in Canada. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3530 Canada and the First World War
This course will examine the underlying causes of the First World War, the experiences of those who fought overseas, and the impact of war on the work and lives of those on the home front. Although the course will consider the international context of war, particular attention will be paid to the Canadian experience of the First World War, including the conscription controversy, post-war commemoration, and the legacy of the First World War for Canadian identity, politics, and culture in the twentieth century. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3620 Victorian Britain
This course explores themes in British social, political and cultural history in the nineteenth century. The course examines the nature of the changes sweeping British society, particularly those associated with Britain's congested cities and the urban working class. The anxieties and fears generated by these changes will constitute the focus of this course. The course challenges many popular stereotypes of the "Victorian Age" through its exploration of family life, poverty, sexuality, crime, drugs, disease and death in the Victorian city. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3630 Modern Irish History
This course examines key developments in Irish history from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing upon scholarly articles, visual images, song, film and documentary evidence, the course explores the various struggles over land, politics and culture that have shaped the past two centuries of Irish history. Two central themes that run through the course are the contested meanings of "the Irish nation" and the uses of history in contemporary commemoration and politics. The course concludes with an inquiry into the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland and the ongoing search for peace and political stability. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3710 The Atlantic World I
This course examines the emergence of an Atlantic world through the European "discovery," conquest, and colonization of the Americas. The interaction of West African, Western European and Aboriginal American peoples, and the societies and institutions they developed, is the focus of the course. Spanish, English, French and Portuguese activity in the Atlantic and the Americas is surveyed, with particular attention given to topics such as labour systems, religious patterns, agriculture, and the nature of colonial societies before 1700. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3720 The Atlantic World II
This course traces the emergence of a maturing Atlantic world from the latter 1600s to the period of independence. The shape and interaction of the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and their colonial empires, together with the continuing relationship with African and Aboriginal American peoples, is the focus of study. Slavery, the plantation system, differing patterns of development, and political independence are given particular attention. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3730 The Second World War in Global Context
This course combines lectures and class discussions and covers the history of the Second World War, its causes, conduct, and impact on twentieth century history. Topics include the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement in Germany; the international crises of the 1930s; the war on land, on sea, and in the air in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East; the Holocaust; the wartime conferences of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt; the use of atomic weapons against Japan; the post-war Nuremberg Trials; the origins of the Cold War; and the impact of the war on society and the home front. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3750 Tourism and Western Society
This course will provide an historical overview of the evolution of tourism with special emphasis on the Western world, beginning with the medieval passion for pilgrimage through the Enlightenment Grand Tour to the birth of the modern tourist trade, one of the world's fastest growing industries. A series of case studies will be used to pursue specific topics, such as the economics of tourism, motivation for travel, the rise of the resort, the transportation revolution, promotion and imaging, the conflicted relationship between visitor and host, sustainability, and the social and cultural impacts of tourism on host societies. Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3760 The History of Genocide
This course covers the history of genocide as both a type of historical event and as a concept which has shaped international policy-making and legal practice. Topics include the Holocaust, the Ukrainian Holomodor, the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan atrocities, and the life and career of Raphael Lemkin, who coined and defined the term. The course seeks to answer the question: what is genocide and how does it differ from ordinary cruelty towards other human beings? Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-3850 Women in 19th Century Canada
This course examines the changes that have taken place in the historical roles of women in Canadian society, and the relationship of these changes to social, economic, and intellectual developments. Using both a thematic and chronological approach, the course examines women's roles from the beginning of the 19th Century to the achievement of suffrage in the 20th Century. (Cross-listed with History 3850). Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-3850 Women in 19th Century Canada
This course examines the changes that have taken place in the historical roles of women in Canadian society, and the relationship of these changes to social, economic, and intellectual developments. Using both a thematic and chronological approach, the course examines women's roles from the beginning of the 19th Century to the achievement of suffrage in the 20th Century. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 3850) Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-3860 Women, The Law, and Civil Rights in 20th Century Canada
This course examines the experiences of women in 20th-Century Canadian society viewed through the prism of law and civil rights. Topics of study include the struggle for the right to vote, the Persons Case, efforts to secure equality in the workplace, the regulation of sexuality and reproduction, and the particular experiences of immigrant and Indigenous women in relation to civil rights. (Cross-listed with History 3860). Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-3860 Women's Rights in 20th Century Canada
This course examines the experiences of women in 20th-Century Canadian society viewed through the prism of law and civil rights. Topics of study include the struggle for the right to vote, the Persons Case, efforts to secure equality in the workplace, the regulation of sexuality and reproduction, and the particular experiences of immigrant and Indigenous women in relation to civil rights. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 3860) Lecture/Discussion: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3910 The United States From 1900 Through WWII
This course examines developments in American society and politics from the turn of the century through World War II. The course covers such topics as Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the "roaring 20s" and the "dirty 30s," as well as World War II. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3920 The United States Since World War II
This course examines developments in American society and politics since World War II. The course covers such topics as the Cold War, anti-Communist crusades, the evolution of the American welfare state, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and competing visions of America's economic and political destiny. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3930 The American Mind and Imagination
This course examines the history of American thought from the Puritans to the Pragmatists. With an emphasis on religion, politics, and economics, it seeks to identify the principal forces, ideas, and traditions affecting the development of a distinctive American intellectual culture and heritage. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3940 20th c. American Intellectual History
This course examines the history of American thought in the 20th century. It emphasizes religion, politics, and economics and includes an examination of major intellects from William James to Richard Rorty. It seeks to illuminate the principal forces, ideas, and traditions affecting the development of a distinctive American intellectual culture and heritage in what has been coined "America's Century." Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3960 American Life: African-American History
This course provides an introduction to African-American history. Beginning with the introduction of slavery into the American colonies, it examines the journey from slavery to freedom, the limits to freedom, and the persistent struggle for civil rights in American society. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-3970 The Hispanic-American Experience
This course provides an introduction to Hispanic-American history. Beginning with the Spanish conquest, this course ex- amines the struggle for independence, the American conquest, and the evolution of Chicano culture and La Raza as aspects of the persistent struggle for civil rights in America. Lecture/Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
4000 Level
HIST-4040 Problem of Discovery in Premodern Europe
This advanced seminar examines European interaction with Asia and Africa from the time of Alexander the Great and the Ancient Greeks up to the formation of the large trading companies in the early 17th century, when Europeans understood the lands of the far east and south to be inhabited by strange semi-human peoples and the earth filled with gold and precious stones. This course examines the sources and evolution of this lore, noting how it affected the way explorers and merchant adventurers of the 16th century understood the world and interacted with the peoples they encountered. Topics include the development of the Greek and Roman world view; Europe's experience with barbarism; the Pax Mongolica and the development of the medieval world system; medieval geography; the cartographic revolution; explanations of difference and the emergence of race; cross-cultural exchange; and hybridity. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4050 Crusades and Crusading
This advanced seminar course examines the crusading movement of the High Middle Ages from both the Christian and Islamic perspective. Topics may include: the Reconquista; Urban II and the development of early crusading theory; Abbasid-Fatimid relations; the evolution of Christian notions of knighthood and the rise of the military orders; the development and application of Christian and Islamic notions of holy war; Crusading against Christians; the logistics of crusading; Christian-Muslim interaction in the Levant; and the counter- crusade under Salah al-Din and Sultan Baybars. Students will be expected to read and engage with a diverse assortment of primary sources, taken from both Christian and Islamic contexts. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4090 Special Topics
Creation of a course code for Special Topics offered by the Department of History at the fourth year level. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4110 Europe Since Bismarck
This seminar course covers the social, political, economic, cultural, military, and diplomatic history of twentieth-century Europe from the age of nationalism in the late nineteenth century to the post-Cold War era of ethnic conflict and economic integration. Topics include imperialism, nationalism, World Wars One and Two, Nazism, decolonization, the Cold War, the European Union, the rise and fall of communism, the Balkan wars of the 1990s, globalization, and the rise of the New Right. Using a comparative perspective, the course examines what forces have united and divided Europe's nations since the end of the nineteenth century. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4150 Canada Apologizes: Historical Apologies
This course considers the phenomenon of the historical apology in the modern Canadian context. Students are introduced to a collection of historical events for which governments and churches have since offered official apologies for their participation. Case studies include: the imposition of the Chinese Head Tax, the denials of entries to the Komagata Maru and the S. S. St. Louis, the internment of the Japanese during World War II, the institutionalization of the Duplessis Orphans, the operation of Indian Residential Schools, the relocation of the Inuit, and the relocation of Africville. This course poses these questions: is it possible to right the wrongs of the past, and to what extent do past wrongs belong to us. Three credit hours. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4210 Canadian Political History 1896-1935
3 hours credit
HIST-4220 Canadian Political History Since 1935
3 hours credit
HIST-4240 Canadian Nationalism and Identity
This seminar course examines the development of Canadian nationalist thought and the evolution of the Canadian identity. Topics to be examined may include the evolution of national symbols, such as the Mountie, hockey, and the canoe, and their roles in the process of Canadian nation building and identity formation. The course also examines the influence of the United States and Great Britain in shaping Canadian identity, and the promotion of a distinctive Canadian culture through a variety of media ranging from tourism pamphlets to the CBC. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4250 Childhood in Modern Canada
This is a seminar course in 19th- and 20th- Century Canadian social history which takes the experiences of children as its central focus. Themes of study may include the rise and decline of child labour, the development of education and child welfare systems, and changing ideas about childhood and the family. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4260 A History of the Canadian Working Class
From fur trader, to factory hand, to fast-food worker, this seminar course explores the historical experiences of working men, women and children in Canada. Topics of study may include early forms of labour, such as slavery; the industrial revolution and its effects on working class families; the growth of scientific management in the workplace; and the dislocations posed by the Great Depression and the growth of industrial legality. Working class culture, organization and resistance are considered, as are certain ideas about workers, such as the respectable worker and the "breadwinner." Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4320 Britain and the Imperial Experience
This advanced seminar course examines Britain's experience of empire and imperialism from its days as a colony of the Roman Empire up to and including decolonisation in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies and cross-cultural and trans-regional thematic comparisons, this course will introduce students to some of the main issues underlying the study of empire, colonialism and the relationship between coloniser and colonised in the British Empire. Topics may include: the ambiguous legacy of Rome; Wales, England's first colonial experience; Ireland and the early pattern of imperialism; England and the Moghul Empire; England and the Caribbean; the rhetoric of Empire; Britain's involvement in the scramble for Africa; the emergence of racial theory; the tools of imperial- ism; culture and imperialism; colonial resistance; decolonisation in South Asia and southern Africa; the post-colonial empire. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4340 Madness and Society
This course examines the history of madness in comparative context from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present with a focus on Europe and North America. Topics include major historical developments in the understanding of madness such as traditional responses to unsoundness of mind, the development of asylums, the rise of professional psychiatry, scientific models of mental illness, and the community care movement. Pivotal theorists, including Freud, Kraepelin, Foucault, and Szasz are discussed. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
POLS-4360 The Ideas That Changed Modern European History
This course covers the history of European ideas since the French Revolution and focuses on the main political ideologies that have arisen over the last two centuries. Topics include conservatism, liberalism, socialism, feminism, imperialism, nationalism, Soviet communism, and environmentalism. The course seeks to determine the fate of these ideologies as the twenty-first century unfolds. Cross-listed with History (cf. History 4850) Seminar: Three hours a week Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above or permission of the instructor
3 hours credit
HIST-4410 US Foreign Policy From Revolution-WWI
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy from the American Revolution through World War I. Topics include neutrality, the changing role of the United States in foreign relations, the interaction between domestic and foreign policy, American expansionism, and political, economic, and cultural relationships between the United States and other countries and peoples. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4420 United States Foreign Policy Since WWI
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy from World War I through the end of the Cold War. Topics include the interwar years, the origins of World War II, post- war American hegemony, the Cold War, the New World Order, and political, economic, and cultural interaction between the United States and other countries and peoples. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4550 War and Revolution in the 20th c. World
This course examines the history of the world since the First World War. It explores crucial events such as the First and Second World Wars; communist revolution in countries such as Russia, China, Cambodia and Cuba; decolonization; the Korean conflict; war in southeast Asia; the Cold War; the collapse of communism in eastern Europe; and the Persian Gulf War. It also focuses on pivotal figures such as Lenin, Churchill, Hitler, Mao, Thatcher, De Gaulle, Gorbachev, and Castro. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
POLS-4610 Seminar in the History of Canadian External Relations
This course centres on the history of Canadian external relations from the mid-Nineteenth Century to the present. Topics will include the changing nature of the "North Atlantic Triangle," the growth of autonomy and representation abroad, Canada's role in the League of Nations and the United Nations, the Cold War, contacts with the developing world, and the complex politico-economic relationship between Canada and the United States. Lecture/discussion: Three hours a week
PREREQUISITE: Political Science 2820. Majors wishing to credit this course toward the international politics field requirement must secure the permission of the Political Science department.
3 hours credit
HIST-4720 Britain in the 20th Centruy
This course explores the construction of British national identities in the twentieth century, in particular how issues of class, gender, race and nationalism have been represented in popular culture. Topics may include the social impacts of World War I, the experience of the Depression era, British Fascist movements, the Blitz, post-war austerity, youth culture, multi-racial Britain, and football violence. Course materials include journalism of the period, film footage, oral history, diaries, pop music and contemporary cinema. Cross-listed with Diversity and Social Justice Studies (cf. DSJS 4740) Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4730 Consumer Society in 18th Century Britain
This course examines the social and cultural changes brought about by the birth of a consumer society in 18th-century Britain. Topics include the rise of commercial society and consumerism, new techniques in marketing and advertising, the debate over fashion and luxury, the emergence of the public sphere of the coffeehouse, the commercialization of theatre and the art market, and the relationship between commerce, crime and punishment. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
DSJS-4740 Britain in the 20th Century: Society, C ulture and Identity
This course explores the construction of British national identities in the twentieth century, in particular how issues of class, gender, race and nationalism have been represented in popular culture. Topics may include the social impacts of World War I, the experience of the Depression era, British Fascist movements, the Blitz, post-war austerity, youth culture, multi-racial Britain, and football violence. Course materials include journalism of the period, film footage, oral history, diaries, pop music and contemporary cinema. (Cross-listed with History 4720). Seminar: Three hours a week
3 hours credit
HIST-4830 History of the Environmentalist Movement
This seminar course covers the history of the environmentalist movement in the United States and Canada since its origins in the late nineteenth century. It describes the changes the movement has undergone thanks to its links to the conservation, eugenics, ecology, birth control, and population control movements. The course also focuses on the writings of key figures in the environmentalist movement, such as Paul Ehrlich, Barry Commoner, Rachel Carson, David Suzuki, and Bill McKibben, as well as the activities of organizations such as the Sierra Club, Zero Population Growth, and Earth First. Students seek to understand the nature of today's environmentalism as a political, social, and cultural movement by examining what it has meant to earlier generations. Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4840 Applied Public History
This course introduces students to both the field of public history and the application of history and historical methods in a variety of workplace settings. Public history, which involves the practice and presentation of history outside the academic setting, is the domain of a wide variety of practitioners. While the course deals primarily with the North American context, it also addresses questions of ethics, standards, and audience of broader interest to students of history. Seminar/field work: Three hours a week and eight hours per week of unpaid field work in a public history workplace setting, supervised by a qualified professional acting as a mentor. Semester hours of credit: 6 Restriction: Student must have third or fourth year standing in a history major or honours program, as well as permission of the department.
6 hours credit
HIST-4850 Ideas That Changed Modern European Hist
This course covers the history of European ideas since the French Revolution and focuses on the main political ideologies that have arisen over the last two centuries. Topics include conservatism, liberalism, socialism, feminism, imperialism, nationalism, Soviet communism, and environmentalism. The course seeks to determine the fate of these ideologies as the twenty-first century unfolds. Cross-listed with Political Science (cf. Political Science 4360) Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4890 20th Century Prince Edward Island
This course examines major economic, political, and cultural developments within Prince Edward Island during the 20th century. Topics include the effects of technological change; Maritime Union; federal-provincial relations, including transfer payments and the 15-year Comprehensive Development Plan; "Rural Renaissance"; the constitutional discussions of the 1980s and 1990s; and the debate surrounding construction of the "fixed link." Seminar: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4910 Directed Studies
These tutorial courses are intended to encourage independent initiative and study on the part of the student. Reading and research are conducted within specialized areas chosen by the student in close consultation with one or more members of the Department. This course is restricted to qualified Third and Fourth Year students in any discipline, or students with permission of the instructor. Canadian The possible areas of study are: The History of Canadian Native Peoples Western Canadian History Canadian Social History Canadian Women's History Folk History of Prince Edward Island PEI Social and Cultural Atlantic Region Social and Cultural American: U.S. Foreign Policy, 20th-Century 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century America Canadian-American Relations Colonial Societies British and European: British History British Social and Cultural History Western and Central Europe European, Medieval, Modern, and Intellectual History Early Modern Europe-Social and Cultural History Gender in British and European History History of Religion See Academic Regulation 9 for Regulations Governing Directed Studies.
3 hours credit
HIST-4920 Directed Studies
These tutorial courses are intended to encourage independent initiative and study on the part of the student. Reading and research are conducted within specialized areas chosen by the student in close consultation with one or more members of the Department. This course is restricted to qualified Third and Fourth Year students in any discipline, or students with permission of the instructor. Canadian The possible areas of study are: The History of Canadian Native Peoples Western Canadian History Canadian Social History Canadian Women's History Folk History of Prince Edward Island PEI Social and Cultural Atlantic Region Social and Cultural American: U.S. Foreign Policy, 20th-Century 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century America Canadian-American Relations Colonial Societies British and European: British History British Social and Cultural History Western and Central Europe European, Medieval, Modern, and Intellectual History Early Modern Europe-Social and Cultural History Gender in British and European History History of Religion See Academic Regulation 9 for Regulations Governing Directed Studies.
3 hours credit
HIST-4970 Honours Tutorial in Historiography
This is an intensive reading and tutorial course in selected fields offered by the Department. Students should consult with the honours advisor in planning this course. The course normally centres on the historiography of the broad area in which the student's graduating essay is prepared. Tutorial: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
HIST-4980 Honours Graduating Essay
Students propose, research, and write a major research essay under the supervision of a tutor from the Department. The essay is the subject of a final oral examination. The oral examination committee consists of the major tutor, one additional member from the Department of History, and a faculty member from another Department of the University. Tutorial: Three semester hours of credit. Restriction: Student must have third year or standing or above, or have permission of the instructor.
3 hours credit
