Undergraduate Studies
Welcome to the Department of History at The University of Western Ontario. As undergraduate chair, I will be advising you about program requirements and course selection. Here in the Department of History my colleagues and I work to understand the present by exploring and analyzing the past. Our undergraduates share this endeavor in lecture courses, tutorials and seminars in Canadian, American and European history, but also in an expanding range of courses in Asian and Latin American history and the history of the Muslim world. Other courses address thematic issues such as environmental, political, military and women’s history and the history of medicine, of technology and of business. In these courses, students in our programs develop their abilities in writing, speaking, argumentation and analysis as they consider the central issue of change over time and the ways in which gender, class and race have shaped the experience of people in past times. Someone once said that we are all made by history. Our goal in UWO’s History department is to help our students discover something about what they are made of and to equip them with a better understanding of the world in which we live and work. I look forward to meeting and working with you.
Margaret McGlynn, Associate Professor & Undergraduate Chair
News & Announcements
Career Management Series
The Department of History in collaboration with the career counselor at the Student Success Centre is offering a series of 5 Career Management seminars. The next session is March 2nd from 1:30-3:30 in Lawson Hall 2270C. In this session, there will be a panel presentation from individuals in various fields related to history.
Free pizza and pop will be served.
How to Add/Drop a course
Take a look at this video link for information on how to add/drop a course.
History T-Shirt Design Contest
The History Department is looking for your design!
We are now accepting entries for the 2011-2012 History t-shirt design
contest. Entries are due
no later than Monday January 16th, 2012.
The winner will be announced on January 19th at the History
Society Book Auction.
You can
submit your entries to the Undergraduate Program Advisor, Rebecca
Dashford, in Lawson Hall, 2201.
Undergraduate Award Winners
The students above were all smiles as they accepted their scholarships from the department of History. The students were recognized for their high academic achievements. For more information on the awards, please click here.
The Rhodes Scholarships 2012
Eleven Rhodes Scholarships, awarded for the fall of 2012, are now open for Canadian Students. Applications are invited and must be received by October 14, 2011. The Scholarships are tenable at Oxford University, England, and the award covers both university fees and a stipend for living expenses. Scholarships are granted for two years, with the possibility of a third year. Scholars, who may follow courses of study of their own choice, will be enrolled at Oxford in October 2012. Please visit their website at www.canadianrhodes.org for more information.
Looking for History courses to add for this year?
History 3813E provides an overview of public history- an applied branch of history that involves communicating the past to a non-academic audience. The theory and practice of public history will be examined through a variety of sources, including journal articles, works of historical fiction, websites, television, films, exhibits, guest speakers, and physical sites.
History 4491E is a special topics course - Medieval Villages, Medieval Worlds, where students will reconstruct a fourteenth century medieval English village and study the lives of its inhabitants in this methodology research oriented seminar course. This course has a new time and room, so please click the course number to find out more.
History 4707E is Technology and Society in North America. Students will study technology as an aspect of culture, the main theme will be the development of distinctive national technical styles. Click the course number to find out more!
History 4796F is a special topics course - Comparative History of
North America. Students will identify and
employ comparative methodology to generate case studies that compare
and contrast the historical experiences of
Video Answers to Common Questions
Did you forget to Intent to Register this year? Do you want
to take a course at an affiliate? Did you want to appeal a
grade? Would you need an increased course load this
year? Need a special permission? The answers to these questions and
others are now online in video form featuring one of the Social
Science Academic
Counsellors, Kelly Callahan,
click
here for the videos.
Congratulations to the Graduates!
The History Department would like to congratulate all of the graduates of 2011 in the History modules, the International Relations program, and the Jewish Studies program on their wonderful achievement!
Severin Flikerski Prize in Military History 2011
Congratulations to Graeme Young, the recipient of the inaugural Flikerski Prize in Military History. His prize-winning paper was called: Visualizing the Unimaginable: The My Lai Massacre and the Photographic Image as a Space for Public Discourse. Professors Magaret McGlynn and Francine McKenzie presented him with his award.
History Society Election Results
The 2011-2012 History Society council are:
President: Collin Bryant
VP Finance: Caitlin Harvey
VP Academic: Alec Moore
VP Social: Erica Gagnon
VP External: Brad Wood
VP Communications: Vindya Seneviratne
Ball State Undergraduate History Conference
Congratulations to Katie Worndl, Joel Richer, Sean Acklin Grant, and Douglas McGlynn who represented Western’s Department of History at the 14th annual student history conference at Ball State University. Professor Michelle Hamilton accompanied the group. Special congratulations to Douglas McGlynn who received the award for the best paper on a topic on a region outside of North America. The title of Douglas’ paper was: 'Mughal Architecture: The Foundations of the British Empire in India'.
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