Graduate Courses

2024-25 Academic Year (Tentative Course Offerings)

Fall Term Courses | Winter Term Courses | Summer Courses

All graduate courses in History are small seminar or studio classes of about 10-15 students. 
Students begin online registration for Fall Term courses in early August and for Winter Term courses in early December. 

MA students will select 3 - 0.5 courses per term; PhD select 2 - 0.5. 

Please note courses that are restricted to Public History MA students.  

Please visit your course Brightspace site for final course outlines with date/time/location.

Course Number

Course Title

Instructor

9307A Early America and the Atlantic World N. Rhoden
9719A Global History: An Introduction F. Schumacher
9800A Public History: Theory, History and Practice (Restricted) M. Hamilton
9804A Canada and Its Historians R. Wardhaugh
9806A Understanding Archives: The Management of Primary Sources in the Digital Age (Optional for Public History students; open to other graduate students with the instructor's permission) D. Spanner
9808A Digital Public History (Restricted) T. Compeau
9844A New Directions in Indigenous Histories C. Groat

Course Number

Course Title

Instructor

9409B  Europe and the Politics of Power M. Dyczok
9718B Race and Gender on the Imperial Frontiers` L. Shire
9801B Public History Group Project (Restricted) M. Hamilton
9805B Writing History R. MacDougall
9807B Introduction to Museology (The course is intended primarily for public historians but is open to other graduate students, space permitting, with permission of the instructor) A. Lloydlangston
9823B Professional Development (Restricted) N. Rhoden & F. McKenzie
9833B Environmental History A. MacEachern
9835B Rot and Ruin: The Downside of Material Culture J. Flath
 

Course Number

Course Title

Instructor

9802 Public History Internship (required for PH students) M. Dove

Summer Term Milestone (May-August 2025)

The cognate essay should be a high-quality research paper, comparable to an article published in a scholarly journal, which develops and sustains a significant historical argument. It must be:

  • approximately 12,500 words (about 50 typed, double-spaced pages) in length
  • characterized by polished presentation (well organized, clearly, concisely and elegantly expressed, free of grammar and syntax errors etc.)
  • based on primary source material, and
  • set in the context of the critical published work.