Graduate Courses
2025-26 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, 1600-1820 | N. Rhoden |
| 9417A | Europe Since World War Two | E. Nathans |
| 9718A | Race and Gender on the Imperial Frontiers | L. Shire |
| 9800A | Public History: Theory, History and Practice (Restricted to Public History students) | 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 |
| 9807A | Introduction to Museology (Optional for Public History students; open to other graduate students with the instructor's permission) | M. Hamilton |
| 9833A | Environmental History | A. MacEachern |
| 9835A | Rot and Ruin: The Downside of Material Culture | J. Flath |
|
Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 9274B | Oh! Gendered Canada! Gender in Canadian History | M. Halpern |
| 9407B | Politics and Power in Europe | M. Dyczok |
| 9801B | Public History Group Project (Restricted to Public History students) | M. Dove |
| 9805B | Writing History | R. MacDougall |
| 9808B | Digital Public History (Restricted to Public History students) | M. Dove |
| 9823B | Professional Development (Restricted to Year 2 PhD students) | N. Rhoden & F. McKenzie |
| 9719B | Global History | F. Schumacher |
| 9832B | Interactive Exhibits, Disability and Design Justice | W. Turkel |
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Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 9802 | Public History Internship (required for PH students) | M. Dove |
Summer Term Milestone (May-August 2026)
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.
