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 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 (Restricted to Public History students) 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 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
 

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.