Graduate Courses

2026-27 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

9172A History and Social Memory R. Charumbira
9719A Global History F. Schumacher
9800A Public History: Theory, History and Practice (Restricted to Public History students) M. Dove
9804A Canada and Its Historians R. Wardhaugh
9844A New Directions in Indigenous History C. Groat
9835A Rot and Ruin: The Downside of Material Culture J. Flath
9832A Interactive Exhibits, Disability and Design Justice (Optional for Public History students; open to other graduate students with the instructor's permission) W. Turkel

Course Number

Course Title

Instructor

9274B Oh! Gendered Canada! Gender in Canadian History M. Halpern
9308B U.S. and the Cold War A. Sendzikas
9409B Politics and Power in Europe M. Dyczok
9801B Public History Group Project (Restricted to Public History students) M. Dove
9807B Introduction to Museology (Optional for Public History students; open to other graduate students with the instructor's permission) M. Hamilton
9808B Digital Public History (Restricted to Public History students) M. Dove
9833B Environmental History A. MacEachern
 

Course Number

Course Title

Instructor

9802 Public History Internship (Restricted to Public History 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.