2100 Level Courses

This course examines the history of human rights in Canada. It explores the creation of rights linked to ethnicity, gender, language, religion, region, class and other characteristics. It asks both why rights have been created and what factors have limited the development of rights.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.

Antirequiste(s): History 2187

The development and effect of business in Canada from the late nineteenth century, with special emphasis on its social impact and the emergence of a Canadian labor movement.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course

Antirequisite(s): The former History 2213F/G, the former History 2125F/G

The development and effect of business in Canada from the late nineteenth century, with special emphasis on its social impact and the emergence of a Canadian labor movement.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course

Antirequisite(s): The former History 2213F/G, the former History 2125F/G

Canadian popular culture: poor-quality imitation of American, or crucial element of Canadian identity, worthy of “Canadian Content” regulations and financial support? This course traces the 20th century evolution of “Canadian popular culture,” offering glimpses into music, film, television, sport and more. What was enjoyed, why, and was it “Canadian ?”
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course

Antirequiste(s): The former History 2124F/G

An examination of selected social themes shaping postwar Canada. Topics covered include modernization, immigration and multiculturalism, rights issues, regionalism, and the multifaceted search for a "Canadian" society and culture.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course

Antirequisite(s):  History 2127F/G, the former History 2207F/G, History 2217F/G.

Examines the development of the modern presidency in terms of the challenges facing presidents and their success or failure in responding to the needs of the time. Special attention will be given to the evolution of presidential power and its historical consequences.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course

This course traces the evolution of American popular culture from its emergence as an increasingly inclusive “mass” culture in the nineteenth century to the more fragmented and kinetic cultural productions that are disseminated by American media—art, literature, television, film, music, the internet, etc.— today.
2 hours, 0.5 course

Antirequisite(s): History 3307E

The 1960s is often perceived as a period of radical change, especially in the United States. We examine the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, the Free Speech and Women’s Liberation movements, Great Society programs, and the development of a counterculture.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.

Antirequisite: History 3327F/G

We analyze how the Nazi Party came to power; the regime’s use of propaganda, intimidation and terror within Germany after 1933; Hitler’s foreign policy; Nazi methods in occupied Europe; anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and other programs of mass murder; resistance within Germany, and the reasons for the regime's defeat.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course

Antirequiste(s): The former History 1403E, History 1404E

This course explores American capitalism in the 1980s - a decade defined by materialism, greed, and scandal on Wall Street. It examines, in particular, the rise of finance capitalism and considers this rise within political and cultural context of the era.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.

This survey course is aimed at expanding students’ knowledge of the World Wars as part of a larger, collective cataclysm. It considers these conflicts as part of a thirty-year crisis out of which the contemporary world emerged, fundamentally different from what might have been projected had they not occurred.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course

Antirequisite(s): History 2179

This course examines the history of sexuality from the nineteenth century to the present, investigating sexual desire, behaviour, and ideologies. Topics include the body, marriage, reproduction, prostitution, same-sex relations, and religious, medical and psychiatric intervention, and help demonstrate that sexuality has been the object of social scrutiny and political regulation.
2 lecture hours, 0.5 course.

Antirequisite: History 2185

A survey of Canadian Women's History from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience through biography..
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.

Antirequisite(s): History 2140, History 2208E; Women's Studies 2139A/B, Women's Studies 2140.

This course examines the impact of fear, panic, and paranoia in human history. It considers how and why concern changes into panic in some situations and not in others, and the factors that make a descent into panic possible and even likely in some circumstances.
2 Lecture hours, 0.5 course.

This course examines the history of pirates and piracy from antiquity through the present day. Among its major themes are changing definitions of piracy, the reasons individuals, groups, and nations have practiced or supported piracy, and how pirates have been depicted in popular culture.
2 Lecture hours, 0.5 course.

This course examines the history of pirates and piracy from antiquity through the present day. Among its major themes are changing definitions of piracy, the reasons individuals, groups, and nations have practiced or supported piracy, and how pirates have been depicted in popular culture.
2 Lecture hours, 0.5 course.