3000 Level Courses

This course examines the social history of Canada since 1800. Focusing on the lives of everyday people and utilizing issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality, this course explores topics related to industrialization, urbanization, immigration, family, crime, and social reform. Considerable attention is paid to the historiography/methodologies of the field.
2 seminar hours/

This course focuses on leadership styles of the most influential, innovative, and frequently controversial prime ministers and provincial premiers from the 1860s to the present. Emphasis is placed on the interplay of character, circumstance, pragmatism and principle in governing a nation as ethnically diverse and regionally fragmented as Canada. 
2 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course

What defines being “American”?  How is the American identity constructed, and how and why is it frequently contested?  This course employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the meaning(s) and definition(s) of American identity from multiple viewpoints, and within the context of US history, politics, regions, values, and culture. 
2 seminar hours, 0.5 course

Antirequisite(s): American Studies 3310F/G
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above OR enrolment in an American Studies module.

Throughout its history the United States has imagined itself as a global project. To better understand America's role in the world and the impact of international developments on the United States, this seminar explores the political, economic, military, and cultural dimensions of U.S. interaction with the world since the 18th century.
2 hours, 1.0 course

• International Relations Approved

This seminar examines some key aspects of political, social, and cultural life in the United States during the 1950s. Topics include social classes, urban and suburban growth, family and gender relations, McCarthyism, and civil rights movements. The impact and legacy of events and issues of the 1950s are evaluated.
3 hours, 0.5 course

Antirequisite(s): History 3396F/G if taken in 2011-2012
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above.

• International Relations Approved

This course examines the emergence of Britain as an imperial power in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the military means by which that empire was acquired (and lost). It explores both soldiers' and sailors' lives and the effects of war on state formation and national identity within Britain.
2 hours, 0.5 course

Prerequisite(s): 1.0 History course at the 2200 level or above

• Pre-1800 History Course
• International Relations Approved

Examines why and how the Nazi government undertook to murder European Jews, and also the educated elite of Poland, Soviet POWs, Roma and Sinti, and the mentally handicapped. We examine the roles played by Hitler and close associates, contemporary responses to the murders, and the postwar historiography of the subject.
3 semiar hours

Antirequisite(s): The former History 3427E
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.

• International Relations Approved

This course examines the social and economic factors behind the Crusades, both in medieval Europe and in the Middle East. It explores the Crusaders kingdom in the context of medieval Islam and Christianity, as a neighbor of the Islamic states, and as a link to Mediterranean Europe.
two-hour seminar.

Antirequisite(s): History 3605E
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.

• Pre-1800 History
• International Relations Approved

Selected topics, such as Japan's phenomenal economic growth, its competitive drive for the control of world markets, big business in politics, the debates on the Constitutional revision and remilitarization, student radicalism and the changing roles of women in contemporary Japan, are examined.
3 seminar hours

Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.

• International Relations Approved

This seminar explores the causes, elements, and consequences of genocide in modern history through historical case studies and multidisciplinary perspectives.
2 hours, 0.5 course

Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.

• International Relations Approved

Humans of late have exerted so much influence on the Earth, and created what are essentially permanent changes to it, that some scientists and scholars argue we are in a new age not just in human history, but in Earth history: the Anthropocene. This seminar course is a global environmental history of the recent past. 
3 seminar hours.

Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.

• International Relations Approved

An exploration of history as it is understood by and interpreted for the public in varied venues and media, including museums, historic sites, historical fiction, the internet, and film. Topics include the history of public history, ethical practice, the relationships between form and content and between public and academic history.
2 seminar hours, 1.0 course

Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above; or History 2811F/G and enrolment in the Minor in Public History.

This course will focus on female protest movements whose primary goal was to better the lives of women. With attention to issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class, it will explore various conditions that gave rise to rebellion, and will assess the movements' strategies and achievements.
3 hours.

Antirequisite(s): History 2813F/G 
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course in History at the 2200 level or above.

A thematic introduction to 21st-century history focused on phenomena that characterize our age: the global connectivity of supply chains, planetary-scale computation, the War on Terror, and unprecedented ecological change. Contemporary events are contextualized in an interdisciplinary fashion at time scales ranging from days to millions of years.
2 lecture hours.

Prerequisite(s): Any 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.

• International Relations Approved