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HIST 436 Canadian Legal History Units: 3.00
This seminar explores central issues in and approaches to legal history using Canadian examples. Topics may include the history of crime and punishment; the legal regulation of gender, sexuality, 'race', and Indigenous-settler relations; law and the economy; and the history of the legal profession and rights.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop the ability to think historically about law and to identify and assess major approaches to legal history. To reflect on the similarities and differences in how historians and lawyers understand and use the past.
- Explain how law has both reflected and shaped the past, varied among different Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies in northern North America, changed over time, and structured social relations and identities.
- Critically read and contextualize primary and secondary sources in legal history and draw connections between sources and across topics.
- Develop and hone skills in active listening, posing effective questions, and presenting historical analysis and evidence orally to contribute to collaborative seminar discussion and deepen collective, synchronous learning.
- Practice and refine skills to present cogent arguments, sustain historical analysis, and marshal relevant evidence in clear, logically organized, and persuasive prose.