Undergraduate

Please note that course offerings change each year. The course list for 2023-24 is tentative and is subject to change.

HIST 337

Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire

Winter 2021

Winter 2023

Fall 2023

Image of a Campaign poster for J.B. Salsberg

HIST 339

Jews Without Judaism

Winter 2021

Winter 2022

Fall 2022

Fall 2023

An image of a poster of three men that reads Missing call FBI

HIST 344

Insiders, Outsiders: Jewish Identity in the New World

Winter 2021

Fall 2019

Winter 2022

Winter 2023

A painting of a man in a blue robe holding a printed page beside a large wooden printing press

Title: Interior of the printing workshop of Johannes Gutenberg, 1863, Creator: Auguste Ledoux, after Frédéric-Désiré Hillemacher, Institution: Rijksmuseum

HIST 349

Books and Ideas in Early Modern Europe

Fall 2022

Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum vicinis Walachiae, Moldoviae, Johann Baptiste Homann (Nuremberg, 1720).

HIST 364

Imperial Borderlands: Russia and the Soviet Union

Winter 2024

HIST 365

History Outside the Book

Fall 2019

Winter 2023

A black and white scan of a newspaper featuring 8 men in tuxedos holding various instruments

"A musica regional brasileira no Velho Mundo," A Noite (Rio de Janeiro), 14 August 1922, 6.

HIST 402

Topics in History: A Global History of Music

Winter 2023

Winter 2024

A grainy coloured photograph of 1970s cars driving down a newly built highway

HIST 402

Topics in History: 1970s: A Global History

Fall 2023

The Palace of Versailles

HIST 402

Topics in History: A Cultural Encounter with Enlightenment France

Fall 2022

A black and white photograph of two women standing on the rocks at Macdonald Park on the shore of Lake Ontario with Murney Tower in the background.

Archives of Ontario, Two women walking in Macdonald Park, Kingston, 1898-1920

HIST 402

Topics in History: A Global History of Sex Work, 1850-1950

Winter 2024

Black and white image of Mao Zedong meeting with US President Richard Nixon in 1972

China’s paramount leader Mao Zedong meets with US President Richard Nixon, February 21, 1972

HIST 402

Topics in History: China in a Global Perspective: Wars, Famines, and Refugees, 1926-1976

Summer 2022

A black and white photograph of a man and woman overlooking the Chicago World Fair

Chicago World Fair, 1893

HIST 402

Topics in History: Constructing Whiteness: Race-making in 20th c. U.S.

Winter 2023

An animated image of a desk with a light focused on a bulletin board with maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, and fingerprints and red thread connecting these items across the bulletin board.

HIST 402

Topics in History: Crime and Forensics in the Global British Empire

Fall 2023

An image of students in an archives gathered around a map

HIST 402

Topics in History: Hidden Lives in the Archives (Bader College)

Winter 2023

Image of a gun sitting on sand with bullet casings around

HIST 402

Topics in History: Like Common Criminals: Crime in Canada and the United States, 1776-1970

Fall 2022

A drawing on a manuscript showing two figures performing mirror divination

Mirror divination instructions from Solomon’s Magical Treatise

HIST 402

Topics in History: Magic, Popular Religion, and Ritual in Premodern Christianity

Winter 2024

HIST 402

Topics in History: Mapping History: Empires & Indigenous Nations in North America

Fall 2023

A black and white image of a full train with people standing on the roof and hanging off the sides of the cars

HIST 402

Topics in History: Migrants, Emigres, and Exiles: A History of the Refugee

Winter 2024

An image of a crowd standing on the Brandenburg Gate in Germany in 1989

West and East Germans at the Brandenburg Gate, 1989

HIST 402

Topics in History: Modern Germany from Unification to Reunificaiton

Winter 2023

An image of a miniature from a medieval manuscript showing a man and a women laying in the hay together

HIST 402

Topics in History: Sex and Death in the Middle Ages (Bader College)

Summer 2023

An image of a map of Absterdam from 1680

Wit, Frederik de. Exactissima Amstelodami veteris et novissimi delineatio. Absterdam, 1680.

HIST 402

Topics in History: The 'Dutch' Golden Age

Winter 2024

Procedurally-generated 19th-century bookplate representing Montreal in the future

HIST 402

Topics in History: The Future In History

Fall 2023

Image of iconic Harlem Renaissance painting "Blues" by Archibald J. Motley Jr., 1929

Archibald J. Motley Jr., Blues, 1929. Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 inches (91.4 x 106.7 cm). Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne. Image courtesy of the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois. © Valerie Gerrard Browne.

HIST 402

Topics in History: The Harlem Renaissance

Winter 2022

Winter 2023

Winter 2024

A print featuring the lake with large ships facing toward a shore with small settlements at sunset titled "A view of the city of Quebec the capital of Canada" painted by Hervey Smyth in 1763

Smyth, Hervey. "A view of the city of Quebec, the capital of Canada." 1763, National Library and Archives of Quebec, Quebec.

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: Exploring Early North American Communities

Winter 2024

Black and white photographs including: male dancers and a female beauty pageant with the front woman wearing a sash that reads "Miss Sask. Roughriders"

Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: Gender and the Body in Canada

Winter 2023

A painting with a yellow background featuring a brown canoe with 6 human figures and one dog-like figure in the canoe, a bird sitting at the front of the canoe, and two fish below the canoe who appear to be underwater.

Norval Morrisseau, Migration 1973 Acrylic on canvas 90.6 x 126 cm Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: The Geography, History, and Ecology of Anishinaabewaki: Anishinaabeg in the Great Lakes Basin, 1000ce-1867

Summer 2023

U.S. Public Policy and Society since 1945

WPA poster 1935 USA, color photo. PD-USGOV.

HIST 405

U.S. Public Policy and Society since 1945

Fall/Winter 2020/2021

Fall/Winter 2019/2020

Fall/Winter 2021/2022

Fall/Winter 2023/2024

Image of a poster featuring a large hand pointing down from the sky at a group of starving people, with bread, a bowl, and a mug in the foreground

Hunger in Modern European History

HIST 406

Hunger in Modern European History

Winter 2023

Opening session of the Versailles peace conference at the Trianon Palace, January 1919. Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images

HIST 409

Twentieth Century Europe

Winter 2021

Fall 2023

HIST 416

Material History in Canada

Winter 2021

Winter 2022

Fall 2023

A painting of a man in a pink robe standing between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence

Domenico di Michelino, Dante and the Three Kingdoms, 1465, oil on canvas, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

HIST 419

Dante's World: The Italian Renaissance

Fall 2020

Winter 2022

Winter 2023

HIST 426

Public History

Fall 2020

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Winter 2024

HIST 436

Topics in Canadian Legal History

Fall 2020

Fall 2021

Fall 2023

Image of a face on a black background with colourful lights swirling around them

HIST 438

The Historical Imagination

Fall 2019

Winter 2022

Fall 2023

Image of the painting A Meeting of the School Trustees from 1885 by Robert Harris. Depicts a female schoolteacher addressing the seated male trustees.

Robert Harris, A Meeting of the School Trustees (1885), oil on canvas, 102.2 x 126.5 cm, NGC.

HIST 439

Schooling Canadians

Winter 2023

An Image of the painting: An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby

An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768 Joseph Wright of Derby - National Gallery, London

HIST 440

Britain in the Enlightenment Era

Winter 2022

Winter 2024

Line drawing of a medieval Greek Castle: Karitaina

HIST 441

Medieval Greece

Winter 2022

Winter 2024

Painting of an Inka noblewoman of Cuzco, Peru in the 18th century.

HIST 442

New World Societies: Andean Worlds

Fall 2022

HIST 443

The Origins of Crusading and the Creation of the Crusader East: 1095-1150

Fall 2020

Fall 2022

Fall 2023

Image of a shelf full of archival storage boxes

HIST 448

Thinking Inside the Box: Archives, Politics, and the Past

Fall 2019

Fall 2022

Winter 2024

An image of a medieval manuscript graphic featuring people sitting around a table at a feast

HIST 449

Topics in Medieval Mediterranean History: Food in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean

Fall 2023

The Spanish Inquisition, 1450-1800: Sexuality, Sin, and Spiritual Beliefs

1683 painting by Francisco Rizi depicting the auto-da-fé held in Plaza Mayor, Madrid in 1680. Wikimedia Commons.

HIST 455

The Spanish Inquisition, 1450-1800: Sexuality, Sin, and Spiritual Beliefs

Fall/Winter 2020/2021

Fall/Winter 2023/2024

Buenos Aires street view

HIST 461

Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, 1492 to the Present

Fall 2022

Fall 2023

A sepia-toned image of many men protesting crowded together wearing hats

Huelga a favor del abaratamiento de los artículos de consumo, noviembre de 1918. In English: Strike in favour of lowering the prices of consumers´ good, November 1918.

HIST 463

Liberalism, Authoritarianism and Citizenship in Latin America

Fall 2019

Winter 2023

Winter 2024

HIST 466

Radicalism, Revolution, and Religion in Russian History and Literature

Fall 2021

Fall 2023

HIST 471

Power and Knowledge: Foucault for Historians

Summer 2021

Fall 2021

Winter 2023

At the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention in 1970

HIST 473

Black Women in U.S. History

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Fall 2023

HIST 474

History of Gender and Technology

Winter 2021

Fall 2019

Winter 2023

A black and white picture of a group of men in military uniform

The first President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai (front row, third from left), was photographed with foreign dignitaries on October 10, 1913, in Beijing.

HIST 498

China's Revolutions, 1911-1949

Winter 2021

Winter 2024

HIST 499

China Since 1949

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

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