Undergraduate

Please note that course offerings for the 2024-2025 academic year are tentative and course offerings change each year.

If you need assistance enrolling in your History classes or reviewing your History requirements, please contact Angela at hist.undergrad@queensu.ca.

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HIST 339

Jews Without Judaism

Winter 2021

Winter 2022

Fall 2022

Fall 2023

Fall 2024

Fall 2025

An image of a group of men holding guns on an old truck riding through a city square

HIST 351

War, Reform, and Revolution in Russian History

Fall 2024

HIST 352

Revolutions and Civil Wars in Twentieth-Century Latin America

Fall 2020

Fall 2019

Fall 2024

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

Fall 2025

HIST 365

History Outside the Book

Fall 2019

Winter 2023

Fall 2024

A painting from the Marine intervention in North Africa (at Derna) in 1805

A painting depicting the Marine intervention in North Africa (at Derna) in 1805

HIST 402

The United States and the Middle East (1804-2001)

Fall 2024

Fall 2025

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HIST 402

Topics in History: 1970s: A Global History

Fall 2023

Winter 2025

HIST 402

Topics in History: Britain in the Long 19th Century, 1780-1914

Fall 2025

HIST 402

Topics in History: British in North America, 1700-1840

Fall 2025

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HIST 402

Topics in History: Cancer Archives: How Disease Makes History

Winter 2025

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HIST 402

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

Fall 2023

Fall 2024

Fall 2025

An old black and white photograph of a railroad being built

The construction of the western portion of the Amur line of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1908-13. Title: Ukri︠e︡plenie gri︠a︡znoĭ vyemki. Versta 35-i︠a︡ Other Title: 35-я Translated Title: Stabilization of a Muddy Railcut. Verst 35 Part of: Amur Railroad Album (327) Created / Published: Moscow, Russia, 1908-1913. Obtained from: Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/2018682676/

HIST 402

Topics in History: Environment, Infrastructure, and Modern States

Winter 2025

A manuscript page featuring a sleeping shepherd and a wolves approaching the flock of sheep

: Wolves threaten a flock of sheep while their shepherd sleeps, Aberdeen Bestiary c. 1200. Aberdeen University Library MS 24 f. 16v.

HIST 402

Topics in History: Medieval Environmental History

Winter 2025

Winter 2026

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HIST 402

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

Winter 2024

Fall 2024

HIST 402

Topics in History: Old Regime France

Winter 2026

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HIST 402

Topics in History: Religious Minorities in Medieval-Early Modern Christendom

Winter 2025

HIST 402

Topics in History: Sexualities: A Global History

Winter 2026

HIST 402

Topics in History: Sweatshops, Borscht, Hasidic Pop: A Cultural History of Yiddish New York

Winter 2026

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Pieter Isaacsz, The Women of Rome Gathering at the Capitol, 1600–1602. Oil paint on copper. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.

HIST 402

Topics in History: Women in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1700

Winter 2025

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HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: Culture Decades: Canada, 1945 to the Present

Winter 2025

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: History and Canadian Heritage

Fall 2025

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"Monument to Multiculturalism" by Franceso Perilli, 65 Front Street West, Toronto

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: History of Canadian Multiculturalism

Fall 2024

Fall 2025

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: Metis Histories

Fall 2025

HIST 403

Topics in History: 19th Century British History in Objects

Winter 2026

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Disco, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England 1978 (Photograph by Chris Steele-Perkins)

HIST 403

Topics in History: Black Atlantic Exchanges

Winter 2025

HIST 403

Topics in History: Premodern Minorities

Fall 2025

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

Fall/Winter 2024/2025

Fall/Winter 2025/2026

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Hunger in Modern European History

HIST 406

The History of Hunger in Modern Europe

Winter 2023

Fall 2024

Winter 2026

HIST 408

The Future in History

Winter 2026

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

Fall 2024

Fall 2025

HIST 414

History in the World: Theory, Practice, Controversy

Fall 2025

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HIST 415

Post-colonial Theory and French Canada

Winter 2025

HIST 416

Material History in Canada

Winter 2021

Winter 2022

Fall 2023

Fall 2025

HIST 426

Public History

Fall 2020

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Winter 2024

Fall 2024

HIST 436

Topics in Canadian Legal History

Fall 2020

Fall 2021

Fall 2023

Winter 2026

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HIST 438

The Historical Imagination

Fall 2019

Winter 2022

Fall 2023

Fall 2024

Fall 2025

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

Winter 2025

Ink and watercolour artwork of men in 17th century dress wearing waistcoats, long stockings, and hats, talking to each other animatedly

The Coffee-House by Hubert-Francois Gravelot from the Tate Britain

HIST 440

Britain in the Enlightenment Era

Winter 2022

Winter 2024

Winter 2025

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

HIST 442

New World Societies: Andean Worlds

Fall 2022

Winter 2025

HIST 444

Themes in Crusade History

Winter 2021

Winter 2022

Winter 2025

Winter 2026

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HIST 448

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

Fall 2019

Fall 2022

Winter 2024

Fall 2024

HIST 452

African Decolonization and In-Dependence

Winter 2022

Fall 2024

Fall 2025

A painting showing silhouettes of black people in chains walking out to sea where there are large ships coming to shore

Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Into Bondage, 1936, American. Oil on canvas. 153.4 × 153.7 cm. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html)

HIST 454

Thinking While Black: Black Intellectual History

Fall 2023

Fall 2024

Buenos Aires street view

HIST 461

Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, 1492 to the Present

Fall 2022

Fall 2023

Fall 2024

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 472