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 Alex at hist.undergrad@queensu.ca.

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Image of an etching titled "Calechut Celeberri Mum India Emporium" depicting an Indian trading port.

HIST 200

India and the World

Fall 2020

Fall 2019

Summer 2022

Summer 2024

An image of a travel poster that reads "Welcome to Canada" and shows people of different ethnicities, races, and ages, with Justin Trudeau in a black suit in the centre

Welcome to Canada, Illustration by Jacqui Oakley

HIST 202

Migration and Multiculturalism in Canada

Winter 2024

Winter 2025

Image of a photo of a crowded beach on Coney Island around the turn of the century.

HIST 206

The United States in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1868‐1920

Fall 2020

Fall 2024

HIST 207

Global Indigenous Histories

Winter 2021

Winter 2023

Winter 2024

Winter 2025

Image of a Canadian WWI poster promoting the purchase of victory bonds

HIST 210

The History of Sexuality in Canada

Winter 2023

Winter 2025

HIST 211

The Cold War

Fall 2020

Fall 2021

Fall 2023

Fall 2024

Image of a store shelves featuring assorted foods that originate from around the world, including avocados, coconuts, beer, olive oil, quinoa, coffee.

HIST 214

Food in Global History

Winter 2021

Summer 2019

Winter 2022

Winter 2023

Winter 2024

Image of a mosaic showing gladiators fighting

HIST 215

Sport, Virtue, and the Spectacle of Violence from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Winter 2022

Winter 2024

HIST 216

U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

Fall 2019

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Image of a sketch of an Indigenous person making a trade with a French colonist

HIST 217

Indigenous Peoples and New France, 1534-1800

Winter 2021

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Fall 2024

HIST 218

Byzantium

Fall 2019

Fall 2021

Winter 2024

Winter 2025

Rows of t-shirts with Canadian symbols on sale at a gift shop

HIST 219

Canada: The History of an Idea

Fall 2019

Winter 2022

Winter 2024

HIST 220

Jews on Film

Fall 2020

Fall 2021

Winter 2023

Winter 2024

Winter 2025

Image of the title: Death by Murder, Poisons and Toxins in Global History, with small bottles featuring the skull and cross bones symbol for poison

HIST 223

Poison and Prejudice: Toxins in Global History

Winter 2022

Winter 2023

Fall 2024

An image of a stone carving of a woman with a hook attached

Steelyard Weight with a Bust of a Byzantine Empress and a Hook, 400-450 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

HIST 225

Global History of Pandemics

Winter 2021

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Winter 2024

A painting of the Reichstag building in Germany on fire with military tanks and soldiers

HIST 231

World War II

Winter 2023

Winter 2024

Winter 2025

An aerial image of Kingston Penitentiary where you can see the stone entryway, two central "t" shaped buildings, and a number of various outbuildings with a parking lot on the left

HIST 241

Issues in History: From Confinement to Cultural Heritage: Digital Preservation and the History of Kingston Penitentiary

Summer 2023

Image of doctors examining a heart with cadavers with open cavities

HIST 241

Issues in History: History of Modern Medicine

Winter 2024

Fall 2024

A black and white photograph of protestors holding signs that read "Russian Justice is unbearable" and "let my people go"

HIST 241

Issues in History: Jewish Political History

Fall 2023

An image of Princess Street in Kingston from the early 1900s

HIST 241

Issues in History: Kingston: A Cultural History

Fall 2023

Fall 2024

A medieval manuscript image featuring a flood and people scrambling for safety

HIST 241

Issues in History: Medieval Britain: Conquest, Climate Change & Catastrophe c. 1000-1400 (Bader College)

Winter 2023

An image of a modern day festival featuring a man dressed as a medieval knight

HIST 241

Issues in History: Medieval Europe - Castles, Kingdoms, and Religious Conflict (Bader College)

Fall 2022

An image of a coloured etching of Napoleon standing, holding a protocol up to show the Jews reaching toward him at his feet, with a menorah in the foreground.

Detail from Louis-Francious Couche, Napoleon le Grand rétablit le culte des Israelites, le 30 Mai 1806, published Paris, Ternisien d'Haudricourt, 1806. Collection Neher-Bernheim, etching and engraving.

HIST 241

Topics in History: Modern Jewish History

Winter 2023

Image of a painting of an elderly crusader on horseback

HIST 243

The Crusades

Fall 2020

Fall 2022

HIST 245

Imperial Russia

Fall 2020

Fall 2019

Winter 2023

Image of a Soviet propaganda poster of a woman holding a Soviet flag

HIST 246

The Soviet Experiment

Winter 2021

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Fall 2023

Winter 2025

An image of a medieval manuscript with the title "Piers the Plowman" written across the top, and a historiated initial on the letter P on the left of the page featuring a man sleeping with his head on his hand wearing a red robe

MS CCC 201 f.1 Page of text with historiated initial depicting the dreamer, from 'Piers Plowman' by William Langland (vellum). Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK.

HIST 251