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HISTORY Courses 400 Cont'd

HIST 452 TOPICS IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICA *3 (0-3S-0)

A1 Slavery & Emancipation in the US.
This course covers the history of slavery from the colonial era through the Civil War. Reading materials in this course include primary documents and recent scholarly texts. We will examine the establishment of African slavery in North America and analyze the development of plantation slavery. The class will study the experiences of enslaved Americans from the colonial period through emancipation, covering a variety of topics, including slave revolts and escape attempts, the domestic slave trade, family life, the abolition movement, and the wartime destruction of slavery. Taught in conjunction with HIST 655 B1.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 67343 SEM B1 T 1300 - 1550 T 2 32 Sharon Romeo

 

HIST 453 TOPICS IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA *3 (0-3S-0)

A1 Drugs, Sex, and Rock 'n' Roll: North America in the 1960s.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 48423 SEM A1 W 0930 - 1220 T B 104 Larry Aronsen

 

B1 The Atomic Age in America: Politics, Culture, and the Cold War.
The United States emerged from World War II as a “superpower” on the world stage and quickly entered into a long struggle to protect global democracy from the perceived threat of the Soviet Union’s communist regime.  The period from the end of WWII to the early 1990s, however, was much more than an ongoing battle for supremacy between two nations.  This course examines the interconnectedness of politics and culture focusing on the relationship between the “cold” war that the United States’ waged against an external enemy and the experience Americans at home.  A few of the major issues we will explore include the role of ideology, anxiety, and fear in American society; the contradiction between the fight for democracy abroad and conformity and censorship at home; and the role of the American family in a national security state.  Our aim will be to understand how the Cold War influenced American society, but also to determine what—beyond national defense measures and the actions of the government and military—constituted the Cold War.  As a seminar, this course will focus on a range of historical sources as the basis of discussion.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 68427 SEM B1 T 0900 - 1150 T 2 44 Katherine Zwicker

 

HIST 454 TOPICS IN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY *3 (0-3S-0)

A1

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 CANCELLED SEM A1 R 0930 - 1220    

 

HIST 460 TOPICS IN CANADIAN HISTORY *3 (0-3S-0)

A1 Contesting Canadian History.
This course considers some of the more important historical debates about issues in Canadian history. Topics include the pre-contact period, New France, British North America, the Confederation period, the process of industrialization, the Great War, the 1920s, the Depression, World War II, and the post-war years.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 41706 SEM A1 T 0900 - 1150 T 2 39 Eric Strikwerda

 

B1 Health. Science, and Environments in Canadian History.
This course examines the intertwined histories of health and environments in the Canadian context. Drawing on international theoretical literature and case studies from Canada’s past, the course will begin with the role disease played in European colonization and move from there to examine illness and wellbeing in colonial, industrial, and urban settings. Students will also be asked to focus in on particular themes, such as the significance of race and gender, health policy, Aboriginal health, the wilderness cure, occupational disease, and the place of diet and nutrition. Students will be required to write a major research paper and participate in weekly seminar discussions. Taught in conjunction with HIST 699 B2.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 57796 SEM B1 M 1300 - 1550 T 2 39 Liza Piper

 

HIST 470 TOPICS IN CANADIAN SOCIAL HISTORY *3 (0-3S-0)

A1 History of Canadian Sport
The study of the history of sport has emerged in the last two decades from the intersection of the “new social history” and the study of popular culture. This research seminar will make connections between the history of sports and the larger story of Canadian culture and society by examining the rapidly growing body of literature relating to sport. It will focus especially on the importance of sport in the construction of identities. This course includes an optional community service-learning CSL component. Students who choose the CSL component will be required to volunteer 20 hours with a non-profit organization relevant to the course. Taught in conjunction with HIST 676 B1.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 67348 SEM B1 W 1300 - 1550 T 2 39 David Mills

 

HIST 474 TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF FRENCH CANADA *3 (0-3S-0)

B1 Quebec Historians and Nationalism from WW1 to the First Referendum.
This seminar course will include an examination of Quebec historians who cover the 20th century and will also focus on Quebec nationalism from WW1 to the first referendum. Students will be responsible for leading discussions on specific topics and will be expected to participate in each seminar.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 47999 SEM A1 R 0930 - 1220 T 2 44 Linda Kerr

 

HIST 481 TOPICS IN CHINESE HISTORY *3 (0-3S-0)

B1 Women in Traditional and Late Imperial China.
We examine current literature on the historiography and visual images of women, marriage and rituals, gender relations, women and work, and women and modernity in the Chinese cultural context.  The focus of the course is on women in the traditional and late imperial periods, but there will be opportunities to draw parallels with contemporary China. The main text for the course is:  Ebrey, Patricia Buckley.  The Inner Quarters:  Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1993.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 67350 SEM B1 W 1300 - 1550 T 2 44 Jennifer Jay

 

HIST 489 CONFERENCE SEMINAR *1 (0-1S-0)
A series of Undergraduate Research Proseminars will be offered each term for History and Classics Majors and Honours students only, under the heading HIST 489. Each one will be worth one credit (*1) and you can take as many of them as you like. You can, for example, accumulate *3 in HIST 489s, and that will count towards your History or B.A. program (though not as a fourth-year seminar). The instructors offering these courses are volunteering their time to provide our Majors and Honours students with a small group experience, focussing on some aspect of their own research as a window into what it means to do scholarly research in our areas, and as an opportunity to teach some of the skills needed for active research. Students will normally need a B+ average to be admitted. Admission is closed on Bear Tracks; you must pick up a form from the main office of History and Classics and receive permission from the appropriate faculty member to register, indicated by her or his signature. You will be able to do this later in August and in early September. Each seminar group will meet for an hour each week (normally), at a time to be determined by the instructor.

A1 Secularism and Secularization: From Christendom to Christianoform and Christianonormative Societies (Antiquity to the Present). 

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 47160 LEC A1 W 1630 - 1720 HC 3 57 Andrew Gow

 

HIST 490 TOPICS IN BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY *3 (0-3S-0)

B1 Exploration and Colonisation of Australia.
The early history of Australia is a fascinating case-study in the relationship between exploration and empire. Captain Cook sailed to the Pacific in the name of science, but carried with him secret instructions to proclaim British sovereignty over any new lands he might find. Australia’s ancient aboriginal cultures were confronted by convicts, traders and settlers in a process of colonisation which (some argue) continues to this day. We will explore the many aspects of this process using primary source materials wherever possible, covering the period from Cook’s discoveries to the early twentieth century. Taught in conjunction with HIST 646 B2.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 68358 SEM B1 M 1000 - 1250 T 2 39 Jane Samson

 

HIST 493 WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE MODERN WORLD *3 (0-3S-0)

A1

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 CANCELLED SEM A1 W 1300 - 1550    

A2 The Historical Controversy Over the Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 48478 SEM A2 W 1300 - 1550 T 2 39 Scot Robertson

B1 The Historical Controversy Over the Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb
This course will explore the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It will consider this in light of the following:  the nature of the war in the Pacific, the planning for the final invasion of Japan (Operation DOWNFALL) and the decision-making process that led to the use of the atom bombs.  It will then turn to an exploration of the way that the decision has been interpreted over time.  Finally it will explore the controversy that surrounded the effort to commemorate the event at the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) on the 50th anniversary.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 60880 SEM B1 W 1300 - 1550 T 2 79 Scot Robertson

 

HIST 494 TOPICS IN COMPARATIVE HISTORY *3 (0-3s-0)

A1 Topic to be announced. Taught in conjunction with HIST 692 A1.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 48000 SEM A1 F 0900 - 1150 T 2 39 Michael Polushin

 

HIST 496 TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE *3 (0-3S-0)
Prerequisite: Any one of HIST 294, 396, 397, 398, 399, or consent of Department.

A1 Big Money, Big Technologies and Big Science.
The focus of this course will be the history of large-scale scientific and technological enterprises in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These enterprises will include: government sponsored expeditions of discovery, the development of large electrical power networks, the building of the atomic bomb, and such contemporary `megaprojects' as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Human Genome Project, and the International Space Station. 

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
F11 47531 SEM X01 T 1800 - 2100 T 2 44 Robert Smith

 

HIST 497 HISTORY OF WOMEN AND HEALTH *3 (0-3S-0)
This seminar examines the multi-cultural history of women as health practitioners, patients, and health activists in North America. Not open to students who have successfully completed WST 497.

B1

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 CANCELLED SEM B1 R 0930 - 1220    

 

HIST 498 SPECIAL TOPICS *3 (0-3S-0)

B5 The History of Sustainability.
Sustainability is a concept with a wide range of definitions and associations. In many ways, sustainability has come to replace democracy, social justice, and environmentalism as the main prism through which to view social, political, economic, and environmental issues. This 400-level seminar is meant to introduce advanced undergraduates to the recent history of and contemporary debates surrounding the multifaceted concept of sustainability. Some of the questions we will investigate include the following: What are the philosophical roots of sustainability? How does sustainability challenge current social practices? Is ?sustainable development‘ an oxymoron? What would a sustainable society look like? What are the challenges and barriers that hinder sustainability? However, this course will move beyond the realm of theory and ideas and analyze sustainability as it exists in practice. Integral to this course will be a series of films and guest speakers that will offer a unique glimpse at measures taken by individuals, governments, companies, and non-profit organizations to create a sustainable society. Of equal importance is the community service learning component of the class, which will require students to volunteer in local sustainability initiatives. History 498 Sem B5 includes an optional community service-learning component. Students who choose the CSL component will be required to volunteer 20 hours with a non-profit organization relevant to the course.

Term Class Section Days Time Location Instructor
W12 CANCELLED SEM B4 R 1100 - 1350    
W12 68783 SEM B5 TR 1100 - 1220 T 2 32 Jeremy Caradonna