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2024 January Semester
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| HIST 190 - World History to 1550 |
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This course explores the history of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas from human origins to 1550. Although the course is organized chronologically, it does not cover all or even most aspects of World History during this time period. Rather, it focuses on certain themes to consider the development of various civilizations. At the same time, students work on developing their skills as historians by reading, writing and discussing primary and secondary sources through a number of different historical lenses.
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| HIST 191 - World History since 1550 |
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This course examines the history of the world from the mid-sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth. The global movement of people, ideas, and economic practices receives particular attention, as do processes of imperialism and colonialism. Students are also introduced to the discipline of History and to the skills of document analysis, historical writing, and primary source research. Please note: Students must register in lecture and tutorial components separately. Credits: 0.000 OR 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video, Lec/Lab/Tut Combination, Tutorial, World Wide Web All Sections for this Course |
| HIST 205 - Surveys in National History |
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This course examines the political, social, and economic history in one or more specified nations and periods under study. The nation(s) under study vary according to the expertise of the instructor and may include Australian, Japanese, Chinese, or British national history. With permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substanially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam |
| HIST 210 - Canada before Confederation |
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Canada is still profoundly shaped by its history before 1867. This course examines the political, social and economic development of Canada from earliest times.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Lec/Lab/Tut Combination, Laboratory, Tutorial |
| HIST 211 - Canada since Confederation |
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This course examines development of Canada since 1867, with emphasis on social movements, economic development, politics and political protest, and regionalism.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Lec/Lab/Tut Combination, Tutorial |
| HIST 215 - Global History of Indigenous People |
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Our understanding of Indigenous history in one location can be much improved if the topic is studied in broader context. In this course, students study the history of Indigenous peoples in various places around the world.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video, Lec/Lab/Tut Combination, Tutorial |
| HIST 223 - From Colony to Superpower: A History of the United States of America |
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The history of the United States of America has had a tremendous impact on the history of Canada and the world. In this course, students gain a better understanding of the history of Canada’s nearest neighbour from earliest times to the present. Lectures, readings, and assignments explore political, economic, social, cultural, and military themes.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 231 - Medieval Europe |
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This course is an introduction to the cultural, spiritual, social and political life of Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 232 - Early Modern Europe |
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This survey course examines the political, economic, religious, and cultural life of Europe from 1500 -1789.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 233 - Europe since 1789 |
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This course introduces students to the history of Europe from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War. Focusing on various revolutions, industrialization, nationalism, war, and new ideologies, the course charts the shift from largely rural, agrarian societies to industrial ones and from absolutist monarchies and later dictatorships to participatory democracies.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 234 - History of Islamic Civilizations |
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This course explores the history of Islamic civilization from the earliest appearance of Islam until the Mongol invasion in the mid-thirteenth century. We consider the origins and theological development of Islam through a historical lens by examining broad themes such as law, philosophy, and literary movements while also addressing the emergence of dynastic (caliphate) polity. Lectures, readings, and assignments explore cultural, political, and social themes.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 240 - The Global Age of Expansion |
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This course studies the expansion and transformation of states, empires, knowledge, religions, economies, and technology before and during the first wave of globalization. Topics to be considered include: intercultural contact, colonization, and conflict; the unprecedented global mobility of human beings
and other organisms (and its implications); the creation of maritime and land empires such as the Aztec, Ottoman, Spanish, Portuguese, Mughal, and Qing; the rise of global economies and trade; religious expansion and global missions; and the transformation of knowledge and development of science.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Lec/Lab/Tut Combination, Tutorial |
| HIST 241 - The Age of Empire |
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This course surveys the rise and decline of global and continental empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It surveys topics such as colonialism, industrialization, commodities, war, science, race, and sexuality. Focusing on cases such as the British, French, Japanese, German, American, Russian, or Ottoman Empires, it explores how peoples in imperial centres sought to create and maintain their supremacy in a hierarchal world order and the various strategies used by people around the world to resist and modify those ambitions.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 256 - Introduction to Crime and History |
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This course introduces students to the historic context and debate over questions of crime, punishment, and reformation. The specific emphasis depends on the instructor's expertise and the course may include examinations of police history, captial punishment, the creation of penitentiaries, or the modern phenomenon of serial murder. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 257 - Public Law in Canada |
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Public law includes the areas of law regulating the internal operations of governments and state agencies, the interactions among orders or levels of government and the interactions between state and non-state actors. Subjects covered in this course include constitutional law, administrative law, human rights law and criminal law and procedures.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 258 - Private Law in Canada |
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Private law refers in general to the areas of law that regulate the interactions among non-state actors including citizens, corporations and non-state agencies. The course covers such areas as property law, torts, contracts, family law and commercial law in Canada.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 280 - Colonial Latin America |
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This course is an introduction to the history of Latin America from the fifteenth century to the early nineteenth century. Topics to be discussed include Amerindian politics and empires on the eve of contact with Europe; contact, conquest, and colonization; conversion and religious adaptation; colonial imperial administration; Latin American economy in the world system; cultural conflict, resistance, and hybridization among European, African, and Aboriginal peoples; and the gradual emergence of distinctly Latin American identities.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 281 - Republican Latin America |
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This course is an introduction to the history of modern Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Topics discussed include the Wars of Independence; personalist rule and institutional instability in the first half of the nineteenth century; class, race, gender, and Latin American identity; neocolonialism and the reintegration of Latin America into the global economy; modernity and Latin American nationalism; socialist revolution and conservative dictatorship; and neoliberalism and its discontents at the end of the twentieth century.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 300 - Historiography: The Nature of the Historical Discipline |
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Taken in the first semester of the third year of study, this course examines the nature of history as a discipline of study and how historians approach their craft.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video, World Wide Web |
| HIST 301 - The Canadian North |
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This course studies the history of the provincial and territorial Canadian North with emphasis on the pre-contact period, Native-white relations, and the impacts of government on the region.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 302 - The Prairie West |
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This course considers the history of the three prairie provinces from the coming of Europeans to the present with emphasis on Native peoples, the fur trade, the development of society and the economy, political protest and regional alienation.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video, Tutorial |
| HIST 303 - British Columbia |
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This course examines the history of the province from the coming of the Europeans to the present, with emphasis on Native cultures, the fur trade, colonization, the development of institutions, society and the economy, as well as the growing sense of regional identity.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 309 - Women in Canada |
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This course explores the constructions of Canadian womanhood and experiences of Canadian women from early contact to the present. Themes include First Nations women, women in colonial society, women and work, women and reform, women and the state, lesbian women, and feminism.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 311 - History of Feminism |
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This course surveys the history of those various political, social and cultural movements (suffragism, women's liberation, etc.) that have combined to create the phenomenon of feminism. Attention is also devoted to the diverse theories, ideas and values that underpin contemporary feminism.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video, World Wide Web |
| HIST 312 - An Introduction to the History of Gender |
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This course explores issues of gender in historical context using a case study approach.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 331 - Lectures in Military History |
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This course examines military history in one or more specified nations and/or periods. The topics under study vary according to the expertise of the instructor and may include: the origins and causes of war; the impact of new technologies on tactics and strategy; military and naval innovation and resistance to innovation; the changing relationship of offense and defense; the concept of mass war; and the relationship of military institutions to society. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 TO 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam |
| HIST 332 - Lectures in Social History |
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This course examines the social history in relation to regional, national, or international contexts through time in one or more specified nations and/or periods. The topics under study vary according to the expertise of the instructor and may include major social changes, the social origins of major historical events, or the history of particular social movements. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 TO 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, World Wide Web |
| HIST 333 - Lectures in Cultural History |
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This course examines cultural history in one or more specified nations and/or periods. The topics under study vary according to the expertise of the instructor and may include surveys in cultural events such as the Renaissance or Modernism or examination of how events such as war, economic crisis, technological change, or changing notions of gender or race have shaped culture through time or within specific periods or regions. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 TO 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam |
| HIST 334 - Lectures in Legal History |
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Legal history studies the development of law and its interactions with state, society, and culture. This course examines legal history in a variety of contexts and historical periods.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 335 - Global History of Public Health |
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This course explores the history of public health in a global context from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It examines how health has played an integral role in the creation of nation-states, debates about morality and reproduction, and ideas about race. It also provides students with new perspectives on global history and the connections that transcended the boundaries of individual countries.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Seminar |
| HIST 360 - An Introduction to Environmental History |
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Environmental history examines changing relationships between humans and the environment, including how human societies have been shaped by the environment, how environments have influenced human societies, and how humans have thought about the environment. This introduction to the field includes a global perspective but emphasizes North America, particularly Canada.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 365 - Medieval Spain |
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As an overview of Iberian history from the fifth to the early sixteenth centuries, this course emphasizes the interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews, as well as the cultural and political distinctiveness of Castile and the Crown of Aragon during the medieval period.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 390 - History of Indigenous People of Canada |
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Lectures and readings examine the history of Indigenous people in Canada since the earliest times.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video, Tutorial, World Wide Web |
| HIST 407 - Topics in Local History/Methodology |
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This course examines the craft of history by focusing on the history of localities in northern British Columbia. Students are expected to conduct their own research using primary sources. With permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the materials are substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video, Field Camp, World Wide Web |
| HIST 421 - Topics in Environmental History |
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This course explores aspects of environmental history in a variety of geographic settings in various historical periods; the precise content of the course varies from year to year depending on the expertise of the instructor. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 425 - Indigenous Oral History |
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This course examines the foundations of oral traditions and oral history methods within academic research. It provides students with an understanding of the importance of oral research methods and an opportunity to expand and enhance this understanding through presentations by Indigenous knowledge holders, readings, assignments, online and material resources, and class discussion. This course incorporates Indigenous perspectives to examine Indigenous worlds through the lens of storytelling methods and collective narrative memory.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 440 - Internship in History |
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This is an academic course delivered in relevant workplaces (museums, archives, etc.). Students are supervised in a manner that enables them to integrate their academic skills with practical application. This course may be repeated once for a total of 6 credit hours.
Credits: 3.000 TO 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Internship |
| HIST 453 - Topics in the History of Gender |
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This course studies the gendered experience of men and women in various contexts. With permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 454 - Topics in Women's History |
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This course examines the diversity of women's experience in various contexts. With permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, World Wide Web |
| HIST 456 - Topics in Cultural Encounters |
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Students examine cross-cultural relations in different parts of the world. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 458 - Topics in Law, Order & Society |
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This course explores the historical interrelationships of law, authority, and social ordering in several geographic contexts. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 492 - Topics in Cultural History |
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This course examines various themes in the history of culture. Topics might include major developments in the history of culture such as the Renaissance or Modernism and the ways in which major historical events such as the Reformation or the First World War have reshaped culture might be examined; or particular cultural movements such as classicism of 1960s counter-culture. With permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam |
| HIST 493 - Topics in Social History |
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This course examines various themes in social history. Topics might include major social changes such as the industrial revolution or Canadian urbanization and the social origins of major historical events such as the Reformation or the Russian Revolution or particular social movements such as socialism or utopianism. With permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Field Camp, World Wide Web |
| HIST 494 - Topics in Aboriginal History |
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In seminars and intensive primary and secondary research, students examine particular aspects of aboriginal history in Canada. With permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video, Seminar |
| HIST 498 - Topics in International History |
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Students examine particular aspects of international history as selected by the instructor. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 499 - Independent Study |
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Offered by special arrangement between student and instructor, this course enables students to read in depth in an area of history not normally covered in established courses. With the permission of the Chair, this course may be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours if the material is substantially different.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed |
| HIST 500 - Honours Historiography: Contemporary Theories & Methods |
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This course traces the development of modern historical thought.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
| HIST 501 - Honours Directed Readings |
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A course of specialized readings developed in consultation with, and supervised by, a faculty member in the History Program.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Undergrad Thesis |
| HIST 505 - Honours Thesis |
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The Honours Thesis consists of a specialized research project developed in consultation with, and supervised by, a faculty member in the History Program. Credit is based on the presentation of research results in a formal paper of 7,500 to 10,000 words, and defended in an oral examination (the examining committee to consist of the supervisor and a minimum of three additional History Faculty members).
Credits: 0.000 OR 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Undergrad Thesis |
| HIST 545 - Historical Methods and Approaches |
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Historical methods and research techniques are examined in this seminar. Students learn about research design and prepare thesis proposals.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 700 - Seminar in Historical Methodology and Research |
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This course traces the development of modern historical thought.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
| HIST 701 - Themes in the History of Gender |
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The course explores aspects of the history of gender, drawing on the literature of women and men in various parts of the world.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed |
| HIST 702 - Themes in Indigenous History |
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This course examines the history of indigenous people and their relations with non-indigenous people, drawing on the literature of a number of countries.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| HIST 704 - Themes in Environmental History |
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This course explores aspects of environmental history, drawing on the literature from a number of countries.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Audio/Video |
| HIST 705 - Themes in the History of International Relations |
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Aspects of the history of the relations between nations drawing on the literature from a number of countries.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| HIST 707 - Themes in Cultural History |
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This course explores themes in the history of culture and draws upon relevant literature from various countries or eras.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Final Exam, Seminar |
| HIST 708 - Themes in Social History |
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This course explores themes in social history and draws upon relevant literature from various countries or eras.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Self-Directed, Final Exam, Field Camp, Seminar, World Wide Web |
| HIST 745 - Historical Methods and Approaches |
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Historical methods and research techniques are examined in this seminar; students also learn about research design and prepare thesis proposals. This is a PASS/FAIL course.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Self-Directed, Seminar |
| HIST 750 - MA Thesis or Project |
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Working under the guidance of a supervisor, each student must plan a study requiring original research and sophisticated analysis in order to produce and defend either (a) a substantial thesis or project of approximately 25,000 to 30,000 words (85-100 pages) or (b) an original project of comparable weight to a thesis. Projects may include knowledge transmission, museum exhibits, documentary films, creative writing, digital history initiatives, and/or artistic projects based on substantial historical research. This is a PASS/FAIL course.
Credits: 15.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Masters Thesis |
| HIST 760 - History Master’s Major Research Paper |
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Students complete a scholarly paper of approximately 9,000 to 11,000 words (30-36 pages), based on original research and defending an original argument, and modelled on an article-length manuscript prepared for submission to a peer-reviewed historical journal. Students prepare an oral presentation of about twenty minutes based on that scholarly paper, and modelled on a presentation at a scholarly conference. This is a PASS/FAIL course.
Credits: 12.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar |
| HIST 799 - Independent Study |
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The details of this course will be determined on a case-by-case basis between faculty and graduate students.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Self-Directed |
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