Courses

As an introduction to graduate studies, the course uses a select list of 'great books' about diverse times and places in order to discover and describe what good historians do as they research and write. The course focuses on students' cultivating skills, including reading strategically, deriving synopses, approaching primary sources, and writing proposals for research projects.

The historical profession is changing. Historians today must be prepared to adopt new forms of scholarship and public engagement, both within and beyond the academy. Blending experiential learning with a rigorous exploration of the many uses of a graduate degree in History, both historically and in the present, this course introduces students to the diversity of careers historians pursue today.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

Examines the development of the modern state in Canada from 1900 down to the rise of the welfare state in the Second World War and immediate post-war periods. We will examine the different theoretical perspectives that inform how historians write the history of state formation in Canada, including regulationist, Marxist, feminist and foucauldian approaches to power and the process of state formation. Students will examine the multiple ways in which the powers of state have been exercised through economic and social policies and practices of regulation.

This course examines the experiences, identities, institutions, and politics of Black Canadians from the late 18th through to the 21st centuries. The course builds on recent historical scholarship which explores the processes whereby Black communities were formed across the territory now called Canada; how racialized identities intersected with gender, language and ethnicity to shape Black Canadians' experiences with work, family and cultural expression; the legal regimes which perpetuated racism and discrimination against people of African descent; and the forms of collective action and cultural expressions Black Canadians produced over time. Weekly seminar discussions will consider how Black Canadian history articulates with global trends in Black histories.

This course addresses the challenges and benefits of European integration from the perspective of different member states and actors. As such, it offers an interdisciplinary look at the European Union, its historical evolution and the crisis that challenge its continuation. Topics may include for example, the financial crisis, refugee crisis, Brexit, the right of the right and foreign policy challenges. Through the investigation of these social, economic, and political crisis we will question who the key actors in the EU policy making are and analyse who benefits from the process of integration in Europe.

This course offers a historical examination of the multiple, overlapping processes through which Asian identities and regions were constituted. It will also examine new directions in Asian studies in an era of intensified global flows, transnationalism, and the presence of Asian diaspora in Canada and elsewhere.

A social and cultural history of immigrants in North America from the origins of mass migration to the present. Beginning with a critical examination of the historiography of North American immigrant and ethnic studies, it assesses the immigrant experience through a variety of themes. The social dimensions are explored through such topics as the causes and strategies of migration, social segregation and stratification, race and gender. The cultural aspects deal with questions of identity, cultural retention and accommodation, xenophobia, multiculturalism, and multiracialism. Attention will also be given to immigration and refugee policies, responses to such policies, as well as their effectiveness in regulating the economic, social, and cultural life of North America.

Examines the relationships between people and their environments from the 1400s to the increase in industrialization in the nineteenth century. It considers the environmental consequences of European expansion overseas by examining the world- wide exchanges of species (plants, animals, pathogens) and the human responses to those movements.

Working women across diverse industrial contexts have often been depicted through universalizing tropes. However, the forms and conditions of their labour, and the ways in which they entered and negotiated waged work varied according to local conditions. Examining women's work in diverse locations, this course considers how a region's specific histories shaped women's paid and unpaid labour.

Women's History. An overview of women's history with particular attention given to Canadian women's history and the emergence of feminist movements. Course includes a discussion of feminist historiography, and the use of archival materials.

This course explores the fundamentals of queer and trans theory through the historiography of sexualities and gender identities around the world since 1500. It examines how people imagined, experienced and regulated embodiment, desire, family, pleasure, danger, and community in diverse times and places. The course's comparative approach allows students to investigate the eras and locations that interest them most.

This course explores critical debates and interdisciplinary research methods employed in the study of material objects. It draws on case studies and theoretical work on material culture, display, and representation to consider the influence of the 'material turn' on contemporary scholarship and on historical and curatorial practices.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

Supervised reading for individual students or small groups, the separate sections of the course being devoted to the several fields of study and examination.

This course deals with important problems in Canadian history, and it emphasizes the critical examination of the historical literature concerned with those problems. The topics normally included are the interpretation of Canadian history, the foundation and development of New France and British North America prior to Confederation, the nature of Canadian nationalism, regionalism and continentalism, political parties and the political process, the political economy of Canada, external relations, French-Canadian society, and French-English relations. When appropriate, attention is paid to relevant literature in other disciplines. Normally open only to Ph.D. Candidates. Open to M.A. Candidates in exceptional circumstances and with the permission of the Director.