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.

Explores the theory and practice of slavery in Greek and Roman antiquity, from the Bronze Age until the later Roman empire.

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.

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.

Explores aspects of the so-called expansion of the role of the state in Canada at all levels following the Second World War, and since the 1980s, its supposed contraction.

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 history of aboriginal peoples before 1900 in areas that became the United States and Canada. The course will consider pre-contact communities, European contact, colonization and responses to it.

This course examines the relationship between war, peace, and culture in Europe during the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the two world wars and the period between 1920 and 1970.

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.

The Graduate Seminar in Jewish Studies introduces students to graduate level Jewish studies. The seminar meets for a total of 36 hours over two terms. Students explore the complexity of the question, 'What is Jewish studies?' focusing on the historical development and contemporary dimensions of the field through an interdisciplinary, integrating perspective. Students will have the opportunity to meet faculty members engaged in different areas of Jewish studies research and to work on their own research paper.

This course will examine the historical experiences of people with disabilities from medieval European history to twentieth century North American society. Topics to be examined include: pre-industrial interpretations of physical and mental disability; the impact of the industrial revolution on disability as a social category and lived experience; segregation, trans-institutionalization and community living; rehabilitation programs and their critics in the twentieth century; diversity, discrimination and activism within the disability community; the modern development of critical literature on the history of people with disabilities.

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.

This course examines the relationships between people and their environments from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It considers the global ecological consequences of industrialization and the growing human footprint on Earth from a historical perspective, drawing from the field of environmental history.

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.

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.

Examines transnational historical processes and events, focusing on temporal and geographic scales outside of traditional national histories, and on linking the local and the global. It considers how global forces affect societies, and problematizes core historical assumptions.

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 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.

An examination of the different ways in which epidemics are defined, deployed, promoted or criticized as objects of scientific knowledge. A diverse set of examples illustrates the various ways in which epidemics serve to reconfigure biomedical knowledge.

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.

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.