This course introduces a selection of the most important moments, events, or transformations in human history. The course, shepherded and managed by a Course Director who will oversee the curriculum, assignments and tutorials to ensure coherence and continuity, features guest faculty members from the History department, each of whom delivers a 3-week module on a […]
This course uses a diverse range of materials and approaches to examine the development of the modern European city in the contemporary world. It uses cultural sources such as film, photography, literature and music to see how the experience of the modern European city has been represented from the nineteenth century to the present day. […]
This course studies the history of Indigenous people in North America from “time immemorial” to the regular settlement of Europeans in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Using a wide variety of sources it ranges from Meso-America to the High Arctic, and examines theories of the peopling of the continent; hunting, fishing and gathering; and […]
Explores the ways in which large historical forces in the recent past, such as industrialization, urbanization and the growth of the state, have affected family, community, work and leisure and ways in which people have responded, embracing, adapting to or resisting change. Course credit exclusions: None. Prior TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 1050 […]
This course focuses on the development of urban black communities in the northern US in relation to the immense changes that took place from 1830 to 1940, especially the complex reasons which lead African Americans to leave the South. Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HIST 1000A 6.00 (prior to […]
Explores how, in North America since 1600, certain behaviours have been defined by social actors and state agencies as bad behaviour or vices, and how these behaviours have been regulated. Introduces students to the role that issues such as drug and alcohol use, abortion, prostitution, and sexuality (to name a few) have played in the […]
A study of the major political and social upheavals which have helped to shape the contemporary world. The course will concentrate on the origins of the two World Wars and the Cold War, and on their consequences. Topics chosen for detailed examination will vary from year to year.
Through examining the broad contours of historical contact and focusing on a series of case studies concerning European imperialism and modern nationalism in Asia, this course introduces students to the primary, secondary, and tertiary sources that form colonial and postcolonial discourses. It also introduces to students historical debates that ground and shape international relations in […]
This course introduces the historical study of culture and culture industries in the Americas since 1820, analyzing how cultural change both created and was created by transformations in politics, economics, and societies.Course credit exclusions: None. Prior TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 1083 6.00.
Examines what it meant to be young in different times and places in the United States and Canada, and explores the interplay of cultural and material circumstances that shaped ideas about childhood and children's actual lives.