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AP/HIST 1074 6.0: The Chinese Body in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Medicine, Food, and Footbinding

Course Director: Prof. J. Judge - judge@yorku.ca This course uses the Chinese body as an entry point into the richness and complexity of daily life as it was lived and experienced in Chinese history. It focuses on two preeminent concerns in Chinese civilization—health and food—and on one of the most mysterious, widely condemned, and little […]

AP/HIST 1040 6.0: Popular Uses of History: An Introduction to Public History

Course Director: Prof. L. Pourtavaf - lpourtav@yorku.ca This course introduces students to the practice of public history, the ways in which history is produced for and understood by public audiences. It examines the ways the past has been brought to bear upon the present through monuments, museum exhibitions, parks and historical sites, film, historical fiction, […]