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AP/ HIST 2730 6.0 History of the Caribbean: From Colonization to Independence

This course examines the historical development of the Caribbean from its aboriginal occupation to 20th century socio-political developments. It explores similarities and differences in social and political structures and cultural characteristics of various parts of the region.Course credit exclusions: None.

AP/HIST 2823 3.00: Histories of Health, Healing, and Humanity: An Introduction to Medical History

This course explores the histories of health and healing in diverse historical eras and across diverse global cultures. The course introduces students to how historians of nursing, medicine and allied health professions analyze the meaning of health and healing across time and place; the cultural, scientific and technological events that transformed how health care was […]

AP/HIST 2795 6.00 Introduction to the History of South Asia since 1700

This course offers an introductory survey of modern South Asian history and society from the 18th century to the present. It traces the decline of the Mughal Empire, the advent of British colonialism and the struggles around decolonization and independence through the 20th century. Organized chronologically, the course acquaints students with significant developments, key actors […]

AP/HIST 2820 3.00: How to Think About Technology: Hacking the History of Machines

This course asks how we should think about technology. Focusing on one of the most complex and powerful categories for organizing our world, it explores how our relationship with technology has always been about more than material objects: it has been a way to define, dismantle, and reshape our relationships to nature, knowledge, society, the […]

AP/HIST 2790 6.00: Islamic Civilization, 622 - 1400

Explores the development and nature of Islamic civilization from the seventh century to 1400 AD.

AP/HIST 2750 6.00: African History, from 1800 to the Present

The history of the African continent from 1800 to the present, concentrating on such major themes as political and economic change in pre-colonial African states, the impact of colonial rule and the emergence of modern nationalism.

AP/HIST 2710 6.00: History of East Asia

Explores how distinctive patterns of government, society and culture emerged over four millennia in East Asia - primarily China and Japan - and how this endogenous development prepared those nations to confront and challenge Western supremacy in the modern world.

AP/HIST 2500 6.00: Canadian History

From the arrival of its first human inhabitants tens of thousands of years ago to its increasingly globalized contemporary population, Canada has undergone numerous transformations. This course will examine the history of Canada from its earliest times to the present focusing of key transformations in the country's environmental, social, political, economic and cultural history. This […]

AP/HIST 2900 6.00: Global Indigenous Histories

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE (PDF) This course compares the histories of Indigenous peoples around the world. It explores Indigenous rights, lands and resource conflicts, Indigenous-state relations, language and cultural revitalization, and political activism. Case studies may include Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Africa, the South Pacific, Japan, the Americas, and the Circumpolar North. It also focuses on […]

AP/HIST 2501 3.00 Canada 101: A History of Canada since 1850

This course examines the evolution of Canada from the perspective of people, places, and social processes, and explores what it has meant to be Canadian across time and space since 1850. This course does not count toward history major or minor credits. Course credit exclusions: AP/HIST 2500 6.00