This course examines Africa's urban past. It first concentrates on precolonial cities as centres of political organization, religious learning, regional and long-distance trade and, thereafter, on urban health, crime, women, crowds, squatters, workers and political movements during the colonial and post-independence eras.Prerequisites: AP/HIST 2750 6.00 or AP/HIST 3780 6.00 or AP/SOSC 2480 9.00 or AP/HIST […]
Explores the stages of the developing Christian church from its origins in apostolic times to the late Middle Ages. Topics include personalities, institutional structure, leadership and rules, thought, education, liturgical and spiritual life, pastoral care, and the church in the secular world. Course credit exclusions: AP/HIST 3811 3.0, AP/HUMA 3811 3.00, AP/HIST 3812 3.00, AP/HUMA […]
This course studies, in a comparative fashion, the rise, consolidation and decline of the three major early modern Islamic empires (the Ottoman Turks, the Safavids of Persia and the Mughals of India) between 1500 to 1800.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 3791 6.00.
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 […]
Examines government policy, public attitudes and the immigrant life in Canada before and after the Second World War, as well as the refugee question and multiculturalism.
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 development and nature of Islamic civilization from the seventh century to 1400 AD.
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 […]
Course Director: Prof. J. Bonnell - bonnellj@yorku.ca This course examines the forms, goals, and practices of making history in museums, archives, historic sites, and other institutions of public history. It enables students to learn the meaning and methods in the production of memory and introduces them to the practical skills for the public presentation of […]
An analysis of the major events and developments affecting Canadian society during the past hundred years, including political and constitutional evolution, economic and social change and alterations in the climate of ideas.