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 […]
This course explores major themes in the formation of Canadian society through a critical examination of issues and debates aired in recent historical scholarship. Three periods pre-industrial, industrial and post-Second World War provide a temporal framework for analyzing recurrent issues.Note: Priority is given to History, Canadian Studies, Children's Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, Social & […]
This course is a legal history of indigenous people in Canada and the United States from 1713 to 1886. The course examines the history of treaty making, the process by which indigenous people were dispossessed of their lands, and the extension of the common law into their communities. Specific murder cases are examined to illustrate […]
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 […]
The course centers on how Indian history has been represented in popular Hindi films since 1947 and the social and cultural dynamics that both shape and are, in turn, produced by these representations. It introduces students to major political, economic and social transformations in 20th century India, and analyses how these developments are reflected in […]
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.
Examines the post-Revolutionary period in Mexico. Through a study of a period of single-party rule, this course emphasizes rapid demographic, economic, social and cultural change in a time of apparent political stasis.
This course examines the history of major US Supreme Court rulings dealing with equal rights. The focus is on decisions dealing with economic, ethnoracial, sex/gender, and sexual equality, as well as the rights of immigrants, in the 20th century.Course credit exclusions: None.
HIST 3537 examines the history of African Canadians from the turn of the twentieth century. It will trace the presence of people of African descent through the themes of migration, diaspora, slavery and freedom, settlement, community and family, religion, the law and justice system, education, employment, citizenship, and Black resistance.Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HIST 3535 6.00
This course examines the depiction of the civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome in film from the birth of cinema to the present. Students are introduced to the historical societies and events (mis)represented in the films studied. A major focus is how modern concerns about gender, race, religion, empire, and nation impinge […]