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 […]
Cross-listed with: AP/HUMA 4803 6.0 Responsible Unit: Department of HumanitiesPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. This course explores the contours of Christian-Muslim-Jewish co-existence in medieval Spain, focusing on religious and social themes. Topics include conversion, cross-traditional intellectual stimuli, sacred violence and positive images of the religious other.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL […]
Cross-listed with: SC/STS 4780 3.0 Responsible Unit: Department of Science and Technology StudiesPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. This course explores the changing interactions between epidemic disease, governance, and scientific knowledge since the nineteenth century. Widespread infections, pathological outbreaks, and emerging diseases are examined at the local, national, and global levels as both […]
Cross-listed with: AP/SOSC 3090 6.0 Responsible Unit: Department of Social SciencePlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. This course explores North American social and cultural responses to disease. It offers a critical, historical evaluation of the ways in which science accorded medicine a new intellectual and institutional status that transformed explanations for disease and […]
Cross-listed with: SC/STS 2210 3.00 Responsible Unit: Department of Science and Technology StudiesPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. Examines the critical interconnections among technology, politics, culture, the arts, the sciences and social life. Specific topics will vary from year to year, covering social and historical contexts that may include Europe, North America, Africa, […]
Cross-listed with: SC/STS 2010 3.0 Responsible Unit: Department of Science and Technology StudiesPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. This course explores some of the central issues and theories in the history of physical and life sciences since the Renaissance. The focus is on the institutional trends and changing conceptual frameworks as they related […]
Cross-listed with: AP/SOSC 3210 6.0 Responsible Unit: Department of Social SciencePlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. This course explores the changing nature of paid and unpaid work in Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries and the impact of those changes on Canadian society. Course credit exclusion: AP/HIST 3250 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL […]
Cross-listed with: EU/GEOG 3080 3.0. Responsible Unit: Geography (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change)Please contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. Cultural landscapes change over time. This can result from changes in legal tenure, cultural adaptation, changes in the economic base or historical events. This course considers landscapes in various countries in chronological sequence.
This course examines the history of Latin America from the Spanish and Portuguese conquests to the present.Course credit exclusions: AP/HIST 2720 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012), GL/HIST 2200 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HIST 3720 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2000-2001), GL/HIST 2200 6.00.
This course surveys the history of some of the oldest civilizations of the world and their immediate successors: Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, Hittite-land, Canaan and Israel. Problems of how to determine the facts of ancient history are also discussed.Course credit exclusion: AP/HIST 1090 6.00.