This course focuses upon such themes as social change, the formation of new social and economic groups, and the development of social institutions and patterns of thought. Note: Priority is given to History or Canadian Studies Honours majors and minors who have successfully completed at least 84 credits. Prerequisites: AP/HIST 1050 6.00 or AP/HIST 1086 […]
Explores issues of contact and colonialism in Canadian history from 1600 - 1900. Themes may include the shifting practices of European imperialism; new cultural forms created by First Nations-European contact; changing economic systems; and patterns of state formation. Open to: This course is restricted to History or Canadian Studies Honours majors and minors who have […]
The transformation of basic assumptions in several intellectual and aesthetic disciplines in European thought from 1870 through the First World War. This course is restricted to History Honours majors and minors who have successfully completed at least 84 credits.
Relationships between important works of medieval literature and the society that produced them. This course is restricted to History or European Studies Honours majors and minors who have successfully completed at least 84 credits.
Cross-listed with: AP/CLST 4130 6.0 Course Director: Prof. J. Edmondson - jedmond@yorku.ca DOWNLOAD TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE Selected topics in one or more areas of concentration in the history of ancient Rome. Prerequisites: AP/HIST 2100 6.00 or AP/HUMA 3104 6.00 or AP/HUMA 3106 6.00or AP/HUMA 3110 6.00 or AP/HIST 3120 6.00 or AP/HIST 3125 3.00 or […]
This course will focus on the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (432-404 BC) and on the contemporary Greek historian Thucydides’ account of the war. Attention will also be paid to other literature of the period (comedy, tragedy, speeches, philosophical dialogues) and to archaeological and documentary evidence.
Course Director: Prof. W. Wicken - wwicken@yorku.ca Examines the Canadian and American criminal justice systems from the mid-19th through late 20th century. The course focuses on important trials - such as Lizzie Borden (1892), the ""Scottsboro Boys"" (1931), and Steven Truscott (1959) - and how our explanations of these crimes are shaped by factors such […]
This course provides a global history of the Second World War from 1944 and its aftermath. The course begins in June 1944 with D-Day and ends in 1949 with the Communist Party's military victory in China. It examines how liberation resulted in violence, war crimes trials, and reconstruction of those communities the war had affected.
This course provides a global history of the Second World War. It begins in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of mainland China and ends in 1944 with the invasion of northern Europe (D-Day). The course examines how, in occupied and unoccupied regions, the war affected ordinary peoples' lives. Attention is on collaboration with the enemy […]
Examines the social history of sport in urban, industrial economies from 1850 to the present. It explores how gender, race, class, sexuality and ability have influenced people's experiences with sport, and considers how sport has been used to express values like nationalism and imperialism, while also being used to promote social change and human rights.