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.
This course explores how fashion, costumes and uniforms emerged as sites of identity formation and resistance to social norms in twentieth century North America. The course explores social movements such as early twentieth-century women's dress reform, the Zoot-suit riots of the 1940s, "hippies" and 1960s counter-culture, drag performances as sites of queer and trans activism, […]
Cross-listed with AP/HUMA 3843 3.00. Responsible Unit: Department of HumanitiesPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries. Since antiquity, Jerusalem has been a focal point for both spiritual transcendence and earthly strife. This course explores the history of a city holy to three major Western religions. It focuses on the political and religious factors that […]
This course surveys the main political events, social institutions, cultural and economic developments, as well as various aspects of everyday life in the Middle East from 1800 to the present. Course credit exclusion: AP/POLS 3260 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AK/HIST 3920 6.00, AS/HIST 3792 6.00.
Explores the rise and fall of African Civilizations before the advent of formal European colonialism in the late nineteenth century. By emphasizing the "African Genious" in the making (and unmaking) of complex societies throughout the continent over millennia so as to dispel ahistorical notions of the so-called "dark continent".