AP/HIST 3829 3.0 A Convenient Hatred: Antisemitism Before, During and After the Holocaust

Cross-listed with AP/HUMA 3829 3.00; AP/JWST 3829 3.00 & AP/RLST 3829 3.00 Responsible Unit: Department of HistoryPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries This course examines the evolution of anti-Jewish thought and behaviour as a response to the crisis of modernity. It examines the role of antisemitism in 19th- and 20th-century European ideological, political […]

AP/HIST 3671 3.00 The History of Race and the Economy in the United States, 1600-Present

This course examines the history of racial capitalism and black economic action in the U.S. from the 17th century to the present. We interrogate the structures that create and help maintain racial capitalism, how black people navigated the system as laborers and entrepreneurs, black economic thought related to liberation, and the ways social activism has […]

AP/HIST 3550 3.00 Pre-Confederation Canada

This course surveys the main themes in the evolution of what is now Canada from pre-European native societies to 1900. It traces the patterns of colonization, immigration, and settlement and the evolution of the state from colonial rule to Confederation. Course credit exclusion: AP/HIST 3550 6.00.

AP/HIST 2795 6.00 Introduction to the History of South Asia since 1700

This course offers an introductory survey of modern South Asian history and society from the 18th century to the present. It traces the decline of the Mughal Empire, the advent of British colonialism and the struggles around decolonization and independence through the 20th century. Organized chronologically, the course acquaints students with significant developments, key actors […]

AP/HIST 3774 3.00: Chinese Revolutions: Republican, Cultural, Communist

This course analyzes the underpinnings of three of China's great 20th century revolutions: the 1911 Republican revolution, the 1919 literary revolution, and the 1949 Communist revolution. The course outlines key events while focusing on specific themes. These include campaigns to incorporate the masses into a new polity; accommodations between Chinese and "Western" knowledge; and the […]

AP/HIST 3581 6.00: Immigrant Experience in Canada

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.

AP/HIST 4087 3.00: Mind and Matter in Victorian Culture

Cross-listed with: AP/HUMA 4227 3.0 Responsible Unit: Department of HumanitiesPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries Through a reading of the contemporary scientific literature on materialism, the mind and the economy, this course examines Victorian debates on science and its application to pressing moral and social problems. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 4227 6.00.  PRIOR […]

AP/HIST 3145 3.00: Roman Britain

This course studies the history of Roman Britain from Julius Caesar’s invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BC until the end of Roman rule in the 5th century AD.

AP/HIST 1095 6.00: Streetlife: The Culture and History of European Cities

This course uses a diverse range of materials and approaches to examine the development of the modern European city in the contemporary world. It uses cultural sources such as film, photography, literature and music to see how the experience of the modern European city has been represented from the nineteenth century to the present day. […]

AP/HIST 1025 6.00: Ancient North America From the Last Ice Age to European Contact

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 […]