AP/HIST 3790 3.00: Histories of Gender and Sexuality in the Modern Middle East

This course examines the diverse gender and sexual regimes, regulations, and experiences across the Middle East from a historical and comparative perspective. Students will study how major cultural, economic, political and social processes, from the 19th century to the present day, have impacted gender roles, and in particular women's experiences in diverse Middle Eastern societies. […]

AP/HIST 4850 6.00: History of Me: The Genealogy Seminar

We have been shaped by our families' histories. This hands-on workshop explores the choices, limitations and opportunities of one or more person from each student's past - a parent, grandparent, or anyone else the student deemed worthy of researching - through genealogical research, and links these intimate realities with the global and Canadian histories of […]

AP/HIST 4795 6.00: Gender and Sexuality in Modern India

This course examines the histories of gender and sexuality in India from the late19th century to the present, with a particular focus on how wider social, political and economic developments have impacted and in turn, been shaped by the changing dynamics of gender. It traces transformations in gender norms and experiences and concurrent shifts in […]

AP/HIST 3871 3.00: Boom and Bust: A History of Economic Crises

Approaching economic crises from an interdisciplinary perspective, this course explores the economic, social, and cultural history of episodes such as the Dutch tulipmania of the late 17th century, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the 'long' crisis of 1873-1896, the Great Crash of 1929, sovereign debt crises from Latin America to the Eurozone, and the […]

AP/HIST 3772 3.00: Modern Chinese History II

The process by which modern China emerged from the ruins of the traditional order, tracing the history of China from the early 19th century to the present. Course credit exclusion: AP/HIST 3770 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 3770 6.00.

AP/HIST 3650 3.00: God/USA: Religion in America Since 1491

Explores the key themes, critical questions, and entrenched conflicts about the place of religion during the long and varied history of American civic and cultural life. It analyzes Native-Newcomer religious tensions, disestablishment, uniquely American religions, and the intersections of religion with war, nationalism, immigration, race, science, expansion, urbanization, gender, counterculture, and new media. Cross-listed with: […]

AP/HIST 3120 6.00: Classical Athens: State and Society

A study of Athens in the fifth century BC, concentrating on social and economic structures and institutions. The course concerns itself with topics appropriate to a pre-industrial society, such as peasants, slaves and the development and function of the early state. Course credit exclusions: None. Prior TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HIST 3120 6.00, […]

AP/HIST 2820 3.00: How to Think About Technology: Hacking the History of Machines

This course asks how we should think about technology. Focusing on one of the most complex and powerful categories for organizing our world, it explores how our relationship with technology has always been about more than material objects: it has been a way to define, dismantle, and reshape our relationships to nature, knowledge, society, the […]

AP/HIST 2790 6.00: Islamic Civilization, 622 - 1400

Explores the development and nature of Islamic civilization from the seventh century to 1400 AD.

AP/HIST 1050 6.00: Life, Love and Labour: An introduction to Social and Cultural History

Explores the ways in which large historical forces in the recent past, such as industrialization, urbanization and the growth of the state, have affected family, community, work and leisure and ways in which people have responded, embracing, adapting to or resisting change. Course credit exclusions: None. Prior TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 1050 […]