North America
HIST 1601 (3 credits)McKim
TTh 2.30-3.50 (winter)
New Nations In North America
This course examines themes in North American history from the sixteenth century to the 1860s, with a particular emphasis on the interaction of aboriginal, European, and West African peoples and on the formation of the new states.
Format: Lecture 3 Hours
HIST 1621 (3 credits)
Lord
TTh 8.30-9.50 (winter)
Canadian Social History: Home, Work and Play
This course examines people's lives in Canada from 1840 to the present. It combines structures and social experiences to document the domestic space of the home and the induatrial workplace, as well as public sites of leisure and recreation, and the semi-public spaces of commerce and institutions.
Format: Lecture/Tutorial 3 Hours
Asia
HIST 1681 (3 credits)
Griffiths
TTh 10.00–11.20 (winter)
The Uses and Abuses of History
Exclusion: HIST 1991 The Uses and Abuses of History
This course explores the processes by which people build arguments and make decisions based, in part, on a particular understanding of the past. By a series of case studies and grounded in the practice of evidence-based reasoning it demonstrates how history is a fundamental tool in many forms of decision-making and, therefore, why history matters.
Format: Lecture 3 Hours
Europe
HIST 1611 (3 credits)Cupido
MWF 1.30–2.20 (fall)
The Expansion of Europe Abroad
This course focuses on the expansion of Europe after the fifteenth century and the impact of that expansion on both Native peoples and on European civilization. Themes include: the creation of a world economy, racial relations, the rise and fall of European power, the impact of technology, the growth of indigenous nationalism, and the legacy of European expansion.
Format: Lecture 3 Hours
HIST 1631 (3 credits)
Nadeau
MWF 2.30–3.20 (winter)
Greece and Rome / Foundations of Western Civilization (Classics)
The political and social history of ancient Greece and Rome will be surveyed with a focus on the themes of Law, Politics, War, and Society. Special attention will be paid to Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. and to Rome under Caesar Augustus.
[Note: This course is cross-listed as CLAS 1631 and may therefore count as 3 credits in either discipline.]
Format: Lecture 3 Hours
HIST 1641 (3 credits)
Lundell
MW 2.30–3.50 (fall)
Town Life in the Middle Ages
This course treats the development of town life in Europe from the late tenth century through the fifteenth century. Themes include: social and political experimentation and organization, expansion of commerce and production, religious observance and intellectual life, and female experience of town life.
Format: Lecture 3 Hours
HIST 1671 (3 credits)
Hammond-Callaghan
MWF 1.30–2.20 (winter)
Historical Perspectives on Women and Gender in Modern Europe
Exclusion: HIST 3361
This course surveys women's lives in modern Europe from the Enlightenment untl the twentieth century creation of the European Union.
Format: Lecture/Tutorial 3 Hours