North America
HIST 4571 (3 credits)
Naylor
Th 2.30–5.20 (winter)
History of the Modern American Women's Movement
Prereq:Third-year standing and three credits from HIST 3531; or permission of Department
This course focuses on the history of the modern American women's movement, beginning with a brief examination of the history of feminism in the pre-World War II United States and continuing through to an examination of responses and backlashes to the women's movement. Emphasis is given to the revolutionary character of that movement and the experience of American women as influenced by the movement.
Format: Seminar 3 Hours
HIST 4991A (3 credits)
McKim
T 2.30–5.20 (fall)
Special Topic in History: North American Political Culture: the Beginnings
Prereq: Prerequisite Third-year standing and at least six credits from among HIST 2411, HIST 2421, HIST 2511, HIST 2521, HIST 3401, HIST 3411, HIST 3421, HIST 3481, HIST 3511, or permission of the Department
This course focuses on the development of North American political culture down to the mid-nineteenth century. Topics include: patterns of conflict and compromise between indigenous peoples and European colonizers; the impact of revolutionary political movements; and struggles over the meaning of democracy. It examines similarities and divergences between the early political cultures of the United States and Canada and the emergence of distinctive regional political traditions within a larger continental context.
Note1: Students may register for HIST 4991 more than once, provided the subject matter differs.
Format: Seminar
Asia
HIST 4001 (3 credits)
Griffiths
M 2.30–5.20 (winter)
History through Film
Prereq: Third-year standing and at least 12 credits in History at the 2000 or 3000 level; or permission of the Department
This course provides thematic study of topics in modern history through the medium of film, both feature and documentary. It reads the films critically both as art forms and as historical documents. It places particular emphasis on what films tell us about the particular historical context in which they were created.
[Note: This course may count as 3 credits in Art History.]
Format: Seminar 3 Hours
Europe
HIST 4221 (3 credits)
Lundell
W 2.30–5.20 (winter)
Advanced Topics in Renaissance History
Prereq: Third-year standing, HIST 3121 and at least six credits from HIST 3141, HIST 3151, HIST 3161, HIST 3611, HIST 3621, HIST 3631, RELG 3611, RELG 3621, RELG 3631; or permission of the Department.
Exclusion: HIST 4220
This course is a seminar in Renaissance history.
Format: Lecture/Tutorial, 3 Hours
HIST 4300 (6 credits)
Wilson
M 2.30–5.20 (fall & winter)
The Birth of the Modern Age
Prereq: Third-year standing, and at least three credits from HIST 3301, HIST 3311, HIST 3361, HIST 3371, HIST 3381; or permission of the Department
This seminar explores some of the profound social, cultural, political and economic changes that transformed European life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Topics vary from year to year.
Format: Seminar 3 Hours
HIST 4991B (6 credits)
Cupido
Th 2.30–5.20 (fall)
Special Topic in History: The Great War: Myth, Memory, History
Prereq: Third-year standing and at least six credits from HIST 3211, HIST 3221, HIST 3231, HIST 3241, HIST 3301, HIST 3311, HIST 3321, HIST 3331, HIST 3361, HIST 3381; or permission of the Department
This seminar considers the meaning of the First World War and its role in shaping the modern world. Using primary and secondary historical sources, as well as poetry, fiction, sculpture, film, war memorials, and mourning rituals, it focuses on Britain, France, and Germany, while also drawing on material from other combatant countries such as Canada and Australia, to investigate what factors shaped different experiences, memories, and interpretations of the conflict and the extent to which the First World War transformed key social, political, and cultural constructions, such as class, race, gender and sexuality, nation, and state.
Note1: Students may register for HIST 4991 more than once, provided the subject matter differs.
Format: Seminar 3 hours
HIST 4991C (6 credits)
Cupido
T 2.30–5.20 (winter)
Special Topic in History: British National Identities from 1701 to the Present
Prereq: Third-year standing and at least six credits from HIST 3211, HIST 3221, HIST 3231, HIST 3241, HIST 3251; or permission of the Department
This seminar examines the role of such factors as war, religion, monarchy, and empire in shaping a new sense of national and imperial identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth century that united the inhabitants of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland as "Britons". It analyzes also the relationship of this new identity to other, competing forms of collective identity based on class, gender, race, and region and looks closely at how traditional conceptions of British identity were challenged and arguably undermined in the twentieth century by imperial decline, membership in the European Union, immigration and multiculturalism, and national independence movements in the Celtic fringe.
Note1: Students may register for HIST 4991 more than once, provided the subject matter differs.
Format: Seminar 3 Hours