HIST 601 Canadian History I
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LEC · Course ID 001560Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 601 today
History (HIST)
58 graduate courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for Winter 2024, from UW Open Data. uwloo can’t read that term’s Graduate Calendar, so this stands in for it; the calendar itself is in Waterloo’s archive.
HIST 602 Canadian History II
Canadian History II
LEC · Course ID 001559Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 602 today
HIST 603 Nationalism and Ethnic Policies of Multinational States
The course explores the concept of nationalism and the responses of multiethnic states to nationalist challenge. Students will examine theories of nationalism and discuss its creative and destructive potential. Pursuit of national self-determination led to the birth of new states and the disintegration of old ones: ethnic tensions were another product of nationalism. Different types of states have addressed ethnic problems in different ways: some have sought to maintain harmonious multicultural communities: others have preferred to assimilate or segregate minorities; yet others have engaged in ethnic cleansing. We will trace the roots of nationalism and the consequences of its rise, and we will also discuss the impact of state system on the ethnic policy.
SEM · Course ID 012549Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 603 today
HIST 604 Theory and Practice of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: Historical and Contemporary Issues
This seminar offers a comparative analysis of insurgency and counterinsurgency from the 19th century to the present. It examines resistance to foreign invaders in Europe, the century of rebellion in Mexico in 1810-1917, anti-colonial wars of national liberation, Marxist revolutionary movements in South-East Asia and Latin America, the upsurge of Islamic fundamentalism and urban guerrilla warfare. The course will focus on the sources of insurgencies, their nature and the support they drew from various social groups. In each case, the government's response will also be investigated. We will analyse theories of guerrilla thinkers and pacification models and pay particular attention to the gap between intended and actual policies, and the plight of civilians caught in crossfire.
SEM · Course ID 001561Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 604 today
HIST 605 Global Governance in Historical Perspective
This course examines the history of global governance, focusing on the institutions, issues, and debates that have shaped global governance throughout history. Students will consider how and why state and non-state actors have turned to global governance to tackle pressing challenges and create common frameworks. They will also examine the power dynamics involved in these processes, analyzing the politics of inclusion and exclusion within global governance arenas across different historical periods.
SEM · Course ID 012550Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 605 today
HIST 606 International Development in Historical Perspective
This course examines the theory of international development and how it has been applied in practice. As well, students will assess the records of various international actors in terms of their success or failure in providing development assistance. They will also study the interactions between international organizations, states, non-governmental organizations and more informal interest groups through their involvement in overseas development assistance. Finally, the role played by the Cold War in determining Overseas Development Assistance priorities will be examined.
SEM · Course ID 012847Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 606 today
HIST 607 Human Rights in Historical Perspective I
The course will examine developments in human rights, primarily during the twentieth century. Weekly discussions based on assigned readings will offer students an opportunity to explore such questions as: What are "human rights" and how are they different from any other rights? Where do human rights come from? Why do they change over time, and by whom and by what means are changes effected? Is there a role for the historian in explaining this process, and can the lessons of history be applied to public policy and to continuing human rights issues? The focus for our study is the formation and evolution of international human rights, but with attention paid to Canadian events to assess the relationship between domestic and global human rights innovations.
SEM · Course ID 012970Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 607 today
HIST 608 Human Rights in Historical Perspective II
In this sequel to HIST 607, students will have an opportunity to pursue a primary research project on an approved topic in the history of human rights. A series of progress meetings and research consultations will lead towards a "conference" where students will present their own research and comment on their classmates' draft papers.
Prerequisite: HIST 607
SEM · Course ID 012971Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 608 today
HIST 610 War and Society in the Twentieth Century
This course will explore the impact of twentieth century war on the English - speaking world, especially Canada. It will introduce students to the many ways in which historians have studied the First and Second World Wars, as well as other conflicts. Our seminar presentations and research papers will sample the 'old military history' of tactics and strategy, and we will also examine the 'new military history' that focuses on the social, economic and cultural impact of war.
SEM · Course ID 012181Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 610 today
HIST 611 War and Society in the Twentieth Century II
History 611 forms the research component of the course. Students will write a research paper based on primary sources on a topic chosen with the professor's consultation. The paper will be approximately 30-35 pages in length (7500-9000 words). The class will meet throughout the term to discuss the process of research and writing. Each student will also present his or her working drafts to the class for discussion. Marks will be based on the quality of constructive comment raised in each class, as well as on the final paper submitted at term's end.
Prerequisite: HIST 610
SEM · Course ID 012177Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 611 today
HIST 612 Global Indigenous Rights
This course examines the historical and political contexts of Indigenous rights movements from around the world. It considers the histories of Indigenous-state relations and Indigenous assertions of rights and sovereignty through cultural, political, and legal means. We will discuss grassroots and global Indigenous rights movements and international efforts to address Indigenous aspirations and decolonization especially following WWII. Attention will be also paid to the formation of Indigenous organizations and the engagement of international forums (i.e., through the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples).
SEM · Course ID 001568Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 612 today
HIST 614 Space, Identity and Culture: Reading in Canadian Social History
In this course you will master both classic and cutting-edge historical scholarship in Canadian Social History. You will read works that interrogate and historicize the traditional foci of social historians - class gender and race. You will read works informed by cultural theory, especially concerning the occupation of social space and the expression of experience of particularized social identities. Each week, we will meet together in seminar to discuss the substance, theoretical orientation, methodology, and historiographical significance of the assigned material. As such, active reading and constructive participation in seminar are key. In addition, you will be required to lead seminar discussions and write an historiographical paper.
SEM · Course ID 013344Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 614 today
HIST 620 Early Modern History I
Early Modern History I
LEC · Course ID 001578Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 620 today
HIST 621 Early Modern History II
Early Modern History II
LEC · Course ID 001579Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 621 today
HIST 622 Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe
This course borrows its title from the famous collection of essays edited by Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero. The course explores how historians use narrative to (re)construct past realities. It looks closely at the uses, abuses, and limitations of microhistory as a genre and exposes students to important trends in social history. Though the bulk of the material deals with Europe in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, the course is methodological in nature and is intended for all graduate students of social history. Students in HIST 622 read the great microhistories including Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre, LeRoy Ladurie's Montaillou and Caranaval at Romans, Spence's The Death of Woman Wang, Ginzburg's Night Battles, and others. Through these sources students acquire a deep understanding of the historiography surrounding this genre. In addition, HIST 622 exposes students to the various non-historical theorists (sociological, anthropological, etc.) whose works inform the microhistorical method.
SEM · Course ID 013808Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 622 today
HIST 624 Environmental & Climate History, Premodern
This course introduces graduate students to the major authors, works, and themes of preindustrial environmental and climate history. It demonstrates how historians frame the historical interaction of mutable human culture and natural environment. The locus of study is western Europe, the period between the end of antiquity and the start of the industrial revolution. Each week, students will read assigned texts and discuss them in a seminar format. Ultimately, each student must write a final research essay.
SEM · Course ID 015923Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 624 today
HIST 626 Modern European History I
Modern European History I
LEC · Course ID 001582Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 626 today
HIST 627 Modern European History II
Modern European History II
LEC · Course ID 001583Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 627 today
HIST 632 History of the United States I
History of the United States I
LEC · Course ID 001590Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 632 today
HIST 633 History of the United States II
History of the United States II
LEC · Course ID 001591Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 633 today
HIST 635 Race in Modern History I
Race in Modern History I
LEC · Course ID 001592Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 635 today
HIST 636 Race in Modern History II
Race in Modern History II
LEC · Course ID 001593Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 636 today
HIST 640 Digital History
Digital history, the application of new and emerging technologies to the study of history, is an important field that has begun to reshape historical production and scholarship. This graduate level course introduces students to the literature on digital history, and then puts theory into practice by digitally collecting, publishing, and producing new historical knowledge with cutting-edge tools.
SEM · Course ID 015922Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 640 today
HIST 651 Historians and Public Policy
Historians and Public Policy
LEC · Course ID 001602Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 651 today
HIST 653 Public History Interpretation
Public History Interpretation
LEC · Course ID 001604Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 653 today
HIST 660 Transnational and Global History: Old Problems and New Directions
This course examines transnational and global historical processes, focusing on temporal and geographic scales of analysis outside of traditional national histories, and promotes linking the local and the global. It looks at global forces influencing particular societies and encourages students to place themselves outside conventional local, regional, and national boundaries, and will critically consider a number of the metanarratives that have informed and continue to inform historiography, particularly idea such as modernity, progress, and the ongoing preoccupation with the 'rise of the west'. Given these questions, and the almost endless scope of a course that purports to take the world as its focal point, weekly seminars will begin with a discussion of the possibilities offered by as well as the limits to transnational/global/world history, the various interpretative frameworks in use and their proponents as well as the challenges that transnational/global/world history poses. We will then focus on particular case studies or themes so as to promote discussion that is as much historiographical as it is historical. Such themes/case studies may include: feminism and imperialism, famine and climate change, disease and ecology, military technology and governmentally, global trade and the rise of consumer society(s), colonial knowledge and shifting ideas of race.
SEM · Course ID 014737Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 660 today
HIST 691A Directed Studies
RDG · Course ID 001615Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 691A today
HIST 691B Directed Studies
RDG · Course ID 001616Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 691B today
HIST 691C Directed Studies
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RDG · Course ID 001617Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 691C today
HIST 701 Major Field Oral Qualifying Examination
Major Field Oral Qualifying Examination
RDG · Course ID 009427Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 701 today
HIST 703 The History of Global Governance
This course examines the various ways global actors have identified and tried to solve global problems in the twentieth century. We will study the interactions between international organizations, state actors, non-governmental organizations, and informal interest groups as they have confronted global issues such as war, immigration, international trade, human rights, and environmental and health crises.
SEM · Course ID 009118Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 703 today
HIST 704 Major Field Written Qualifying Examination
Major Field Written Qualifying Examination
RDG · Course ID 001627Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 704 today
HIST 710 Canadian History Major Field
Canadian History Major Field
SEM · Course ID 009428Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 710 today
HIST 712 Scottish History Major Field
Scottish History Major Field
SEM · Course ID 010523Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 712 today
HIST 714 Early Modern European History Major Field
Early Modern European History Major Field
SEM · Course ID 010525Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 714 today
HIST 715 Modern European History Major Field
Modern European History Major Field
SEM · Course ID 010526Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 715 today
HIST 719 War and Society Major Field
This field will attract those who are interested in the impact of military conflict, in conventional and non-conventional forms, on civil society. It will focus in particular on the two World Wars and the "small wars" that developed in the last part of the twentieth century, and be flexible enough to include a range of related topics across time and place that reflect the interests of faculty and students.
SEM · Course ID 012972Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 719 today
HIST 725 Cold War Era History Major Field
Major field seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor. During the subsequent Spring term major field participants read a further 50 books selected by the instructor in consultation with each participant's supervisor.
SEM · Course ID 013809Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 725 today
HIST 726 Medieval History Major Field
Major field seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor. During the subsequent Spring term major field participants read a further 50 books selected by the instructor in consultation with each participant's supervisor.
SEM · Course ID 013810Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 726 today
HIST 727 World History Major Field
Major field seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor. During the subsequent Spring term major field participants read a further 50 books selected by the instructor in consultation with each participant's supervisor.
SEM · Course ID 013811Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 727 today
HIST 728 Indigenous History Major Field
Major field seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor. During the subsequent Spring term major field participants read a further 50 books selected by the instructor in consultation with each participant's supervisor.
SEM · Course ID 015738Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 728 today
HIST 759 War and Society Minor Area Seminar
War and Society Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 013079Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 759 today
HIST 760 Canadian History Minor Area Seminar
Canadian History Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 001638Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 760 today
HIST 761 British History Minor Area Seminar
British History Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 001639Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 761 today
HIST 762 Scottish History Minor Area Seminar
Scottish History Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 010529Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 762 today
HIST 763 Community Studies Minor Area Seminar
Community Studies Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 001640Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 763 today
HIST 764 Early Modern European History Minor Area Seminar
Early Modern European History Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 010530Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 764 today
HIST 765 Modern European History Minor Area Seminar
Modern European History Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 010531Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 765 today
HIST 766 Gender, Women and Family Minor Area Seminar
Gender, Women and Family Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 001641Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 766 today
HIST 767 Race, Class, Imperialism and Slavery Minor Area Seminar
Race, Class, Imperialism and Slavery Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 010532Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 767 today
HIST 768 United States Minor Area Seminar
United States Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 001642Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 768 today
HIST 769 International Relations Minor Area Seminar
International Relations Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 010268Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 769 today
HIST 770 Science, Medicine and Technology Minor Area Seminar
Science, Medicine and Technology Minor Area Seminar
SEM · Course ID 001643Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 770 today
HIST 771 Minor Area of Concentration
This minor area is arranged between the student and a professor, and falls outside of those other minor areas enumerated in the calendar. The participants will provide the department and the Graduate Studies Office with a course name, which will appear on the student's transcript, in order to more specifically identify the minor area
SEM · Course ID 001644Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 771 today
HIST 775 Cold War Era History Minor Area Seminar
Minor area seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor.
SEM · Course ID 013812Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 775 today
HIST 776 Medieval History Minor Area Seminar
Minor area seminars meet bi-weekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor.
SEM · Course ID 013813Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 776 today
HIST 777 World History Minor Area Seminar
Minor area seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor.
SEM · Course ID 013814Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 777 today
HIST 778 Indigenous History Minor Area Seminar
Minor area seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor.
SEM · Course ID 015925Graduate Calendar, Winter 2024HIST 778 today