HIST 601 Canadian History I0.50 units
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- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
History (HIST)
58 graduate courses in the Fall 2026 Graduate Calendar.
HIST 602 Canadian History II0.50 units
Canadian History II
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 603 Nationalism and Ethnic Policies of Multinational States0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 604 Theory and Practice of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: Historical and Contemporary Issues0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 605 Global Governance in Historical Perspective0.50 units
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.
- Cross-listed
- GGOV 605
HIST 606 International Development in Historical Perspective0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 607 Human Rights in Historical Perspective I0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 608 Human Rights in Historical Perspective II0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Must have completed the following:
- HIST607 - Human Rights in Historical Perspective I (0.50)
- Must have completed the following:
HIST 610 War and Society in the Twentieth Century0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 611 War and Society in the Twentieth Century II0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Must have completed the following:
- HIST610 - War and Society in the Twentieth Century (0.50)
- Must have completed the following:
HIST 612 Global Indigenous Rights0.50 units
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).
- Cross-listed
- GGOV 645
HIST 614 Space, Identity and Culture: Reading in Canadian Social History0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 620 Early Modern History I0.50 units
Early Modern History I
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 621 Early Modern History II0.50 units
Early Modern History II
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 622 Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 624 Environmental & Climate History, Premodern0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 626 Modern European History I0.50 units
Modern European History I
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 627 Modern European History II0.50 units
Modern European History II
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 632 History of the United States I0.50 units
History of the United States I
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 633 History of the United States II0.50 units
History of the United States II
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 635 Race in Modern History I0.50 units
Race in Modern History I
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 636 Race in Modern History II0.50 units
Race in Modern History II
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 640 Digital History0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 651 Historians and Public Policy0.50 units
Historians and Public Policy
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 653 Public History Interpretation0.50 units
Public History Interpretation
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 660 Transnational and Global History: Old Problems and New Directions0.50 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 691A Directed Studies0.50 units
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- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 691B Directed Studies0.50 units
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- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 691C Directed Studies0.50 units
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- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in MA in History
HIST 701 Major Field Oral Qualifying Examination0.50 units
Major Field Oral Qualifying Examination
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 703 The History of Global Governance0.50 units
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.
- Cross-listed
- GGOV 703
HIST 704 Major Field Written Qualifying Examination0.50 units
Major Field Written Qualifying Examination
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 710 Canadian History Major Field1.00 units
Canadian History Major Field
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 712 Scottish History Major Field1.00 units
Scottish History Major Field
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 714 Early Modern European History Major Field1.00 units
Early Modern European History Major Field
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 715 Modern European History Major Field1.00 units
Modern European History Major Field
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 719 War and Society Major Field1.00 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 725 Cold War Era History Major Field1.00 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 726 Medieval History Major Field1.00 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 727 World History Major Field1.00 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 728 Indigenous History Major Field1.00 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 759 War and Society Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
War and Society Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 760 Canadian History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Canadian History Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 761 British History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
British History Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 762 Scottish History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Scottish History Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 763 Community Studies Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Community Studies Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 764 Early Modern European History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Early Modern European History Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 765 Modern European History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Modern European History Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 766 Gender, Women and Family Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Gender, Women and Family Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 767 Race, Class, Imperialism and Slavery Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Race, Class, Imperialism and Slavery Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 768 United States Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
United States Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 769 International Relations Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
International Relations Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 770 Science, Medicine and Technology Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Science, Medicine and Technology Minor Area Seminar
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 771 Minor Area of Concentration1.00 units
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
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 775 Cold War Era History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Minor area seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 776 Medieval History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
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.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 777 World History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Minor area seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History
HIST 778 Indigenous History Minor Area Seminar1.00 units
Minor area seminars meet biweekly throughout the Fall and Winter terms for discussion of a reading list of 50 books selected by the instructor.
- Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in History