78 courses in the 1983–84 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Assistant Professors
D.J. Horton, BA (Waterloo Lutheran), MA (Waterloo), PhD (McGill)
S,K. Johannesen, BA (Evangel College), MA, PhD (Missouri)
D.E. Wright, BA (Cambridge), MA, PhD (McMaster)
Adjunct Faculty
R.P. Fuke, BA (Toronto), MA (Maryland), PhD (Chicago)
T.E.D. Shortt, BA (McGill), MA (Carleton), PhD (Queen’s), MD (Western Ontario)
W. Stanford Reid, BA, MA (McGill), PhD (Pennsylvania), FRHistS
Faculty Members of History holding cross appointments to.
1Classics
2Geography
Course Descriptions
Courses not offered in the current academic year are listed at the end of this section.
Introductory Notes.
"400 Level: Introductory Courses.
For First Year Arts students and for all other students interested.
200-249: Survey Courses. Primarily intended for non-History Majors, but open to History Majors.
250-257: Foundation Courses.
Primarily intended for History Majors, but open to non-History Majors whether or not they have previously taken a history course.
300 Level: Special Topics C
Primarily intended for History Majors, but open to all students who have previously taken a history course.
400 Level: Senior Seminars. Intended for senior History Honours students.
A thematic introduction to the development of the world's major civilizations. This year’s theme is “Community and Social Order”, examining the dynamic relationship between individuals and their social structures, and their state.
A consideration of the shaping of American characteristics under the headings of: The Frontier; Religious Denominationalism; Libertarian Revolution; Black Slavery; New Immigrations; Mass Production; the Great Depression; War and Global Americanism.
An introduction to the colonial experience and to the processes of national emergence in the twentieth century. Special reference is made to the Caribbean area.
An analysis of the diplomatic, political, economic, ideological, social and cultural explanations of the causes of the major wars of this century with special emphasis on Canada.
The growth of nationalism and nation states since the French Revolution with attention to the Industrial Revolution, the World Wars, Fascism, Naziism and Stalinism.
Offered at St. Jerome’s College.
Selected major themes from pioneer life to Canadian involvement in twentieth century wars.
Offered at St. Jerome's Callege.
An exploration of some of the questions and answers posed by thinkers on the human predicament from Renaissance and Reformation times to the modern period. Readings range from Luther to J.P. Sartre, Shakespeare to Marx and Freud.
This course will survey the chief features of early modern European society. Topics will include the Renaissance and Reformation, Old Regime society, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
500-1400
A study of the sociat and political fabric.
the laws and legal! procedures of the Midclle Ages. Barbarian Codes, Feudal Law and rediscovered Roman Law will be examined along with legal procedures and institutions such as oaths, ordeals and the Inquisition. Offered at St. Jerome's College.
This course will introduce students, through the interrelationships and interaction of selected themes, to the contemporary history of Europe. North America, and the Far East. Its format includes two interpretive tectures per week plus major films on twentieth century crises and optional discussion groups.
Ahistory of the twentieth century through films. The First World War, , Europe between the Wars, the Second World War, North American society in the twentieth century and other political, moral and social themes will be explored.
An historical examination of the
- urbanization process, the social, political and economic factors that shaped the Canadian city, and the relationship between selected metropolitan and hinterland areas.
A survey of the changes in the quality and structure of life with special emphasis on love, marriage and the family in the West since the sixteenth century.
Offered at St_ Jerome's College.
The course will discuss the problem of Quebec in contemporary Canada by analyzing the historical background of key issues like separatism, the survival of the French language, French- Canadian nationalism and the Quiet Revolution.
Course Descriptions
History
A study of the development of business in Canada at both the general economic and the individual enterprise level.
An introduction to the history of selected racial and regional minorities in Canada. The course examines the emergence of minority communities, and their position in modern Canadian society.
Relati Since Ni ber, 1917
An examination of this confrontation by traditionalist and revisionist (New Left) historians: Wilson versus Lenin, 1917; Roosevelt, Truman and Stalin; post 1945 — containment, co-existence, and critics.
An examination of the title theme with particular emphasis on the United States’ emergence as a worid power: the Cold War, J.F.K. and the New Frontier, the October 1962 missile crisis, Vietnam, L.B.J. and the Great Society, the 1970's in retrospect.
An historical introduction to law throughout the ages: concepts.
institutions, practices.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
A survey of the main stages in the transition of Britain fram a remote province of the Roman Empire to a prominent state of post-Reformation Europe. Within the chronological framework, political and constitutional as well as ecclesiastical and social developments will be examined.
A survey of the shaping of British society and the British experience from the time of Shakespeare to the present: constitutional conflict and compromise, rise and fall of empire, industrial and urban revolution, world wars and welfare state.
This course examines historically the formation of a distinct modern western popular culture, looking primarily at Britain, France, Canada and the United States from around 1850 to the present, and emphasizing such aspects as: industrialism and leisure, the family anc. sexual attitudes, religion and popular belief. education and literacy. drinking habits, organized sport and mass entertainment.
Political, social and religious history of treland from the beginning of the golden age of Irish medieval civilization to the Act of Union, c. 400 to 1800.
Political, social and religious history of Ireland emphasizing social changes, the struggle for Home Rule and the Republic, 1800 to present.
An introduction to historical explanations of revolutions with special focus on social change and revolutionary theories. The French, Russian and Chinese Revolutions will be used as case studies.
Offered at Renison College.
An inquiry into the nature of the Canadian experience by examining concepts and themes that were significant before the twentieth century.
An approach to modern Canadian development as the people have wrestled with such phenomena as: war, depression, internal and external tensions, urban growth, the "post industrial" society.
A survey of regional. religious and imperial rivalries from ancient to modern times, with emphasis on the twentieth century and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Offered at Conrad Grebe! College.
“n evaluation of the causes and effects F revolutions in Latin America through 1 examination of such countries as
Cuba, Mexico, Chile, etc. ~
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
NST 2339 W 0.5 wivil-Military Relations in Latin America A study of the relationships between civilians and the military in the history f Latin America. Topics explored will iclude European and U:S. influences on professionalization and on the development of political interest, and 4e post-World War II flourishing of rofessional militarism. difered at St. Jerome's College.
ne development of Christianity in its Homan Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions from the time of “hrist to the present.
iftered at Conrad Grebel College.
\ study of the civilizations of the sncient Near East focussing on ' Aesopotamia (Sumer and Akkad, the Babylonian Dynasty and the Third Dynasty of Ur), Hatti, Assyria, Egypt nd Persia.
Dffered at St. Jerome's College.
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4 comparative study of the cultural and political conflicts with society and state of such ethnic and religious minorities as Doukhobors, Hutterites, Jehovah's Nitnesses, Jews, and Mennonites (including the Amish). Emphasis on twentieth century.
Ottered at Conrad Grebel College.
This course covers Mennonite origins, ‘eachings, migrations, settlement datterns, divisions, leaders, institutions, and retigious and social practices, indeed all facets of Mennonite history in various national settings.
Dffered at Conrad Grebe! College.
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History
The political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical development of Europe from Chariemagne to Philip IV of France.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
European social and culturat history, 1815-1914. This course will consider the inter-relations between ideas and institutions during a period of industrialization, ubanization and mass education.
The evolution of Canadian society in the face of dominant British and American influences.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
This course studies the development of Modern Canada. Themes of the course include immigration, industrialization, feminism, labour unrest, and regionalism.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College in Winter term.
A wide-ranging survey. The first lecture each week will provide a narrative framework, the second, illustrative detail. At weekly seminars students will discuss, successively, significant individuals, colonies, commodities, institutions, documents and books which they have chosen and researched for themselves.
A survey of American society, politics and thought and of the relations of the United States with the outside world from 1865 to the present.
America, British colonial society, the American Revolution, politics and culture in the American Republic, the Civil War. A special emphasis on religious and political culture.
The course is an introduction to the Philosophy of History and to the art of historical writing. It deals with the great theoretical issues influencing historical analysis and with the classics of historical literature. it is equally concerned with the practical problems of historical research.
A study of achievements and crises in - politics and society, and of changes and continuities in religion and philosophy in the Tudor period.
A study of people, power, thought and culture in the world's first industrializing
society.
A study of the British experience and of Britain's part in world history from the 1860's to the 1980's.
1600-1950
A canvass of European thought between 1600 and 1950, on questions of self, society, science and spirituality.
An examination of Pre-industrial French Canada with emphasis on the cultural, political and economic themes which form the background to Modern Quebec history.
The course will treat the history of Quebec from 1867 to the present. Nationalism, separatism, language and cultural problems, economic and social issues are all examined in their historical context.
An examination of the history of relations between the two countries until 1914. Topics of a political, economic, social and cultural nature will be studied.
Relations since 1914
An examination of the history of relations between the two countries since 1914. Topics of a political, economic, social and cultural nature will be studied.
effect on the life and culture of the native Canadians.
The emphasis will be on the early development of the common taw in England and the formulation of constitutional law in the United States. Offered at St. Jerome’s College.
A study of the recurring dream of the coming golden age in the High Middle Ages beginning with Joachim of Fiore, including the Spiritual Franciscans and the Taborites, and ending with the Revolutionary of the Upper Rhine. Offered at Conrad Grebe! College.
An examination of the minorities phenomenon in the context of national, regional, and international power struggles and the resulting discriminations, reftugee movements, international dispersions, and conflicts in new settings. Emphasis on twentieth century.
Offered at Conrad Grebe} College
Special issues examined in historical context include church/state conflicts in education, conscription and: social poticies, and such phenomena as nonconformity, internal divisions, organizational proliferation, thealogical shifts, changing forms of leadership, and issues of identity.
Offered at Conrad Grebe! College.
Course Descriptions
History
A study of sixteenth century Anabaptism - a religious Reformation movement dissenting from both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism - its origins, its social, political and theological content; and its relationship to such independent dissenters as Sebastian Franck.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
A study of the Caribbean region from aboriginal times, including European imperialism, the history of plantations, slavery and slave society, independence movements, and the problems posed by modernization, underdevelopment and neo-colonialism.
The development of Germany from the Austrian-Prussian rivalry of 1740 through the end of World War II. Offered at Renison College.
The italian Renaissance
A study, against a social and political background, of creative achievements in the age of Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, the Borgias.
Off /red at Renison College
An analysis of the economic changes, the rise of “new monarchs", the nature and effect of the “religious reformation”, the expansion of Europe to the “new world” with their implications for sixteenth century Europe.
Offered at Renison College.
The course will examine the growth of Ontario from a pioneer settlement, with particular emphasis on economic, social, political and culturat aspects of change. An emphasis will also be placed on the sources and methods of local historical research.
The course will examine the emergence of Ontario as an industrial giant and the development of its hegemony in Canada. An emphasis wiil also be placed on the sources and methods of local historical research.
Study in a limited field under tutorial guidance. A high standard of written work will be expected.
Prereq: Honours History standing and permission of the instructor.
Not available to students with credit for 399A or B.
Study in a limited field under tutorial guidance. A high standard of written work will be expected.
Prereq: Honours History standing and permission of the instructor. . Not available to students with credit for 399A or B.
Ail 400 courses are designed for fourthyear Honours students. They are research seminars.
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