83 courses in the 1984–85 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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.
The American identity 1607-1980 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 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 Conrad Grebel College.
Selected major themes from pioneer life to Canadian involvement in 20th century wars.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
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. Sarte, Shakespeare to Marx and Freud.
This course will survey the chief features of early modern European society. Topies will include the Renaissance and Reformation, Old Regime society, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
500-1000 A study of the laws and legal procedures of the Early Middle Ages. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law will be examined along with legal procedures and institutions of that era.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
This course will introduce students, through interrelationships and interaction of selected themes, to the contemporary history of Europe, North America, and the Far East. Its format includes 2 interpretive lectures per week plus major films on 20th century crises and optional discussion groups.
A history of the 20th century through films. The First World War, Europe between the Wars, the Second World War, North American Society in the 20th 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.
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.
The course examines the cultural, moral, social and economic adaptations of European settlers to the Upper Canadian frontier environment.
A study of the development of business in Canada at both the general economic and the individual enterprise level.
Course Descriptions History
Traditional and radical historians examine the Cold War: American- Russian rivalry, 19th century; Wilson vs. Lenin; F.D.R., Truman and Stalin; containment, coexistence, and the politics of crisis from 1945 to the present.
An historical introduction to law in the Ancient world. Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite and Roman law and legal practices and concepts will be examined.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
A survey of the main stages in the transition of Britain from 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.
A survey of the role of missionaries in imperial history since 1500. Native responses to evangelicization will be studied. Some comparisons will be made with indigenous response to Christianity in pre-modem times.
The development of Germany from the Austrian-Prussian rivalry of 1740 through the end of World War Il.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
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 Conrad Grebel College.
History
A survey of regional, religious and
imperial rivalries from ancient to modern
times, with emphasis on the 20th
century and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An evaluation of the causes and effects of revolutions in Latin America through an examination of such countries as Cuba, Mexico, Chile, etc.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of the relationships between civilians and the military in the history of Latin America. Topics explored will include European and U.S. influences on professionalization and on the development of political interest, and the post-World War il flourishing of professional militarism
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
The development of Christianity in its Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions from the time of Christ to the present. Offered at Conrad Grebel College. Cross-listed as R S 230.
An introduction to the social, political
and cultural history of Rome in its
development from a Republic to an
Empire. Special attention will be piaced
on the sources of political power. Offered at St. Jerome's College.
A comparative study of the cultural and political conflicts with society and state of such ethnic and religious minorities as Doukhobors, Hutterites, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, and Mennonites {including the Amish). Emphasis on 20th century. |
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
This.course covers Mennonite origins, teachings, migrations, settlement patterns, divisions, leaders, institutions, and religious and social practices, indeed all facets of Mennonite history in various national settings.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
The political, cultural, economic and
ecclesiastical development of Europe
from Charlemagne to Philip IV of France. Offered at St. Jerome's College.
European social and cultural history, 1815-1914. This course will consider the inter-relations between ideas and institutions during a period of industrialization, urbanization and mass education.
The evolution of Canadian society in the face of dominant British and American influences.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Period
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.
The history of the British Empire down to the American War of Independence, - telling the story of the Tudor seadogs, of the plantation of Ireiand, the settlement of the North American mainiand, the establishment of slave plantations in the Caribbean, and the earliest British enterprises in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
The history of British imperialism between the loss of the American colonies and the Falklands Islands War of 1982, tracing the rise of the settlement colonies to dominion status, the huge expansion of the dependent empire during the age of the New Imperialism, the imperial apogee after World War |, and the rapid change from Empire to New Commonwealth after World Waar Il.
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1865
The settlement of English North 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.
1860
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.
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 history of the English reformation, expansively considered from the beginnings of the European Reformation to the establishment of the Anglican church in the Revolutionary and Restoration periods in the 17th century.
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
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.
A study of the emergence of the United States as a world power in its international and domestic context, with particular emphasis on the 20th century.
1870's
"From Freedarn to Conquest”. The history of Indian-white contact and its effect on the life and culture of the native Canadians.
1870's
“Life under coercion” and the "New Indian”. The history of Indians on reserves and under government administration. Conternporary themes and issues of concern to native people are examined.
The emphasis will be on the early
development of the common law in
England and the formulation of
constitutional law in the United States. Offered at St. Jerome's College.
An examination of the minorities phenomenon in the context of national, regional, and international power struggles and the resulting discriminations, refugee movements, international dispersions, and conflicts in new settings. Emphasis on 20th century. Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
Special issues examined in historical context include church/state conflicts in education, conscription and social policies, and such phenomena as nonconformity, internal divisions, organizational proliferation, theological shifts, changing forms of leadership, and issues of identity.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
A study of 16th 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 course will focus on selected themes in the development of the Russian state and society from the beginning of Romanov rule to the middie of the 19th century.
The course will focus on selected themes in Russia’s development in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Soviet period.
A study, against a social and political background, of creative achievements in the age of Machiavelli, Leonardo da
Vinci, the Borgias. _
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An analysis of the economic changes, the rise of "new monarchs”, the nature of and effect of the "religious reformation’, the expansion of Europe to the “new world” with their implications for 16th century Europe.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An analytical and historical examination of Canadian foreign policy in the international system. Domestic sources of Canadian foreign policy and international sources of Canadian foreign policy are examined in detail.
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.
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Course Descriptions History
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.
All 400 courses are designed for fourthyear Honours students. They are research seminars.
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