History
Honours BA, Combined BA programs, Specialization, Options and Minor:
- Gavin Brockett, PhD
- Blaine Chiasson, PhD, Graduate Officer
- Adam Crerar, PhD
- Darryl Dee, PhD
- Karljürgen Feuerherm, PhD
- Judith Fletcher, PhD
- Leonard Friesen, PhD
- Jeff Grischow, PhD
- Mark Humphries, PhD
- Lianne Leddy, PhD
- Amy Milne-Smith, PhD
- David Monod, PhD
- Darren Mulloy, PhD
- Susan Neylan, PhD
- Chris Nighman, PhD
- Eva Plach, PhD
- David Smith, PhD, Chair
- Kevin Spooner, PhD
- Dana Weiner, PhD, Undergraduate Officer, historyadvising@wlu.ca
- Honours BA History
- Honours BA History in Combination with another Honours BA Program
- Research Specialization
- Applied Digital Option
- Music and Cultural History Option (Faculty of Music)
- History Minor
- Applied Digital Minor
Students registering for their first course will normally choose a 1.0-credit course (or equivalent) from HI101 to HI199. Each course is planned to permit students to achieve a common grounding in historical interpretation and analysis, and in methods of historical research and writing.
Not all history courses
listed below will be offered in a given year. For a list of courses for
this academic year and for a fuller description of course content and
requirements for honours degree students, consult the
departmental brochure available in the History Department office.
History students may take one pair of 400-level
reading and research seminars on a single topic. Those
enrolled in the Research Specialization Option take two
seminar pairs. Additional seminars, independent
studies, or thesis options require prior approval of the
Undergraduate Officer or Chair.
The 400-level seminar courses are studies of an advanced nature, conducted in small participating groups in which significant topics of historical interest are explored. 400 level courses numbered below 450 are seminars in which students will conduct the intensive study of assigned readings and engage in weekly discussions of those materials, as well as writing papers on the readings. Seminars numbered 450 and above are research seminars in which students who have already completed the prerequisite readings course will conduct an intensive research project approved by the instructor. The project requires them to produce an article-length research paper based mainly upon primary sources as well as the appropriate historiography. The paper must be presented to their fellow students and defended in the seminar; all students will also be required to critique and offer suggestions and comments on the work of their fellow students. The seminars are limited to Year 4 Honours History students with other Year 4 students being admitted by permission of the department. Unless prior permission has been granted by the department, students in the Single Honours History BA program may only take two readings seminars and one research seminar and students in the Combined Honours History BA program may only take one readings seminar and one research seminar.
Course # | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
HI101 | War, Conflict & Rebellion in Late Antiquity, 200-730 | 0.5 |
HI102 | War, Conflict & Rebellion in the Middle Ages, 730-1500 | 0.5 |
HI108 | Europe Transformed: Empire, Revolution and War, 1870-1918 | 0.5 |
HI109 | Age of Extremes: Europe's 20th Century | 0.5 |
HI110 | The History of Alcohol | 0.5 |
HI111 | Untold Histories in Post-Contact North America | 0.5 |
HI112 | Untold Histories in Modern Canada | 0.5 |
HI113 | Aviation in North America | 0.5 |
HI114 | Problems in United States History | 0.5 |
HI117 | Topics in North American History to the 1860s | 0.5 |
HI118 | Topics in North American History from the 1860s | 0.5 |
HI121 | Ancient History in a Global Context | 0.5 |
HI123 | Great Battles in History | 0.5 |
HI124 | History Detectives | 0.5 |
HI125 | Business History | 0.5 |
HI126 | War and Society in the Western World | 0.5 |
HI127 | Pirates! A World History | 0.5 |
HI128 | Revolution in the Modern World | 0.5 |
HI129 | Art from the Renaissance to the Present | 0.5 |
HI130 | Problems in Global History Since 1945 | 0.5 |
HI131 | Ancient Heroes: Story and Tradition | 0.5 |
HI133 | History and Popular Culture in the Modern World | 0.5 |
HI199 | The Roots of Now: Modern World History | 0.5 |
HI201 | Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 | 0.5 |
HI202 | 19th-Century Europe: War, Protest and Revolution | 0.5 |
HI205 | The Rise, Splendour and Fall of Imperial Russia, 862-1917 | 0.5 |
HI206 | Russia from Communist Revolution to Soviet Collapse, 1917-1991 | 0.5 |
HI208 | Liberty, Work & Power: U.S. History, 1607-1877 | 0.5 |
HI209 | The United States from 1877 to the Present | 0.5 |
HI210 | German History, 1648-1870 | 0.5 |
HI211 | German History, 1870-1990 | 0.5 |
HI212 | French Canada Before Confederation | 0.5 |
HI213 | French Canada After Confederation | 0.5 |
HI217 | British Politics and Society, 1485-1714 | 0.5 |
HI218 | The Making of Modern Britain: 1688 to the present | 0.5 |
HI219 | History of English Law to 1714 | 0.5 |
HI220 | War and Society: From Knights to the Thin Red Line | 0.5 |
HI222 | Cultures of Mesoamerica | 0.5 |
HI224 | The Asian World in Ascendancy 300 BCE-1600 CE | 0.5 |
HI225 | History of Ancient Greece | 0.5 |
HI226 | History of Ancient Rome | 0.5 |
HI228 | Survey of Modern Asian History | 0.5 |
HI229 | Africa since 1450 | 0.5 |
HI230 | War and Society in the Modern West | 0.5 |
HI232 | A History of Sea Power to 1914 | 0.5 |
HI233 | A History of Sea Power since 1914 | 0.5 |
HI234 | Canadian Art | 0.5 |
HI235 | Ancient Egypt | 0.5 |
HI236 | Magic and Religion in the Ancient World | 0.5 |
HI237 | Vikings! | 0.5 |
HI240 | The Active Historian | 0.5 |
HI246 | Canadian External Relations | 0.5 |
HI248 | The Second World War: The European Theatre | 0.5 |
HI249 | The Second World War in Asia | 0.5 |
HI250 | Bloodlands: Mass Violence in the East European Borderlands, 1914 to 1945 | 0.5 |
HI251 | Show Business: An American History | 0.5 |
HI252 | Lives of the Explorers | 0.5 |
HI253 | Race, Rights and the Law in Early United States History | 0.5 |
HI254 | Civil War and Reconstruction: the U.S. in Turmoil | 0.5 |
HI255 | Crime and Justice in Antiquity | 0.5 |
HI256 | Human Rights in World History | 0.5 |
HI257 | Germany’s Descent into Catastrophe | 0.5 |
HI258 | Indigenous Peoples and Empires | 0.5 |
HI259 | War in Asia | 0.5 |
HI260 | History on Film | 0.5 |
HI261 | The Ancient World in Contemporary Culture | 0.5 |
HI265 | Ten Moments that made the Middle East | 0.5 |
HI271 | Survey of European Women's/Gender History | 0.5 |
HI275 | Consumerism and its History, 1700-2000 | 0.5 |
HI280 | A History of Madness | 0.5 |
HI281 | Slavery in the Ancient World | 0.5 |
HI282 | Civilizations of the Ancient Near East | 0.5 |
HI283 | Ancient Africa | 0.5 |
HI284 | The History of Sexuality in Western Civilization | 0.5 |
HI285 | Ancient Art Beyond the West | 0.5 |
HI286 | Interpreting Digital Data | 0.5 |
HI288 | History Travel Course | 1.0 |
HI289 | Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World | 0.5 |
HI290 | History of Modern Art: Making it New | 0.5 |
HI292 | History of Canada to Confederation | 0.5 |
HI293 | History of Canada since Confederation | 0.5 |
HI299 | Special Topics | 0.5 |
HI300 | Directed Studies | 0.5 |
HI301 | Gender in Ancient Greece Drama | 0.5 |
HI302 | Military Revolutions | 0.5 |
HI304 | Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 | 0.5 |
HI305 | Ancient Sexualities | 0.5 |
HI306 | War and Society in Africa | 0.5 |
HI307 | Modern Japan | 0.5 |
HI308 | Renaissance Art | 0.5 |
HI309 | France in the Age of the Sun King | 0.5 |
HI310 | The Italian Renaissance, 1350-1530 | 0.5 |
HI311 | The Reformation | 0.5 |
HI312 | Canadian-American Relations | 0.5 |
HI314 | Contemporary Europe | 0.5 |
HI315 | The Other Europe: Eastern Europe in the 20th Century | 0.5 |
HI316 | Europe and the Early Modern Atlantic World | 0.5 |
HI318 | Crime, Sex, and Scandal in 19th Century Britain | 0.5 |
HI319 | Britain’s 18th Century | 0.5 |
HI320 | Canada since 1945 | 0.5 |
HI321 | Social History of Pre-Industrial Canada | 0.5 |
HI322 | Social History of Modern Canada | 0.5 |
HI323 | Memory, Monuments and Museums | 0.5 |
HI324 | English Government and Society, 1558-1660 | 0.5 |
HI325 | Imperial Fantasies: The Rise and Fall of the British empire | 0.5 |
HI327 | Québec in the 20th Century | 0.5 |
HI328 | Canada in the World: From Laurier to the 21st Century | 0.5 |
HI330 | Slavery and Emancipation in the United States | 0.5 |
HI331 | The African-American Experience since 1877 | 0.5 |
HI332 | The Foreign Relations of the United States in the 20th Century | 0.5 |
HI333 | Sport and Society in the United States from 1865 to the Present | 0.5 |
HI334 | The Social and Cultural History of Modern Britain: 1900 to the Present | 0.5 |
HI336 | Capitalism | 0.5 |
HI337 | Canadian Business History | 0.5 |
HI338 | Canadian Labour History | 0.5 |
HI339 | History of Ontario since 1791 | 0.5 |
HI341 | Canadian Military History | 0.5 |
HI342 | Culture and Ideas in the Modern World: Descartes to Darwin | 0.5 |
HI343 | Culture and Ideas in the Modern World: Marxism to Post-modernism | 0.5 |
HI344 | Indigenous Eastern Canada: Peoples and Societies Under Colonialism | 0.5 |
HI345 | Indigenous Western Canada: Peoples & Societies under Colonialism | 0.5 |
HI346 | Special Topics | 0.5 |
HI347 | Special Topics | 0.5 |
HI348 | History of International Relations, 1789-1890 | 0.5 |
HI349 | History of International Relations, 1890-1991 | 0.5 |
HI350 | Revolutionary Ideas in Russian History | 0.5 |
HI351 | Russian Society in War and Revolution | 0.5 |
HI353 | The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 | 0.5 |
HI355 | Athletics and Societies in the Modern World | 0.5 |
HI357 | Selling History: Business and Corporate Heritage | 0.5 |
HI358 | The Afterlife in Ancient and Medieval Thought | 0.5 |
HI359 | Great Cities in History | 0.5 |
HI360 | The Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-1921 | 0.5 |
HI361 | History of Poland to the Partitions, 966-1795 | 0.5 |
HI362 | History of Poland since the Partitions, 1795 to the present | 0.5 |
HI363 | Jews in Modern Europe, 1750-1938 | 0.5 |
HI364 | The Holocaust: The Genocide of European Jews | 0.5 |
HI366 | Modern Turkey | 0.5 |
HI368 | The Ottoman Empire | 0.5 |
HI369 | Ottomans, Armenians & Genocide | 0.5 |
HI370 | Cleopatra: History and Fantasy | 0.5 |
HI372 | Sex, Class and Agency: U.S. Women’s History, 1607-1877 | 0.5 |
HI373 | Modern China since 1890 | 0.5 |
HI374 | Jews, ‘Witches’ and Heretics: Persecution and Toleration in pre-Modern Europe c. 1050-1700 | 0.5 |
HI375 | Seeking Justice: The Family and Law in Canada, 1867-1969 | 0.5 |
HI377 | Science and Environment in Canadian History | 0.5 |
HI380 | American Culture and Society, 1890-1950 | 0.5 |
HI381 | American Culture and Society since the Second World War | 0.5 |
HI382 | Anglo-Saxon England, c. 450-1066 | 0.5 |
HI383 | England in the Central and Late Middle Ages, 1066-1485 | 0.5 |
HI384 | The World of Genghis Khan | 0.5 |
HI385 | Food and Drink in Ancient Mediterranean Society | 0.5 |
HI386 | The Vietnam Wars | 0.5 |
HI387 | American Protest Music | 0.5 |
HI388 | History Travel Course | 1.0 |
HI389 | Music, Sound and Environment | 0.5 |
HI390 | Family Law in Greece and Rome | 0.5 |
HI391 | Waking the Dead: Voices from the Near East | 0.5 |
HI392 | Popular Cultures of Contemporary East Asia | 0.5 |
HI393 | Multimedia Applications in History | 0.5 |
HI394 | Local and Family History: Researching our Past | 0.5 |
HI395 | The Two Koreas: Modern Korean History Since 1930 | 0.5 |
HI396 | Home Fronts and Frontlines: Women in War and Peace | 0.5 |
HI397 | Canadian Women’s and Gender History | 0.5 |
HI398 | The Historian’s Craft | 0.5 |
HI400 | Reading Seminar on Medieval Europe | 1.0 |
HI401 | Reading Seminar on Early Modern Europe | 1.0 |
HI402 | Reading Seminar on Northeast Asia | 1.0 |
HI403 | Reading Seminar on Post-1945 Europe | 1.0 |
HI404 | Reading Seminar on International Relations, 1914-1956 | 1.0 |
HI405 | Special Topics: Reading Seminar | 1.0 |
HI406 | Reading Seminar on American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century | 1.0 |
HI407 | Reading Seminar in War and Society | 1.0 |
HI410 | Reading Seminar on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | 1.0 |
HI411 | Reading Seminar on War and Memory | 1.0 |
HI412 | Reading Seminar on Race & Gender in the United States, 1608-1877 | 1.0 |
HI417 | Reading Seminar on Asia in World War II | 1.0 |
HI418 | Reading Seminar on Chinese Revolutions | 1.0 |
HI423 | Reading Seminar on Families and Education in Canada and the US | 1.0 |
HI424 | Reading Seminar on Nature and Environment in Canadian History | 1.0 |
HI425 | Reading Seminar on Science, Culture and Society in Canadian History | 1.0 |
HI426 | Reading Seminar on Indigenous North America | 1.0 |
HI427 | Reading Seminar on Local History | 1.0 |
HI429 | Reading Seminar on the History of Canada to 1900 | 1.0 |
HI430 | Reading Seminar on Canada in the 20th Century | 1.0 |
HI431 | Reading Seminar on Late Tudor and Early Stuart England | 1.0 |
HI432 | Reading Seminar on British History | 1.0 |
HI434 | Reading Seminar on the United States in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras | 1.0 |
HI436 | Reading Seminar on Russia in Revolution | 1.0 |
HI440 | Reading Seminar on Roosevelt’s America | 1.0 |
HI441 | Reading Seminar on American Extremism since 1776 | 1.0 |
HI445 | Reading Seminar on the Era of the US Civil War | 1.0 |
HI448 | Reading Seminar on the Ancient World | 1.0 |
HI450 | Research Seminar on Medieval Europe | 1.0 |
HI451 | Research Seminar on Early Modern Europe | 1.0 |
HI452 | Research Seminar on International Relations of Northeast Asia | 1.0 |
HI453 | Research Seminar on Post-1945 Europe | 1.0 |
HI454 | Research Seminar on History of International Relations, 1914-1956 | 1.0 |
HI456 | Research Seminar on American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century | 1.0 |
HI457 | Research Seminar in War and Society | 1.0 |
HI460 | Research Seminar on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | 1.0 |
HI461 | Research Seminar on War and Memory | 1.0 |
HI462 | Research Seminar on Race & Gender in the United States, 1608-1877 | 1.0 |
HI467 | Research Seminar: Asia in World War II | 1.0 |
HI468 | Research Seminar on Chinese Revolutions | 1.0 |
HI473 | Research Seminar on Home and School: Families and Education in Canada and the United States | 1.0 |
HI474 | Research Seminar on Nature and Environment in Canadian History | 1.0 |
HI475 | Research Seminar on Canadian History: Science, Culture and Society | 1.0 |
HI476 | Research Seminar on Indigenous North America | 1.0 |
HI479 | Research Seminar on History of Canada to 1900 | 1.0 |
HI480 | Research Seminar on Canada in the 20th Century | 1.0 |
HI481 | Research Seminar on Late Tudor and Early Stuart England | 1.0 |
HI482 | Research Seminar on British History | 1.0 |
HI484 | Research Seminar on The United States, The Gilded Age and Progressive Eras | 1.0 |
HI486 | Research Seminar on Russian Studies | 1.0 |
HI490 | Research Seminar on Roosevelt's America | 1.0 |
HI491 | Research Seminar on American Extremism since 1776: Arguing about Democracy | 1.0 |
HI495 | Research Seminar on United States: Civil War Era | 1.0 |
HI496 | Directed Studies in a Specific Historical Problem | 1.0 |
HI497 | Special Topics: Research Seminar | 1.0 |
HI498 | Research Seminar on the Ancient World | 1.0 |
HI499 | Senior Honours Thesis | 1.0 |