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Junior HI Courses

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. 

 
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Senior and Seminar HI Courses

Each 400-level seminar is conducted in small participating groups focusing on a different time period and geographic region, highlighting a specific theme or themes chosen by the instructor. Seminars are divided into two types: a historiographical seminar and a structured research seminar. 

Seminars require active student participation and are writing intensive. The seminars are limited to Year 4 
Honours History students. Other Year 4 students may only be admitted to a seminar with permission from the 
Students in the Single Honours History BA program and in the Combined Honours History BA program are limited to one seminar unless departmental permission has been granted to take an additional seminar.

All Research Specialization majors complete two seminars.


 
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Course Offerings
Course #TitleCredits
HI102 Medieval War and Conflict 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
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 Mysteries of the Ancient World 0.5
HI123 Great Battles in History 0.5
HI124 History Detectives 0.5
HI125 Business History 0.5
HI127 Pirates! A World History 0.5
HI128 Revolution in the Modern World 0.5
HI129 The Making of Modern Art 0.5
HI130 Making the Modern World 1945-2000 0.5
HI131 Ancient Heroes: Story and Tradition 0.5
HI132 Computers to AI: A History of Computing 0.5
HI133 History and Popular Culture in the Modern World 0.5
HI198 World History Before 1500 0.5
HI199 Modern World History 0.5
HI201 Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 0.5
HI202 19th-Century Europe: War, Protest and Revolution 0.5
HI205 Imperial Russia 0.5
HI206 The Soviet Union 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
HI213 French Canada 0.5
HI217 British Politics and Society, 1485-1714 0.5
HI218 The Making of Modern Britain: 1688 to the present 0.5
HI219 Making of English Law to 1714 0.5
HI222 Cultures of Mesoamerica 0.5
HI223 Playing in the Past 0.5
HI224 Asia's Age of Influence 0.5
HI225 History of Ancient Greece 0.5
HI226 History of Ancient Rome 0.5
HI227 Foundations of Public History 0.5
HI228 Samurais to Superpowers 0.5
HI229 Modern African Global History 0.5
HI231 Medical History 0.5
HI232 A History of Sea Power to 1914 0.5
HI233 A History of Sea Power since 1914 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 in Europe 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
HI262 Witches and Demons 0.5
HI264 The World of Genghis Khan 0.5
HI265 Ten Moments that made the Middle East 0.5
HI267 Sport in the Modern World 0.5
HI271 Survey of European Women's/Gender History 0.5
HI273 Environmental History 0.5
HI274 Gutenberg to the Internet: Histories of Information 0.5
HI274 Information and Power in History 0.5
HI280 A History of Madness 0.5
HI281 Slavery in the Ancient World 0.5
HI282 Ancient Sumer to Persia 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 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
HI304 Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 0.5
HI305 Ancient Sexualities 0.5
HI306 Africa at War 19th-20th C 0.5
HI307 Modern Japan 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
HI313 Furs & Empire in North America 0.5
HI314 Cold War 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 Victorian Crime, Sex & Scandal 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
HI325 British Empire: Rule & Revolt 0.5
HI326 A History of Conspiracies 0.5
HI328 Canada in the World: From Laurier to the 21st Century 0.5
HI329 Global South Since 1945 0.5
HI330 Slavery and Emancipation in the United States 0.5
HI331 The African-American Experience since 1877 0.5
HI332 20th C Foreign Relations 0.5
HI334 The Social and Cultural History of Modern Britain: 1900 to the Present 0.5
HI335 Defending Indigenous Homelands 0.5
HI336 Capitalism: Markets & Morality 0.5
HI337 Canadian Business History 0.5
HI338 Canadian Labour History 0.5
HI339 History of Ontario since 1791 0.5
HI340 U.S. Rebels and Scandals: Sex, the Law, and Politics 1600-1900 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
HI352 History and Historical Fiction 0.5
HI353 The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 0.5
HI354 Public History Practicum 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
HI362 History of Poland 0.5
HI363 Jews in Modern Europe, 1750-1938 0.5
HI364 The Holocaust: The Genocide of European Jews 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
HI375 Seeking Justice: The Family and Law in Canada, 1867-1969 0.5
HI376 Crime and Policing in Early Modern England 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 Early Medieval England, c.450-1066 0.5
HI383 England in the Central and Late Middle Ages, 1066-1485 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
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
HI394 Local and Family History: Researching our Past 0.5
HI395 The Two Koreas: Modern Korean History Since 1930 0.5
HI396 Women at War 0.5
HI397 Canadian Women’s and Gender History 0.5
HI398 The Historian’s Craft 0.5
HI400 Seminar on Medieval Europe 1.0
HI401 Seminar on Early Modern Europe 1.0
HI402 Seminar on Asia 1.0
HI403 Seminar on Modern Europe 1.0
HI405 Special Topics Seminar 1.0
HI406 Seminar on Modern America 1.0
HI407 Seminar in War and Society 1.0
HI412 Seminar on Early America 1.0
HI426 Seminar on Indigenous North America 1.0
HI429 Seminar on the History of Canada to 1900 1.0
HI430 Seminar on Modern Canada 1.0
HI432 Seminar on British History 1.0
HI436 Seminar on Russia/Soviet History 1.0
HI448 Seminar on the Ancient World 1.0
HI496 Directed Studies 0.5
HI499 Senior Honours Thesis 1.0
 
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