Academic titleBachelor of History with Concentration in History
Course descriptionBA with Concentration in History (15-credit)
The three year program is a general liberal arts degree with concentration in History. It permits a wide range of choice in the selection of classes.
Besides the general degree requirements for all BA degrees, students are required to take:
• At least four and not more than eight full credits in History, beyond the 1000 level.
• At least two of these credits must be above the 2000-level.
• Within the last ten (10) credits, one (1) credit in each of two subjects other than History.
HIST 1004X/Y.06: Introduction to European History.
HIST 1005X/Y.06: Introduction to European History.
HIST 1501.03: Comparative Global History.
HIST 1502.03: Origins of Modern Global Society.
HIST 1701.03: History of the Americas: From Pre-Contact to the Revolutionary Era.
HIST 1702.03: History of the Americas: from the Revolutionary Era to the Present.
HIST 1862X/Y.06: North American Experiences.
HIST 1867X/Y.06: North Americans in Transition.
HIST 2001.03: Early Medieval Europe.
HIST 2002.03: Later Medieval Europe.
HIST 2003.03: The Fall of the Roman Republic.
HIST 2006.03: The Atlantic World, 1450-1650: European Colonization of the Americas.
HIST 2007.03: The Atlantic World, 1650-1800: European Empires in the Americas.
HIST 2012.03: Absolutism and Revolutionary Europe.
HIST 2015.03: War and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1750.
HIST 2016.03: Greece in the Fifth Century B.C.
HIST 2017.03: The Roman World from Constantine to Theodosius (A.D. 313-395).
HIST 2018.03: The Transformation of the Roman World (A.D. 395-565).
HIST 2019X/Y.06: Early Modern Europe, 1450-1650.
HIST 2021.03: Soviet Russia.
HIST 2022.03: Imperial Russia.
HIST 2032.03: Twentieth Century Germany.
HIST 2041.03: France from the Revolution to the Great War.
HIST 2055.03: War and Society since 1945.
HIST 2060X/Y.06: The Civilization of Baroque Italy.
HIST 2061.03: Civilization of Baroque Italy.
HIST 2074X/Y.06: Introduction of the History of Science.
HIST 2081X/Y.06: Twentieth-Century Europe in Literature, Art and Film.
HIST 2082.03: Twentieth-Century Europe in Literature, Art and Film.
HIST 2088.03: Greek Culture from Palace to Polis.
HIST 2089.03: Greek Culture from Polis to Cosmopolis.
HIST 2090.03: The Rise of Rome: 1000-31 BCE.
HIST 2091.03: The Roman Empire: Cycles of Collapse and Rebirth.
HIST 2101.03: Medieval England.
HIST 2106.03: Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1688.
HIST 2111.03: Modern Britain to 1884.
HIST 2112.03: Modern Britain from 1880 to 1980.
HIST 2153.03: Scotland from the Earliest Times to the Reformation.
HIST 2211.03: Social History of Canada before 1870.
HIST 2212.03: Social History of Canada since 1870.
HIST 2221.03: Rough Justice - Order, Disorder and Canadian Popular Culture to the 1890s.
HIST 2222.03: Rough Justice - Order, Disorder and Canadian Popular Culture, 1890s to the Present.
HIST 2231.03: The Making of Modern Canada: Canadian Political History, 1896 to the Present.
HIST 2235.03: History of Canadian Culture.
HIST 2250.03: History of the Canadian West.
HIST 2261.03: True Believers 1914 to Present - The Left and the Right in Canadian Politics.
HIST 2271.03: Atlantic Canada to Confederation: The Northeast in the Age of Empire, 1450-1867.
HIST 2272.03: Atlantic Canada since Confederation: Regionalism, Identity, and Development, 1867-2000.
HIST 2331.03: Creation of an American Republic: The United States, 1580-1865.
HIST 2332.03: The American Republic from 1865 to 1990.
HIST 2333.03: The Politics of Reform in Twentieth-Century America.
HIST 2335.03: Modern American Culture.
HIST 2336.03: The American Century: American Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century.
HIST 2381.03: Latin America.
HIST 2382.03: Central America to 1979.
HIST 2383.03: Area Studies on Mexico and Central America.
HIST 2384.03: Cuba from Colonial Times.
HIST 2385.03: The Cuban Cultural Revolution.
HIST 2386.03: Colonial Latin America.
HIST 2387.03: Latin America Since Independence.
HIST 2388.03: Latin American Dictators in the Novel.
HIST 2392.03: Introduction to Caribbean History (1450 to the Present).
HIST 2425.03: Africa Before 1900.
HIST 2426.03: Africa Since 1900.
HIST 2502.03: The Ottoman Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East, 1750-1923.
HIST 2503.03: From Cordoba to Jakarta: Islamic Civilizations in a Global Perspective (Seventh-Eighteenth Centuries).
HIST 2504.03: A History of the Modern Middle East.
HIST 2505.03: Turbans and Berets: A Modern History of Iraq.
HIST 2510.03: Modern History of South Asia.
HIST 2520.03: Ancient Israel in her Near Eastern Context.
HIST 2614.03: Making Gender - Male and Female from Antiquity to Mary Wollstonecraft.
HIST 2615.03: Making Gender - Male and Female from the American Revolution to the present.
HIST 2711.03: Struggles that Shaped the Modern World: 1600-1900.
HIST 2712.03: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? Revolution, Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century.
HIST 3000.03: Topics in Early Modern European History.
HIST 3002.03: The Medieval Church.
HIST 3003.03: Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1066.
HIST 3006.03: Renaissance and Reformation Europe, 1348-1559.
HIST 3007.03: The European Enlightenment.
HIST 3013.03: Sex and Gender in Reformation Europe.
HIST 3020.03: Fall of the Roman Republic.
HIST 3030.03: Russian Intellectual History.
HIST 3040X/Y.06: Culture and Behaviour in France, 1550-1750.
HIST 3045.03: The French Revolution.
HIST 3049.03: The First World War.
HIST 3050.03: Europe and World War Two.
HIST 3051X/Y.06: Fascist and National Socialist Movements in Europe, 1900-1945.
HIST 3056.03: The Holocaust: The Destruction of the Jews of Europe, 1933-1945.
HIST 3073.03: History of Marine Sciences.
HIST 3075.03: Science and Religion: Historical Perspectives.
HIST 3090.03: Russian Society.
HIST 3092.03: Russian Topics.
HIST 3094.03: Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky: Their Life and Works.
HIST 3096.03: The History of Ideas in Russia - From Official Nationality to Solzhenitsyn's Neo-Slavophilism.
HIST 3102.03: Seminar in Tudor History, 1485-1603.
HIST 3103.03: Seminar in Stuart History, 1603-1688.
HIST 3105X/Y.03: The English Civil War.
HIST 3107.03: The English Family and Household.
HIST 3108.03: Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England, c. 1500-1850: Madness and Marginality.
HIST 3109.03: Topics in the Social and Cultural History of England, c. 1500-1850: Everyday Life.
HIST 3112.03: England, 1867-1914.
HIST 3113.03: Britain in the Age of the First World War.
HIST 3114.03: Britain in the age of the Second World War.
HIST 3210.03: Canadian Cultural Landscapes.
HIST 3220.03: Youth Culture in Canada, 1950s to 1970s.
HIST 3222.03: Topics in Canadian Social History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
HIST 3223.03: The Caring Society? - Welfare in Canada since 1900.
HIST 3226.03: Law and Justice in Canadian Society, to 1890.
HIST 3227.03: Criminal Law, Crime and Punishment in Canadian Society, 1890 to the present.
HIST 3245.03: French Canada.
HIST 3260.03: History of the Canadian West.
HIST 3273.03: Nova Scotia: Pre-Confederation.
HIST 3274.03: Nova Scotia: Post-Confederation.
HIST 3282.03: Public History.
HIST 3293X/Y.06: The Political Economy of the Car: Fordism and Post-Fordism in International Perspective.
HIST 3300.03: Topics in the History of the Americas, 1450-1870.
HIST 3335.03: The Cold War, 1945-1989.
HIST 3350.03: Family and Community in North America, 1600-1900.
HIST 3360.03: Enslavement and Emancipation: African-Americans in the U.S. South to 1900.
HIST 3361.03: The American Civil War and Reconstruction.
HIST 3365.03: The Vietnam War.
HIST 3367.03: The History of Modern Intelligence in War and Diplomacy.
HIST 3368.03: America in the 1950s.
HIST 3369.03: America in the 1960s.
HIST 3370.03: North American Landscapes.
HIST 3390.03: Latin America: Revolution and Repression.
HIST 3393.03: Indigenous Movements in Latin America.
HIST 3430.03: The Making of Colonial Africa, c. 1850 - 1930.
HIST 3431.03: Struggles in The City: Labour, Migration and Urban Life in Colonial Africa.
HIST 3435.03: The Rise and Fall of African Slavery.
HIST 3451.03: Southern Africa to 1860.
HIST 3452.03: South Africa since 1860.
HIST 3470.03: Wars and Revolutions in Nineteenth-Century Africa.
HIST 3471.03: Wars and Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Africa.
HIST 3500.03: Topics in Global History.
HIST 3509.03: Caliphs and Khans: Islamic Civilization in the ?bbasid and Mongol Age (750-1400).
HIST 3510.03: Sultans and Shahs: Politics and Religion in the Islamic Gunpowder Age (1500 - 1800).
HIST 3511.03: Ancient and Medieval History of the Persianate World.
HIST 3512.03: Modern History of Iran.
HIST 3513.03: From Cairo to Cape Town: Religious Revival, Identity and Colonialism in Muslim Africa.
HIST 3515.03: Food for Thought: History and the Culinary Cultures of the Islamic World.
HIST 3551.03: Topics in Modern History.
HIST 3750.03: Social History of Seafaring: Maritime Culture in the Age of Sail.
HIST 4001.03: Directed Readings.
HIST 4003.03: Medieval Civilization.
HIST 4004.03: Crime and Society in Post-Conquest England.
HIST 4045.03: The French Revolution.
HIST 4104.15: Punishment, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England, c. 1550-1850.
HIST 4105.03: The English Civil War: Society, Religion, and Politics, 1603 - 1660.
HIST 4106.03: Topics in Early Modern English History.
HIST 4110X/Y.06: Rome and the East.
HIST 4117.03: Winston Churchill.
HIST 4162X/Y.06: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture.
HIST 4222.03: Topics in Canadian Social History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
HIST 4250.03: Popular Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850.
HIST 4260.03: Cowboys in North American History and Culture.
HIST 4300.03: Topics in Latin American History.
HIST 4400.03: Topics in African History.
HIST 4401.03: State Violence, Communal Conflict and Criminality in Modern South Africa.
HIST 4475.03: African Intellectuals and the Modern Experience.
HIST 4500.03: Topics in Modern History.
HIST 4510.03: Topics in Islamic and Middle East History.
HIST 4545.03: Scripture and Statecraft: History of Islamic Political Thought.
HIST 4550.03: Orientalism and Occidentalism.
HIST 4555.03: A Dream Palace or a Bitter Reality: Arab Intellectuals and their Ideologies in the Modern Period.
HIST 4600.03: Topics in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American and British History.
HIST 4613.03: Women's Suffrage from the French Revolution to World War I.
HIST 4614.03: Topics in the History of Sexuality.
HIST 4639.03: Britain, Appeasement, and the Origins of the Second World War.
HIST 4986X/Y.06: The Varieties of History.
HIST 4987.03: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations, 1776-1945.
HIST 4988.03: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations Post-1945.