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GGRD31H3 - Independent Research Project

Independent research extension to one of the courses already completed in Human Geography. Enrolment requires written permission from a faculty supervisor and Associate Chair, Human Geography. Only open to students who have completed 13.0 credits and who are enrolled in the Human Geography Major, Human and Physical Geography Major programs, or Minor Program in GIS sponsored by the Department of Human Geography.

Prerequisite: Any 13.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

GGRD49H3 - Land and Land Conflicts in the Americas

This course explores various ways of making claims to possess or use land by first unsettling commonsense ideas about ownership and then tracing these through examples of classed, gendered and racialized property regimes. Through this exploration, the course shows that claims to land are historically and geographically specific, and structured by colonialism, and capitalism. Informed by a feminist interpretation of “conflict,” we look at microprocesses that scale up to largescale transformations in how land is lived. We end by engaging with Black and Indigenous epistemologies regarding how land might be differently cared for and occupied. 
Areas of focus: Environmental or Social/Cultural Geography

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including at least 0.5 credit at the B-level from (AFS, ANT, CIT, GGR, HLT, IDS, POL, PPG, or SOC)
Exclusion: (GGRC49H3)
Recommended Preparation: GGRB13H3 or GGRB21H3 or IDSA01H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

GLBC01H3 - Global Leadership: Theory, Research and Practice

Whether corporate, not for profit or governmental, modern organizations require leaders who are willing to take on complex challenges and work with a global community. Effective leaders must learn how to consider and recognize diverse motivations, behaviours, and perspectives across teams and networks. Building upon content learned in GLB201H5 and focusing on applications and real-life case studies; this course will provide students with knowledge and skills to become global leaders of the future. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to adapt culturally sensitive communication, motivation and negotiation techniques, preparing them to apply new principled, inclusive, and appreciative approaches to the practice of global leadership. In preparation for GLB401Y1, this course will include group-based activities in which students collaborate on current issues of global importance. An experiential learning component will help develop skills through interactions with guest lecturers and community partners. Community partners will present real-world global leadership problems to the class, which students will work to analyze and solve. At the end of the term, students will meet in person for final group presentations to deliver key solutions to community partners. This course will be delivered primarily online through synchronous/asynchronous delivery, with specific in-person activities scheduled throughout the course.

Prerequisite: GLB201H5
Recommended Preparation: None
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience
Note: 25 UTSC students in each course section (up to 4 sections). This is a tri-campus course and the enrolment limit for the Minor it supports is 100 students (25 UTSC, 25 UTM, 50 FAS)

HCSC01H3 - Experiential Learning in Historical and Cultural Studies

In this experiential learning course, students will have opportunities to apply their HCS program-specific knowledge and skills, develop learning, technology and/or transferable competencies, and serve the GTA community. This experience will allow students to meaningfully contribute to and support projects and activities that address community needs by completing a placement at a community organization.

Prerequisite: Students must be in Year 3 or 4 of their studies, and enrolled in an HCS subject POSt, and must have completed 3.0 credits of their HCS program
Exclusion: CTLB03H3, WSTC23H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HCSD05H3 - Intellectual Property in Arts and Humanities

The course provides an introduction to Canada’s intellectual property (IP) systems, copyright, patent, trademark and confidential information. Topics include use, re-use and creation of IP, the impact of the digital environment, the national implication of international agreements and treaties and information policy development.

Prerequisite: Any 2.0 credits; and an additional 2.0 credits at the C-level in ACM, Language Studies, HCS, ENG and PHL
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISA02H3 - Rise of the Machines: How Technology Remakes the World

We live in a world that has been profoundly altered by technology. Our homes, our work, our relationships, even our bodies all give evidence of our complex historical and cultural relationship with the tools we use. In this course, we examine how technology makes our world by studying pivotal moments in which technology has deeply transformed economic, social, and cultural relationships. We end by considering some of the ways in which contemporary technology is changing how we think and act. Students will explore theories of technological change and apply them to historical and cultural analysis, including an examination of their own experience. We pay particular attention to the ways that information technology both enable and constrain our work as investigators of historical and cultural phenomena, and we make extensive use of tools from the digital humanities to enhance our understanding and abilities.

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISA04H3 - Themes in World History I

An introduction to history that focuses on a particular theme in world history, which will change from year to year. Themes may include migration; empires; cultural encounters; history and film; global cities.

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISA05H3 - Themes in World History II

An introduction to history that focuses on a particular theme in world history, which will change from year to year. Themes may include migration; empires; cultural encounters; history and film; global cities.

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISA06H3 - Introducing Global Asia and its Histories

This course introduces Global Asia Studies through studying historical and political perspectives on Asia. Students will learn how to critically analyze major historical texts and events to better understand important cultural, political, and social phenomena involving Asia and the world. They will engage in intensive reading and writing for humanities.
Same as GASA01H3

Africa and Asia Area

Exclusion: GASA01H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISA07H3 - The Ancient Mediterranean World

An introduction to the main features of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean world from the development of agriculture to the spread of Islam. Long term socio-economic and cultural continuities and ruptures will be underlined, while a certain attention will be dedicated to evidences and disciplinary issues.
Same as CLAA04H3
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Ancient World Area

Exclusion: CLAA04H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISA08H3 - Africa in the World: An Introduction

An interdisciplinary introduction to the history and development of Africa with Africa's place in the wider world a key theme. Students critically engage with African and diasporic histories, cultures, social structures, economies, and belief systems. Course material is drawn from Archaeology, History, Geography, Literature, Film Studies and Women's Studies.
Africa and Asia Area
Same as AFSA01H3

Exclusion: AFSA01H3, NEW150Y
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISA09H3 - Capitalism: A Global History

This course explores the rise of capitalism – understood not simply as an economic system but as a political and cultural one as well – from roughly the 14th century to the present day. It aims to acquaint students with many of the more important socio-economic changes of the past seven hundred years and informing the way they think about some of the problems of the present time: globalization, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and the continuing exploitation of the planet’s natural resources.

Exclusion: HISA04H3 (if taken in the Fall 2017, Summer 2018 and Summer 2019 semesters)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB02H3 - The British Empire: A Short History

The British Empire at one time controlled a quarter of the world's population. This course surveys the nature and scope of British imperialism from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, through its interactions with people and histories of Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the British Isles.
Transnational Area

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB03H3 - Critical Writing and Research for Historians

Practical training in critical writing and research in History. Through lectures, discussion and workshops, students will learn writing skills (including essay organization, argumentation, documentation and bibliographic style), an introduction to methodologies in history and basic source finding techniques.

Exclusion: (HISB01H3)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB05H3 - History of Information for a Digital Age

This course provides a general introduction to digital methods in History through the study of the rise of information as a concept and a technology. Topics include the history of information theory, the rise of digital media, and, especially, the implications of digital media, text processing, and artificial intelligence for historical knowledge. Using simple tools, students learn to encode texts as data structures and transform those structures programmatically.

Exclusion: DHU235H1
Recommended Preparation: 0.5 credit at the A or B-level in CLA, FST, GAS, HIS or WST courses
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB09H3 - Between Two Empires: The World of Late Antiquity

A course to introduce students of history and classical studies to the world of late antiquity, the period that bridged classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. This course studies the period for its own merit as a time when political structures of the Medieval period were laid down and the major religions of the Mediterranean (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism) took their recognizable forms.

Same as CLAB09H3

Ancient World Area

Exclusion: CLAB09H3
Recommended Preparation: CLAA04H3/HISA07H3 The Ancient Mediterranean
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB10H3 - History and Culture of the Greek World

A survey of the history and culture of the Greek world from the Minoan period to the Roman conquest of Egypt (ca 1500-30 BC). Special attention will be dedicated to the nature, variety and limits of the available evidences, to socio-cultural interactions as well as to historical processes of continuities and ruptures.
Same as CLAB05H3
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Ancient World Area

Exclusion: CLAB05H3, CLA230H
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB11H3 - History and Culture of the Roman World

A survey of the history and culture of the ancient Roman world, from the Etruscan period to the Justinian dynasty (ca 800 BC-600 AD). Special attention will be dedicated to the nature, variety and limits of the available evidences, to socio-cultural interactions as well as to historical processes of continuities and ruptures.
Same as CLAB06H3
0.5 pre-1800 credit
Ancient World Area

Exclusion: CLAB06H3, CLA231H
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB12H3 - The Ancient World in Film

The representation of the classical world and historical events in film. How the Greek and Roman world is reconstructed by filmmakers, their use of spectacle, costume and furnishings, and the influence of archaeology on their portrayals. Films will be studied critically for historical accuracy and faithfulness to classical sources.
Same as CLAB20H3

Ancient World Area

Exclusion: CLAB20H3, CLA388H
Recommended Preparation: CLAA05H3 or CLAA06H3 or (CLAA02H3) or (CLAA03H3)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB14H3 - Edible History: History of Global Foodways

An exploration of how eating traditions around the world have been affected by economic and social changes, including imperialism, migration, the rise of a global economy, and urbanization. Topics include: immigrant cuisines, commodity exchanges, and the rise of the restaurant. Lectures will be supplemented by cooking demonstrations.
Transnational Area

Exclusion: (HISC14H3)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HISB22H3 - From Freedom Runners to #BlackLivesMatter: Histories of Black Feminism in Canada

This introductory survey course connects the rich histories of Black radical women’s acts, deeds, and words in Canada. It traces the lives and political thought of Black women and gender-non-conforming people who refused and fled enslavement, took part in individual and collective struggles against segregated labour, education, and immigration practices; providing a historical context for the emergence of the contemporary queer-led #BlackLivesMatter movement. Students will be introduced, through histories of activism, resistance, and refusal, to multiple concepts and currents in Black feminist studies. This includes, for example, theories of power, race, and gender, transnational/diasporic Black feminisms, Black-Indigenous solidarities, abolition and decolonization. Students will participate in experiential learning and engage an interdisciplinary array of key texts and readings including primary and secondary sources, oral histories, and online archives.


Same as WSTB22H3
Canadian Area


Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the A-level in any Humanities or Social Science courses
Exclusion: WSTB22H3, WGS340H5
Recommended Preparation: WSTA01H3 or WSTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HISB23H3 - Latin America and the World

This class will examine Latin America’s social and cultural history from the ancient Aztecs and Incas to the twentieth-century populist revolutions of Emiliano Zapata and Evita Perón. It will also focus on Latin America’s connections to the wider world through trade, migration, and cuisine.

Exclusion: HIS290H, HIS291H, HIS292H
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB30H3 - American History to the Civil War

A survey of American history from contact between Indians and Europeans up through the Civil War. Topics include the emergence of colonial societies; the rise and destruction of racial slavery; revolution and republic-making; economic and social change in the new nation; western conquest; and the republic's collapse into internal war.
United States and Latin America Area

Exclusion: HIS271Y
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB31H3 - History of the United States since the Civil War

This course offers a survey of U.S. history from the post-Civil War period through the late 20th century, examining key episodes and issues such as settlement of the American West, industrialization, urbanization, immigration, popular culture, social movements, race relations, and foreign policy.
United States and Latin America Area

Exclusion: HIS271Y
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB37H3 - History of Mexico

This class will examine Mexico’s social and cultural history from the ancient Aztecs through the Spanish Conquest to the twentieth-century revolutionary movements led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. It will also focus on Mexico’s connections to the wider world through trade, migration, and cuisine.

United States and Latin America Area

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB40H3 - Early Canada and the Atlantic World

The history of northern North America from the first contacts between Europeans and Aboriginal peoples to the late 19th century. Topics include the impact of early exploration and cultural encounters, empires, trans-Atlantic migrations, colonization and revolutions on the development of northern North America.
Canadian Area

Exclusion: (HIS262Y), HIS263Y
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB41H3 - Making of Modern Canada

Students will be introduced to historical processes central to the history of Canada's diverse peoples and the history of the modern age more generally, including the industrial revolution, women's entry in social and political "publics," protest movements, sexuality, and migration in the context of international links and connections.

Canadian Area

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB50H3 - Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade

An introduction to the history of Sub-Saharan Africa, from the era of the slave trade to the colonial conquests. Throughout, the capacity of Africans to overcome major problems will be stressed. Themes include slavery and the slave trade; pre-colonial states and societies; economic and labour systems; and religious change.
Africa and Asia Area
Same as AFSB50H3

Prerequisite: Any modern history course or AFSA01H3.
Exclusion: AFSB50H3, (HISC50H3), HIS295H, HIS396H, (HIS396Y)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB51H3 - Africa from the Colonial Conquests to Independence

Modern Sub-Saharan Africa, from the colonial conquests to the end of the colonial era. The emphasis is on both structure and agency in a hostile world. Themes include conquest and resistance; colonial economies; peasants and labour; gender and ethnicity; religious and political movements; development and underdevelopment; Pan-Africanism, nationalism and independence.
Same as AFSB51H3

Africa and Asia Area

Exclusion: AFSB51H3, (HISC51H3), HIS396H, (HIS396Y)
Recommended Preparation: AFSA01H3/HISA08H3 or AFSB50H3 or HISB50H3 strongly recommended.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HISB52H3 - African Religious Traditions Through History

An interdisciplinary introduction to African and African diasporic religions in historic context, including traditional African cosmologies, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as millenarian and synchretic religious movements.
Same as AFSB01H3
Africa and Asia Area

Exclusion: AFSB01H3, (AFSA02H3)
Recommended Preparation: AFSA01H3/HISA08H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies