The Qur'an retells many narratives of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. This course compares the Qur'anic renditions with those of the earlier scriptures, focusing on the unique features of the Qur'anic versions. It will also introduce the students to the history of ancient and late antique textual production, transmission of texts and religious contact. The course will also delve into the historical context in which these texts were produced and commented upon in later generations.
Same as CLAC94H3

An examination of the relationship between language, society and identity in North Africa and the Arabic-speaking Middle East from the dawn of Islam to the contemporary period. Topics include processes of Arabization and Islamization, the role of Arabic in pan-Arab identity; language conflict in the colonial and postcolonial periods; ideologies of gender and language among others.

Asia and Africa Area

This course examines women in Sub-Saharan Africa in the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial periods. It covers a range of topics including slavery, colonialism, prostitution, nationalism and anti-colonial resistance, citizenship, processes of production and reproduction, market and household relations, and development.
Same as AFSC97H3

Asia and Africa Area

This option is available in rare and exceptional circumstances to students who have demonstrated a high level of academic maturity and competence. Qualified students will have the opportunity to investigate a historical field which is of common interest to both student and supervisor. Only standing faculty may serve as supervisors, please see the HCS website for a list of eligible faculty.

This option is available in rare and exceptional circumstances to students who have demonstrated a high level of academic maturity and competence. Qualified students will have the opportunity to investigate an historical field which is of common interest to both student and supervisor. Only standing faculty may serve as supervisors, please see the HCS website for a list of eligible faculty.

This seminar will expose students to advanced subject matter and research methods in history. Each seminar will explore a selected topic.

A seminar exploring the social history of translators, interpreters, and the texts they produce. Through several case studies from Ireland and Istanbul to Québec, Mexico City, and Goa, we will ask how translators shaped public understandings of "self" and "other," "civilization" and "barbarity" in the wake of European colonization.
Transnational Area

An exploration of the global problem of crime and punishment. The course investigates how the global processes of colonialism, industrialization, capitalism and liberalization affected modern criminal justice and thus the state-society relationship and modern citizenry in different cultures across time and space.
Same as GASD06H3
Transnational Area

A comparative analysis of transnational histories, and cultural and gendered ideologies of children and childhood through case studies of foundlings in Italy, factory children in England, orphans and adoption in the American West, labouring children in Canada and Australia, and mixed-race children in British India.

Transnational Area

An examination of approaches to historical analysis that take us beyond the national narrative beginning with the study of borderlands between the United States and Mexico, comparing that approach with the study of Canada/United States borderlands and finishing with themes of a North American continental or transnational nature.
United States and Latin America Area

This course offers an in-depth and historicized study of important issues in historical and contemporary Asian, diasporic, and borderland societies such as migration, mobility, and circulation. It is conducted in seminar format with emphasis on discussion, critical reading and writing, digital skills, and primary research.

Same as GASD01H3

Asia and Africa Area

This seminar type course addresses issues related to the relationships between ancient Mediterranean and West Asian societies and their hydric environments from 5000 BC to 600 AD.
Same as CLAD05H3
0.5 pre-1800 credit
Ancient World Area

The course will focus on major developments in art and ideas in early twentieth century Europe. We will study experimental forms of art and philosophy that fall under the broad category of Modernism, including painting, music, literature, and film, as well as philosophical essays, theoretical manifestos, and creative scholarly works.

European Area

This is a seminar-style course organized around a selected topic in Modern European History.

European Area

A comparative exploration of socialist feminism, encompassing its diverse histories in different locations, particularly China, Russia, Germany and Canada. Primary documents, including literary texts, magazines, political pamphlets and group manifestos that constitute socialist feminist ideas, practices and imaginaries in different times and places will be central. We will also seek to understand socialist feminism and its legacies in relation to other contemporary stands of feminism.
Same as WSTD16H3
Transnational Area

This seminar/lab introduces students to the exploding field of digital history. Through a combination of readings and hands-on digital projects, students explore how the Web radically transforms how both professional historians and others envision the past and express these visions in various media. Technical background welcome but not required.

An applied research methods course that introduces students to the methods and practice of Oral history, the history of Scarborough, the field of public history and community-based research. A critical part of the class will be to engage in fieldwork related to designing and conducting oral history interviews.
Canadian Area

A seminar exploring the evolution of American thinking about diversity -- ethnic, religious, and regional -- from colonial-era defenses of religious toleration to today's multiculturalism. Participants will consider pluralist thought in relation to competing ideologies, such as nativism, and compare American pluralisms to formulations arrived at elsewhere, including Canada.
Transnational Area

This course explores the origins, growth, and demise of slavery in the United States. It focuses on slavery as an economic, social, and political system that shaped and defined early America. There will be an emphasis on developing historical interpretations from primary sources.

United States and Latin America Area

This course focuses on three interrelated themes. First, it explores the social and political history of Reconstruction (1865 to 1877) when questions of power, citizenship, and democracy were fiercely contested. Second, it considers W.E.B. Du Bois’s magnum opus, Black Reconstruction, a book that not only rebutted dominant characterizations of this period but anticipated future generations of scholarship by placing African American agency at the centre of both Civil War and Reconstruction history, developed the idea of racial capitalism as an explanatory concept, and made a powerful argument about race and democracy in the USA. Third, the course looks at the politics of historical writing and knowledge in the past and today.

This fourth-year seminar is funded by the Canada Research Chair in Urban History and is taught by an advanced graduate student in American history. The course, with topics varying from year to year will focus on major themes in American social and cultural history, such as, women's history, labour history, and/or the history of slavery and emancipation.
United States and Latin America Area

A seminar that puts contemporary U.S. debates over immigration in historical context, tracing the roots of such longstanding controversies as those over immigration restriction, naturalization and citizenship, immigrant political activism, bilingual education and "English-only" movements, and assimilation and multiculturalism. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
United States and Latin America Area

The most striking development in U.S. politics in the last half century has been the rebirth and rise to dominance of conservatism. This seminar examines the roots of today's conservative ascendancy, tracing the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism and the subsequent rise of the New Right.
United States and Latin America Area

This course introduces students to the methods and practice of the study of local history, in this case the history of Scarborough. This is a service learning course that will require a commitment to working and studying in the classroom and the community as we explore forms of public history.
Canadian Area

A seminar on Canadian settler colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries that draws comparisons from the United States and elsewhere in the British Empire. Students will discuss colonialism and the state, struggles over land and labour, the role of race, gender, and geography in ideologies and practices of colonial rule, residential schools, reconciliation and decolonization.

Canadian Area

Weekly discussions of assigned readings. The course covers a broad chronological sweep but also highlights certain themes, including race and gender relations, working women and family economies, sexuality, and women and the courts. We will also explore topics in gender history, including masculinity studies and gay history.
Same as WSTD46H3
Transnational Area

A seminar on Cold War Canada that focuses on the early post-war era and examines Canadian events, developments, experience within a comparative North American context. Weekly readings are organized around a particular theme or themes, including the national insecurity state; reds, spies, and civil liberties; suburbia; and sexuality.
Canadian Area

How have Canadians historically experienced, and written about, the world? In what ways have nationalism, imperialism, and ideas about gender and race given meaning to Canadian understandings of the world? Students will consider these questions by exploring the work of Canadian travel writers, missionaries, educators, diplomats, trade officials, and intellectuals.
Canadian Area

A seminar study of the history of the peoples of southern Africa, beginning with the hunter-gatherers but concentrating on farming and industrializing societies. Students will consider pre-colonial civilizations, colonialism and white settlement, violence, slavery, the frontier, and the mineral revolution. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
Africa and Asia Area

A seminar study of southern African history from 1900 to the present. Students will consider industrialization in South Africa, segregation, apartheid, colonial rule, liberation movements, and the impact of the Cold War. Historiography and questions of race, class and gender will be important. Extensive reading and student presentations are required.
Same as AFSD51H3
Africa and Asia Area