Historical and Cultural Studies


For more information, visit the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies website.

The courses identified below are offered for Historical and Cultural Studies.

Experiential Learning and Outreach

For a community-based experiential learning opportunity in your academic field of interest, consider the course CTLB03H3, which can be found in the Teaching and Learning section of the Calendar.

 

Historical and Cultural Studies Courses

HCSB01H3 - Public Memory: Power, Knowledge and Community

How – and why – do societies remember? How do institutions like museums and archives work, and how do they connect to their political, social, and cultural environments? What is the relationship between memory, knowledge and power? This course examines the ways in which groups conserve, commemorate, and contest memories, as well as the roles played by institutions and professional practices, political and social factors, and community stakeholders in their development. Students will explore key methodological and conceptual frameworks, meet practitioners in the field, and develop original research in collaboration with community partners.

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

HCSB02H3 - Every Thing Tells a Story: Interpreting Material Evidence

What do ‘things’ tell us about the society that made them? This is a fundamental question for historians, anthropologists, and anyone studying social or cultural issues. By interpreting the material evidence produced – from monuments and buildings to everyday items or images – we find clues about how a society thinks, works, lives, and presents itself. This course will teach you how to recognise and interpret the ‘stuff’ that societies have made as a way of understanding those societies. It will introduce you to a range of examples of material evidence produced in different time periods and how this is studied by different disciplines. You will interact with ‘things’ and develop your critical, analytical, and communication skills.

Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HCSB03H3 - Ready for Research: HCS Skills Lab

This course prepares students to actively use a wide variety of research methods in the Humanities. Students will develop hands-on skills in key methods and interpretive perspectives, cultivating skills and knowledge applicable to their future research and professional lives. These will include textual, visual, and material analysis; digital humanities methods; community-engaged research; feminist research methods; archival research; and oral interviewing methods. The course also specifically prepares students to contribute to faculty-led research projects.

Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits, including 0.5 credit at the A or B-level in CLA, GAS, HIS, or WST courses.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Note: Students who successfully complete the course will receive priority placement in HCSB04H3.

HCSB04H3 - Research Practicum in Historical and Cultural Studies

This course offers students the opportunity to collaborate in ongoing faculty research in Historical and Cultural Studies. Working alongside faculty mentors, students will engage hands-on with key methods and interpretive perspectives, and contribute directly to project outcomes. In the process, they will cultivate skills and knowledge applicable to their future research and professional lives.

Prerequisite: HCSB03H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Note: Students may contribute to ongoing faculty research projects across multiple semesters.

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

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