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Faculty List
- D.E. Bender, M.A., Ph.D. (New York), Canada Research Chair, Professor
- C. Berkowitz, Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- K. Blouin, M.A., Ph.D. (Laval and Nice), Associate Professor
- L. Chen, M.A. (SUNY Buffalo), J.D. (Illinois), M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D. (Columbia), Associate Professor
- E.W. Dowler, M.A. (Harvard), Ph.D. (London School of Economics), Professor Emeritus
- M. Eksteins, B.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxon.), Professor Emeritus
- D.Gabaccia, M.A., Ph.D. (Michigan), Professor Emerita
- M. Gervers, A.B. (Princeton), M.A. (Poitiers), Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor
- A. Grewal, M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago), Assistant Professor
- R. Halpern, M.A. (Wisconsin), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Professor
- P. Hastings, M.A.(Carlton), Ph.D. (Duke), Assistant Professor
- F. Iacovetta, M.A., Ph.D. (York), Professor
- R.A. Kazal, M.A., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Associate Professor
- J.S. Moir, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), D.D. (Presb. College, Montreal), Professor Emeritus
- W. Nelson, M.A., Ph.D. (UCLA), Assistant Professor
- J.Pilcher, M.A. (New Mexico), Ph.D. (Texas Christian), Professor
- B. Raman, M.A., Ph.D. (Michigan), Associate Professor
- I.R. Robertson, M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor Emeritus
- S.J. Rockel, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor
- E.N. Rothman, M.A. (Tel Aviv), Ph.D. (Michigan), Associate Professor
- J. Sharma, M.A. (Delhi), M.Phil. (Delhi), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor: 416-287-7184 Email: history-undergrad-advisor@utsc.utoronto.ca
The study of History is vital for our understanding of the present. It offers multiple ways of explaining how the contemporary world emerged, and how past societies differed from our own. The History Program at UTSC provides a dynamic introduction to the global transformations that have taken place over the past two millennia, while also focusing on the experiences and contributions of ordinary people to these transformations. Our curriculum spans the history of all parts of the world in their complex, transnational connections, and covers a broad range of topics, including religion and everyday life, colonialism, gender relations, the history of work, the environment, urbanization, immigration, race and ethnicity, and material culture. Findings in history depend upon the precise evaluation of specific evidence, be it texts, images, or objects, and the History Program emphasizes the critical reading, research, and writing skills which are necessary for the study of the past and for a wide range of professional activities beyond the university. Innovative and interdisciplinary, History courses play a part in a number of other programs, including Classics, Global Asia Studies, African Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and Food Studies, and can also complement and enhance courses in Politics, Philosophy, Literature, Arts, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography.
The History curriculum encompasses a variety of approaches in order to build a range of knowledge and skills. A-level courses provide both a general introduction to the study of history at the university level and the preparation for further studies in transnational and global history. B-level surveys offer a comprehensive foundation of knowledge in their particular areas, including the histories of particular nation-states and regions of the world. In C-level courses, students investigate more specific places, periods, or problems through lectures and tutorials. D-level courses are conducted as seminars, where students make close and thorough studies of particular questions and present their findings in discussions, essays, and research papers. History courses at all levels cover a range of periods, from antiquity to the present, and explore a variety of world regions, from North America and Africa, through Europe and the Mediterranean, to South and East Asia. The History curriculum as a whole stresses training in writing, research, and historical methods; these skills are also the focal point of two specialized courses, HISB03H3 Critical Writing and Research for Historians and HISC01H3 History and Evidence. We likewise offer courses that build digital literacy and provide opportunities for public engagement and experiential learning.
Knowledge of other languages is essential to advanced study in history. If you plan to take history to an advanced level, we strongly encourage the early study of an appropriate language for your program or areas of interest. Specialists may enrol in the Language Stream, which is designed to foster such language training.
For updates and detailed information regarding History, please visit the Historical and Cultural Studies website.
Combined Degree Programs, Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
The Combined Degree Programs for UTSC Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc) /Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) with the Master of Teaching (MT) offered by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education provide students with a direct pathway to the completion, in 6 years, of their Undergraduate degree, Ontario Teacher’s Certificate of Qualifications, and Master’s degree. These Combined Degree Programs allow students to complete 1.0 credit in courses that may be counted towards both degrees.
The Combined Degree Programs options are:
- History (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- History (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
For more information, including Admission and Program requirements, see the Combined Degree Programs section of this Calendar.
Guidelines for first-year course selection:
Students intending to complete a program in History should take two of the following courses in the first year: HISA04H3, HISA05H3, HISA06H3/GASA01H3, HISA07H3/CLAA04H3, HISA08H3/AFSA01H3.
Service Learning and Outreach
For an experiential learning opportunity that also serves others, consider the course CTLB03H3 (Introduction to Service Learning), which can be found in the "Teaching and Learning” section of the Calendar.
History Programs
COMBINED DEGREE PROGRAMS, HONOURS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE OR HONOURS BACHELOR OF ARTS / MASTER OF TEACHING
The Combined Degree Programs for UTSC Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc)/ Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) with the Master of Teaching (MT) offered by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education are designed for students who are interested in a career in Education. They allow exceptional students who are registered in one of the 50 identified Specialist and Major programs to gain early admission to the MT, which is a full-time professional program that leads to both a Master's degree and eligibility to become a certified teacher in Ontario. Students who successfully complete one of the Combined Degree Programs listed below will earn two University of Toronto degrees (HBA/ HBSc and MT), and be recommended to the Ontario College of Teachers for a Certificate of Qualifications as elementary or secondary school teachers.
Contact Information:
Marcelle DeFreitas (Combined Degree Programs Coordinator)
Email: mdefreitas@utsc.utoronto.ca
The Combined Degree Programs options are:
Department of Anthropology
- Evolutionary Anthropology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Evolutionary Anthropology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
Department of Arts, Culture and Media
- Theatre and Performance Studies (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
Department of Biological Sciences
- Biology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Conservation and Biodiversity (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Conservation and Biodiversity (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Human Biology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Human Biology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Integrative Biology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Molecular Biology, Immunology and Disease (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Plant Biology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
- Mathematics (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Mathematics (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Mathematics (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Mathematics (Major Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
Department of English
- English (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- English (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- English (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- English (Major Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
Centre for French and Linguistics
- French (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- French (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- French (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- French (Major Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
Department of Historical and Cultural Studies
- History (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- History (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
Department of Human Geography
- Human Geography (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- Human Geography (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences
- Biological Chemistry (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Biological Chemistry (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Biochemistry (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Biochemistry (Major Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Chemistry (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Chemistry (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Chemistry (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Chemistry (Major Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Environmental Biology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Environmental Biology (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Environmental Chemistry (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Environmental Chemistry (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Environmental Physics (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Environmental Physics (Specialist Co-op), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Physics and Astrophysics (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Physics and Astrophysics (Major), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
- Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Science/ Master of Teaching
Department of Sociology
- Sociology (Specialist), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
- Sociology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/ Master of Teaching
Students applying to the MT must have two teaching subjects regardless of the concentration they are applying to (Primary/Junior, Junior/Intermediate, or Intermediate/Senior), and must have completed at least 6.0 credits in their first teaching subject and at least 3.0 credits in their second teaching subject (note: both French as a Second Language and Science require at least 6.0 credits in university courses even when they are a second teaching subject). Each of the programs listed below includes a minimum of 6.0 credits in courses that can be applied towards the completion of the prerequisites for the identified OISE teaching subject(s).
UTSC Programs Fit With OISE MT Teaching Subjects:
UTSC Program | MT Teaching Subjects - Required Number of Courses/Credits Completed |
---|---|
- Specialist/ Specialist Co-op in Biological Chemistry | Science - Chemistry, or Science - Biology, or Science - General |
- Specialist/Specialist Co-op in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology | Science - Biology, or Science - General |
- Major/Major Co-op In Biochemistry - Major in Biology - Specialist in Conservation and Biodiversity - Major in Conservation and Biodiversity - Specialist in Human Biology - Major in Human Biology - Specialist in Integrative Biology - Major in Molecular Biology, Immunology and Disease - Major in Plant Biology - Specialist/Specialist Co-op in Environmental Biology |
Science - Biology |
- Specialist/Specialist Co-op in Chemistry - Major/Major Co-op in Chemistry - Specialist/Specialist Co-op in Environmental Chemistry |
Science - Chemistry |
- Specialist/Specialist Co-op in Environmental Physics - Specialist in Physics and Astrophysics - Major in Physics and Astrophysics - Specialist in Physical and Mathematical Sciences |
Science - Physics |
- Specialist/Specialist Co-op in Mathematics - Major/Major Co-op in Mathematics |
Mathematics |
- Specialist in Evolutionary Anthropology - Major in Evolutionary Anthropology - Specialist in Socio-Cultural Anthropology - Major in Socio-Cultural Anthropology - Specialist in Sociology - Major in Sociology |
Social Science - General |
- Major in Theatre and Performance Studies | Dramatic Arts |
- Specialist/Specialist Co-op in English - Major/Major Co-op in English |
English |
- Specialist/Specialist Co-op in French - Major/Major Co-op in French |
French (Second Language) |
- Specialist in History - Major in History |
History |
- Specialist in Human Geography - Major in Human Geography |
Geography |
Application Process:
- Applicants must apply to the Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA)/ Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc) program, the MT program and the CDP.
- Qualified students in Year 3 of their HBA/ HBSc degree program apply to the MT program; those accepted will receive a conditional offer to start the MT program upon completion of their HBA/ HBSc program and degree requirements.
Minimum Admission Requirements:
To be considered for conditional admission to the MT program and the selected CDP, applicants must meet the following admission requirements:
- Be admitted to the HBA/ HBSc degree and at least one of the above-listed undergraduate programs at UTSC.
- Meet the admission requirements of the School of Graduate Studies and the MT program.
- Be enrolled full-time and in good standing in the HBA/ HBSc program(s):
- have a B+ average or higher in Year 2;
- carry a full course load of 5.0 credits each year (i.e., complete 5.0 credits over the three academic sessions - Fall, Winter, Summer); where necessary, exceptions will be made for students in Co-op programs.
- Have completed at least half of the teaching subjects' prerequisite courses - i.e., 3.0 credits in the first teaching subject and at least 1.5 credits in the second teaching subject (or 3.0 credits if the second teaching subject is French as a Second Language or Science) - by the end of Year 3.
- Provide at least two letters of reference (see: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/mt/Home.html).
- Provide a Statement of Intent indicating their preferred concentration (Primary/Junior, Junior Intermediate, or Intermediate/Senior) and describe three significant teaching and/or teaching-related experiences they have had, especially with groups of children; with reference to these experiences, applicants should identify insights gained about teaching and learning, and explain how, based on these insights, they might contribute to the education of students in today's schools. On their resumé, applicants must list, in chart form, the extent of their teaching experiences; the chart should include dates, location of the experience, applicants' role, and number of hours working with students.
- Meet other qualifications as specified by the MT program, including: a police record check, relevant teaching experiences, academic and professional references, and satisfying teaching subject prerequisites.
To be given full, unconditional admission to the MT program, applicants must meet the following admission requirements:
- Maintain a B+ average or higher in their final year of study in the HBA/ HBSc program, or over upper-level (C- and D-level) courses.
- Achieve at least a B+ average in 1.0 credit in graduate courses taken in Year 4.
- Regardless of the concentration to which they are applying (Primary/Junior, Junior/Intermediate, Intermediate/Senior), complete the prerequisites for both the first and second teaching subjects; students are encouraged to consult often with their HBA/HBSc Program Supervisor, as well as the Combined Degree Programs Coordinator.
- Be conferred with the HBA/ HBSc degree.
Program Requirements and Path to Completion:
- Year 1 to 4: HBA/ HBSc degree requirements:
- students must complete all of the HBA/ HBSc program and degree requirements;
- students are expected to carry a full course load of 5.0 credits over the three academic sessions (Fall, Winter, Summer) of each year;
- in Year 3, qualified students may apply to the MT and the CDP and may be offered conditional admission to the MT;
- by the end of Year 3 students must complete at least 3.0 credits required for the first teaching subject, and at least 1.5 credits for the second teaching subject (or 3.0 credits if the second teaching subject is French as a Second Language or Science);
- in Year 4, students who receive a conditional offer of admission to the CDP must complete any two of the graduate elective half courses recommended by OISE for CDP students; these courses (1.0 credit) are counted towards the completion of both the HBA/ HBSc degree and the MT program and degree; CDP students are graded as graduate students in these courses and are required to meet graduate expectations;
- by the end of Year 4, students must complete all HBA/ HBSc program requirements and degree requirements, including at least 6.0 credits required for the first teaching subject, and at least 3.0 credits for the second teaching subject (or 6.0 credits if the second teaching subject is French as a Second Language or Science).
- Year 5 and 6: Remaining MT program and degree requirements:
- students must complete 11.0 credits as identified by OISE.
SPECIALIST PROGRAM IN HISTORY (ARTS)
Undergraduate Advisor: 416-287-7184 Email: history-undergrad-advisor@utsc.utoronto.ca
Program Requirements
Students must complete at least 12.0 credits in History, including:
1. 1.0 credit from the following:
HISA04H3 Themes in World History I
HISA05H3 Themes in World History II
HISA06H3/ GASA01H3 Introducing Global Asia and its Histories
HISA07H3/ CLAA04H3 The Ancient Mediterranean World
HISA08H3/ AFSA01H3 Africa in the World: An Introduction
HISA09H3 Capitalism: A Global History
2. 1.0 credit as follows:
HISB03H3 Critical Writing and Research for Historians
HISC01H3 History and Evidence
3. 4.5 credits at the C-level
4. 1.0 credit at the D-level
5. 2.0 credits must deal with the period prior to 1800
6. Students must take 1.0 credit in Canadian history and 4.0 credits distributed over four of the following areas of history:
a. United States and Latin America
b. Medieval
c. European
d. Africa and Asia
e. Transnational
f. Ancient World
Specialist Program in History--Language Stream
Students registered in the Specialist Program in History have the option of registering in the Language Stream. Students in the Language Stream must complete the Specialist Program in History and 2.0 credits in a single language. This option is designed to encourage Specialists to undertake language study with an eye to engaging historical writing and sources in the original language. Specialists who wish to demonstrate proficiency in a given language on their transcript should undertake the additional study that would qualify them for the UTSC Language Citation.
SPECIALIST (CO-OPERATIVE) PROGRAM IN HISTORY (ARTS)
Co-op Contact: askcoop@utsc.utoronto.ca
The Specialist (Co-op) Program in History is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program that combines academic studies with paid work terms in the public, private, and/or non-profit sectors. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop the academic and professional skills required to pursue employment in these areas, or to continue on to graduate training in an academic field related to History upon graduation.
In addition to their academic course requirements, students must successfully complete the additive Arts & Science Co-op Work Term Preparation courses and a minimum of two Co-op work terms.
Enrolment Requirements
The minimum qualifications for entry are 4.0 credits, including 0.5 credits from: HISA04H3, HISA05H3, HISA06H3/ GASA01H3, HISA07H3/ CLAA04H3, HISA08H3/ AFSA01H3 or HISA09H3, plus a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5.
Current Co-op Students:
Students admitted to a Co-op Degree POSt in their first year of study must request a Co-op Subject POSt on ACORN upon completion of 4.0 credits and must meet the minimum qualifications for entry as noted above.
Prospective Co-op Students:
In addition to requesting the program on ACORN, prospective Co-op students (i.e., those not yet admitted to a Co-op Degree POSt) must also submit a Co-op Supplementary Application Form, which is available from the Arts & Science Co-op Office website. Submission deadlines follow the Limited Enrolment Program Application Deadlines set by the Office of the Registrar each year. Failure to submit both the Supplementary Application Form and the program request on ACORN will result in that student’s application not being considered.
Program Requirements
Students must complete the program requirements as described in the Specialist Program in History.
Co-op Work Term Requirements
Students must satisfactorily complete two Co-op work terms, each of four-months duration. To be eligible for their first work term, students must be enrolled in the Specialist (Co-op) Program in History and have completed at least 10.0 credits, including two of [ HISA04H3, HISA05H3, HISA06H3/ GASA01H3, HISA07H3/ CLAA04H3, HISA08H3/ AFSA01H3 or HISA09H3] as well as HISB03H3.
In addition to their academic program requirements, Co-op students complete up to four Co-op specific courses. These courses are designed to prepare students for their job search and work term experience, and to maximize the benefits of their Co-op work terms. They cover a variety of topics intended to assist students in developing the skills and tools required to secure work terms that are appropriate to their program of study, and to perform professionally in the workplace. These courses must be completed in sequence, and are taken in addition to a full course load. They are recorded on transcripts as credit/no credit (CR/NCR) and are considered to be additive credit to the 20.0 required degree credits. No additional course fee is assessed as registration is included in the Co-op Program fee.
Co-op Preparation Course Requirements:
1. COPB50H3/( COPD01H3) – Foundations for Success in Arts & Science Co-op
- Students entering Co-op from outside of UTSC (high school or other postsecondary) will complete this course in Fall or Winter of their first year at UTSC. Enrolment in each section is based on admission category: Typically, students in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics enroll in the Fall semester while all other Arts & Science Co-op admission categories enroll in the Winter semester however this may vary year to year.
- Current UTSC students entering Co-op in April/May will complete this course in the Summer semester.
- Current UTSC students entering Co-op in July/August will complete this course in the Fall semester.
2. COPB51H3/( COPD03H3) – Preparing to Compete for your Co-op Work Term
- This course will be completed eight months in advance of the first scheduled work term.
3. COPB52H3/( COPD11H3) – Managing your Work Term Search & Transition to Work
- This course will be completed four months in advance of the first work scheduled work term.
4. COPC98H3/( COPD12H3) – Integrating Your Work Term Experience Part I
- This course will be completed four months in advance of the second scheduled work term.
5. COPC99H3/( COPD13H3) – Integrating Your Work Term Experience Part II
- This course will be completed four months in advance of the third scheduled work term (for programs that require the completion of 3 work terms and/or four months in advance of any additional work terms that have been approved by the Arts and Science Co-op Office.
Students must be available for work terms in each of the Fall, Winter and Summer semesters and must complete at least one of their required work terms in either a Fall or Winter semester. This, in turn, requires that students take courses during at least one Summer semester.
For information on fees, status in Co-op programs, and certification of completion of Co-op programs, see Section 6B.5 or the Arts and Science Co-op section in the UTSC Calendar.
MAJOR PROGRAM IN HISTORY (ARTS)
Undergraduate Advisor: 416-287-7184 Email: history-undergrad-advisor@utsc.utoronto.ca
Program Requirements
Students must complete at least 7.0 credits in History, including:
1. 1.0 credit from the following:
HISA04H3 Themes in World History I
HISA05H3 Themes in World History II
HISA06H3/ GASA01H3 Introducing Global Asia and its Histories
HISA07H3/ CLAA04H3 The Ancient Mediterranean World
HISA08H3/ AFSA01H3 Africa in the World: An Introduction
HISA09H3 Capitalism: A Global History
2. 0.5 credit as follows:
HISB03H3 Critical Writing and Research for Historians
3. 3.0 credits at the C- or D-level
4. 1.5 credits must deal with the period prior to 1800
5. 1.0 credit in Canadian history and at least 0.5 credit in two of the following areas of history:
a. United States and Latin America
b. Medieval
c. European
d. Africa and Asia
e. Transnational
f. Ancient World
MAJOR (CO-OPERATIVE) PROGRAM IN HISTORY (ARTS)
Co-op Contact: askcoop@utsc.utoronto.ca
The Major (Co-op) Program in History is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program that combines academic studies with paid work terms in the public, private, and/or non-profit sectors. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop the academic and professional skills required to pursue employment in these areas, or to continue on to graduate training in an academic field related to History upon graduation.
In addition to their academic course requirements, students must successfully complete the additive Arts & Science Co-op Work Term Preparation courses and a minimum of two Co-op work terms.
Enrolment Requirements
The minimum qualifications for entry are 4.0 credits, including 0.5 credit from: HISA04H3, HISA05H3, HISA06H3/ GASA01H3, HISA07H3/ CLAA04H3, HISA08H3/ AFSA01H3 or HISA09H3, plus a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5.
Current Co-op Students:
Students admitted to a Co-op Degree POSt in their first year of study must request a Co-op Subject POSt on ACORN upon completion of 4.0 credits and must meet the minimum qualifications for entry as noted above.
Prospective Co-op Students:
In addition to requesting the program on ACORN, prospective Co-op students (i.e., those not yet admitted to a Co-op Degree POSt) must also submit a Co-op Supplementary Application Form, which is available from the Arts & Science Co-op Office website. Submission deadlines follow the Limited Enrolment Program Application Deadlines set by the Office of the Registrar each year. Failure to submit both the Supplementary Application Form and the program request on ACORN will result in that student’s application not being considered.
Program Requirements
Students must complete the program requirements as described in the Major Program in History.
Co-op Work Term Requirements
Students must satisfactorily complete two Co-op work terms, each of four-months duration. To be eligible for their first work term, students must be enrolled in the Major (Co-op) Program in History and have completed at least 10.0 credits, including two of [ HISA04H3, HISA05H3, HISA06H3/ GASA01H3, HISA07H3/ CLAA04H3, HISA08H3/ AFSA01H3 or HISA09H3] as well as HISB03H3.
In addition to their academic program requirements, Co-op students complete up to four Co-op specific courses. These courses are designed to prepare students for their job search and work term experience, and to maximize the benefits of their Co-op work terms. They cover a variety of topics intended to assist students in developing the skills and tools required to secure work terms that are appropriate to their program of study, and to perform professionally in the workplace. These courses must be completed in sequence, and are taken in addition to a full course load. They are recorded on transcripts as credit/no credit (CR/NCR) and are considered to be additive credit to the 20.0 required degree credits. No additional course fee is assessed as registration is included in the Co-op Program fee.
Co-op Preparation Course Requirements:
1. COPB50H3/( COPD01H3) – Foundations for Success in Arts & Science Co-op
- Students entering Co-op from outside of UTSC (high school or other postsecondary) will complete this course in Fall or Winter of their first year at UTSC. Enrolment in each section is based on admission category: Typically, students in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics enroll in the Fall semester while all other Arts & Science Co-op admission categories enroll in the Winter semester however this may vary year to year.
- Current UTSC students entering Co-op in April/May will complete this course in the Summer semester.
- Current UTSC students entering Co-op in July/August will complete this course in the Fall semester.
2. COPB51H3/( COPD03H3) – Preparing to Compete for your Co-op Work Term
- This course will be completed eight months in advance of the first scheduled work term.
3. COPB52H3/( COPD11H3) – Managing your Work Term Search & Transition to Work
- This course will be completed four months in advance of the first work scheduled work term.
4. COPC98H3/( COPD12H3) – Integrating Your Work Term Experience Part I
- This course will be completed four months in advance of the second scheduled work term.
5. COPC99H3/( COPD13H3) – Integrating Your Work Term Experience Part II
- This course will be completed four months in advance of the third scheduled work term (for programs that require the completion of 3 work terms and/or four months in advance of any additional work terms that have been approved by the Arts and Science Co-op Office.
Students must be available for work terms in each of the Fall, Winter and Summer semesters and must complete at least one of their required work terms in either a Fall or Winter semester. This, in turn, requires that students take courses during at least one Summer semester.
For information on fees, status in Co-op programs, and certification of completion of Co-op programs, see Section 6B.5 or the Arts and Science Co-op section in the UTSC Calendar.
MINOR PROGRAM IN HISTORY (ARTS)
Undergraduate Advisor: 416-287-7184 Email: history-undergrad-advisor@utsc.utoronto.ca
Program Requirements
Students must complete 4.0 credits in History, of which at least 1.0 credit must be at the C- and/or D-level.
History Courses
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.
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.
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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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.
African and Asian Area
Same as AFSA01H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
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.
Enrolment Limits: 25
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB12H3 - The Classical 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
Recommended Preparation: CLAA05H3 or CLAA06H3 or ( CLAA02H3) or ( CLAA03H3)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
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.
Enrolment Limits: 75
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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.
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
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Exclusion: AFSB50H3, ( HISC50H3), HIS295H, HIS396H, (HIS396Y)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Recommended Preparation: AFSA01H3/ HISA08H3 or AFSB50H3 or HISB50H3 strongly recommended.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & 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
Recommended Preparation: AFSA01H3/ HISA08H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB53H3 - Mughals and the World, 1500-1858 AD
Why does Southern Asia’s pre-colonial history matter? Using materials that illustrate the connected worlds of Central Asia, South Asia and the Indian Ocean rim, we will query conventional histories of Asia in the time of European expansion.
Same as GASB53H3
0.5 pre-1800 credit
Africa & Asia Area
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB54H3 - Africa in the Postcolonial Era
Africa from the 1960s to the present. After independence, Africans experienced great optimism and then the disappointments of unmet expectations, development crises, conflict and AIDS. Yet the continent’s strength is its youth. Topics include African socialism and capitalism; structural adjustment and resource economies; dictatorship and democratization; migration and urbanization; social movements.
Same as AFSB54H3
Exclusion: AFSB54H3, NEW250Y1
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB57H3 - Sub-Continental Histories: South Asia in the World
A survey of South Asian history. The course explores diverse and exciting elements of this long history, such as politics, religion, trade, literature, and the arts, keeping in mind South Asia's global and diasporic connections.
Africa and Asia Area
Same as GASB57H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB58H3 - Modern Chinese History
This course provides an overview of the historical changes and continuities of the major cultural, economic, political, and social institutions and practices in modern Chinese history.
Same as GASB58H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: HIS280Y, GASB58H3
Recommended Preparation: 0.5 credit at the A-level in HIS or GAS courses
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB60H3 - Europe in the Early Middle Ages (305-1053)
The development of Europe from the Late Roman period to the eleventh-century separation of the Roman and Byzantine Churches. The course includes the foundation and spread of Christianity, the settlement of "barbarians" and Vikings, the establishment of Frankish kingship, the Empire of Charlemagne, and feudalism and manorialism.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Medieval Area
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB61H3 - Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages (1053-1492)
An introduction to the social, political, religious and economic foundations of the Western world, including Church and State relations, the Crusades, pilgrimage, monasticism, universities and culture, rural exploitation, town development and trade, heresy, plague and war. Particular attention will be devoted to problems which continue to disrupt the modern world.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Medieval Area
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISB62H3 - The Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500-1800
An exploration of the interplay of culture, religion, politics and commerce in the Mediterranean region from 1500 to 1800. Through travel narratives, autobiographical texts, and visual materials we will trace how men and women on the Mediterranean's European, Asian, and African shores experienced their changing world.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Transnational Area.
HISB74H3 - Asian Foods and Global Cities
This course explores the social circulation of Asian-identified foods and beverages using research from geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians to understand their changing roles in ethnic entrepreneur-dominated cityscapes of London, Toronto, Singapore, Hong Kong, and New York. Foods under study include biryani, curry, coffee, dumplings, hoppers, roti, and tea.
Same as GASB74H3
HISB93H3 - Modern Europe I: The Nineteenth Century
HISB94H3 - Modern Europe II: The Twentieth Century
Europe from the First World War to the present day. War, political extremism, economic crisis, scientific and technological change, cultural modernism, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the European Union are among the topics covered.
European Area
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC01H3 - History and Evidence
An examination of the nature and uses of evidence in historical and related studies.
Historians use a wide variety of sources as evidence for making meaningful statements about the past. This course explores what is meant by history and how historians evaluate sources and test their reliability as historical evidence.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC02H3 - Marx and History
This is an intensive reading course that explores the Marxist historical tradition in critical perspective. It builds upon HISA09H3, and aims to help students acquire a theoretical and practical appreciation of the contributions, limitations, and ambiguities of Marxian approaches to history. Readings include classical philosophers and social critics, contemporary historians, and critics of Marxism.
Recommended Preparation: HISA09H3
Enrolment Limits: 20
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC03H3 - History of Animals and People
An examination of the places of animals in global history. The course examines on-going interactions between humans and animals through hunting, zoos, breeding, and pets and the historical way the divide between humans and animals has been measured. Through animals, people have often thought about what it means to be human.
Same as (IEEC03H3)
Transnational Area
Exclusion: ( HISD03H3), ( IEEC03H3)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC04H3 - Drink in History
This class seeks to recover a celebratory side of human experience that revolves around alcohol and stimulating beverages. Although most societies have valued psychoactive beverages, there has also been considerable ambivalence about the social consequences of excessive drinking. Students will examine drinking cultures through comparative historical study and ethnographic observation.
Enrolment Limits: 50
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC05H3 - Feeding the City: Food Systems in Historical Perspective
This course puts urban food systems in world historical perspective using case studies from around the world and throughout time. Topics include provisioning, food preparation and sale, and cultures of consumption in courts, restaurants, street vendors, and domestic settings. Students will practice historical and geographical methodologies to map and interpret foodways.
Same as FSTC05H3
Exclusion: FSTC05H3
Enrolment Limits: 50
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC08H3 - Colonialism on Film
An examination of the depiction of empires and the colonial and postcolonial experience on film. This course also introduces students to the development of national cinemas in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. The relationship between academic history and history as imagined by filmmakers is a key theme.
Transnational Area
Exclusion: ( HISB18H3)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC09H3 - Pirates of the Caribbean
This course examines early modern globalization through that cosmopolitan actor, the pirate. Beginning in the Caribbean, we will explore networks of capitalism, migration, empire, and nascent nationalism. By studying global phenomena through marginalized participants—pirates, maroons, rebels, and criminals—we seek alternate narratives on the modern world’s origins.
Enrolment Limits: 50
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC10H3 - Environment, Society and Economy in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
This course provides a review of the environmental, social and economic features of Egypt from 332 BC to 642 AD.
Same as (IEEC52H3), CLAC05H3
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Ancient World Area
Exclusion: ( IEEC52H3), CLAC05H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC11H3 - Multiculturalism and Cultural Identities in the Greek and Roman Worlds
A critical examination of multiculturalism and cultural identities in the Greek and Roman worlds. Special attention will be dedicated to the evidences through which these issues are documented and to their fundamental influence on the formation and evolution of ancient Mediterranean societies and cultures.
Same as CLAC24H3
0.5 pre-1800 credit
Ancient World Area
Exclusion: CLAC24H3
Recommended Preparation: CLAB05H3 and CLAB06H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC18H3 - Europe in the Enlightenment, 1700-1789
An examination of the ideals of the Enlightenment against the background of social and political change in eighteenth-century Europe.
This course looks at Enlightenment thought and the ways in which European monarchs like Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great adapted it to serve their goals of state building.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
European Area
Exclusion: HIS244H, HIS341Y
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC26H3 - The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
The course will present the causes, processes, principles, and effects of the French Revolution. It will additionally present the relationship between the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, and look at the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC27H3 - The History of European Sexuality: From Antiquity to the Present
The course will cover major developments in sexuality in Europe since antiquity. It will focus on the manner in which social, political, and economic forces influenced the development of sexuality. It will also analyze how religious beliefs, philosophical ideas, and scientific understanding influenced the ways that sexuality was understood.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC29H3 - Global Commodities: Nature, Culture, History
This course explores familiar commodities in terms of natural origins, everyday cultures of use, and global significance. It analyses environmental conditions, socio-economic transactions, political, religious, and cultural contexts around their production, distribution, and consumption. Commodity case studies will be selected among tea, opium, chocolate, rice, bananas, cotton, rubber, coffee, and sugar.
Transnational Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB03H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
Note:
Priority will be given to students enrolled in the Specialist and Major programs in History
HISC30H3 - The U.S. and the World
Collectively, immigrants, businesspeople, investors, missionaries, writers and musicians may have been as important as diplomats’ geopolitical strategies in creating networks of connection and exchange between the United States and the world. This course focuses on the changing importance and interactions over time of key groups of state and non-state actors.
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC32H3 - The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1933
Overview of the political and social developments that produced the modern United States in the half-century after 1877. Topics include urbanization, immigration, industrialization, the rise of big business and of mass culture, imperialism, the evolution of the American colour line, and how Americans used politics to grapple with these changes.
United States and Latin America Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3 and HISB31H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC33H3 - Modern American Political Culture
An examination of the relationship between culture and politics in modern American history. The course considers culture as a means through which Americans expressed political desires. Politics, similarly, can be understood as a forum for cultural expression. Topics include imperialism, immigration and migration, the Cold War, and the "culture wars".
United States and Latin America Area
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC34H3 - Race, Segregation, Protest: South Africa and the United States
This transnational history course explores the origins, consolidation, and unmaking of segregationist social orders in the American South and South Africa. It examines the origins of racial inequality, the structural and socio-political roots of segregation, the workings of racial practices and ideologies, and the various strategies of both accommodation and resistance employed by black South Africans and African Americans from the colonial era up to the late twentieth century.
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC36H3 - People in Motion: Immigrants and Migrants in U.S. History
Overview of the waves of immigration and internal migration that have shaped America from the colonial period to the present. Topics include colonization and westward migration, immigrants in the industrial and contemporary eras, nativism, stances towards pluralism and assimilation, and how migration experiences have varied by race, class, and gender.
United States and Latin America Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3 and HISB31H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC37H3 - Eating and Drinking Across the Americas
Students in this course will examine the development of regional cuisines in North and South America. Topics will include indigenous foodways, the role of commodity production and alcohol trade in the rise of colonialism, the formation of national cuisines, industrialization, migration, and contemporary globalization. Tutorials will be conducted in the Culinaria Kitchen Laboratory.
Same as FSTC37H3
United States and Latin America Area
Exclusion: FSTC37H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC38H3 - Mexico Through American Eyes
This course focuses on the period of the Mexican revolution, 1910 through 1940, and will explore the influence of this political and social upheaval on changing cultural relations between the peoples of the United States and Mexico as seen through the work of foreign travellers, journalists, writers, filmmakers and photographers.
United States and Latin America Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3 and HISB31H3
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC39H3 - Hellhound on My Trail: Living the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, 1890-1945
This course examines black life and culture in the cotton South through the medium of the blues. Major topics include: land tenure patterns in southern agriculture, internal and external migration, mechanisms of state and private labour control, gender conventions in the black community, patterns of segregation and changing race relations.
Enrolment Limits: 50
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC45H3 - Immigrants and Race Relations in Canadian History
An examination of aspects of the history of immigrants and race relations in Canada, particularly for the period 1840s 1960s.
The course covers various immigrant and racialized groups and explores how class, gender and race/ethnicity shaped experiences and racial/ethnic relations.
Canadian Area
Exclusion: HIS312H
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC46H3 - Canada and the World
A look at Canada's evolution in relation to developments on the world stage. Topics include Canada's role in the British Empire and its relationship with the U.S., international struggles for women's rights, Aboriginal peoples' sovereignty and LGBT equality, socialism and communism, the World Wars, decolonization, the Cold War, humanitarianism, and terrorism.
Canadian Area
Exclusion: HIS311H, HIS311Y
Recommended Preparation: HISB40H3 or HISB41H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC51H3 - From Opium to Maximum City: Narrating Political Economy in China and India
This course addresses literary, historical, ethnographic, and filmic representations of the political economy of China and the Indian subcontinent from the early 19th century to the present day. We will look at such topics as the role and imagination of the colonial-era opium trade that bound together India, China and Britain in the 19th century, anticolonial conceptions of the Indian and Chinese economies, representations of national physical health, as well as critiques of mass-consumption and capitalism in the era of the ‘liberalization’ and India and China’s rise as major world economies. Students will acquire a grounding in these subjects from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.
Same as GASC51H3
Exclusion: GASC51H3
Recommended Preparation: GASA01H3/ HISA06H3 or GASA02H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC52H3 - Ethiopia: Seeing History
This course uses a focus on material history and visual culture to explore Ethiopia from the fourth through the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the Christian Church, the monarchy, links with both the Mediterranean world and the Indian subcontinent, and the relationship of individuals to their social, economic, artistic and geographic environments.
Same as AFSC52H3 and VPHC52H3
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: AFSC52H3, VPHC52H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC54H3 - Eating and Drinking Across Global Asia
Students examine historical themes for local and regional cuisines across Global Asia, including but not limited to Anglo-Indian, Arab, Bengali, Chinese, Himalayan, Goan, Punjabi, Japanese, Persian, Tamil, and Indo-Caribbean. Themes include religious rituals, indigenous foodways; colonialism, industrialization, labour, gender, class, migration, globalization, and media. Tutorials are in the Culinaria Kitchen Lab.
Same as FSTC54H3 and GASC54H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: FSTC54H3, GASC54H3
Breadth Requirements: Social & Behavioural Sciences
HISC55H3 - War and Society in Modern Africa
Conflict and social change in Africa from the slave trade to contemporary times. Topics include the politics of resistance, women and war, repressive and weak states, the Cold War, guerrilla movements, resource predation. Case studies of anticolonial rebellions, liberation wars, and civil conflicts will be chosen from various regions.
Same as AFSC55H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: AFSC55H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC56H3 - Comparative Studies of East Asian Legal Cultures
An introduction to the distinctive East Asian legal tradition shared by China, Japan, and Korea through readings about selected thematic issues. Students will learn to appreciate critically the cultural, political, social, and economic causes and effects of East Asian legal cultures and practices.
Same as GASC50H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: GASC50H3
Recommended Preparation: GASB58H3/ HISB58H3
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC57H3 - China and the World
A study of the history of China's relationship with the rest of the world in the modern era. The readings focus on China's role in the global economy, politics, religious movements, transnational diasporas, scientific/technological exchanges, and cultural encounters and conflicts in the ages of empire and globalization.
Same as GASC57H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: GASC57H3
Recommended Preparation: GASB58H3/ HISB58H3
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC58H3 - Delhi and London: Imperial Cities, Mobile People
Delhi and London were two major cities of the British Empire. This course studies their parallel destinies, from the imperial into the post-colonial world. It explores how diverse cultural, ecological, and migratory flows connected and shaped these cities, using a wide range of literary, historical, music, and film sources.
Transnational Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB02H3 or HISB03H3 or GASB57H3/ HISB57H3 or GASB74H3/ HISB74H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC59H3 - The Making of Tamil Worlds
This course explores the transnational history of Tamil worlds. In addition to exploring modern Tamil identities, the course will cover themes such as mass migration, ecology, social and economic life, and literary history.
Same as GASC59H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: GASC59H3, ( HISB54H3), ( GASB54H3)
Recommended Preparation: GASB57H3/ HISB57H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC60H3 - Old Worlds? Strangers and Foreigners in the Mediterranean, 1200-1700
An exploration of how medieval and early modern societies encountered foreigners and accounted for foreignness, as well as for religious, linguistic, and cultural difference more broadly. Topics include: monsters, relics, pilgrimage, the rise of the university, merchant companies, mercenaries, piracy, captivity and slavery, tourism, and the birth of resident embassies.
Same as (IEEC51H3)
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Transnational Area
Exclusion: ( IEEC51H3)
Recommended Preparation: HISB62H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC65H3 - Venice and its Empire, 800-1800
Social and cultural history of the Venetian Empire from a fishermen's colony to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1797. Topics include the relationships between commerce and colonization in the Mediterranean, state building and piracy, aristocracy and slavery, civic ritual and spirituality, guilds and confraternities, households and families.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
European Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB62H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC68H3 - Constructing the Other: Orientalism through Time and Place
This course reflects on the concept of Orientalism and how it informs the fields of Classical Studies and Anthropology. Topics to be discussed include the Orientalization of the past and the origin, role, and significance of ancient representations of the "Other" in contemporary discourses.
Same as ANTC58H3 and CLAC68H3
Exclusion: ANTC58H3, CLAC68H3
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC70H3 - The Caribbean Diaspora
The migration of Caribbean peoples to the United States, Canada, and Europe from the late 19th century to the present. The course considers how shifting economic circumstances and labour demands, the World Wars, evolving imperial relationships, pan-Africanism and international unionism, decolonization, natural disasters, and globalization shaped this migration.
Same as AFSC70H3
Transnational Area
Exclusion: NEW428H, AFSC70H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC75H3 - Migration in Global History
A survey of human mobility from the era when humans first populated the earth to the global migrations of our own time. An introduction to the main categories of human movement and to historical and modern arguments for fostering or restricting migration.
Enrolment Limits: 40
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISC96H3 - Language and Society in the Arab World
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.
Same as AFSC30H3
Exclusion: AFSC30H3
Enrolment Limits: 50
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature & Language
HISC97H3 - Women and Power in Africa
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
Exclusion: AFSC97H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD01H3 - Independent Studies: Senior Research Project
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.
Exclusion: (HIS497Y), HIS498H, HIS499H, HIS499Y
HISD02H3 - Independent Studies: Senior Research Project
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.
Exclusion: (HIS497Y), HIS498H, HIS499H, HIS499Y
HISD04H3 - Missionaries and Converts in the Early Modern World
A seminar exploring how early modern people thought about and practiced community, belief, and ritual. We will relate conversion to processes of empire building, and examine whether the "globalization of Christianity" is a useful concept through which to understand the experiences of missionaries and converts from 1500 to 1800.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Transnational Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB50H3 or HISB53H3 or HISB60H3 or HISB61H3 or HISB62H3 or HISC60H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD05H3 - Between Two Worlds? Translators and Interpreters in History
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
Recommended Preparation: HISB62H3 or HISC18H3 or HISC60H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD06H3 - Global History of Crime and Punishment since 1750
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
Exclusion: GASD06H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD07H3 - Themes in the History of Childhood and Culture
A comparative analysis of transnationational 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.
Same as WSTD07H3
Transnational Area
Exclusion: WSTD07H3
Recommended Preparation: HISB02H3 or HISB03H3 or WSTB06H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD08H3 - Borderlands and Beyond: Thinking about a North American History
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
Recommended Preparation: [ HISB30H3 and HISB31H3] or [ HISB40H3 and HISB41H3]
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD09H3 - Senior Seminar: Topics in Global Asian Migrations
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
Exclusion: GASD01H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
Note:
Topics vary from year to year. Check the website: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~hcs/programs/global-asia-studies.html for current offerings.
HISD10H3 - Water Management in the Ancient Mediterranean World
This seminar type course addresses issues related to the relationships between ancient Mediterranean societies and their hydric environments in the Mediterranean from 5000 BC to 600 AD.
Same as CLAD05H3
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Ancient World Area
Exclusion: CLAD05H3
Recommended Preparation: CLAB05H3 and CLAB06H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD12H3 - Making it Strange: Modernisms in European Art and Ideas, 1900-1945
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.
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD14H3 - Selected Topics in Modern European History
HISD16H3 - Socialist Feminism in Global Context
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
Exclusion: WSTD16H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD18H3 - Digital History
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.
Recommended Preparation: HISB03H3 or HISC01H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
Note:
Priority will be given to students enrolled in the Specialist and Major programs in History. Additional students will be admitted as space permits.
HISD25H3 - Oral History and Urban Change
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
Exclusion: WSTC02H3 (if taken in Fall 2013), CITC10H3 (if taken in Fall 2013), ( HISC28H3), WSTD10H3, HISD44H3 (if taken in Fall 2013)
Enrolment Limits: 20
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD30H3 - Gendering America
The history of gender in the United States from the era of exploration to the present day. The changing social roles of men and women and the evolving constructions of femininity and masculinity. Particular topics include: work, family, sexuality, and state policy.
United States and Latin America Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3 and HISB31H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD31H3 - Thinking of Diversity: Perspectives on American Pluralisms
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
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3 and HISB31H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD32H3 - Slavery and Emancipation in the American South
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
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD34H3 - Topics in American Social and Cultural History
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
Enrolment Limits: 15
Note:
Topics vary from year to year. Check the Historical and Cultural Program website for current offerings.
HISD35H3 - The Politics of American Immigration, 1865-present
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
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3 and HISB31H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD36H3 - From New Deal to New Right: American Politics since 1933
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
Recommended Preparation: HISB30H3 and HISB31H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD44H3 - Nearby History: The Method and Practice of Local History
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
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD45H3 - Canadian Settler Colonialism in Comparative Context
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
Recommended Preparation: HISB40H3 or HISB41H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD46H3 - Selected Topics in Canadian Women's History
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
Exclusion: WSTD46H3
Recommended Preparation: HISB02H3 or HISB03H3 or HISB14H3 or WSTB06H3 or HISB50H3 or GASB57H3/ HISB57H3 or HISC09H3 or HISC29H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
Note:
Topics vary from year to year. Check the website www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~hcs/programs/history.html for current offerings.
HISD47H3 - Cold War Canada in Comparative Contexts
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
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD48H3 - The World Through Canadian Eyes
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
Recommended Preparation: HISB40H3 or HISB41H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD50H3 - Southern Africa: Conquest and Resistance, 1652-1900
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
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD51H3 - Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Liberation
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
Exclusion: AFSD51H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD52H3 - East African Societies in Transition
A seminar study of East African peoples from late pre-colonial times to the 1990's, emphasizing their rapid although uneven adaptation to integration of the region into the wider world. Transitions associated with migrations, commercialization, religious change, colonial conquest, nationalism, economic development and conflict, will be investigated. Student presentations are required.
Same as AFSD52H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: AFSD52H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD53H3 - Africa and Asia in the First World War
This seminar course examines the First World War in its imperial and colonial context in Africa and Asia. Topics include forgotten fronts in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, colonial armies and civilians, imperial economies and resources, the collapse of empires and the remaking of the colonial world.
Same as AFSD53H3 and GASD53H3
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: AFSD53H3, GASD53H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD56H3 - 'Coolies' and Others: Asian Labouring Diasporas in the British Empire
Coolie' labourers formed an imperial diaspora linking South Asia and China to the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, South-east Asia, and North America. The long-lasting results of this history are evident in the cultural and ethnic diversity of today's Caribbean nations and Commonwealth countries such as Great Britain and Canada.
Africa and Asia Area
Same as GASD56H3
Exclusion: GASD56H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD58H3 - Culture, Politics, and Society in Late Imperial China
A study of major cultural trends, political practices, social customs, and economic developments in late imperial China (1400-1911) as well as their relevance to modern and contemporary China. Students will read the most recent literature and write a substantive research paper.
Same as GASD58H3
0.5 pre-1800 credit
Africa and Asia area
Exclusion: GASD58H3
Recommended Preparation: GASB58H3/ HISB58H3 or GASC57H3/ HISC57H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD59H3 - Law and Society in Chinese History
A seminar course on Chinese legal tradition and its role in shaping social, political, economic, and cultural developments, especially in late imperial and modern China. Topics include the foundations of legal culture, regulations on sexuality, women's property rights, crime fictions, private/state violence, laws of ethnicities, prison reforms and modernization.
Same as GASD59H3
0.5 pre-1800 credit
Africa and Asia Area
Exclusion: GASD59H3
Recommended Preparation: GASB58H3/ HISB58H3 or GASC57H3/ HISC57H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD60H3 - Travel and Travel-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
The development of travel and travel narratives before 1800, and their relationship to trade and colonization in the Mediterranean and beyond. Topics include: Marco Polo, pilgrimage and crusading, the history of geography and ethnography. Extensive reading, oral presentations, and a final paper based on research in primary documents are required.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Transnational Area
Recommended Preparation: HISB50H3 or HISB53H3 or HISB60H3 or HISB61H3 or HISB62H3
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD63H3 - The Crusades: I
Modern interpretations of the Crusades will be investigated in the broad context of Western expansion into the Middle East (1099-1204), Spain and southern Europe, and, North-Eastern Europe. Also considered will be the Christian Military Orders, the Mongols and political crusades within Europe itself.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Medieval Area
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD64H3 - The Crusades: II
An intensive study of the primary sources of the First through Fourth Crusades, including works by Eastern and Western Christian, Arab and Jewish authors. The crusading period will be considered in terms of Western Christian expansion into the Middle East, Spain and Northern Europe in the 11th through 13th centuries.
0.50 pre-1800 credit
Medieval Area
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD70H3 - History of Empire and Foods
A transnational history of how the rise of modern, global empires reshaped how the world produced and consumed food. This course, through cooking practicums, offers a hands-on approach to imperial and culinary histories with emphasis on plantation economies, famine, the tropical commodity trade, and the rise of national cuisines.
Transnational Area
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
Note:
Priority will be given to students enrolled in HIS programs. Additional students will be admitted as space permits.
HISD71H3 - Culinary Ethnography
This research seminar uses Scarborough as a laboratory for examining continuity and change within diasporic foodways. Students will practice ethnographic research and mapping skills to document a family meal, restaurant, market, festival, dish, or other culinary icon. They will also write an essay setting it within an appropriate analytical framework.
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD72H3 - History of Beer and Brewing
This research seminar examines the history of beer, including production techniques, gender roles, and drinking cultures, from ancient times to contemporary microbrewing. Students will produce a major paper or digital project on a chosen case study. Class will include a practicum on historical technologies of malting, mashing, and fermenting.
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD73H3 - Engendering Canadian Food History
This course explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of family, community, region, and nation and with reference to transnational connections and identities. It examines Canada's foodways - the practices and traditions associated with food and food preparation - through the gendered lens of Indigenous-colonial relations, migration and diaspora, family, politics, nutrition, and popular culture. The course is organized around two central principles. One is that just as Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. The other is that a focus on questions related to women and gender further illuminate the complex relationship between food and cultural politics, variously defined. The course covers a broad time-span, from early contact between European settlers and First Nations through the end of the twentieth century.
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
HISD95H3 - Presenting the Past
This course introduces students to creative ways of telling/conveying stories about historical moments, events, figures and the social context in which these have occurred. The course will enable students to narrate the past in ways, from film to fiction, accessible to contemporary audiences.
Enrolment Limits: 15
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies