CORE COURSE

HIST 5100 – Thinking Like A Historian: Historiography, Theory, Method

An introduction to historical concepts, the role of theory in historical research, the relationship between history and other scholarly disciplines, developments in historiography, research methods, and ways of practicing history. The course is compulsory for all History M.A. students.

ELECTIVE COURSES

Course-based Program. Students are required to take four half-credit courses, in addition to the Core Course. See above.

Thesis-based Program. Students are required to take two half-credit courses.

Elective courses should be chosen from within Field of Study students have identified in their applica-tion. Note each elective course corresponds to two or more fields of study.

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Field of Study Course

1. Canadian History HIST – CSID 5102H – INDG 6605H HIST 5105H

HIST 5106H HIST 5116H HIST – CSID 5202H HIST – CSID 5301H

2. Colonialism and Conflict HIST – CSID 5102H – INDG 6605H HIST 5103H

HIST 5104H HIST 5109H HIST 5115H HIST 5117H

3. European History HIST 5101H

HIST 5107H HIST 5108H HIST 5110H HIST 5111H HIST 5112H 4. Iberian-American History HIST 5103H HIST 5106H HIST 5107H 5. Social and Cultural History HIST 5105H

HIST – CSID 5202H HIST – CSID 5301H HIST 5105 H HIST 5107H HIST 5108H HIST 5110H HIST 5111H HIST 5112H HIST – ENGL 5114H HIST 5115H HIST 5116H HIST 5117H HIST – CSID 5301H 6. Regional and Trans-National History HIST 5101H

HIST 5103H HIST 5104H HIST 5105H HIST 5106H HIST 5109H HIST – ENGL 5114H HIST 5115H HIST 5116H HIST 5117H

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HIST 5101H – Political violence and memory in twentieth-century Europe

From the platform of a trans-national historical analysis, the course explores political violence in modern Europe, as well as the evolving memories of it both in the public and private spheres, contrasting dictatorships and democracies. Fields: European History; Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST – CSID 5102H – INDG 6605H –The study of aboriginal peoples in Canada: History and politics

This course examines the history of inter-cultural relations between Indigenous Peoples and the larger society. Topics may include early contact, the fur trade, the development of colonial policy, treaties, the reserve system, Indigenous decolonization movements, modern political dialogue for constitutional renewal and issues of land claims and self-government.

HIST 5103H – The international history of United States-Latin American relations after 1900 The history of US-Latin American relations with special emphasis on historical methods, varied analytical approaches, historiographical change, and ideologies in history. Fields: Iberian-American History; Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST 5104H – Responding to colonialism: nationalist movements in South-East Asia

This course examines anti-colonial and nationalist responses to colonialism in Southeast Asia (mainly Indochina, Indonesia, Malaya, the Philippines). In each of these colonies there were many competing nationalist visions and thus the process of articulating and constructing an anti-colonial movement involved negotiation and often violence among the colonized themselves. Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST 5105H – Gender and women’s history in North America

This course explores themes in North American gender history, with our primary focus on the 20th century, and on the debates, differing interpretations, and theories that have shaped the field.

Fields: Canadian History, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST 5106H – Cuba and North America

The course examines the evolution of Canadian and American relations with Cuba since the nine-teenth century, with a particular emphasis on the Castro era, 1959–2006. Fields: Canadian History;

Iberian-American History, Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST 5107H – Values, emotions, and identities in the late medieval Iberia and other parts of Europe

The course explores societal values and beliefs that characterized the late medieval Iberian world (Spain and Portugal), in comparison with other parts of Europe and surrounding regions, and the emotions that both generated and were generated by these values, beliefs, and attitudes. Fields:

Iberian-American History; European History, Social and Cultural History.

HIST 5108H – The Third Reich: German politics, culture and society under Hitler

An examination of the historiography on the Third Reich, including on Hitler’s charismatic leadership of Nazi Germany; political structure of the Nazi state; the complicity of ordinary Germans; the Final Solution; the SS; the lives of Jewish Germans, 1933-45; women and youth under Nazism; propa-ganda and culture in the Hitlerzeit. Fields: European History; Social and Cultural History HIST 5109H – Topics in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa

With a specific focus on historiography, this course will explore select aspects of African History.

Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Regional and Trans-National History

HIST 5110H – Making history: Revolution and the re-construction of the past

An examination of public and personal constructions of the past with specific-though not exclusive reference to the early Soviet period (1917-1939). We will be looking at the various ways in which history is “made”: diaries, memoirs, film, celebrations/ commemorations, monuments and public space. Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History.

HIST 5111H – Women in the Middle Ages

Course explores constructions of sex and gender as well as the lives, experiences, and expecta-tions of medieval women – queens, prostitutes, nuns, doctors, craftworkers, noblewomen, saints, merchants, warriors, and peasants – between 300 and 1550. Readings will focus on Catholic Europe, with some attention to Muslims, Jews and heretics. Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History.

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HIST 5112H – Enlightenment cultures and English society: 1650-1800

This course will explore a range of debates that typifies the tensions apparent as England experi-ences what many call the Enlightenment during the “long eighteenth century” (for this course defined as c.1650 – c.1800). We will explore how a range of actors confronted such issues as nation, race, gender, sexuality, anatomy, and poverty. Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History.

HIST – ENGL 5114H – Visual culture and the creation of publics in modern America

This course explores visual images and public culture in the modern United States, examining how a wide range of visual texts – including photography, film, mass media, and modern art – shaped popular attitudes toward politics and foreign policy, intersected with social movements, and figured into various struggles over identity during the twentieth century. Fields: Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST 5115H – Cross-cultural relations in the early modern Atlantic world

This course is an introduction to recent literature on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern Atlantic World. Themes include the spread of disease in the Caribbean and its consequences, anti-Spanish alliances in Mesoamerica, arms trade and warfare in North America, the impact of the slave trade on African societies, as well as the emergence of creole societies. The course will take the form of a critical examination of important publications and discussions in the field. Fields:

Colonialism and Conflict, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST 5116H – A cultural history of medicine in the North American context

This course explores the history of medicine through a comparative approach of both Canada and the United States from the early colonial period to the present. By situating health, disease, and healing in their broader cultural contexts, the course examines how “healthy” bodies have been constructed and how “unhealthy” bodies have been regulated. Fields: Canadian History, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST 5117H – Muslim women, Islams and feminisms in the 20th-21st centuries

Muslim women in communities across the world today have used new technologies to expand the public sphere, raise consciousness of shared identities and contribute to varied interpreta-tions of feminism, identity and agency. This course has two objectives: first, to study the history of diverse Islams and feminisms from misogynistic exegeses of the Quran through the colonial period to today’s articulation of secular and Islamist feminisms. The second objective is to become acquainted with trends in western scholarship on Muslim women from the 18th century through to the contemporary era. Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History.

HIST – CSID 5202H – Approaches to the study of culture in Canada

The course investigates some of the major approaches that have been used to investigate and comprehend Canadian culture. Topics include “high” culture, popular culture, media, intellectual traditions, visual culture and cultural transgressions. Fields: Canadian History; Social and Cultural History.

HIST – CSID 5301H – Policy, economy and society: themes in the state and political economy of Canada

This course will look at the complex web of relationships linking the economy, business, politics, the state, civil society and public policy in Canada and their interaction with social, political, and cultural life. Fields: Canadian History, Social and Cultural History.

HIST 5500 – Major research paper (MRP)

The major research paper MRP will be modelled on a scholarly journal article. The MRP must address a specific analytical research question and make an original contribution in at least two of the following three areas: theory/theoretical framework, historiographical analysis or work using original data.

HIST 5901H – Reading course

A course designed to provide opportunities for intensive study by an individual student in a particular field of the program. Approval of the relevant instructor and the department’s graduate committee is required.

84 GRADUATE PROGRAMS Indigenous Studies