Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Undergraduate

Course Designators

Below are descriptions of courses with the following ‘designators’ (the 3 letter code in front of the course number):

HIS History
JHP Joint History and Political Science
(administered by Political Science Department, Room 3018, Sidney Smith Hall)
NMC Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
(administered by the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Avenue)
SII and
XBC
Society and Its Institutions and Cross-Breadth Categories(First-Year Seminars (199 courses) are open only to newly admitted, Faculty of Arts and Science students.)

NOTE: All courses shown on this page are accepted towards a History program (except SII & XBC 199Y courses). However, as shown above, they are not all administered by the Department of History.

Course Nomenclature

  • Y1-Y is a full course, both terms.
  • Y1-F is a full course, first term (fall session)
  • Y1-S is a full course, second term (winter session)
  • H1-F is a half course, first term (fall session)
  • H1-S is a half course, second term (winter session)

Course Descriptions