Thematic Streams

Although thematic streams are not an official program requirement, you may find it enriching to follow a particular theme across different time periods or geographical divisions.

The following thematic streams indicate a few well-defined
areas, but other thematic possibilities exist as well, such as ‘Race’ and Ethnic Relations, or Popular and Material Culture. For further information, consult the Associate Chair, Undergraduate.

Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and
Trans-Nationalism

HIS 104Y1 Ten Days that Shook the World
HIS 106Y1 Natives, Settlers, and Conquistadors: Colonizing the Americas ,
1492-1776
HIS 202H1 Gender, Race and Science
HIS 208Y1 History of the Jewish People
HIS 280Y1 History of China
HIS 282Y1 History of South Asia
HIS 283Y1 Southeast Asian Crossroads
HIS 291Y1 Latin America : The Colonial Period
HIS 292Y1 Latin America : The National Period
HIS 294Y1 Caribbean History and Culture
HIS 303Y1 The Mediterranean , 600-1700: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
HIS 312H1 Immigration to Canada
HIS 314Y1 Quebec and French Canada
HIS 326Y1 Overseas Chinese History
HIS 353Y1 Poland : A Crossroads of Europe
HIS 356H1 Zionism and Israel
HIS 369Y1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes
HIS 380Y1 Late Imperial China
HIS 384H1 Colonial Canada : The East
HIS 386Y1 Muslims in India and Pakistan
HIS 390Y1 Latin America in the Age of Revolutions
HIS 396Y1 From Abolition to Structural Development
HIS 408Y1 Race Relations in America
HIS 416H1 Orientalism and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany
HIS 417H1 Globalization, Science and Technology
HIS 445H1 Nationalism
HIS 446Y1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 456Y1 Black Slavery in Latin America
HIS 467H1 French Colonial Indochina : Culture, Texts, Film
HIS 470H1 History, Rights and Difference in South Asia
HIS 480H1 Modernity and Its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
NMC 278H1 Introduction to the Modern Middle East
NMC 348H1 The Legacy of Ancient Iran
NMC 349H1 History of Medieval Iran and Central Asia
NMC 370Y1 Ancient Israel
NMC 376H1 History of Islamic Spain and North Africa
NMC 377H1 The Ottoman Empire to 1800
NMC 477Y1 Nationalism, Ethnicity and Minority Rights in the Middle
East
SMC 416H1 Irish Nationalism in Canada and the United States

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International Relations

HIS 103Y1 Statecraft and Strategy: Introduction to the History of
International Relations
HIS 311Y1 Introduction to Canadian International Relations
HIS 334Y1 Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
HIS 343Y1 History of Modern Espionage
HIS 344Y1 Conflict and Co-operation in the European States System
HIS 347H1 History of Modern Chinese Foreign Relations
HIS 401Y1 History of the Cold War
HIS 405Y1 Canadian Foreign Relations
HIS 436Y1 Culture and the Cold War
HIS 451H1 World War II in East Central Europe
HIS 458Y1 Topics in Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
HIS 471H1 U.S. and Globalization
HIS 488H1 The Secret War, 1939-1945
TRN 419Y1 American, Canadian and British Foreign Policy
TRN 421Y1 Practices of Diplomacy

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Medieval

HIS 220Y1 The Shape of Medieval Society
HIS 303Y1 The Mediterranean, 600-1700: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
HIS 320Y1 Early Medieval Europe, c.300-1100
HIS 322Y1 The High Middle Ages, 1100-1400
HIS 323H1 Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
HIS 336H1 Medieval Spain
HIS 362H1 The Hansa: The World of Merchants
HIS 389H1 Topics in History: Women in Medieval Culture, 1000-1500
HIS 403Y1 Jews & Christians in Medeival and Renaissance Europe
HIS 424H1 Violence in Medieval Society
HIS 427H1 History and Historiography in the Golden Legend
HIS 428H1 Medieval Monasticism
HIS 432H1 Topics in Medieval History
HIS 438H1 Inquisition and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
NMC 273Y1 Islamic History to the Fall of Baghdad in 1258
NMC 275Y1 Jews and Muslims: The Mediaeval
Encounter
NMC 376H1 History of Islamic Spain and
North Africa
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Women and Gender

HIS 202H1 Gender, Race and Science
HIS 245Y1 Women in European History
HIS 302H1 Material Culture in Victorian Britain
HIS 306H1 Culture, Society and Gender in England , 1560-1730
HIS 323H1 Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
HIS 350Y1 Social History of the Family
HIS 354Y1 Men, Gender and Power in Europe ; Renaissance to the French
Revolution
HIS 363H1 Dynamics of Gender in Canadian History
HIS 383H1 Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIS 391H1 Gender in Southeast Asian History
HIS 389H1 Topics in History: Women in Medieval Culture, 1000-1500
HIS 416H1 Orientalism and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany
HIS 418H1 Women and Gender and Russian History
HIS 431H1 Comparative First-Wave Feminism, 1850-1940
HIS 446Y1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 476H1 Voices from Black America
HIS 483H1 Topics in the History of Women and Gender in Britain ,
1550-1950

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