Divisions

History courses are grouped into three geographic divisions as outlined below. Specialist and Majors are required to choose courses from each of the three divisions to fulfill geographic breadth requirements. In order to help students with planning their programs, courses have been listed according to their divisions.

Division I: Asia, Africa, Middle East

1st Year Course

(N.B. 1st year courses do not fulfil the Divisional requirement of a HIS Specialist or Major program.)

HIS 107Y1 Approaches to Modern East Asian History


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Asia

HIS 280Y1 History of China
HIS 281Y1 History of Modern Japan
HIS 282Y1 History of South Asia
HIS 283Y1 Southeast Asian Crossroads
HIS 284Y1 Viet Nam: Crossroads of Asia
HIS 315H1 Narratives of “Viet Nam”
HIS 326H1 Topics in Chinese History
HIS 328H1 Modern China Since 1800
HIS 346H1 Rice and Spice in Southeast Asia: a Regional Food History
HIS 379H1 Vietnam at War
HIS 380H1 Late Imperial China
JHA 384H1 Japan in the World, mid-16th to mid-20th Century
HIS 385H1 or Y1 History of Hong Kong
JHA 394H1 The Asia Pacific War
HIS 400H1 The American War in Vietnam
HIS 409H1 One Day in Vietnamese Religious History: the Meeting of the Four Religions
HIS 448H1 Gender in East and Southeast Asia
HIS 467H1 French Colonial Indochina : History, Culture, Texts, Film
HIS 470H1 History, Rights and Difference in South Asia
HIS 473Y1 The United States and Asia Since 1945
HIS 480H1 Modernity and Its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
HIS 485H1 Topics in Chinese History:
HIS 494H1 Gandhi’s Global Conversations


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Africa

HIS 295Y1 African History and Historical Methodology
HIS 297Y1 History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
HIS 381H1 African Historiography: Knowledge and Identity
HIS 382H1 African Historiography: Time and Space
HIS 383H1 Women in African History
HIS 391Y1 Black Freedom in the Atlantic World
HIS 392H1 Screening Freedom
HIS 413H1 Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
HIS 446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 468H1 The Southern Indian Ocean
HIS 481H1 Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in 20th Century Africa
HIS 486H1 Writing and Masculinity in Africa


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Australia

HIS 340H1 A Survey of Austrian History


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Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

For descriptions of NMC history courses offered in 2013-14,
please consult the following website: http://www.utoronto.ca/nmc/courses/undergrad_history.htm

HIS 208Y1 History of the Jewish People
HIS 304H1 Topics in Middle East History:
HIS 356Y1 Zionism and Israel
NMC 270H1 Christians of the Middle East
NMC 273Y1 Early Islamic History: The Prophet and the Caliphiates
NMC 274Y1 The Steppe Frontier in Islamic History
NMC 278H1 Introduction to the Modern Middle East
NMC 376H1 History of Islamic Spain and North Africa , 640-1492
NMC 471H1 Topics in Early and Medieval Islamic History
NMC 475H1 Orientalism and Occidentalism


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Division II: The Americas

1st Year Course

(N.B. 1st year courses do not fulfil the Divisional requirement of a HIS program.)

HIS 106Y1 Making the Americas , ca.1250-1780


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Canada

HIS 263Y1 Introduction to Canadian History
HIS 300H1 Energy Cultures in North American History
HIS 307H1 Canadian Political Issues
HIS 310H1 Histories of North American Consumer Culture
HIS 311Y1 Introduction to Canadian International Relations
HIS 312H1 Immigration to Canada
HIS 313H1 Canadian Labour and the Left
HIS 314H1 Quebec and French Canada
HIS 316H1 History of Advertising
HIS 318H1 Histories of the West in Canada
HIS 360H1 African Canadian History, 1606-Present
HIS 363H1 Gender in Canadian History
HIS 365H1 History of the Great Lakes Region
HIS 366H1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1815 to the Present
HIS 369H1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1500 to 1830
HIS 375H1 Politics and Protest in Postwar North America
HIS 384H1 Colonial Canada
HIS 402H1 Canada and Decolonization
HIS 405Y1 Canadian Foreign Relations
HIS 410H1 Spectacles, Crowds, and Parades in Canada
HIS 419H1 Canada By Treaty: Alliances, Title Transfers and Land Claims
HIS 429H1 Canada and Empire in the Twentieth Century
HIS 430H1 Canadians and the World Wars
HIS 462H1 Canadian Intelligence and National Security, 1945 to the Present
HIS 466H1 Topics in Canadian History
HIS 472H1 Indigenous-Newcomer Relations in Canadian History
HIS 484H1 The Car in North American History


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United States

HIS 202H1 Gender, Race and Science
HIS 271Y1 American History Since 1607
HIS 300H1 Energy Cultures in North American History
HIS 310H1 Histories of North American Consumer Culture
HIS 316H1 History of Advertising
HIS 345H1 History and Film
HIS 366H1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1815 to the Present
HIS 370H1 The Black Experience in United States since the Civil War
HIS 372H1 Topics in U.S. History
HIS 374H1 American Consumerism – The Beginnings
HIS 375H1 Politics and Protest in PostWar North America
HIS 376H1 The United States: Now and Then
HIS 377H1 20th Century American Foreign Relations
HIS 378H1 America in the 1960s
HIS 401H1 History of the Cold War
HIS 404H1 Topics in U.S. History
HIS 411H1 Great Trials in History
HIS 425H1 Historiography
HIS 463H1 Cloth in American History to 1865
HIS 473Y1 The United States and Asia Since 1945
HIS 476H1 Voices from Black America
HIS 478H1 Hellhound on My Trail: Living the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, 1890-1945
HIS 479H1 U.S. Foreign Policy Since WW II
HIS 484H1 The Car in North American History
HIS 487H1 Animal and Human Rights in Anglo-American Culture


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Latin America/Caribbean

HIS 291H1 Latin America : The Colonial Period
HIS 292H1 Latin America : The National Period
HIS 294Y1 Caribbean History and Culture: Indigenous Era to 1886
HIS 305H1 Popular Culture and Politics in the Modern Caribbean
JHN 323H1 Indigeneity in the Caribbean
HIS 359H1 Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
HIS 390Y1 Latin America in the Age of Revolution
HIS 413H1 Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
HIS 446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 456Y1 Black Slavery in Latin America
HIS 474H1 Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonisation


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Division III: Europe

1st Year Course

(N.B. 1st year courses do not fulfil the Divisional requirement of a HIS Specialist or Major program.)

HIS 103Y1 Statecraft and Strategy: Introduction to the History of International Relations
HIS 109Y1 The Development of European Civilization, 1350-1945


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Britain

HIS 302H1 Victorian Material Culture
HIS 306H1 Culture, Society and Gender in England , 1560-1730
HIS 332H1 Crime and Society in England ,1500-1800
HIS 337H1 Culture, Politics and Society in18th Century British
HIS 339H1 English History in the19th Century
HIS 349H1 The British Search for Identity: 1800 to the Present
HIS 368H1 Early Modern Britain, 1485-1660
HIS 452H1 Science and Society in Britain, 1600-1800
HIS 477H1 Topics in Social and Cultural History of Victorian Britain


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Western Continental Europe

HIS 202H1 Gender, Race and Science
HIS 208Y1 History of the Jewish People
HIS 220Y1 The Shape of Medieval Society
HIS 241H1 Europe in the 19th Century
HIS 242H1 Europe in the 20th Century
HIS 243H1 Early Modern Europe , 1450-1648
HIS 244H1 Early Modern Europe , 1648-1815
HIS 301H1 Imperial Spain
HIS 303H1 The Mediterranean, 600-1300; Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
HIS 308H1 The Mediterranean, 1300-1700
HIS 309H1 The European Reformations
HIS 317H1 Modern Germany 1914 to the Present
HIS 319H1 Renaissance France
HIS 320H1 Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Roman Empire
HIS 321H1 Dark Age Europe c. 600-1000
HIS 322H1 The High Middle Ages
HIS 323H1 Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
HIS 330H1 Germany from Frederick the Great to WWI
HIS 336H1 Medieval Spain
HIS 338H1 The Holocaust: Preconditions, Consolidation of Nazi Power, War, and Occupation (to 1942)
HIS 341Y1 Germany Among the Global Empires, 1840-2010
HIS 343Y1 History of Modern Espionage
HIS 344Y1 Conflict and Co-Operation in the International System Since 1945
HIS 345H1 History and Film
HIS 354H1 Men, Gender and Power in Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revlolution
HIS 356Y1 Zionism and Israel
HIS 357Y1 A Social History of Renaissance Europe
HIS 358H1 Political Culture in Early Modern Europe
HIS 361H1 The Holocaust from 1942
HIS 387H1 France, 1610-1848
HIS 388H1 France Since 1848
HIS 401H1 History of the Cold War
HIS 403H1 Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
HIS 407H1 Imperial Germany , 1871-1918
HIS 411H1 Great Trials in History
HIS 414H1 Down and Out in Medieval Europe
HIS 415Y1 Nationalism and Memory in Modern Europe
HIS 416H1 Orientalism and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany
HIS 423H1 The Social History of Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries
HIS 424H1 Violence in Medieval Society
HIS 425H1 Historiography
HIS 426H1 Medieval Italy, 400-1000
HIS 427H1 History and Historiography in the Golden Legend
HIS 428H1 Medieval Institutes of Perfection
HIS 430H1 Canadians and the World Wars
HIS 431H1 Gender and the Holocaust
HIS 432H1 Topics in Medieval History
HIS 437H1 Telling Lies About Hitler: Frauds and Famous Feuds Among German Historians
HIS 438H1 Inquisition & Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
HIS 441H1 Conversion and Christianities in the Early Modern Spanish World
HIS 443H1 Society, Culture and Religion in the Renaissance and Reformation
HIS 444H1 Topics in Jewish History
HIS 445H1 Nationalism
HIS 446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 450H1 The Writing of Jewish History
HIS 457H1 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
HIS 467H1 French Colonial Indochina : History, Culture, Texts, Film
HIS 480H1 Modernity and Its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
HIS 488H1 The Secret War, 1939-1945
HIS 489H1 History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness


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Eastern Europe and Russia

HIS 250Y1 History of Russia , 860-1991
HIS 251Y1 History of East Central Europe
JSH 300H1 Literature and History in Russia
JHP 304Y1 Ukraine: Politics, Economy and Society
HIS 325H1 Imperial Russia
HIS 331H1 Modern Baltic History
HIS 334H1 East Central Europe and the Great Powers in the 20th Century
HIS 335H1 Soviet Cultural History
HIS 351Y1 History of 20th Century Russia
HIS 353Y1 Poland: A Crossroads of Europe
HIS 362H1 The Hansa: The World of Merchants
HIS 412Y1 Crusades, Conversion and Colonization in the Medieval Baltic
HIS 420H1 Russia’s Great Patriotic Wars
HIS 433H1 Polish Jews Since the Partition of Poland
HIS 434Y1 Kievan Rus’
HIS 439H1 Russia’s Empire
HIS 449Y1 Ukranian National Revival
HIS 451H1 World War II in East Central Europe
JHP 451Y1 The People from Nowhere
HIS 453H1 Problems of National Survival in Eastern Europe Since 1848
JHP 454Y1 20th Century Ukraine
HIS 458H1 Topics in Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
HIS 459H1 Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946
HIS 460H1 Soviet History and Film, 1941-1991
HIS 461H1 Poland in the 20th Century
HIS 490H1 Everyday Stalinism


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