HIST 209/GLST 209: A History of the World in the Twentieth Century: I (Rev. C4/C4)

HIST 209/GLST 209 examines the major economic, political, social, scientific, and technological developments in twentieth century history. The course adopts four broad themes: global interrelatedness; identity and difference; rise of the mass society; and technology versus nature. These themes serve as a guide to understanding the material in each of the course's fourteen units.

HIST 304: Historic Britain (Rev. C2)

History 304 Historic Britain: Land, People and Politics from Prehistory to the Augustan Age, a three-credit course that will illustrate some of the major political, social, economic, literary and intellectual developments in British history.

HIST 311: Blues, Jazz, and the Emergence of Modern African American Musical Culture, 1900–1970 (Rev. C1)

In HIST 311, in an effort to demonstrate the value of an interdisciplinary approach to the history of key modern African American musical forms.

HIST 327: Imperial Russia (Rev. C3)

History 327: Imperial Russia is a three-credit senior-level course that surveys the history of the Russian region from its earliest beginnings to the second phase of the Russian Revolution, often called the October Revolution.  

HIST 331: Social History of Canada: Early Industrialization to Contemporary Canada (Rev. C1)

History 331: Social History of Canada: Early Industrialization to Contemporary Canada is a three-credit, intermediate-level course that introduces major themes in the social history of Canada from 1867 to the present. It is intended to follow History 330: Social History of Canada: European Contact to Early Industrialization, although that course is not a prerequisite.

HIST 362/WGST 362: Constructing Women and Men in Canada: A History Since Industrialization (Rev. C1/C1)

History/Women’s and Gender Studies 362: Constructing Women and Men in Canada: A History Since Industrialization explores the ways social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental forces have contributed to the gendering of women and men in Canada from the onset of industrialization in the nineteenth century to the present.

HIST 371: Early Medieval Europe: 400-1000 (Rev. C3)

HIST 371 surveys over five hundred years in the history of Western Civilization from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the eve of the Twelfth Century Renaissance. Rather than studying the details of political history, students will focus on the enduring legacy of early medieval society—the religious, political, and legal institutions and structures, and the great works of art, architecture, poetry, and theology created during these centuries.

HIST 384/GLST 384: Europe Since 1945 (Rev. C2/C2)

This course provides students with a broad survey of the political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history of Europe from the end of the Second World War to the early years of the twenty-first century. How did Europe recover from the devastation of the Second World War? Why was the United States of America so involved in the affairs of postwar Europe? How did the Soviet Union achieve hegemony in Eastern Europe? What was the Cold War? Why was there a social and cultural revolution in the 1960s? What political and economic conditions brought about the establishment of the European Union? Why had Communism and the Soviet Union disappeared by the early 1990s? What problems has Europe faced since 2000? These and other searching questions are explored through a mix of primary and secondary readings.

HIST 404: Historical Foundations of Modern Science (Rev. C4)

History 404: Historical Foundations of Modern Science delves into the remarkable developments of modern science from the Ancient Greek philosophers 2500 years ago all the way to the human genome project at the turn of the twenty-first century.

HIST 486: The Industrial Revolution (Rev. C2)

HIST 486: The Industrial Revolution examines a wide range of topics, from technological innovation in the eighteenth century to feminist debates in our own era, and to the Industrial Revolution’s impact on warfare and imperialism.