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History Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.First-Year Seminar in History 01.112
History of Western Civilization
Major events, ideas and movements that have shaped western civilization from the fall of Rome to the twentieth century. Emphasis on the development of writing, research and analytical skills. Limited enrolment.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.101.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Lectures two hours a week, seminar two hours a week.First-Year Seminar in History 01.113
Introduction to Canadian History
Historical study of the political, economic and social development of Canada with emphasis on the twentieth century. The seminar emphasizes the development of writing, research, and analytical skills. Limited enrolment.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.130.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Lectures two hours a week, seminar two hours a week.First-Year Seminar in History 01.145
Turning Points in Modern History
Introductory seminars emphasizing the development of writing, research, and analytical skills through the intensive examination of selected topics in modern history.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.100 and 24.109.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.History 24.101
History of Western Civilization
A survey of the major events, ideas and movements that have shaped western civilization from the fall of Rome to the twentieth century. (Field a or b)
Precludes additional credit for First-Year Seminar 01.112.
Prerequisite: Registration is restricted to First-year students.
Lectures two hours a week, discussion groups one hour a week.History 24.102
Europe in the Twentieth Century
An introduction to some of the major ideological, political, diplomatic, military, social, cultural and economic developments that have shaped contemporary Europe. This course is designed primarily for students who do not plan to major in history. Registration is restricted to First-year students, except for those students who need the course to satisfy the degree requirements of their department, faculty, or school. (Field b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.109
Turning Points in Modern History
Introductory seminars emphasizing the development of writing, research and analytical skills through the intensive examination of selected topics in modern history. (Field a, b or c)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.100 and First-Year Seminar 01.145.
Registration is restricted to First-year students.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.130
Introduction to Canadian History
An historical study of the political, economic and social development of Canada with emphasis on the twentieth century. (Field c)
Precludes additional credit for First-Year Seminar 01.113.
Prerequisite: Registration is restricted to First-year students, except for those students who need the course to satisfy the degree requirements of their department, faculty, or school.
Lectures two hours a week, discussion group one hour a week.History 24.170
Europe and the Non-Western World
A study of European expansion overseas and of the range of local responses to Western pressures, with a view to explaining how this two-fold process shaped the historical development of Asia, Africa and Latin America. (Field d)
Registration is restricted to First-year students, except for those
students who need the course to satisfy the degree requirements of their department, faculty, or school.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.205
England During the Middle Ages
A study concentrating on the political development of medieval England, A.D. 410-1485. (Field a)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.210
Introduction to the History of Ideas
A study of Western intellectual development which considers such movements as humanism, the Enlightenment, romanticism, Darwinism and contemporary ideologies. (Field a or b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.221
History of Science
An introduction to the history of science from antiquity to the twentieth century. Readings include works by Plato, Aristotle, Grosseteste, Galileo, Newton, Darwin and Einstein. No special knowledge of modern science is assumed. (Field a or b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.222
The Industrial Revolution: Technology, Society, Economic Change
A study of industrialization in Europe and North America, with emphasis on technological innovation. Key developments in power production; their application to manufacturing, transport and communications; new forms of business organization and marketing; science and industry; political and social responses to industrialization. (Field b or c)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.223
A History of Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789
The social, economic, cultural and political development of Europe (including Scandinavian, Eastern and Mediterranean as well as Western and Central Europe) from the era of the Reformation to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Special attention is paid to social themes. (Field a)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.225
Europe in the Nineteenth Century: Napoleon to Bismarck
The Napoleonic legacy; liberalism and the struggle for constitutional government; industrialization and social change; the revolutions of 1848; reform in Russia; nation building and national unification in Italy and Germany; the Franco-Prussian war; socialism and labour; the transformation of nationalism into imperialism. (Field b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.233
Canadian Political History
An historical survey of the Canadian political tradition from the late eighteenth century to the present. Politicians, parties, ideas, social context and dissent are examined. Second-year standing recommended. (Field c)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.234
Canadian Social and Cultural History
Historical insights into the structures and values inherent in Canadian society and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Second-year standing recommended. (Field c)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.235
Canadian Economic History
A historical survey of persistence and change in the Canadian economy from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. (Field c) (Also listed as Economics 43.235.)
Prerequisite: Economics 43.100 or permission of the Department of History.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.236
The Spanish and English Colonies in North America
A comparative study of the development of the English North American colonies and New Spain (Mexico), with emphasis on settlement, social patterns and institutions, the frontier, native peoples and the emergence of a colonial sense of identity. (Field c or d)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.237
Latin America: From Conquest to Nations
Beginning with the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations, this course follows the transformation of these societies by colonialism, the impact of Spanish, Portuguese and African cultures, and by their transition to modern nation-states. (Field d)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.240
History of the United States of America
A survey of United States politics and society since the American Revolution. (Field c)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.250
Modern England, 1460-1918
A survey of significant political and social developments in England from the mid-fifteenth to the early twentieth century. (Field a or b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.254
Introduction to the History of Women
A survey of themes in the history of women with emphasis on their European experience, from the early modern period to the present. (Field a or b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.259
A History of Germany
A history of the German-speaking peoples from the rise of the Holy Roman Empire to the present. (Field a or b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.260
History of Russia and the U.S.S.R.
A survey of Russian history from rise of Kievan Rus to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, with emphasis on the period from the reign of Peter the Great to the revolutions of 1917. (Field a or b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.275
History of Africa
An introduction to the history of Africa. The first half is devoted to the period prior to European colonization with emphasis on West African states and empires; the second half deals with resistance to colonization, European colonial rule, independence and liberation movements. (Field d)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.278
The Middle East: 1798 to the Present
Development of the civilization and culture of the Middle East from 1798 to the present emphasizing the mutual discovery of East and West, the search for identity, the impact of colonialism and international rivalry, and social, religious and cultural change within a continuing tradition. (Field d) (Also listed as Religion 34.278.)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.281
From Napoleon to Hitler: War and Society in Modern Europe
A survey of the diplomatic, political, military and social experience of war and its consequences for the major western European states and Russia from 1799 to 1945. (Field b)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.285
History of China
A survey of Chinese political and intellectual history from the Xia Dynasty to the 1911 Revolution. Emphasis is placed on the impact of the West on China from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. (Field d)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.286
History of Japan
A survey of Japanese history from the legendary beginning of the country in 600 B.C. to the end of World War Two. (Field d)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.290
History of Ancient Greece
The history of classical Greece to the conquest of Asia by Alexander with special attention to the development of her characteristic institutions. (Field a) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.290.)
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week.History 24.291
History of Ancient Rome
The history of ancient Rome, her organization and expansion especially during the late Republic and early Empire.(Field a) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.291.)
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week.History 24.299
Special Subject in History
A lecture course on a special topic, theme, or period.
For Section A, the topic for 2001-2002 is The Struggle of Competing Nationalisms in Canadian History. (Field c) For Section B, the topic for 2001-2002 is The Ottoman Empire and the Origins of Modern Turkey. (Field d)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.302
The Later Roman Empire
A study of major developments-administrative, ecclesiastical, cultural and societal-of the later Roman Empire. (Field a) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.302.)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.303
History of the Byzantine Empire, 527-1453 A.D.
History of the Byzantine empire from Justinian the Great in the sixth century A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D. Special attention given to the cultural, religious and institutional development of Byzantium and their impact on the Slavic, Western European and Islamic countries. (Field a) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.303.)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures two hours a week.History 24.306*
Early Medieval Thought
A general examination of medieval European intellectual life from the fifth to the twelfth century, with special reference to its setting in the monastery and the cathedral school. (Field a)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.305.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.307*
Later Medieval Thought
A general examination of medieval European intellectual life in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with special reference to its setting in the university. (Field a)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.305.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.309*
Studies in Greek History and Institutions
A study of one of the major periods or themes of ancient Greek history. Topic for 2001-2002: Democracy and Theatre in Fifth Century Athens. (Field a) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.321*.)
Prerequisite: Classical Civilization 13.290/History 24.290 or permission of the unit.
Lectures two hours a week.History 24.310
Modern Intellectual History
An intensive study of selected aspects of American, Canadian and European intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on twentieth-century social thought.(Field b or c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.311*
Studies in Roman History and Institutions
A study of one of the major periods or themes of the history of ancient Rome. Topic for 2001-2002: The Julio-Claudian dynasty (Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero). (Field a) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.322*.)
Prerequisite: Classical Civilization 13.291/History 24.291 or permission of the unit.
Lectures two hours a week.History 24.315*
Renaissance Europe
The political and cultural history of Europe in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with emphasis on the Italian Renaissance and its diffusion into England and France. (Field a)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.215.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.316*
The Social History of Sexuality
Sexuality in Western society, Middle Ages to the present. Themes include attitudes and behaviour; regulation of sexuality; gender; heterosexuality and homosexuality; prostitution; pornography; the politics of sex: stresses continuities and changes and the understanding of sexuality in contexts of place, class, gender, and culture. (Fields a or b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.317
History of the Family in Europe
Comparative study of the family in early modern and modern Europe. Themes include family and household forms; family economy and government; demography; law; marriage formation, stability and breakdown; gender and family relationships; sexuality. (Field a or b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.318
France Under the Old Regime and Revolution
Study of the main social, economic and political developments in eighteenth-century France, with emphasis on the origins and course of the Revolution up to 1799. (Field b)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.316.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.319*
The Social History of Alcohol
Alcohol in Western society from Ancient times to the present. Production, trade, and consumption of alcohol; religious and social significance; class, gender, and health; drinking cultures; policies toward drunkenness, and alcoholism. Specific topics include comparative trends, temperance movements, and prohibition. (Fields a or b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.321
The Enlightenment
An intellectual and cultural history of eighteenth-century Europe, with particular attention to Scotland, France and Italy. Representative themes include the shaping of historical knowledge, gender and sensibility; manners and private life; the literature of travel and ethnography, science and medicine. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.322*
Capital Cities in the Modern World
An examination of capital cities from the early modern period to the present. Ottawa and the provincial capitals of Canada will be a particular focus. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.325*
History of Business in Canada: 1850-1980
The place of business in Canadian society, economics and politics. The internal dynamics of Canadian business (organization, strategy, the rise of the manager), and its external implications (competition, foreign investment, business-government relations). (Field c)
Precludes additional credit for Business 42.468*.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.327*
Introduction to Local History
An examination of the methods and approaches that characterize recent British, French and North American writing on local history. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.328*
Eastern Ontario Communities
The local history of Eastern Ontario, with particular reference to the settlement and development of the Ottawa Valley in the nineteenth century. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.329*
Canadian Urban History
Introduction to urban growth and development in Canada. The historical basis of the urban pattern and its influence in Canada and the internal structure and institutions of Canadian cities. Ottawa is used as a case study. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.330*
The History of Upper Canada to 1867
An introduction to the economic, social and political development of Upper Canada to the time of Confederation. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.331*
Quebec Since the 1860s
A social, economic, cultural and intellectual history of Quebec with emphasis on the development of Quebec nationalism. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.332*
The Atlantic Provinces
Selected periods in the history of the four Atlantic Provinces. Themes covered include: settlement and population; economic trends; religious and cultural development; social and political evaluation. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.333*
The History of Ontario, 1867-1967
An introduction to the economic, social and political development of the Province of Ontario. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.334*
Canada-United States Relations
An examination of diplomatic, economic, cultural and military relations, with particular attention to the twentieth century. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.336*
Canadian External Relations
The development of Canadian attitudes and policies toward external affairs, with emphasis on the twentieth century. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.337*
Development and Underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada, 1660-1960
Case-study analyses of the contrasts of development in different regions of all four Atlantic provinces from early colonial times to the modern period. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.339*
History of the Canadian West
The economic, social and political evolution of Western Canada from European penetration to the present. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.340*
History of United States Foreign Policy since 1941
A study of United States foreign relations from intervention in World War II to the present. Principal themes include the developing antagonism with the Soviet Union, global political and economic expansion, and the response to the changed circumstances of the post-Cold War era. (Field c)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.349.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.341*
The American Revolution
A study of the causes and course of the movement leading to the independence of the United States. Particular emphasis is given to ideology, society, local issues and revolutionary organization. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.342*
Expansion, Sectionalism and Reform: The United States, 1819 to 1850
An examination of major developments in the United States from the Panic of 1819 to the Compromise of 1850, stressing the major social and political issues arising from territorial expansion, immigration and the reform impulse. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.344
The United States Since Pearl Harbour
Some principal themes in the history of the United States since 1941. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.345*
History of United States Foreign Policy, 1865-1941
A study of United States foreign relations from the end of the Civil War up to intervention in World War II. Principal themes include economic and political expansion in the Americas, the domestic contexts of foreign policy, and the developing relationship with Europe. (Field c)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.349.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.346*
The History of African-American Women from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement
An examination of aspects of the social, cultural, and political history of African-American women since the eighteenth century. (Field c).
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.347*
Blacks in the United States
A study of blacks in the United States, which concentrates on their experience under slavery and the recurring themes of integration and separatism after emancipation. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.348
American Intellectual History
An examination of American thought from the colonial period to the twentieth century, with emphasis on political, social and religious ideas and their relation to American society and institutions. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.350*
Canadian Immigration and Settlement: 1760-1875
A study of immigration to and within British North America and of the adaptation of immigrants to colonial life between the Seven Years War and the early years of Confederation. (Field c).
Precludes additional credit for History 24.338*.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.353
Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
The history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada, including cultural, political, and economic themes. (Field c).
Precludes additional credit for History 24.352* and 24.353*.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.354
Women and North American Society
An examination of the changes that have taken place in the position of women in North America and the relationship of these changes to other social, economic and intellectual developments. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.356*
Welfare and Poverty in Canadian History
Analysis of the development of the Canadian welfare state. Chronological examination of welfare arrangements in Canada since the beginning of the nineteenth century; comparisons with selected western countries; discussions of the role of different social groups in policy formation. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.357*
Canadian Immigration and Settlement Since 1875
A study of immigration to Canada and of the adaptation of immigrants to their new environment from 1875. (Field c)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.338*.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.358
Society and Politics in England circa 1500-1914
An enquiry into the relationship between society and politics in England. (Field a or b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.359*
A History of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1526-1918
The rise and fall of the multi-national empire of the Habsburgs from the unification of Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary to the collapse of the empire in the First World War. (Field a or b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.360
History of the U.S.S.R.
A history of the politics, diplomacy, culture and society of Soviet Russia from 1917 to the end of the U.S.S.R. in 1991. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.362*
Image and Actuality in the History of the Modern Canadian Family
The transformations of family life in Canada since 1800, its varieties, its continuities, its relationship with political and economic institutions, and the changing status of its members. The construction of ideas about families will be discussed to underline the complex dynamic between images and practices. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.363*
Themes in Modern European Women's History
An examination of themes in the social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern European women. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.365*
The Soviet Union in International Affairs
Study of Soviet diplomatic activity and foreign policy principles from the founding of Comintern in 1919 to the end of the U.S.S.R. in 1991. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.366*
Modern East Central Europe
A study of the political and diplomatic history of East Central Europe since 1848 with emphasis on Poland and Czechoslovakia. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.370*
Rise of the International Oil Industry, 1859-1939
Origins and growth of the "seven sisters": Rockefeller and Standard Oil (Exxon, Mobil, Chevron); Royal Dutch/Shell and British Petroleum; Gulf and Texaco; spread of transnational operations; frontier producing regions in Latin America and the Middle East; cartels and the international structure of corporate control. (Field b or c)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.372.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.373*
Oil and International Politics, 1919-1991
Petroleum as a factor in war and diplomacy: Oil in the world wars; development of Middle Eastern oil; nationalization crises in Mexico and Iran; rise of OPEC; nationalist challenges to international corporate control; the oil crisis of the 1970s; oil and the Gulf War. (Field b or c or d)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.372.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.374*
Aztecs
An examination of the Aztec social system, culture, religion, and philosophy both before and after the Spanish conquest.
(Field c or d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.375*
Latin American Women to 1825
An introduction to the history of women and the family in Latin America from pre-hispanic cultures to the wars of independence. This course will examine the lives of indigenous, Spanish, and African women within the context of colonialism. (Field d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.376*
Revolutions in Latin America
The context of revolutions and attempted revolutions as well as the question of resistance will be examined in a chronological framework. While exploring the revolutionary movements of the colonial and nineteenth-century periods, the course will focus on the twentieth century experience. (Field d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.377*
Latin American Women from 1825
An examination of Latin American women and the family in the national period with an emphasis on the growing role of women in politics and the impact of education and feminism in the region. (Field d)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.375* (if taken before 1999-2000).
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.378*
Reformation Europe
A history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on the theological disputes of the protagonists and the impact of these disputes on the social, political and cultural developments of the era. (Field a) (Also listed as Religion 34.378*).
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.379*
Latin American International Relations
An examination of the troubled diplomatic relations of the region principally with the United States but also Europe and Canada, beginning with the Wars of Independence up to the invasion of Panama. (Field d)
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.380*
From War to War: European International History, 1914-1941
A survey of European international history in the First World War; peace making 1919-1923; inter-war diplomacy and the origins of the Second World War; the European war to 1941. (Field b)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.380.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.381*
International History, 1941-1990
A survey of European international history in the Second World War, 1941-1945; peace-making; post-war relations; European union. (Field b)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.380.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.382*
Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918
A lecture course on Britain's experience of the Great War. Topics include the military effort, civil-military relations, wartime government and politics, state expansion, labour and the trade unions, women's experience, religion and pacifism, war and remembrance. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.385*
Twentieth-Century China
A political history of China from the 1911 Revolution to the present. Emphasis is placed on the development of Chinese communism and the People's Republic since 1949. (Field d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.386*
Japan Since 1945
A political, intellectual and economic history of Japan in the twentieth century, concentrating on the period since the end of the Pacific War. (Field d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.387*
Practicum in History
An historical research project in a museum or public institution in the Ottawa area conducted under the supervision of the external institution and the History Department. Work includes reading, reports, and meetings. Students should be prepared to devote one day a week to the project.
Prerequisite: Major or Honours history student with Third- or Fourth- year standing and a G.P.A. of 9.0 or better in history courses, or permission of the Department.History 24.388
Historical Theory and Method
An examination of questions concerning the nature and value of historical enquiry and the meaning of the course of history.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing.
Lectures two hours a week, discussion groups one hour a week.History 24.390
Études Dirigées
Un programme de lectures choisies et de travaux écrits dans le domaine de spécialisation d'un membre du département. Consultez le conseiller de Mention: français pour les sujets offerts. For students of "Mention: français" only. Permission of the "Mention: français" adviser required.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.391*.
Tutorials to be announced.History 24.391*
Études Dirigées
Voir History 24.390 pour description.
Permission of the "Mention: français" adviser required.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.390.
Tutorials to be announced.History 24.392*
Selected Topics in European History
A lecture course on a special topic in European history. (Field a or b) For Section A, the topic for 2001-2002 is Everday Life in Cold War Europe, 1945-1990. (Field b) For Section B, the topic for 2001-2002 is Restoring the European Past - History at the Movies. (Field a or b)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.303.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.393*
Selected Topics in Canadian History
A lecture course on a special topic in Canadian history. (Field c)
For Section A, the topic for 2001-2002 is The History of Human Rights in Canada. For Section B, the topic for 2001-2002 is The Development of Socialism in Canada.
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.394*
Selected Topics in American History
A lecture course on a special topic in United States history. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.395*
Selected Topics in International History
A lecture course on a special topic in international political or economic history. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.History 24.396*
Selected Topics in World History
A lecture course on a special topic in African, Asian, or Latin American history. (Field d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
400-level seminarsOnly a selection of the following 400-level seminars can be offered in a given year. Students are urged to visit the department's web site (www.carleton.ca/history) for information on the seminars that will be offered in 2001-2002.
History 24.406
Medieval Intellectual History
An examination of selected aspects of medieval intellectual history. (Field i) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.506, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.415
Seminar on European History
A seminar which will deal with individual states (such as France and Germany) and broader regions (such as Central Europe). It will focus on specific topics and themes, such as the French Revolution, the Hapsburg Empire, and the Third Reich. (Field ii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.424
Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History
An examination of immigration and ethnic history in a selected period between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. (Field v) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.530, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.426
Perspectives on State Formation in Canada
Exploration of selected problems of political history: the construction of official statistics, the language of governments, the invention of nationalisms, the making of political cultures, the autonomy of the state, the practices of bureaucrats and the political role of women. (Field v) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.526, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.429
Selected Topics in Greek and Roman History
Intended for Honours students in Classics or History in their Third- or Fourth-year. (Field i) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.429.)
Prerequisites: Classical Civilization 13.290 (24.290) or 13.291 (24.291) or 13.321* (24.309*) or 13.322* (24.311*) and permission of the Department.
Seminar two hours a week.History 24.430
Seminar on Colonial Society in British North America
A seminar involving examination of one or more of the British North American colonies. (Field v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.431
Seminar on Canada from Confederation to the Great War
A seminar examining political and social transformations of the nation-making phase of our history. (Field v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.437
Seminar on Canada from War to War
A seminar on the contours of Canadian development through the crises of war, reconstruction and depression. (Field v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.438
Studies in the History of Popular Culture
Selected studies in the social history of culture in the age of mass society, including the popular arts, and the "culture of consumption". (Field v or vi)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.439
Seminar on Modern Canada since 1939
Selected aspects of Canadian industrialization, urbanization, unionization, federalism, regionalism, feminism, nationalist ideologies, popular culture, and class and intellectual development. (Field v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.440
A Selected Period in United States History
A seminar on the political, social, economic and intellectual aspects of one of the following periods: (a) American Revolution; (b) early modern period, 1783-1816; (c) Jacksonian era, 1819-1850; (d) progressive era, 1896-1912; (e) interwar years, 1920-1941; (f) since 1941. For 2000-2001, the period will be (f) (Field vi)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.452
Gender and the Culture of Protestantism
Protestant women's religious expression and experience from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries in the British and transatlantic contexts. How gender relations, class, and race shaped women's piety and religious sensibility. (Field ii, iv, vi)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.454
Selected Problems in the History of Women and the Family: the Pre-Industrial Atlantic World
Selected problems relating to the pattern of women's lives from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Major focus on Britain and France, Quebec and Acadia; some attention to the experiences of Amerindian women, especially Mi'kmaq. (Field iv, v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.457
Selected Problems in Tudor History
A seminar designed to examine recent historical approaches to the problems of power and community in Tudor England in the light of some current social-philosophical theories of politics and society. (Field i, iv) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.557, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.458
Selected Problems in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Social History
A seminar primarily concerned with themes in social history. (Field ii, iv)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.459
Selected Topics in the History of Women and Gender in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
A seminar on selected themes relating to the history of women and gender since the eighteenth century. The themes will be developed within a national or transnational context that will be specified each year. (Field ii, iv, v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.460
Seminar on Russian History
A seminar on selected problems relating to late Imperial or twentieth-century Russia. (Field iii) Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.462*
A History of Canadian-Soviet Relationships, 1919-1991
A study of the ideology, economics, culture, and diplomacy of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Canada from the Russian Civil War era to the fall of the USSR. (Field iii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.470
Seminar on World History
A seminar dealing with topics in the history of modernization, economic development, the achievement of national identity and the history of culture in Asia-Pacific or Latin America. (Field vii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.480
Selected Problems in the Diplomacy of the Great Powers, 1906-1945
A seminar on selected problems in diplomatic history from the origins of the First World War. (Field ii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.482
Seminar on International History
A seminar concerned with the political and economic dimensions of international relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Field ii or v or vii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.History 24.498
Mémoire de recherche
Un travail écrit dans le domaine de spécialisation d'un membre du département. Consultez le conseiller de "Mention: français" pour les sujets offerts. For students of "Mention: français" only. Permission of the "Mention: français" adviser required.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.499.History 24.499 (2.0 credits)
Honours Research Essay
B+ standing in History courses is expected. The subject for research is settled in consultation with the Department and a supervisor is assigned. Written outline of the project submitted to the Honours Committee one week before the last day for course changes. Oral examination. Not available to students in a Combined Honours program. The decision to commit to a research essay should be made at the beginning of Third year.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.498.
Prerequisites: Registration in the Fourth-year of Honours History program and permission of the Department.
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