1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs | 1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs |
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| 1999 - 2000 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR | ||
| Carleton University |
400 Paterson Hall
Telephone: 520-2828
Acting Chair, Deborah Gorham
Supervisor of Graduate Studies, Marilyn Barber
Supervisor of Undergraduate Studies, Pamela Walker
Adviser for "Mention français", Roderick Phillips
Professors Emeriti
J.G. Bellamy, B.A. (Oxford), M.A. (Oxford and Nottingham), Ph.D. (Nottingham)
• David M.L. Farr, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A. (Toronto), D.Phil.
(Oxford) Naomi E.S. Griffiths, B.A. (London), M.A. (New Brunswick), Ph.D.
(London), Doc. d'Hist. (Université de Moncton), Doct. d'hist. (Ste-Anne,
N.S.), Doc. Hum. Lett. (Mount St. Vincent), F.R.S.C. • J.K. Johnson,
B.A. M.A. (Toronto)
• S.R. Mealing, B.A. (Alberta), B.Litt., M.A. (Oxford) • H.
Blair Neatby, B.A. (Saskatchewan), M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Toronto), F.R.S.C.
• Michael J. Sydenham, B.A., Ph.D. (London), F.R.Hist.S • S.F.
Wise, C.M., B.A., B.L.S. (Toronto), M.A. (Queen's), LL.D. (Guelph), F.R.S.C.
Kerry Abel, B.A (Queen`s), M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen`s) • J. Laurence Black, B.A. (Mount Allison), M.A. (Boston), Ph.D. (McGill) • B.S. Elliott, B.A. (Carleton), M.A. (Leicester), Ph.D. (Carleton) • R. Carter Elwood, B.A. (Dartmouth), M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia) • Deborah S. Gorham, B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Wisconsin), Ph.D. (Ottawa) • G. Norman Hillmer, B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cambridge) • Peter John King, B.A., M.A. (Cambridge), A.M., Ph.D. (Illinois) • Duncan L. McDowall, B.A., M.A. (Queen`s), Ph.D. (Carleton) • A.B. McKillop, B.A., M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen`s) • Paul C. Merkley, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) • D.A. Muise, B.A. (St. Francis Xavier), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Western Ontario) • Roderick Phillips, B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Otago), D.Phil. (Oxford) • Franz A.J. Szabo, B.A. (Montréal), M.A., Ph.D. (Alberta)
Marilyn J. Barber, B.A., M.A. (Queen`s), Ph.D. (London) • Y. Aleksandra Bennett, B.A., M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (McMaster) • D. Dean, B.A., M.A. (Auckland), Ph.D. (Cambridge), F.R.Hist.S • E.P. Fitzgerald, B.A. (Seton Hall), M.A., Ph.D. (Yale) • R.B. Goheen, B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (Yale) • Grover F. Goodwin, B.A. (Virginia), Ph.D. (Princeton) • Jacob Kovalio, B.A. (Tel-Aviv), M.A., Ph.D. (Pittsburgh) • Walter Roy Laird, B.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) • Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, B.A. (Ottawa), M.A., Ph.D. (Tulane) • Dominique Marshall, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Montréal) • J.H. Taylor, B.Sc. (Alberta), M.A. (British Columbia) • Pamela J. Walker, B.A. (Concordia), M.A. (York), Ph.D. (Rutgers)
Susan Whitney, B.A. (Princeton), M.A. (Brown), Ph.D. (Rutgers)
Adjunct Research Professors
N. Adamson • B. Carman Bickerton • R.T. Clippingdale • V. Dickenson, McCord Museum, Montreal • W.A.B. Douglas • Toby Gelfand, University of Ottawa • S.J. Harris, National Defence Headquarters • M.W. Labarge • R.F. Sarty, National Defence Headquarters
F.J.K. Griezic • H.A. MacDougall
Students intending to major in History, whether in the B.A. (Honours), B.A., or Graduate program, should first consult with the appropriate adviser. Students considering an Honours program should note particularly the compulsory requirements not included in the B.A. program. All majors in History should review their course of study annually with the appropriate adviser.
In order to graduate, students must fulfill all University graduation regulations (see p. 48), all Faculty regulations including those relating to First-Year Seminars and Breadth requirements (see p. 63), all Major regulations and requirements as set out below.
Students in the B.A. (Honours) program are required to complete a minimum of 10.0 credits in History. They may satisfy the requirements in two different ways:
1. (a) 1.0 credit at the 100-level, to be taken in the First year (in exceptional circumstances a 200-level course may be taken in its place.)
(b) 3.0 credits at the 200-level, to be taken in the Second year.
(c) 3.0 credits at the 300-level, to include 24.388, to be taken in the Third year.
(d) 3.0 credits at the 400-level, to be taken in the Fourth year. Students should endeavour to have at least one course at the 200- or 300-level in the area of each Fourth-year seminar. Not more than two seminars may be taken in any one of the following fields:
(i) ancient, medieval and early modern Europe;
(ii) modern Western Europe;
(iii) Russia and Eastern Europe;
(iv) Great Britain and the Commonwealth;
(v) Canada;
(vi) United States;
(vii) European expansion and the non-Western world.
One of these seminar credits may, with departmental approval, be taken in a discipline other than History. Students choosing this option will be required to present only 9.0 History credits.
2. Students may elect to present a research essay (History 24.499) worth 2.0 credits as part of their Honours program. The program for these students is:
(a) 1.0 credit at the 100-level, to be taken as part of the First year (in exceptional circumstances a 200-level course may be taken in its place).
(b) 2.0 or 3.0 credits at the 200-level, to be taken in the Second year.
(c) 2.0 or 3.0 credits at the 300-level, to include 24.388, depending on the number of 200-level credits taken. The decision to commit to a research essay should be made at the beginning of Third year.
(d) History 24.499 (2.0 credits) and 2.0 400-level credits, to be taken in the Fourth year. Students should endeavour to have one course at the 200-or 300-level in the area of each fourth-year seminar. Not more than two seminars may be taken in any one of the following fields:
(i) ancient, medieval and early modern Europe;
(ii) modern Western Europe;
(iii) Russian and Eastern Europe;
(iv) Great Britain and the Commonwealth;
(v) Canada;
(vi) United States;
(vii) European expansion and the non-Western world.
3. Courses offered at the 100-, 200-, and 300-levels generally fall into the following four fields:
(a) ancient, medieval and early modern Europe;
(b) modern Europe;
(c) North America;
(d) European expansion and the non-Western world.
Before beginning the Fourth year, all Honours students are required to take at least 1.0 credit at the 100-, 200-, or 300-level in three of the four fields. History 24.388 may not be used to satisfy this field requirement.
Combined Honours Programs
Students combining History with another subject are required to complete 6.0 credits in History.
(a) 1.0 credit at the 100-level, to be taken in the First year (in exceptional circumstances a 200-level credit may be taken in its place).
(b) 2.0 credits at the 200-level, to be taken in the Second year.
(c) 2.0 credits at the 300-level, to include 24.388, to be taken in the Third year.
(d) 1.0 credit at the 400-level to be taken in the Fourth year. Before beginning the Fourth year, Combined Honours students are required to take at least 1.0 credit at the 100-, 200-, or 300-level in three of the four fields listed under item 3 of the Honours Program in History.
Entrance and Continuation
Entry into History B.A. programs requires enrolment in a 100-level History course, or an equivalent approved by the Department. Continuation requires completion of such a course with a C- or better average, and maintenance of a C- or better average over all other History courses successfully completed. History graduation averages will be calculated on the 6.0 best History credits for the B.A.
B.A. Program in History
1. Students in the B.A. program in history are required to complete 7.0 credits in history.
(a) 1.0 credit at the 100-level, to be taken in the First year (in exceptional circumstances a 200-level credit may be taken in its place).
(b) 3.0 credits at the 200-level, to be taken in the Second year.
(c) 3.0 credits at the 300-level, to be taken in the Third year.
Credits at the 400-level may be presented for graduation in a major program only with permission of the department.
2. Courses offered at the 100-, 200-, and 300-levels generally fall into the following four fields:
(a) ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe;
(b) modern Europe;
(c) North America;
(d) European expansion and the non-Western world.
B.A. students are required to take at least 1.0 credit at the 100-, 200, or 300-level in three of the four fields. History 24.388 may not be used to satisfy this field requirement.
Students desiring a minor in history are required to complete 4.0 credits in history.
(a) 1.0 credit at the 100-level;
(b) 1.0 credit at the 200-level;
(c) 1.0 credit at the 300-level;
(d) 1.0 credit at either the 200- or 300-level.
Students in the B.A. (Honours) or B.A. program in History may qualify for the notation "Mention: français" by fulfilling the requirements outlined below. Those wishing to pursue this path should consult with the Department's "Mention: français" adviser. Approval of this adviser is required for all courses under the "Mention: français".
History courses presented in fulfillment of the "Mention: français" requirement can double as courses to satisfy History B.A. (Honours) or B.A. requirements.
Students enrolling in courses at the University of Ottawa will do so through the University of Ottawa Exchange Program. To enrol in courses in French at another university, students must obtain a Letter of Permission. (See articles 3.12 and 3.13, p. 66.)
B.A. (Honours) and Combined B.A. (Honours)
To graduate with the notation "Mention: français" students must include in their program the following:
1. 1.0 credit in French language chosen in consultation with the Department of French for the purpose of perfecting the student's French language skills.
2. 1.0 credit from the following list of courses taught in French at Carleton or the University of Ottawa and relating to the French experience in Canada: (Carleton) French 20.372*and 20.373*; (University of Ottawa) Histoire HIS 2601, HIS 2701; Français FRA 2525, FRA 2526, FRA 2711, FRA 2714, FRA 2722, FRA 2727; Linguistique LIN 2502; Études Religieuses SRS 2530.
3. 1.0 credit in History at the 200-or 300-level taught in French at Carleton, at the University of Ottawa or at another university. At Carleton, History 24.390 and 24.391* are available in French to meet this requirement.
4. Either History 24.498, or a 1.0 credit History seminar at the 400-level taught in French at the University of Ottawa. All written work must be submitted in French.
5. Combined Honours students must meet the "Mention: français" requirements of both Honours disciplines.
B.A.
To graduate with the notation "Mention: français" students must include in their program the following:
1. 1.0 credit in French language chosen in consultation with the Department of French for the purpose of perfecting the student's French language skills.
2. 1.0 credit from the following list of courses taught in French at Carleton or the University of Ottawa and concerned with the study of the heritage and culture of French Canada: (Carleton) French 20.372*and 20.373*; (University of Ottawa) Histoire HIS 2601, HIS 2701; Français FRA 2525, FRA 2526, FRA 2711, FRA 2714, FRA 2722, FRA 2727; Linguistique LIN 2502; Études Religieuses SRS 2530.
3. 1.0 credit in History at the 200-or 300-level taught in French at Carleton, at the University of Ottawa or at another university. At Carleton, History 24.390 and 24.391* are available in French to meet this requirement.
The Department of History cross-lists several courses offered by other departments (e.g., several Classical Civilization courses in the Discipline of Classics). No more than 2.0 credits in cross-listed courses may be included in the 7.0 credits required for the B.A. program. No more than 3.0 credits in cross-listed courses may be included in a B.A. (Honours) or Combined B.A. (Honours) program.
Unless otherwise stated, except for 24.388 the prerequisite for any 300-level course is:
1. A 200-level course, preferably in an appropriate field (for fields, see B.A. Program in History, paragraph 2); or
2. Third-year standing.
The prerequisite for 24.388 is Third-year standing.
The prerequisite for any 400-level course is permission of the Department.
Permission will normally be granted to students who have taken two 300-level History courses, with one course at either the 200- or 300-level in an appropriate field. Special students will be admitted to 400-level courses only under exceptional circumstances.
| Category for Breadth | Courses in this unit |
| The temporal dimension of human societies, analyzing times before the present era or societies other than our own |
All History courses not listed in any other category |
| The artifacts of the imagination in literature and/or other forms, or that addresses the life of the imagination and culture. | |
| The understanding of social, technological and/or natural processes and the ways in which that understanding is obtained in science and social science. | (24.)221, 222 |
| Matters of human values, ethics and social responsibilities | (24.)210, 254, 281, 310, 346*, 347*, 348, 354, 356*, 362* |
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 1999-2000, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 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.
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.
A study concentrating on the political development of medieval England, A.D. 410-1485. (Field a)
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
A study of the economic and technological changes that transformed Western society during the nineteenth century. (Field b)
Lectures three hours a week.
The social, economic, cultural and political development of Eu
rope (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.
Beginning with the French Revolution of 1789, the course includes such significant movements as romanticism, nationalism, the rise and implications of industrialism, and the development of socialist theory culminating in Marxism. (Field b)
Lectures three hours a week.
A 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.
A historical survey of the structure and values of Canadian societies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Second-year standing recommended. (Field c)
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
A survey of the political, economic, and social development of Latin America from the colonial era to the twentieth century. (Field d)
Lectures three hours a week.
A survey of United States politics and society since the American Revolution. (Field c)
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
A comparison of political and social developments in two major Western European countries, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. (Field a or b)
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
A study of international economic relations from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression, with emphasis on two central themes: the role of foreign trade, finance and investment in shaping patterns of national development; the interplay of international economic relations and international politics. (Field b or d)
Precludes additional credit for History 24.272.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
The history of the development of the civilization and culture of the Middle East from 1798 to the present with special emphasis on 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.
A survey of diplomatic history from the Congress of Vienna to the outbreak of the First World War. (Field b)
Lectures three hours a week.
A comparative survey of the social consequences of war for the major Western European states and Russia from Napoleon to Hitler, and the efforts of international organizations and governments to seek alternative ways to resolve international conflict. (Field b)
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lecture course on a special topic, theme, or period.
Topic for 1999-2000: The Millennium in History: Millenarianism and its social and political manifestations from antiquity to the twentieth century. (Field a, b or c)
Lecture three hours a week.
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.
The 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 is 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.
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.
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.
A study of one of the major periods of ancient Greek history. Topic for 1999-2000:
Greek Democracy (Field a) (Also listed as
Classical Civilization 13.321*.)
Prerequisite: Classical Civilization 13.290/History 24.290 .
Lectures two hours a week.
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.
A study of one of the major periods or themes of the history of ancient Rome. Topic for 199-2000: Julio-Claudian Dynasty. (Field a)(Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.322*.)
Prerequisite: Classical Civilization 13.291/History 24.291.
Lectures two hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An intensive study of the political and social crises that dominated
the Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, with a view to explaining how
their outcomes shaped the relationship between individual liberty, social identity,
and national power in the major states. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
An examination of four or five frontier societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, most of them Canadian, in which the presence of either European or North American metropolitan influences were critical to the character of development. (Field c or d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A social, economic, political and cultural history of workers responses to the evolving Canadian capitalist system, with emphasis on the twentieth century. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
Case-study analyses of the contrasts of development in different regions of all four Atlantic provinces from early colonial times to the modern period or permission of the Department. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A study of the United States as a world power in its international and domestic context. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
A lecture course on a thematic area in Canadian history. For Section
A, the topic for 1999-2000 is War and Society in Canada. For Section B, the topic for 1999-2000 is Canadian War Art. (Field c)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lecture course on a thematic area in European history. Topic for 1999-2000 is Youth, Politics and Society in Modern Europe (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
A lecture course on a thematic area of international economic relations. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Origins and development of the world's largest international business from the 1850's to the 1990's. Growth of transnational oil companies, inter-firm rivalry and cooperation, the opening of frontier producing regions, the rise of OPEC, oil as a factor in international conflict and war. (Field c or d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
A survey of the historical forces which forged national identity from the Mexica to NAFTA. This course will examine political, social and economic structures to explain the particular sense of mexicanidad which characterizes the modern nation of Mexico. (Field c or d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A survey of international history in the First World War; peacemaking 1919-1923; inter-war diplomacy and the origins of the Second World War; the relations of the powers in the Second World War; and post-war relations and the Cold War. (Field b)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
A lecture course on a thematic area in non-Western history. (Field d)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course or Third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Voir History 24.390 pour description.
Permission of the "Mention: français" adviser required.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.390.
Tutorials to be announced.
A seminar on the transformation of the later Roman world into the polities of early Medieval Europe and the Near East (Field i) (Also listed as Classical Civilization 13.402.) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.502, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A seminar on crime, criminal law, and society in medieval England. (Field i) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.505, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
Examination of the scientific and polemical works of the Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Special attention to the role of patronage, the Jesuits, biblical interpretation, and the circumstances that led to his trial and condemnation. (Field i) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.507, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A seminar on selected problems and issues related to the history and historiography of France in the early modern and modern period. (Field ii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
An examination of the role and relationship of science and technology, including their social and engineering applications, in the Canadian historical experience. (Field v) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.536, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A seminar on social and economic themes. (Field v) Also offered at
the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.537,
for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
A seminar involving a comparative examination of two or more of the British North American colonies. (Field v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
Combining extensive reading of the secondary literature with research in primary collections in the Ottawa area, this seminar focuses on central themes of business development in Canada since 1850. (Field v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
History of the Canadian north, including both provincial and territorial norths. Topics include native peoples, the fur trade, resource frontier development and Canadian concepts of "north". (Field v) Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as History 24.529, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
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)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
A seminar that considers the relationship among the political, social, economic and intellectual aspects of one of the following periods: (a) The American Revolution; (b) the early modern period, 1783-1816; (c) the Jacksonian era, 1819-1850; (d) the progressive era, 1896-1912; (e) the interwar years, 1920-1941; (f) since 1941. For 1999-2000, the period will be (f). (Field vi)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A study of the role played by religious faith in the history of the United States, with special emphasis on political activities, the public philosophy, public policy and the American concept of national destiny. (Field vi)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
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 Micmac. (Field iv, v)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A seminar on selected problems relating to the political, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual developments of German-speaking central Europe in the modern era with emphasis on the Third Reich. (Field ii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
Selected problems relating to the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states. Focus on the cultural identity of central Europe, especially the problems of cultural integration in a multicultural society. (Field iii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
A seminar primarily concerned with themes in social history. (Field ii, iv)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
A seminar on selected problems relating to late Imperial Russia. (Field iii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A seminar on selected problems relating to the establishment and subsequent course of the Soviet Union. (Field iii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A seminar concerned with the political economy of international economic relations, their influence on patterns of national development, and their links with international politics. (Field vii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
A seminar on the institutions, ideologies, and social structures which influenced the creation of national identities in Latin America. (Field vii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
A seminar on a selected topic in Chinese or Japanese history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Field vii)
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
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.
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 examinination. Not available to students in a Combined Honours program.
Precludes additional credit for History 24.498.
Prerequisites: Registration in the Fourth-year of Honours History program and permission of the Department.