Foundation Level Courses

HIST2013The Middle Ages I: Fall of Rome to 1100 (O)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)
HIST2014The Middle Ages II: 1100-1500 (O)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

Continues the broad examination of the medieval world, beginning c. 1000 AD and ending with the Age of Exploration. Explores the emerging social, political, intellectual, artistic, and religious currents and conflicts that led to the dawn of the modern world c. 1500. Not available for credit to students who have completed HIST 1006 or HIST 1010.

HIST2023Early Modern Europe Part I, 1300-1600 (O)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

This entry-level course, which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, surveys Western European history by examining aspects of the Italian and Northern Renaissances, early contact with Non-Western peoples, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the growth of nation states. Emphasizes developments in the economy and society, education, religion, culture and government. Restriction: Not available for credit to students who have completed HIST 1020 . 

HIST2024Early Modern Europe Part II: 1600-1800 (O)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

This entry level course, which is recommended for both first- and second-year students, continues the survey of Western European history by examining aspects of the rise of absolutist states, the Scientific Revolution, the Witch Hunts, the Enlightenment, overseas expansion and the French Revolution. Stresses developments in the economy and society, government, secular thought, culture, international relations and war. Restriction: Not available for credit to students who have completed HIST 1020 . 

HIST2103Modern Europe Part I: 1789-1914 (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

This entry level course, which is recommended for both first- and second-year students, surveys European history from the era of the French and Industrial Revolutions to the eve of the First World War. Topics to be covered include: the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the working class; evolving political ideologies and movements; the forging of new nation states; changing class and gender relations; cultural upheaval; the motives for imperialism; the origins of the First World War. Not available for credit to students who have taken HIST 1100 or HIST 2100 . 

HIST2104Modern Europe Part II: 1914 to Present (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

This entry level course, which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, surveys European history from the First World War to the present. Topics to be covered include: the First World War; the Russian Revolution; interwar cultural and social change; the Great Depression and political upheaval; the origins and course of the Second World War; Europe and the Cold War; social change after 1945; the impact of decolonization; the rise of the European Union; European debates over national identity. Not available for credit to students who have taken HIST 1100 or HIST 2100 . 

HIST2301Canada: Empires and Imperialism, to 1876 (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)
Examines the interaction between European empires and Indigenous nations and the formation of the Canadian settler state. Begins with Indigenous lifeworlds before ‘contact’ and ends with the 1876 Indian Act. Topics include the ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ the system of racialized chattel slavery, early treaty relationships, British and French colonialism, westward imperialism, resource extraction, and confederation. Not available for credit to students who have completed HIST1300 or HIST2300.
HIST2302Canada: Empires and Imperialism, from 1876 (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)
Examines the relationship between Canadian imperialism and Indigenous nations. Begins with the 1876 Indian Act, the legislation which set the stage for the expansion of Canadian jurisdiction over Indigenous spaces. Topics include policing, the reserve system, residential schools, Canadian capitalism, Indigenous resistance, the revitalization of Indigenous societies, ‘modern’ treaties, European settlements, and our contemporary moment.
HIST2403Understanding 'America' I: The United States to the Civil War (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

This entry-level course, which is recommended for both first-and second-year students, surveys American history from the earliest European settlement through the Civil War. Topics include exploration and expansion, the European-Aboriginal encounter, colonization and Christianity, revolutionary ideas and independence, the early Republic, the frontier experience, slavery and resistance, antebellum culture, and sectional discord and conflict.

HIST2404Understanding 'America' II: The United States since the Civil War (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

This entry-level course which is recommended for first-and second-year students, surveys the modern history of the United States. The course considers national reconstruction following the Civil War, late nineteenth century industrial and geographic expansion, social unrest and progressive reform in the early twentieth century, the "roaring twenties", the "dirty thirties", the New Deal, the "Good War" of the 1940s, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, liberalism and conservatism, the "Bad War" in Vietnam, the rebellions of the sixties, the Reagan era and beyond. Completion of HIST 2403 recommended but not required. 

HIST2453Cold War Histories (O)3 ch (3C) (W)

Introduces students to the American historiography of the Cold War. Concentrating on the interpretive differences among historians of this conflict illuminates a variety of historical approaches and methodologies. Features interactive learning and scholarly debates. Not available for credit to students who have taken HIST 4453.

HIST2603Indigenous and Early Colonial Caribbean History (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)

This survey course introduces students to a history of the Caribbean region from the indigenous era, beginning around 6000BC, to the late-eighteenth century. Topics covered include: indigenous politics, cosmology, and culture; European conquest and indigenous responses and resistance to conquest; Variations in politics and cultures between empires; the Middle Passage; plantation and urban slavery; the everyday lives of the enslaved.

HIST2604Revolution and Emancipation in the Colonial Caribbean (A)3 ch (2C 1T) (W)
Introduces students to a history of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century Caribbean, from the Haitian Revolution to the U.S. occupating of Cuba and Puerto Rico and the Cuban war of independence in the late nineteenth century. Topics covered include slave rebellion, the struggle to abolish the slave trade, anti-slavery and the abolitionist movement, slave emancipation and struggles to define freedom, Indian indentureship, and nationalist and independence struggles.
HIST2815Military History from Plato to NATO (O)3 ch (3C) (W)

Provides a general introduction to the study of tactics, technology, battle control, logistics, and management. Illuminates historical developments through the investigation of select campaigns and battles. Not available for credit to students who have taken HIST 1815.