History: History MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the department's list of current course offerings.

Course Code Course Title
HIS1001H
Topics in History
HIS1003H
Theory and History
HIS1004H
History and Biopolitics
HIS1007H
Theories, Histories, Imaginaries: Themes in Technoscience
HIS1008H
The Practice of Public History and Archival Research
HIS1009H
Empire and Governmentality: Economy, Culture, and Liberal Governance
HIS1010H
New Historiographies of Capitalism: Globality and Making Space, Time, Subjects
HIS1011H
Queer and Trans Oral History
HIS1012H Indigenous and Decolonial Science and Technology Studies
HIS1013H Intellectuals and Decolonization
HIS1014H Neoliberalism in North America
HIS1015H
Oral History Theory and Practice
HIS1016H Historical Readings in Gender and Sexuality
HIS1017H History and Social Media: Critical Histories for Big Publics
HIS1018H History as Creative Nonfiction
HIS1019H Science, Nature, and Empire
HIS1031H
Images as History: Photography, Historical Method, and Conceptualizing Visuality
HIS1032H
Modernity and Its Visual Cultures
HIS1040H
Maps in History: Power and Identity, Conflict and Imagination
HIS1104H
Natives and Empires: Colonial History of the Americas, 1492–1800
HIS1105H
Colonial North America, 1600–1783
HIS1106H
Topics in Canadian Social History
HIS1107H
Religion, Culture, and Society in Canada (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1113H
Politics and Society in North American History
HIS1117H
Canada: Colonialism/Postcolonialism
HIS1118H
Canada By Treaty: Alliances, Title Transfers, and Land Claims
HIS1142Y
Canadian Foreign Relations, 1940–2003 (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1168H
History of the Sex Trade in Canadian and Comparative Contexts
HIS1180H
Race in the USA and Canada
HIS1200H
Readings in European Intellectual History
HIS1203H
Jus Commune
HIS1204H
Topics in Medieval Church History
HIS1213H
Medieval Institutes of Perfection (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1215H
Social Change in Medieval England, 1154–1279
HIS1221H
Topics in Early Modern European Social History
HIS1228H Revolutions in History: The Annales School in Context
HIS1230H
The Sexes in the Western World, 1450–1650
HIS1232H
European Colonialism, 1870–1970: A Comparative History
HIS1233H
Colonial Urbanism in the Mediterranean World, 1800–1950
HIS1234H
Readings in Early Modern French History
HIS1235H Histories in the Mediterranean: From Braudel to Post-Colonialism
HIS1236H Modern French Colonial History
HIS1237H
France: 1870–1968
HIS1245H Gender in Europe 1500–1950
HIS1265H Atrocities and Memory in Postwar Europe and North America
HIS1268H
The Holocaust and World War II
HIS1269H
The Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1270H
History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1272H
Topics in Twentieth-Century European History
HIS1273H Taking the Waters: Spas and Water Cures in History
HIS1275H
Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
HIS1278H
Topics in 20th C German History
HIS1279H
World War II in East Central Europe (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1281H
History of Real Socialism
HIS1286H
Categories of Imperial Russian Social History
HIS1287H
Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1288H
Russia's Empire
HIS1289H
The Cold War Through Its Archives
HIS1290H
Topics in Imperial Russian History
HIS1293Y
Kievan Rus' (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1296H
Stalinism and After: Beyond Cold War History
HIS1301H
History of Food and Drink
HIS1416H
Early Modern English Popular Culture, 1500–1800
HIS1435H
Studies in Victorian Society
HIS1440H
Irish Nationalism in Canada, 1858–1870 (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1441H Ireland, Race, and Empires
HIS1531H
American Political History Since 1877
HIS1532H
American Foreign Policy in the Cold War
HIS1533H
Gender and International Relations (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1538H
Reading in U.S. History
HIS1555H Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 17th to 19th Century (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1662H
Rethinking Modernity Through Japan
HIS1664H
Religion and Society in Southeast Asia
HIS1673H
Critical Historiography of Late Imperial and Modern China
HIS1675H
Imperial Circulation and Diasporic Flows in the British Empire
HIS1677H
Empire and Nation in Modern East Asia
HIS1678H
War and Memory in Twentieth-Century East Asia
HIS1702H
Colonial Violence: Comparative Histories
HIS1704H
Colloquium in Latin American and Caribbean History
HIS1705H
Trends in Women and Gender History in the Global South
HIS1707H
Topics in African History
HIS1708H
Labour in the Age of Imperialism
HIS1710H Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
HIS1712H
Topics on the History of Ethiopia
HIS1725H
Topics in Latin American History: Race, Gender, and Citizenship
HIS1784H
The Islamic Revolution
HIS1785H
International Relations in the Middle East
HIS1800H
Global Histories of the Archives
HIS1802H Slavery in North America (joint undergraduate/graduate)
HIS1805H
Human Rights and Empire (exclusion: HIS1860H)
HIS1806H
Histories of the Carceral State
HIS1810H Indigenous Economies and Imperialism
HIS1820H
Law, Space, and History
HIS1825H
Changing Skylines: (Re)mapping Urban History in the Global Age
HIS1830H
Critical Approaches to Historical Anthropology
HIS1860H
Global Rights: A Critical History
HIS1890H
Regimes of Value
HIS1900H
History in International Affairs
HIS1901H
Approaches and Methodologies in Contemporary International History
HIS1997H
The Practice of History (Credit/No Credit)
HIS1998H
Reading Course
HIS1999H
Reading Course
HIS2000Y0
Directed Research
JHL1282H
Comparative Totalitarian Culture
JHL1680H
Revolutionary Women’s Cultures in East Asia, Early to Mid 20th Century
JHP1289Y
Twentieth-Century Ukraine (joint graduate/undergraduate)

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Courses in Other Departments Taught by History Faculty

Course Code Course Title
COL5027H
Memory, Trauma, and History
MST1110H
Diplomatics and Diplomatic Editing
MST3205H
Violence in Medieval Society
MST3225Y
Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Other Departments

Students may take courses from other departments for graduate history credit with permission of the Associate Chair, Graduate. Interested students should consult the appropriate calendar entries and departmental websites for current course offerings.