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Divisions

History courses are grouped into three geographic divisions as outlined below. Specialist and Majors are required to choose courses from each of the three divisions to fulfill geographic breadth requirements. In order to help students with planning their programs, courses have been listed according to their divisions.

DIVISION I: ASIA, AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST
DIVISION II: THE AMERICAS
DIVISION III: EUROPE
- BRITAIN
- WESTERN EUROPE
- EASTERN EUROPE
- RUSSIA
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Division I: Asia, Africa, Middle East

1st Year Course

(N.B. 1st year courses do not fulfil the Divisional requirement of a HIS Specialist or Major program.)

HIS104Y1	Ten Days That Shook the World
HIS 107Y1	Approaches to Modern East Asian History

Asia

HIS 280Y1	History of China
HIS 281Y1	History of Modern Japan
HIS 282Y1	History of South Asia
HIS 283Y1	Southeast Asian Crossroads
HIS 315H1	Narratives of "Viet Nam"
HIS 328H1	Modern China Since 1800
HIS 347H1	History of Modern Chinese Foreign Relations
HIS 364H1	Studies in the History of Modern India
HIS 380Y1	Late Imperial China
HIS 381H1	Classical Indian History from Indus Valley to Gupta
HIS 385Y1	History of Hong Kong
HIS 386H1	Muslims in India and Pakistan
HIS 389H1	Intellectual and Cultural History of China , 7th-12 Centuries
HIS 394H1	South Asian Migration and Settlement
HIS 448H1	Gender in Southeast Asia
HIS 467H1	French Colonial Indochina : History, Culture, Texts, Film
HIS 470H1	History, Rights and Difference in South Asia
HIS 480H1	Modernity and Its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
HIS 485Y1	Topics in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History
HIS 491Y1	Nationalism in India Before and After Independence

Africa

HIS 295Y1	Introduction to African History
HIS 296Y1	Black Freedom
HIS 297Y1	History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
HIS 383H1	African Women from Colonialism to the Era of Stuctural Adjustment
HIS 396H1	The History of Sub-Saharan Africa from the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the End of Imperialism
HIS 446Y1	Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 481H1	Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in 20th Century Africa
HIS 486H1	Love, Money and Subjectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIS 494Y1	Kinship, Slavery and Citizenship in West Africa, 1500 to the Present

Australia

HIS 340H1

A Survey of Austrian History

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

For descriptions of NMC history courses offered in 2011-12, please consult the following website: http://www.utoronto.ca/nmc/courses/undergrad_h istory.htm

HIS 208Y1	History of the Jewish People
HIS 356H1	Zionism and Israel
HIS 445H1	Nationalism
NMC 270Y1	History of Syriac Christianity
NMC 273Y1	Islamic History to the Fall of Baghdad in 1258
NMC 274Y1	The Steppe Frontier in Islamic History
NMC 278Y1	Introduction to the Modern Middle East
NMC 376H1	History of Islamic Spain and North Africa , 640-1492
NMC 471H1	Topics in Early and Medieval Islamic History
NMC 475H1	Orientalism and Occidentalism
NMC 477Y1	Nationalism, Ethnicity and Minority Rights in the Middle East

Division II: The Americas

1st Year Course

(N.B. 1st year courses do not fulfil the Divisional requirement of a HIS program.)

HIS 106Y1

Making the Americas , ca. 1250-1780

Canada

HIS 263Y1	Introduction to Canadian History
HIS 311Y1	Introduction to Canadian International Relations
HIS 312H1	Immigration to Canada
HIS 313H!	Canadian Labour and the Left
HIS 314Y1	Quebec and French Canada
HIS 316H1	History of Advertising
HIS 318Y1	Canadian Environmental History
HIS 350Y1	The Social History of the Family
HIS 360Y1	African Canadian History
HIS 363H1	Gender in Canadian History
HIS 365H1	History of the Great Lakes Region
HIS 366H1	Black Canadian Women's History
HIS 369Y1	Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1500
HIS 384H1	Colonial Canada : the East
HIS 404H1	Topics in North American Environmental History
HIS 405Y1	Canadian Foreign Relations
HIS 410H1	Spectacles, Crowds, and Parades in Canada
HIS 419H1	Canadian Popular Culture, 1880 to the Present
HIS 430H1	Canadians and the World Wars
HIS 431H1	Comparative First-Wave Feminism, 1850-1940
HIS 437H1	A History of the Black Autobiographical Tradition in Canada
HIS 466H1	Topics in Canadian History
HIS 468H1	Atlantic Canada
HIS 469H1	Religion, Culture and Society
HIS 472H1	Topics in Canadian Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations
HIS 484H1	The Car in North American History
HIS 493H1	Cultural Encounters in Early Canada

United States

HIS 202H1	Gender, Race and Science
HIS 271Y1	American History Since 1607
HIS 321H1	Rise of Industrial America , 1877-1907
HIS 327H1	America and the World to 1900
HIS 329H1	Globalization and History
HIS 345H1	History and Film
HIS 367H1	History of Images
HIS 370H1	The Black Experience in United States since the Civil War
HIS 374H1	American Consumerism - The Beginnings
HIS 375H1	20th Century American Popular Culture
HIS 376H1	The United States: Now and Then
HIS 377Y1	20th Century American Foreign Relations
HIS 378H1	America in the 1960s
HIS 379H1	Revolutionary America 170-1790
HIS 393H1	Slavery in the American South
HIS 401Y1	History of the Cold War
HIS 408Y1	Race Relations in America
HIS 411H1	Great Trials in History
HIS 417H1	Globalization, Science, and Technology
HIS 425H1	Historiography
HIS 447Y1	Advanced Readings in American Popular Culture
HIS 471H1	U.S. and Globalization
HIS 473Y1	U.S. and Asia during the Cold War
HIS 474H1	American Urban Black Experience
HIS 475H1	Race, Segregation, and Protest: South Africa and the United States
HIS 476H1	Voices from Black America
HIS 478H1	Hellhound on My Trail: Living the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, 1890-1945
HIS 479H1	American Foreign Policy Since WW II
HIS 482H1	History and the Media in the U.S.
HIS 484H1	The Car in North American History

Latin America/Caribbean

HIS 291Y1	Latin America : The Colonial Period
HIS 292Y1	Latin America : The National Period
HIS 294Y1	Caribbean Culture and History, Pre-Columbian Era to 1886
HIS 305H1	Popular Culture and Politics in the Modern Caribbean
HIS 333Y1	Revolution in 20th Century Latin America
HIS 359H1	Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
HIS 390Y1	Latin America in the Age of Revolution
HIS 402H1	Indigenous Colonial Cultures in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas
HIS 446Y1	Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 456Y1	Black Slavery in Latin America

Division III: Europe

1st Year Course

(N.B. 1st year courses do not fulfil the Divisional requirement of a HIS Specialist or Major program.)

HIS 103Y1	Statecraft and Strategy: Introduction to the History of International Relations
HIS 109Y1	The Development of European Civilization, 1350-1945

Britain

HIS 232Y1	British Imperial Experience
HIS 302H1	Victorian Material Culture
HIS 306H1	Culture, Society and Gender in England , 1560-1730
HIS 332H1	Crime and Society in England ,1500-1800
HIS 337H1	Culture, Politics and Society in18th Century British
HIS 339Y1	English History in the19th Century
HIS 349H1	The British Search for Identity
HIS 355H1	Crime and Society in England , 1800 to present
HIS 368H1	British Government and Society, 1500-1800
HIS 435H1	Change and Continuity in Seventeenth Century England
HIS 477H1	Topics in Social and Cultural History of Victorian Britain
HIS 492Y1	Britain and the French Revolution, 1785-1801

Western Continental Europe

HIS 202H1	Gender, Race and Science
HIS 208Y1	Modern History of the Jewish People
HIS 220Y1	The Shape of Medieval Society
HIS 241H1	Europe in the 19th Century
HIS 242H1	Europe in the 20th Century
HIS 243H1	Early Modern Europe , 1450-1648
HIS 244H1	Early Modern Europe , 1648-1815
HIS 245Y1	Women in European History
HIS 301Y1	Imperial Spain
HIS 303Y1	The Mediterranean, 600-1700; Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
HIS 309H1	The European Reformations
HIS 317H1	Modern Germany 1914 to the Present
HIS 319H1	Renaissance France and the Wars of Religion 1483-1619
HIS 320Y1	Early Medieval Europe , 300-1100
HIS 322Y1	The High Middle Ages, 1100-1400
HIS 323H1	Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
HIS 324Y1	Science, Technology and the Development of Modern Culture
HIS 329H1	Globalization and History
HIS 330H1	Germany from Frederick the Great to WWI
HIS 338H1	The Holocaust: Nazi Germany, Occupied Europe and the Destruction of European Jewry
HIS 336H1	Medieval Spain
HIS 343Y1	History of Modern Espionage
HIS 344Y1	Conflict and Co-Operation in the International System Since 1945
HIS 345H1	History and Film
HIS 354Y1	Men, Gender and Power in Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revlolution
HIS 356H1	Zionism and Israel
HIS 357Y1	A Social History of Renaissance Europe
HIS 361H1	The Holocaust from 1942
HIS 388H1	France Since 1870
HIS 395Y1	Topics in History: Women in Medieval Culture, 1000-1500
HIS 401Y1	History of the Cold War
HIS 403Y1	Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
HIS 407H1	Imperial Germany , 1871-1918
HIS 411H1	Great Trials in History
HIS 414H1	The Third Reich
HIS 415H1	Nationalism and Memory in Modern Europe
HIS 416H1	Orientalism and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany
HIS 420H1	Democracy, Industry, and Public Culture in 20th Century Germany
HIS 422H1	Vichy France, 1940-1944
HIS 423H1	The Social History of Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries
HIS 424H1	Violence in Medieval Society
HIS 425H1	Historiography
HIS 427H1	History and Historiography in the Golden Legend
HIS 428H1	Medieval Monasticism
HIS 429Y1	Fascism
HIS 430H1	Canadians and the World Wars
HIS 432H1	Topics in Medieval History
JHP 435Y1	Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Europe
HIS 436H1	Culture and the Cold War
HIS 438H1	Inquisition and Society in Early Modern Europe
JHP 440H1	Gender and International Relations
HIS 441H1	Conversion and Christianities in the Early Modern Spanish World
HIS 442Y1	Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History
HIS 443H1	Society, Culture and Religion in the Renaissance and Reformation
HIS 444H1	Topics in Jewish History: Jewish Identity in the Modern World
HIS 445H1	Nationalism
HIS 446Y1	Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS 467H1	French Colonial Indochina : History, Culture, Texts, Film
HIS 480H1	Modernity and Its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
HIS 483H1	Men, Women and Gender in Europe 1400-1800
HIS 488H1	The Secret War, 1939-1945
HIS 489H1	History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness
HIS 496H1	Topics in History: German Intellectual History

Eastern Europe and Russia

HIS 250Y1	History of Russia , 860-1991
HIS 251Y1	History of East Central Europe
JHP 304Y1	Ukraine: Politics, Economy and Society
HIS 325Y1	Imperial Russia
HIS 331H1	Modern Baltic History
HIS 334Y1	19th and 20th Century Central Europe and the Great Powers
HIS 335H1	Soviet Cultural History
HIS 351Y1	History of 20th Century Russia
HIS 353Y1	Poland: A Crossroads of Europe
HIS 362H1	The Hansa: The World of Merchants
HIS 412Y1	War, Plague and Hunger in the Early Modern Baltic
HIS 418H1	Women and Gender in Russian History
HIS 421Y1	Soviet History Seminar
HIS 433H1	Polish Jews Since the Partition of Poland
HIS 434Y1	Kievan Rus'
HIS 449Y1	Ukranian National Revival
HIS 451H1	World War II in East Central Europe
HIS 453H1	Problems of National Survival in Eastern Europe Since 1848
JHP 454Y1	20th Century Ukraine
HIS 454H1	Topics in Russian and Soviet Social History
HIS 455H1	In the Soviet Archives: Text and History
HIS 458Y1	Topics in Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
HIS 459H1	Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946
HIS 460H1	Soviet History and Film, 1941-1991
HIS 461H1	20th Century Poland