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Programs of Study

Thematic Streams

Although thematic streams are not an official program requirement, you may find it enriching to follow a particular theme across different time periods or geographical divisions.

The following thematic streams indicate a few well-defined areas, but other thematic possibilities exist exist as well, such as 'Race' and Ethnic Relations, or Popular and Material Culture. For further information, consult the Associate Chair, Undergraduate at 416-978-3368.


Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and Trans-Nationalism

HIS 104Y1

Ten Days that Shook the World

HIS 106Y1

Natives, Settlers, and Conquistadors: Colonizing the Americas , 1492-1776

HIS 202H1

Gender, Race and Science

HIS 208Y1

History of the Jewish People

HIS 280Y1

History of China

HIS 282Y1

History of South Asia

HIS 283Y1

Southeast Asian Crossroads

HIS 291Y1

Latin America : The Colonial Period

HIS 292Y1

Latin America : The National Period

HIS 294Y1

Caribbean History and Culture

HIS 303Y1

The Mediterranean , 600-1700: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora

HIS 312H1

Immigration to Canada

HIS 314Y1

Quebec and French Canada

HIS 326Y1

Overseas Chinese History

HIS 353Y1

Poland : A Crossroads of Europe

HIS 356H1

Zionism and Israel

HIS 369Y1

Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes

HIS 380Y1

Late Imperial China

HIS 384H1

Colonial Canada : The East

HIS 386Y1

Muslims in India and Pakistan

HIS 390Y1

Latin America in the Age of Revolutions

HIS 396Y1

From Abolition to Structural Development

HIS 408Y1

Race Relations in America

HIS 416H1

Orientalism and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany

HIS 417H1

Globalization, Science and Technology

HIS 445H1

Nationalism

HIS 446Y1

Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World

HIS 456Y1

Black Slavery in Latin America

HIS 467H1

French Colonial Indochina : Culture, Texts, Film

HIS 470H1

History, Rights and Difference in South Asia

HIS 480H1

Modernity and Its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique

NMC 278H1

Introduction to the Modern Middle East

NMC 348H1

The Legacy of Ancient Iran

NMC 349H1

History of Medieval Iran and Central Asia

NMC 370Y1

Ancient Israel

NMC 376H1

History of Islamic Spain and North Africa

NMC 377H1

The Ottoman Empire to 1800

NMC 477Y1

Nationalism, Ethnicity and Minority Rights in the Middle East

SMC 416H1

Irish Nationalism in Canada and the United States


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International Relations

HIS 103Y1

Statecraft and Strategy: Introduction to the History of International Relations

HIS 311Y1

Introduction to Canadian International Relations

HIS 334Y1

Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

HIS 343Y1

History of Modern Espionage

HIS 344Y1

Conflict and Co-operation in the European States System

HIS 347H1

History of Modern Chinese Foreign Relations

HIS 401Y1

History of the Cold War

HIS 405Y1

Canadian Foreign Relations

HIS 436Y1

Culture and the Cold War

HIS 451H1

World War II in East Central Europe

HIS 458Y1

Topics in Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy

HIS 471H1

U.S. and Globalization

HIS 488H1

The Secret War, 1939-1945

TRN 419Y1

American, Canadian and British Foreign Policy

TRN 421Y1

Practices of Diplomacy


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Medieval

HIS 220Y1

The Shape of Medieval Society

HIS 303Y1

The Mediterranean, 600-1700: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora

HIS 320Y1

Early Medieval Europe, c.300-1100

HIS 322Y1

The High Middle Ages, 1100-1400

HIS 323H1

Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages

HIS 336H1

Medieval Spain

HIS 362H1

The Hansa: The World of Merchants

HIS 389H1

Topics in History: Women in Medieval Culture, 1000-1500

HIS 403Y1

Jews & Christians in Medeival and Renaissance Europe

HIS 424H1

Violence in Medieval Society

HIS 427H1

History and Historiography in the Golden Legend

HIS 428H1

Medieval Monasticism

HIS 432H1

Topics in Medieval History

HIS 438H1

Inquisition and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

NMC 273Y1

Islamic History to the Fall of Baghdad in 1258

NMC 275Y1 Jews and Muslims: The Mediaeval Encounter
NMC 376H1 History of Islamic Spain and North Africa


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Women and Gender

HIS 202H1

Gender, Race and Science

HIS 245Y1

Women in European History

HIS 302H1

Material Culture in Victorian Britain

HIS 306H1

Culture, Society and Gender in England , 1560-1730

HIS 323H1

Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages

HIS 350Y1

Social History of the Family

HIS 354Y1

Men, Gender and Power in Europe ; Renaissance to the French Revolution

HIS 363H1

Dynamics of Gender in Canadian History

HIS 383H1

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

HIS 391H1

Gender in Southeast Asian History

HIS 389H1

Topics in History: Women in Medieval Culture, 1000-1500

HIS 416H1

Orientalism and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany

HIS 418H1

Women and Gender and Russian History

HIS 431H1

Comparative First-Wave Feminism, 1850-1940

HIS 446Y1

Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World

HIS 476H1

Voices from Black America

HIS 483H1

Topics in the History of Women and Gender in Britain , 1550-1950


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