2025-2026 Graduate Courses (Updated June 1, 2025)
Enrolment for History graduate students will open on August 5, 2025, and enrolment for non-History* students will open on August 18, 2025.
* Non-History student wanting to take a History course is require to complete a SGS Add/Drop Course(s) form. Please obtain approval and signatures from your home department and the instructor, e-mail the signed form to the Department of History to enrol in the course. Confirmation of course enrolment will be e-mailed to you once approved.
Course List Legend
- F = a half-year course in the first term (September – December)
- S =a half-year course in the second term (January– April)
- Y =a full-year course (September – April)
- (J) indicates a joint Graduate / Undergraduate course
- M = Monday
- T = Tuesday
- W = Wednesday
- R = Thursday
- F = Friday
Location - View the University of Toronto interactive map
- AH = Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph Street
- AP = Anthropology Building, 19 Ursula Franklin Street
- BA = Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street
- BC = Birge-Carnegie Library, 75a Queen’s Pkmap.utoronto.ca/utsg/building/502
- BF = Bancroft Building, 4 Bancroft Avenue
- BL = Claude T. Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street
- BT = Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West
- CR = Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street
- EM = Emmanuel College, 75 Queen’s Park
- FG = Fitzgerald Building, 150 College Street
- FH = Falconer Hall, 84 Queen’s Park
- HS = Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street
- IN = Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave
- KL = J.M. Kelly Library, 113 St. Joseph Street
- LA = Gerald Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place
- LI = Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park, 3rd Floor
- ME(CMS) = Main Entrance to 39 Queen's Park Crescent East (also known as the Centre for Medieval Studies)
- NF = Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
- OA = Old Admin Building, 263 McCaul Street
- OI = Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West
- PI ‘A” = Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 59 Queen’s Park Crescent East
- PI ‘L” = Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library, J.M. Kelly Library, 113 St. Joseph Street, 4th Floor
- JH = Jackman Humanities Institute, Department for the Study of Religion, 170 St. George Street, 3rd Floor
- RL = John P. Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street
- SK = Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor Street West
- SS = Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street
- TC = Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue
- TF = Teefy Hall, 57 Queen’s Park Crescent
- UC = University College, 15 King’s College Circle
- VC = Victoria College, 91 Charles Street West
- WE = Wetmore Hall (New College), 300 Huron Street
- WI = Wilson Hall (New College), 40 Willcocks Street
- ZC = Centre for Bioethics, 88 College Street
Course List
Click on the course number in the timetable for more detailed information.
Equivalent Courses
Our MA and PhD students may take courses from the departments listed below for graduate history credit with the permission of the associate chair, graduate.
If you are interested:
- View the list of participating departments below for current course offerings.
- Contact the associate chair, graduate for permission to take your desired course(s).
Graduate courses and seminar begin on September 2, 2025.
Cross-listed graduate/undergraduate courses begin on September 2, 2025.
Winter session courses begin on January 5, 2026.
| Course Code | UG Course Code | Course Title | Day/Time | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIS1001HF (J) | HIS406H1F | Topics in History: Transnational Gender Histories | M 13 - 15 | Tran |
| HIS1017HF | History and Social Media: Critical Histories for Big Publics | F 11 - 13 | Bertram | |
| HIS1031HF | Images of History | F 13 - 15 | Coleman | |
| HIS1180HF | Race in the USA and Canada | M 10 - 12 | Mar | |
| HIS1215HF | Social Change in Medieval England, 1154-1279 | W 13 - 15 | Gervers | |
| HIS1707HF | Topics in African History | W 11 - 13 | Rockel | |
| HIS1783HF | Jews of the Premodern Islamic World | R 13 - 15 | Verskin | |
| HIS1830HF | Critical Approaches to Historical Anthropology | T 11 - 13 | Kasturi | |
| HIS1997HF | The Practice of History - HIS MA students only | T 17 - 20 | Cohen | |
| HIS1416HF (J) | HIS422H1F | Early Modern English Popular Culture, 1600-1800 | R 17 - 19 | Mori |
| HIS1555HF (J) | HIS446H1F | Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 17th to 19th Century | R 11 - 13 | Newton |
| Course Code | UG Course Code | Course Title | Day/Time | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIS1005HS | Reading Queer and Trans Histories of North America | W 10 - 12 | Brown | |
| HIS1027HS | Disability Histories (new course) | T 11 - 13 | Nair | |
| HIS1040HS | Maps in History: Power and Identity, Conflict and Imagination | R 13 - 15 | MacArthur | |
| HIS1109HS | Topics in Canadian History | R 10 - 12 | Gettler | |
| HIS1265HS | Atrocities and Memory in Postwar Europe and North America | W 13 - 15 | Wittmann | |
| HIS1629HS | Religion, Ethnicity, and Empire in Inner Asia (new course) | R 15 - 17 | Bass | |
| HIS1673HS | Historiography of Late Imperial & 20th Century China | W 17 - 19 | Wang | |
| HIS1706HS | Writing Bondage & Freedom (new course) | T 15 - 17 | Cooper | |
| HIS1806HS | Histories of the Carceral State | R 12 - 14 | Mishler | |
| HIS1288HS (J) | HIS439H1S | Russia's Empire | M 11 - 13 | Smith |
| HIS1289HS (J) | HIS401H1S | The Cold War Through its Archives | M 13 - 15 | Sayle |
| HIS1272HS (J) | HIS447H1S | Globalization and Empire | T 11 - 13 | Jenkins |
| HIS1440HS (J) | CLT411H1S | Ireland, Race, and Empire | M 13 - 15 | Wilson |