History Option - Arts & Contemporary Studies

History Option

This option offers not only a study of the past, as a way to understand the present, but also a range of skills applicable to many jobs – those which require an understanding of research techniques, analysis, and logic. Each of these is a requirement of historical studies, as students must understand how to collect data, how to analyze it as to accuracy and sufficiency, and how to construct a logical argument from the evidence, if it is judged that there is sufficient evidence to support an argument.

(13) courses, grouped as follows:

REQUIRED:

HIS 400	Reading, Writing and Using History
HIS 401	Hearing, Seeing and Speaking History
HIS 505	Locating The Past: Archival Research

One (1) Senior Seminar from the following*:

HIS 903	Senior Seminar I: Cross-Field Study
HIS 916	Senior Seminar II: Science, Technology and Medicine
HIS 931	Senior Seminar III: Americas
HIS 956	Senior Seminar IV: Africa
HIS 957	Senior Seminar V: Middle East
HIS 958	Senior Seminar VI: Asia
HIS 976	Senior Seminar VII: Europe
HIS 990	Senior Seminar VIII: International Relations

Three (3) courses from the following:

HIS 104	Ten Days That Shook The World
HIS 105	Inventing Popular Culture
HIS 106	Technology, Warfare and Social Change
HIS 107	Colonization, Colonialism and Independence
HIS 238	Canada to 1885: Creating a Nation
HIS 248	American History to 1877
HIS 265	Asia: Foundations and Modern Nations
HIS 275	Ancient Greece and Rome
HIS 277	Mediaeval Europe, 400-1350
HIS 279	Europe, 1715-1870
HIS 338	Canada since 1885: Defining a Nation
HIS 348	American History from 1877
HIS 377	Europe, 1350-1715
HIS 379	Europe, 1870-Present
HIS 461	Cradle of Civilization: Ancient Near East
HIS 462	Introduction to the Islamic World
HIS 490	International Relations from 1945

One (1) course from the following:

HIS 500	History and New Media
HIS 501	Archaeology and Material Culture
HIS 502	Life Stories: Oral History

Five (5) courses from the following:

HIS 500	History and New Media
HIS 501	Archaeology and Material Culture
HIS 502	Life Stories: Oral History
HIS 510	Museology and Public History
HIS 541	Canada and the First World War
HIS 556	Colonial Africa
HIS 559	Ancient Egypt
HIS 561	The Ottoman Empire
HIS 590	Modern International Relations
HIS 594	War to War: World Conflict, 1900-45
HIS 610	Curating the Past
HIS 615	Film, Television and 20th C History
HIS 656	Post-Colonial Africa
HIS 661	The Middle East from 1908
HIS 662	The Mughal Empire, 1526-1764
HIS 677	Society in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1500
HIS 678	The Renaissance in Europe
HIS 683	Victorian Britain
HIS 696	The History of Terrorism
HIS 710	Managing Heritage Resources
HIS 742	Canadian Cultural Industries
HIS 755	Material Cultures of North America
HIS 762	The Making of Modern South Asia, 1757-1947
HIS 783	20th-Century Britain
HIS 790	Modern Germany
HIS 826	Science and World Exploration
HIS 828	Science, Corporations and the Environment
HIS 845	Canada in the International Sphere
HIS 886	The British Empire and the World
HIS 898	A History of International Organizations
HIS 900	Experiential Learning I
HIS 901	Experiential Learning II

Students in the History Option cannot complete the History Minor.

NOTE: History courses cannot be used toward the liberal studies requirement if the History Option is chosen