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Seminar course descriptions

The following advance seminar courses are special topics that are not described inside the undergraduate or graduate calendars. For the regular course descriptions, please refer to the official graduate calendar.

Course number Course Description Credits
HIST 610C/810C/2 Seminar A

Selected Topics in European History

Special subject: Popular revolt in Europe, 1300-1600

This seminar will examine the phenomenon of popular revolts in Europe from the early fourteenth century until the end of the seventeenth.  Over those centuries, governing authorities faced numerous uprisings from peasants, artisans, and labourers.  Over the course of the term we will look at revolts in Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and England and examine the complex contexts of religious change, political consolidation, economic and demographic crisis, and social transformation.

NOTE:  This course is cross-listed with the undergraduate level courses HIST 437A.

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HIST 610L/810L/4 Seminar AA

Advanced Study in European History: 

Special subject: FILM / LEGACY / THE GREAT WAR

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. The Great War is the caesura which separates us from the (relative) tranquillity of the "long nineteenth century".  This seminar course examines the death of idealism in the trenches of the Great War in Europe through the lens of film.  The use of film as a vector of historical memory, and as an historical subject worthy of analysis in itself, is hardly new.  Film has come to be recognized - in either its fictional or documentary incarnations - as an integral part of the historian's universe.  To borrow the title of Marc Ferro's enormously influential French television series, it has become the cinéma parallèle of the historical enterprise.

The seminar will be built around five films, some of them selected from the interwar period, the rest from after the Second World War, which deal with the events of the Great War.  Of central concern will be the nexus between history as such, memory, fictional narratives based in the Great War, and cinematic treatments of the War.  We will look at questions such as the debate on war origins, the impact of trench warfare, pacifism in interwar film, the fusillés pour l'exemple and the mutinies on the Western Front, questions of gendered anxiety in pre-World War One Europe, the polical history of the war, and cultural approaches to First World War studies.  The focus will be on the experience of the Western Front, in the contexts of French, British and German history, with perhaps a short excursus into the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Students should be prepared to do a considerable amount of reading and writing, as well as to participate in the weekly seminar discussions.

NOTE:  This course is cross-listed with the undergraduate level courses HIST 437J .

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HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

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HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

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HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

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Course number Course Description Credits
HIST 402/4 Seminar BB

The Philosophy and Practice of History

HIST 402 is a seminar which provides an introduction to the theory and philosophy of history, to writing and research skills, and to the general topic of historiography.  The emphasis of the course this term is on the post-Enlightenment period.  Specific topics covered include social history, Marxism and history, gendered history, the Annales paradigm, German historicism, and the post-modern challenge.

Because this is a seminar course, a significant proportion of the final grade will be assigned on the basis of contribution to class discussions.  The weekly reading assignments will be fairly heavy, conceptually challenging, and students will be expected to come to the seminar prepared to discuss them. 

Prerequisite for HIST 402:  Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

NOTE: HIST 402 and HIST 403 may be taken in any sequence.

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HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

3
HIST 403/2 Seminar AA

Methodology and History  

What do historians do and how do they do it?  This seminar introduces students to a range of methods for conducting, analyzing, and presenting historical research.  Topics to be considered might include:  the exploration of opportunities for, and pragmatic problems related to, archival research; the use of manuscript versus published sources; non-textual sources (e.g. material culture, images, landscapes, scientific studies) as historical evidence; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary approaches to historial questions; and professional and public debates about the ethics, politics, and qualitative differences between different kinds of sources and interpretations of them.  Since this is a required course for all history honours students, it has no particular geographical or temporal focus but will explore examples from a range of places and times.  Students will develop a research topic for their major papers in a context of their choice.  This is a seminar course and requires informed and active participation in each weekly meeting.

Prerequisite for HIST 403: Approved Honours standing in History, or permission of the Department.

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