undergraduate studies

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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

The Department offers three Bachelor of Arts in History program streams:

  • Area of Concentration in the General Program

  • Major (Honours Program)

  • Minor (Honours Program)

Graduation requirements as stated in the 2010-11 Calendar:

* Courses marked (H) are designed as honours courses. Students in a general program wishing to take these must obtain the permission of instructors concerned. All other courses may be taken by both general and honours students. Students wishing to take a 3000-level course must have pass standing in at least 5.00 credits in university courses.

* Students wishing to take a 4000-level course must have pass standing in at least 10.00 university credits. Access to all 4000-level history courses is restricted to students in the B.A. Honours program with at least a 70% average in all history course attempts. Students should note the prerequisite requirements of upper level courses in planning their individual programs.

* Students entering semester 1 are advised to choose from 1000-level courses. Second semester students wishing to take an advanced level History course should select that course from the History core.

 Area of Concentration in the General Program:

A minimum of 5.00 credits in History is required, including:

1.  at least 1.50 credits in History must be at the 3000-level (excluding HIST*3470 )

2.  students should take the History Core Requirements (see lists below)

Note: With the permission of the department, students may select as part of their program 0.50 credits outside the History Department such asECON*2420, ECON*3730, EURO*4600, WMST*4010.

Major (Honours Program):

A minimum of 8.00 credits in History courses is required, including:

1.  the History Core Requirements (see lists below)

2.  4.50 additional credits in History including 2.00 at the 4000-level

Minor (Honours Program):

A minimum of 5.00 credits in History is required, including:

1.  the History Core Requirements (see lists below)

2.  1.50 other credits in History, including 1.00 credit at the 3000 or 4000-level

Note: Honours students in History may, with the permission of the department, take up to 1.00 credits from outside the department such asECON*2420, ECON*3730, EURO*4600, WMST*4010. Students considering graduate work are advised to take 2.00 - 3.00 additional upper level History credits perhaps including the Special History Project Seminar (HIST*4470,HIST*4970) and to acquire a reading knowledge of a foreign language. Honours students must complete HIST*2450 by the end of their third semester to be eligible for 3000 level History courses.

Note: BA degree requirements must also be met. Please be advised that students are normally governed by the requirements of the Calendar with which they enter the university, but they may opt for a subsequent Calendar and all its requirements. However, under no circumstances may students mix and match among Calendar requirements.

Note: It is prudent to complete prerequisite requirements for upper level courses well before the semesters in which these courses will be taken. All History 4000-level courses are LEC @20; when registration is above that number, priority is given to advanced semester History program students with the highest average in their history courses. As it may not always be possible for students to have their first choice of 4000-level courses, a suitable range of prerequisites should be taken to cover alternate choice courses.

 

POSSIBLE COURSE SEQUENCES:

The History Department feels it is desirable to gain breadth as well as depth of study. This emphasis on breadth is reflected in the History Core, which provides exposure to a variety of geographic, chronological and thematic topics. Beyond the Core there are no specific course requirements and students are free to select from the full range of courses offered by the Department. For students wishing to focus their program more specifically, the following lists suggest a variety of possible course packages. Note that these are simply examples of how courses may be combined. The selection of courses beyond the Core remains at the discretion of the individual.

 

HISTORY CORE REQUIREMENTS

The History Core requirements are necessary for all History Honours students, whether Honours Major or Minor, and should be taken by students in the General Program with a concentration in History. The core requirements as stated in the 2010-11 Calendar are:

1) all of:

  • HIST*1010

  • HIST*2100

  • HIST*2450

  • HIST*2600

2) 0.50 credits from each of the lists below of a) Pre-Modern courses; b) Developing World courses; and c) Thematic courses, making a total of 1.5 credits.

Note: Some courses are listed under more than one category (i.e. both as Pre-Modern and as Developing World or Thematic.) Such courses can fill only one of these requirements. They cannot be double counted. With departmental approval, courses in areas such as Classics, Economics, Women’s Studies, European Studies and some in other departments/programs may be used to satisfy this requirement.

a) Pre-Modern courses: Requirement is 0.50 credits from this list. Pre-Modern courses are those having a major emphasis on the period before c1500.

  • HIST*2000 The British Isles, 1066-1603

  • HIST*2200 The Medieval World

  • HIST*2850 Ancient Greece and Rome

  • HIST*2890 Early Islamic World

  • HIST*3010 Political Culture in Britain, 1455-1689 (no longer offered)

  • HIST*3030 Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1066

  • HIST*3230 Spain and Portugal, 1085 to 1668

 

  • HIST*3410 Pre-Colonial Africa

 

  • HIST*3420 Colonial Latin America

 

  • HIST*3590 Ancient & Medieval India

  • HIST*3750 The Reformation

  • HIST*3820 Early Modern France

  • HIST*4140 Sexuality in the Middle Ages

  • HIST*4700, HIST*4710 Topics in Medieval History

b) Developing World courses: Requirement is 0.50 credits from this list. Developing World topics are defined as those areas outside the North Atlantic geographic region.

  • HIST*1150 The Modern World (former title: 20th Century Global History)

  • HIST*2110 The Atlantic World (no longer offered)

  • HIST*2340 Migrations & the Atlantic World

  • HIST*2890 Early Islamic World

  • HIST*2910 Modern Asia

  • HIST*2920 Republican Latin America

  • HIST*2930 Women and Cultural Change

  • HIST*3070 Modern India

 

  • HIST*3150 History and Culture of Mexico

  • HIST*3320 Modern China

  • HIST*3380 British Imperialism in Asia and Africa

  • HIST*3410 Pre-Colonial Africa

  • HIST*3420 Colonial Latin America

  • HIST*3580 Women’s History in Asia

  • HIST*3590 Ancient & Medieval India

  • HIST*3830 Modern Middle East

  • HIST*3840 Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923

  • HIST*3910 Africa Since 1800

  • HIST*4100 Africa and the Slave Trades

  • HIST*4120 Topics in Global History

  • HIST*4820 Topics in Islamic History

  • HIST*4900 Topics in the History of Modern India

c) Thematic courses: Requirement is 0.50 credits from this list. Thematic topics are defined as courses covering more than one continent in more than one century of time.

  • HIST*1250 Science and Society

  • HIST*2020 Film as History

  • HIST*2040 War and Society

  • HIST*2070 World Religions in Historical Perspective

  • HIST*2250 Environment and History

  • HIST*2260 Religion and Society

  • HIST*2340 Migrations & the Atlantic World

  • HIST*2800 History of the Modern Family

  • HIST*2930 Women and Cultural Change

  • HIST*2960 Topics in the History of Slavery (no longer offered)

  • HIST*3020 Sexuality and Gender in History

  • HIST*3130 Popular Culture and Punishment

  • HIST*3140 Witch-hunts and Popular Culture

  • HIST*3270 Revolution in the Modern World

  • HIST*3310 Disease and History

  • HIST*3430 Topics in Environment and Society

  • HIST*3570 Women in Modern Europe

  • HIST*3580 Women’s History in Asia

  • HIST*3640 Madness and Psychiatry

  • HIST*3690 Darwin, Culture and Society

  • HIST*4140 Sexuality in the Middle Ages

  • HIST*4670 Seminar in Science and Society