Courses Offered in 2020-2021 | Timetable
First Year Courses
Second to Fourth Year Survey Courses
Second to Fourth Year Seminar Courses
Capstone Experience Courses
Common Core Courses run by Us
Courses Offered by Other Departments
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Year 1 Courses
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST1021 | Introduction to Modern Legal History |
McClure |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST1016 | The Modern World |
Insisa |
Year 2-4 Courses
In their second to fourth years students may take all their courses in history, or they may combine some history courses with courses from the departments and programmes in the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Social Sciences. Different modes of learning are reflected in the structuring of the History curriculum into 'Survey' and 'Seminar' courses.
Survey Courses
Survey courses are intended to introduce the history of a geographical area or a specific period. These courses usually involve two lectures per week.
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST2013 | Twentieth-century Europe, Part I, The European Civil War, 1914-1945 |
Sacks |
| HIST2031 | History Through Film |
Ford |
| HIST2077 | Eating History: Food Culture from the 19th Century to the Present |
Ford |
| HIST2136 | The Graeco-Roman World: From Homer to Augustus |
Cobb |
| HIST2155 | Slavery and Democracy in the United States
|
McGrath |
| HIST2175 | Medicine, propaganda, and colonialism in Asia |
Meerwijk |
| HIST2181 | A Sea of Stuff: Commerce and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean 1500-2000
|
Shankar |
| HIST2185 | A History of Propaganda in East Asia |
Insisa |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST2107 | World War II in Asia & Pacific |
Schencking |
| HIST2126 | The American Family: Histories, Myths, and Realities |
Bowes |
| HIST2137 | Pandemic! Contagious Histories |
Peckham |
| HIST2176 | Doing Business in Modern China, 1800-1949 |
Moazzin |
| HIST2178 | Trials of History: The Courtroom from Historical Perspective |
McClure |
| HIST2180 | The Origins of Scientific Thought |
Trigg |
| HIST2182 | Seascapes and Skylines: Environment and Infrastructure in Asia |
Shankar |
Seminar Courses
Seminar courses involve more advanced study of special topics in history and a higher level of training in the use of primary documents or historiography. These courses will normally offer no more than one lecture per week, but will also include at least one hour of seminar, tutorial or workshop classes each week.
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST2133 | The Weimar Republic through Documents |
Becker |
| HIST2135 | Cold War Germany through Documents |
Becker |
| HIST2187 | Critical Approaches to the End of Empire in Southeast Asia |
Saunders |
| HIST3075 | Directed Reading |
History Staff |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST2118 | Chinese and Americans: a Shared and Transnational History |
Xu |
| HIST2127 | Qing China in the world: 1644-1912 |
Kim |
| HIST2163 | China after Mao: A People's History, 1976-2002 |
Dikötter |
| HIST2186 | Death and Destruction from Above: A History of Aerial Bombing, from
Zeppelins to Drones |
Schencking |
| HIST3075 | Directed Reading |
History Staff |
Capstone Experience Courses
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST4017 | Dissertation Elective (12 credits) |
History Staff |
| HIST4023 | History Research Project |
History Staff |
| HIST4035 | History Applied: Internship in Historical Studies |
Pomfret |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST4015 | The Theory and Practice of History |
Cunich |
| HIST4017 | Dissertation Elective (12 credits) |
History Staff |
| HIST4023 | History Research Project |
History Staff |
| HIST4028 | History Without Borders: Special Field Project |
Pomfret |
| HIST4032 | Great Kantō Earthquake and the Reconstruction of Tokyo |
Schencking |
| HIST4033 | Museums and History |
Carroll |
Common Core Courses
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| CCCH9045 | Johansson | |
| CCCH9047 | Johansson | |
| CCCH9054 | Mothering China: From the Womb to the Nation (China: Cultural, State and Society) |
Tsang |
| CCGL9003 | Sinha (CHM) | |
| CCGL9055 | Genocide: Problem from Hell and Nightmare from History (Global Issues) |
Sacks |
| CCHU8004 | Historical Gaming: Reinventing the Past in a 'Post Truth' Era (Humanities) |
Pomfret |
| CCHU9071 | Tsang | |
| Semester 2 | ||
| CCCH9032 | Sports and Chinese Society (China: Cultural, State and Society) |
Xu |
| CCCH9046 | Johansson | CCCH9048 | Memory Holes and Martyrs: Creating China's Past (China: Cultural, State and Society) |
Johansson |
| CCGL9064 | Body Politics: Local Worlds, Global Processes (Global Issues) |
Song & Meek (CHM) |
| CCHU9002 | Battles for Bodies: The Birth of Surveillance Society (Humanities) |
Tsang |
| CCHU9043 | Tsang | |
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