Courses Offered in 2019-2020 | 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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Asian history courses are indicated with the
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Year 1 Courses
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST1020 | Introduction to the History of Gender and Sexuality |
Bowes |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST1016 | The Modern World |
Insisa |
| HIST1017 | Modern Hong Kong
|
Chiu |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST2003 | Twentieth-Century China |
Insisa |
| HIST2013 | Twentieth-century Europe, Part I, The European Civil War, 1914-1945 |
Sacks |
| HIST2107 | The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific |
Schencking |
| HIST2125 | Hitler's Germany |
Sacks |
| HIST2130 | The Civilizing Mission and Modern European Imperialism |
McClure |
| HIST2150 | Global Capitalism: The Last 100 Years |
Sanchez-Sibony |
| HIST2154 | American Capitalism in the Long Nineteenth Century |
McGrath |
| HIST2158 | Women in Hong Kong History: Private Lives and Public Voices |
Chiu |
| HIST2160 | Visualizing History |
Petrulis |
| HIST2172 | Revolutionizing Health in Modern China |
Song |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST2014 | Twentieth-century Europe, Part II, Europe Divided and Undivided, 1945-1991 |
Sacks |
| HIST2021 | Nineteenth Century Russia |
Sacks |
| HIST2031 | History through Film |
Ford |
| HIST2077 | Eating History: Food Culture from the 19th Century to the Present |
Ford |
| HIST2082 | Europe and Its Others |
McClure |
| HIST2091 | The British Empire |
Carroll |
| HIST2096 | The History of European Business in China |
Moazzin |
| HIST2098 | A History of Modern Taiwan |
Insisa |
| HIST2111 | War and Medicine in Europe, 1800-1950 |
Peckham |
| HIST2165 | Protest and Politics in Modern US History |
Bowes |
| HIST2170 | The Making of the Islamic World: The Middle East,
500-1500 |
Trigg |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| HIST2134 | The Third Reich through Documents |
Becker |
| HIST2173 | American Antistatism |
Bowes |
| HIST2174 | Hell in the Pacific |
Schencking |
| HIST3075 | Directed Reading |
History Staff |
| Semester 2 | ||
| HIST2118 | Chinese and Americans: A Cultural and International History |
Xu |
| HIST3075 | Directed Reading |
History Staff |
Capstone Experience Courses
| Semester 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HIST4031 | East Asia Fieldtrip |
Cunich |
| HIST4034 | Oral History and Ethnographic Research Methods |
Song |
| HIST4035 | History Applied: Internship in Historical Studies |
Pomfret |
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 | |
| CCGL9057 | Work: From Factory Floor to our Robot Future (Global Issues) |
Petrulis |
| CCHU9071 | Tsang | |
| Semester 2 | ||
| CCCH9046 | Johansson | CCCH9048 |
History Wars?: How the Past is Shaping China's Future
|
Johansson |
| CCGL9056 | How We Move: Migration, Border Crossing, and Identity (Global Issues) |
Petrulis |
| CCHU9002 | Battles for Bodies: The Birth of Surveillance Society (Humanities) |
Tsang |
| CCHU9043 | Tsang | |
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