This course explores transformative moments in history in order to understand their underlying causes and their social, cultural, political, and...
This course examines the history of popular culture, starting in the 19th century, seeking to define popular culture and understand its relationship...
This course introduces students to the technological and social implications of warfare from the ancient to the modern age. However, rather than dwell...
This course provides a comparative history of colonialism, drawing attention to the motives behind territorial acquisition, the methods employed to...
Modern society depends profoundly on scientific knowledge, but the critical investigation of nature began in ancient times. Students explore how...
This is a thematic survey, covering Canadian history to 1885. Much of the course emphasizes issues which have led to the Canada we live in today, and...
This course traces the development of the United States from the colonial era, beginning in 1607, to the era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil...
Using both regional and national perspectives, this course examines themes in modern Asian history, including colonization, the rise of nationalism,...
Within a broadly chronological context, this course traces the main developments in Europe from the fall of Rome to 1350. To examine the political,...
This course traces the main developments in European history from the death of King Louis XIV in France to the unification of Germany. Within a...
This course traces the rapid rise and expansion of science from 1700 to the present as it challenged religion as the ultimate source of 'truth' in...
This course takes a thematic approach to Canadian history since 1885, emphasizing issues that have moulded the country and challenge us still. Main...
How did the United States become the world's reigning superpower? This course attempts to answer this question by tracing the development of modern...
This course traces the main developments in western Europe from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the deaths of Queen Anne in Great Britain and...
This course examines the development of modern Europe from fragmented and warring states in the late 19th century, to relative unity and peace in the...
This course analyses key aspects of international relations from the rise of the modern nation state to the Second World War. It examines methods and...
Taking lessons from the past can be dangerous. History easily can be distorted, even fabricated, to suit one's objectives. This course (H-Craft 1)...
History is not always recorded with the written or printed word; it can be seen, heard, and spoken. In societies past and present, oral, visual, and...
Technology - the use of materials, power, and tools - started by humans responding to their most basic needs, the necessity to house and feed people...
This course details the global order since the Second World War. It focuses on the Cold War and issues such as: the atomic bomb, the Soviet conquest...