A seminar examining social and intellectual forces from 1400 to 1700.†

This seminar deals with European international relations after the Second World War: the European Community from the Marshall Plan to the present, the foreign policies of France and Germany, and European relations with the petroleum exporting countries.†

A seminar course investigating the key problems in international relations from the origins of the First World War to the Suez Crisis.†

This course centres on the problems of Germany in the period between the end of the First World War and the early phases of the Cold War in Europe. It examines the reasons why so many `ordinary' Germans saw the Nazi Party as a `reasonable' political option, how the Nazis fundamentally changed the lives of the German people, and how the defeat of Nazi Germany led to the Allied 'reconstruction' that reshaped "Two Germanies."

Explores selected topics in the history of U.S. foreign relations in the twentieth century. Emphasizes historiography, analytical approaches and research skills.

A seminar course directed towards the study of the growth of the Empire, the institutional framework, defence and communications, colonial identity and the commonwealth ideal.†

A seminar course on selected topics on the relationship between Victorian social and scientific thought.†

A seminar course on the impact of 20th century wars on the societies of Canada, the United States and Great Britain.†

A seminar course based on a critical analysis of the major books which shape our view of Canadian History.†

A research seminar based on important examples of recent interdisciplinary approaches to historical study of the environment. Themes include attitudes to nature and perceptions of the environment, with a view to developing useful applications to related topics in Canadian history.

A seminar course emphasizing the impact of scientific and cultural change on Canadian society in the 19th and 20th centuries.†

An introduction to the micro-historical method with consideration of communities and the ways in which historians have dealt with the problems of social, political and economic change on a local level. Research will focus on the Canadian experience.†

A seminar course emphasizing topics selected from the eras of contact, the French and British regimes, and Confederation. Themes may include regional, social, economic, political and cultural problems.†

Seminar investigations on topics of historical importance in the recent history of Canada.†

An analysis of the major historiographical trends and debates in English history 1558-1660.†

Studies in the social and cultural history of industrial Britain. The seminars will emphasize the social and cultural impact of industrialization upon Victorian England.†

A seminar focusing on the historical literature relating to 19th century black slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction.†

An examination of post-Civil War economic expansion and the changes it wrought in American society. The course will cover the creation of the United States industrial and transportation networks and the development of large-scale entrepreneurial capitalism. It will also examine Americans' response to these phenomena with particular emphasis on the adjustments they made to traditional, social, political and economic attitudes.†

This seminar course will study European exploration, trade and colonization during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and will assess the resultant interaction of African, Amerindian, Asian and European cultures by the examination of selected cases using primary historical sources.†

Seminar investigations of problems in pre- and post-revolutionary Russia.†

A seminar course on selected topics in revolutionary and Napoleonic France.

A seminar course that examines the leading thinkers of the 18th century Enlightenment and their ideas in the political and social context of their times.

Directed study and research on a topic appropriate to the student's specialization and chosen in consultation with the faculty supervisor.†