Exploring term Fall 2023 Change
- ACAN: Arts of Canada
- ADMN: Public Administration
- AE: Art Education
- AGEI: Ageing
- AHVS: Art History and Visual Studies
- ANTH: Anthropology
- ART: Visual Arts
- ARTS: Arts
- ASL: American Sign Language
- ASTR: Astronomy
- ATWP: Academic and Technical Writing Program
- BCMB: Biochemistry and Microbiology
- BIOC: Biochemistry
- BIOL: Biology
- BME: Biomedical Engineering
- CE: Community Engagement
- CHEM: Chemistry
- CIVE: Civil Engineering
- COM: Commerce
- CS: Canadian Studies
- CSC: Computer Science
- CW: Creative Writing (En'owkin Centre)
- CYC: Child and Youth Care
- DHUM: Digital Humanities
- DSST: Disability Studies (DSS)
- ECE: Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECON: Economics
- ED-D: Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
- ED-P: Curriculum and Instruction Studies
- EDCI: Curriculum and Instruction Studies
- EDUC: Education
- ENGR: Engineering
- ENSH: English
- ENT: Entrepreneurship
- EOS: Earth and Ocean Sciences
- EPHE: Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
- ER: Environmental Restoration
- ES: Environmental Studies
- EUS: European Studies
- FA: Fine Arts
- FRAN: French and Francophone Studies
- GDS: Global Development Studies
- GEOG: Geography
- GMST: Germanic Studies
- GNDR: Gender Studies
- GREE: Greek
- GRS: Greek and Roman Studies
- HDCC: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- HINF: Health Information Science
- HLTH: Health
- HS: Health and Society
- HSD: Human and Social Development
- HSTR: History
- HUMA: Humanities
- IB: International Business
- ICDG: Indigenous Community Development and Governance
- IED: Indigenous Education
- IGOV: Indigenous Governance
- INGH: Indigenous Health Studies
- INTS: International Health Studies
- IS: Indigenous Studies
- ISP: Intercultural Studies and Practice
- ITAL: Italian
- LAS: Latin American Studies
- LATI: Latin
- LAW: Law
- LING: Linguistics
- MATH: Mathematics
- MDIA: Media Studies
- MECH: Mechanical Engineering
- MEDI: Medieval Studies
- MEDS: Medical Science
- MICR: Microbiology
- MRNE: Marine Science
- MUS: Music
- NURS: Nursing
- PAAS: Pacific and Asian Studies
- PHIL: Philosophy
- PHYS: Physics
- POLI: Political Science
- PORT: Portuguese
- PSYC: Psychology
- RCS: Religion, Culture and Society
- SCIE: Science
- SENG: Software Engineering
- SJS: Social Justice Studies
- SLST: Slavic Studies
- SMGT: Service Management
- SOCI: Sociology
- SOCW: Social Work
- SOSC: Social Science
- SPAN: Spanish
- STAT: Statistics
- TCA: Transformative Climate Action
- THEA: Theatre
- TS: Technology and Society
- VIRS: Visiting International Research Studies
- VKUR: Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award
- WRIT: Writing
- HSTR100: History, Power and Justice
- HSTR101: Discovering the Past
- HSTR101A: Ten Days that Shook the World
- HSTR101C: Epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS
- HSTR101D: History of Money
- HSTR101E: Environmental History of the World
- HSTR101F: Food in World History
- HSTR101G: History of Oil
- HSTR103: Global Wars in Asia and the Pacific
- HSTR110: Conquest and Encounter in the Atlantic World, 1492-1700
- HSTR111: Age of Encounters in the Pacific World, 1700-1900
- HSTR112A: World History 1900-1945
- HSTR112B: The World Since 1945-present
- HSTR115: The Second World War
- HSTR119: Deportation and Exile
- HSTR120: History of Human Rights
- HSTR121: History, Music and the American Century
- HSTR122: Conspiracies, Hoaxes and Moral Panics
- HSTR131: History of Technology
- HSTR200: Topics in History
- HSTR201: Introduction to Historical Research
- HSTR210A: The United States to the Civil War
- HSTR210B: The United States since 1865
- HSTR220A: History of England to the Glorious Revolution
- HSTR220B: History of England from the Glorious Revolution - present
- HSTR230A: Canada to Confederation
- HSTR230B: Canada from Confederation - present
- HSTR236A: The Creation of the Medieval World 300-1000
- HSTR236B: The European Middle Age 1000-1500
- HSTR240A: Europe, Renaissance to the French Revolution
- HSTR240B: Europe, Napoleon to the European Union
- HSTR253: Activism in Asia
- HSTR265A: China and the Premodern World
- HSTR265B: China and the Modern West
- HSTR275: Modern South Asia from Early Empires to Gandhi
- HSTR276: Latin America
- HSTR277A: The Middle East and the First World War
- HSTR277B: History of the Middle East since World War II
- HSTR285: Environmental Justice in Asia
- HSTR300: Exploring the Past
- HSTR300A: The Backpacker's Guide to European History
- HSTR300B: Hockey Nation: Sports History and Canadian Identity
- HSTR300C: Gaming and the Historical Imagination
- HSTR302A: Revolutionary America and the Early Republic, 1763-1815
- HSTR302B: Antebellum America and the Civil War, 1815-1865
- HSTR303A: The Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1945
- HSTR303B: United States since 1945
- HSTR304: Social History of the Automobile
- HSTR306: Sex and Power in American History
- HSTR307A: The United States in the World, 1750-1914
- HSTR307B: The United States in the World, 1914-present
- HSTR308: The United States and Vietnam
- HSTR309: Race, Inequality and the Origins of American Urban Crisis
- HSTR310: Topics in American History
- HSTR310B: US-Soviet Relations in the Cold War Era
- HSTR310C: American History in Film
- HSTR310D: The American West
- HSTR310E: Religion in the United States
- HSTR312: Tudor-Stuart England
- HSTR313A: Britain's Rise to World Power, 1689-1837
- HSTR313B: English Society, 1689-1837
- HSTR314A: Becoming the Victorians, Britain 1789-1851
- HSTR314B: The Victorians to the Great War, Britain 1851-1914
- HSTR315A: Britain's Short Twentieth Century 1901-1951
- HSTR315B: Modern Britain 1951-the present
- HSTR316A: Death and the Afterlife in England, 1200-1750
- HSTR316B: Death and the Afterlife in England, 1750 to the Present
- HSTR318: The Bloody Code: Crime in England, 1660-1800
- HSTR320: Topics in British History
- HSTR320A: The British Monarchy since 1689
- HSTR320B: Homicide in Modern Britain
- HSTR320C: Bloodfeud, Politics and Culture in the Celtic World, 1485-1746
- HSTR320E: Ice and Exploration
- HSTR322A: Canadian Political History Since 1867
- HSTR322B: Canadian Constitutional History
- HSTR323: Canadian-American Relations
- HSTR324A: Northwest America to 1849
- HSTR324B: British Columbia, 1849-1900
- HSTR324C: British Columbia in the 20th Century
- HSTR325: Environmental History of British Columbia
- HSTR326: Religion and Spirituality in Canada
- HSTR327A: Gender and Sexuality in Canada to 1920
- HSTR327B: Gender and Sexuality in Canada from 1920 - present
- HSTR328A: Indigenous North America to 1850
- HSTR328B: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada since 1850
- HSTR328C: Indigenous-Settler Relations in the United States since 1850
- HSTR328D: Indigenous-Settler Treaties in Canada since 1600
- HSTR329A: Race, Racism and Ethnicity in Canada to 1900
- HSTR329B: Race, Racism and Ethnicity in Canada since 1900
- HSTR330: Topics in Canadian History
- HSTR330D: Drink and Social Control in Canada
- HSTR330E: Canada's 1960s
- HSTR331: The Red River Resistance and the Northwest Rebellion
- HSTR336A: Topics in Medieval Europe
- HSTR336S: Sex, Violence and Death in Modern Medievalism
- HSTR336T: The Created Medieval History of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth
- HSTR337A: The Birth of the Renaissance
- HSTR337B: Reformation and Religious War in Europe
- HSTR337C: Private Life in the Renaissance
- HSTR340: Topics in European History
- HSTR340A: Terror, Security and Military Intervention in Europe
- HSTR340B: Migration and Ethnic Tensions in Post-1945 Europe
- HSTR340C: The Thirty Years War
- HSTR342A: Europe from Louis XIV to the French Revolution
- HSTR342B: Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1789-1815
- HSTR342C: Democracy, War and Nation Building in Europe, 1814-1914
- HSTR343A: Cinema and European Society, 1900-1945
- HSTR344A: The First World War
- HSTR344B: Europe Between Two World Wars
- HSTR344C: The Second World War and the Recovery of Western Europe
- HSTR345: The Eastern Front in the First and Second World Wars
- HSTR346: France from the Renaissance to Louis XIV
- HSTR346A: Enlightenment and Revolution in France, 1715-1804
- HSTR347A: Reaction, Reform and Revolution in France, 1814-1914
- HSTR347B: Decline and Renewal of France, 1914-2014
- HSTR349: Hitler in History
- HSTR350B: Weimar and Nazi Germany
- HSTR350C: Germany After 1945
- HSTR351: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917
- HSTR352: The Soviet Union and its Successor States, 1917-2000
- HSTR353: Modern Ukraine and Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
- HSTR354: Global Taiwan
- HSTR359: Modern Chinese Literature and Society 1900-1949 (in English)
- HSTR360: Topics in World History
- HSTR360A: Africa since 1800
- HSTR365: Topics in East Asian History
- HSTR365C: China and the World
- HSTR365D: Chinese Politics
- HSTR365E: The Cultural Revolution in China
- HSTR366: War and Revolution in China
- HSTR370A: Intersections of Law and Religion from Ancient to Current Worlds
- HSTR371: Topics in Thematic and Comparative History
- HSTR371A: 20th Century Warfare
- HSTR371B: Comparative World Revolutions
- HSTR375: History of Decolonization in Asia and Africa
- HSTR376A: Conquest and Rebellion in Latin America, 1492 - 1783
- HSTR376B: The Struggle for Independence in Latin America, 1767-1867
- HSTR376C: Revolutions and Dictators in 20th-century Latin America
- HSTR376D: The Women of Latin America
- HSTR376E: History of the Aztecs, Inka and Maya
- HSTR377: Topics in the History of the Modern Middle East
- HSTR377A: History of Modern Egypt
- HSTR378: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- HSTR379: Western Imperialism in the Middle East and North Africa
- HSTR380: Religion and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- HSTR381: Medicine in the Modern World
- HSTR382: Topics in the Historical Study of Peace and War
- HSTR383A: War and Society Prior to 1700
- HSTR383B: War and Society, 1700 - 1914
- HSTR383C: War and Society, 1945-present
- HSTR385: Topics in Social and Cultural History
- HSTR385A: Witchcraft and its Persecution in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- HSTR385B: History of the Modern Olympic Games
- HSTR385C: History of Sexuality
- HSTR385D: Pirates and Piracy Since 1500
- HSTR386A: Ocean History and Changing Human Relationships with the Sea
- HSTR389: Topics in Public History
- HSTR389A: Public Histories Local and Global
- HSTR390A: History to 1750 through Role Playing Games
- HSTR390B: History after 1750 through Role Playing Games
- HSTR409: Seminar in American Gender and Sexuality
- HSTR410: Seminar in American History
- HSTR412: Seminar in Medieval England
- HSTR414: Seminar in 17th-century England
- HSTR414A: Society and Politics in XVII c. England
- HSTR420: Seminar in British History
- HSTR420A: Plots & Conspiratorial Politics in England 1588-1688
- HSTR420B: Social Change in England During the Two World Wars
- HSTR420C: Propaganda in Peace and War in Britain and Germany
- HSTR426: Seminar in Canadian Military History
- HSTR426A: Veterans' Oral History
- HSTR427: Seminar in Indigenous History of Canada
- HSTR427A: Decolonizing Settler Societies
- HSTR429: Seminar in Canadian Political History
- HSTR430: Seminar in Canadian History
- HSTR430A: Canada’s Internment Era, A Field School
- HSTR436: Seminar in Medieval Europe
- HSTR436F: Individual, Family and Community in Medieval Society
- HSTR436L: Lawyers, Writing and the Medieval Formation of the West
- HSTR436T: The Records of the History of Middle-earth
- HSTR436W: Medieval Foundations of the Western Legal Tradition
- HSTR440: Seminar in European History
- HSTR442: Torture and Execution in the Renaissance
- HSTR444: Early Modern French Cultural History
- HSTR445A: Scandals in France, 1785-1914
- HSTR445B: Scandals and Political Culture in France, 1870-2000
- HSTR450: The Holocaust
- HSTR451: Seminar in Russian and Eastern European History
- HSTR451A: Twentieth-Century Genocides in Eastern Europe
- HSTR460: Seminar in World History
- HSTR460A: Punjab and the World
- HSTR460B: Health and Medicine in the Colonial World
- HSTR465: Seminar in East Asian History
- HSTR465A: China in Local and Global History
- HSTR471: Seminar in Thematic and Comparative History
- HSTR471A: LGBT2S+ History
- HSTR474: Colonial Legacies Field School in South Africa
- HSTR476: Indigenous, Mestizo and Spanish Accounts of the Conquest
- HSTR476A: Seminar in Latin America
- HSTR477: Seminar in the History of the Modern Middle East
- HSTR477A: A History of the Arab Spring
- HSTR479A: Modern Religion and Empire
- HSTR481: A Global History of the Chinese Overseas
- HSTR482: Seminar in Peace and War Studies
- HSTR482A: Issues in the History of the Second World War
- HSTR482B: Science, Technology and War
- HSTR484: The History of Food
- HSTR485: Seminar in Social and Cultural History
- HSTR485A: Gender, Sexuality and the Body since 1800
- HSTR489: Seminar in Public History
- HSTR489A: Doing History in a Digital World
- HSTR490: Directed Reading
- HSTR496: Approaches to History
- HSTR497: Third-Year Honours Essay
- HSTR499: Honours Thesis
HSTR300A
The Backpacker's Guide to European History
Explores European history from the perspective of student travel. Lectures examine the historical context of popular destinations and sights, approaching history in a deliberately practical way. Topics may include: the visible remains of prehistoric, Roman and medieval Europe; cemeteries, catacombs and sites of historical memory; evidence of statebuilding in palaces and monuments; understanding structures from the Roman Colosseum to the Eiffel Tower; art, architecture, and urban spaces; food, drink and other aspects of daily life.
Lecture: 3h
Lab: 0h
Tutorial: 0h
Credits: 1.5