300 Level Course Descriptions

300-level HIS courses are more specialized and intensive. They deal with more closely defined periods or themes. They vary in format, with some being based around lectures, and others involving tutorial or discussion groups. Most 300-level courses have Prerequisites, which are strictly enforced. First year students are not permitted to enrol in 300 or 400-level HIS courses. Although some upper level courses do not have specific Prerequisites, courses at the 300- and 400-level are demanding and require a good comprehension of history.

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HIS301H1 World War II France

This third-year lecture course examines the experience of the Second World War in France. Special attention is paid to questions of collaboration, resistance and accommodation. Other topics include the role of the French overseas colonies in this era, the issue of internal vs. external resistance, and the fate of civilian populations. Students engage with a set of primary and secondary sources as well as visual material that includes films.

Recommended Preparation A course in modern European history
Exclusion: VIC102H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS307H1 Oral Histories of Asian Canadians

This course explores the cultural and social history of everyday life as it affected Asian Canadians with focus on Chinese, Filipinos and South Asians from the 1960s to present. It introduces oral history and documentary film as key research methods for understanding changing cultural practices and identities within families, in food, and in social settings within and beyond ethnic communities. Exclusion: HIS286H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS266H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

HIS310H1 Democracy and Dissent

This course will explore the background, experience, and legacy of protest movements in Canada in the post-1945 era. The course will draw on the latest historical literature and will situate Canadian social movements in the broad transnational context in which they unfolded. Topics will include anti-racist movements, feminism, nationalism, Indigenous politics, environmentalism, labour, and the New Right and the New Left.

Prerequisite: 1.0 HIS/ JHA/ JHM/ JHN/ JIH/ JSH credit
Recommended Preparation: HIS264H1/ HIS262H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS311H1 Canada in the World

Ranging from the fifteenth through to the turn of the twenty-first century, students will learn about the treaties, trade agreements and alliances, as well as the informal traditions, working relationships and cultural ties that shape relations of people living within the boundaries of present-day Canada with the world. For this course, “international relations” is broadly defined, including military, political, economic, environmental and immigration policies, both official and informal.

Exclusion: HIS311Y1/HIS311H5/HISC46H3
Recommended Preparation: A course in Canadian history or politics
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS312H1 Immigration to Canada

From the colonial settlement to 21st century, immigration has been a key experience and much debated in Canadian life. Drawing on primary sources, as well as historical and contemporary scholarship, this course will discuss migration, citizenship and belonging as central features in Canada’s experience of immigration. This course focuses on the individuals, groups, and collectives who built, defined, contested, and reimagined this country, to help make and remake Canada through immigration.

Recommended Preparation: HIS263Y1/HIS264H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS313H1 People and Other Animals in History

What happens to history when we consider nonhuman animals as subjects and actors alongside humans? This course revisits episodes, events, and historical processes with nonhuman animals in mind to explore the interpretive and analytic possibilities that emerge when other animals are considered as full participants in the historical record. Thematic focus is located in the Atlantic world since the early modern period. Recommended Preparation: HIS218H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS314H1 Twentieth-Century Quebec

This course will explore the history of Quebec in the 20th century. In addition to looking at more traditional themes focused on nationalism and constitutional politics, we will also look at the history of encounter between groups of different backgrounds and origins. As such, we will place a large emphasis on colonialism and Indigenous history, and the politics of language, race, and immigration. Themes will include, among others, the history of Quebec in an era of British imperialism, jazz, the art world, literature, the Oka Crisis, and Quebec’s ties to Haiti and other parts of the non-Western world.

Exclusion: HIS314Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS315H1 Decolonial Vietnamese Histories

This course introduces students to the narratives that diverse actors have used to talk about Vietnamese histories. We will focus on the histories and perspectives of the indigenous peoples of the peninsula, ethnic minority groups, as well as that of the majority "Kinh people." We'll explore themes which have been central to shaping the geographic space, the socio-political regimes, and the cultural entity we now call "Viet Nam," while examining how varying types of historical method and archival strategies can influence the telling of histories. What kinds of techniques did Vietnamese and Western political actors, scholars, and writers, employ to narrate the Vietnamese past(s) and how do these visions tell us about the crafter of these narratives? What counts as “history” and who gets/got to decide? Whose experiences were relevant in the different epistemological approaches?

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS317H1 20th Century Germany

A survey of modern German history in the twentieth century. Topics include World War I and the postwar settlement, the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist dictatorship, the Holocaust, the division of Germany, the Cold War, German reunification, Germany and the European Union, nationalism, political culture, war and revolution, religious and ethnic minorities and questions of history and memory.

Prerequisite: HIS103Y1/HIS109Y1/(HIS241H1, HIS242H1)/EUR200Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS318H1 Histories of the "Wild" West

What happens when histories of North America begin in the West? This course examines the critical challenges that the myths and legacies of the West pose to North American history, from pre-contract to 1990. Themes include First Nations and colonialism, immigration, racism, economic development, regionalism, prostitution and illegal economies.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS322H1 Topics in African History: Armed Liberation and State Formation in Southern Africa, 1961-1994

This course examines the dramatic transition from white minority rule to independence across Southern Africa, focusing on the Portuguese colonies, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Namibia, and South Africa. Students will explore how armed struggle functioned not only as a tool of resistance but as a laboratory for state formation. By balancing African agency with the region’s integration into global processes—including the Cold War and the international Anti-Apartheid Movement—we will trace how liberation movements navigated diplomacy and warfare. For these courses, students will analyse how these late-20th-century struggles shaped the modern political landscape of the subcontinent.

Recommended Preparation: HIS295Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS322H1 Topics in African History: Art and Artifacts

Selected topics on a specific period, aspect or themes in African history. Topics in any given year depend on the instructor.

Recommended Preparation: HIS295Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS322H1 Topics in African History: History of Segregation and Apartheid in South Africa

This course examines South Africa’s socio-political evolution from the 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging (at the end of the Anglo-Boer War) to the 1994 democratic transition. It interrogates the systemic shift from colonial segregation to institutionalised apartheid, alongside the impact of both World Wars and British-Boer tensions. Central to the curriculum is the rise of resistance movements, specifically the ANC and leaders like Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. By evaluating pivotal escalations—including the Sharpeville Massacre, Soweto Uprising, and international solidarity efforts—the course explores the mechanisms of state repression and the eventual emergence of a multiracial democracy.

Recommended Preparation: HIS295Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS324H1 The Criminalization of Protest in Latin American History

The criminalization of protest is generally understood in terms of policing, and the use of legal measures, including states of exception, to quell dissent. Criminalization can also refer to the stigmatization of individuals, groups, and communities by the state, and the marginalization of working class or racialized groups. This course invites students to study lived experiences of criminalization in Latin American history. Prerequisite: HIS292H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS397H1, or a course on policing/human rights
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS325H1 Imperial Russia

This course focuses on Russia's history during a period of remarkable change and turbulence, when the country more firmly established its far-flung empire while simultaneously attempting to define itself as a nation. From the wars and reforms of Peter the Great through the end of the empire during the First World War, the course touches on questions of social and cultural change, and the political events that allowed or constrained them.

Prerequisite: 1.0 HIS credit at the 200+ level
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS328H1 Modern China 

An examination of political, social and economic developments in modern Chinese history to the present day. Main topics may include the decline of the Imperial order and the challenge of Western imperialism; the Republican period; the rise of the Communist movement; the People's Republic of China.

Prerequisite: HIS280Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS380H1
Exclusion: JMC201Y1, HIS328Y1, EAS285H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS331H1 Modern Baltic History

The history of the Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 1900 to the present day, with emphasis on the emergence of independent Baltic states, World War II, communist era, the Baltic Revolution, the restoration of independence and European integration.

Recommended Preparation: HIS250H1/ HIS250Y1/ HIS251Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS332H1 Crime and Society in England, 1500 - 1800

The changing nature of crime and criminal justice in early-modern England; the emergence of modern forms of policing, trial and punishment.

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including 1.0 HIS credit excluding HIS262H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS335H1 Canadian Legal Histories

This course examines Canadian legal history through differing Indigenous, civil, and common law legal traditions, using multiple categories of analysis, including race, gender, class, spirituality and sexuality. Legal history is a strong and engaging field of study in Canada. Topics will include constitutional histories, treaties, law-making, differing systems of land tenure, the franchise and the structure of deliberative bodies (e.g. legislatures), courts and systems of justice, policing and criminal law, punishment (including histories of incarceration and alternatives).

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits including HIS263Y1/ HIS264H1. Students who do not meet the prerequisite are encouraged to contact the Department.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS336H1 The History of Amazonia

Contrary to traditional images, Amazonia is not a pristine forest with sparse human presence. This course explores the complex societies developed around the Amazon River Basin and how they shaped the forest’s configuration. The course centers on the development of European colonialism in the region, the different modes of commodity extraction, and projects to incorporate Amazonia into nation-states. Amazonia’s history – and the history of the people who live there – helps us imagine the region’s role in our era of acute climate challenges. Topics may include empire, Indigenous history, economic development, and environment.

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: HIS218H1/ HIS230H1/ HIS291H1/ HIS292H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS337H1 Culture, Politics and Society in 18th Century Britain

Deals with England, Scotland, Ireland and the Atlantic World. Addresses major political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural highlights of the "long" eighteenth century. Deals with enlightenment, industrialization and the loss of the first British empire. Interrogates Britain's emerging status as a world power. Exclusion: HIS337Y1
Recommended Preparation: EUR200Y1/ HIS109Y1/ HIS243H1/ HIS244H1/ HIS368H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS338H1 The Holocaust, to 1942

German state policy towards the Jews in the context of racist ideology, bureaucratic structures, and varying conditions in German-occupied Europe. Second Term considers responses of Jews, European populations and governments, the Allies, churches, and political movements.

Prerequisite: Completion of 6.0 credits
Exclusion: HIS388Y1/HIS398Y1/HIS338H5
Recommended Preparation: A course in modern European history
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS343H1 History of Modern Intelligence

This course explores the rise of modern intelligence over the long 20th century, from Anglo-Russian imperial competition before World War I through to the post-9/11 era. Students will study the contribution of intelligence services to victories and defeats in war, peace, and the grey areas in between. The course will also examine the relationship between intelligence services and society.
Occasionally, this course will emphasize a specific theme of modern intelligence history; a specific type of intelligence; or the evolution of intelligence in a particular state. Details regarding specific topics will be available on the department’s website on an annual basis.

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: HIS240H1 and HIS247H1
Exclusion: HIS343Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS344H1 The Global Cold War

This course examines the Cold War through its global dimensions, going beyond the American-Soviet bipolar rivalry to explore the impact of the Cold War in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Students will work closely with original primary sources and interrogate historical interpretations of the Cold War through different regional and thematic perspectives.

Exclusion: HIS344Y1
Recommended Preparation: EUR200Y1/HIS103Y1/HIS241H1, HIS242H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS347H1 The Country House in England 1837-1939

This course examines class distinction and community through the lens of the English country house from 1837 to 1939. Topics include owners, servants, houses, collections, gardens and rituals such as fox hunting.

Prerequisite: 1.0 HIS credit
Recommended Preparation: HIS109Y1, HIS241H1/ HIS349H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS349H1 History of Britain: Struggle for Power

An introduction to the history of modern Britain with emphasis on the crown, class, gender, political parties, race, ethnicity, European Union and Brexit.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS350H1 Topics in European Histories: Modernity and Its Discontents
(Joint undergraduate course  HIS350H1/EUR301H1)

This European intellectual history course introduces students to the temporal rupture called modernity—beginning with what Max Weber calls “disenchantment” and moving through the death of God—and ultimately the resignation from attempts to find a viable replacement for God. Topics include Marxism-Leninism, psychoanalysis, expressionism, structuralism, phenomenology, existentialism, anti-politics, and deconstruction. Authors include Nietzsche, Lenin, Kafka, Freud, Husserl, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno, Sartre, Girard, Foucault, Derrida and Havel.

Selected topics on a specific period and/or region in European Histories

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS351H1 The Soviet Union and After

A survey of the history of the Soviet Union and its successor states beginning with the collapse of the Russian Empire. The course draws on scholarly literature, memoirs, and often film to understand the social, cultural, and political developments of the Soviet state, including famine, terror, and war.

Prerequisite: 1.0 HIS credit at the 200+ level
Exclusion: HIS351Y1/ HIS351H5
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS352H1 A History of Women in Pre-colonial East Africa

This course examines the lived experience of women in societies, communities and polities of varying sizes across territories that cover eight contemporary East African states. It encompasses the period from 1000 B.C to the end of the nineteenth century. Topics covered are clustered under four broad themes: a) Ecology, work in commodity production, wealth and exchange relations; b) “Institutional” power, ideology and structures; c) “Creative” power particularly in the areas of healing, resistance/contestation and transformation; and d) Violence, war and vulnerability. The course challenges present day gender and identity categories applied to Africa’s deep past and highlights critical nuances of gender, identity and power dynamics in Africa.

Prerequisites: 1.0 credit from the following AFR150Y1/ HIS295Y1/ HIS297Y1

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS355H1 A History of Pre-modern Medicine

This course surveys major themes and developments in the history of medicine from c.600 BCE to 1800 CE. Topics include: Hippocrates, Galen and their reception in the Middle Ages; monasteries, medicinal gardens and hospitals; medieval licensing of physicians and pharmacists; medieval scholastic medicine; the Black Death; Renaissance anatomy and charlatans; New World drug discoveries; William Harvey’s heart, William Withering’s foxglove, the isolation of morphine.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit in medieval or pre-modern history. Students who do not meet the prerequisite are encouraged to contact the Department.
Recommended Preparation: HIS220Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS357H1 Topics in Canadian History: Nuclear Canada

This course examines Canadian nuclear history along two tracks: weapons and energy. We will examine these two entangled histories from multiple perspectives, including international relations, technology, politics, energy, environment, colonialism, risk, and protest. Comparisons to other jurisdictions will be a key part of the course.

Prerequisites: 9.0 credits including 1.0 HIS credit
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS359H1 Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean

The role of nationalism, race and ethnicity, class conflict and ideologies in the recent development of Caribbean societies; Europe's replacement by the United States as the dominant imperial power in the Caribbean; how this mixture of regional and international pressures has led to widely differing political systems and traditions.

Recommended Preparation: HIS294Y1/( HIS230H1, HIS231H1)
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS361H1 The Holocaust from 1942

Follows on HIS338H1. Themes include: resistance by Jews and non-Jews; local collaboration; the roles of European governments, the Allies, the churches, and other international organizations; the varieties of Jewish responses. We will also focus on postwar repercussions of the Holocaust in areas such as justice, memory and memorialization, popular culture and politics. 
Tentative Course Requirements: analysis of a primary source, term project, a mid-term test, and a final examination.

Prerequisite: completion of 6 undergraduate full-course equivalents and HIS338H1
Exclusion: HIS338Y1/HIS361H5
Recommended Preparation: a course in modern European history
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS362H1 Topics in Early American History: Indigenous Land, Colonization, and Property in Early America

This course examines histories of colonialism, property, and Indigenous relationships to land in early American History. Drawing on case studies from across what is now the continental United States (from the colonial era to the expansion West in the nineteenth century), we will examine the question of how land transferred from Indigenous to settler control in various colonial contexts. We will discuss how ideas of property impacted Indigenous nations, from dispossession and violent conflict to various nations drawing on Indigenous and settler legal frameworks to protect their land. Prerequisite: 4.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: HIS271Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS364H1 From Revolution to Revolution: History of Hungary

Once a powerful kingdom in Central Europe, Hungary and the Hungarians have a rich history of interchanging periods of conquest, dominance, expansion, and contraction.
This 12-week course has its focus on the multiple transformations of Hungary: From the revolutionary “Springtime of Nations” in 1848 when Hungary’s quest for independence was halted through political sovereignty and partnership with Austria in the Dual Monarchy between 1867 and 1918, to a truncated but independent existence in the interwar period; from there to subjection first to Nazi Germany and then to the Soviet Union, and finally to renewed independence in 1989 and membership in the European Union in 2004.
The focus is on the revolutions of 1848-1849, 1918-1919, the 1956 Revolution against Soviet rule and the collapse of communism in 1989. The story has been invariably heroic, violent, and tragic. In the long peaceful periods, long at least for East Central European conditions, Hungary changed from a patriarchal and rural country to an urbanized and industrialized nation.
The course will offer a chronological survey of the history of Hungary from 1848 until the present. It is ideal for students with little or no knowledge of Hungarian history but who possess an understanding of the main trends of European history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Prerequisite: A 100 level HIS course
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS365H1 History of the Great Lakes Region

This course is a survey of the Great Lakes Region as a “trans-national space” from the 1780s to recent times. Attention is focused on the development of the region from indigenous space to industrial heartland and its subsequent deindustrialization. Key themes include economic development, colonialism and re-settlement, environmental history (particularly of the lakes themselves), and the role of the Canada-US border in shaping the region. The course includes material from both Canadian and American history. Considerable attention is paid to Toronto as a Great Lakes city.

Recommended Preparation: HIS264H1 or HIS271Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS367H1  The British Home Front: Britain in the Second World War, 1939-1945

This course examines how British civilians responded to the Second World War at home in Britain. Topics include the Blitz, rationing, propaganda, directed labour, enemy internment, evacuees, the changing role of women, radio and movies.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS368H1 Early Modern Britain, 1485-1660

Introduction to the political, social and religious history of early modern England, Scotland and Ireland. Particular attention will be paid to the history of the monarchy, the Protestant Reformation, gender issues and relations between different parts of the British Isles.

Recommended Preparation: EUR200Y1, HIS109Y1/ HIS243H1/ HIS244H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS373H1 Servants and Masters, 1000-1700

To explore the history of all types of servants, from the domestic slaves to the ladies-in-waiting, in Western Europe between 1000 and 1700. The goal will be to observe their working and living conditions, including the ones of life-cycle servants (between adolescence and early adulthood), as well as the changing perception of service through time.

Recommended Preparation: HIS220Y1, HIS243H1 or a course on the Middle Ages or Early Modern Europe.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS375H1 Crime and Punishment in the Early Modern World

What did it take to break the law in the period 1400-1800, and how were people prosecuted and punished when they did? We will review the kinds of crimes that triggered arrest, the different types of law codes in place and the importance of the revival of Roman law, ways of avoiding prosecution, the criminalization of “deviance”, judicial processes in colonization, and variations based on age and gender. We’ll also look at forms of punishment, including the varieties of corporal and capital punishment, the operation of prisons, the use of exile and transportation.

Prerequisites: 4.0 credits
Exclusions: HIS357Y1
Recommended Preparation: HIS243H1/ HIS244H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS377H1 The United States in the World

An exploration of the history of American foreign relations. Each year, this course will emphasize a specific era of the history of American foreign relations (For instance: foreign relations during the Revolution and Early Republic; the long nineteenth century; the rise of American power since 1898); or a specific theme (for instance: America as an imperial power; America at war; the presidency and foreign policy, etc.) Details regarding specific topics will be available on the department’s website on an annual basis.

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: HIS271Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS382H1 China from the Mongols to the Last Emperor

This course traces the history of Chinese empire from its political reorganization, economic expansion, and cultural efflorescence in the 11th century, through its peak of power in the 18th century, and to its decline during the 19th. We will consider how these centuries broke with as well as continued previous developments, and how they have influenced Chinese and world history in the last 150 years.

Prerequisites: HIS280Y1/ (EAS103H1, EAS209H1)
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS383Y1 Women in African History

This course subjects our increasing knowledge about African women’s history from the mid-19th century to the present to critical analysis. It goes beyond restoring women to history and seeing African women as victims impacted upon and struggling against colonialism and neo-colonialism. It examines how African women’s lived experiences have been represented, packaged, and delivered to different audiences. Prerequisite: HIS295Y1/ HIS297Y1/ AFR150Y1/ AFR250Y1/ AFR351Y1/ POL301Y1 or permission from the Instructor
Exclusion: HIS383H1/ HISC97H3
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS388H1 France Since 1830

A study of French society, politics, and culture from the Paris Commune to the 1990s. Special attention is paid to watersheds like the Dreyfus Affair and the Vichy regime, to issues of regionalism/nationalism, cultural pluralism, women's rights, intellectual and cultural trends, and decolonization.

Prerequisite: EUR200Y1/one course in HIS/FRE
Exclusion: HIS388Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS389H1 Topics in History: Global Oil

We often hear that “oil is power” but what does that actually mean? This course examines the history of this key commodity at a world scale to explore the relation between material power and social power. Environmental themes will be key, but the course will also deal with empire, business, war, international relations, and oil in daily life. Possible topics include early North American oil booms, the rise of the Seven Sisters oil companies, oil and power across the world (Middle East, Russia, etc), pollution and contamination, oil spills, climate politics, and the automobile revolution in North America and the world.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits, including 1.0 HIS credit excluding HIS262H1

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HIS392H1 Great Trials in History

This lecture course will study a handful of significant trials in close detail. We will look at the clash of ideas represented in these high-profile cases, the historical setting in which they were embedded, the human drama, legal and sometimes constitutional issues, and their legacy. Specific trials selected will vary according to the expertise of the instructor. Please consult the history department website for details about the course offering in any particular year. Prerequisites: 9.0 credits including HIS268H1 Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS396H1 The Progressive Era and Rise of Big Business in America

This course examines the rise of big business in America and its relationship to social and economic changes in United States in the so-called Progressive Era (roughly 1880-1920). We will focus on several themes: the evolution and characteristics of big business; rise of organized labor; evolution of business-government relations; social and economic reform movements; and the changing status of immigrants, African Americans, and women (both white and African-American). In short, we will be studying a pivotal moment in the transformation of modern American society.

Exclusion: HIS389H1 (Topics in History: Business and Society), offered in Fall 2016 and HIS372H1 (Topics in U.S. History: The Progressive Era and Rise of Big Business), offered in Winter 2018
Recommended Preparation: HIS271Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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HIS397H1 Political Violence and Human Rights in Latin America

This course will explore human rights theory and practice from a Latin American perspective.  There will be a focus on the local derivation, development and impact of the movement for human rights in Latin America.  The course will focus on the history of organized protest against violence in the twentieth century.

Prerequisite: HIS292H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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