Women, War and Peace

Undergraduate

This course examines the various and distinct ways in which women experience war and peace, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Topics include home fronts during wartime in both combat and non-combat zones, women's peace activism, displacement, war crimes against women, women in combat, and media coverage of women and war/peace across the 20th and 21st centuries. (Also offered as Women's and Gender Studies ICWG-3400.) (Prerequisite: one 2000-level Women's and Gender Studies or History course or POLS-2600 or consent of the instructor.) HIST 3480. Borderlands: Canada-United States Relations since 1783 This course examines the relations between British North America/Canada and the United States from the end of the American Revolution (1776-1783) until today. It looks at the multiple ways that both the people and the federal government from each side of the border interacted with their counterparts. It discusses several topics, including Indigenous peoples and Euro-American borders, colonial wars, diplomatic relations, transnational economies, cultural influences, borderland communities, and cross-border migrations. (Prerequisites: At least semester 5 standing.)