Tutorial

6 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Tutorial) This is a reading course in World History taken by individual senior students with the Instructor of their choice. Restrictions: Permission of Chair and Instr. Honours Form Required. HIST-4103 (3 or 6) Colonization and the Age of Modernity in Latin America (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This course examines the relationship between modernity and colonization in Latin America. It addresses how modern Latin American societies are shaped by their experiences under colonialism. It also examines the relationship between globalization and developments in Latin America at the regional, national, and local levels. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. HIST-4111 (3 or 6) Frontiers and Borderlands (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This seminar course uses the concepts of frontiers and borderlands to analyze relations between indigenous peoples and expanding empires in world history. After a discussion of the historiography of frontiers and borderlands, students apply these concepts to Ancient Rome, China, the Eurasian steppe, South Africa, the Americas, and Australia. Students pay considerable attention to the creation and persistence of borderlands in North America. Finally, the course discusses the many ways in which frontiers and borderlands are presented in literature, art, film, and public history. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. HIST-4112 (3 or 6) History of the Atlantic World (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This seminar uses the concept of an Atlantic World to examine the connections between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa from the first wave of European overseas expansion (1450-1500) to the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions (1775-1825). Topics may include the concept of Atlantic history, cultural contacts, religious exchanges, slavery and the slave trade, ecology and environment, commerce, migration, women and gender, and political ideas. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. HIST-4113 (3 or 6) Slavery in the Americas (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This course examines selected topics in the history of enslavement and race relations in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean from 1600 to the present. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. Students may not hold credit for this course and HIST-4102. HIST-4121 (3 or 6) Sex, Race, and Gender in Early Modern Europe (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This senior seminar deals with the history of ideas about humankind in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Through readings of primary and secondary sources, students examine the theoretical frameworks in the early modern period used in the classification of human beings, especially in reference to sexuality, race, and gender, with links made to other social constructs of differentiation, including socio-economic rank or station, and religion. This seminar explores these ideas in the context of early overseas colonization. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. HIST-4130 (3 or 6) History and Memory (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This seminar examines the field of memory studies through a comparative transnational survey (with a focus on Europe and the Americas). Memory studies ask not "What happened in the past?" but rather "How did individuals and groups remember the past?". To answer this question, historians study oral history and other forms of informal communication, formal history education, museums, monuments, film, and photography. Students learn about major concepts such as historical consciousness; narrativity; collective memory, public history; culture and politics of history, including "history wars". Restrictions: Honours Form Required.