HISTORY COURSES FOR WINTER 2025
HISTORY COURSES FOR WINTER 2025
The Department of History is pleased to present 37 daytime courses this winter. They will cover Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the Ancient world to the near present. Topically, they will explore a range of subjects, some of which will focus on Indigenous Peoples, LGBTQ2S+ History, the First and Second World Wars, the Ottoman Empire, Terrorism, and the History of Science.
One highly anticipated offering is HIS 500, “History and New Media,” to be taught by Dr. Jennifer Tunnicliffe. She will examine how changing opportunities – the Internet, social media, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence – affect the ways we study the past, with the objective of helping students acquire digital history research skills. History may be the study of earlier times, but how we conduct research and share our findings are being shaped increasingly by new technologies, as well as how we experience history, such as in museums and online environments. Students will have hands-on opportunities with new media to develop strategies for engaging with digital sources, and they will practise collecting, publishing, and producing new historical knowledge with digital technology. “History and New Media” is part of the H-Craft (or Historian’s Craft) series. Other H-Crafts offered this coming term include HIS 401 “Hearing, Seeing, and Speaking History,” HIS 501 “Archaeology and Material Culture,” and HIS 505 “Locating the Past: Archival Research.” While H-Crafts may be taken by almost any TMU student interested in them, students enrolled in the History, History Major, and History Co-op programs, as well as the ACS History Option and the History Minor, need to take one or more of these courses as part of their degree requirements.
There also are a number of special courses on offer this winter. One is HIS 610 “Curating the Past” for people thinking of pursuing museum careers or wanting to learn how museums in general – and curators in particular – make distinct contributions to historical studies. Others include a senior seminar on “Mediaeval Medical Manuscripts” and another on “Everyday Life in the Middle-Eastern and North-African City” between the 18th and 20th centuries. Beyond these, there are opportunities to write a thesis or receive a course credit for working in a career-focused internship.
The department’s courses have two codes: HST and HIS. The first are “liberal studies” offerings, open to all undergraduates. The latter are “program” courses, but they may be taken by students from most programs. In addition to enrolling in HIS courses, History, History Major, History Co-op, and ACS History Option students may take HST courses as part of their program requirements, with some restrictions.
To see our Winter 2025 offerings, click here.
Beyond the Department of History’s daytime courses, TMU’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Studies offers online fall, winter, spring, and summer History courses. For more information, click here.
Queries may be directed to Ms. Anne-Marie Dawes, the Undergraduate Program Administrator in History, at historypa@torontomu.ca or to the instructors assigned to the courses that interest you.
