Graduate academic calendar 2012 - 2013 - Trent University

GRADUATE PROGRAMS History
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HIST 5106H – Cuba and North America
The course examines the evolution of Canadian and American relations with Cuba since the
nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the Castro era, 1959–2006. Fields: Canadian
History; Iberian-American History, Regional and Trans-National History.
HIST 5107H – Values, emotions, and identities in the late medieval Iberia and other parts of
Europe
The course explores societal values and beliefs that characterized the late medieval Iberian world
(Spain and Portugal), in comparison with other parts of Europe and surrounding regions, and the
emotions that both generated and were generated by these values, beliefs, and attitudes. Fields:
Iberian-American History; European History, Social and Cultural History.
HIST 5108H – The Third Reich: German politics, culture and society under Hitler
An examination of the historiography on the Third Reich, including on Hitler’s charismatic leadership
of Nazi Germany; political structure of the Nazi state; the complicity of ordinary Germans; the
Final Solution; the SS; the lives of Jewish Germans, 1933-45; women and youth under Nazism;
propaganda and culture in the Hitlerzeit. Fields: European History; Social and Cultural History
HIST 5109H – Topics in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa
With a specific focus on historiography, this course will explore select aspects of African History.
Fields: Colonialism and Conflict, Regional and Trans-National History
HIST 5110H – Making history: revolution and the re-construction of the past
An examination of public and personal constructions of the past with specific-though not exclusive
reference to the early Soviet period (1917-1939). We will be looking at the various ways in which
history is “made”: diaries, memoirs, film, celebrations/ commemorations, monuments and public
space. Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History.
HIST 5111H – Women in the Middle Ages
Course explores constructions of sex and gender as well as the lives, experiences, and expectations
of medieval women – queens, prostitutes, nuns, doctors, craftworkers, noblewomen, saints,
merchants, warriors, and peasants – between 300 and 1550. Readings will focus on Catholic
Europe, with some attention to Muslims, Jews and heretics. Fields: European History, Social and
Cultural History.
HIST 5112H – Enlightenment cultures and English society: 1650 – 1800
This course will explore a range of debates that typifies the tensions apparent as England experiences
what many call the Enlightenment during the “long eighteenth century” (for this course defined
as c.1650 – c.1800). We will explore how a range of actors confronted such issues as nation, race,
gender, sexuality, anatomy, and poverty. Fields: European History, Social and Cultural History.
HIST – ENGL 5114H – Visual culture and the creation of publics in modern America
This course explores visual images and public culture in the modern United States, examining how
a wide range of visual texts – including photography, film, mass media, and modern art – shaped
popular attitudes toward politics and foreign policy, intersected with social movements, and figured
into various struggles over identity during the twentieth century. Fields: Social and Cultural History,
Regional and Trans-National History.
HIST 5115H – Cross-cultural relations in the early modern Atlantic world
This course is an introduction to recent literature on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern
Atlantic World. Themes include the spread of disease in the Caribbean and its consequences, anti-
Spanish alliances in Mesoamerica, arms trade and warfare in North America, the impact of the slave
trade on African societies, as well as the emergence of creole societies. The course will take the form
of a critical examination of important publications and discussions in the field. Fields: Colonialism
and Conflict, Social and Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History.
HIST 5116H – A cultural history of medicine in the North American context
This course explores the history of medicine through a comparative approach of both Canada and
the United States from the early colonial period to the present. By situating health, disease, and
healing in their broader cultural contexts, the course examines how “healthy” bodies have been
constructed and how “unhealthy” bodies have been regulated. Fields: Canadian History, Social and
Cultural History, Regional and Trans-National History.