Faculty of Arts and Science
The Western World
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Survey of selected developments in the Western world. Emphasis on continuity and change in the context of societies, politics, economies, cultures, religions and war.
Mutually Exclusive:
History 1200
Substantially Similar:
History 1200
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
World History
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Survey of selected developments in world history. Emphasis on continuity and change in the context of societies, politics, economies, cultures, religions, and war.
Mutually Exclusive:
History 1000
Substantially Similar:
History 1000
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Main Themes in Ancient History
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The world of the Greek city-states and of the Roman Empire, from 700 B.C. to A.D. 250. Origins of complex urban societies. Main political and economic forces in their development. Significance of belief, literature and art.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Main Themes in Medieval European History
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The main themes in the history and historiography of medieval Europe, from the fall of the Roman Empire until the end of the Hundred Years' War. Topics include the fall of Rome and the rise of Christianity, the concepts of feudalism and renaissance, the crusades, scholasticism, 'courtly love' and chivalry, the Black Death and the development of national monarchies.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Early Modern Europe - 1500-1750
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The Protestant Reformation. Politics of the dynasties. Spain, the Catholic Reformation and religious war. The general crisis of the 17th Century. The emergence of new powers. Changes in popular and elite culture.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
The Politics of Europe - 1750-1914
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The Old Regimes of Europe. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe. Industrialization and ideologies. The Revolutions of 1848. Unification. Imperialism and the origins of the First World War. Trends in European thought, culture and society.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
History in Practice
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Hands-on skills workshop in the art and craft of the historian. Includes constructing a research topic, locating and analyzing sources, developing an argument, historiographical analysis, and history's relevance in the modern world.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Main Themes in East Asian History
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Examination of the history of East Asia, focusing on China Korea, and Japan from ancient to contemporary times. Themes include change and continuity in society, politics, culture, religion, philosophy, war, and international relations.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History or Asian Studies at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Latin America
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A social, cultural, political, religious, economic and ethnographic history of Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
History 2450/Health Sciences 2450
Evolution of Health and Illness Care
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course examines the evolution of health and illness care in Canada over four centuries, with an emphasis on the 20th Century. It emphasizes the historical development of medicine, nursing, social work, pharmacy, and public health as interrelated yet distinct spheres of practice. It also looks at how particular historical events and movements (Spanish Flu epidemic, World Wars I and II, modern hospital movement) helped to shape how Canadians perceive and provide illness and health care.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History, Nursing, or Health Sciences
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Themes in British Social and Political History
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Social, economic and political development in Britain from the Norman Conquest to the 20th Century.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Main Themes in the History of the United States
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
From colonial origins through the United States as a 20th-Century world power. Persistent themes, such as individualism, representative democracy, mission, capitalism and ethnocentrism.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Canada to 1867
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Political, economic and social development in the eras of New France and British North America, the prelude to Confederation.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Canada Since 1867
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Political, economic and social development in the Confederation era and the 20th Century.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
History 2800/Women and Gender Studies 2800
History of Women
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The lives and diversity of women across North America or Europe from the 15th Century to contemporary times. Organized around major themes rather than a chronology of events, topics may include the impact of industrialization and urbanization on women and families; women's reproductive behaviour and labour; suffrage, citizenship and the nation; women's access to education; and community and social activism.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level or Women and Gender Studies 1000
Recommended Background:
History 2222
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Greek and Roman Mythology
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Introduction to the major myths of ancient Greece and Rome. The myths will not be treated in isolation but will be examined in the context of ancient Greek culture as a whole: the relationship of myth to contemporary religion, philosophy, and literature. In addition, some of the theories and interpretations of classical mythology which have been put forward in modern era will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Greek and Roman Antiquity (Series)
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The Greek and Roman World in antiquity. Offerings may include The Ancient Greek City States, The Hellenistic Age, The Roman Revolution, and The Later Roman Empire.
Prerequisite(s):History 2001
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
The Crusades
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The origins, course, and effects of the Crusading Movement from the high Middle Ages to the early Modern period. Primary emphasis will be on Crusading in the East, although Northern, Spanish, and internal Crusades will also be considered.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Modern Germany
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Political, economic, social and cultural history of Germany, from 1780 to the present day.
Prerequisite(s):History 2150
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Imperial Russia - 1694-1917
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A history of the Russian Empire from the reign of Peter the Great to the October Revolution.
Prerequisite(s):One of History 2102 or History 2150
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
The Soviet Union
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A history of the Soviet state under the leadership of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level AND
One additional course (3.0 credit hours) in History
Recommended Background:
One of History 2150 or History 2290
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Imperial China
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Political, social, and intellectual history of China focusing on continuity and change during the Imperial period from 221 BCE to 1911 CE.
Prerequisite(s):Two courses (6.0 credit hours) in History
Equivalent:History 3850 (Imperial China) (prior to 2020/2021)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Japan, 1570 to 1890
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Political, social, and intellectual history of Japan from state unification in the 1500s to the rise of the modern empire in 1890.
Prerequisite(s):Two courses (6.0 credit hours) in History
Equivalent:History 3850 (Early Modern to Modern Japan) (prior to 2020/2021)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
The Witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The phenomenon of witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Dominant themes include demonology, popular culture, gender analysis, judicial process, religious reform, socio-economic contributions to the hunts, and the role of community in early modern society.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Substantially Similar:
Women and Gender Studies 3040 (Witchcraft: The Devil in a Woman's Body)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
The Reformation
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Major themes and developments of the Reformation, 1517-1648.
Prerequisite(s):One of one course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level or Religious Studies 2500
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Early Modern Britain
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The prevalent social, political, economic and religious themes in England, Scotland, and Wales from 1485-1707.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
History 3560/Health Sciences 3560
History of Nursing: Women and the Care of the Sick
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course examines the development of Canadian nursing from its religious roots in 17th-Century Quebec to the modern hospital movement of the 20th Century. It emphasizes ways in which politics, gender, race and religion helped to shape nursing into a predominantly hospital-based profession comprised of white women, and looks at the efforts of men and minority women to earn a place in nursing in Canada and elsewhere.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in Health Sciences, Nursing, or History
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
The United States from 1877 to the Present
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A social and political history of the United States from the post-Civil War period to the present. Major themes will include reform movements, cultural developments, America as a world power, and the relationship between the individual and the state.
Prerequisite(s):History 2600
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
The History of the U.S. West
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A history of the United States West from pre-European contact to the present. Themes include pop culture representations, native-white relations, racial and religious diversity, and the growth of the state in the Trans-Mississippi West.
Prerequisite(s):One of History 1000 or History 1200 AND
One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 2000 level
Recommended Background:
History 2222 AND
History 2600
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
History and Culture of the American South
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Introduction to the history and culture of the American South from the beginnings of European settlement to the late 20th century. Among the themes explored are race relations, gender expectations, religion, politics, violence, popular culture, and the existence of a distinct southern identity.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level AND
One additional course (3.0 credit hours) in History
Recommended Background:
History 2600
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Slavery and Abolition in the Americas
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A history of events related to slavery and abolition in an American context, including themes of economics, race, politics, culture, and philosophy. This examination compares and contrasts the viewpoints of slaves, slaveholders, and those who fought to end the slave system.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level AND
One additional course (3.0 credit hours) in History
Recommended Background:
History 2600
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
History of Western Canada
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
The social, political and economic development of the four western provinces, from pre-contact to the late twentieth century.
Prerequisite(s):One of History 1000 or History 1200 AND
One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 2000 level
Recommended Background:
One of History 2710 or History 2720
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Canada Since 1939
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A social and political history concentrating on the period 1939-1980s. Factors of identity, including gender, ethnicity, culture and the family, will be considered, particularly in the context of state regulation.
Prerequisite(s):History 2720
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Canada: War and Peace
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A military history of Canada from pre-contact to the present. Themes include imperialism, nationalism, gender, and anti-war movements.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level AND
One additional course (3.0 credit hours) in History
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Canadian Cultural History
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A history of Canadian culture, including literature, art, music, theatre, and material culture, from the contact era to the present. Themes include aboriginal, ethnic, and regional culture, and the relationship between culture and nationalism.
Prerequisite(s):One course (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 1000 level AND
One additional course (3.0 credit hours) in History
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Seminars in Ancient History (Series)
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Prerequisite(s):History 2001 AND
History 2222 AND
Two additional courses (6.0 credit hours) in History AND
Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Seminars in European History (Series)
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Prerequisite(s):History 2222 AND
Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours) AND
Additional prerequisites will be specified (including any recommended background) for individual offerings
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Seminars in East Asian History (Series)
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Prerequisite(s):History 2222 AND
History 2290 AND
Two additional courses (6.0 credit hours) in History AND
Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Seminars in British History (Series)
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Prerequisite(s):History 2222 AND
History 2500 AND
Two additional courses (6.0 credit hours) in History AND
Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Seminars in Canadian History (Series)
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Prerequisite(s):History 2222 AND
History 2710 AND
History 2720 AND
One additional course (3.0 credit hours) in History AND
Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Seminars in World History (Series)
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Prerequisite(s):History 2222 AND
Three additional courses (9.0 credit hours) in History AND
Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Violence in Medieval Society
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Comparison of two types of violence in Western Europe during the Middle Ages: the interpersonal violence of everyday life, and the less common but often sensationalized violence of war. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding how these two systems of violence paralleled and sustained one another, how gender, class, and religion affected ways in which Europeans defined and approached violence, and how violence changed over time and in different regions of Europe. Specific topics include: the ancient origins of medieval attitudes; medieval strategy, tactics, and logistics; dispute resolution; insult, feud, and duel; the 'feudal revolution'; chivalry; military literature; medieval peace movements (the Peace of God); criminalization and state control of violence; heresy, Inquisition, and torture; and domestic violence.
Prerequisite(s):History 2222 AND
One of History 2100, History 3103, History 3850 (Medieval Britain), or History 3850 (The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century) AND
Two additional courses (6.0 credit hours) in History AND
Third year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Civil Rights in the U.S.
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Examination of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, from the establishment of segregation through to contemporary issues, with a particular emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s. Themes that will be considered include politics, culture, violence, and the tension between individual and group rights.
Prerequisite(s):History 2222 AND
History 2600 AND
Two additional courses (6.0 credit hours) in History AND
Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Equivalent:History 4060 (Civil Rights in the U.S.) (prior to 2020/2021)
Lib Ed Req:Fine Arts and Humanities
Undergraduate Thesis
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: Variable
This is a research-oriented course in which students will conduct fieldwork, text or library-based research, submit a report in the form of an Undergraduate Thesis which will be made publicly available, and report orally on the work. In consultation with their Thesis Supervisor, students will define a research problem and formulate a research plan.
Prerequisite(s):Fourth-year standing (a minimum of 90.0 credit hours) AND
A minimum GPA of 3.30 calculated on all completed University of Lethbridge courses or calculated on all University of Lethbridge and transferable courses taken within the terms containing the last 20 courses (60.0 credit hours), whichever is higher AND
A minimum GPA of 3.30 calculated on the last ten History courses (30.0 credit hours) AND
A minimum of ten courses (30.0 credit hours) in History AND
History 2222 AND
One Independent Study (3.0 credit hours) in History at the 3000 or 4000 level AND
Application to the Department of History and Religion
Note:Contact hours will vary. Students should be aware that this course involves regular contact with the Thesis Supervisor as well as considerable independent work.