Courses - University of Victoria

Fall 2021 Courses

100 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 101A A01	Ten Days that Shook the World	Vibert, E	MR 1 - 230
HSTR 101D A01	History of Money	Walshaw, J	TWF 1230 - 130
HSTR 112A A01	World History 1900-1945	Biddiscombe, P	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 112B A01	World History 1900-1945	Dolff, D	TWF 130 - 230
HSTR 115 A01	The Second World War(online)	Semmens, K	MR 10 - 1130
HSTR 115 A02	The Second World War	McKercher, B	TWF 930 - 1030
HSTR 120 A01	Human Rights	Beam, S	TWF 1030 - 1130
HSTR 131 A01	History of Technology	Zimmerman, D	MR 830-10

200 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 210A A01	US History to 1865	Cleves, R	MR 10 - 1130
HSTR 220A A01	England to the Glorious Revolution	Grant, M	MR 1 - 230
HSTR 230A A01	Canada to Confederation	Fennema, N	TWF 130 - 230
HSTR 236 A01	Medieval Beginnings	Haskett, T	MR 1130 - 1
HSTR 265A A01	China and the Premodern World	Chen, Z	TWF 1230 - 130
HSTR 276 A01	Latin America	de Alba Koch, B	TWF 230 - 330

300 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 300C A01	Gaming and the Historical Imagination	Dolff, D	TWF 1030 - 1130
HSTR 304 A01	Social History of the Automobile	Lutz, J	MR 1-230
HSTR 310D A01	The American West	Fennema, N	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 314B A01	The Victorians to the Great War	Grant, M	MR 10 - 1130
HSTR 320C A01	Bloodfeud Politics and Culture in the Celtic World	Koch, M	TWF 1230 - 130
HSTR 322A A01	Canadian Political History Since 1867	Bryden, P	TWF 1030 - 1130
HSTR 324A A01	Northwest America to 1849	Lozar, P	MR 10 - 1130
HSTR 328A A01	Indigenous North America to 1850	Lozar, P	MR 1130 - 1
HSTR 329A A01	Race and Ethnicity to 1900	Sitara, G	W 6 - 9
HSTR 330 A01	TOPIC: War and Society in Canada	McKercher, B	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 336T A01	Medieval History of Middle Earth	Haskett, T	R 230 - 530
HSTR 337B A01	Reformation and Religious War in Europe	Beam, S	TWF 1230 - 130
HSTR 340 A01	TOPIC: The Invention of Sexology in the German-Speaking World	Thorson, H	MR 230 - 4
HSTR 342C A01	Democracy, War and Nation Building in Europe	Alexander, R	MW 430 - 6
HSTR 344B A01	Europe between Two World Wars	Biddiscombe, P	MR 830 - 1000
HSTR 365 A01	TOPIC: Japan and the Overcoming of Modernity	Goto-Jones, C	MR 1 - 230
HSTR 376A A01	Conquest and Encounter in Latin America	Koch, M	TWF 130 - 230
HSTR 376E A01	History of the Aztecs, Inka and Maya	de Alba Koch, B	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 378 A01	History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	Bunton, M	M 630 - 930
HSTR 383B A01	War and Society, 1700 - 1914	Zimmerman, D	MR 1130 - 1
HSTR 385D A01	Pirates and Piracy since 1500	Cook, P	TWF 930 - 1030

400 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 440 A01	TOPIC: Cinema & Society - Europe in the Era of World Wars	Saunders, T	W 230 - 530
HSTR 450 A01	The Holocaust	Semmens, K	M 230-530
HSTR 471 A01	TOPIC: The History and Ecology of Marine Fisheries	McClenachan, L	M 230 - 530
HSTR 471 A01	TOPIC: LGBTQ History	Cleves, R	R 230 - 530
HSTR 481 A01	Global History of the Chinese Overseas	Chen, Z	W 230 - 530
HSTR 496 A01	Honours seminar	Saunders, T	T 230-530

Spring 2022 Courses

100 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 101A A01	Ten Days that Shook the World	Lutz, J	MR 230 - 4
HSTR 101F A01	Food in World History	Cleves, R	MR 10 - 1130
HSRT 112A A01	World History, 1900-1945	Bose, N	TWF 1030-1130
HSTR 112B A01	World History 1945-present	Biddiscombe, P	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 115 A01	The Second World War	McKercher, B	TWF 930 - 1030

200 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 210B A01	US History since the Civil War	Lozar, P	MR 10 - 1130
HSTR 220B A01	England since the Glorious Revolution	Grant, M	MR 1 - 230
HSTR 230B A01	Canada since Confederation	Stanger-Ross, J	TWF 1030 - 1130
HSTR 236 A01	Medieval Beginnings	Haskett, T	MR 1130 - 1
HSTR 240A A01	Europe, Renaissance to the French Revolution	Hammond, M	TWF 1230 - 130
HSTR 265B A01	China and the Modern West	Chen, Z	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 277B A01	History of the Middle East since World War II	Bunton, M	W 630 - 930

300 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 300B A01	Hockey Nation: Sports History and Canadian Identity	Fennema, N	TWF 130 - 230
HSTR 302A A01	Revolutionary America and the Early Republic	Cleves, R	MR 1 - 230
HSTR 308 A01	The American Experience in Vietnam	Dolff, D	TWF 130 - 230
HSTR 310B A01	US Soviet Relations in the Cold War Era	Dolff, D	TWF 930 - 1030
HSTR 310E A01	Religion in the US	Fennema, N	MR 1130 - 1
HSTR 312 A01	Tudor Stuart England	McKenzie, A	MR 230 - 4
HSTR 313A A01	Britain's Rise to World Power	Devereaux, S	TWF 1030 - 1130
HSTR 318 A01	The Bloody Code - Crime in England	McKenzie, A	MR 430 - 6
HSTR 320A A01	The British Monarchy since 1689	Devereaux, S	TWF 1230 - 130
HSTR 322B A01	Canadian Constitutional History	Bryden, P	TWF 930-1030
HSTR 324B A01	British Columbia, 1849-1900	Lutz, J	MR 10 - 1130
HSTR 328D A01	Indigenous-Settler Treaties in Canada	Cook, P	TWF 1030 - 1130
HSTR 329B A01	Race and Ethnicity since 1900	Sitara, G	TWF 830 - 930
HSTR 337A A01	The Birth of the Renaissance	Koch, M	TWF 130 - 230
HSTR 342B A01	Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe	Walshaw, J	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 344A A01	The First World War	Zimmerman, D	MR 830-10
HSTR 344C A01	WWII and the Recovery of Western Europe	Biddiscombe, P	MR 830 - 10
HSTR 346 A01	France from the Renaissance to Louis XIV	Beam, S	TWF 1030 - 1130
HSTR 349 A01	Hitler in History	Saunders, T	MR 1 - 230
HSTR 350B A01	Weimar and Nazi Germany	Semmens, K	MR 10 - 1130
HSTR 365D A01	Chinese Politics	Wu, G	MR 1 - 230
HSTR 366 A01	War and Revolution in China	Chen, Z	TWF 1230 - 130
HSTR 371 A01	TOPIC: Ocean History & Sustainability: The Changing Relationship of Humans & the Sea	McClenachan, L	MR 1130-1
HSTR 376D A01	Women of Latin America	de Alba Koch, B	TWF 1130 - 1230
HSTR 380 A01	Religion and State in the Modern Middle East	Wender, A	MW 430 - 6
HSTR 385A A01	Witchcraft in the Atlantic World	Koch, M	TWF 1230-130
HSTR 389A A01	Public Histories Local and Global	Semmens, K	M 230-530

400 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 420 A01	TOPIC: Propaganda - Britain and Germany 1914-1945	Grant, M	T 230 - 530
HSTR 426A A01	Veterans Oral History	Zimmerman, D	MR 1130-1
HSTR 427A A01	Decolonizing Settler Societies	Lozar, P	R 230 - 530
HSTR 436T A01	Records of Middle Earth	Haskett, T	R 230 - 530
HSTR 440 A01	TOPIC: Disease, medicine and society in the era of plagues, 1100-1700	Hammond, M	M 230 - 530
HSTR 460 A01	TOPIC: Punjab and the World: History, Politics, and Migration	Bose, N	R 230 - 530
HSTR 471 A01	TOPIC: The Genesis of War	McKercher, B	W 230 - 530
HSTR 476 A01	Indigenous, Mestizo, & Spanish Accounts of the Conquest	de Alba Koch, B	W 230 - 530
HSTR 496 A01	Honours seminar	Saunders, T	T 230 - 530

Please note:

Courses numbered 100 and 200 are the same level and both are appropriate for first year students.
Courses numbered with A and B can be taken separately. For example HSTR 240A is not required in order to take HSTR 240B.
For permission to take variable topics courses more than once please contact our undergraduate assistant.
For a list of all History courses check out the online calendar.
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Fall 2021 Courses

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