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The medieval, early modern and modern Western world. Emphasis on continuity and change in the context of society, politics, government, economics, culture, diplomacy and war.

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: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

This course provides a basic understanding of the themes in the social history of medieval Europe, focusing on the period between the crowning of Charlemagne in 800 and the Black Death. Within the context of rural and urban life, kingship and papal government, the experience of medieval peoples is examined. Monasticism, popular religion, warfare, chivalry, the Crusades and Arthurian romance provide the central focus of the course.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Note: Credit is not allowed for History 2100 and History 3850 (Medieval Europe).

The origins, course and effects of the Crusading Movement as an expression of Western culture and society in the high Middle Ages. Primary emphasis will be on Crusading in the East, although Northern, Spanish and internal Crusades will also be considered.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

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: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

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: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

The East Slavic policy through Kievan, Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet times.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

An introduction to the practice, writing and interpretation of history. Includes learning skills such as constructing historical research topics, locating and exploiting sources, research methods, and organizing subject matter. Thesis development, critical thinking and observational analysis are also goals of this course.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Note: Students who have officially declared a major in History for the B.A. or BASc. degree programs must complete History 2222 before enrolment in their first 4000-level course in History at the University of Lethbridge.

China's transition from the Ch'ing Empire to the Chinese Republic to the People's Republic; changes and continuities in the transformative processes.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Selected aspects of the historical development of East Asia, mainly of China and Japan: from the Hsia/Shang to Ch'ing Dynasties in China; from the Nara through Tokugawa periods in Japan; patterns of modernization in both countries since the mid-19th Century.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

A social, cultural, political, religious, economic and ethnographic history of Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Social, economic and political development in Britain from the Norman Conquest to the 20th Century.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

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: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Political, economic and social development in the eras of New France and British North America, the prelude to Confederation.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Political, economic and social development in the Confederation era and the 20th Century.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

History of women in ancient and early modern Europe. The impact of the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, industrialization, urbanization and revolution on the lives of women in both the European and American context.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Social world of the greatest of the Greek city-states, from 480 to 350 B.C. Relationship of democratic politics to cultural innovations in philosophy, art, architecture, theatre and law.

Prerequisite: History 2001.

Rome between the Gracchi and the first emperors, from 150 B.C. to A.D. 50. Political and social conflict resulting from Rome's formation of a Mediterranean empire. Economic factors and institutional changes in the political transition from senatorial government to rule by emperors.

Prerequisite: History 2001.

Political, economic, social and cultural history of Germany, from 1780 to the present day.

Prerequisite: History 2150.

Discussions, readings and lectures on: conflicting interpretations of the Revolutionary Napoleonic Period; the Enlightenment critique of the Old Regime; the crisis of the monarchy; the phases of revolution; origins of the Terror; Reaction; the Directory; the rise of Napoleon; the Consulate and the Empire; consequences for France and Europe.

Prerequisite: History 2102 or 2150.

This course examines attitudes toward, and treatment of, outsider groups within medieval society. Heretics, Jews, Muslims, lepers, homosexuals, prostitutes and usurers occupied ambivalent and at times dangerous positions within a society that defined itself as Christian. Differences in the treatment of these various outcast groups, their depiction in art, their legal segregation and their presumed association with demonic activity are addressed through the course.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Note: Credit is not allowed for History 3154 and History 3850 (Outcasts: Minorities in Medieval Society).

A history of the Russian Empire from the accession of Alexander I to the October Revolution.

Prerequisite: History 2200.

A history of the Soviet state under the leadership of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Recommended background: History 2150 or 2200.

Ideas and politics of reform and their interactions in the late-Ch'ing historical context: T'ung-chih Restoration (1862-75); Self-Strengthening Movement; Hundred Days Reform (1898); post-Boxer imperial reforms.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Recommended background: History 2250.

The philosophy and praxis of revolution in Latin America, including the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions; the failed revolutions of Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru and Chile; the Nicaraguan Revolution.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Recommended background: History 2300.

Major themes and developments of the Reformation, 1517-1648.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or Religious Studies 2500 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

English society and politics from the end of the Middle Ages; the English Renaissance, the growth of the Tudor state; the English Reformation; the constitutional revolution and civil wars of the 17th Century; the beginnings of industrialization.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Social, moral, political, economic and educational responses to industrialization; the origins of modern English society.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

Modern America as a mature democratic, industrial and capitalist state and world power.

Prerequisite: History 2600.

Canada's external relations, primarily with the United States and Great Britain, since 1760.

Prerequisites: History 2710 and 2720.

Early discoveries and explorations; the fur trade era; acquisition of the North-west; Louis Riel and the Métis; evolution of provincial status, immigration and settlement; the wheat boom era; the Progressive revolt; the response to depression; post-war development; the prairie west in history.

Prerequisite: History 2720.

The history of Lethbridge and surrounding region in a descriptive and analytic context. Special emphasis on tools, techniques and methods of local history research.

Prerequisite: History 1000 or a previous course (3.0 credit hours) in History.

The historical evolution of childhood and the family in Europe and North America, from the 17th Century to the present.

Prerequisite: Two courses (6.0 credit hours) in History.

Prerequisite: Two courses (6.0 credit hours) in History.

The purpose of this course is to consider the global consequences - political and cultural - of the decline of the old European order in the period 1914-1945. The course deals above all else with conflict between the Great Powers, but also conflict between the Great Powers and the Third World. Topics addressed include such traditional topics as the impact of the Great War on the European 'balance of power' and the origins of the Second World War, as well as issues such as the rise of nationalist movements in the Third World.

Prerequisite: Two courses (6.0 credit hours) in History.

Note: Credit is not allowed for History 3906 and History 3850 (The World at War).

Invention and development of the discipline of history. Principal philosophies and theories of history. Methods and techniques of research and analysis.

Prerequisite: Six courses (18.0 credit hours) in History.

Prerequisite: History 2001.

Prerequisite: Two courses (6.0 credit hours) in European History.

Prerequisite: History 2200.

Prerequisite: History 2300.

Prerequisite: History 2250 or 2290.

Credit hours: 3.0
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0

Prerequisite: History 2500.

Prerequisite: History 2600.

Prerequisites: History 2710 and 2720.

Prerequisite: Four courses (12.0 credit hours) in History.

Prerequisite: Four courses (12.0 credit hours) in History.

Prerequisite: Four courses (12.0 credit hours) in History.