INTERNAL MEMORANDUM TO: Dr Ollivier Dyens, Vice-Provost ...

INTERNAL MEMORANDUMTO:FROM:Associate Dean Joanne Locke – Academic Programs, Faculty of Artsand ScienceShannon McSheffrey – Chair, Department of HistoryDATE: February 1, 2010SUBJECT: History Department Minor Curriculum Change/Course AdditonsThe History Department requests that a number of courses be added to our calendar offerings,and that a small change be made to one of our programs.The courses we request for addition to the Calendar are either cross­listed from new offerings inClassics or reflect new areas of teaching due to recent hires and changes in direction in theHistory Department. As one of the new courses (HIST 397, History and Sound) is designedpartly to contribute to the Public History option of our History Honours program, we also requestthat its number be added to the range of courses that can be taken in that option.These changes were approved by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and then by theDepartment as a whole at the Department meeting on November 27, 2009.3

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: HIST-14 VERSION: 3COURSE CHANGE: HIST 336New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:B.A.Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextHIST 336 Deviancy and Orthodoxy in the History of Mexico (3 credits)Prerequisite: See N.B. number (1). This course traces Mexican history from the colonial period to the modern erathrough an analysis of the various groups that state and society have defined as deviant, including barbarians,heretics, vagrants, lunatics, prostitutes, bandits, and insurgents. This course examines what the shiftingpreoccupations with and the persecutions of these groups reveals about the creation of political and socialorthodoxy in Mexico across time.Rationale: This course expands our offerings in Latin American history.Resource Implications: None.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.6D3

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: HIST-14 VERSION: 3COURSE CHANGE: HIST 342New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:B.A.Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextHIST 342 Political and Social Ideas in Early Modern Britain (3 credits)Prerequisite: See N.B. number (1). This course traces the history of political and social thought in England,Ireland, Scotland and the British Atlantic from c. 1500 to c. 1800. Looking at both classic and lesser-knownprimary texts and drawing on recent work in intellectual history, it pays special attention to how changing ideasabout politics, economy, society and history reflected both long-term developments and short-term crises instate-formation, imperial expansion, commercialization, the politics of religion, and new approaches to science.Rationale: This course expands our offerings in early modern British history.Resource Implications: None.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.7D4

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: HIST-14 VERSION: 3COURSE CHANGE: HIST 345New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:B.A.Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx)calendarProposed TextHIST 345 Postwar Japanese History (3 credits)Prerequisite: See N.B. number (1). This course examines Japan since the end of World War II. Whiletracing Japan's rise to the status of an economic power, this course focuses primarily on social andcultural history.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this coursefor credit.Rationale: This course expands our offerings in Asian history. This course will be offered under a HIST 398 number in Winter 2011, its current enrolment is 44 students.Resource Implications: None.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.8D5

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: HIST-14 VERSION: 3COURSE CHANGE: HIST 348New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:B.A.Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextHIST 348 History of Violence: Middle East 1798-Present (3 credits)Prerequisite: See N.B. number (1). This course examines the multiple facets of violence in Middle Easternhistorical contexts. The objective is to develop a critical approach for thinking about the nature of violenceby using a historical perspective to complicate commonplace oppositions between its legitimate and illegitimateforms or its intelligibility and unintelligibilty. Students explore the differences among state sanctionedviolence, resistance movements, and terrorism.Note: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course was successfully offered under a HIST 398 number in 2008-09, enrolling 36 students.Resource Implications: None.Other Programs within which course is listed:None9D6

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: HIST-14 VERSION: 3COURSE CHANGE: HIST 371New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:B.A.Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextHIST 371 History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1825-1922 (3 credits)Prerequisite: See N.B. number (1). This course traces the evolution of the Russian revolutionary movement fromthe Decembrist Revolt (1825) to the Bolshevik consolidation of power (1922). Emphasis is placed on thedevelopment of Russian conceptions of socialism, Marxism, and anarchism; the roles undertaken by women invarious revolutionary groups; and the Russian contribution to the development of modern terrorism.Rationale: This course expands our offerings in Russian/Soviet History.Resource Implications: None.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.10D7

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: HIST-14 VERSION: 3COURSE CHANGE: HIST 394New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:B.A.Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextHIST 394 Food in History (3 credits)Prerequisite: See N.B. number (1). This course considers the economic, political, and cultural changes in foodproduction, diets and cuisines from 1700 to the present from a global, comparative perspective. Lectures, primaryand secondary source readings, films, research and hands-on activities will explore diverse topics such as huntingand gathering; cooking traditions and innovations; cultural and ethical dimensions of eating and fasting;agriculture and food markets; the politics of famine; factory farms, industrial processing, and nutritionalscience; the emergence of the restaurant, the supermarket, fast food; and the globalization of modern diets.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course was successfully offered under a HIST 398 number in 2009-2010, enrolling 42 students.Resource Implications: None.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.11D8

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: HIST-14 VERSION: 3COURSE CHANGE: HIST 397New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:B.A.Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextHIST 397 History and Sound (3 credits)Prerequisite: See N.B. number (1). This course examines sound as a historical subject and a medium forunderstanding the past. Emphasizing aural rather than visual sources, it addresses a variety of topicsincluding the history of aural art forms such as music and radio; sound recording and transmission technologies;commercial uses of sound; architectural acoustics; and the evolution of soundscapes. The course may includetraining in the production of radio documentaries, urban sound walks, and audio podcasts.Rationale: This course adds to the course options for the Public History Honours program.Resource Implications: None.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.12D9