History

2015 - 2016

History

The course list identifies approved courses that MacEwan University may offer. Not all courses will be offered every year and some courses are restricted to particular programs. Contact an advisor in your program for information on course availability.

2015 - 2016

History

The course list identifies approved courses that MacEwan University may offer. Not all courses will be offered every year and some courses are restricted to particular programs. Contact an advisor in your program for information on course availability.

2015 - 2016

History

The course list identifies approved courses that MacEwan University may offer. Not all courses will be offered every year and some courses are restricted to particular programs. Contact an advisor in your program for information on course availability.

Fall 2015

HIST 410 Topics in European History
Enlightenment and Revolution in France

Kelly Summers

This course examines the art, literature, and philosophy of the French Enlightenment while highlighting its key institutions, cultural venues, and figures. We will examine the movement’s main currents and opponents before linking Enlightenment critiques of absolutism and Old Regime society to both the outbreak of France’s great revolution in 1789 and its descent into Terror. We will conclude by analyzing the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. A key objective of the course will be to examine the relationship between ideas and events.

Winter 2016

HIST 291 Topics in Political and International History
Espionage in the Modern Age

Michael Carroll 

HIST 301 Topics in World History
A Comparative History of Revolution

Kelly Summers

The so-called Arab Spring is only the most recent chapter in a much longer, global history of revolution. This course compares the origins, course, and consequences of revolutionary upheavals ranging from seventeenth-century England, post-slavery Haiti, and the Soviet Union through to the present-day Middle East, with special attention paid to the professor’s research specialty, the French Revolution. Students will consider the religious, political, and social dimensions of revolution; the connections between revolutions in disparate regions of the world, particularly between metropole and colony; and the revolutionary interplay between ideology, socio-economics, individual agency, and historical contingency. The course will conclude with a consideration of the future of revolution in an age of globalization and digital media.

HIST 442 Topics in Imperialism and Colonialism
Colonialism and Aboriginal People

Bob Irwin

This course compares the experiences of Aboriginal people in Canada with those of Aboriginal people in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Russia. The course pays particular attention to the colonial processes, the various treaty-making arrangements, and the role of the state. There will be units particular to each country as well as comparative discussions. Some of the issues that students can expect to investigate in comparative perspective are Indigenous sovereignty, land surrenders, educational policies, the imposition of law, and imposition of moral codes including sexuality and marriage.