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HUMSC 301 001 Great Dialogues: The Sacred and the Profane

What is the nature of, and relationship between, the sacred and the profane? This course will examine diverse manifestations of the sacred and the profane by emphasizing the nature of their interaction and the impact on our understanding of contemporary human civilization. A dialogical method in exploring these ideas will be encouraged. Areas to be investigated include space, time, ritual, culture, morality, life and death. The readings will be taken from core texts spanning a wide variety of fields and authors (e.g. Eliade, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Pieper, Charles Taylor, Mary Douglas, etc.).

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HUMSC 102 001 Great Dialogues: Politics and Morality

What is the relationship between politics and morality? Are they opposites? Can they be integrated? This course investigates the way our own dialogue with core texts, from the Renaissance to the present (authors may include Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Conrad, and Arendt), offers ways of thinking through the dilemmas and issues raised by these texts and present in our culture.

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HIST 422 003 Special Topics: For Better or Worse: Peirre Elliott Trudeau's Canada

This seminar is a special study of a selected topic in history. Please see course instructor for details.

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HIST 422 001 Special Topics: True Crimes

This seminar is a special study of a selected topic in history. Please see course instructor for details.

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HIST 388 001 Modern Canada

Lectures, tutorials, and independent research will provide a decade-by-decade examination of the central social, political, and economic themes that have helped characterize "modern Canada".

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HIST 318 001 History of Sexuality: The Modern Period

This seminar introduces students to the history of sexuality. The course focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries. (Cross-listed with SMF 318)

Jane Nicholas Winter 2019
HIST 291 003 Special Topics in History: Canadian Popular Culture

One or more term courses will be offered from time to time as announced by the History Department. Topics will be dependent upon special research and/or instructional interests of faculty.

Jane Nicholas Winter 2019
HIST 291 002 Special Topics in History: Game of Thrones

One or more term courses will be offered from time to time as announced by the History Department. Topics will be dependent upon special research and/or instructional interests of faculty.

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HIST 291 001 Special Topics in History: Christians, Muslims, Jews 1000-1500

One or more term courses will be offered from time to time as announced by the History Department. Topics will be dependent upon special research and/or instructional interests of faculty.

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HIST 260 001 Europe: 410-1303

The political, cultural, economic, and ecclesiastical development of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the High Middle Ages. (Cross-listed with MEDVL 260)

Dan Hutter PDF icon HIST-MEDVL 260_D.Hutter_Winter 2019.pdf Winter 2019