Study History, Find Your Future: 2025/2026 Courses to Inspire and Excite
For curious and questioning minds, history courses can open up a world of discovery. Through these 2025/2026 undergraduate course offerings, the UBC Department of History invites students to explore how famous historical figures and everyday people played extraordinary roles in shaping the world as we know it today.
UBC Students Reflect on HIST 390 Go Global Seminar in Paris
In May 2025, a group of senior undergraduate students travelled to Paris, France for HIST 390: Special Topics in History: Paris, Cradle of Modernity. This fascinating Go Global seminar was taught by Dr. Michael Lanthier and included a combination of lecture hours and immersive travel.
Saje Mathieu | Women on the Move: Black Female Immigration to Canada, 1900s-1950s
On March 11, 2025 at 12:30 pm PT, join UBC Department of History for “Women on the Move: Black Female Immigration to Canada, 1900s-1950s,” a talk by Dr. Saje Mathieu, Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Arts and Social Sciences in Canada and North America at […]
2024/2025 Term 1 History Undergraduate Scholarship Winners
Join the UBC History community in congratulating the 2024/2025 Term 1 undergraduate Recommended Awards scholarship winners!
HIST-352-2024W-101
Pheroze Unwalla This course introduces students to the history, politics, and cultures of the ‘modern’ Middle East, facilitating the adoption of an informed, critical approach to the region’s past and present. Significantly, however, the course is guided by two crucial interrelated objectives: First, we will examine the idea of the modern Middle East, grappling with […]
HIST-352-2024W-L01
Pheroze Unwalla This course introduces students to the history, politics, and cultures of the ‘modern’ Middle East, facilitating the adoption of an informed, critical approach to the region’s past and present. Significantly, however, the course is guided by two crucial interrelated objectives: First, we will examine the idea of the modern Middle East, grappling with […]
2024/2025 UBC History Courses to Change Your Worldview
UBC History offers a wide-ranging variety of courses that give students the opportunity to study the past in a way that empowers their future. With fascinating courses that range from the practice of oral history to imperial and colonial archaeology and museums, there’s a History course for you, no matter your interests and endeavours. Check out the highlight of our 2024/2025 undergraduate course offerings below.
Dr. Bonnie Effros Wins SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Dr. Bonnie Effros has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2023-2025) for her project “Preserved in Wax: Catacomb Martyrs, Piety, and Ultramontane Politics in Post-Revolutionary France.”
UBC History Colloquium | Decolonizing Teaching, Indigenizing Learning, and Reconciling with Truth in the Classroom
The UBC Department of History Colloquium Series brings together scholars who are exploring important methodological, chronological, or geographical issues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and contribute strongly to our collective discussions. As part of the 2023/2024 Colloquium series, we are pleased to invite you to a talk by Dr. Shannon Leddy (Associate Professor […]