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This is a mandatory course for MA students taken in Term 1 of Year 1 of the MA program. The Historiography seminar involves an intense introduction to varieties of historical writing and the philosophic assumptions behind historical thinking. The Comparative History courses are designed to broaden student’s knowledge and compensate for gaps created by specialization.

This is a mandatory course for MA students taken in Term 1 of Year 2 of the MA program.  The MA research seminar introduces students to the problems, materials, and research methods in the discipline; candidates must demonstrate their ability to use documents and other sources, and to write and defend papers based on such […]

This is a mandatory course for Doctoral students taken in Term 2 of Year 1 of the PhD Program.  The course guides students through the process of doing research for and drafting their dissertation prospectus.

In this course, we will study the history of Europe over the last five hundred years or so (that works out to roughly one year per three minutes of class time!) in order to understand the complex underlying processes and the powerful, remarkable people that have shaped it. We will start our journey in a […]

This survey will examine the course of British history between 1900 and 1945. In 1900 Great Britain was the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world, controlling a global Empire that covered a quarter of the globe’s land mass. Forty-five years and two world wars later, the country had been relegated to the second […]

History Through Images How has photography changed the way that we understand and study past historical events? This course explores how historians might learn to see better, how we might learn to “read” images, and how photographic images change our relationship with the past. During the first weeks of the class, we’ll read debates over […]

A History of History This course, designed for all third-year History honours students, will introduce them to the evolving nature of historical scholarship and to various genres and uses of history. We will explore for this purpose a series of studies, some classic and others more recent, that provide models and illustrate different approaches to […]

History 333, 001 Third year seminar: (Full-year, September 2021 to April 2022) Instructor: Prof. W. French wfrench@mail.ubc.ca Telling Stories, Seeking Truths This course focuses on narrative to consider some of the ways that history and historical methods have been conceived and challenged over time. It is concerned with the borders between history and fiction; with […]

A History of History This course, designed for all third-year History honours students, will introduce them to the evolving nature of historical scholarship and to various genres and uses of history. We will explore for this purpose a series of studies, some classic and others more recent, that provide models and illustrate different approaches to […]

A History of History This course, designed for all third-year History honours students, will introduce them to the evolving nature of historical scholarship and to various genres and uses of history. We will explore for this purpose a series of studies, some classic and others more recent, that provide models and illustrate different approaches to […]