Courses - University of Victoria

Summer 2025

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 300C	Gaming and the Historical Imagination	Dolff, David	June 6-27 Online
HSTR 310C	American History in Film	Fennema, Norm	May 12-June 4 Online
HSTR 330D	Drink and Social Control in Canada	Sitara, Georgia	May 12-June 4 MTWRF 12:00-2:30
HSTR 352	The Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1917-2000	Dolff, David	July 3-25 MTWRF 10:30-12:30

Fall 2025 Draft Timetable (pdf)

(subject to change)

100 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 100	History, Power and Justice	Bose, N.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 101A	Ten Days That Shook the World	Wender, A.	1:30-2:20 TWF
HSTR 101C	Epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS	Bil, G.	1:00-2:20 MR
HSTR 101D	History of Money	Walshaw, J.	10:30-11:20 TWF
HSTR 101F	Food in World History	Cleves, R.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 101G	History of Oil	Rezamand, A.	ONLINE
HSTR 112A	World History 1900-1945	Biddiscombe, P.	11:30-12:20 TWF
HSTR 112B	The World Since 1945-Present	Dolff, D.	ONLINE
HSTR 115	The Second World War	Fennema, N.	11:30-12:50 MR

200 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 201	Introduction to Historical Research (A01)	Semmens, K.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 201	Introduction to Historical Research (A02)	Stanger-Ross, J.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 210A	The United States to the Civil War	Cleves, R.	ONLINE
HSTR 220A	History of England to the Glorious Revolution	Devereaux, S.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 230A	Canada to Confederation	Cook, P.	9:30-10:20 TWF
HSTR 265A	China and the Premodern World	Chen, Z.	12:30-12:20 TWF

300 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 300A	The Backpacker's Guide to European History	Semmens, J.	10:30-11:20 TWF
HSTR 300B	Hockey Nation: Sports History and Canadian Identity (A01)	Fennema, N.	ONLINE
HSTR 300B	Hockey Nation: Sports History and Canadian Identity (A02)	Fennema, N.	ONLINE
HSTR 314A	Becoming the Victorians: Britain 1789-1851	Grant, M.	11:30-12:50 MR
HSTR 322A	Canadian Political History Since 1867	Bryden, P.	11:30-12:50 MR
HSTR 328D	Indigenous-Settler Treaties in Canada since 1600	Cook, P.	11:30-12:20 TWF
HSTR 329A	Race, Racism and Ethnicity in Canada to 1900	Sitara, G.	6:30-7:50 W
HSTR 344B	Europe Between the Wars	Biddiscombe, P.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 350C	Germany After 1945	Schmidtke, O.	1:00-2:20 MR
HSTR 361	Slaves, Spices and Saints in the Portuguese Empire	de Alba-Koch, B.	11:30-12:20 TWF
HSTR 371A	20th Century Warfare	Dolff, D.	12:30-1:20 TWF
HSTR 375	History of Decolonization in Asia and Africa	Bose, N.	1:00-2:20 MR
HSTR 376E	History of Aztecs, Inka and Maya	de Alba-Koch, B.	2:30-3:20 TWF
HSTR 385C	History of Sexuality	Sitara, G.	3:30-4:20 MWR
HSTR 389B	Digital History	Lutz, J.	1:00-2:20 MR

400 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 420	Seminar in British History	Devereaux, S.	2:30-5:20 T
HSTR 430	Seminar in Canadian History	Bryden, P.	2:30-5:20 M
HSTR 460E	People, Plants, and Empire	Bil, G.	2:30-5:20 W
HSTR 471	Health and Social Justice Seminar	Virdi, J.	TBD
HSTR 479A	Modern Religion and Empire	Wender, A.	2:30-5:20 R
HSTR 481	A Global History of the Chinese Overseas	Chen, Z.	2:30-5:20 W
HSTR 496	Approaches to History	Walshaw, J.	2:30-5:20 R

Spring 2026 Draft Timetable (pdf)

(subject to change)

100 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 100	History, Power and Justice	Alade, A.	10:30-11:20 TWF
HSTR 101E	Environmental History of the World	McClenachan, L.	11:30-12:20 TWF
HSTR 101S	History of Science	Bil, G.	2:30-3:20 MWR
HSTR 112A	World History 1900-1945	Bose, N.	ONLINE
HSTR 112B	The World Since 1945-present	Biddiscombe, P.	11:30-12:20 TWF
HSTR 115	The Second World War	Dolff, D.	12:30-1:20 TWF
HSTR 120	History of Human Rights	Beam, S.	10:30-11:20 TWF
HSTR 122	Conspiracies, Hoaxes and Moral Panics	McKenzie, A.	1:00-2:20 MR

200 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 200A	Scandalous Histories	Bryden, P.	1:00-2:20 MR
HSTR 210B	The United States since 1865	Fennema, N.	ONLINE
HSTR 220B	History of England from the Glorious Revolution - Present	Grant, M.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 230B	Canada from Confederation to Present	Bryden, P.	3:30-4:20 MWR
HSTR 236B	The European Middle Age 1000-1500	Haskett, T.	11:30-12:20 MR
HSTR 265B	China and the Modern West	Chen, Z.	11:30-12:20 TWF
HSTR 275	Modern South Asia from Early Empires to Gandhi	Bose, N.	ONLINE
HSTR 276	Voices of Diversity and Dissent in Latin America	de Alba-Koch, B.	11:30-12:20 TWF

300 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 310B	US-Soviet Relations in the Cold War Era	Dolff, D.	10:30-11:20
HSTR 312	Tudor-Stuart England	McKenzie, A.	4:30-5:50 MR
HSTR 320B	Homicide in Modern Britain	Devereaux, S.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 320F	A History of the British Night	Devereaux, S.	1:00-2:20 MR
HSTR 324A	Northwest America to 1849	Lutz, J.	4:00-6:20 MW
HSTR 329B	Race, Racism and Ethnicity in Canada since 1900	Sitara, G.	4:30-5:50 MW
HSTR 336T	The Created Medieval History of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth	Haskett, T.	2:30-5:20 R
HSTR 342B	Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1789-1815	Walshaw, J.	10:30-11:20 TWF
HSTR 344C	The Second World War and the Recovery of Western Europe	Biddiscombe, P.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 351	Imperial Russia, 1689-1917	Yekelchyk, S.	11:30-12:50 MR
HSTR 352A	Putin's Russia	Swift, M.	TBD
HSTR 360A	Africa since 1800	Alade, A.	12:30-1:20 TWF
HSTR 366	War and Revolution in China	Chen, Z.	12:30-1:20 TWF
HSTR 370A	Intersections of Law and Religion from Ancient to Current Worlds	Wender, A.	4:30-5:50 TR
HSTR 370C	Critics of Religion	Bramadat, P.	TBD
HSTR 373A	Violence, Memory, and Transitional Justice	Milton, C.	TBD
HSTR 378	History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	Bunton, M.	6:30-9:20 R
HSTR 380	Becoming a Humanities Researcher	Lutz, J.	9:30-10:20 TWF
HSTR 383A	War and Society Prior to 1700	Zimmerman, D.	10:00-11:20 MR
HSTR 385D	Pirates and Piracy Since 1500	Cook, P.	11:30-12:20 TWF
HSTR 386A	Ocean History and Changing Human Relationships with the Sea	McClenachan, L.	11:30-12:50 MR
HSTR 390A	Early History through Role Playing Games	Cleves, R.	1:00-2:20 MR

400 Level Courses

COURSE	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME
HSTR 409	Seminar in American Gender and Sexuality	Cleves, R.	2:30-5:20 T
HSTR 420	Seminar in British History	McKenzie, A.	2:30-5:20 T
HSTR 430	Seminar in Canadian History	Cook, P.	2:30-5:20 W
HSTR 451A	Twentieth-Century Genocides in Eastern Europe	Yekelchyk, S.	4:30-7:20 M
HSTR 471	Seminar in Thematic and Comparative History	Milton, C.	TBD
HSTR 476	Indigenous, Mestizo and Spanish Accounts of the Conquest	de Alba-Koch, B.	2:30-5:20 T
HSTR 496	Approaches to History	Walshaw, J.	2:30-5:20 R

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Courses numbered with A and B can be taken separately. For example HSTR 240A is not required in order to take HSTR 240B.
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