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This seminar introduces students to the pleasures and challenges of analyzing history on film and film as historical text. Taking Federico Fellini’s iconic – and ironic – film La dolce vita (The Sweet Life, 1960) as our thematic foundation, we will explore cinematically Italy’s dynamic but difficult transition from Mussolini’s dictatorship, wartime defeat, and widespread poverty in 1945 to a postwar democratic republic that became one of the world’s richest industrialized countries by the early 1960s. The creative and often revolutionary films that we will study offer profound audio-visual histories of Italian society as millions of people pursued the “sweet life” during the postwar boom. Treating filmmakers as historians in their own right, we will examine their incisive interpretations of cultural attitudes, social customs, sexual behaviors, mass consumerism, internal migration, organized crime, and the Fascist legacy during this era of rapid change and unprecedented prosperity.

Explores ideas, people, and movements of social criticism and social justice, stressing history as a way to understand and engage the present. Content may vary from offering to offering; see course outline for further information. HIST 463W may be repeated for credit only when a different topic is taught. Students with credit for HIST 412 or HIST 412W cannot take HIST 463W for further credit when offered with the course topic "Marxism." Writing.

Often described as a young, dynamic, and forward-looking city, Vancouver is sometimes thought of as a place without a history. Walking around the glass towers of downtown, you might be forgiven for taking this view… Yet the city and region are the products of centuries of Indigenous presence, of western colonialism, and of diverse international migration. This seminar will explore how these processes developed, and how they continue to shape the social, cultural, and political contexts we live in today. Though Vancouver is frequently praised as a highly liveable city, we will discuss the encounters that have made it into a diverse and contested metropolis, and the class, gender, and race-based inequalities that have long underlain its idyllic image.

Last updated June 14, 2021

100 Level Courses

Course	Title	Instructor	Day/Time	Location
HIST 101 D100	Canada to Confederation	Willeen Keough	Th 12:30 PM – 2:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 102W D900	Canada since Confederation	Leah Wiener	Tu TBA	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 102W F100	Canada since Confederation	Nicolas Kenny	Th 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	AQ 6229, Burnaby
HIST 106 D100	The Making of Modern Europe	Evdoxios Doxiadis	Mo 2:30 PM – 4:20 PM	AQ 3003, Burnaby
HIST 130 D100	Introduction to Global History	Luke Clossey	Tu 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 130 D900	Introduction to Global History	Luke Clossey	Tu 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 146 D100	Africa after the Transatlantic Slave Trade	Sarah Walshaw	Th 8:30 AM – 10:20 AM	BLU 10011, Burnaby
HIST 151 D100	The Modern Middle East	Thomas Kuehn	Tu 2:30 PM – 4:20 PM	BLU 10011, Burnaby

200 Level Courses

Course	Title	Instructor	Day/Time	Location
HIST 200 D100	Making History: Introduction to Historical Research	Jennifer Spear	Fr 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM	AQ 2122, Burnaby
HIST 212 D100	The United States to 1877	Joseph Taylor	Tu 8:30 AM – 10:20 AM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 220 D100	Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe	Emily O'Brien	Tu 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM	AQ 4130, Burnaby
HIST 223 D100	Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789	Hilmar Pabel	Th 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	WMC 3515, Burnaby
HIST 224 D100	Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War	Ilya Vinkovetsky	Tu 12:30 PM – 2:20 PM	AQ 3154, Burnaby
HIST 254 E100	China to 1800	Niping Yan	We 4:30 PM – 6:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 254 E200	China to 1800	Niping Yan	We 4:30 PM – 6:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 265 D100	Global History from the Revolutionary Age to the Present	Anushay Malik	We 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	AQ 3005, Burnaby
HIST 299 D100	Problems in History		TBA	Location: TBA

300 Level Courses

Course	Title	Instructor	Day/Time	Location
HIST 300 D100	Historiography	Jennifer Spear	Tu 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	AQ 4115, Burnaby
HIST 325 D100	History of Aboriginal Peoples of North America to 1850	Nicholas May	Mo 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	WMC 3533, Burnaby
HIST 336 D100	Ideas and Society in Early Modern Europe	Hilmar Pabel	Tu 11:30 AM – 2:20 PM	WMC 3517, Burnaby
HIST 338 OL01	World War II	Lauren Rossi	TBA	Location: TBA
HIST 348 D100	A History of Twentieth Century South Africa	Sarah Walshaw	Tu 8:30 AM – 11:20 AM	AQ 4120, Burnaby
HIST 352 D100	Religion and Politics in Modern Iran	AR Rezamand	Th 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	AQ 5039, Burnaby
HIST 358 D100	Development, Aid and Difference in Historical Perspective	Anushay Malik	Mo 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	WMC 2220, Burnaby
HIST 373 D100	Conquest in North America, 1500-1900	Joseph Taylor	Tu 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 377 D100	Environmental History	Christina Adcock	Mo 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 390 D100	Studies in History I (The Bomb: A Cultural History)	Roxanne Panchasi	Mo 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	WMC 3535, Burnaby

400 Level Courses

Course	Title	Instructor	Day/Time	Location
HIST 400 D100	Methodology	Jeremy Brown	Fr 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM	TASC2 7201, Burnaby
HIST 401 D100	Problems in Modern German History (The Holocaust)	Lauren Rossi	Mo 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM	AQ 5036, Burnaby
HIST 424 D100	Problems in the Cultural History of Canada (Indigenous-Newcomer Relations)	Nicholas May	Tu 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	AQ 6229, Burnaby
HIST 425W D100	Gender and History	Willeen Keough	Tu 11:30 AM – 2:20 PM	AQ 6229, Burnaby
HIST 427 D100	Topics in Indigenous Histories (Indigenous & Christianity)	Nicholas May	Th 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	AQ 5035, Burnaby
HIST 438W D100	Problems in the History of the British Empire (India Hindu-Muslim Relations)	Bidisha Ray	We 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 441 D100	Women, Property, and the Law in the Mediterranean	Evdoxios Doxiadis	We 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	HCC 1325, Vancouver
HIST 445 D100	Problems in Modern Italian History (la dolce vita)	Paul Garfinkel	Th 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	BLU 10655, Burnaby
HIST 456 D100	The Late Ottoman Empire: State, Culture and Social Transformation, 1750-1923	Thomas Kuehn	We 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM	WMC 2531, Burnaby
HIST 463W D100	Rebellion and Revolution: Topics in the Theory and Practice of Resistance (Peaceful & Violent Resistance)	Stevan Bozanich	We 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM	REMOTE LEARNING, Burnaby
HIST 467 D100	Modern Egypt	Paul Sedra	Fr 8:30 AM – 12:20 PM	AQ 4115, Burnaby
HIST 469 D100	Islamic Social and Intellectual History	AR Rezamand	Fr 12:30 PM – 4:20 PM	AQ 5036, Burnaby
HIST 486 D100	Studies in History II (History of Vancouver)	Nicolas Kenny	Mo 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM	HCC 2205, Vancouver
HIST 489 D100	Studies in History		TBA	Location: TBA
HIST 490 D100	Studies in History		TBA	Location: TBA
HIST 498 D100	Honours Essay

Legend

HC = Harbour Centre
SUR = Surrey
DE = Distance Ed
SI = Sessional Instructor TBA
F = French language course
STT = Special Temporary Topics course
TBD = to be determined

TBA = Course is being delivered asynchronously

OL = New online format

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Engaging the World

Department of History