HIS at University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. HIS262H1Canada: A Short History of Here
  2. HIS386H1Fascism
• 1. HIS295Y1History of Africa
  2. AFR150Y1Africa: A Critical Introduction
  3. AFR250Y1Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
  4. AFR351Y1African Systems of Thought
  5. HIS297Y1History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
  6. HIS383Y1Women in African History
• 1. HIS297Y1History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
  2. AFR150Y1Africa: A Critical Introduction
  3. AFR250Y1Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
• 1. HIS103Y1Strategy and Statecraft: War, Diplomacy, and the Development of the International System, 1600–1945
  2. EUR200Y1Europe: Nation-State to Supranational Union
  3. HIS109Y1The Development of European Civilization, 1350-1945

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate HIS coursework.

• HIS383Y1Women in African Historyopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• HIS352H1A History of Women in Pre-colonial East Africaopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• HIS386H1Fascismopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• DHU236H1Virtual Worlds: Introduction to Spatial Digital Humanitiesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIS317H120th Century Germanyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIS330H1Germany from Frederick the Great to the First World Waropens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate HIS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 72 HIS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 41 more HIS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HIS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at HIS394H1

  1. HIS481H1Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Africa
  2. HIS394H120th and 21st Century African Icons: Media and Biography

• 3 courses deep, ending at HIS393H1

  1. DHU235H1Introduction to Digital Humanities
  2. DHU236H1Virtual Worlds: Introduction to Spatial Digital Humanities
  3. HIS393H1Digital History

• 3 courses deep, ending at HIS445H1

  1. EUR200Y1Europe: Nation-State to Supranational Union
  2. HIS317H120th Century Germany
  3. HIS445H1Nationalism

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIS305H1

  1. HIS230H1Indigenous and Early Colonial Caribbean History
  2. HIS305H1Death and Life in Plantation America

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HIS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HIS yet.

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Department events

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