Courses

Places issues and problems of current relevance such as disease, terrorism, drugs, or ethnic conflict in historical perspective. Each section will explore a single theme. Check with department for course offerings.

Survey of global history from the 15th to the 20th century, a transformative period marked by profound social, political, economic and environmental changes.

The political, economic, social, cultural, and human interactions between Asia and the world, inter-Asian relations, Asian diaspora, colonialism, war and the social consequences of conflict, decolonization, industrial growth, and developing world issues.

The impact humans have had on the environment, and the ways in which the physical environment has shaped human history: climate, agriculture, energy use, and urbanization. Credit will only be granted for one of HIST_V 207 or HIST_V 106. Equivalency: HIST_V 106

An introduction to major turning points in Canadian history. Exploration of the social, political, cultural, and environmental transformations/revolutions that have shaped Canada from early European colonialism to the twenty-first century.

History of western medicine, from the Ancient World to the Enlightenment, with a focus on social and cultural ideas surrounding the body, health, and disease, and the development of medical institutions.

Indigenous peoples from pre-contact to the present in Canada and the U.S. Topics may include colonial frontiers, disease, fur trade, government policies, environment, gender, religion, oral narratives, activism, urbanization, and identity.

History of childhood and adolescence. Topics include education, work and play, associated ideologies, children's material and popular culture, and differences of identity based on region, class, race, and gender. Credit will only be granted for one of HIST_V 443 or HIST_V 309. Equivalency: HIST_V 443.

Includes immigration policy; the welfare state; Aboriginal peoples; the Cold War; resource economies and national politics; continentalism and free trade; constitutional crises; conflicting nationalisms; and new social movements. Credit will only be granted for one of HIST_V 326 or HIST_V 426.

Selected topics in international relations, including trade, migration, diplomacy, war, colonialism and post- colonialism.

U.S. emergence as an industrial powerhouse and, eventually, a global superpower; responses to industrial society, meaning of modern times, economic upheaval and social change, U.S.'s role as a world power, and politics of race, ethnicity, and gender.

Frontier ideologies in relation to race, gender, class, sexuality. Place-making and historical narrative in and about the western part of the United States.

Precursors and consequences of the war; military, political, cultural, social, and economic histories of how the war shaped and reflected its global context. Themes include totalitarianism, genocide, and imperialism and decolonization. Credit will be granted for only one of HIST_V 375 or HIST_V 406. Equivalency: HIST_V 406.

Changing ideas about humanity and rights. Considers the relationship between human rights and the nation-state, imperialism, and capitalism. Assesses the efforts to end large-scale human rights violations and the role of the United Nations.

Major themes in global environmental history and historiography since 1500, with a particular focus on the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries.

Modelling energy in a high performance building. Introduction to indoor space requirements. Heat and mass transfer through building envelopes. Climate. Fenestration, daylighting, solar energy. Introduction to major energy models. Modelling project.

Students will analyze the performance and design data of an existing building and propose design changes that will improve performance, considering the real priorities of the client, a building owner or operator.

Experimental design, methods of survey research, nutritional epidemiology, clinical research, and laboratory animal research. Issues such as animal models, ethics in animal and human research, statistical methods, and preparation of written reports and manuscripts, etc., will be addressed. Required of all M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in Human Nutrition. [3-0].

In thiscourse, we will take time to regularly reflect on these interconnections in the context of historical and ongoing colonization. Restricted to students in the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics graduate program. [3-0-0]. Prerequisite: All of HUNU_V 540, HUNU_V 573, HUNU_V 575.

This course is part one in a series of three Nutrition Care courses required for students in the dietetics major. This course will consist of two 80-minute classes weekly, plus online learning that is complimentary to course content and is to be done outside of class time. Restricted to students in the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics graduate program. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: All of HUNU_V 500, HUNU_V 510, HUNU_V 550.

Introduction to Indigenous people's interpretation of landscape and worldview. Learning from knowledge keepers, the course covers culturally significant places, place names, ceremonies, berry picking, medicines, fishing, and hunting.

Introduction to working and professionalism in cross-cultural contexts, with a focus on Indigenous governments and the importance of organizational values, cultural practices and protocols, consensus-based decision-making, principles of engagement, conflict resolution and political dynamics.

Foundations of governance, with a focus on Indigenous governance in Canada. Topics include traditional governance, self-governance and natural resources governance.

Introduction to structure, diversity and development of trees and other plants, drawing from Indigenous and western knowledge systems.