Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - History

Historical study explains the past to the present and illuminates the present through the past.  The History curriculum offers students opportunities to discover, understand, and assess past time and change over time.  Historical study develops strong writing skills and critical analysis.  As well, it provides training in skills of intellectual enquiry and judgment to prepare for students’ future lives.  In addition, the curriculum prepares graduates who will become professional historians. 

What is unique about this program at the U of M?
The Department of History is deeply committed to teaching excellence, and members have received Faculty and University teaching awards. The Department has a strong record of research and scholarship in all areas and one of its members is a Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History. The Department sponsors interdisciplinary research clusters in globalization and cosmopolitanism, power and resistance in Latin America, Jewish studies, south Asian and African post-colonial studies, the history of the body, and law and society. The holder of the University's Jarislowsky Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa is a member of the department. The department has active graduate and undergraduate associations.  

The faculty includes specialists in virtually every type of historical study: intellectual, cultural, political, economic and business, Aboriginal, women's, diplomatic, global, comparative, and Third World history as well as archival studies.