Major in History Courses at Kwantlen University College
Major in History without Specialization
1000 LEVEL
Students will be required to take at least six credits of second year History and at least twelve credits of lower levels History in total in order to achieve third year standing in the BA, Major in History.
HIST 1113 Canada to 1867
HIST 1114 Canada since 1867
HIST 1120 Europe 1900–1939
HIST 1121 Europe since 1939
HIST 1130 Twentieth Century World I: 1900–1945
HIST 1131 Twentieth Century World II
HIST 1145 American History 1607–1865
HIST 1146 American History 1865–1974
HIST 1150 Introduction to Traditional East Asia
HIST 1151 Introduction to Modern East Asia
HIST 1160 Introduction to South Asian History
HIST 1170 Introduction to African History
2000 LEVEL
HIST 2101 Europe in the Middle Ages
HIST 2102 Europe 1450–1789
HIST 2119 Europe 1789–1914
HIST 2300 World Civilizations
HIST 2301 The Ancient World
HIST 2304 Canadian-American Relations
HIST 2307 Twentieth Century Britain
HIST 2335 War in the Modern World
HIST 2350 Introduction to Modern China
HIST 2375 Japan under the Shoguns
3000 LEVEL
Students will need to take eighteen credits of third year History. Courses at the 3000 level require specific course prerequisites at the 1000 and 2000 levels.
HIST 3310 The Fibre of Society: Textiles and Global Development
HIST 3313 Order and Disorder: Canadian Social History
HIST 3320 The Balkans from 1543–1918
HIST 3327 Russia to 1917
HIST 3328 History of the Soviet Union
HIST 3330 Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century
HIST 3331 Twentieth Century Germany
HIST 3345 The American West
HIST 3350 China in the Twentieth Century
HIST 3360 British India, 1857–1947
HIST 3361 The Indian Subcontinent since 1947
HIST 3370 Modern Japan
HIST 3380 World War II in the Pacific
HIST 3390 Canada & World War One
HIST 3392 British Home Front during World War II
HIST 3397 Guerillas in the Mist: Terrorism in the Twentieth Century
4000 LEVEL
All students must take: HIST 4400 Applications of History. Students will need to take at least nine credits of fourth year History in addition to HIST 4400.
HIST 4407 Twentieth Century British Society and Culture
HIST 4430 The Holocaust in History
HIST 4435 Genocide in the Twentieth Century
HIST 4445 The US since 1945
HIST 4450 China & the West
HIST 4455 Sages and Statecraft in China
HIST 4460 Gandhi in History
HIST 4470 The Samurai
HIST 4480 The American Experience in Vietnam
HIST 4485 The Great Strategists
HIST 4490 History of British Columbia
HIST 4491 Quebec