All of the courses on the list below can be used to satisfy the cross-listed electives requirement for BHPC Master’s students, including courses outside the student’s home unit.
There may be eligible elective courses in participating BHPC programs that aren’t yet cross-listed here. Students who wish to count any as-yet unlisted courses toward their BHPC electives requirement should email the Program Co-ordinator with details of the course in question; eligible courses will be added to the list below. Courses from graduate units which aren’t part of BHPC may also be considered, provided those courses have a demonstrable connection to the study of book history.
Please note that at the time of posting, this information is provisional in the case of some units, and not yet available in the case of others (in which case the previous year’s offerings are still displayed). The inclusion of any given course in this list does not guarantee its availability to students outside the unit concerned.
Art History (2025–2026)
FAH1118H: The Medieval Treasury
FAH1224H: Renaissance in Miniature
FAH1870H: The Visual Arts in Canada in International Perspective: Ideas of Far North
FAH1462H: Photography and Scientific Representation in the Nineteenth Century
FAH2041H: Greek Vases at the Royal Ontario Museum
Classics (2025–2026)
GRK1000H: Advanced Studies in Greek Language
GRK1800H: Special Topics in Greek Literature (Language-Intensive)
LAT1000H: Advanced Studies in Latin Language
LAT1800H: Special Topics in Latin Literature (Language-Intensive)
CLA5022H: Early Greek Political Thought
CLA5023H: The Rhetoric of Empire
CLA5023H: Palladas
CLA5028H: Theology in First-century Rome: Cicero and the Intellectual History of the Late Republic
Comparative Literature (2025–2026)
COL5122H: Text and Digital Media
COL5153HF: Lyric: Politics and Poetic Form
COL 5081HF: Benjamin’s Arcades Project
JCO5121HF: Classics and Theory Seminar: The Rhetoric of Empire
JFC5129H: Performative Autobiographical Acts
East Asian Studies (2025–2026)
EAS1152HF: Chinese Poetry I I
EAS1412H: Special Topics in Archaeology of Ancient China: Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
EAS1469HF: Militarized Aesthetics: War, Image, Asia
EAS1541HF: A Comparative History of Reading in East Asia
EAS1550HF: Hong Kong Literature
English (2025–2026)
ENG1100H: Dark Canada
ENG1200H: ‘The Toronto Black Lab:’ Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, Rinaldo Walcott, Canisia Lubrin
ENG2100H: Class Migration through Literacy in 20th-Century Literature
ENG5100H: Medieval Drama: Global Plays in Translation
ENG5200H: The Queer Renaissance: Queer Studies, Early Modern Texts
ENG5300H: Milton and Bunyan
ENG5400H: Romanticism and Technology
ENG5500H: Virginia Woolf’s Craft
ENG6552H: Law and Literature
French (2025–2026)
FRE1203H: Séminaire de littérature II: Périodes
FRE1204H: Séminaire de littérature III: Genres
FRE1312H: Émancipation et érudition : Christine de Pisan
FRE2035H: Autour de l’intime en France : les écrits contemporains des femmes
JFC5129H: Performative Autobiographical Acts: Personal and Political Testimonials
JFF1102H: Animages / Animots / Animotions
German (2025–2026)
GER1000H: German Studies Seminar: Culture, Theory, Text
GER1200H: Middle High German
GER1722H: Kafka
History (2025–2026)
HIS1005H: Reading Queer and Trans Histories of North America
HIS1017H: History and Social Media: Critical Histories for Big Publics
HIS1265H: Atrocities and Memory in Postwar Europe and North America
HIS1289H: The Cold War through Its Archives
HIS1031H: Images as History
HIS1040H: Maps in History: Power and Identity, Conflict and Imagination
HIS1215H Social Change in Medieval England 1154-1279
HIS1416H: Early Modern English Popular Culture
HIS1673H: Critical Historiography of Late Imperial and Modern China
HIS1783HF: Topics in History: Jews of the Premodern Islamic World
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2025–2026)
HPS1200H: Empire, Vision, and Racial Capitalism
HPS4040H: Computing and Information from Babbage to AI
HPS4105H: Vision and Machines: Material Cultures of the Visual
HPS4300H: The Historian’s Craft: Sources, Methods, and Approaches
Information (2025–2026)
INF1321H: Representing, Documenting, and Accessing the Cultural Record
INF1322H: Communities and Values
INF1323H: The Information Experience
INF1330H: Archives Concepts and Issues
INF1331H: Archival Arrangement and Description
INF1501H: Culture & Technology I
INF2108H: Digital Archives for Minoritized Material: Ethics and Praxis
INF2112H: Audio Cultures
INF2120H: Conservation and Preservation of Recorded Information
INF2122H: Digital Preservation and Curation
INF2132H: Ancient Books and Records in Special Collections
INF2145H: Cataloguing and the Creation of Bibliographic Data
INF2160H: Global Manuscript Traditions
INF2162H: Rare Books and Manuscripts
INF2172H: Readers’ Advisory: Reference Work and Resources
INF2228H: The Future of Things: Digitization and Remediation
INF2234H: Academic Librarianship
INF2241H: Critical Making: Information Studies, Social Values, and Physical Computing
INF2243H: Histories of Information Technologies
INF2250H: Copyright for Information Professionals
INF2320H: Remix Culture
INF2331H: The Future of the Book
INF2408H: Cold War History of Books, Librarianship, and Publishing
INF2510H: De/Colonizing Archives
INF3009H: Theory and History of Media Technology
INF3014H: Cultural Interpretive Methods for Media and Technology
MSL1350H: Museums and Their Publics
MSL2000H: Curatorial Practice
MSL2115H: Global Cultures and Museums
MSL2240H: The Photographic Record
MSL2326H: Artifact, Audience, Text: Writing in the Museum
MSL2330H: Interpretation and Meaning-Making in Cultural Institutions
MSL2331H: The Museum Exhibition: Histories, Practices, Genres
MSL2370H: Museums and Cultural Heritage: Context and Critical Issues
Italian Studies (2025–2026)
ITA1029H: History of Italian Religious Language
ITA1030H: Italian Lexicography: History and Methodologies
ITA1200H: Dante
ITA1540H: Renaissance Italian Theatre
ITA1560: Fakes, Forgeries, Authenticity, and the Making of Modernity
ITA1737H: Reading Black Italy: Decolonizing the Canon
ITA1728H: New Trends in the Italian Novel from 1957 to the Present
ITA1830: Editing 900: Leonardo Sciascia, His World, His Archive
Medieval Studies (2025–2026)
MST1104H: Latin Paleography I
MST1105H: Latin Paleography II
MST1107H: Latin Textual Criticism
MST 1117H: Medieval English Handwriting 1300–1500
MST1375H: Beowulf’s Afterlives
MST3123H: Medieval Medicine
MST3150H: Medieval French Epic
MST3159H: Classical Antiquity in Medieval French literature: Adaptations of Ovid
MST3237H: Monastic Rules and Customaries
MST3321H: Philosophy of Mind in the Middle Ages
MST3346H: Medieval Islamic Philosophy
MST3501H: Introduction to the Medieval Christian Liturgy
MST5003H: Topics in Medieval Literatures: ‘Beowulf’
Music (2025–2026)
MUS1000H: Introduction to Music Research
MUS1270H: Music and East Asian Modernity
MUS1271H: Music and Circulation
MUS1276H: Music and Material Culture
MUS3220H: Text and Music: Composing for Voices
JDM3619H: Digital Media Distribution
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations (2025–2026)
NMC1210H: Ancient Egyptian Historical Texts
NMC1314H: Law in Ancient Judaism
NMC1316H: Modern Hebrew Poetry
NMC1410H: Archaeology and Material Culture of Ancient Egypt II
NMC1425H: Mesopotamian Material Culture: Art versus Artifact
NMC1653: Ancient Ethiopic Inscriptions
NMC2002H: Hebrew Without Borders: The Contemporary Diasporic Hebrew Novel
NMC2056H: Reading in Qur’an and Tafsir
NMC2180H: Iranian Modernity
NMC2202H: Modern Persian Poetry
NMC2226H: Medieval Persian Historiography and Diplomatics
NMC2206H: Old Persian
NMC2311H: The Rise of the Ottomans
NMC2312H: The Ottoman Empire in its Classical Age
NMC2313H: History of the Late Ottoman Empire
NMC2331Y: Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatics
Religion (2025–2025)
RLG1004H: Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity Gateway Seminar
RLG2002H: Material and Sensory Cultures and Religious Practice
RLG2014H: Digital Religion: Mediation and Method
RLG2023H: Mystical Poetics
RLG2040H: Commentary and Practice
RLG3114H: Christianity and Judaism in a Colonial Context
RLG3144H: Isaiah and Post-Exilic Prophecy
RLG3200H: Politics of Bible Translation
RLG3243H: Synoptic Gospels
RLG3425H: Transnational Buddhism
RLG3621H: Modern Jewish Thought
RLG3725H: Tibetan Buddhist Canons
NMC2056H: Readings in Qu’ran and Tafsir
Slavic Languages & Literatures (2025–2026)
SLA1215H: Studies in Russian Literature and Criticism in the 18th Century
SLA1223H: Introduction to Russian Poetry and Poetics
SLA1226H: Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism
SLA1229H: Russian Literature Between Tradition and Modernity
Spanish & Portuguese (2025–2026)
SPA2160H: Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque
SPA2411H: Latin American Icons and the Sensory Work of Objects
SPA3000H: Directed Research in Hispanic Literatures
SPA3300Y: Hispanic Literature and Linguistics Research Forum