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 (2023–2024)
FAH1127H: Early Medieval Art
FAH1205H: Early Modern Intermediality
FAH1210H: Chinese Painting: Objects, Theories, Methods
FAH1220H: Multi-Media Transmorphism: The Many Arts of the Netherlandish Renaissance
FAH1410H: Artwriting
FAH1416H: Art History and the Digital
FAH1960H: Indigenous Art, Land, and Material Relations in the Great Lakes
FAH2041H: Greek Vases at the Royal Ontario Museum
FAH2060H: Artisans and Artists in the Ancient World
Classics (2023–2024)
GRK1000H: Advanced Greek Language
GRK1800H: Special Topics in Greek Literature (Language-Intensive)
LAT1000H: Advanced Latin Language
LAT1800H: Special Topics in Latin Literature (Language-Intensive)
CLA5004H: Studies in Greek Poetry: Women’s Writing in the Classical Tradition
CLA5018H: Roman Imperialism
CLA5021H: Classics and Translation
CLA5028H: Economics, Ethics and the Classics
Comparative Literature (2024–2025)
COL5018H: Gender, Life-Writing, and Agency
COL5086H: Literature, Culture and Contact in Medieval Iberia
COL5100H: The Late Barthes: The Neutral, Mourning, and Photography
COL5122H: Text and Digital Media
COL5124H: Public Reading
COL5136H: Space, Place and Power
JFC5129H: Performative Autobiographical Acts: Personal and Political Testimonials
East Asian Studies (2023–2024)
EAS1530H: Sound Matters
EAS1496H: History of the Chinese Book
EAS1411H: Art and Archaeology of Early China
EAS1412H: Special Topics in Archaeology of Ancient China: Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
English (2024–2025)
ENG1101H Cultural Memory/Cultural Organizing
ENG3100H Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty
ENG4400H Modern South Asia in Literature and Media
ENG5100H Digital Humanities Practicum: Records of Early English Drama, 1325–1642
ENG5102H Reception of the Classics in Middle English Literature
ENG5103H Writing the Self in Late Medieval England: Thomas Hoccleve and Margery Kempe
ENG5203H Shakespeare’s Theatrical (After)Lives
ENG5300H Being There: Liveness and Presence, 1750–1830
ENG5401H Aesthetics and Ethics: The Late Victorians
ENG5501H Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination
ENG5502H Against the Law: Writing and Reading Male Homosexuality in Post-War England
ENG6552H Law and Literature
ENG7105H Destroying the City: Vandalism Past & Present
French (2023–2024)
FRE1203H: Séminaire de littérature II: Périodes
FRE1204H: Séminaire de littérature III: Genres
FRE2099H: Roman et document dans l’extrême contemporain
FRE2105H: Écriture du moi : de la représentation textuelle à la représentation visuelle du sujet écrivant
FRE2109H: Histoire des pratiques littéraires et culturelles des femmes au Québec (1830-1960)
FRE2202H: Littérature et presse au Québec (XXe-XXIe siècles)
JFC1813H: Literature of Contact and Anthropological Thought, 16th-18th Century
JFC5105H: Collections of Knowledge: Encyclopedism and Travel Literature in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)
JFC5129H: Performative Autobiographical Acts: Personal and Political Testimonials
JFF1102H: Animages / Animots / Animotions: Mediating Animals
German (2024–2025)
GER1000H: German Studies Seminar: Culture, Theory, Text
GER1050H: Methods in Yiddish
GER1661H: Modernism in Context
History (2023–2024)
HIS1001H: Topics in History: Jews of the Premodern Islamic World
HIS1012H: Indigenous and Decolonial Science and Technology Studies
HIS1015H: Oral History Theory and Practice
HIS1017H: History and Social Media: Critical Histories for Big Publics
HIS1031H: Images as History: photography, historical method, and conceptualizing visuality
HIS1032H: Modernity and Its Visual Cultures
HIS1289H: The Cold War through Its Archives
HIS1416H: Early Modern English Popular Culture
HIS1662H: Rethinking Modernity through Japan
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2024–2025)
HPS3010H: Social Epistemology
HPS4011H: Cognitive Technologies: Philosophical Issues and Debates
HPS4020H: Postcolonialism and the Global Turn in Science & Technology Studies
HPS4103H: The Technological Underground: New Methods in History of Technology
HPS4110H: Medicine, Science, and Mobility in the Mediterranean World
Information (2023–2024; Master of Information and Master of Museum Studies programs)
INF1321H: Representing, Documenting, and Accessing the Cultural Record
INF1322H: Communities and Values
INF1323H: The Information Experience
INF1330H: Archives Concepts and Issues
INF1501H: Culture & Technology I
INF2120H: Conservation and Preservation of Recorded Information
INF2121H: Specialized Archives
INF2122H: Digital Preservation and Curation
INF2123H: Black Studies and the Archive
INF2127H: Collections Development, Evaluation, and Management
INF2159H: Analytic and Historical Bibliography
INF2160H: Global Manuscript Traditions
INF2162H: Rare Books and Manuscripts
INF2172H: Readers’ Advisory: Reference Work and Resources
INF2174H: Histories of Records and Archives
INF2181H: Information Policy, Regulation, and Law
INF2228H: The Future of Things: Digitization and Remediation
INF2234H: Academic Librarianship
INF2240H: Political Economy and Cultural Studies of Information
INF2241H: Critical Making: Information Studies, Social Values, and Physical Computing
INF2243H: Critical Histories of Information and Communication Technologies
INF2320H: Remix Culture
INF2331H: The Future of the Book
INF2408H: Cold War History of Books, Librarianship, and Publishing
INF2409H: Comparative Information Traditions: Islamic Civilization
INF3009H: Theory and History of Media Technology
INF3014H: Cultural Interpretive Methods for Media
MSL2326H: Artifact, Audience, Text: Writing in the Museum
MSL2331H: The Museum Exhibition: Histories, Practices, Genres
MSL2370H: Museums and Cultural Heritage: Context and Critical Issues
Italian Studies (2023–2024)
ITA1200H: Dante
ITA1553H: Renaissance Crossroads: Tales of Exchange in Pre-modern Italy
ITA1775H: Italian Modernism
ITA1830: Editing 900: Leonardo Sciascia, His World, His Archive
ITA2041H: Directed Research Topic [M. Zaccarello on Textual Scholarship]
Medieval Studies (2024–2025)
MST1104H: Latin Paleography I
MST1105H: Latin Paleography II
MST1107H: Latin Textual Criticism
MST1110H: Diplomatics and Diplomatic Editing
MST 1117H: Medieval English Handwriting 1300–1500
MST1388H: The Junius Manuscript: Old Testament Narratives
MST3123H: Medieval Medicine
MST3135H: Digital Old English
MST3501H: Introduction to the Medieval Western Christian Liturgy
MST3603H: Society and Literature in Medieval Spain
Music (2023–2024)
MUS1000H: Introduction to Music Research
MUS3610H: Music Entrepreneurship: Music & Cities
MUS3630H: Interactive Music and Sound for Video Games
MST3501H: Introduction to the Medieval Western Christian Liturgy
JDM3619H: Digital Media Distribution
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations (2023–2024)
NMC2003H: Topics in Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations: Directed Research in Islamicate Codicology
NMC2056H: Readings in Qu’ran and Tafsir
NMC2129H: Islamicate Codicology
NMC2204Y: Avestan
NMC2180H: Iranian Modernity
NMC2331Y: Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatics
Religion (2023–2024)
RLG1004H: Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity Gateway Seminar
RLG3200H: Politics of Bible Translation
RLG3228H: Social History of the Jesus Movement
RLG3290H: Words and Worship
RLG3763H: Readings in Sanskrit Philosophy
JPR2058H / JPR458H: Postsecular Political Thought: Religion, Radicalism, and the Limits of Liberalism
NMC2056H: Readings in Qu’ran and Tafsir
Slavic Languages & Literatures (2023–2024)
SLA1039H: Kyiv-Kiev-Kijow: A City and the Text
SLA 1223H: Introduction to Russian Poetry and Poetics
JLV5134H: Theories of the Novel
Spanish & Portuguese (2023–2024)
SPA2152H: Cervantes’ Don Quixote
MST3604H: Medieval Culinary Cultures