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 (2022–2023)
FAH1123H: Art of the Medieval Book
FAH1220H: Multi-Media Transmorphism: The Many Arts of the Netherlandish Renaissance
FAH1462H: Photography and Scientific Representation in the 19th Century
FAH1486H: Bloomsbury and Vorticism
FAH1935H: Contemporary Art Practices and the Modernist Archive
FAH3000H: Art of the Caribbean and its Diasporas
FAH1205H: Early Modern Intermediality
FAH1476H: Surrealism and Art
FAH1490H: Photography and the Occult
FAH1961H: Art and Activism
Classics (2022–2023)
GRK1000H: Advanced Greek Language (Prose Composition)
GRK1800H: Special Topics in Greek Literature (Language-Intensive)
LAT1000H: Advanced Latin Language (Prose Composition)
LAT1800H: Special Topics in Latin Literature (Language-Intenstive)
CLA5028H: Topics in Graeco-Roman History: Economics, Ethics and the Classics
CLA5023H: Topics in the Study of Roman Literature and Culture: Apuleius of Madauros
CLA5012SH: Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Intellectual Debate in the 5th Century BCE
CLA5021H: Topics in the Study of Greek and Hellenistic Literature and Culture: Writing Rome – in Greek
Comparative Literature (2022–2023)
COL5016H: Art and Politics: Bertolt Brecht, Robert Lepage
COL5018H: Gender, Agency, and Life Writing
COL5136H: Space, Place and Power
JFC5129H: Performative Autobiographical Acts: Painted and Photographic Representations of Self in Personal and Political Testimonials
JLA5082H: The Rhetoric of Photography
COL5086H: Literature, Culture and Contact in Medieval Iberia
COL5109H: Jean-Luc Nancy: Retreating the Aesthetic
COL5111H: Revenge, Resistance, Race and Law
COL 5122H: Text and Digital Media
COL5147H: Books at Risk
JCO5121H: Apuleius of Madauros
JFC1813H: Literature of Contact and Anthropological Thought 16th-18 Century
English (2022–2023)
ENG2012H: Life-Writing in Early Modern England
ENG2226H: Early Modern Manuscripts
ENG2506H: Shakespeare’s Theatrical (After) Lives
ENG3302H: Being There: Liveness and Presence ca. 1750-1830
ENG3338H: Satire and the Great Laughter Debate
ENG4211H: Romanticism and Translation
ENG4404H: Victorian Memory/Victorian Forgetting
ENG5021H: Black Forms: Critical Race Theory and Diasporic Literature
ENG5042H: Justice and Form in Contemporary Canadian Ecopoetry
ENG6560H: Visual Media and Human Rights Work
ENG6544H: Queer, Trans and Feminist Historiographies
ENG6552H: Law and Literature
ENG6818H: Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination
ENG6822H: Critical Theory and Science and Technology Studies
ENG8000H: Texts, Theories, and Archives
French (2022-2023)
FRE1204H: Genres: Vers une étude de quelques sous-genres autobiographiques: autobiographie, journal/carnet, mémoires, correspondances
JFC 5129H: Performative Autobiographical Acts: Personal and Political Testimonials
FRE2109H: Histoire des pratiques littéraires et culturelles des femmes au Québec (1830-1960)
FRE 2099H: Roman et document dans l’extrême contemporain
JFF 1102H: Animages / Animots / Animotions: Mediating Animals
German (2021–2022)
GER1000H: German Studies Seminar: Culture, Theory, Text
GER1200H F Introduction to Medieval Studies
GER1661H: Modernism in Context
GER1540H: Revolution, War, and Terror: The Representation of Suffering and the Psychology of Aesthetics
GER1050H: Methods in Yiddish
History (2022–2023)
HIS1013H: Intellectuals and Decolonization
HIS1205H: The Communist Experience in Central and Eastern Europe: Genres of Interpretation
HIS1268H: The Holocaust: History and Historiography
HIS1001H: Topics in History: The Fascist Challenges in Europe: 1918–1945
HIS1040H: Maps in History: Power and Identity, Conflict and Imagination
HIS1265H: Atrocities and Memory in Postwar Europe and North America
HIS1662H: Rethinking Modernity through Japan
HIS1802H: Slavery in North America
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2022–2023)
HPS1000H: Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
HPS3010H: Social Epistemology
HPS4011H: Cognitive Technologies: Philosophical Issues and Debates
HPS4020H: Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies (STS)
HPS4021H: Feminist Approaches to Science & Technology Studies
HPS4103H: The Technological Underground: New Methods in History of Technology
Information (2022-2023; 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
INF2103H: Recordkeeping Cultures
INF2120H: Conservation and Preservation of Recorded Information
INF2121H: Specialized Archives
INF2122H: Digital Preservation and Curation
INF2127H: Collections Development, Evaluation, and Management
INF2141H: Children’s Cultural Texts and Artifacts
INF2161H: History of Books & Publishing
INF2162H: Rare Books and Manuscripts
INF2172H: Readers’ Advisory: Reference Work and Resources
INF2174H: Histories of Records and Archives
INF2181H: Information Policy, Regulation, and Law
INF2225H: Digital Discourse
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
INF2302H: Special Topics in Information: Copyright for Information Professionals
INF2320H: Remix Culture
INF2331H: The Future of the Book
INF3009H: Theory and History of Media Technology
INF3014H: Cultural Interpretive Methods for Media
MSL1350H: Museums and Their Publics
MSL2301H: Special Topics in Museum Studies: Artifact, Audience, Text: Writing in the Museum
MSL2331H: Exhibitions, Interpretation, Communication
MSL2370H: Museums and Cultural Heritage: Context and Critical Issues
MSLxxxxH: Social Digital Memory
INF430H1: The Material and Information Cultures of Music
Italian Studies (2022–2023)
ITA1177H / ITA427H: The Italian Questione della Lingua
ITA1540H: Renaissance Italian Theatre
ITA1705H: Pirandello
ITA1535H: Topics in Italian Literature: Women Writers in Italy
ITA1535H: From Lombroso to the DDL Zan. Discourses of Gender and Sexuality in Italian Culture, 1870s – present day
Medieval Studies (2022–2023)
MST1023H: Early Medieval Latin and Greek Poetry
MST1104H: Latin Palaeography
MST1110H: Diplomatics and diplomatic editing
MST1384H: Exeter Book of Old English Verse
MST3347H: Late Antique and Early Medieval Philosophical Commentators
MST3603H: Society and Literary Texts in Medieval Spain
Music (2022–2023)
MUS1000H: Introduction to Music Research
MUS1006H: Public Music Scholarship
MUS1066H: Music and Racial/Ethnic Imagination
MUS1069H: Remix Music, from Analogue to Digital
MUS1235H: Topics in Music and the History of Medicine
MUS1245H: Orpheus
MUS1270H: Music and East Asian Modernity
MUS3610H: Music Entrepreneurship: Music & Cities
JDM3619H: Digital Media Distribution
Religion (2022–2023)
RLG3763H: Readings in Sanskrit Philosophy
RLG3610H / EMB5347HF: Wisdom in Second Temple Judaism
RLG3544H: Muslim Material Cultures
JPR2058H / JPR458H: Postsecular Political Thought: Religion, Radicalism, and the Limits of Liberalism
RLG2020H / RLG447H1F: Early Christianity, Ancient Judaism, Ancient “Magic”
RLG3704H: Readings in Sanskrit Literature
RLG3252H: Letter of James and Early Christian Wisdom
RLG3710H: Newar Religion
RLG***H: Islamic Origins: Sources, Debates, and Prospects
RLG3622H / RLG433H: Maimonides
NMC2055: Qu’ran and Its Interpretation
Spanish & Portuguese (2022–2023)
SPA 2404H: The Latin American Novel
SPA 2428H: Latin American Visual Cultures
SPA 2160H: Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque
SPA 2415H: Disability and Latin American Cultural Production