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 (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-18th Century
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 (2023–2024)
ENG1006H: Medieval Drama: York’s Plays and Records
ENG1012H: Writing the Self in Late Medieval England: Thomas Hoccleve and Margery Kempe
ENG2509H: Shakespeare and the Book
ENG3707H: Literature and Censorship, 1640-1860
ENG5115H: The Satanic Verses and the Public Life of Books
ENG5712H: Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty
ENG5802H: Global Protest Cultures
ENG6552H: Law and Literature
ENG6848H: Representing Vandalism
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 (2023–2024)
GER1000H: German Studies Seminar: Culture, Theory, Text
GER1050H: Methods in Yiddish
GER1200H: Middle High German
GER1540H: Revolutions
JGC1855H: Critical Theory
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 (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 (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 (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 (2023–2024)
MST 1023H: Early Medieval Latin and Greek Poetry
MST 1104H: Latin Palaeography I
MST 1105H: Latin Palaeography II
MST 1117H: Medieval English Handwriting 1300-1500
MST 3123H: Medieval Medicine
MST 3237H: Through the Lens of Monastic Rules and Customaries
MST 3501H: Introduction to the Medieval Western Christian Liturgy
MST3604H: Medieval Culinary Cultures
MST 5004H: Topics on Medieval Manuscripts and Textual Cultures: The Medieval Circulation of a Latin Novel
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
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations (2023–2024)
NMC2003H: Topics in Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations: Directed Research in Islamicate Codicology
NMC2204Y: Avestan
NMC2180H: Iranian Modernity
NMC2331Y: Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatics
Religion (2022–2023)
RLG3763H: Readings in Sanskrit Philosophy
RLG3610H / EMB5347H: Wisdom in Second Temple Judaism
RLG3544H: Muslim Material Cultures
JPR2058H / JPR458H: Postsecular Political Thought: Religion, Radicalism, and the Limits of Liberalism
RLG2020H / RLG447H: 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
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