History Department

Welcome to Parkside’s History Department where “the past is the future”.
We offer a staff who are History Specialists well versed in their areas of expertise.

Some of the main goals of the department are:
• To develop the knowledge and values the students need to become responsible, active and informed Canadian citizens in the twenty-first century
• To develop practical skills, such as critical-thinking research and communication skills, some of which are particular to a given subject in Canadian and World Studies and some of which are common to all subjects in the discipline

The history programme offers students a variety of history courses including:
• CHC 2D/P/L: Canadian History since WWI [compulsory course for all students]
• CHV 2O: Civics [compulsory half credit course coupled with half credit Careers course]
• CHW 3M1: World History to the 16th century [ancient history of Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, Islamic Middle East, Africa, the Americas and the Middle Ages]
• CHA 3U1: American History [from the time before European Exploration to the 20th century]
• CHI 4U1: Canada: History, Identity and Culture [from the time before European Exploration to the 20th century]
• CHY 4U1: World History: the West and the World [western European history from 1500 to the 20th century]
• CIA 4U1: Analysing Current Economic Issues [investigating the nature of competitive global economy through micro and macro economics]