MA courses

Course enrolment

Step 1: Preregistration

Students in the Tri-U History program can take any History course at our participating institutions. To ensure fair access, students at all institutions must preregister to reserve a space in the course.

Preregistration occurs twice a year. Once in July for Fall courses, and once in November for Winter offerings.

Students should check their emails for more information about the process in May/June and October. Course spaces are allotted on a first come, first serve basis, so be sure to logon to the survey as soon as possible when it becomes live.

Step 2: Registration

After you preregister and receive confirmation that your space has been reserved, you must enroll in your courses through your home institution. Please allow 24 hours between preregistering and enrolling to ensure the system has updated.

Registration for University of Guelph students
  • Courses at Guelph: administrators will send a pre-signed course waiver for you to complete and submit back to the academic administrative assistant.
  • Courses at Waterloo or Laurier: administrators will send a pre-signed Ontario Visiting Graduate Student (OVGS) form for you to complete and submit back to academic administrative assistant.
  • MA students at Guelph must also register for UNIV*7510 (full-time registration) or UNIV*7520 (part-time registration) via WebAdvisor.

Registration for University of Waterloo students
  • Courses at Waterloo: Administrators will email a permission number which you must use to enroll in the course in Quest. This will occur after open enrolment on Quest begins.
  • Courses at Guelph or Laurier: complete and submit the Ontario Visiting Graduate Student (OVGS) form to the Administrative Manager as soon as possible.

Registration for Wilfrid Laurier University students

Fall 2025 course offerings (tentative)

University of Guelph

Course Title
HIST*6000 Historiography 1
HIST*6300 Topics in Modern European History
HIST*6500

Topics in Global History

University of Waterloo

Course Title
HIST 605 Global Governance in Historical Perspective - Section 1
HIST 605 Global Governance in Historical Perspective - Section 2
HIST 624

Environment and Climate History, Premodern
HIST 691

Topic TBD

Wilfrid Laurier University

Courses can be taken as a one-off, but are also prerequisites for their Winter research counterpart.

Course Title
HI639A Reading Seminar: On Race and Gender in the United States 1608-1877
HI656S

Reading Seminar: Ancient Sexualities

Winter 2026 course offerings (tentative)

University of Guelph

Course Title
HIST*6010 Research Methods in History
HIST*6290 Topics in North American History
HIST*6380 Topics in Early Modern European History

University of Waterloo

Course Title
HIST 610 War and Society in the Twentieth Century
HIST 612 Global Indigenous Rights
HIST 620 Early Modern History 1

Wilfrid Laurier University

Note: All courses at Laurier have prerequisites from Fall 2025

Course Title
HI639B Research Seminar: Race and Gender in the United States 1608-1877
HI657M Research Seminar on Ancient Sexualities

Past course offerings

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