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Ontario High School Curriculum
Minimum admission range of low 70s.
Competitive admission range of low 80s.
English at 60%.
Laurier’s language of instruction is English. If your first language is not English, you must provide evidence of your English proficiency to our Recruitment and Admissions office.
You can:
Submit a minimum score on an accepted test of English proficiency (listed below); or
Complete the Laurier English and Academic Foundation (LEAF) program.
If you have studied in an English-language school system on a full-time basis for a minimum of three years, you may request an exemption.
Accepted Tests of English Proficiency
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Internet-based testing (TOEFL iBT): an overall score of 83 or higher with a minimum score of 20 in each component.
Paper-based testing: 560 overall.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS), An academic score of 6.5 or higher with a minimum of 6.0 in each band.
Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL), 70 overall; 60 in each band.
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE), 59 overall or higher.
Cambridge Assessment English (CAE), Overall score of 176.
Duolingo English Test, Minimum score of 115.
Laurier’s History program is designed with multiple opportunities for students to enhance their acquirement of historic knowledge and skills through a rigorous curriculum which includes traditional classroom learning through lectures and seminar discussions and hands-on training to be a historian.
Go behind the scenes of museums and historic sites in Brantford, Brant County, Six Nations of the Grand River, Hamilton, and Toronto to learn how historic artefacts and documents are collected, preserved, and displayed.
Get certified to collect oral history interviews and tell the stories of your ancestors and local community members.
Discover and analyze historic records and objects in archives, libraries, and private collections.
Communicate the results of your research and learning in essays, podcasts, local and digital exhibits, theatre and film, blogs, conference presentations, and reports
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Course Offerings
FIRST YEAR
The underlying idea in a first-year courses is to introduce you to the persons, events, ideas and forces which have shaped history and which should form part of the cultural literacy of every educated person.
Discover the transnational spread of trade and philosophy in HI121: Ancient History in a Global Context and the origins of the War on Terror in HI199: The Roots of Now: Modern World History. In HI133: History and Popular Culture in the Modern World, study the development and meaning of British pub culture or Rastafarian music. While trying to solve five historic mysteries, students are exposed to historic evidence and research methods in HI124: History Detectives.
SECOND YEAR
By second year, the majority of courses focus on the history of one region or population group, such as the rise of Nazism in HI257: Germany’s Descent into Catastrophe or the consequences of colonialism in HI292: Canada to Confederation.
Courses may also focus on a specific topic such as HI256: History of Human Rights or the way history is told via cinema in HI260: History on Film.
These courses are each designed to advance your foundational knowledge of history and give them opportunities to practice historic analysis, writing and research.
THIRD YEAR
Third-year courses offer greater specialization and depth of topics, regions or eras. Learn about Jack the Ripper in HI393: Crime, Sex, and Scandal in 19th-Century Britain or the origins of Karate in HI393: Popular Cultures of Contemporary East Asia.
In addition to pursuing primary source research, senior students also focus more on the craft of history and scholarly debates in the discipline.
FOURTH YEAR
The crowning experience of the honours History program is the fourth-year seminars. In these learner-centered courses, you take responsibility for preparing your weekly readings for class discussion and for researching your primary-research papers, thereby empowering yourself through independent study.
You'll hone your skills of oral and written expression by sharing your ideas and writing with other seminar participants.
The instructors guide you in your exploration of historiography and in your research in primary documents. These are skills which will prove extremely useful to you well beyond the classroom setting.
The topic of the seminar rotates based on faculty availability. Recent seminars included:
Indigenous North America
Chinese Revolutions
War and Memory
British Imperialism and Culture
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