Department of History

Welcome to the Department of History

Department of History

Royal Military College of Canada

PO Box 17000, Station Forces,

Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 7B4

Tel: 613-541-6000 extension 6607

Fax: 613-541-6056

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Message from Dr. Roch Legault, Head of the Department

Welcome to the History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada.

We invite you to come and meet our distinguished faculty, made up of both civilians and CF members. These men and women from eclectic educational backgrounds work closely with their students, who include RMC officer cadets and Canadian Forces members from across Canada. The members of our department strive for excellence on the national and international level in their teaching and research. They form the core of the department and they are joined by other temporary contributors, together creating an unparalleled forum for the exchange of ideas between Canadian society and the country’s defence community.

The History Department has the mission, unique in Canada, of providing a university level liberal éducation— to officer cadets as one of the essential elements of their military professional development. To this end, the program is designed to meet the needs of students who are specializing in history or taking a general history program. In addition, it offers core courses for all of the college’s officer cadets. 

The department is also one of the main pillars of the continuing education program, the multidisciplinary program in Military and Strategic Studies, and the multidisciplinary graduate program in War Studies.

The History Department has four primary teaching goals:

  1. to teach the essential elements of historical analysis so that students acquire the historical background required to understand the fundamental issues of our time;
  2. to provide survey and specialist courses that cover Canadian history, military history, Canadian military history, the history of international relations and the history of the United States, as well as several other courses on more specialized themes and topics;
  3. to explain the different historiographic schools of thought and apply the different methods; and
  4. to develop students’ intellectual rigour so that they can present their thoughts in the form of sound arguments, both orally and in writing.

Sincerely,

Roch Legault