Last updated: March 20, 2003 @ 06:53PM

Canadian Studies

Director
Jane M. Koustas, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
TBA (as of July 1, 2002)

Assistant Professor
Donald Wright (History)

General Information
Administrative Assistant
Fran Meffe

905-688-5550, extension 4029
Mackenzie Chown F242
http://www.brocku.ca/canstudies/

The Centre for Canadian Studies offers an opportunity to study Canadian culture and society from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with co-operating faculty from Communications, Popular Culture and Film, Economics, English Language and Literature, Fine Arts, Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Geography, History, Political Science and Sociology.

Students take required interdisciplinary Canadian Studies courses along with a number of Canada-centred courses offered by other departments. Emphasis is placed upon the unique nature of the Canadian experience and upon the value and practice of combining disciplinary approaches in the study of culture and society.

The Canadian Studies core courses offered in years 1, 2 and 3 are designed to introduce students to interdisciplinary studies in a progressive manner. The year 1 course is taught by one instructor and examines the development of Canadian culture from the perspectives of disciplines within the Humanities. Year 2 and 3 courses are interdisciplinary courses which combine humanities and social science perspectives on a particular topic or issue related to the study and understanding of Canada.

The Centre for Canadian Studies offers combined major programs and a Minor leading to a BA (honours or pass). Canadian Studies core courses may also be taken as electives by students in other degree programs. Canadian Studies may be combined with any other discipline or program in the Humanities or Social Sciences which offers a combined major program.

Program Notes
  1. CANA students must take one credit in FREN (required in some combined major programs) or one credit related to French Canada as part of their degree program. Eligible courses appear with an asterisk (*) in the list of approved Canadian Studies courses.
  2. Students in a combined major program are designated "Humanities" or "Social Science" students according to the designation of the co-major discipline. Humanities students must fulfil the language requirement of the co-major discipline in which they are working.
  3. CANA 1F91 will satisfy the Humanities context requirement.
  4. Humanities students must take POLI 1F90 as their Social Science context elective in year 1 and POLI 2F12 in year 2. Social Science students must take one credit from HIST 2P01, 2P02, 2P97, 2Q90 as part of their program.
  5. It is strongly recommended that all CANA students complete one course in Canadian history, one course in Canadian politics, one course in Canadian literature and one Canadian-related DART, FILM, or VISA course as part of their combined major program of study.
  6. To encourage interdisciplinary study, Canadian Studies credits must be chosen from approved courses outside the student's co-major.
  7. Each student should meet with the Director and the Chair or Director of the co-major discipline at the beginning of the second year of study, to ensure that his or her choice of courses meets the criteria for the combined major degree.
  8. For 2002-2003, CANA majors are required to take CANA 3V91 to satisfy the one-half credit in Canadian Cultural Studies I and CANA 3P16 to satisfy the one-half credit in Canadian Cultural Studies II.
  9. Students contemplating a thesis or project must consult the Director at the end of year 3.
  10. In all 20 credit degree programs, at least 12 credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, six of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above and of these, three must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above. In all 15 credit degree programs, at least seven credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, three of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above.

Honours Program

Year 1
·   CANA 1F91
·   one credit from the co-major discipline
·   one Social Science (see program note 4)
·   one Science context elective
·   one elective credit
Year 2
·   CANA 2F91
·   POLI 2F12 or one credit from HIST 2P01, 2P02, 2P97, 2Q90 (see program note 4)
·   two credits from the co-major discipline
·   one elective credit
Year 3
·   One-half credit from CANA 3V90-3V94
·   one-half credit from CANA 3V95-3V99 (see program note 8)
·   one credit numbered 2(alpha)90 level or above from the list of approved Canadian Studies courses
·   two credits from the co-major discipline
·   one elective credit (see program note 9)
Year 4
·   CANA 4F80 or 4F99
·   one credit numbered 3(alpha)90 level or above from the list of approved Canadian Studies courses
·   two credits from the co-major discipline
·   one elective credit

Pass Program

Satisfactory completion of the first three years of the honours program entitles a student to apply for a pass degree.

Minor in Canadian Studies

Students in other disciplines can obtain a minor in Canadian Studies within their degree program by completing the following courses:
·   CANA 1F91 and 2F91
·   two credits from the list of approved Canadian Studies credits numbered 2(alpha)90 or above

Approved Canadian Studies Courses Offered by Other Departments

Note: As many of the courses listed below have prerequisites, students should plan their programs in advance.

ABST 2M90-2M95
Aboriginal History

ABST 2M96-2M99
Aboriginal Culture

COMM 3P16
Mass Media
(also offered as PCUL 3P16 and SOCI 3P16)

COMM 4P17
Canadian Cultural and Communications Policy
(also offered as PCUL 4P17)

COMM 4P55
Advertising, Mass Media and Culture
(also offered as HIST 4P55 and PCUL 4P55)

DART 2F97
Canadian Drama

DART 2P91
Canadian Radio and Television Drama

ECON 2P09
Canadian Economic History

ECON 2P94
Canadian Economic Issues
(also offered as LABR 2P94)

ECON 2V60-2V69
Topics in Canadian Economic Policy

ECON 3P19
Regional Economics

ENGL 2P91
Canadian Literature to 1920

ENGL 2P92
Canadian Literature from 1920 to Present

ENGL 4V60-4V69
Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing

FILM 2F97
Canadian Cinema
(also offered as COMM 2F97)

FILM 2P21
Canadian Popular Culture
(also offered as COMM/ PCUL 2P21)

FILM 3P21
Canadian Television

*FREN 1F90
Intermediate French

*FREN 1P01
Introductory French I

*FREN 1P02
Introductory French II

*FREN 1P03
Introductory French III

*FREN 2F00
Grammar and Composition

*FREN 3P73
French Canadian Literature to 1939

*FREN 3P74
French Canadian Literature from 1939-1960

*FREN 4P75
French Canadian Literature after 1960

GEOG 2P03
Urban Geography

GEOG 2P06
Cultural and Historical Geography

GEOG 2P91
Geography of Canada

GEOG 3P74
Geography and Gender
(also offered as COMM/ WISE 3P74)

HIST 2P01
Pre-Confederation Canada

HIST 2P02
Post-Confederation Canada

HIST 2P97
Canada: Social Control or Social Reform

HIST 2Q90
Canada: A Nation Transformed

HIST 2Q95
Women in North America
(also offered as WISE 2Q95)

HIST 3P01
Canadian Prime Ministers, 1867 to the present

HIST 3P74
Canada: A Land of Immigrants

HIST 3P91
North America's First Nations

HIST 3P92
Aspects of Ontario History, 1784-1914

*HIST 3P98
French Canada

HIST 3Q95
Canadian Labour History
(also offered as LABR 3Q95)

ITAL 2P85
Italians in Canada and Italy-Canada Relations

LABR 2F00
Labour Law and Labour Unions

LABR 2P34
Trade Unions
(also offered as SOCI 2P34)

LING 4P50
Topics in Sociolinguistics

LING 4P60
Structure and Oral Narrative
(also offered as CHYS 4P60)

MUSI 2P53
History of Music in Canada

PEKN 4P50
Social History of Sport and Leisure in Canada

POLI 2F12
The Government and Politics of Canada

POLI 2F98
Canadian Public Administration
(also offered as COMM/ LABR 2F98)

POLI 2P72
Politics and Health

POLI 3P05
Canadian Political Thought

POLI 3P11
Local Government

POLI 3P13
The Politics of Labour
(also offered as LABR 3P13)

POLI 3P15
Politics in Ontario

*POLI 3P16
Politics in Québec
(also offered as CANA 3P16)

POLI 3P17
Politics and the Mass Media in Canada
(also offered as COMM/ PCUL 3P17)

POLI 3P18
Law and Politics

POLI 3P28
Canadian Foreign Policy

POLI 3P66
Environmental Policy, Law and Administration

POLI 4P14
Federalism in Canada

POLI 4P15
Canadian Political Economy
(also offered as LABR 4P15)

POLI 4P19
The Canadian Judicial Process

POLI 4P50
Machinery of Government

POLI 4P52
Managing the New Public Organization

POLI 4P54
Business-Government Relations
(also offered as LABR 4P54)

POLI 4V10-4V69
Issues in Canadian Politics

POLI 4V60-4V69
Selected Topics in Canadian Public Policy

SOCI 2P22
Education and Society

SOCI 2P32
The Sociology of Work
(also offered as LABR 2P32)

SOCI 2P62
The Criminal Justice System

SOCI 3P33
Law and Society

SOCI 3P36
Critical Issues in Contemporary Society

SOCI 3P46
Native Peoples and Canadian Society
(also offered as ABST 3P46)

SOCI 3P47
Race and Ethnicity

SOCI 3P51
Gender and Society
(also offered as WISE 3P51)

SOCI 4P33
Advanced Seminar in Law and Society

SOCI 4P41
Advanced Seminar in Social Policy

SOCI 4P70
Social Issues in the Community

VISA 2P50
Canadian Identities: From Nouvelle France to the Group of Seven

VISA 2P51
Themes in 20th-Century Canadian Art

WISE 2P86
Women in the Economy
(also offered as ECON/LABR/SOCI 2P86)

WISE 2P99
Canada in a Global Context

*Courses which may be used to fulfil the French/French Canadian requirement.