Introduction to Canadian Studies
The development of Canadian culture from the beginning of colonization to the present. An interdisciplinary examination of cultural expressions drawn from Canadian art, literature and music, as well as selected issues in Canadian social and cultural history.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Culture and Power in Canada
Interdisciplinary examination of Canadian culture and society employing a variety of methods and perspectives, including those of cultural studies. Cultural theory and approaches to critical analysis in the arts and social sciences. Topics may include cultural institutions; issues of race, class and gender; Canadian-American relations; critical examination of Canadian myths.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: CANA 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Landscape and Cultural Memory
(also offered as GEOG 3F96 and MLLC 3F96)
Field course in Quebec. Readings in literature and geography, exploring the links and reciprocal influences between disciplines. Authors studied may include Louis Hémon, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Roger Lemelin.
Restriction: consult the Director regarding permission to register.
Prerequisite: CANA 2F91, FREN 2F03 or permission of the instructor.
Note: field work for two weeks in May. Students are expected to pay their own expenses. Course given in English. French majors complete written assignments and exams in French. CANA students may count this as either Cultural Studies I or II and as a credit related to French Canada.
Selected Interdisciplinary Studies
Applications of principles of inter-disciplinary studies and techniques to the study of Canada.
Politics in Québec
(also offered as POLI 3P16)
Québec's political, social and economic evolution since 1945. Topics include old and new varieties of nationalism, the Quiet Revolution, the changing roles of church and state, the decline of the anglophone minority and Québec's impact on Canadian Federalism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: CANA 2F91 or one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Canadian Cultural Studies I
Selected topics in Canadian cultural studies emphasizing methods and issues with a Humanities orientation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: CANA 2F91 or permission of the instructor.
2002-2003: Myth, Memory and Meaning in Canadian Cultural History
(also offered as HIST 3V91)
Examination of how different groups and different individuals have remembered, commemorated and assigned meanings to the past, focusing primarily on the post-Confederation period.
Prerequisite: CANA 2F91 or two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Canadian Cultural Studies II
Selected topics in Canadian cultural studies with an emphasis on methods and issues with a Social Science orientation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: CANA 2F91 or permission of the instructor.
Directed Reading
Directed individual or group reading and written work in an area of Canadian Studies.
Restriction: open to CANA majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Director.
Note: students are responsible for arranging their course with a supervising faculty member and must submit a written proposal, signed by the supervisor, to the Director for approval before registration. Students will also be required to participate in staging an annual Canadian Studies colloquium.
Honours Thesis/Project
Independent interdisciplinary study under the guidance of a faculty adviser.
Restriction: open to CANA majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Director.
Note: students are responsible for making arrangements with a supervising faculty member and must submit a written proposal by September 15. Thesis/project, to be evaluated by a faculty committee representing the disciplinary areas to which the thesis/project is related.