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.
Women in the Economy
(also offered as ECON 2P86, LABR 2P86, SOCI 2P86 and WISE 2P86)
Women in the Canadian labour market. Topics include the allocation of time between the household and the labour market, gender segregation in the work place, how earnings are determined, causes of occupational and earning difference by gender, the role of investment in education and discrimination, recent developments in the labour market and their impact on women and men, selected policy issues.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 4.0 overall credits.
Culture and Power in Canada I: Cultural Communities
Interdisciplinary examination of Canadian culture and society employing a variety of methods and perspectives. Approaches drawn from cultural studies, social theory and critical analysis applied to examples of Canadian literature, art, cinema and popular culture. Topics may include dynamics of race, class and gender, linguistic diversity, multiculturalism, ethnic relations and cultural appropriation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CANA 2F91.
Culture and Power in Canada II: Cultural Institutions
Interdisciplinary examination of Canadian culture and society employing a variety of methods and perspectives. Approaches drawn from cultural studies, social theory and critical analysis applied to examples of Canadian literature, art, cinema and popular culture. Topics may include cultural industries and institutions, cultural and media policies, Canada-US relations and examination of Canadian myths.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CANA 2F91.
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: one of CANA 2P91, 2P92 (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 interdisciplinary 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 may include old and new varieties of nationalism, the Quiet Revolution, the changing roles of church and state, the decline of the anglophone minority, Québec's impact on Canadian Federalism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one of CANA 2P91, 2P92 (2F91), 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 2P91, 2P92 (2F91) 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 2P91, 2P92 (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.
Topics in Canadian History
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
2003-2004: Canadian Biography
(also offered as HIST 4V20)
Biography as a genre and as a methodology for writing Canadian history, including fiction, history and film biographies.
Restriction: open to CANA and HIST (single or combined) majors with approval to Year 4 (honours) until date specified in BIRT guide and then open to other students with permission of the Department.