Fall 2021 - HIST 102W D900

Canada since Confederation (3)

Class Number: 3912

Delivery Method: Remote

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 8 – Dec 7, 2021: Tue, TBA
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Canadian social, political, and economic history from 1867, examining aboriginal/settler relations, immigration, regionalism, foreign policy, economic development, culture, and political movements. Students with credit for HIST 102 may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:

The start of the new decade has seen blockades protesting resource extraction on Indigenous land, deepening economic inequality, calls to defund the police, and heightened anti-Asian racism—not to mention a pandemic. How did we get here? In this writing-intensive course, we will explore intersecting themes in Canadian social, political, economic, and cultural history in the post-Confederation era. Focusing on key moments since 1867, we will examine issues such as Indigenous-settler relations, the labour movement, immigration and multiculturalism, and social and political movements. How have disputes over land, labour, and resources shaped Canada’s politics and economy? How did major events affect Canada’s social and cultural landscapes? How did different people experience these events? In this course, Canadian history is a subject of study, as well as a tool to allow us to develop historical thinking skills: establishing historical significance, using primary documents, identifying continuity and change, analyzing cause and consequence, taking historical perspectives, and understanding the ethical dimensions of historical interpretation.

Close engagement with weekly readings will be essential for this course, as we will examine primary and secondary texts to learn how historians write and to develop our own writing abilities. For this introductory-level remote learning course, you will prepare for weekly asynchronous lectures and online discussions using background reading and multimedia sources, then complete weekly reading annotation and writing portfolio assignments. The course will be graded using a learning mastery approach, encouraging you to focus on critical thinking and skills and learn through small weekly assignments.

This course will take place remotely using a combination of synchronous and asynchronous methods. Weekly lectures will be asynchronous. Students will have multiple options for participating in the course, including synchronous tutorials, online discussions, and reading annotation.

WEEKLY TOPICS

Week 1: Course introduction

Week 2: Confederation

Week 3: Solidifying a Dominion

Week 4: Settlement and Immigration

Week 5: The First World War

Week 6: Interwar Labour and Social Change

Week 7: The Second World War

Week 8: Postwar Social Change

Week 9: Social and Political Movements

Week 10: French-English Relations

Week 11: Repatriation, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Human Rights

Week 12: Imagining Canada

Grading

  • Participation 10%
  • Source analyses 30%
  • Writing portfolio 25%
  • Final Project 35%

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

All course readings will be available online. There is no required textbook for this course.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

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TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2021

Teaching at SFU in fall 2021 will involve primarily in-person instruction, with approximately 70 to 80 per cent of classes in person/on campus, with safety plans in place.  Whether your course will be in-person or through remote methods will be clearly identified in the schedule of classes.  You will also know at enrollment whether remote course components will be “live” (synchronous) or at your own pace (asynchronous).

Enrolling in a course acknowledges that you are able to attend in whatever format is required.  You should not enroll in a course that is in-person if you are not able to return to campus, and should be aware that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who may need class or exam accommodations, including in the context of remote learning, are advised to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as early as possible in order to prepare for the fall 2021 term.