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CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

An examination of selected topics in Canadian history. The content will vary from offering to offering. See department for further information. HIST 330W may be repeated for credit only when a different topic is taught. Students may not take selected topics within HIST 330W for further credit if duplicating content of another history course and vice versa. Writing.

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Origins and Legacies of the ‘Radical Campus’            

You may have heard it said that our very own university on Burnaby Mountain was once a “radical campus”? Where does that idea come from, and whatever became of it? Was SFU truly radical or is this overstated? Do we still live with the legacies from these earlier times, or is that era dead? And if the latter, who (or what) killed it? We will cover a period spanning roughly 1960-1990. While we focus on SFU, we do so in order to access much larger historical controversies involving the student, women’s, labour, antiwar, Indigenous, and other movements on campus and beyond. Indeed, each week we will look at a separate SFU controversy. You will also be doing original first-hand research at SFU Archives and SFU Library about topics of your choosing. You will hear from “people who were there,” including activists, charter alumni, and others.  This being a “W” (writing) course, it is my objective (and it should be yours too) that, by the end of the term, you will have laid the foundations for something publishable.

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