Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2024 - HIST 204 D100

The Social History of Canada (3)

Class Number: 4653

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 8 – Apr 12, 2024: Mon, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Apr 13, 2024
    Sat, 12:00–12:00 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    Recommended: HIST 101 and 102W.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A survey of major themes in Canadian social history, which is the examination of past lived experiences. Particular attention will be paid to developing an anti-racist and feminist historical analysis of how race, gender, sexuality, and class shape everyday life, and how and why lived experiences change over time. Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:

Social history is a distinct mode of historical inquiry that takes as its primary interest the lives of everyday people – how they lived, worked, and engaged in social and other activities, both formal and informal. Born of 1960s and 1970s radical left movements which maintained that the nation was made not by politicians and capitalists but by the labour, including reproductive labour, of White, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour, it pays particular attention to race, class, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, and colonization as lenses through which to examine historical experience and understand change and continuity.

This course focuses on the early 1800s to the present. Students are introduced to and apply social history theories and methods, which are now common across the history discipline.

Grading

  • Class participation 20%
  • Article summary 15%
  • Primary source analysis 20%
  • Short essay paper 20%
  • Final Take Home Exam 25%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Books available for purchase in bookstore:

  • Charles Yale Harrison, Generals Die in Bed: A Story from the Trenches (Toronto: Annick Press, 2002).
  • Joy Kogawa, Obasan (Penguin Books, 2017).

All other readings will be available digitally via the SFU library and Canvas.


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

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