Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Summer 2025 - HIST 330W D100

Controversies in Canadian History (4)

SFU Radical Campus

Class Number: 4740

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 12 – Aug 8, 2025: Wed, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units, including six units of lower division history.

Description

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.

COURSE DETAILS:

You may have heard it said that SFU was (or is) a “Radical Campus.” Where does that idea come from? This course zooms in on the period 1960-1989 to trace the emergence of SFU and its purported radicalisms. While we center SFU, we do so in order to access the histories of the larger student, women’s, labour, antiwar, Indigenous, and other movements on campus and beyond. We will do this by heading to SFU Archives and SFU Library and doing original research. You will also meet and hear from guest speakers who were there. Together, we will ask and investigate the question: whatever happened to the ‘radical campus’?

Grading

  • Participation 12.5%
  • Seminars x 2 12.5%
  • Shorter research assignments 25%
  • Final Paper 50%

NOTES:

More information on assessments is below:

  1. Participation (12.5%)
  2. Seminars x 2 (12.5%): A mark based on the quality of your engagements and contributions in two small tutorial-style discussions (I call them seminars) about an article or book chapter. You sign up for 2 seminars of your choice. The lower of the two is dropped.
  3. Shorter research assignments (25%): There will be either be two or three shorter assignments, each of whose central goal is to get you prepped for the research and writing requirements of the bigger paper. The grade on the lowest will be dropped. Expect one of these to be exclusively about older editions of The Peak. More details come.
  4. Final Paper (Draft 1: 0%) (Draft 2: 50%): Your final research project will incorporate a mix of primary and secondary sources, found chiefly at SFU Library or SFU Archives, which you will interpret and arrange so as to advance an original argument about a topic of your choice.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

There will be weekly readings, all available online, in-class, or at SFU Library.


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:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

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RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.