Brock University Undergraduate Calendar

Canadian Studies Courses

CANA 1F91

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.

CANA 2F91

Culture and Power in Canada

Interdisciplinary examination of Canadian culture and society employing a variety of methods and perspectives, including those of cultural studies. Cultural theory and approaches to critical analysis in the arts and social sciences. Topics may include cultural institutions; issues of race, class and gender; Canadian-American relations; critical examination of Canadian myths.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: CANA 1F91 or permission of the instructor.

CANA 3P16

Politics in Québec

(also offered as POLI 3P16)

Québec's political, social and economic evolution since 1945. Topics include old and new varieties of nationalism, the Quiet Revolution, the changing roles of church and state, the decline of the anglophone minority and Québec's impact on Canadian Federalism.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: CANA 2F91 or one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

CANA 3V90-3V94

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 2F91 or permission of the instructor.

CANA 3V91

2001-2002: Myth, Memory and Meaning in Canadian Cultural History

(also offered as HIST 3V91)

Examination of how different groups and different individuals have remembered, commemorated and assigned meanings to the past, focussing primarily on the post-Confederation period.

Prerequisite: CANA 2F91 or two HIST credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

CANA 3V95-3V99

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 2F91 or permission of the instructor.

CANA 4F80

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.

CANA 4F99

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.