2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
	2001-2002 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR: COURSES
	Carleton University

Canadian Studies Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

First-Year Seminar in Canadian Studies 01.146
How Ottawa Works: Exploring National Institutions
This course examines the fundamental political, judicial and administrative institutions which made Canada a unique nation. Students will learn how government institutions are dealing with preservation and maintenance of Canadian cultural and social values.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminar three hours a week.

First-Year Seminar in Canadian Studies 01.149
Social Change in Canada
Interdisciplinary examination of contemporary movements involved in social change. Assessment of opportunities and constraints for political activism in Canada today. Focus on movements active around the environment, labour, feminism, gay and lesbian rights, racism, poverty and peace.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A program.
Seminar three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.100
Introduction to Canadian Studies
Introduction to interdisciplinary Canadian Studies. Issues from Canada's past and present. Topics may include: Aboriginal peoples, language and ethnicity, communications and technology, immigration, arts and culture, economics, environmentalism, regionalism, gender, Québec and English Canada and international relations.
Two hour lecture and one hour discussion group a week.

Canadian Studies 12.210*
Aboriginal Women and Public Policy
A ten year retrospective of an integrated policy agenda features Aboriginal women as key change agents. An overview of existing literature and statistical indicators chronicles the government's efforts to survey and monitor Aboriginal women's health, social and educational experiences and conditions.
Precludes additional credit for Canadian Studies 12.200
Prerequisite: Canadian Studies 12.100 or a Canadian Studies First Year Seminar
Two hour lecture, one hour discussion group a week.

Canadian Studies 12.211*
Aboriginal Health and Healing
Healing has become a cultural phenomenon among Aboriginal peoples even as good health eludes most. The collisions within and between traditional beliefs, symbols and practices are examined against that of the Canadian health care system.
Precludes additional credit for Canadian Studies 12.200
Prerequisite: Canadian Studies 12.100 or a Canadian Studies First Year Seminar
Two hour lecture, one hour discussion group a week.

Canadian Studies 12.212*
Landforms and Mindscapes: Canadian Regional Diversity
This interdisciplinary course applies a cultural studies approach to a selected Canadian region in order to identify its distinctive regional identity as reflected in its literature, art, folklore, popular culture, film and social and intellectual history.
Precludes additional credit for Canadian Studies 12.200
Prerequisite: Canadian Studies 12.100 or a Canadian Studies First Year Seminar
Two hour lecture, one hour discussion group a week.

Canadian Studies 12.288
Contemporary English-Canadian and French-Canadian Literature
This course, which is offered by faculty members from the Departments of French, and English Language and Literature, provides a general introduction to and comparison of the two major literatures of Canada. Lectures are given in both English and French. (Also listed as English 18.288.)
Prerequisites: A basic reading knowledge of French, and Second-year standing.
Three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.310*
Canada in a Post Industrial World
This course will investigate the changing nature of Canadian culture and identity in the face of a vastly accelerated flow of people, goods and information within and across our national borders.
Precludes additional credit for Canadian Studies 12.302 and 12.350*, and 12.402 (if taken before fall 1997)
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the School
Seminar three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.311*
Being Canadian in a Post Industrial World
This course will investigate how the shift from an industrial to a post-industrial economy has altered the character of work, the role of the state, the future of cultural policy making and so on in the Canadian context.
Precludes additional credit for Canadian Studies 12.302 and 12.350*, and 12.402 (if taken before fall 1997)
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the School
Seminar three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.312*
Cultural Landscape and Cultural Identity
This seminar uses cultural landscape as an organizing theme to look at experience and identity in Canada. Artifacts and rituals that shape the physical and mental landscape: issues of shared, contested, and overlapping understandings of the built and natural environment.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the School
Seminar three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.350*
Canada in the Global Village
Canada's development as a series of technological projects - from fur-trading routes to canals, railways and telegraphs, radio and television and now, the information highway. Critiques the dominant discourse on Canadian technology - alternately technology as progress and technological dependency.
Precludes additional credit for Canadian Studies 12.302, and 12.402 (if taken before Fall 1997).
Prerequisite: Canadian Studies 12.100.
Seminar three hours a week

Canadian Studies 12.380
Internship Practicum
A limited number of internships and practicum placements are available in institutional settings, primarily in the Ottawa area. Students are required to submit a formal written report concerning their placement. The written work is evaluated jointly by the student's internal and placement supervisors. A maximum of 1.0 credit of internship/practicum may be offered in fulfilment of Canadian Studies requirements.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.381*
Internship/Practicum
For course description, see Canadian Studies 12.380.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.382*
Internship/Practicum
For course description, see Canadian Studies 12.380.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.383*
Internship/Practicum
For course description, see Canadian Studies 12.380.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.410*
Issues in Theory and Methods
This seminar explores theoretical and methodological questions associated with interdisciplinarity and Canadian Studies. Project design and research ethics will be addressed.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.411*
Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Perspectives on Community Development
Differing perspectives, realities and struggles uncover the salient dimensions of community development in reserve communities. Whether they have become class divided societies with exclusionary political practices where oppression is laid along cultural lines, will be a central theme of this seminar.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing or permission of the School.
Seminar three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.412*
Selected Topics
The choice of topics varies from year to year.
Prerequisite: Fourth year standing or permission of the School
Seminar three hours a week.

Canadian Studies 12.491*
Selected Problems in Canadian Studies
The choice of topics varies from year to year.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.492*
Selected Problems in Canadian Studies
The choice of topics varies from year to year.

Canadian Studies 12.493*
Études dirigées I
Cours facultatif offert seulement aux étudiants de quatrième année Honours en Études canadiennes ("Mention: français"). Ce cours comprend des lectures dirigées et des travaux écrits dans un domaine relié aux Études canadiennes.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.494*
Études dirigées II
Cours facultatif offert seulement aux étudiants de quatrième année Honours en Études canadiennes ("Mention: français"). Ce cours comprend des lectures dirigées et des travaux écrits dans un domaine relié aux Études canadiennes.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.495*
Directed Studies I
An optional course normally restricted to Fourth-year Honours students in Canadian Studies and to Qualifying-year Graduate students. Includes supervised reading and written work in a Canadian Studies area.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.496*
Directed Studies II
An optional Course normally restricted to Fourth-year Honours students in Canadian Studies and to Qualifying-year Graduate students. Includes supervised reading and written work in a Canadian Studies area.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Canadian Studies 12.497
Directed Studies III
An optional course normally restricted to Fourth-year (Honours) students in Canadian Studies and to Qualifying-year Graduate students. Includes supervised reading and written work in a Canadian Studies area.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

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2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
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