Institut für Kanada-Studien

CANADIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Typ: Proseminar (Undergraduate Course)
Zeit: Mi 15:45-17:15
Raum: 2118a
Start: 02.05.2007

Course Description:
Perspectives on Canada's social structure have radically changed. This course will allow students to analyze in new ways Canada's gendered social structure and young people's changing position within it. The initial review of historical approaches to class analysis will be followed by more contemporary comparative analyses of gendered class relations in postindustrial societies (Canada, the United States, Sweden, Norway, and Finland). Then, we will examine Vancouver's business classes and how recent immigration from Asia brought changes in the ethnic and racial composition and in the transnational characteristics of these classes. Next, we will review the outcomes of service worker unionization in Vancouver and Seattle and the transnational immigrant networks in the Pacific Northwest. Thereafter, we will assess how Canada's business, political, and media elite responded to the attacks on New York on September 11, 2001 and to the subsequent US war on terrorism. However, whether class interests or regional interests are more important in understanding Canadian society is still much debated. Some maintain that regional views from the West towards the East, including how British Columbians view Québec nationalism, reveal resentment and division in Canada's social structure; others argue that a focus on age and class, especially on youth -- its coming of age and joining the workforce -- will reveal more about how Canada's postindustrial urban society has become structured.

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THE CANADIAN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION
zusammen mit Jörg Broschek

Art: Hauptseminar (Graduate Course)
Zeit: Di 17:30-19:00 Uhr
Raum: 2105
Start: 08.05.2007

Course Description:
Canadian courses have previously examined the external and internal influences that shape the Canadian intellectual tradition in one discipline. This course, however, is enriched by a broad range of disciplines which are presented in four parts: in Part 1, we examine ideas and practices influenced by the external factors by highlighting historic continuities and contemporary changes in relations with France, the British Empire, the United States, and the globalized world that shape and continue to shape Canada's national identity; in Part 2, we examine ideas and practices influenced by internal realities, including the French-Canadian philosophy and British Columbian views towards the Canadian federation; in Part 3, we see these ideas and practices internal to Canada as embedded in the continuities and changes of major political ideas, such as those influenced by Conservatism, Liberalism, and the Left; and in Part 4, we examine the ideas and practices influenced by Canada's new Diversity and New Voices, the Multiculturalism Debates, Feminism and the Women's Movements, and by the new Post-9/11 external influences on Canadian security and cross-border relations. Thus, rather than examining such emergent phenomena in only one discipline, this course fosters their examination from a broad range of disciplines, including, among others, the Canadian intellectual traditions in history, sociology, political science, the humanities, and women's studies. By taking this approach, students will be stimulated to analyze Canada from perspectives that link disciplines, to pursue interdisciplinary research interests, and to create original insights in their understanding of Canada.