COURSE NUMBER: | HIST 399 | ||||||||||||||
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COURSE TITLE: | Special Topics in History - 2014/15 Spring - Communications in the Canadian Context | ||||||||||||||
NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: | Josh Noble | ||||||||||||||
CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: | credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) | ||||||||||||||
COURSE DESCRIPTION: | A course on a topic of figure of special interest to a
member of the history faculty and offered on a non-recurring basis.
Prerequisites: HIST 202 or 204 2014/15 Spring This course explores major historical themes and events related to the transfer of goods, services, and information before and after Canadian confederation. Specific attention is given to the importance of speed, distance, climate as students will reflect on the development of Canadian society, human geography, immigration, and culture as features shaped by the three forces identified above. This notion of a shaped society with systemic biases arising from the total communication infrastructure (both ‘natural’ and ‘man-made’) will be explored in trips to Edmonton’s river valley, Jasper, and through Northern BC on Canada’s first industrial communication infrastructure – railway. Same as CMNA 399 |
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REQUIRED TEXTS: | Empire and Communications – Harold Innis; Citizens and Nation – Gerald Friesen | ||||||||||||||
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