| COURSE NUMBER: |
SOCI 318 |
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| COURSE TITLE: |
"Race" and Ethnicity in Canada |
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| NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: |
Dr. Randy Haluza-Delay |
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| CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: |
credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) |
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| COURSE DESCRIPTION: |
Issues around race, ethnicity, nation and culture raise a great
deal of debate, and at times discomfort. This course will focus on the
ways in which ethnic relations have been theorized sociologically. This
course also aims to come to a critical understanding of these concepts,
and study how they impact connections between ethno-cultural groups in
Canada.
Prerequisites: Three credits in sociology at the introductory level |
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| REQUIRED TEXTS: |
- Culleton Mosionier, Beatrice. 1999. In Search of April Raintree: (Critical Edition.) Winnipeg: Portage & Main Press. (Original novel published 1983).
- Stazewich, Vic and Nikolaos Liodakis. 2013 'Race' and Ethnicity in Canada: A critical introduction (3rd ed.) Toronto: Oxford University Press.
- A course reader with additional readings is also required.
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| MARK DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT: |
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| Course Exam | 25% |
| Issue presentation or project (Globe Aware?) | 20% |
| Interview Project | 25% |
| Reflective Project (essay, journal, video, art) | 30% |
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| 100% |
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES: |
In SOCI 318 you will:
- Gain knowledge about the diversity of the Canadian population.
- Develop an understanding of “race” as a social construction used to categorize peoples.
- Understand the effects of such categorization, such as racism and social stratification.
- Understand
the history of Aboriginal peoples in modern Canada and begin to
acknowledge the unique political status of Aboriginal peoples.
- Understand
how this position affects the social life of the country, such as
treaty rights, urban Aboriginal migration, land claims and cultural
appropriation.
- Grapple with disparate claims about Canada as a multicultural country.
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| COURSE OUTLINE: |
- Who am I? Concepts of culture, race, ethnicity
- Canada as Mosaic
- Theories of ‘race’ and ethnicity
- Culture, diversity, identity Multiculturalism intro (Experience as Racialized person)
- Ethnicity, diversity in Canada - demography and history
- Multiculturalism, Racialization
- Racism
- First Nations - history, culture
- Indigenous identity, the colonized mind
- First Nations - Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
- First Nations - urban Aboriginals, land claims
- First Nations wrap-up
- Topic: Immigration
- Canadian Diversity - stratification, employment equity
- Canadian Multiculturalism – navigating cohesion and pluralism
- Rethinking Nationalism, Identity, Multiculturalism in a Globalizing World
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