Specialization: course opened to all study programs
Warrantor: doc. PhDr. Martin Bútora
Instructor: Tom Nicholson, MA
Lecturing hours (weekly): 2
Credits: 3 ECTS
Date: Thursday 3.15 - 4.45 PM
Room: A5.06 (new building)
Working language: English
Evaluation: passed/not passed
Aim of the course: This course will present the history of Canada organized around a series of topics. These topics have been chosen because of their relevance not just to Canada’s history, but also to issues that Slovakia faces today. Examples include immigration, minority relations, cultural tolerance and human rights.
Readings:
Preliminary timetable of the course:
- Overview of Canadian history – setting out important dates and events.
- First contact between Europeans and Native Americans – fur trade, mercantilism.
- French-English relations, bilingualism.
- Staples theory, economic drivers in development of Canada.
- Confederation to independence – the Canadian political model.
- Immigration policy, role of immigrants in Canadian history.
- Multiculturalism, Canada as a cultural mosaic.
- Canada as a middle power – Canadian contributions on world stage, foreign policy.
- Treatment of native peoples – the path to self-administration.
- The Canadian social state – the evolution and future of health care and welfare compared to US model.
- Canada and the US – living in the elephant’s shadow.
- Liberalism and the Canadian identity – topics in Canadian culture
