Perspectives on Canada

William Green
Professor of Government
Morehead State University
w.green@moreheadstate.edu

Jason Holcomb
Assistant Professor of Geography
Morehead State University
j.holcomb@morehead-st.edu

John Petersen
Professor of Government
Western Kentucky University
John.Petersen@fsmail.wku.edu

Steven Savage
Professor of Anthropology
Eastern Kentucky University
Steve.Savage@eku.edu

Harold Tallant
Professor of History
Georgetown College
Harold_Tallant@georgetowncollege.edu

Ernest J. Yanarella
Professor of Political Science
University of Kentucky.
ejyana@uky.edu

Perspectives on Canada is a multi-disciplinary online course which explores the geography, history, society, politics, and economy of America's northern neighbor with particular attention to contemporary Canadian domestic and international issues, including Quebec's role in the Canadian federation, trans-border economic and cultural relationships with the United States, and Canada's active participation in world affairs. The course readings will include the ACSUS Paper Series, a multidisciplinary collection of monographs, and readings on electronic reserve. The course grade will be based on six assignments and mid-term and final examinations.

Perspectives on Canada is a Canadian Studies Online Program (CSOP) course which may be taken by MSU, EKU, WKU, UK, and Georgetown College students. The course it will originate from Morehead State University, use the MSU Blackboard server and electronic library reserves, and be coordinated by William Green, Professor of Government at MSU and team taught by him and five CSOP faculty: Jason Holcomb, MSU; Harold Tallant, Georgetown College; Steven Savage, EKU; John Petersen, WKU; and Ernest J. Yanarella, UK.

You may contact Professor William Green at 606-783-2128 and w.green@morehead-st.edu. When you register for this course, you should email Professor Green and provide him with your course contact information: email address, phone number, and mailing address. Since this course will originate from Morehead State University, you should also contact Julia Lewis, MSU's Blackboard Administrator at j.lewis@moreheadstate.edu for information on the usernames and passwords you will need to access the MSU's Blackboard course site and library's electronic reserves.

Comparative Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties:
The United States, Canada, and Germany

William Green
Professor of Government
Morehead State University
w.green@moreheadstate.edu

Constitutions embody a commitment to limiting governmental power by entrenching a panoply of fundamental rights and freedoms. We will explore the role of constitutional courts in defining the meaning of rights and freedoms and then will analyze the US, Canadian, and German constitutional court decisions on speech, religion, privacy and equality. We will give attention to obscenity, defamation, hate speech, and language rights; the display of religious symbols in public schools; abortion; and gender equality and homosexuality. Finally, we will ask why the United States remains largely unaffected by the civil liberties and rights decisions of other nations' constitutional courts. The course texts include William Green's Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics, and readings on electronic reserve. The course grade will be based on eight short analysis papers and mid-term and final examinations.

Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics is a Canadian Studies Online Program course which may be taken by MSU, EKU, WKU, UK, and Georgetown College students. The course will originate from Morehead State University, use the MSU Blackboard server and electronic library reserves, and be taught by William Green, Professor of Government at MSU, whom you may contact at 606-783-2128 and w.green@moreheadstate.edu. When you register for this course, you should email Professor Green and provide him with your course contact information: email address, phone number, and mailing address. Since this course will originate from Morehead State University, you should also contact Julia Lewis, MSU's Blackboard Administrator at j.lewis@moreheadstate.edu for information on the usernames and passwords you will need to access the MSU's Blackboard course site and library's electronic reserves.

Politics of the North American Auto Industry:
The United States and/or Canada

Ernest J. Yanarella
Professor of Political Science
University of Kentucky
ejyana@uky.edu

The changing global political economy and restructuring of national, state, and local economies have placed the future of the North American automobile industry in jeopardy. This course will explore the politics of the Big Three in the United States and Canada in terms of globalizing trends in the international automobile marketplace, the emergence of Japanese and South Korean transplants in North America, the challenge of flexible production methods to traditional assembly line production, the problem of overcapacity in the international auto market, the role of union labor in the reorganization of the workplace, the technological advances in automobile construction and fuel efficiency, and the
prospects for renewal of North American auto manufacturing in the face of global competition. The texts include William Green and Ernest Yanarella's North American Auto Unions in Crisis, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back, and Lowell Turner's Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions. The course grade will be based on a research paper and mid-term and final examinations.

Politics of the North American Auto Industry is a Canadian Studies Online Program course which may be taken by MSU, EKU, WKU, UK, and Georgetown College students. The course will originate from the University of Kentucky, use the UK Blackboard server and electronic library reserves, and be taught by Ernest J. Yanarella, Professor of Political Science at UK, whom you may contact at 859-257-2989 and ejyana@.uky.edu. When you register for this course, you should email Professor Yanarella and provide him with your course contact information: email address, phone number, and mailing address. Since this course will originate from the University of Kentucky, you should also contact Keyth Sokol, UK's Distance Learning Coordinator, at bsokol1@email.uky.edu for information on the usernames and passwords you will need to access the UK's Blackboard course site and library's electronic reserves.

Political Economy and Environment of Canada

Ernest J. Yanarella
Professor of Political Science
University of Kentucky
ejyana@uky.edu

Canada's environmental policy has felt the impact of the country's subordinate economic place vis-à-vis the United States. This course will survey this impact and then draw upon Canada's incredible geographic expanse and rich natural resources, to explore how the Canadian environment, as cultural symbol and economic resource, has given shape to an environmental tradition and political movements and environmental groups seeking to protect its natural ecosystems and preserve its natural resources from depletion and exhaustion. Canada's efforts to steer a course to ecological sustainability in the face of tendencies toward top-down globalization of the international political economy will also be investigated. The course texts will include: Seymour Martin Lipset's Continental Drift and Debora Vannijnatten and Robert Boardman's Canadian Environmental Policy. The course grade will be based on mid-term and final examinations, class and extra-credit assignments, and an optional paper on Canadian environmentalism or sustainability policy.

Political Economy and Environment of Canada is a Canadian Studies Online Program course which may be taken by MSU, EKU, WKU, UK, and Georgetown College students. The course will originate from the University of Kentucky, use the UK Blackboard server and electronic library reserves, and be taught by Ernest J. Yanarella, Professor of Political Science at UK, whom you may contact at 859-257-2989 and ejyana@.uky.edu. When you register for this course, you should email Professor Yanarella and provide him with your course contact information: email address, phone number, and mailing address. Since this course will originate from the University of Kentucky, you should also contact Keyth Sokol, UK's Distance Learning Coordinator, at bsokol1@email.uky.edu for information on the usernames and passwords you will need to access the UK's Blackboard course site and library's electronic reserves.