History of Canada

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

Canada and the United States have had two strikingly different national historical experiences which this course will first explore by surveying Canada's political, economic, intellectual, and social development from the seventeenth century to the present. Then the course will focus on the historical dimensions of the issue of national identity, which Canada continues to debate perhaps more than any other modern western nation, and consider how Canadian federalism and the relationships between English and French-speaking Canadians, Canada and the British Empire; Canada and the U.S. have defined that issue.

History of Canada will be taught by Harold Tallant, Professor of History, Georgetown College. You may contact him at 502-863-8075 and harold_tallant@georgetowncollege.edu. When you register for this course, you should email Professor Tallant and provide him with your email address, phone number, and mailing address. Since this course will originate from Georgetown College, you should also contact Andrea Peach, Georgetown's Director of Distance Learning, at andrea_peach@georgetowncollege.edu, for information on the usernames and passwords you will need to access the Georgetown College Blackboard course site and Georgetown College library's electronic reserves.

Native Peoples of North America

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

Canada and the United States are inhabited by native peoples from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle, including the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Huron, Cheyenne, Lillooet, Nootka, subarctic Dene, and Inuit (Copper Eskimo), who will be described and compared using the concepts of culture area and culture change, the techniques of ethnography and ethnohistory, and anthropological models.

Native Peoples of North America will be taught by Steven Savage, Professor of Anthropology, Eastern Kentucky University who you may contact at 859-622-1646 and Steve.Savage@eku.edu. When you register for this course, you should email Professor Savage and provide him with your email address, phone number, and mailing address. Since this course will originate from EKU, you should also contact Rich Boyle, the EKU Director of Distance Learning, at Rich.Boyle@eku.edu, for information on the usernames and passwords you will need to access the EKU Blackboard course site and EKU library's electronic reserves.

Government and Politics of Britain and Canada

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

Canada and Britain have shared a lengthy common experience which will provide the opportunity to study the history of their parliamentary political systems, the characteristics of their political cultures, the role of public opinion, pressure groups, and political parties, the evolution of their governments, the behavior of their legislatures, prime ministers, cabinets, and civil servants, the nature of their regional and local governments, and the manner in which they have made and implemented major contemporary public policies with comparisons to the political system of the United States.

Government and Politics of Britain and Canada will be taught by John Petersen, Professor of Government, Western Kentucky University, who you may contact at 270-745-5468 and John.Petersen@fsmail.wku.edu. When you register for this course, you should email Professor Petersen and provide him with your email address, phone number, and mailing address. Since this course will originate at WKU, you should also contact Beth Laves, the WKU Distance Learning Coordinator, at Beth.Laves@wku.edu, for information on the usernames and passwords you will need to access the WKU Blackboard course site and WKU library's electronic reserves.