First Nations of Canada

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

Canada's First Nations are its native peoples who live from the Atlantic Provinces to British Columbia and the forty-ninth parallel to the Arctic Circle and who include the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Huron, Cheyenne, Lillooet, Nootka, subarctic Dene, and Inuit (Copper Eskimo). In this course, these nations will be described and compared using the concepts of culture area and culture change, the techniques of ethnography and ethnohistory, and anthropological models.    

First Nations of Canada is a Canadian Studies Online Program (CSOP) course which will originate from Eastern Kentucky University, use the EKU Blackboard server, and be taught by Steven Savage, EKU Professor of Anthropology. This CSOP course may be taken by students at five Kentucky Canadian Studies Consortium campuses. At EKU, the course is listed as ANT 333 (and titled First Nations: Canadian Indians), at MSU, it is SOC 399 and IST 332 (and listed as Native Peoples of Canada), at WKU, it is ANTH 366; at UK, it is SOC 350; and at Georgetown College, it is ANT/SOC 470B.

Government and Politics of Britain and Canada

John Petersen, Professor of Government
Western Kentucky University, John.Petersen@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 is a Canadian Studies Online Program (CSOP) course which will originate from Western Kentucky University, use the WKU Blackboard server, and be taught by John Petersen, WKU Professor of Government. This CSOP course may be taken by students at five Kentucky Canadian Studies Consortium campuses. At WKU, the course is listed as GOVT 360, at MSU, it is GOVT 399 and IST 333, at EKU, it is POL 405; at UK, it is PS 491; and at Georgetown College, it is POS 470B.

The North American Marketplace

Terri Friel, Associate Professor of Management
Butler University, tfriel@butler.edu

The United States, Canada, and Mexico now constitute a North American marketplace defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This course will investigate the historical development of the NAFTA and a focus on Canadian, US, and Mexican issues and perspectives on the developing North American business environment: its trade, financial and investment issues; its labor, environmental energy and water rights issues; and its cultural and political impacts.

North American Marketplace is a Canadian Studies Online Program (CSOP) course which will originate from Eastern Kentucky University, use the EKU Blackboard server, and be taught by Terri Friel, Associate Professor of Operations Management at Butler University and Visiting Associate Professor of Management at EKU. This CSOP course may be taken by students at five Kentucky Canadian Studies Consortium campuses. At MSU, the course is listed as MNGT 399 and IST 339; at WKU, it is MKT 420; at UK, it is PS 491; and Georgetown it is BUA 470C.

After you register for this course on your home campus, you must do 3 things. First, email or phone Professor Friel at tfriel@butler.edu (317-940-8470) and provide her with your email address, phone number, and mailing address. Second, purchase your books through the EKU campus bookstore. Third, self-enroll in this EKU course. If you have any EKU Blackboard-related questions, you may contact email Gene Kleppinger, EKU Blackboard Administrator, at Gene.Kleppinger@eku.edu.