IDS 101-04 College Colloquium Oh Canada!

Prof. Sammy Basu MWF12:40p-01:40p WLT 235

http://www.willamette.edu/~sbasu/IDS101/

with the generous assistance of the Government of Canada/ avec l’aide du gouvernement du Canada

Course Description

What is Canada? This course surveys broadly and historically some of its major dimensions: politics, economics, environments, philosophies, cultures, languages and literatures, and invites students to explore comparatively some of the myriad ways in which Canada converges and diverges from America.  Special emphasis will be placed on Canadian conceptions of the values of 'freedom', 'equality', and 'community' as they manifest themselves in public policies towards aboriginal issues, crime, environmental issues, healthcare, multiculturalism, nationalism, pornography, religion, and the rest of the world.

Course Objectives

As a section of Willamette University’s College Colloquium, this course is intended to cultivate and facilitate your abilities to:

• Read closely
• Interpret critically
• Think independently
• Converse collegially
• Write effectively

Course Requirements

You will be evaluated on your successful completion of the following:

• Participation including consistent attendance, general preparedness, regular involvement, and random quizzes (35%)
• Discussion leadership (15%)
• Writing Assignments including drafts, and meeting with writing consultant (50%)

Attendance

If you miss a class, for whatever reason, at the start of the following class you are required to turn in a 300-word paper discussing the relevance of the reading that was assigned for the day missed.

Plagiarism

“Plagiarism (from Latin plagiare "to kidnap") is the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship or incorporating material from someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into ones own without adequate acknowledgement.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism)

WU Policy TurnItIn Plagiarism.org

Course Readings

	Diana Hacker, Pocket Style Manual, Fourth Edition	Bedford/St. Martin's (2006) ISBN-10: 0312467230 ISBN-13: 978-0312467234	You buy
	Philip Resnick, The European Roots of Canadian Identity	Broadview Press (2005) ISBN-10: 1551117053 ISBN-13: 978-1551117058	Provided
	Forsey, Eugene. How Canadians Govern Themselves	Government of Canada/ gouvernement du Canada	Provided and also available here
	Citizenship and Immigration Canada. A Look at Canada	Government of Canada/ gouvernement du Canada	Provided and also available here
	Statistics Canada. Canada at a Glance, 2007	Government of Canada/ gouvernement du Canada	Provided and also available here
Other	Various	Various	Provided online or available here

Writing Consultant

Colin Dailey

“It is the natural tendency for…similar groups of people to exaggerate otherwise superficially minor differences. The more alike the groups, the more they will seek ways to differentiate from each other…. Uniting against others is normal human behaviour.”

--Sigmund Freud on the Narcissism of Small Differences, 1930.

“Americans do not know but Canadians cannot forget that two nations, not one, came out of the American Revolution.”

--S.M. Lipset in Continental Divide.

“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I may call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”

--Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Washington, 1969.

“The 49th parallel does sometimes appear to be the boundary between self-confident and self-conscious.”

--Maclean's, 13 October 2003.

Schedule

Date		Class
Thurs, 8/23		CC class 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m Why Canada? ‘As Canadian as …’ Rick Mercer Talking with Americans, again, again, and again Carlson and Coulter take on Canada Colin Mochrie Apology to America shows that have canada in the name Becoming Canadian... an acting exercise. Escape To Canada (2005) Quiz Liberal Arts and Why Canada

Fri, 8/24

CC "Prep time" 8:30 to 10:15 Read: Rushdie, Salman. 2002. “Step Across This Line.” The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Part 1, pp. 75-90 (1-18). Or here Extra reading: Rushdie on Radical Islamism with Moyers (vid) Rushdie on Anti-Americanism in National Post Rushdie with Amartya Sen at PEN Rushdie on Multiculturalism in Times Rushdie on Multiculturalism at Canada 2020 (vid) On Rushdie

Opening Convo 10:30-12:00 in Smith Sir Salman Rushdie, “THE ROLE OF THE WRITER IN THE 21^ST CENTURY”

CC class 1:30-3:00 in Walton 265

Sat, 8/25

CC "Prep time" View: ‘O Canada’ (1880, 1968, 1980) (vid) ’American Woman’ (1970) (vid) or (2006) (vid) ‘Blame Canada’ (1999) (vid) or Williams (2000) (vid) ‘I am a Canadian’ (2000) (vid), or (vid) ’I am Not Canadian’ (2000) (vid) and Shatner ‘I am Canadian’ (vid) and The Arrogant Worms ‘I am not American’ (2004) (vid) and Yankovic ‘Canadian Idiot’ (2006) (vid)

CC class 1:00-2:30 Videos Music Paintings (Group of Seven, on G7, gallery) Symbols Metaphors Maps (CanadainMaps)

Civilization v. Clash of Civilizations (ppt) The Other America, Canada, and the Other Distribute academic schedules

Mon,  8/27		CC class 9:00-10:30 Later Beer ads: anthem (vid), moon (vid), passive (vid), 500 miles (vid), abroad (vid), Glen (vid), beaver (vid), chasing beaver (vid), rash (vid), starts here (vid), hockey (vid), hockey stick (vid), hockey bag (vid), fly (vid), penalty box (vid), Jason Jones (vid), Canada Day (vid) Read: Lyrics Discussion readings:
	Katie, Lauren, Josh, Kim	Edwardson, Ryan. 2003. "Of War Machines and Ghetto Scenes": English-Canadian Nationalism and The Guess Who's "American Woman". American Review of Canadian Studies, Autumn2003, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p339-356.
	Edward, Robert, Greg, Phillip	Manning, Erin. 2000. “I AM CANADIAN Identity, Territory and the Canadian National Landscape.” Theory and Event, 4:4 See also G7, yoon, thomson
	Jessica, Talia, Scott, Sydney	Seiler, Robert M. “Selling Patriotism/ Selling Beer: The Case of the "I AM CANADIAN!" Commercial.” American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2002, Vol. 32, Issue 1, pp.45-67.