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HIST 225 Course website

History (HIST) 225
History of Canada, 1867 to the Present (Revision 4)

Revision 4 closed, replaced by current version.

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Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study. Video component*.
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.

Credits: 3 - Humanities

Prerequisite: None. Students planning to take both HIST 224 and HIST 225 should take HIST 224 first.

Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies

HIST 225 has a Challenge for Credit option.

Course website

Overview

HIST 225 provides a survey of Canada's political, social, and economic development from 1867 to the present. The course focuses on the impact of social developments on political changes as well as vice versa.

Outline

Unit 1: Inventing Canada, 1867-1914

Unit 2: Economy and Society in the Industrial Age, 1867-1918

Unit 3: Transitional Years: Canada, 1919-1945

Unit 4: Reinventing Canada, 1945-1975

Unit 5: Post-Modern Canada

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Evaluation

To receive credit for HIST 225, you must complete all of the assignments, achieve a mark of at least 50 per cent on the final examination, and obtain a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 per cent). The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

Essay 1 Essay 2 Final Exam Total
30% 30% 40% 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Conrad, Margaret, and Alvin Finkel. 2003. Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. Toronto: Pearson Education.

Finkel, Alvin, and Margaret Conrad. 2009. History of the Canadian Peoples 1867 to the Present, Volume 2. 5th ed. Toronto: Addison Wesley Longman.

Other materials

The course materials include a study guide and student manual.

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