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HIST 328 Revision 1 closed March 12, 2008, replaced by current version.
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: Reading course - 3 credits - Humanities
Prerequisite: None. Some background in Canadian history is strongly recommended.
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
HIST 328 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Course website
History 328 outlines the development of social programs in Canada and its provinces, assessing the social and political pressures that produced particular programs at particular times. It also examines the implementation of these programs, evaluating the extent to which they provided benefits to various groups of Canadians and the extent to which they either ignored needy groups or were used as social control measures over them.
Course materials analyze critically the impact of class, sex, and race prejudices in the design and implementation of major social programs at various points in Canada's past, and the impact of class-, sex-, and race-based pressures to change these programs.
Unit 1: Confronting Industrialization and Urbanization: From Charity to the State—Pre-Confederation to 1914
Unit 2: War, Depression and Social Policy, 1914-1939
Unit 3: Modifying Capitalism: Debates about the Role and Limits of the State in Social Policy
Unit 4: Establishing the “Welfare State” in Canada: The 1960s
Unit 5: Contemporary Trends: Social Rights Activists versus Neo-Conservatives in the Making of Social Policy, 1970-2000
To receive credit for HIST 328, you must complete all of the assignments, achieve a minimum grade of 50 per cent on the final examination, and obtain a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 per cent).
| Assignment 1 | Assignment 2 | Final Exam | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20% | 40% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Struthers, James. The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Bryden, P. E. Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy, 1957-1968. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
The course materials also include a student manual, a study guide and, a book of readings.