Labour Studies (LBST) 331

Overview

LBST 331 considers the historical experience of popular ideologies and social movements in North America. More specifically, it assesses the type of ideologies women, farmers, and workers created and utilized as they built social movements of resistance, opposition, and critique in the period between 1860 and 1960.

In the century under study; feminism, populism, socialism, labourism, and other ideologies came into existence and were taken up by various peoples as they tried to make sense of their place in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century society.

Outline

Unit 1: Producerism, Labourism, and Socialism in the North American Labour Movements, 1860-1919

Unit 2: Agrarian Movements and the Populist Movement, 1880-1920s

Unit 3: The Women's Movement, 1880s-1920s

Unit 4: The Grounding of Modern Feminism, 1920s-1950s

Unit 5: Communism, Reformism, and Labour, 1920-1960

Unit 6: Twentieth-Century Agrarianism

Evaluation

To receive credit for LBST 331, you must complete the course assignments, receive a mark of 50 per cent or better on the final exam and achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) or better to pass the course. The weighting of assignments is as follows:

Exercise 1	Exercise 2	Exercise 3	Final Exam	Total
10%	30%	30%	30%	100%

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

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the LBST 331 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on the examination.

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form