Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 363
The Women's West: Women and Canadian Frontier Settlement (Revision 1)
Revision 1 closed, replaced by current version.
Opened in Moodle, August 18, 2010. WGST 363 replaces WMST 363.
Delivery Mode:Individualized study.
Credits:3
Area of Study:Humanities
Prerequisite:None.
Precluded Course:WGST 363 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under two different disciplines—with HIST 363. WMST 363 & HIST 325. (WGST 363 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for WMST 363, HIST 363 or HIST 325.)
Centre:Centre for Work and Community Studies
WGST 363 has a Challenge for Credit option.
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Overview
WGST 363 introduces students to selected aspects of women's diverse experiences of western Canadian colonization and settlement. The course challenges myths of western expansion as an exclusively male enterprise, and evaluates women's contributions to Western Canada's social, cultural, political, and economic life during a formative time in history.
The course is organized along three general themes: the impact of European colonization and settlement on Aboriginal women, and its legacy; the homesteading experience of women new to the western plains; the opportunities and barriers women encountered on other economic, social, and political frontiers.
WGST 363 complements HIST 365 and WGST 365: Girls and Women in Urban Canada, 1880 to 1940.
Outline
Unit 1: Native Women and the White Frontier
Unit 2: “No Place for a Woman”: Newcomer Women in the West
Unit 3: Other Frontiers: Pioneers, Reformers, and Renegades
Evaluation
To receive credit for WGST 363, you must complete assignments and a research project. Students must achieve a course composite grade of “D” (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| Short Essay | Book Review | Outline | Project | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbooks
Campbell, Maria. 1983. Half-Breed. Halifax: Goodread Biographies.
Other Materials
The course materials include a student manual, a study guide, and a reader.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 1, August 13, 2008.
Last updated by SAS 02/04/2016 08:34:07
