Date

Course content

Before class begins

0.0 Introduction to course organization and content

0.1 Video presentation

0.2 Readings: Syllabus, course schedule and assignment guidelines

Week 1

7-13 Jan

1.0 19 ^th -century Québec society

1.1 Video: Thinking about Québec as a minority society?

1.2 Lesson: The Québec Church-Nation and Canadian Anglo-Protestants

1.3 Readings: on Moodle

Week 2

14-20 Jan

2.0 20 ^th - and 21 ^th -century Québec society

2.1 Audio: From a Catholic province to a non-religious nation?

2.2 Lesson: The dismantling of the Québec Church-Nation

2.3 Readings: on Moodle

Week 3

21-27 Jan

3.0 French Canadians outside Québec and the Catholic Church

3.1 Audio: Church as cultural fortress

3.2 Lesson: Survivance at all costs

3.3 Readings: on Moodle

Week 4

28 Jan-3 Feb

4.0 Franco-Ontarians

4.1 Audio: Church as rampart

4.2 Lesson: Using religion as a means of resisting assimilation

4.3 Readings: on Moodle

Assignment ONE is due during week 4

Latest possible due date is February 3^rd, 2013

Week 5

4-10 Feb

5.0 French Canadians in Western Canada

5.1 Audio: Church as community-founding institution

5.2 Lesson: It all starts with internal migration...

5.3 Readings: on Moodle

Questions up on the forum

Week 6

11-17 Feb

6.0 The Métis and other French-speaking First Nations

6.1 Audio: Paradoxical assimilation

6.2 Lesson: The ups and downs of syncretism

6.3 Readings: on Moodle

Reading Week

NO CLASS

Week 7

25 Feb-3 Mar

7.0 French-speaking Protestants, 19 ^th and 20 ^th centuries

7.1 Audio: Interview with Rev. Stéphane Vermette

7.2 Lesson: Protestantism as a means of Othering

7.3 Reading: on Moodle

Week 8

4-10 Mar

8.0 Acadians

8.1 Audio: From non-clerical to priest-ridden and back again

8.2 Lesson: The Catholic Church, Acadians, Irishmen and the State

8.3 Reading: on Moodle

Week 9

11-17 Mar

9.0 Francophones in the United Church of Canada

9.1 Audio: Interview with Rev. Stéphane Vermette

9.2 Lesson: Always a minority, always overlooked

9.3 Reading: on Moodle

Assignment TWO due during week 9

Latest possible due date is March 17^th, 2013

Week 10

18-24 Mar

10.0 French-speaking Immigrants since 1945

10.1 Audio: Furthering the process of Othering

10.2 Lesson: Immigration, race, “ethnic communities”, and “reasonable accommodations”.

10.3 Reading: on Moodle

Questions up on the forum

Week 11

25-31 Mar

11.0 Assimilation, mixed marriages and the “new Churches”

11.1 Audio: “In what Church are we getting married, honey?”

11.2 Lesson: Parallel linguistic and religions assimilations

11.3 Reading: on Moodle

Week 12

1-7 Apr

12.0 Religious Practice among Francophones today

12.1 Video: What happens when the Catholic Church is not longer a rampart?

12.2 Lesson: The efficacy of Evangelical Churches?

12.3 Reading: on Moodle

Exam Period

Friday 19 April

At-home Final Exam

Upload your responses on Moodle

on April 19 ^th , 2013 at the latest.