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HIST 308 Pop-Can: Canadian Popular Culture and History Units: 6.00
Students learn fundamental historiographical and critical thinking skills exploring eight "things" in Canadian pop culture and their historical factors, documents, and contexts: Super Series 72, Stanley Park, doughnuts and coffee, the North American house hippo, Paul Anka's "Diana", Eaton's catalogue, Bonhomme Carnaval, and a hospital bracelet.
Learning Hours: 240 (72 Seminar, 168 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Specialization, Major, or Joint Honours Plan.
Course Equivalencies: HIST 308, HIST 308B
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the potential of using popular culture in the study of history.
- Recognize what a given piece of popular culture reveals about the historical context that created it.
- Write a variety of fundamental works of the historian’s craft (bibliography, critique, presentation deck, primary source analysis, self-assessment).
- Apply critical terms and methodology relating to the analysis of various primary sources.
- Know how to translate their acquired skills to other classes and history projects.