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HIST 467 First Nations of North America Units: 3.00
An examination of First Nations history from ancient times to the present in North America with a particular focus on the Canadian experience. Topics include culture theory, disease, trade, missionaries, the writing of native history, and contemporary events.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Course Equivalencies: HIST 467, HIST 467B
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Think ‘historically’: This involves demonstrating an understanding of historical significance, causality, and context.
- Read critically, evaluate and interpret historical sources: This involves asking questions of readings, evaluating, and analyzing both primary and secondary sources, and comparing sources.
- Analyze evidence and use that evidence to develop and support historical arguments: This involves using historical methodology to interpret sources and employing those interpretations in the development of historical arguments.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the History of the First Nations of North America: This involves retaining course content and using that content to contextualize events for the period under study.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills: This involves clearly and effectively presenting questions, ideas, and arguments in oral and written form.