CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unemployment Benefits, Canadian Studies, Modernism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 1000
• Professor: Richard Nimijean

Document Summary

During the 1960s, scholars in canada tended to see the ideas of the nation as something that could guard against the spread of capitalism. It was an antidote to the spread of american capitalism. Ees (cid:448)alue i(cid:374) the (cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that (cid:272)ould prote(cid:272)t us fro(cid:373) the u(cid:374)ited. Nationalism is important because it makes us non-american. All kinds of scholars in canada, realize that people i(cid:374) high s(cid:272)hools a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)i(cid:448)ersities do(cid:374)"t study canada. The stud(cid:455) of ca(cid:374)ada is housed u(cid:374)der (cid:862)british tudies(cid:863) Idea that duri(cid:374)g this ti(cid:373)e, people start to get s(cid:272)ared of the fa(cid:272)t that ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) enough about themselves. Canadian studies originally thought of as a way of getting to know ourselves. If no one else is going to study canada, we have to do it ourselves. Canadian history and literature is just going to be lost. Canadian studies begins as a multidisciplinary area of study, politics, history, literature etc.