Club Car

Here it is--please bring in your answers by 2:00 Thursday 13 May. 1000 words max per question. 50 points per question. Either hard copy (preferred) in my mailbox (Minard 402) or Word doc attached to an e-mail to me.

Required Question

By the mid-1990s a near-majority of people in Quebec were prepared to separate from Canada in the cause of Francophone sovereignty. How did they arrive at this state? Answer as a historian, drawing on the Short History of Quebec, by Dickinson & Young.

Pick 1 of These 2

A persistent thread in the history of Canadian-American relations is the Canadian concern to maintain autonomy, sovereignty, and identity. Select and explore three examples of issues where such concerns played a role.

Canadians may not have radically different attitudes from Americans, but certainly in most public affairs, they are at a different point on the continuum. What about the most basic question in governance: the proper role and responsibilities of government? What historical developments exhibit distinctively Canadian attitudes about the role and responsibilities of government?

Today, Thursday, we discuss in class the questions for the take-home exam. We'll settle on these, and after class--or more likely, about 5:00--I'll post them to the blog. Let me acknowledge receiving these suggestions by e-mail from Erica: "I also wanted to submit a couple broad topics for exam questions in case that was something that was asked for in class today. The two that we discussed that intrigued me were French/Quebec separatism and multiculturalism in Canada (this seems to be a theme that has reoccurred over the semester)."