This information effective for Spring 2001. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Students develop and implement action plans to combat racism.
This course provides an introduction and overview of the history of Native Americans, Europeans, and West Africans in French North America from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This will be accomplished through lectures, readings, and discussions that focus on the social, economic, cultural, gendered, and political encounters, alliances, struggles, revolts, and transformations that characterize this history. French Society, Peoples and Institutions. Explorations, and First Cultural Encounters. Dickason, The Myth of the Savage, chs.