FALL 2009 COURSES

Perspectives on Canada
William Green, Professor of Government
    Morehead State University, w.green@morehead-st.edu, Course Coordinator
Thomas Kiffmeyer, Associate Professor of History
   Morehed State University, t.kiffmeyer@morehead-st.edu
Jason Holcomb, Assistant Professor of Geography
   Morehead State University, j.holcomb@morehead-st.edu
Steven Savage, Professor of Anthropology
   Eastern Kentucky University, Steve.Savage@eku.edu
John Petersen, Professor of Government
   Western Kentucky University, John.Petersen@wku.edu
Erik Lewis, Instructor in Government
   Morehead State University, e.lewis@morehead-st.edu

Perspectives on Canada is a multidisciplinary online course which explores the history, geography, society, politics, economy, and environment of America's northern neighbor with particular attention to contemporary Canadian domestic and international issues, including trans-border economic and cultural relationships with the United States, and Canada's active participation in world affairs.

Perspectives on Canada will originate from Morehead State University, use MSU Blackboard server, and be coordinated by Dr. William Green, Professor of Government at MSU, and team taught by him and the five faculty identified above. You may take this course if you are an MSU, EKU, or WKU student. At MSU, the course is listed as IST 330 and GOVT 680; at EKU, it is ANT 332; and at WKU, it is PS 299.

After you register for this course on your home campus, email Professor Green at w.green@morehead-st.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with basic course information.

Physical Geography of North America
Gary O’Dell, Assistant Professor of Geography
Morehead State University, g.odell@morehead-st.edu

Physical Geography of North America will familiarize you with the diversity of natural landscapes from Arctic tundra to California chaparral, from the young and dynamic Rocky Mountains to the ancient and eroded Appalachians, from the Hudson Bay wetlands to the Sonoran desert. To understand the North American physical landscapes, this course will take descriptive approach in association with causal factors to explain the distribution of terrain, geology, climate, vegetation, fauna, and land use with particular emphasis will be given to glacial processes

Physical Geography of North America is a Canadian Studies Online Program course which will originate from Morehead State University, use MSU Blackboard server, and be taught by Gary O’Dell, MSU Associate Professor of Geography. You may take this course if you are an MSU or EKU student. At MSU, the course is GEO 360 and IST 339 and at EKU, the course is GEO 300. After you register for this course on your home campus, email Professor O’Dell at g.odell@morehead-st.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with basic course information.

First Nations of Canada
Steven Savage, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Eastern Kentucky University, Steve.Savage@eku.edu

Canada’s First Nations are its native peoples who live from the Atlantic Provinces to British Columbia and from the forty-ninth parallel to the Arctic Circle and who include the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Huron, Cheyenne, Lillooet, Nootka, subarctic Dene, and Inuit. In this course, these nations will be examined and compared using the concepts of culture area and culture change, ethnographical, ethnohistorical, and anthropological models.

First Nations of Canada will originate from Eastern Kentucky University, use the EKU Blackboard server, and be taught by Dr. Steven Savage, EKU Professor of Anthropology. You may take this course if you are an MSU or EKU student. At EKU, the course is ANT 333 and at MSU IST 332. After you register for this course on your home campus, email Dr. Savage at Steve.Savage@eku.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with basic course information.

Comparative Constitutional Law / Comparative Civil Liberties
William Green, Professor of Government
Morehead State University, w.green@morehead-st.edu

Constitutions embody a commitment to limiting governmental power by entrenching fundamental rights and freedoms. You will explore the role of the United States, Canadian, and German constitutional courts in defining the rights to privacy and equality and freedom of speech and religion in terms of their decisions on abortion, sexual orientation, defamation and hate speech, and religion in public schools. Throughout the course, you will analyze the constitutional conversations these courts have had about the meaning of individual rights and liberties in their democratic post-industrial societies.

Comparative Constitutional Law/Comparative Civil Liberties is will originate from Morehead State University, use MSU Blackboard server, and be taught by Dr. William Green, Professor of Government at MSU. You may take this course if you are an MSU, EKU, or WKU student. At MSU, the course is listed as IST 334 and GOVT 303; at EKU, it is POL 405; and at WKU, it is PS 400. After you register for this course on your home campus, email Professor Green at w.green@morehead-st.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with basic course information

Political Economy and Environment of Canada
Ernest J. Yanarella, Professor of Political Science
University of Kentucky, ejyana@email.uky.edu

Canada's environmental policy has felt the impact of the country's subordinate economic place vis-à-vis the United States. In this course, you will survey this economic impact and then explore how the Canadian environment, as cultural symbol and economic resource, has shaped the country’s environmental tradition and its political movements and environmental groups. You will also examine Canada’s efforts to steer a course to ecological sustainability in the face of tendencies toward top-down globalization of the international political economy.

Political Economy and Environment of Canada will originate from the University of Kentucky, use the UK Blackboard server and electronic library reserves, and by taught by Professor Ernest J. Yanarella, Professor of Political Science at UK. You may take this course only if you are a UK student. At UK, this course is listed as PS 391. After you register for this course at UK, email Professor Yanarella at ejyana@email.uky.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with basic course information.

Geography of the United States and Canada
Esther Ratajeski, Assistant Professor of Geography
Morehead State University, e.long@morehead-st.edu

The Geography of the United States and Canada will examine the physical landscapes, settlement patterns, political geography, agriculture, industry, and transportation, urban geography, and cultural regions of these two North American neighbors. The course project will be a report which examines a U.S. or Canadian town in terms of the principal course themes.

The Geography of the United States and Canada will originate from Morehead State University, use MSU Blackboard server, and be taught by Dr. Esther Long, Assistant Professor of Geography at MSU. You may take this course only if you are a MSU student. At MSU, this course is listed as GEO 241 / IST 241: United States and Canada. After you register for this course at MSU, email Professor Long at e.long@morehead-st.edu and provide her with your email address. She will send you a reply email with course information.