Friday, June 17, 2011

Canadian society

Here are a few ideas for the level 8 sociology course:

The CBC Ideas program is a mixture of lecture, interview, and this and that. Each program runs about 54 minutes (50 of real material). These are copyrighted, so don't reproduce them. No transcript or video available.
  • The Chinese Laundry in Canada and how it affected the children. The web page is here and you can get the MP3 from iTunes (date: 5/1/11).
  • A two-part show (almost 2 hours), which might be too long, is `Being Canadian'. "Ideas, stories, and reflections on being Canadian: who we are, what we are, and what it means to be a citizen of Canada today. From east to west, public intellectuals and private citizens (both new and old Canadians), tell film-maker Sun-Kyung (Sunny) Yi about the concerns, the questions, and the challenges of living together in a multicultural and diverse society." Download.
  • And a third: "Amid continuing tension between Muslim and non-Muslim populations in many western countries, the question keeps coming back: Is Islam compatible with western values? Hassan Ghedi Santur asks if someone can embrace the secular, pluralist democratic values of the West and still be a "good" Muslim?" (no download that I can find).

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