HIS 232: UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1877


North Island College Fall 2023

Meeting TimesWed. 8:30 - 11:15 am

Meeting PlaceTyee 203

Instructor: Dan Hinman-Smith

Office:  Trades 112

Office Hours:  Wed. Noon - 3 pm (You can either meet me in person in Trades 112 or set up a video meeting on BlueJeans

Office Phone: 334-5000, Extension 4024

Web-Sites: http://www.misterdann.com/contentspostcivilwarus.htm and https://mycourses.nic.bc.ca/

E-Mail: dan.hinmansmith@nic.bc.ca

North Island College is honoured to acknowledge the traditional territories of the combined 35 First Nations of the Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka'wakw and Coast Salish traditions, on whose traditional and unceded territories the college's campuses are situated.  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's final report calls for 94 actions toward restoring a balanced relationship between indigenous peoples and settler communities in this country.


Course Description

This course addresses the political, economic and social development of the American republic from the end of Reconstruction to the present day.  Major themes will include urbanization, western settlement, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War and rise to Super Power Status, and Civil Rights.


Books

**It is important that you acquire the Wilkerson and O'Brien books in paper or e-book form.  Although the Osnos volume is recommended, it will not play as prominent role in the course as the other two titles.

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents (New York: Random House, 2023).

Tim O'Brien, Things They Carried (New York: Mariner, 1991).

Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making Of America's Fury (New York: Picador, 2022).

Optional Textbook:  I have decided not to include a textbook as one of the required HIS 232 readings.  However, textbooks can be useful both for provided a general survey of the history under study in any given course and for helping to provide basic context for particular eras and topics.  Two free open-source post-Civil War texts are P. Scott Corbett et al., U.S. History (OpenStax, 2014) and The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook (Stanford University Press Edition).


Learning Outcomes

1.  Identify and analyze the major events in post-Reconstruction United States history.

2.  Compare and contrast historians' views about these major events and issues by identifying arguments, evidence and biases.

3.  Analyze the effects of industrialization and urbanizations.

4.  Explain the growth of political, social, and economic institutions in the United States with particular emphasis on civil rights.

5.  Place the United States in the changing context of international affairs.


Tentative Class Schedule

Week 1

Wednesday, September 6

a)  Course Introduction

b)  Video: "Liberty: Mother Of Exiles," HBO, 2019 [82 mins] or "Reconstruction: The Second Civil War," American Experience, PBS, 2004 [180 mins]


Week 2

Wednesday, September 13 

a)  Lecture:  Confederate Monuments And War Memory

b)  Discussion: Confederate Monuments In The News

c)  Discussion: Scavenger Hunt Mini-Presentations

d)  Continue Lecture: Confederate Monuments And War Memory

e)  Discussion:  Other Confederate Symbols In The News

f)  Possible Short Video:  "Monument: The Untold Story Of Stone Mountain," Atlanta History Center, 2023.  [32 mins]

Class Preparation

1)  HIS 232 Scavenger Hunt: There are many supplementary materials available on the HIS 232 web-site.  This small exercise is designed both to introduce you to some of these supplementary materials and to encourage you to talk to your classmates from the very beginning of the semester.  You should do the following.  Do some extensive browsing in the Video Links, the Audio Links, and the NIC And VIRL Video Links sections of the Mister Dan HIS 232 resource page.  Watch at least one video and listen to at least one audio file and come to class ready to spend a few minutes describing at least two separate programs and your response to these.

2)  Complete the Reading Assignment and Listening And Viewing Assignment listed below and come to class ready to discuss.  You core class preparation responsibilities will be outlined each week under the Reading Assignment and Listening And Viewing Assignment categories.  I also typically will list some additional resources within the Optional Extras category.  You are not expected to review these.  But they have been carefully selected and are included for students with a particular interest in the course overall or in any given topic.  You are encouraged to access as many of these as possible, and to include review of some of them within your portfolio.

3)  Complete your Letter of Introduction within the first week or two and either hand that to me in class or submit it through BrightSpace.


Reading Assignment

Browse extensively in the Confederate Memory In The News Discussion Topic.  You certainly are not expected to access all the materials in the Discussion Topic, but you should spend at least an hour carefully working your way through different sections of the web-page, slowing down to read and or watch/listen to items that particularly catch your attention.


Listening And Viewing

"Chapter 1: The Gilded Age," American Experience, PBS, 2018.  (10 mins)


Optional Extras

Browse in the Statue Of Liberty Discussion Topic: A series of resources that explores the history and iconography of the famous monument.

"The Immigrants Of Angel Island -- The History You Didn't Learn," Time, May 6, 2021.  [12 mins]

  "Downing Of A Flag: Part One," PBS, 2021.  [55 mins]; "Downing Of A Flag: Part Two," PBS, 2021.  [55 mins] -- A history of the Confederate Battle Flag against the backdrop of Dylan Roof's massacre of Charleston church parishioners.

"The New Gilded Age," Throughline, NPR, December 29, 2022.  [50 mins] -- An episode from a superb history podcast series that compares the historic Gilded Age of the post-Civil War era with contemporary times.

  "America: 'Forever Free,' But Not Yet Whole," Fresh Air, WHYY, January 9, 2006.  [39 mins]  -- The foremost historian of Reconstruction provides a brief introduction to the topic.

The Gilded Age, American History Tellers, Wondery  -- An entire podcast series that provides an in-depth audio introduction to late 19th-century American life.

Episode 1, Carnival Of Corruption, February 15, 2022.  [40 mins]

Episode 2, Rise Of The Robber Barons, February 15, 2022.  [44 mins]

Episode 3, How The Other Half Lives, February 16, 2022.  [44 mins]

Episode 4, Exclusion, February 16, 2022.  [45 mins]

Episode 5, Workers Revolt, March 22, 2022.  [39 mins]

Episode 6, Cross Of Gold, February 17, 2022.  [42 mins]

Episode 7, What America Failed To Learn, February 17, 2022.  [41 mins]


Week 3

Wednesday, September 20 

a)  Lecture: Liberty

b)  Mini-Presentations: Turn Of The Century Expositions

c)  Finish Lecture: Liberty

d)  Possible Video Clip:   "Plessy V. Ferguson And Segregation: Crash Course Black American History #21."  [11 mins] or    "Booker T. Washington And W.E.B. DuBois: Crash Course Black American History #22."  [11 mins]

Class Preparation

Your most important responsibility for this week is to engage in research and collaboration with your fellow group members on your assigned Turn Of The Century Exposition.


Reading Assignment

  Colin Woodard, "How The Myth Of the American Frontier Got Its Start," Smithsonian (January/February 2023).


Listening And Viewing

  "Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools," PBS, 2016.  [57 mins]


Optional Extras

  "In The White Man's Image," American Experience, PBS, 1992. [55 mins] --  The story of the Indian Carlisle School.

  "Geronimo," We Shall Remain -- America Through Native Eyes, PBS, 2009.  [78 mins]


Week 4

Wednesday, September 27 

a)  Discussion: Caste

b)  Video: "Goin' Back To T-Town," American Experience, PBS, 1993 [53 mins] or "Demon Rum," American Experience, PBS, 1989.  [58 mins]

c)  Discussion: Tulsa Massacre And Historical Memory

Reading Assignment

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents (New York: Random House, 2023).

  Isabel Wilkerson, "The Long-Lasting Legacy Of The Great Migration," Smithsonian (September 2016).


Optional Extras

Browse extensively in the Tulsa Massacre Discussion Topic

  "The Chinese Exclusion Act," PBS, 2018.  [160 mins]


Week 5

Wednesday, October 4 

a)  Lecture: "You May Fire When Ready Gridley": America And The World (1890-1917)

b)    "Yellow Journalism," American Experience, PBS, 2021.  [8 mins]

c)  Class Analysis Of Spanish-American War Cartoons And World War I Propaganda Posters

d)  Lecture: "To Make The World Safe For Democracy": The Great War

e)    "Chapter 1, Influenza 1918," American Experience, PBS, 2018.  [10 mins]

Reading Assignment

  Liza Mundy, "The Long Battle For Women's Suffrage," Smithsonian (April 2019).

Sarah A. Topol, "The America That Americans Forget," New York Times Magazine, June 7, 2023.  This long article is also available as a Streaming Audio File or podcast, or as an audio presentation on YouTube if you prefer one of those formats or if you are unable to access the New York Times website.


Listening And Viewing

  "The Overthrow Of Queen Lili'uokalani, Hawaii's Last Queen," American Experience, PBS Learning Media.  [6 mins]

  How WW I Changed America, National WW I Museum And Memorial, 2021 -- Watch at least one of the following short episodes.

  "America Goes To War"  [6 mins]

  "Selling The War"  [6 mins]

  "Citizenship And WW I"  [6 mins]

  "African Americans In WW I"  [7 mins]

  "Immigrants and WW I"  [6 mins]

  "Native Americans In WW I"  [5 mins]

  "Women In WW I"  [6 mins]

  "The Influenza Pandemic"  [6 mins]

  "Coming Home"  [5 mins]


Optional Extras

  "The Vote," American Experience, PBS, 2020.  [113 mins]

  "The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War," ARTE France, 2018.  [52 mins]

"Puerto Rico," Throughline, NPR, September 19, 2019.  [66 mins]

"The History Of American Imperialism, From Bloody Conquest To Bird Poop," Fresh Air, NPR, February 18, 2019.  [36 mins]

  "Crucible Of Empire: The Spanish American War," PBS:

***October 4: Caste Reading Notes And Mini-Essay Due


Week 6

Wednesday, October 11 

a)  Photographers Of The Depression Era Mini-Presentations And Discussion

b)  Mini-Lecture: 1919 -- World War I And Its Aftermath

c)  Mini-Lecture: the Jazz Age -- And Introduction To The Twenties

d)  Video: "Riding The Rails" [72 mins., 2003]

Class Preparation

Complete tasks as outlined in the FSA Photography Project Of The 1930s Discussion Topic.


Optional Extras  [The superb 7-hour "Great Depression" series offers an overview of the 1930s through a series of well-chosen case studies.  If you have the time, watch at least one episode]

Episode 1 -- A Job At Ford's:

Episode 2 -- The Road To Rock Bottom:

Episode 3 -- New Deal, New York:

Episode 4 -- We Have A Plan:

Episode 5 -- Mean Things Happening:

Episode 6 -- To Be Somebody:

Episode 7 -- Arsenal Of Democracy:


Week 7

Wednesday, October 18

a)  Lecture: "Waitin' On Roosevelt": The New Deal And The Emergence Of A Welfare State

b)  Mini-Presentations And Discussion: Japanese American Internment

c)  Lecture: V Was For Victory -- World War II

Class Preparation

Complete tasks as outlined in the Japanese American Internment Discussion Topic.


Listening And Viewing

"Huey Long Vs. The Media," Throughline, NPR, August 1, 2019.  [32 mins]

"Father Charles Coughlin -- America's First Radio Priest," Witness History, BBC World Service, October 18, 2016.  [9 mins]


Optional Extras

  T. A. Frail, "The Injustice Of Japanese-American Internment Camps Resonates Strongly To This Day," Smithsonian (January 2017).

  "The Civilian Conservation Corps," American Experience, PBS, 2009.  [52 mins]

"Art For The Millions -- Staging The New Deal," The Documentary, BBC World Service, December 17, 2017.  [50 mins]

  "Asian Americans," PBS, 2020:  A comprehensive 5-hour overview of Asian American history.


Week 8

Wednesday, October 25

 

a)  Discussion:  Korean War At 70

b)  Video:  "Two Days In October, " American Experience, PBS, 2005. [90 mins]

c)  Lecture: Joseph McCarthy And Other Delinquents: Post-War Culture (1945-1960)

d)  "The Fog Of War," 2003.  (107 mins)

Reading Assignment

Browse extensively in the Korean War At 70 Discussion Topic.

John F. Kennedy, "Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961"


Listening And Viewing

"Human Error In Volatile Situations," This American Life, December 22, 2017.

"The McCarthy Era," Witness History, BBC World Service, April 28, 2016.  [9 mins]

"The Lavender Scare," The History You Didn't Learn, Time, January 25, 2021.  [10 mins]


Optional Extras

"Oppenheimer: The Father Of The Atom Bomb," Episode 343, The Rest Is History, BBC, June 21, 2023.  [58 mins]

"Oppenheimer: The Witch Hunt," Episode 344, The Rest Is History, BBC, June 22, 2023.  [56 mins]

  "Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go To War," PBS, 2012.  [57 mins]

"The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings Of The Cold War," The Forum, BBC World Service, April 10, 2022.  [41 mins]

  "McCarthy," PBS, 2020.  [113 mins]

"One Year: 1955," Slate, 2023:  An in-depth exploration of one moment in time in American History.


Week 9

Wednesday, November 1 

a)  Lecture: Eyeball To Eyeball -- The Cold War (1945-1989)

b)  Video:  "Awakenings," Eyes On The Prize Series, PBS, 1986 [60 min] or "I Am Not Your Negro," 2016 [93 mins]

Reading Assignment

Tim O'Brien, Things They Carried (New York: Mariner, 1991).


Optional Extras

  "The Sixties: The Years That Shaped A Generation," PBS, 2005.  [115 mins]


Week 10

Wednesday, November 8

a)  Discussion: Things They Carried

b)  Discussion:  Letter From A Birmingham Jail

c)  Discussion:  Civil Rights Movement In The News

d)  Lecture: "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed On Freedom": The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)

Reading Assignment

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter From A Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963

Research your particular Civil Rights Movement Discussion Topic and come ready to introduce this topic to the class.


Optional Extras

  Marian Smith Holmes, "The Freedom Riders, Then And Now," Smithsonian (February 2009).

"The Real Black Panthers," Throughline, NPR, April 15, 2021.  [57 mins]

  "Freedom Riders," American Experience, PBS, 2011 [120 mins]

  "Freedom Summer," American Experience, PBS, 2014 [24 mins]:  A substantial sample from a feature-length documentary.  This entire documentary is also available in streaming format through the Vancouver Island Regional Library and Kanopy at Freedom Summer: American Experience .

"The Complicated History And Identity Of Latinos In The United States," The World, PRI, June 28, 2021.  [50 mins]


Week 11

Wednesday, November 15

a)  Discussion and Mini-Lecture:  Remembering September 11

b)  Course Check-In:  The Monuments Assignment

c)  Video:  "America After 9/11," Frontline, PBS, 2021.  [110 mins]

Reading Assignment

Browse extensively in the Remembering September 11th Discussion Topic.


Week 12

Wednesday, November 22

a)  Mini-Presentations:  The Monuments Assignment

Class Preparation

Work on completing the Monuments Assignment and choose one monument for a short, ungraded in-class Powerpoint presentation.


Optional Extras

"The Story Of Roe V. Wade, Part 1: Who Was Jane Roe?," The Daily, New York Times, 2018.  [24 mins]

"The Story Of Roe V. Wade, Part 2: The Culture Wars," The Daily, New York Times, 2018.  [32 mins]

"Feminist Barbie?: How The Popular Toy Has Waxed And Waned With Women's Movements Through History," Sunday Magazine, CBC, July 23, 2023.  [9 mins]

"The Watergate Hearings," Witness History, BBC World Service, May 22, 2013.  [9 mins]

  "Campaigns And Elections: The 2000 Election," Retro Report, PBS Learning Media.  [11 mins]

 

"Nixon In China," Witness History, BBC World Service, February 22, 2022.

  "Chapter 1, Part 1, Taken Hostage," American Experience, PBS, 2022.  [10 mins]

  "Chapter 1, Part 2, Taken Hostage," American Experience, PBS, 2022.  [11 mins]

"Ronald Reagan And The American Dream," Episode 310: Ronald Reagan And The American Dream, Rest Is History, BBC, March 5, 2023  [53 mins] -- An in-depth three-part introduction to the Reagan years from the superb Podcast series hosted by the British historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.

"Ronald Reagan And The American Dream," Episode 311: The Road To The White House, Rest Is History, BBC, March 8, 2023.  [62 mins]

"Ronald Reagan And The American Dream," Episode 312: Reagan, Iran-Contra And The Cold War, Rest Is History, BBC, March 12, 2023.  [55 mins]

  "Clinton," American Experience, PBS: A 3.5-hour introduction to the Democratic President -- Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4 .

  "Bush's War," Frontline, PBS, March 24, 2008:  The history of American involvement in Iraq.


Week 13

Wednesday, November 29 

a)  Discussion:  The Monuments Assignment

Optional Extras

Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making Of America's Fury (New York: Picador, 2022).

The Coming Storm, BBC Radio 4:  A major BBC Podcast series that tries to place Q'Anon within historical perspective.  The series is also available through the BBC Sounds app.

Episode 1, The Dead Body, September 11, 2022.  [34 mins]

Episode 2, Sex, Lies, And . . . A Videotape, September 18, 2022.  [35 mins]

Episode 3, The Basement, September 25, 2022.  [32 mins]

Episode 4, Q Drops, October 2, 2022.  [36 mins]

Episode 5, Blowback, October 9, 2022.  [35 mins]

Episode 6, The Usual Suspects, October 16, 2022.  [42 mins]

Episode 7, Welcome To The Future, October 23, 2022.  [38 mins]

Episode 8, Epilogue, October 30, 2022.  [39 mins]

The Mid-Terms 1. Groomers, October 30, 2022.  [39 mins]

The Mid-Terms 2. The Regime, November 13, 2022.  [55 mins]

The Mid-Terms 2. The Regime -- Part 2, November 20, 2022.  [28 mins]

  "Money, Power And Wall Street," Frontline, PBS, April 24 & May 1, 2012:  A brilliant four-hour investigation of the roots and impact of the 2008 financial crisis.

  "The Choice: Trump Vs. Biden," Frontline, PBS, September 22, 2020.  [113 mins]  -- The most recent edition of a recurring American public television series in which the respective Presidential candidates are profiled on the eve of the election.

McKay Coppins, "The Man Who Broke Politics," Atlantic (November 1, 2018).

"The Border," Throughline, NPR, March 21, 2019.  [15 mins]

***December 6:  Monuments Assignment Due (you should consider this a fixed deadline)


Evaluation

Letter Of Introduction

1%

Caste Reading Notes And Mini-Essay

15%

First Half Portfolio

20%

Monuments Assignment

25%

Second Half Portfolio

20%

Class Participation, Contributions And Professionalism

19%

a)  Letter Of Introduction (1%)

Write a short letter of introduction to me at the beginning of the semester.  This should be at least 100 words in length and is designed to give me a beginning idea of who you are and how I might best serve you as a teacher, and to provide me with an opening snapshot of the class as a whole.  You need not use the following questions as cues but they may be helpful.  Who are you?  Where are you from?  How might you begin to describe your community and what life is like there if you've come to NIC from far way?  What do you miss and what do you think would most surprise me if I were to visit your hometown?  What are your interests?  Why are you taking this course?  What are your thoughts and reflections as you begin HIS 232?  How familiar are you already with American History?  Are there topics associated with the course that you know will be of potential interest?  Do you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions?  This is an assignment I ask of students in each of my classes.  Although this is not a graded assignment, I would appreciate it if you took several minutes writing a thoughtful introduction.  If you are enrolled in more than one class with me this semester, a single letter of introduction will suffice, but mention something about each of the courses.  If you have taken a class with me before, please update what you sent me before and send me a new letter of introduction.  Submit your Letter of Introduction to me in class or through Brightspace.


b)  Caste Reading Notes And Mini-Essay (15%)

This assignment will consist of reading notes and a mini-essay in response to Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontent.  You will be expected to bring active reading notes with you to class when we discuss this book on Wednesday, September 27th.  It is fundamentally important that you acquire this volume in either paper or e-text format.


c)  First Half Portfolio And Second Half Portfolio (20% + 20%) = 40%

You will be asked to engage in various reading, viewing, and listening activities in preparation for our weekly sessions and also will complete a few  ungraded individual and group research exercises.  There will be regular small writing responsibilities associated with this pre-class study that you will be handing in on a weekly basis.  I will collect these materials in individual student files and evaluate them at the half-way and end-points of the semester.  I will also ask you to provide a self-evaluation in regards to the consistency of your efforts.  One major purpose of this ongoing assignment is to help prepare you for our class sessions so that you can be as engaged with your classmates as possible.

Your pre-class study responsibilities are listed in the syllabus.  The core curriculum consists of those resources listed under the Reading Assignments and the Viewing and Listening Assignments for each week.  Those students who demonstrate that they are doing their best to complete these responsibilities on a weekly basis should do well in this portion of the course.

I also have listed a number of Optional Extra resources for our weekly sessions.  Although there is no requirement that you access these, students will be encouraged to dive into these when they have the time to do so.  Some individualized adjustments in regards to the Portfolio will be possible, but need to be discussed with me in advance.


d)  Monuments Assignment (25%)

The Monuments Assignment will be a major research exercise in which you will be asked to explore how American History has been represented, reinterpreted, and contested through various public statues, memorials, and museums.  This assignment will be due much later in the semester.


e)  Class Discussion, Contributions And Professionalism (19%)

The quality of this course will be dependent not just on the instructor's capabilities but upon your self-discipline in regularly following through with your out-of-class responsibilities and your willingness to actively engage with your fellow students in the classroom.

The Class Discussion, Contributions and Professionalism grade will be based upon attendance; pre-class preparation; your contributions to full-class and small-group discussion; and your own self-evaluation of your efforts here.

Those students who demonstrate consistent professionalism in their approach to HIS 232 should anticipate a B range grade or higher for this component of the course, and no student who attains this level will have their overall course grade lowered by this percentage of it.


Time Commitment

Although the time it takes individual students to complete course responsibilities varies individually, I have set up the course with the expectation that you will probably need to devote four hours a week to this course on a regular basis right from the start of the semester to gain full value from it.  It is important that you not fall behind on your assignments and that you demonstrate that you are coming to class having completed your pre-class study responsibilities.  Please stay in close communication with me and let me know if you are experiencing challenges in keeping up with the curriculum.


Late Policy

The curriculum for this course is organized on a week-by-week basis, in which most assignments are cumulative and on-going.  Discussion amongst students will be dependent upon classmates keeping current with their studies.  Late assignments are also often an extra burden from an instructor standpoint.  Due dates should be noted and met.

I appreciate that there may be occasions where a very few extra days to polish an assignment in the midst of competing deadlines can be helpful, and thus I deliberately assume a good-faith effort on the part of students to meet the due dates and provide a small cushion of flexibility without any academic penalty.   That does not mean the due dates are unimportant or that extensions are automatically granted.  You must discuss possible extensions with me directly and I reserve the right to refuse to accept any late assignment if you do not check in with me before the due date.

Your ability and willingness to stay current with your pre-class responsibilities will have a major impact upon your Portfolio and Class Discussion and Professionalism grades.  Meeting your core curricular responsibilities in a timely manner will not preclude following up with more in-depth study or delving deeper into the Optional Extras after our class discussion.  You will be encouraged to identify topics of particular interest throughout the semester and there always will be the opportunity to add supplemental materials to your portfolio at any point in time.


Writing Support And Peer Tutoring

Writing Support is available to all students at no additional cost.  Go to Writing Support for any or all of your assignments.  Every visit is a step toward becoming a better writer.  Use Writing Support as many times as you like, and at any point in your writing process.  The writing support faculty can help you understand the assignment, develop your ideas, outlines, thesis, and revision -- and anything else in-between.  Book your appointment through the library website, or visit the library desk to inquire about drop-ins.  There's also WriteAway, an online tutoring platform that allows you to upload your papers and assignments for detailed written feedback.  Both services may be found at https://library.nic.bc.ca/WritingSupport .


Student Technical Services

Our Student Technical Service team is available to help you with any technical issues that you may be experiencing as a student.  Please go to https://library.nic.bc.ca/studenttech for more information.


Learn Anywhere

NIC's Learn Anywhere website is geared to provide a collection of information that will help you be successful learning digitally by covering area such as: What is digital learning? How to be a digital learner while using NIC-supported technologies during your studies? A list of key skills and knowledge all students should have for successful learning in today's world, knowing your rights and responsibilities and Technology Readiness Checklists. More details at: https://learnanywhere.opened.ca/


Community Supports (24/7)

There are several supports available to help any student in distress. If you are in distress, please reach out for support.

Vancouver Island Crisis Line:  24/7 1-888-494-3888 (Available to students located on Vancouver Island only)

Crisis Suicide helpline:  24/7 1-800-784-2433 (Available to students located in Canada only)

BC 211:  Full list of community services available across BC.  Dial 2-1-1 on BC cellphone (Available to students located in BC only).

Here2Talk:  24/7 counselling support for post-secondary students: 1-877-857-3397 (Available to students located in Canada and offshore).


A Note On Academic Integrity

Everything that you hand in should be your original work unless otherwise indicated.  Violations of this policy may result in being reported to the Academic Integrity Committee and in failing an assignment or the course in its entirety.  Please talk to me if you have any uncertainty about what is permitted here.  I want to help you to get as much out of this course as possible but, for this to happen, you need to put forth strong and honest effort.  Some students in the past have used contracted outsiders to complete their work.  There now also is the possibility of using Chat GTP or other Artificial Intelligence resources in an entirely inappropriate way.  Please do not do either.  What may seem like a dishonest but private choice is actually one with ripple effects that not only disheartens your instructor but which also very negatively impacts upon the education of your classmates.  Thank you.


Related Policy

Community Code of Academic, Personal and Professional Conduct (3-06)

Instructional Accommodation and Access Services for Students with Disabilities (3-17)

Student Appeals Policy (3-30)

Student Complaint Resolution Policy (3-31)

Evaluation of Student Performance Policy (3-33)

Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy (3-34)

Course Outline Policy (3-35)

Academic Standing and Progression (3-37)

Grading System (4-14)


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