Supplement to Departmental Reports

Supplement to Departmental Reports:

College of New Caledonia (CNC):

David Holm retired last July; John Bogle (a part-timer) had a sessional appointment for the January term while I was bargaining; John Ibberson (Philosophy) taught the intellectual history; Kim Rutherford taught an evening section of the Canadian survey; Brad Smith taught for us in Quesnel.

College of the Rockies (COTR):

For Teaching Loads: This total is for my entire teaching load. In 2006-2007, eight of the sections with three contact hours per week were devoted to history.

For Departmental Administration: COTR has a Dean and Department Head for University Studies. The faculty report to the dean for some concerns and the department head for others.The full time release for University Studies Department Head remains in its pilot project stage with its first formal review being started in February, 2007.

For Electronic Courses, Target Audience: COTR has completed a pilot project with its Creston campus and appears to be moving toward using its online courses to meet the needs of its students from regional campuses. For HIST 211 Online, there were no students enrolled from outside the traditional catchment area.

For Other Relevant Information: With declining enrolment, COTR administration decided to reduce several University Studies faculty members’ teaching loads. I was affected, meaning my schedule for the 2007-2008 academic year will be reduced to 60%, 80%, or 90%. The total reduction is not yet decided upon as the alternative to layoff procedure is still ongoing.

If it is the first number, are there any departments out there looking for an instructor in any of their online Canadian courses?

Corpus ChristiCollege:

Institution: Corpus ChristiCollege

Department Home Page Address:

Email Contacts and Addresses: Dr Niall Christie () and Dr David Sylvester ()

Anticipated Hirings: Commitment to hire full-time when enrolment permits

Teaching Loads (sections per year x contact hours per week): 7 x 3 (full-time) or 1-4 x 3 (part-time)

Proposed New Courses: FINA 225 History of Western Art to the 16th Century

KwantlenUniversityCollege:

Proposal for a Bachelor of Arts, History Major, is working its way through the labyrinthine bureaucracy at Kwantlen. If the degree is approved, target launch date will be September 2008, with 2 new hirings anticipated – one in military history, one TBA (possibly 3 hirings if enrolment warrants).

New Courses in Development:

History 3390: Canada and World War One

History 4480: The Vietnam War in Historical Perspective

History 33XX: The Home Front: Britain during the Second World War

History 33XX: China at War, 1937 to 1945

History 44XX: War in the Ancient World

History 23XX: The Great Strategists

History 4400: The Production of History (capstone course for new BA Major)

Courses Dropped:

History 2361/2362 replaced with a more general introduction to South Asian History (HIST 1160)

Malaspina University-College:

Proposed New Courses

History 375 The Holocaust in Europe

History 371 European Cultural History, 1890 to 1914

History 251 History of Latin America: The Colonial Era

History 252 History of Latin America: The National Era

History 485 (Team taught online) Issues in the Social History of Nursing

(offered in 2006-7)

NorthIslandCollege (NIC):

Pattern of relatively full classes at the ComoxValley campus, and low registrations atPort Alberni and Campbell

SimonFraserUniversity (SFU):

New Courses:

HIST 3XX-4: The Byzantine Empire from the 9th to the 15th Centuries

HIST 4XX-4: Themes in Byzantine History

HIST 3XX-4: History of Alexander the Great

UniversityCollege of the FraserValley (UCFV):

The two “retirements” are resignations: Dr. Bonnie Huskins and Dr. Chad Reimer, who had been on leave for a while, have now officially resigned.

The vacancies left by Drs. Huskins and Reimer have been filled by the hiring, effective August 1, 2007, of two Europeanists, Alisa Webb and Dr. Adrianna Bakos. These hirings consolidate our existing program in British, French, and intellectual/cultural history. Alisa Webb (Ph. D. candidate, SFU) is currently researching the formulation of gender identities, and particularly the ‘girl,’ through the popular press in late-nineteenth century Britain. Alisa has recently published an article in Women’s History Review titled “Constructing the Gendered Body: Girls, Health Beauty, Advice and the Girls’ Best Friend, 1898-99.” Adrianna Bakos (Ph.D., BrynMawrCollege) is the author of Tangled Webs: Louis XI and Images of Kingship in Early Modern France (1997) and has more recently examined the political pamphlets produced during the Fronde in France for religious and gendered iconography. Both are experienced and excellent instructors.

The new courses are:

History 313: War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval West (Chris Leach)

History 318: History of Modern Germany (Steven Schroeder)

History 322: Quebec, 1867-1970 (Dr. Molly Ungar)

History 327: Settler Indigenous Relations (Dr. Scott Sheffield)

History 226: Native Newcomer Relations (Dr. Scott Sheffield)

History 425: The Development of Quebec Nationalism

Electronic courses:

We’ve offered 6 sections of our 3 online courses (Canada: Prelude to Confederation; Canada: 1867 to Present; British Columbia: 1774 to present) and they were the first to fill!

University of British Columbia-V (UBC-V):

Faculty:

Full-Time Regular: Shows number of full-time regular faculty at the end of the academic year, not counting those who retired this year

Note: Two regular faculty have been seconded to full-time administrative duties:

Dianne Newell, Director, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

W. Peter Ward, University Librarian

New Appointments:

Appointed in 2005-2006 and joined dept. in 2006-2007:

Daniel Vickers (Head/early U.S. history)

Tamara Myers (20c. Canada)

Appointed in 2004-2005 and joined dept. in 2006-2007:

Jessica Wang (Canada Research Chair in 20c. U.S. history)

Alexei Kojevnikov (U.S.S.R./history of science)

Michel Ducharme (19c. Canada)

Appointed this year to join dept. next year:

Neil Safier (French Enlightenment)

Retirements:

David Breen (Canada)

Arthur Ray (First Nations)

Diana Lary (China)

Allan Smith (Canada)

George Egerton (International Relations)

Registrations:

Note that these figures are for full-year equivalent registrations; students enrolled in one-term courses are counted as one-half.

If all enrollments were counted on a one-term basis, total enrollments would be: 6428.

Proposed New Courses/Dropped Courses:

There has been an extensive renumbering of courses.

Some full-year courses have been changed to one-term courses.

Departmental Administration:

Released time (amount varies) for:

Head

Associate Head

Graduate Chair

Undergraduate Advisor

University of Victoria (UVic):

1. Institution:University of Victoria

2. Department Home Page Address:

3. E-Mail Contacts and Addresses (two if possible):

(Dr. Tom Saunders)

(Leslie Laird)

4. Faculty:

(a) full-time regular: 23

(b) part-time regular:9

(Wickwire, Devereaux, McKenzie, Lewis-Hammond, Yekelchyk, Schmidtke, Cafferky, Wu)

(d) part-time sessional:29 – includes 2 postdocs

Anticipated Hirings: Colby, Kwakkel

18. Electronic Courses:

Number: 1 - HIST 265 (History of Public Health & Epidemic Disease)

Target Audience: Humanities, Social Sciences, Human & Social Development students