SLAV 399 Early Ukrainian Canadian Culture

(Spring Term 2021)

If you have asked yourself the questions above, here is your chance to pursue the answers in an exciting and engaging online course, SLAV 399 Early Ukrainian Canadian Culture, offered by the University of Alberta.

In this popular and revised online University of Alberta course, students will be critically revisiting the traditional heritage of Ukrainians in Canada while exploring early settlers’ culture and its role in Ukrainian Canadian community development. In particular, students will examine the settlement patterns, material culture, spiritual culture, traditional customs and cultural practices, period media and communication, and visual arts.

In addition to independently mastering of the above topics, students in 2021 have the unique opportunity to personally contribute to heritage studies in a meaningful and lasting way. To connect the past to the present and as part of their course work, students will work together with a real encyclopedia, assisting it with the development of online content.

Course instructor Professor Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, is teaming up with the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, U of Alberta) to provide a novel opportunity for all course participants. Learners will work with the Encyclopedia in the development of new articles with a focus on early Ukrainian Canadian culture and community development. This is an exciting opportunity for all students to put new knowledge to action and to support the most authoritative English language Encyclopedia of Ukraine in the world.
 
If you want to both learn about and make history, sign up for this course and work with others on this exiting partnership project.
 
Here are a few important details. The course is:

• taught asynchronously; there are no scheduled lectures. There will be plenty of opportunities for ongoing online engagement and interaction via a discussion forum, reflective assignments, and live, online non-mandatory office hours.
• open to both U of A students and off-campus participants. Those who are currently not registered as students at the U of A can sign up through Open Studies webpage
• scheduled for May 10-June 23, 2021
• Preliminary course outline can be found on the MLCS course outlines webpage

For more information about course registration please contact mlcs@ualberta.ca (general inquiries).

For course specific questions, please contact Prof. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen at khanenko.friesen@ualberta.ca