NOST 202 On-line
Social History of the North
Yukon College, Winter 2001

[Yukon College Home] [A. Graham Web Page]

Send e-mail to the instructor:
Amanda Graham agraham at yukoncollege.yk.ca
Other Resources

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Computer Help | Writing and Other NOST 202 Guides | Study Skills
Newsstand | Links | Documents

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Computer Help from Yukon College Computing Services:

• Search pages (Links to many different web search pages)

Writing and Other Guides for NOST 202

• On Writing the Module Short Papers -- a NOST 202 Guide
• Grading Standards for the Module Short Papers-- a NOST 202 Guide

• A Frequently-Asked-Questions Guide to NOST 202 Research Papers -- A NOST 202 Guide
• Possible Subjects and Topics for NOST 202 Research Papers -- A NOST 202 Guide
• Developing Questions for Your Research Paper -- A NOST 202 Guide
• Preparing an Outline for your NOST 202 Research Paper/Project -- A NOST 202 Guide
• Preparing an Update for your NOST 202 Research Paper/Project -- A NOST 202 Guide
• How to Write a Research Paper in 12-15 pages -- A NOST 202 Guide
• Grading Standards for NOST 202 Research Paper/Project Reports -- A NOST 202 Guide

• On Preparing Curriculum Units -- a NOST 202 Guide

• On Preparing Exam Essay Answers -- a NOST 202 Guide
• Exam Short Answer Questions: Defining Terms -- A NOST 202 Guide

• More on Introductions; Large Visual Aid on Introductions -- a NOST 202 Guide
• On Referencing: A Starting Point -- a NOST 202 Guide

• On Doing the Readings -- A NOST 202 Guide
• Reading and Analysing Academic Articles, an on-line guide I put together for NOST 200 some years ago. There is also a fancy, Java Script-enhanced version (with pop-up definitions) if you want to try it. You'll have to have a fairly recent browser to use it.
• On Critical Thinking -- a NOST 202 list 'o' links

Study Skills Guides and Help

• Getting a Handle on Course Reading -- a NOST 202 Guide
• On Reading Historical Sources by David Koeller, North Park University, Department of History.
• Getting a Handle on Taking Notes -- a NOST 202 Guide
• How To Do Research (The "What?" "Why?" and "How?" of conducting formal research, designed for advanced students but useful nonetheless. A Geocities site, with irritating pop-ups.)
• Study Skills Self-help Information from Cook Counselling Centre, Virginia Tech (menu page)
• Study Skills Guides from McMaster University (menu page)
• Study Skills Online from Brunel University, UK

Northern Newsstand

• Circumpolar Newsings

• The Story of Minik (one of several Greenlanders "collected" by Peary for display at the American Museum of Natural History); subject of the book, Give Me My Father's Body (a NOST202 compilation)
• Some News from the Russian North and Far East, 1991-1998 (a NOST202 document)
• ExploreNorth's List of Newspapers & News Services 
• CBC Radio On-Line: Russia in Crisis: The Winter of Tears (reports on Weekend Report)
• CBC News On-LIne: From the Gift of the Iroquois to the Creation of Nunavut: Aboriginal Canadians (an excellent overview of the people and the issues)

Link Collections

• Northern Studies Links (A list of sites of interest to northern studies students and scholars)
• Links to Resources relevant to Land Claims in the Yukon and North America, a collection compiled for POLI 221, Land Claims and Self-government of Yukon First Nations
• Explore North Site (hosted by Murray Lundberg, Carcross) and includes a huge number of links (2,100 in 80-odd categories at last count)
• Northern Women: Different Lives, Common Threads. A web site compiled to coincide with a Circumpolar Women's Conference held November 1999 in Whitehorse.
• The Arctic Roadmap from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. The page was last updated in 2000, so some of the links have expired.

Documents

• ACUNS Revised Ethical Principles for the Conduct of Research in the North (1997)(en français) (required reading)

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