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1. Comparative Literature -- Comparative Literature Program
   Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging, multicultural program of studies in poetry, prose, drama, film, and related arts. Housed in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the program is by nature interdisciplinary and has strong ties with several other departments in the University. In addition to the courses offered by the department in comparative literature and literatures in foreign languages, the student is encouraged to take courses in English, history, humanistic geography, philosophy, and visual and performing arts.
2. Canadian (World Literature) -- Canadian Studies
   Jonathan Weiss and Jane Moss, French-Canadian Literature (1996), is a concise but useful survey. Studies on the novel include Ben-Z. Shek, French-Canadian & Québécois Novels (1991); and Maurice Cagnon, The French Novel of Quebec (1986). André G. Bourassa, Surrealism and Quebec Literature: History of a Cultural Revolution, trans. from the French by Mark Czarnecki (1984), is a well-documented work, particularly helpful for its study of Quebec poetry before the 1980s. Jean-Louis Major, Quebec Literature: From Collective Identity to Modernity and Back (1999), is a brief but insightful study.
3. Bruce Bennett
   Bruce Bennett is the author of six volumes of poetry and sixteen poetry chapbooks. His most recent FootHills books are Grief and Love (2004) and Funny Signals (2003) a full length book which includes the long out of print and very popular FootHills Publishing chapbook,To Be A Heron (1989). His collection of new and selected poems, NAVIGATING THE DISTANCES (Orchises Press), was named by Booklist "one of the top ten poetry books of 1999." He is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Wells College in Aurora, New York, where he ... unfortunately, sometimes listens to the news.
4. Social Sciences -- Humanities Library
   The strengths of the Social Sciences and Humanities Library are in Australian Studies, business and economics, English and Australian literature, history and political science, religion, sociology and psychology. Collection strengths are developing in emerging research areas, e.g. criminology, communication and media studies, and Islamic studies.
5. History of Asia -- Miscellaneous
   How would you determine how much a certain sum of money at a particular period in history would be worth today? These printed and online sources for comparing prices and the cost of living over long time spans may be useful.
6. Gough Whitlam -- Edward Gough Whitlam
   (Edward) Gough Whitlam, AC 1987, QC 1962, MHR 1952-78, was the Prime Minister of Australia from December 1972 to November 1975. When Whitlam became Prime Minister in 1972 he abolished conscription, withdrew the remaining Australian troops from Vietnam, banned sporting teams from South Africa, changed Australia’s voting on South African questions in the UN, organised independence for PNG, abolished tertiary fees and the death penalty, introduced welfare payments for single parent families and reduced the voting age to eighteen years. Yet even years after ending his term of office as Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam remains a household name. On his resignation from parliament in 1978, Gough became a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. The same year he was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia and in 1980 the first National Fellow of the Australian National University and the following year Sydney University conferred on him an honorary doctorate of Literature. He was appointed Australian Ambassador to UNESCO in 1983 and in 1985 was elected to its Executive Board.
7. Nobel Prize -- Al Gore
   Being born in Australia is perhaps not enough in itself to make a winner an Australian Nobel laureate. For example, laser pioneer Aleksandr Prokhorov (Physics, 1964) was born in Queensland , but he left Australia as a seven-year-old and never returned. But the fact that someone was not born here can be quite irrelevant. Patrick White (Literature, 1973) was not born in Australia , he was not educated here, and he said that he did not feel particularly Australian - yet he won the prize 'for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent [ Australia ] into literature'.
8. Anna Kournikova -- Martina Hingis
   Anna Kournikova played in the Federation Cup at age 14 and won her first professional title at 15. Her good looks and signature braided blonde ponytail made her a fan favorite and eventually an off-court star; People magazine named her one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" of 1998. In 1999 she won her first Grand Slam title, a doubles victory with Martina Hingis at the Australian Open. In 2000 the Web portal Lycos named her the Internet's most-searched athlete. In December 2004 it was widely reported, but not confirmed, that Kournikova had married pop singer Enrique Iglesias in Mexico.
9. Moulin Rouge
   Like William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet before it, Moulin Rouge is a brilliant film. It takes a basic text and envisions it entirely cinematically. It finds ways to express in images what narrative storytelling has been doing for centuries. That Luhrmann takes Méliès as his inspiration makes it all the more effective. The film is frequently as wild and inspirational as Méliès' were and shares their capacity to inspire awe and wonder. Méliès told fantastic stories using every trick in the newly-opened book of moviemaking at precisely the time in which this film is set.
10. Conscription -- Issues
    Conscription is the term for compulsory military recruitment. Historically, conscription has been a politically divisive issue, splitting Canada along linguistic and cultural lines. In 1917 PM Borden introduced conscription, effectively losing the support of Québec. PM King, in 1944, managed to institute conscription at a lesser political cost.

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