Course Objectives
Trailer Park Boys was a major cultural phenomenon of the first decade of the twenty-first century that complicated Canada’s image of itself and that of Canadians abroad. Furthermore, beneath the improvisational slapstick of the series, it wrestled with fundamental religious and social questions concerning poverty, addiction, grace, free will and kinship. This course will use the series as a jumping off point for elaborating those questions in philosophical and sociological terms. Plus, we will watch a bunch of Trailer Park Boys, including episodes not in syndication on Netflix at present.
Difficulty Level
This course’s lecture content requires no prior specialized knowledge and is based on general knowledge widely available to any high school graduate who keeps up with the news. The one challenge element of the course is the optional reading. Some of the readings are from academic scholarship, some from medieval theological texts. However, the reading is optional and the course is perfectly comprehensible without it.
Texts
At the beginning of the course, students will receive a series of Dropbox links to download each of the videos and readings we will be discussing. This includes episodes of the TV series and two of the books as well as maps, book chapters, articles and other video content.
Class Schedule
We will be meeting twice a week on Zoom at 4:00pm Pacific Time on Monday and Thursday afternoons. Participants will also be subscribed to a Google group to carry on discussion outside of class time. In all, the class will have thirteen episodes.
| Date | Lecture | Episodes | Optional Reading |
| June 4th | The HRM: Past, present and future, binary oppositions | None | None |
| June 8th | Crime and Punishment | Pilot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment 6.7, 6.8, Epilogue |
| June 11th | Harper’s Canada | 8.2,
8.9-10 |
None |
| June 15th | Grace and the Magisterium | 3.1 | Augustine of Hippo, City of God XXI.14-26 , XXII.22-24 |
| June 18th | All Our Kin vs. the “culture of poverty”; plus Miracles bonus track | 1.2, 5.3 | Carol Stack, All Our Kin |
| June 22nd | Gender and Sexuality in Trailer Park Boys | 1.5-6 | None |
| June 25th | Calvinism, cosplay, hyper-reality and “signs of election” | 5.5-6 | Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion Parts V, XII |
| June 29th | Liquor, Agency and Insight | 5.9 | Bruce Alexander, Globalization of Addiction (excerpts) |
| July 2nd | The Microuniverse of extreme poverty | 4.2 | None |
| July 6th | Race and identity – Detroit Velvet Smooth from Moncton | 3.4 | Stuart Parker, “Life Near the Colour Line” 1 & 2 |
| July 9th | “Role model” discourse | 3.6 | Stuart Parker, “Rapists Don’t Tend to Curse on Stage,” “Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy Sets Feminism Back” |
| July 13th | Populism, scapegoats and sin eating: Jim Lahey is a Drunk Bastard | 2.1-2 | Stuart Parker, “Don’t Celebrate Rob Ford’s Deposition too Hard,” “Trump and the Democratization of Intelligence” |
| July 16th | Trailer Park Boys as Christian text | Christmas special | None |
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