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For complete details on all undergraduate program options and requirements in the Department of Political Science, please consult Political Science Program Guide.
The Department offers FOUR (4) types of undergraduate programs:
Major
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Major Concentration Political Science (36 Credits)
Offered by:Political Science
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
The Major Concentration in Political Science is a 36-credit program in four fields: comparative politics, international relations, Canadian politics, and political theory, including empirical methods.
Complementary Courses (36 credits)
36 credits of courses selected from the four main fields of political science (Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory) with the following specifications.
Only POLI courses at the 200-level or above (or their equivalent courses from other universities can be counted toward this program.
No more than one-half of the credits (18 credits) may be taken in a single field of political science, unless the field is Comparative Politics in which case the maximum is 21 credits.
12 of the 36 credits must be taken at the 200 level. No more than 3 credits at the 200 level may be in any given group - the groups being Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and Methods. All other 24 credits must come from 300- or 400-level POLI courses.
3 credits must be taken at the 400 level at McGill rather than as transfer credits. This requirement cannot be fulfilled with POLI 599.
To take a 300- or 400-level POLI course, students must have taken a 200-level POLI course in the same field. Students are therefore expected to take all their 200-level courses in their first two years.
No more than 12 POLI transfer credits can be used toward the program requirements. POLI Methods courses at McGill do not have equivalencies from courses taken elsewhere.
Course lists for each group of political science courses are provided below.
Canadian Politics
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POLI 221 Government of Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 222 Political Proc&Behav in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 226 La vie politique québécoise 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Une introduction à la vie politique québécoise à travers l'étude des institutions, des idéologies et des comportements politiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la structure et aux changements dans le système politique québécoise.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not.
- This course is offered in English and French in alternate years. For 2012-13 it will be offered in French.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 317 The Politics of Race in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the key theories and debates around race in Canadian politics. Considers how race has interacted with political development in Canada and the role of policies, laws, and regulations in creating, maintaining, and rectifying circumstances of racial inequality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: at least one of POLI 212, POLI 221, POLI 222, POLI 226, POLI 227, or POLI 231.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227, or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 320 Issues in Canadian Democracy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Critical analysis of selected issues and debates in Canadian politics, including citizen participation, electoral system effects, party financing, office-seeking, approaches to representation, and direct democracy and non-party alternatives. Topics are examined from both the perspective of the general population and the specific experience of women and ethno-racial minorities.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian or Comparative Government and Politics or permission of instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Michelle Baert
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POLI 321 Issues:Canadian Public Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The Canadian political process through an analysis of critical policy issues in community development, welfare state, education, and institutional reforms in public service delivery systems. Diagnostic and prescriptive interpretations of public choices in a federal-parliamentary regime.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one other course in Canadian or Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ifeoluwatari Ajadi
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POLI 326 Provincial Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The effect of regional and provincial culture on the operation of political parties and the institutions of government; the effect of institutional modernization on provincial governments; the role of provincial sub-systems within the Canadian political system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government or Politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 336 Le Québec et le Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Comment les Canadiens anglais et les Québécois se perçoivent-ils? Les différences culturelles entre les deux groupes. Les relations politiques et économiques entre les deux groupes. L'impact de la Révolution Tranquille. La place des francophones et des anglophones dans la vie collective. Les projets de réaménagement du cadre politique.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restrictions: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not. Not open to students who have taken QCST 336.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 342 Canadian Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development and articulation of Canadian foreign policy. Theoretical approaches. The environmental setting. Historical perspectives. Trans-Atlantic linkages. The American connection. The Common Market. The United Nations. Military security. Developing relations with Asia, Africa, Latin America. Canada in global society.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics or International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Diya Jiang
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POLI 348 Gender and Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of a variety of key thinkers and debates around gender in Canadian politics. Aims to give students the critical tools to examine the complexity of Canadian political society and gain a firm grasp on both the limits and possibilities of analyzing “gender” as it intersects and interlocks with other facets of identity and ideology.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian politics or GSFS
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics. Also in the field of Political Theory
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Brooke Steinhauer
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POLI 371 Challenge of Cnd Federalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An analysis of the origins, evolution and nature of federalism in Canada. Topics and themes will include the impact of federalism on political institutions, the effect of different regional perspectives, and the issues and conflicts that currently confront Canadian federalism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one course in Canadian politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 372 Indigenous Pples&theCdn State 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one course in Canadian politics such as, POLI 221 or POLI 222 OR Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 372 prior to W06.
- Note: Field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 379 Topics in Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics in Canadian politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 410 Canadian Political Parties 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course examines Canadian political parties and party systems, stressing patterns of historical development, party organization and finance, relationships with social movement, and the impact of Canadian federalism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jason Ferrell
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POLI 412 Canadian Voting/Public Opinion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A critical examination of major debates within the literature on Canadian voting behaviour and public opinion.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one course in Canadian politics, preferably at the 300 or 400 level, or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 417 Health Care in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course analyzes the theory and politics of health policy and institutions, comparing provincial models and contextualizing Canadian systems with international perspectives from the U.S. and Europe. Current health reform debates will be explored, particularly those involving federal-provincial relations, sustainable financing and the role of the state in social protection.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 424 Media and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of media in domestic and international politics, with reference to recent studies in political science. Themes in the study of mass media and politics in democracies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 Or POLI 227; and at least 3 credits in Political Science at the 300 level
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Esli Chan
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POLI 426 Partis pol et comp élect au Qc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Eric Belanger
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POLI 427 Sel Topics:Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected problem areas in Canada's political process, political culture, constitutional development, and machinery of government.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course and preferably an upper level course as well in Canadian Government and Politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 436 Aboriginal Rights:the CdnConst 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the inclusion, impact, and interpretation of s.35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. In s.35, "the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed". What does it mean for Canada to recognize, affirm, define, justify, and implement such rights? The course sets out how one might think about the constitutional promise of s.35, and challenges us to address whether this promise has been realized. It sets out how s.35 has structured Indigenous-settler politics since 1982.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 478 The Cdn Constitution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of legislative and judicial protection of rights and liberties in Canada. Topics to be covered include civil rights and the division of powers; the implied bill of rights theory; the 1960 Bill of Rights; establishment and enforcement of human rights legislation; and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 378 or an upper level course in Canadian Politics or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who took 160-427 in 1989-90 or 1991
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Comparative Politics
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POLI 212 Intro to ComparPol-Eur/NAmerca 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to fundamental comparative politics concepts and research that focuses on Europe and North America. Topics include: state and state institutions, parties and party systems, elections, protest and social movements, rule of law, corruption, regime transitions— democratization and autocratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova
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POLI 227 Intro to Compar Pol-Global S. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 316 Black Lives Matter&Amer Democ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Explores the history, ideological origins, and contemporary politics of the Black Lives Matter movement and its relationship to American democracy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites At least one of POLI 212, POLI 221, POLI 222, POLI 226, POLI 227, or POLI 231.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227, or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 319 Politics of Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 322 Political Change: South Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 324 Comparative Politics of Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 325 U.S. Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The founding of the American political system, with emphasis on the major documents, the Constitutional Convention, and the Federalist Papers, as well as the development of the constitutional system. Other fundamental characteristics, including political thought and federalism, will be examined. The main institutions, including the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court, will receive attention.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
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POLI 328 Comparing European Democracies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the study of contemporary European politics. The course presents the basic concepts and approaches used in the field of European comparative politics and examines patterns of similarity and difference across Europe, as well as some current political debates in Europe.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 or POLI 227 or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 329 Russian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Broad introduction to contemporary Russian politics. Examination of the Soviet system and its collapse. Exploration of key elements of Russian politics such as formal and informal political institutions; economic transformation and statebusiness relations; nationalism, memory, and identity; civil society and social movements; and Russian foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juliet E Johnson
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POLI 330 Law and Courts in Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Judicial politics in continental Europe, including theoretical accounts of the rule of law, judicial independence, power, and accountability, and the judicialization of politics. Empirical examples will be drawn from both Western and Eastern Europe countries, as well as the constitutional and the ordinary judiciaries.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 331 Politics in E Central Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Analysis of recent dramatic changes in East Central Europe in light of the historical development and current structure of these states, their relationship to their societies, with emphasis on diversity and its sources.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: Some prior related course i.e. Comparative Politics or East European History or written consent of the instructor. Recommended POLI 329.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David Dubé
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POLI 338 Topics in Compar Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 339 Topics in Compar Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: a basic course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 340 Compar Pol of the Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 357 Politics:Contemporary Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of political institutions and processes in today's Europe, concentrating on the member-states of the European Union and on the Union itself. The course is organized thematically rather than on a country-by-country basis.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227 or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 361 Political Partic:Comp Perspect 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Exploration of how citizens engage in politics. Theories and examples of current forms of political participation and mobilization will be introduced, including voting, party membership, transnational movements, political consumerism, culture jamming and internet activism. Examples are drawn from Europe and North America and sometimes from the developing world.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
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POLI 380 Contemporary Chinese Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juan Wang
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POLI 381 Politics in Japan and S Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries?
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Jacinto
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POLI 420 Memory, Place, and Power 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This interdisciplinary class explores the relationships among memory, place, and political power. The course begins with an introduction to key classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary texts on memory and place-making. It then uses this foundation to examine the symbolic transformation of public space, in particular the construction, alteration, and destruction of monuments, memorials, and museums in post-communist states and in North America. This approach emphasizes the social quality of memory, exploring the ways in which political interests, economic resources, and social practices can shape something as ostensibly personal and individual as memory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): One of the following: GEOG 316, GEOG 325, or GEOG 331; or one 200- or 300-level course in Comparative Politics required; or permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking GEOG 420, or who have taken POLI 432 when the topic was "Memory, Place, and Power".
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Juliet E Johnson
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POLI 421 The Politics of Misinformation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The impact that “fake news” and “disinformation” are having on citizens across the world. The political implications of the dissemination of media that is known to be false according to the best scientific evidence.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 422 Adv Topics: Comparative Pol 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Andrey Davydov
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POLI 424 Media and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of media in domestic and international politics, with reference to recent studies in political science. Themes in the study of mass media and politics in democracies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 Or POLI 227; and at least 3 credits in Political Science at the 300 level
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Esli Chan
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POLI 425 Topics in American Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course involves a detailed analysis of a limited area of American politics and government.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 325
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developed Areas.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 430 Politics of Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Drawing on political and aesthetic theory, as well as on a wide range of artworks, artistic practices, and art criticism, exploration of the ways in which art and politics intersect. In addition to analyzing artworks’ subject-matter, examination of their conditions of production, dissemination, and reception. Examination of how art is deployed politically and pressing political issues such as democratic representation, free speech, and structural inequality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note:The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 431 Nations and Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of nationalism in the political development of modern nation-states. Topics include: the origins of nationalism, nationalism and state-formation, anti-colonial nationalism, secession and sub-state nationalism, war and nationalism, federal and consociational arrangements in multi-national societies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 432 Adv Topics: Comparative Pol 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics in comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
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POLI 435 Identity and Inequality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: 300 level course in comparative politics or related social science course.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 451 The European Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The emergence of the EU and its innovative institutions and policies will be studied through lectures, discussions, and a simulation (of a European Council or Parliament session). Emphasis upon current debates about the EU's developing identity, its internal political economy, its institutions of 'multilevel' governance, and its external relation.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: one course each in International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 452 Conflict Simulation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the use of serious games for conflict analysis. The course will address the history of wargaming, the professional use of gaming techniques by governments and other organizations, and conflict simulation design.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in international relations or comparative politics.
- The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 473 Democracy and the Market 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
-
POLI 474 Inequality and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the world; the historical roots of inequality in different regions, varying manifestations of inequality (class, region, ethnicity, gender), and selected contemporary problems.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 475 Social Capital: Comp Perspect 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Social capital as an important societal resource that helps to overcome collective action and development problems. Introduction to the roots of the concept of social capital, and discussion on how and why this resource influences the political and economic life of countries, regions, cities and individuals.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 476 Religion and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A course in Comparative Politics or permission of instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
International Relations
-
POLI 243 Intl Poltcs of Econ Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
-
POLI 244 Intl Politics: State Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
-
POLI 341 Foreign Policy:The Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 342 Canadian Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development and articulation of Canadian foreign policy. Theoretical approaches. The environmental setting. Historical perspectives. Trans-Atlantic linkages. The American connection. The Common Market. The United Nations. Military security. Developing relations with Asia, Africa, Latin America. Canada in global society.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics or International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Diya Jiang
-
POLI 345 International Organizations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 346 American Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An exploration of American foreign policy from 1945 to the present. Topics to be addressed are the origins of the Cold War, deterrence, strategy and arms control, American intervention in Latin America and Vietnam, U.S. policy in the Post Cold War era - Gulf War, Haiti, Somalia, Yugoslavia and relations with Japan.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or a course in American history
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
-
POLI 347 Arab-Israel Confl,Crisis,Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- T V Paul
-
POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Amy Janzwood
-
POLI 351 The Causes of Major Wars 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Examination of the competing theoretical explanations for major wars; application of the theories to the outbreak of World War I.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243, POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
-
POLI 352 Intl Pol/Foreign Pol:Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International or African politics or written consent of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 353 Politics Intl Refugee Regime 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the causes and consequences of displacement, and international responses to this issue, focusing on forced migration linked to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses. It examines key actors, interests and norms that shape the international refugee regime, and international responses to other forms of displacement. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which displaced persons themselves navigate and shape the regime, and to challenges including the resolution of displacement crises, and accountability for forced migration.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Pre-requisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 354 Approaches to Intl Pol Econ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course presents theoretical approaches to understanding change in the international political economy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations and an introductory course in Macro Economics
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 355 The Politics of Intl Law 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A survey of the relationship between international politics and international law. The study of the international legal regulation of such phenomena as war, humanitarian intervention, and transnational terrorism, is oriented towards a richer apprehension of the nature of international conflict, cooperation and governance in the contemporary world.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
-
POLI 358 Political Economy of Intl Orgs 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course focuses on the main issues in international cooperation and on the role of economic international institutions in world politics. The first part addresses the main debates related to international cooperation. The second part covers the international trade institutions such as the World Trade Organization. The third part covers the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, and environmental and energy organizations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
-
POLI 359 Topics in Intl Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in International Relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- The fee for this field course is $3500. The fee for this activity covers ground transportation, academic materials, accommodation, and other field related expenses.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 360 Security: War and Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Focuses on international security and strategies of war and peace in historical and comparative frameworks. Topics include case studies of 20th century wars, conventional and nuclear strategy, and various approaches to peace.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 362 Political Theory and IR 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Key contributions of political theory to the study and practice of international relations. Three prevailing theoretical traditions will be examined: realism, 'international society', and cosmopolitanism. Key practical issues to be explored from these perspectives include war, humanitarian intervention, economic globalization, environment, and gender.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200 or 300-level course in political theory, and POLI 243 or POLI 244
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
-
POLI 441 IPE: Trade 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 442 Int'l Rel of Ethnic Conflict 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 443 Intervention in World Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Examination of the history, theory and politics of intervention, focusing on the 19th century onward. It examines interventions for humanitarian purposes and interventions in civil wars in the 19th century, critical cases of non-intervention from the first half of the 20th century, intervention and resistance in the Cold War and decolonization periods, and interventions since the end of the Cold War. Legal, ethical and political frameworks for assessing the legitimacy and effects of intervention as a contemporary practice, the ways in which it has been contested, and its relationship to core principles, such as state sovereignty.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor, or a 300-level course in International Relations.
- The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 444 Topics in Intl Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in International Politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: An upper level course in International Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul, Leonardo Baccini
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 445 IPE: Monetary Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 446 Intl Law&Poltcs of HumanRights 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between state behaviour and individual rights recognized by international law. Introduction and critiques of the concept of human rights, and exploration of the institutional framework of human rights law. Surveys of the current international human rights regime’s most important entitlements for individuals and groups. The politics of human rights, highlighting the challenges to their effective protection.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level POLI course in the field of International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
-
POLI 447 Poli Economy of Multinationals 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Exploration of the economic and political behaviour of one of the most important non-state actors in the international system: multinationals. The main models in international trade, including the New New Trade Theory. The main issues related to the political economy of foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of FDI on development as well as the role of MNCs in emerging markets.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 311 or permission of the instructor
- The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 448 Gender and Intl Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course will help students deepen their understanding of international relations by introducing them to gender analysis of global politics and feminist approaches to international relations. Part one examines gender-sensitive and feminist theories in international relations research. The second part then applies these approaches to a range of substantive issues including security, violence, peacebuilding, international law and political economy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 449 Diplomacy in Practice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the evolution of diplomatic practices over time, with a special emphasis on emerging trends in the 21st century. It focuses on key sites of diplomacy, from foreign ministries to international organizations, and evaluates the role of new technologies and non-states actors in shaping global intercourse.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics or permission of instructor.
- The field is International Politics. This course is taught in an active learning classroom.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 451 The European Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The emergence of the EU and its innovative institutions and policies will be studied through lectures, discussions, and a simulation (of a European Council or Parliament session). Emphasis upon current debates about the EU's developing identity, its internal political economy, its institutions of 'multilevel' governance, and its external relation.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: one course each in International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 452 Conflict Simulation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the use of serious games for conflict analysis. The course will address the history of wargaming, the professional use of gaming techniques by governments and other organizations, and conflict simulation design.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in international relations or comparative politics.
- The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
Political Theory
-
POLI 231 Intro to Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course introduces students to political theory through critical examination of classic texts in the history of political thought. In addition to gaining an understanding of several different traditions of political thought, students are encouraged to develop their skills in textual interpretation, critical reasoning, and essay-writing.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jacob Levy
- William C Roberts
-
POLI 333 Western Political Theory 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The major themes and writers in the political theory of classical antiquity. The political ideas of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic philosophers will be explored through the significant texts of this period.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 231 or POLI 232 or PHIL 240 or at least two political science courses at the 300 level; or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- William C Roberts
-
POLI 334 Western Political Theory 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Medieval and renaissance political philosophy, from Saint Augustine to Sir Thomas More. Scholastic and neo-scholastic political thought, natural law and natural rights, as well as civic and northern humanism, republicanism and liberty. Twentieth century work on similar concepts will be used.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 333 or written permission of the instructor. POLI 333 should be taken before this course
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Victor M Muniz-Fraticelli
-
POLI 362 Political Theory and IR 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Key contributions of political theory to the study and practice of international relations. Three prevailing theoretical traditions will be examined: realism, 'international society', and cosmopolitanism. Key practical issues to be explored from these perspectives include war, humanitarian intervention, economic globalization, environment, and gender.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200 or 300-level course in political theory, and POLI 243 or POLI 244
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
-
POLI 363 Contemporary Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores fundamental currents of thought in political philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year, and may include issues such as classical liberalism and its opponents, the foundations of socialism and Marxism, rational choice theory and its critics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Michael Denigris
-
POLI 364 Radical Political Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Radical themes in contemporary political thought and action.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- William C Roberts
-
POLI 365 Democratic Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A series of lectures and seminars on democratic theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: Prerequisite: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 366 Topics in Political Theory 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in Political Theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 367 Liberal Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development of liberal political thought and theories of justice, including a selection of authors from: Locke, Montesquieu, Smith, Constant, Kant, Mill, Tocqueville, Berlin, Hayek, Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, and Kymlicka, as well as some of their critics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 368 Political Theory & Indigeneity 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Engages with diverse approaches in political theory that address the political situation of Indigenous peoples in multiple settler colonial contexts. Explores how indigeneity requires transformations in the conduct of political theory and in our understanding of the history of political thought, including Indigenous political thoughts as articulated by Indigenous scholars.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 231
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yann Allard-Tremblay
-
POLI 433 Hist of Pol/Soc Theory 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Early modern political philosophy, from Luther to Rousseau and Burke. Resistance theories of the 16th century, Hobbes and Locke, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Twentieth century work on concepts developed in this period such as rights, revolution, legitimacy, democracy, authority and liberty.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POL1 231 or 232 or 333 or 334 or written permission
- Note: The field is Political Theory
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yves Winter
-
POLI 434 Hist of Pol/Soc Theory 4 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A consideration of selected writers and themes of late 19th and 20th century political theory. Writers include Hegel, Clausewitz, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Lenin, Rowis, Foucault, and Habermas. The rise of industrial society, scientism, the romantic revolt, revolutionary movements, socialism and liberal-democracy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POL1 433
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
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POLI 458 (De-)Coloniality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Explores the theorization of colonialism, including settler colonialism, as a political phenomenon. Explores the connection between colonialism and political thought, with both an historical and contemporary focus. Explores how political thinkers have and are responding to, resisting, and undermining coloniality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): one 300-level course in political theory
- Note: This course is in the Political Theory field.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yann Allard-Tremblay
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POLI 459 Topics in Political Theory 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course will deal with a specific problem area in Political theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 300- or 400-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 470 Philosophy, Economy & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The application of normative political theory and the history of political thought to state-society and state-market relations and governance. The justice and ethics of economic policies and modes of production; social-theoretic and economic examinations of the state and the state system from social theory and economic theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Methods
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POLI 210 Poli Sci Research Methods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova, Brendan Szendro
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POLI 311 Intro to Quantitative Pol Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Building on POLI 210 (or equivalent), this course will introduce students to modern quantitative political science methods and teach them the requisite programming skills for data analysis. The course will provide students the foundational statistical skills to apply to their own research projects and to become more informed consumers of quantitative data in and outside of the academic context.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): POLI 210 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
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POLI 312 Intermed. Quant. Political Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Building on POLI 311 (or equivalent), this course will deepen students’ understanding of modern quantitative political science tools as well as deepen their statistical programming skills.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 311
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Elissa Berwick
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POLI 313 Intro to Qual Methods:Poli Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Introduction to the basic concepts, approaches, and techniques of qualitative research methods in political science. It covers both positivist and interpretivist approaches, and techniques such as interviewing, focus groups, case studies, comparative historical analysis, discourse analysis, archival research, and ethnographic research.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restrictions: POLI 210 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
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POLI 461 Adv. Quant. Political Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A lab course that deals with topics not covered in POLI 311 or POLI 312 and applicable across political science subfields. Such topics include: Estimating models with limited and categorical outcomes; dealing with time-dependent data; estimating models of duration; advanced spatial methods; advanced text-as-data methods; advanced network methods .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Special courses
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POLI 490 Indep Reading & Research 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Final year Major, Joint Honours and Honours students wishing to pursue a specialized interest will be allowed to undertake a program of independent reading and/or research in that area under the supervision of a member of staff. Students will not be permitted to register for this course until they obtain consent from a Political Science professor to supervise them.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction(s): Not open to Minor students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 599 Internship:Political Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The internship shall consist of a minimum of 150 hours of work over a period of 12 weeks, plus a major research project based on the internship. The major project will ordinarily consist of a major research paper, plus a substantial written record of the work conducted during the internship.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: Open, with permission, to Honours, Joint Honours and Majors students in years U2 and U3, and graduate students. This course does not count as a 500-level seminar under the Honours requirements.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Honours
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Honours Political Science (48 Credits)
Offered by:Political Science
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
The Honours program in Political Science focuses on four fields in Political Science: comparative politics, international relations, Canadian politics, and political theory, including empirical methods that complement the the four substantive fields of Political Science.
Students may enter the Honours program at the start of U2. To enter, remain and graduate in Honours, students must achieve/maintain a 3.3 average in their political science courses and more than half of the political science grades must be at the B+ level or higher. According to Faculty regulations, Honours students must maintain a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
Required Course (3 credits)
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POLI 210 Poli Sci Research Methods 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
Offered by: Political Science
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova, Brendan Szendro
Complementary Courses (45 credits)
45 credits of complementary courses selected with the following specifications:
12 credits must be taken at the 200 level – 3 credits must be taken in each of the four fields: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Canadian Politics. ). The remaining 33 credits must come from POLI courses at the 300 level and above.
6 credits in POLI Methods courses must be taken at the 300 or 400 level. The 9-credit methods requirement (including POLI 210) can only be fulfilled with courses taken at McGill. Credits transferred from other universities are not accepted for this purpose.
At least 12 credits of political science courses must be at the 400 level and above, including one mandatory 500-level Honours Seminar which must be taken at McGill.
No more than one-half (24 credits) of a student’s political science credits may be in any one field (Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory). However, if the field is Comparative Politics the maximum is 27 credits.
To take an upper-level POLI course (i.e. courses at the 300, 400 or 500 level), students must have taken a 200-level POLI course in the same field. Students are therefore expected to take all their 200-level courses in their first two years.
No more than 15 Political Science transfer credits can be used toward the program requirements.
Course lists for each group of political science courses are provided below.
Canadian Politics
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POLI 221 Government of Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 222 Political Proc&Behav in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 226 La vie politique québécoise 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Une introduction à la vie politique québécoise à travers l'étude des institutions, des idéologies et des comportements politiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la structure et aux changements dans le système politique québécoise.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not.
- This course is offered in English and French in alternate years. For 2012-13 it will be offered in French.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227, or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 320 Issues in Canadian Democracy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Critical analysis of selected issues and debates in Canadian politics, including citizen participation, electoral system effects, party financing, office-seeking, approaches to representation, and direct democracy and non-party alternatives. Topics are examined from both the perspective of the general population and the specific experience of women and ethno-racial minorities.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian or Comparative Government and Politics or permission of instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Michelle Baert
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POLI 321 Issues:Canadian Public Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The Canadian political process through an analysis of critical policy issues in community development, welfare state, education, and institutional reforms in public service delivery systems. Diagnostic and prescriptive interpretations of public choices in a federal-parliamentary regime.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one other course in Canadian or Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ifeoluwatari Ajadi
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POLI 326 Provincial Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The effect of regional and provincial culture on the operation of political parties and the institutions of government; the effect of institutional modernization on provincial governments; the role of provincial sub-systems within the Canadian political system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government or Politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 336 Le Québec et le Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Comment les Canadiens anglais et les Québécois se perçoivent-ils? Les différences culturelles entre les deux groupes. Les relations politiques et économiques entre les deux groupes. L'impact de la Révolution Tranquille. La place des francophones et des anglophones dans la vie collective. Les projets de réaménagement du cadre politique.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restrictions: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not. Not open to students who have taken QCST 336.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 342 Canadian Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development and articulation of Canadian foreign policy. Theoretical approaches. The environmental setting. Historical perspectives. Trans-Atlantic linkages. The American connection. The Common Market. The United Nations. Military security. Developing relations with Asia, Africa, Latin America. Canada in global society.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics or International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Diya Jiang
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POLI 348 Gender and Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of a variety of key thinkers and debates around gender in Canadian politics. Aims to give students the critical tools to examine the complexity of Canadian political society and gain a firm grasp on both the limits and possibilities of analyzing “gender” as it intersects and interlocks with other facets of identity and ideology.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian politics or GSFS
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics. Also in the field of Political Theory
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Brooke Steinhauer
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POLI 371 Challenge of Cnd Federalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An analysis of the origins, evolution and nature of federalism in Canada. Topics and themes will include the impact of federalism on political institutions, the effect of different regional perspectives, and the issues and conflicts that currently confront Canadian federalism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one course in Canadian politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 372 Indigenous Pples&theCdn State 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one course in Canadian politics such as, POLI 221 or POLI 222 OR Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 372 prior to W06.
- Note: Field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 379 Topics in Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics in Canadian politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 410 Canadian Political Parties 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course examines Canadian political parties and party systems, stressing patterns of historical development, party organization and finance, relationships with social movement, and the impact of Canadian federalism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jason Ferrell
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POLI 412 Canadian Voting/Public Opinion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A critical examination of major debates within the literature on Canadian voting behaviour and public opinion.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one course in Canadian politics, preferably at the 300 or 400 level, or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 417 Health Care in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course analyzes the theory and politics of health policy and institutions, comparing provincial models and contextualizing Canadian systems with international perspectives from the U.S. and Europe. Current health reform debates will be explored, particularly those involving federal-provincial relations, sustainable financing and the role of the state in social protection.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 424 Media and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of media in domestic and international politics, with reference to recent studies in political science. Themes in the study of mass media and politics in democracies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 Or POLI 227; and at least 3 credits in Political Science at the 300 level
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Esli Chan
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POLI 426 Partis pol et comp élect au Qc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Eric Belanger
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POLI 427 Sel Topics:Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected problem areas in Canada's political process, political culture, constitutional development, and machinery of government.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course and preferably an upper level course as well in Canadian Government and Politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 436 Aboriginal Rights:the CdnConst 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the inclusion, impact, and interpretation of s.35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. In s.35, "the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed". What does it mean for Canada to recognize, affirm, define, justify, and implement such rights? The course sets out how one might think about the constitutional promise of s.35, and challenges us to address whether this promise has been realized. It sets out how s.35 has structured Indigenous-settler politics since 1982.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 478 The Cdn Constitution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of legislative and judicial protection of rights and liberties in Canada. Topics to be covered include civil rights and the division of powers; the implied bill of rights theory; the 1960 Bill of Rights; establishment and enforcement of human rights legislation; and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 378 or an upper level course in Canadian Politics or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who took 160-427 in 1989-90 or 1991
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 521 Seminar: Can Pol & Gov't 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected problems of Canadian socio-economic and political structures; political culture; constitutional development, and governmental structure.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year Honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor
- Prerequisite: At least one 300 or 400-level course in Canadian Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ifeoluwatari Ajadi
Comparative Politics
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POLI 212 Intro to ComparPol-Eur/NAmerca 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to fundamental comparative politics concepts and research that focuses on Europe and North America. Topics include: state and state institutions, parties and party systems, elections, protest and social movements, rule of law, corruption, regime transitions— democratization and autocratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova
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POLI 227 Intro to Compar Pol-Global S. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 316 Black Lives Matter&Amer Democ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Explores the history, ideological origins, and contemporary politics of the Black Lives Matter movement and its relationship to American democracy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites At least one of POLI 212, POLI 221, POLI 222, POLI 226, POLI 227, or POLI 231.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227, or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 319 Politics of Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 322 Political Change: South Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 324 Comparative Politics of Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 325 U.S. Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The founding of the American political system, with emphasis on the major documents, the Constitutional Convention, and the Federalist Papers, as well as the development of the constitutional system. Other fundamental characteristics, including political thought and federalism, will be examined. The main institutions, including the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court, will receive attention.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
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POLI 328 Comparing European Democracies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the study of contemporary European politics. The course presents the basic concepts and approaches used in the field of European comparative politics and examines patterns of similarity and difference across Europe, as well as some current political debates in Europe.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 or POLI 227 or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 329 Russian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Broad introduction to contemporary Russian politics. Examination of the Soviet system and its collapse. Exploration of key elements of Russian politics such as formal and informal political institutions; economic transformation and statebusiness relations; nationalism, memory, and identity; civil society and social movements; and Russian foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juliet E Johnson
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POLI 330 Law and Courts in Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Judicial politics in continental Europe, including theoretical accounts of the rule of law, judicial independence, power, and accountability, and the judicialization of politics. Empirical examples will be drawn from both Western and Eastern Europe countries, as well as the constitutional and the ordinary judiciaries.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 331 Politics in E Central Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Analysis of recent dramatic changes in East Central Europe in light of the historical development and current structure of these states, their relationship to their societies, with emphasis on diversity and its sources.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: Some prior related course i.e. Comparative Politics or East European History or written consent of the instructor. Recommended POLI 329.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David Dubé
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POLI 338 Topics in Compar Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 339 Topics in Compar Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: a basic course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 340 Compar Pol of the Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 357 Politics:Contemporary Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of political institutions and processes in today's Europe, concentrating on the member-states of the European Union and on the Union itself. The course is organized thematically rather than on a country-by-country basis.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227 or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 361 Political Partic:Comp Perspect 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Exploration of how citizens engage in politics. Theories and examples of current forms of political participation and mobilization will be introduced, including voting, party membership, transnational movements, political consumerism, culture jamming and internet activism. Examples are drawn from Europe and North America and sometimes from the developing world.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
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POLI 380 Contemporary Chinese Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juan Wang
-
POLI 381 Politics in Japan and S Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries?
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Jacinto
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POLI 421 The Politics of Misinformation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The impact that “fake news” and “disinformation” are having on citizens across the world. The political implications of the dissemination of media that is known to be false according to the best scientific evidence.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 422 Adv Topics: Comparative Pol 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Andrey Davydov
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POLI 424 Media and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of media in domestic and international politics, with reference to recent studies in political science. Themes in the study of mass media and politics in democracies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 Or POLI 227; and at least 3 credits in Political Science at the 300 level
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Esli Chan
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POLI 425 Topics in American Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course involves a detailed analysis of a limited area of American politics and government.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 325
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developed Areas.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 430 Politics of Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Drawing on political and aesthetic theory, as well as on a wide range of artworks, artistic practices, and art criticism, exploration of the ways in which art and politics intersect. In addition to analyzing artworks’ subject-matter, examination of their conditions of production, dissemination, and reception. Examination of how art is deployed politically and pressing political issues such as democratic representation, free speech, and structural inequality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note:The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 431 Nations and Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of nationalism in the political development of modern nation-states. Topics include: the origins of nationalism, nationalism and state-formation, anti-colonial nationalism, secession and sub-state nationalism, war and nationalism, federal and consociational arrangements in multi-national societies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 432 Adv Topics: Comparative Pol 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics in comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
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POLI 435 Identity and Inequality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: 300 level course in comparative politics or related social science course.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 451 The European Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The emergence of the EU and its innovative institutions and policies will be studied through lectures, discussions, and a simulation (of a European Council or Parliament session). Emphasis upon current debates about the EU's developing identity, its internal political economy, its institutions of 'multilevel' governance, and its external relation.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: one course each in International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 452 Conflict Simulation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the use of serious games for conflict analysis. The course will address the history of wargaming, the professional use of gaming techniques by governments and other organizations, and conflict simulation design.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in international relations or comparative politics.
- The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
-
POLI 473 Democracy and the Market 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
-
POLI 474 Inequality and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the world; the historical roots of inequality in different regions, varying manifestations of inequality (class, region, ethnicity, gender), and selected contemporary problems.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 475 Social Capital: Comp Perspect 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Social capital as an important societal resource that helps to overcome collective action and development problems. Introduction to the roots of the concept of social capital, and discussion on how and why this resource influences the political and economic life of countries, regions, cities and individuals.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 476 Religion and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A course in Comparative Politics or permission of instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
-
POLI 522 Seminar:ComparativePolitics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Seminar on comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in comparative politics.
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is comparative politics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Juan Wang
-
POLI 524 Seminar:Comparative Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Seminar on comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in comparative politics.
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year Honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
- Amy Janzwood
International Relations
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POLI 243 Intl Poltcs of Econ Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
-
POLI 244 Intl Politics: State Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
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POLI 341 Foreign Policy:The Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 342 Canadian Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development and articulation of Canadian foreign policy. Theoretical approaches. The environmental setting. Historical perspectives. Trans-Atlantic linkages. The American connection. The Common Market. The United Nations. Military security. Developing relations with Asia, Africa, Latin America. Canada in global society.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics or International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Diya Jiang
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POLI 345 International Organizations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 346 American Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An exploration of American foreign policy from 1945 to the present. Topics to be addressed are the origins of the Cold War, deterrence, strategy and arms control, American intervention in Latin America and Vietnam, U.S. policy in the Post Cold War era - Gulf War, Haiti, Somalia, Yugoslavia and relations with Japan.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or a course in American history
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
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POLI 347 Arab-Israel Confl,Crisis,Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- T V Paul
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POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Amy Janzwood
-
POLI 351 The Causes of Major Wars 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Examination of the competing theoretical explanations for major wars; application of the theories to the outbreak of World War I.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243, POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
-
POLI 352 Intl Pol/Foreign Pol:Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International or African politics or written consent of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 353 Politics Intl Refugee Regime 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the causes and consequences of displacement, and international responses to this issue, focusing on forced migration linked to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses. It examines key actors, interests and norms that shape the international refugee regime, and international responses to other forms of displacement. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which displaced persons themselves navigate and shape the regime, and to challenges including the resolution of displacement crises, and accountability for forced migration.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Pre-requisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 354 Approaches to Intl Pol Econ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course presents theoretical approaches to understanding change in the international political economy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations and an introductory course in Macro Economics
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 355 The Politics of Intl Law 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A survey of the relationship between international politics and international law. The study of the international legal regulation of such phenomena as war, humanitarian intervention, and transnational terrorism, is oriented towards a richer apprehension of the nature of international conflict, cooperation and governance in the contemporary world.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
-
POLI 358 Political Economy of Intl Orgs 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course focuses on the main issues in international cooperation and on the role of economic international institutions in world politics. The first part addresses the main debates related to international cooperation. The second part covers the international trade institutions such as the World Trade Organization. The third part covers the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, and environmental and energy organizations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
-
POLI 359 Topics in Intl Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in International Relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- The fee for this field course is $3500. The fee for this activity covers ground transportation, academic materials, accommodation, and other field related expenses.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 360 Security: War and Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Focuses on international security and strategies of war and peace in historical and comparative frameworks. Topics include case studies of 20th century wars, conventional and nuclear strategy, and various approaches to peace.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 362 Political Theory and IR 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Key contributions of political theory to the study and practice of international relations. Three prevailing theoretical traditions will be examined: realism, 'international society', and cosmopolitanism. Key practical issues to be explored from these perspectives include war, humanitarian intervention, economic globalization, environment, and gender.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200 or 300-level course in political theory, and POLI 243 or POLI 244
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
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POLI 441 IPE: Trade 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 442 Int'l Rel of Ethnic Conflict 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 443 Intervention in World Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Examination of the history, theory and politics of intervention, focusing on the 19th century onward. It examines interventions for humanitarian purposes and interventions in civil wars in the 19th century, critical cases of non-intervention from the first half of the 20th century, intervention and resistance in the Cold War and decolonization periods, and interventions since the end of the Cold War. Legal, ethical and political frameworks for assessing the legitimacy and effects of intervention as a contemporary practice, the ways in which it has been contested, and its relationship to core principles, such as state sovereignty.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor, or a 300-level course in International Relations.
- The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 444 Topics in Intl Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in International Politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: An upper level course in International Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul, Leonardo Baccini
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 445 IPE: Monetary Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
-
POLI 446 Intl Law&Poltcs of HumanRights 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between state behaviour and individual rights recognized by international law. Introduction and critiques of the concept of human rights, and exploration of the institutional framework of human rights law. Surveys of the current international human rights regime’s most important entitlements for individuals and groups. The politics of human rights, highlighting the challenges to their effective protection.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level POLI course in the field of International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
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POLI 447 Poli Economy of Multinationals 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Exploration of the economic and political behaviour of one of the most important non-state actors in the international system: multinationals. The main models in international trade, including the New New Trade Theory. The main issues related to the political economy of foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of FDI on development as well as the role of MNCs in emerging markets.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 311 or permission of the instructor
- The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 448 Gender and Intl Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course will help students deepen their understanding of international relations by introducing them to gender analysis of global politics and feminist approaches to international relations. Part one examines gender-sensitive and feminist theories in international relations research. The second part then applies these approaches to a range of substantive issues including security, violence, peacebuilding, international law and political economy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 449 Diplomacy in Practice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the evolution of diplomatic practices over time, with a special emphasis on emerging trends in the 21st century. It focuses on key sites of diplomacy, from foreign ministries to international organizations, and evaluates the role of new technologies and non-states actors in shaping global intercourse.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics or permission of instructor.
- The field is International Politics. This course is taught in an active learning classroom.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 451 The European Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The emergence of the EU and its innovative institutions and policies will be studied through lectures, discussions, and a simulation (of a European Council or Parliament session). Emphasis upon current debates about the EU's developing identity, its internal political economy, its institutions of 'multilevel' governance, and its external relation.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: one course each in International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 452 Conflict Simulation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the use of serious games for conflict analysis. The course will address the history of wargaming, the professional use of gaming techniques by governments and other organizations, and conflict simulation design.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in international relations or comparative politics.
- The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 575 Seminar:International Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A research seminar dealing with topics in the field of international politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: Open to graduate students and final year Honours students only
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
Political Theory
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POLI 231 Intro to Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course introduces students to political theory through critical examination of classic texts in the history of political thought. In addition to gaining an understanding of several different traditions of political thought, students are encouraged to develop their skills in textual interpretation, critical reasoning, and essay-writing.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jacob Levy
- William C Roberts
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POLI 333 Western Political Theory 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The major themes and writers in the political theory of classical antiquity. The political ideas of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic philosophers will be explored through the significant texts of this period.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 231 or POLI 232 or PHIL 240 or at least two political science courses at the 300 level; or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- William C Roberts
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POLI 334 Western Political Theory 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Medieval and renaissance political philosophy, from Saint Augustine to Sir Thomas More. Scholastic and neo-scholastic political thought, natural law and natural rights, as well as civic and northern humanism, republicanism and liberty. Twentieth century work on similar concepts will be used.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 333 or written permission of the instructor. POLI 333 should be taken before this course
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Victor M Muniz-Fraticelli
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POLI 362 Political Theory and IR 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Key contributions of political theory to the study and practice of international relations. Three prevailing theoretical traditions will be examined: realism, 'international society', and cosmopolitanism. Key practical issues to be explored from these perspectives include war, humanitarian intervention, economic globalization, environment, and gender.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200 or 300-level course in political theory, and POLI 243 or POLI 244
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
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POLI 363 Contemporary Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores fundamental currents of thought in political philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year, and may include issues such as classical liberalism and its opponents, the foundations of socialism and Marxism, rational choice theory and its critics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Michael Denigris
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POLI 364 Radical Political Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Radical themes in contemporary political thought and action.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- William C Roberts
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POLI 365 Democratic Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A series of lectures and seminars on democratic theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: Prerequisite: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 366 Topics in Political Theory 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in Political Theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 367 Liberal Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development of liberal political thought and theories of justice, including a selection of authors from: Locke, Montesquieu, Smith, Constant, Kant, Mill, Tocqueville, Berlin, Hayek, Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, and Kymlicka, as well as some of their critics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 368 Political Theory & Indigeneity 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Engages with diverse approaches in political theory that address the political situation of Indigenous peoples in multiple settler colonial contexts. Explores how indigeneity requires transformations in the conduct of political theory and in our understanding of the history of political thought, including Indigenous political thoughts as articulated by Indigenous scholars.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 231
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yann Allard-Tremblay
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POLI 433 Hist of Pol/Soc Theory 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Early modern political philosophy, from Luther to Rousseau and Burke. Resistance theories of the 16th century, Hobbes and Locke, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Twentieth century work on concepts developed in this period such as rights, revolution, legitimacy, democracy, authority and liberty.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POL1 231 or 232 or 333 or 334 or written permission
- Note: The field is Political Theory
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yves Winter
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POLI 434 Hist of Pol/Soc Theory 4 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A consideration of selected writers and themes of late 19th and 20th century political theory. Writers include Hegel, Clausewitz, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Lenin, Rowis, Foucault, and Habermas. The rise of industrial society, scientism, the romantic revolt, revolutionary movements, socialism and liberal-democracy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POL1 433
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
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POLI 458 (De-)Coloniality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Explores the theorization of colonialism, including settler colonialism, as a political phenomenon. Explores the connection between colonialism and political thought, with both an historical and contemporary focus. Explores how political thinkers have and are responding to, resisting, and undermining coloniality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): one 300-level course in political theory
- Note: This course is in the Political Theory field.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yann Allard-Tremblay
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POLI 459 Topics in Political Theory 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course will deal with a specific problem area in Political theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 300- or 400-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 470 Philosophy, Economy & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The application of normative political theory and the history of political thought to state-society and state-market relations and governance. The justice and ethics of economic policies and modes of production; social-theoretic and economic examinations of the state and the state system from social theory and economic theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 561 Seminar:Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A topic in political philosophy such as democracy, liberty, property or nationalism, or a political philosopher, is studied to enable students to research a topic in depth, to present their papers to the seminar, and to engage in and profit from discussion and debate.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in political philosophy
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year Honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
- Aberdeen M Berry
Methods
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POLI 210 Poli Sci Research Methods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova, Brendan Szendro
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POLI 311 Intro to Quantitative Pol Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Building on POLI 210 (or equivalent), this course will introduce students to modern quantitative political science methods and teach them the requisite programming skills for data analysis. The course will provide students the foundational statistical skills to apply to their own research projects and to become more informed consumers of quantitative data in and outside of the academic context.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): POLI 210 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
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POLI 312 Intermed. Quant. Political Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Building on POLI 311 (or equivalent), this course will deepen students’ understanding of modern quantitative political science tools as well as deepen their statistical programming skills.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 311
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Elissa Berwick
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POLI 313 Intro to Qual Methods:Poli Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Introduction to the basic concepts, approaches, and techniques of qualitative research methods in political science. It covers both positivist and interpretivist approaches, and techniques such as interviewing, focus groups, case studies, comparative historical analysis, discourse analysis, archival research, and ethnographic research.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restrictions: POLI 210 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
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POLI 461 Adv. Quant. Political Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A lab course that deals with topics not covered in POLI 311 or POLI 312 and applicable across political science subfields. Such topics include: Estimating models with limited and categorical outcomes; dealing with time-dependent data; estimating models of duration; advanced spatial methods; advanced text-as-data methods; advanced network methods .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Special Courses
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POLI 490 Indep Reading & Research 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Final year Major, Joint Honours and Honours students wishing to pursue a specialized interest will be allowed to undertake a program of independent reading and/or research in that area under the supervision of a member of staff. Students will not be permitted to register for this course until they obtain consent from a Political Science professor to supervise them.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction(s): Not open to Minor students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 499 Honours Essay 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Regular meetings between student and professor, and the writing of a well researched essay. The essay should demonstrate some experience with primary sources, the ability to explore various theoretical perspectives as well as to organize and present a set of arguments in a systematic and thorough manner. The essay will be graded by a second reader from the Department designated by the supervisor. Students will not be permitted to register for this course until they obtain consent from a Political Science professor to supervise them.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction(s): Open to final-year Joint Honours and Honours students only.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 599 Internship:Political Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The internship shall consist of a minimum of 150 hours of work over a period of 12 weeks, plus a major research project based on the internship. The major project will ordinarily consist of a major research paper, plus a substantial written record of the work conducted during the internship.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: Open, with permission, to Honours, Joint Honours and Majors students in years U2 and U3, and graduate students. This course does not count as a 500-level seminar under the Honours requirements.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Joint Honours
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Joint Honours Component Political Science (36 Credits)
Offered by:Political Science
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
The Joint Honours program in Political Science is a 36-credit program at the Honours level in two Arts disciplines. This program focuses on Political Science in four fields: comparative politics, international relations, Canadian politics, and political theory, including empirical methods.
Students may enter the Joint Honours program in U1. To enter, remain and graduate in Joint Honours, students must achieve/maintain a 3.3 average in their political science courses and more than half of the political science grades must be at the B+ level or higher. According to Faculty regulations, Joint Honours students must maintain a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general. In addition to meeting these Political Science requirements, students must meet the requirements set forth by the other department.
Required Course (3 credits)
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POLI 210 Poli Sci Research Methods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova, Brendan Szendro
Complementary Courses (33 credits)
33 credits of complementary POLI courses selected with the following specifications:
3 credits must be taken in POLI Methods courses at the 300 or 400 level. The 6-credit methods requirement (including POLI 210) can only be fulfilled with courses taken at McGill. Credits transferred from other universities are not accepted for this purpose.
9 credits must be taken at the 200 level with no more than 3 credits in a given substantive field (i.e. Political Theory, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Canadian Politics). The remaining 24 credits must come from POLI courses at the 300 level and above.
At least 9 credits must be taken at the 400 level and above, including one mandatory 500-level Honours Seminar which must be taken at McGill.
No more than one-half (18 credits) of a student's political science credits may be in any one field (Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory). However, if the field is Comparative Politics the maximum is 21 credits. Refer to the lists below for course choices in each field.
To take a 300- or 400-level POLI course, students must have taken a 200-level POLI course in the same field. Students are therefore expected to take all their 200-level courses in their first two years.
No more than 12 POLI transfer credits can be used toward the program requirements.
Course lists for each group of political science courses are provided below.
Canadian Politics
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POLI 221 Government of Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 222 Political Proc&Behav in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 226 La vie politique québécoise 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Une introduction à la vie politique québécoise à travers l'étude des institutions, des idéologies et des comportements politiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la structure et aux changements dans le système politique québécoise.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not.
- This course is offered in English and French in alternate years. For 2012-13 it will be offered in French.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 317 The Politics of Race in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the key theories and debates around race in Canadian politics. Considers how race has interacted with political development in Canada and the role of policies, laws, and regulations in creating, maintaining, and rectifying circumstances of racial inequality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: at least one of POLI 212, POLI 221, POLI 222, POLI 226, POLI 227, or POLI 231.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227, or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 320 Issues in Canadian Democracy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Critical analysis of selected issues and debates in Canadian politics, including citizen participation, electoral system effects, party financing, office-seeking, approaches to representation, and direct democracy and non-party alternatives. Topics are examined from both the perspective of the general population and the specific experience of women and ethno-racial minorities.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian or Comparative Government and Politics or permission of instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Michelle Baert
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POLI 321 Issues:Canadian Public Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The Canadian political process through an analysis of critical policy issues in community development, welfare state, education, and institutional reforms in public service delivery systems. Diagnostic and prescriptive interpretations of public choices in a federal-parliamentary regime.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one other course in Canadian or Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ifeoluwatari Ajadi
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POLI 326 Provincial Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The effect of regional and provincial culture on the operation of political parties and the institutions of government; the effect of institutional modernization on provincial governments; the role of provincial sub-systems within the Canadian political system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government or Politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 336 Le Québec et le Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Comment les Canadiens anglais et les Québécois se perçoivent-ils? Les différences culturelles entre les deux groupes. Les relations politiques et économiques entre les deux groupes. L'impact de la Révolution Tranquille. La place des francophones et des anglophones dans la vie collective. Les projets de réaménagement du cadre politique.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restrictions: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not. Not open to students who have taken QCST 336.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 342 Canadian Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development and articulation of Canadian foreign policy. Theoretical approaches. The environmental setting. Historical perspectives. Trans-Atlantic linkages. The American connection. The Common Market. The United Nations. Military security. Developing relations with Asia, Africa, Latin America. Canada in global society.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics or International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Diya Jiang
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POLI 348 Gender and Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of a variety of key thinkers and debates around gender in Canadian politics. Aims to give students the critical tools to examine the complexity of Canadian political society and gain a firm grasp on both the limits and possibilities of analyzing “gender” as it intersects and interlocks with other facets of identity and ideology.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian politics or GSFS
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics. Also in the field of Political Theory
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Brooke Steinhauer
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POLI 371 Challenge of Cnd Federalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An analysis of the origins, evolution and nature of federalism in Canada. Topics and themes will include the impact of federalism on political institutions, the effect of different regional perspectives, and the issues and conflicts that currently confront Canadian federalism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one course in Canadian politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 372 Indigenous Pples&theCdn State 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one course in Canadian politics such as, POLI 221 or POLI 222 OR Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 372 prior to W06.
- Note: Field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 379 Topics in Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics in Canadian politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 410 Canadian Political Parties 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course examines Canadian political parties and party systems, stressing patterns of historical development, party organization and finance, relationships with social movement, and the impact of Canadian federalism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one other course in Canadian Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jason Ferrell
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POLI 412 Canadian Voting/Public Opinion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A critical examination of major debates within the literature on Canadian voting behaviour and public opinion.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: at least one course in Canadian politics, preferably at the 300 or 400 level, or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 417 Health Care in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course analyzes the theory and politics of health policy and institutions, comparing provincial models and contextualizing Canadian systems with international perspectives from the U.S. and Europe. Current health reform debates will be explored, particularly those involving federal-provincial relations, sustainable financing and the role of the state in social protection.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 424 Media and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of media in domestic and international politics, with reference to recent studies in political science. Themes in the study of mass media and politics in democracies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 Or POLI 227; and at least 3 credits in Political Science at the 300 level
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Esli Chan
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POLI 426 Partis pol et comp élect au Qc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Eric Belanger
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POLI 427 Sel Topics:Canadian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected problem areas in Canada's political process, political culture, constitutional development, and machinery of government.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course and preferably an upper level course as well in Canadian Government and Politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 436 Aboriginal Rights:the CdnConst 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the inclusion, impact, and interpretation of s.35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. In s.35, "the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed". What does it mean for Canada to recognize, affirm, define, justify, and implement such rights? The course sets out how one might think about the constitutional promise of s.35, and challenges us to address whether this promise has been realized. It sets out how s.35 has structured Indigenous-settler politics since 1982.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Christa S Scholtz
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POLI 478 The Cdn Constitution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of legislative and judicial protection of rights and liberties in Canada. Topics to be covered include civil rights and the division of powers; the implied bill of rights theory; the 1960 Bill of Rights; establishment and enforcement of human rights legislation; and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 378 or an upper level course in Canadian Politics or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who took 160-427 in 1989-90 or 1991
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 521 Seminar: Can Pol & Gov't 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected problems of Canadian socio-economic and political structures; political culture; constitutional development, and governmental structure.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year Honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor
- Prerequisite: At least one 300 or 400-level course in Canadian Politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ifeoluwatari Ajadi
Comparative Politics
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POLI 212 Intro to ComparPol-Eur/NAmerca 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to fundamental comparative politics concepts and research that focuses on Europe and North America. Topics include: state and state institutions, parties and party systems, elections, protest and social movements, rule of law, corruption, regime transitions— democratization and autocratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova
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POLI 227 Intro to Compar Pol-Global S. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 316 Black Lives Matter&Amer Democ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Explores the history, ideological origins, and contemporary politics of the Black Lives Matter movement and its relationship to American democracy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites At least one of POLI 212, POLI 221, POLI 222, POLI 226, POLI 227, or POLI 231.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227, or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 319 Politics of Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 322 Political Change: South Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 324 Comparative Politics of Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 325 U.S. Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The founding of the American political system, with emphasis on the major documents, the Constitutional Convention, and the Federalist Papers, as well as the development of the constitutional system. Other fundamental characteristics, including political thought and federalism, will be examined. The main institutions, including the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court, will receive attention.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
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POLI 328 Comparing European Democracies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the study of contemporary European politics. The course presents the basic concepts and approaches used in the field of European comparative politics and examines patterns of similarity and difference across Europe, as well as some current political debates in Europe.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 or POLI 227 or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 329 Russian Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Broad introduction to contemporary Russian politics. Examination of the Soviet system and its collapse. Exploration of key elements of Russian politics such as formal and informal political institutions; economic transformation and statebusiness relations; nationalism, memory, and identity; civil society and social movements; and Russian foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juliet E Johnson
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POLI 330 Law and Courts in Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Judicial politics in continental Europe, including theoretical accounts of the rule of law, judicial independence, power, and accountability, and the judicialization of politics. Empirical examples will be drawn from both Western and Eastern Europe countries, as well as the constitutional and the ordinary judiciaries.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 331 Politics in E Central Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Analysis of recent dramatic changes in East Central Europe in light of the historical development and current structure of these states, their relationship to their societies, with emphasis on diversity and its sources.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: Some prior related course i.e. Comparative Politics or East European History or written consent of the instructor. Recommended POLI 329.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David Dubé
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POLI 338 Topics in Compar Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 339 Topics in Compar Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: a basic course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 340 Compar Pol of the Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 357 Politics:Contemporary Europe 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of political institutions and processes in today's Europe, concentrating on the member-states of the European Union and on the Union itself. The course is organized thematically rather than on a country-by-country basis.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227 or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 361 Political Partic:Comp Perspect 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Exploration of how citizens engage in politics. Theories and examples of current forms of political participation and mobilization will be introduced, including voting, party membership, transnational movements, political consumerism, culture jamming and internet activism. Examples are drawn from Europe and North America and sometimes from the developing world.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
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POLI 380 Contemporary Chinese Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juan Wang
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POLI 381 Politics in Japan and S Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries?
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Jacinto
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POLI 420 Memory, Place, and Power 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This interdisciplinary class explores the relationships among memory, place, and political power. The course begins with an introduction to key classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary texts on memory and place-making. It then uses this foundation to examine the symbolic transformation of public space, in particular the construction, alteration, and destruction of monuments, memorials, and museums in post-communist states and in North America. This approach emphasizes the social quality of memory, exploring the ways in which political interests, economic resources, and social practices can shape something as ostensibly personal and individual as memory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): One of the following: GEOG 316, GEOG 325, or GEOG 331; or one 200- or 300-level course in Comparative Politics required; or permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking GEOG 420, or who have taken POLI 432 when the topic was "Memory, Place, and Power".
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Juliet E Johnson
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POLI 421 The Politics of Misinformation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The impact that “fake news” and “disinformation” are having on citizens across the world. The political implications of the dissemination of media that is known to be false according to the best scientific evidence.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 422 Adv Topics: Comparative Pol 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Andrey Davydov
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POLI 424 Media and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of media in domestic and international politics, with reference to recent studies in political science. Themes in the study of mass media and politics in democracies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 212 Or POLI 227; and at least 3 credits in Political Science at the 300 level
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Esli Chan
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POLI 425 Topics in American Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course involves a detailed analysis of a limited area of American politics and government.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 325
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developed Areas.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 430 Politics of Art 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Drawing on political and aesthetic theory, as well as on a wide range of artworks, artistic practices, and art criticism, exploration of the ways in which art and politics intersect. In addition to analyzing artworks’ subject-matter, examination of their conditions of production, dissemination, and reception. Examination of how art is deployed politically and pressing political issues such as democratic representation, free speech, and structural inequality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note:The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 431 Nations and Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The role of nationalism in the political development of modern nation-states. Topics include: the origins of nationalism, nationalism and state-formation, anti-colonial nationalism, secession and sub-state nationalism, war and nationalism, federal and consociational arrangements in multi-national societies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 432 Adv Topics: Comparative Pol 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Topics in comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
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POLI 435 Identity and Inequality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: 300 level course in comparative politics or related social science course.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 451 The European Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The emergence of the EU and its innovative institutions and policies will be studied through lectures, discussions, and a simulation (of a European Council or Parliament session). Emphasis upon current debates about the EU's developing identity, its internal political economy, its institutions of 'multilevel' governance, and its external relation.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: one course each in International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 452 Conflict Simulation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the use of serious games for conflict analysis. The course will address the history of wargaming, the professional use of gaming techniques by governments and other organizations, and conflict simulation design.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in international relations or comparative politics.
- The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 473 Democracy and the Market 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
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POLI 474 Inequality and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the world; the historical roots of inequality in different regions, varying manifestations of inequality (class, region, ethnicity, gender), and selected contemporary problems.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 475 Social Capital: Comp Perspect 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Social capital as an important societal resource that helps to overcome collective action and development problems. Introduction to the roots of the concept of social capital, and discussion on how and why this resource influences the political and economic life of countries, regions, cities and individuals.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 476 Religion and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A course in Comparative Politics or permission of instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
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POLI 522 Seminar:ComparativePolitics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Seminar on comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in comparative politics.
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is comparative politics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Juan Wang
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POLI 524 Seminar:Comparative Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Seminar on comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in comparative politics.
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year Honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
- Amy Janzwood
International Relations
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POLI 243 Intl Poltcs of Econ Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
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POLI 244 Intl Politics: State Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
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POLI 341 Foreign Policy:The Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 342 Canadian Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development and articulation of Canadian foreign policy. Theoretical approaches. The environmental setting. Historical perspectives. Trans-Atlantic linkages. The American connection. The Common Market. The United Nations. Military security. Developing relations with Asia, Africa, Latin America. Canada in global society.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Canadian Government and Politics or International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Diya Jiang
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POLI 345 International Organizations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Politics or written consent of instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 346 American Foreign Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An exploration of American foreign policy from 1945 to the present. Topics to be addressed are the origins of the Cold War, deterrence, strategy and arms control, American intervention in Latin America and Vietnam, U.S. policy in the Post Cold War era - Gulf War, Haiti, Somalia, Yugoslavia and relations with Japan.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or a course in American history
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
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POLI 347 Arab-Israel Confl,Crisis,Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- T V Paul
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POLI 351 The Causes of Major Wars 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Examination of the competing theoretical explanations for major wars; application of the theories to the outbreak of World War I.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243, POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
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POLI 352 Intl Pol/Foreign Pol:Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International or African politics or written consent of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 353 Politics Intl Refugee Regime 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the causes and consequences of displacement, and international responses to this issue, focusing on forced migration linked to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses. It examines key actors, interests and norms that shape the international refugee regime, and international responses to other forms of displacement. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which displaced persons themselves navigate and shape the regime, and to challenges including the resolution of displacement crises, and accountability for forced migration.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Pre-requisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 354 Approaches to Intl Pol Econ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course presents theoretical approaches to understanding change in the international political economy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations and an introductory course in Macro Economics
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 359 Topics in Intl Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in International Relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- The fee for this field course is $3500. The fee for this activity covers ground transportation, academic materials, accommodation, and other field related expenses.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 360 Security: War and Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Focuses on international security and strategies of war and peace in historical and comparative frameworks. Topics include case studies of 20th century wars, conventional and nuclear strategy, and various approaches to peace.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 362 Political Theory and IR 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Key contributions of political theory to the study and practice of international relations. Three prevailing theoretical traditions will be examined: realism, 'international society', and cosmopolitanism. Key practical issues to be explored from these perspectives include war, humanitarian intervention, economic globalization, environment, and gender.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200 or 300-level course in political theory, and POLI 243 or POLI 244
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
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POLI 441 IPE: Trade 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 442 Int'l Rel of Ethnic Conflict 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 443 Intervention in World Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Examination of the history, theory and politics of intervention, focusing on the 19th century onward. It examines interventions for humanitarian purposes and interventions in civil wars in the 19th century, critical cases of non-intervention from the first half of the 20th century, intervention and resistance in the Cold War and decolonization periods, and interventions since the end of the Cold War. Legal, ethical and political frameworks for assessing the legitimacy and effects of intervention as a contemporary practice, the ways in which it has been contested, and its relationship to core principles, such as state sovereignty.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor, or a 300-level course in International Relations.
- The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 444 Topics in Intl Politics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in International Politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: An upper level course in International Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul, Leonardo Baccini
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 445 IPE: Monetary Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 446 Intl Law&Poltcs of HumanRights 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between state behaviour and individual rights recognized by international law. Introduction and critiques of the concept of human rights, and exploration of the institutional framework of human rights law. Surveys of the current international human rights regime’s most important entitlements for individuals and groups. The politics of human rights, highlighting the challenges to their effective protection.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level POLI course in the field of International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
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POLI 447 Poli Economy of Multinationals 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Exploration of the economic and political behaviour of one of the most important non-state actors in the international system: multinationals. The main models in international trade, including the New New Trade Theory. The main issues related to the political economy of foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of FDI on development as well as the role of MNCs in emerging markets.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 311 or permission of the instructor
- The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 448 Gender and Intl Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course will help students deepen their understanding of international relations by introducing them to gender analysis of global politics and feminist approaches to international relations. Part one examines gender-sensitive and feminist theories in international relations research. The second part then applies these approaches to a range of substantive issues including security, violence, peacebuilding, international law and political economy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 449 Diplomacy in Practice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of the evolution of diplomatic practices over time, with a special emphasis on emerging trends in the 21st century. It focuses on key sites of diplomacy, from foreign ministries to international organizations, and evaluates the role of new technologies and non-states actors in shaping global intercourse.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics or permission of instructor.
- The field is International Politics. This course is taught in an active learning classroom.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 451 The European Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The emergence of the EU and its innovative institutions and policies will be studied through lectures, discussions, and a simulation (of a European Council or Parliament session). Emphasis upon current debates about the EU's developing identity, its internal political economy, its institutions of 'multilevel' governance, and its external relation.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: one course each in International Relations and Comparative Politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 452 Conflict Simulation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to the use of serious games for conflict analysis. The course will address the history of wargaming, the professional use of gaming techniques by governments and other organizations, and conflict simulation design.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200-level course in international relations or comparative politics.
- The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 575 Seminar:International Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A research seminar dealing with topics in the field of international politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: Open to graduate students and final year Honours students only
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mark R Brawley
Political Theory
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POLI 231 Intro to Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The course introduces students to political theory through critical examination of classic texts in the history of political thought. In addition to gaining an understanding of several different traditions of political thought, students are encouraged to develop their skills in textual interpretation, critical reasoning, and essay-writing.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jacob Levy
- William C Roberts
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POLI 333 Western Political Theory 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The major themes and writers in the political theory of classical antiquity. The political ideas of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic philosophers will be explored through the significant texts of this period.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 231 or POLI 232 or PHIL 240 or at least two political science courses at the 300 level; or permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- William C Roberts
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POLI 334 Western Political Theory 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Medieval and renaissance political philosophy, from Saint Augustine to Sir Thomas More. Scholastic and neo-scholastic political thought, natural law and natural rights, as well as civic and northern humanism, republicanism and liberty. Twentieth century work on similar concepts will be used.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 333 or written permission of the instructor. POLI 333 should be taken before this course
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Victor M Muniz-Fraticelli
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POLI 362 Political Theory and IR 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Key contributions of political theory to the study and practice of international relations. Three prevailing theoretical traditions will be examined: realism, 'international society', and cosmopolitanism. Key practical issues to be explored from these perspectives include war, humanitarian intervention, economic globalization, environment, and gender.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200 or 300-level course in political theory, and POLI 243 or POLI 244
- Note: The fields are International Politics and Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
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POLI 363 Contemporary Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores fundamental currents of thought in political philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year, and may include issues such as classical liberalism and its opponents, the foundations of socialism and Marxism, rational choice theory and its critics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Michael Denigris
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POLI 364 Radical Political Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Radical themes in contemporary political thought and action.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- William C Roberts
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POLI 365 Democratic Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A series of lectures and seminars on democratic theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: Prerequisite: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 366 Topics in Political Theory 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in Political Theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 367 Liberal Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The development of liberal political thought and theories of justice, including a selection of authors from: Locke, Montesquieu, Smith, Constant, Kant, Mill, Tocqueville, Berlin, Hayek, Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, and Kymlicka, as well as some of their critics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 368 Political Theory & Indigeneity 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Engages with diverse approaches in political theory that address the political situation of Indigenous peoples in multiple settler colonial contexts. Explores how indigeneity requires transformations in the conduct of political theory and in our understanding of the history of political thought, including Indigenous political thoughts as articulated by Indigenous scholars.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: POLI 231
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yann Allard-Tremblay
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POLI 433 Hist of Pol/Soc Theory 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Early modern political philosophy, from Luther to Rousseau and Burke. Resistance theories of the 16th century, Hobbes and Locke, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Twentieth century work on concepts developed in this period such as rights, revolution, legitimacy, democracy, authority and liberty.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POL1 231 or 232 or 333 or 334 or written permission
- Note: The field is Political Theory
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yves Winter
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POLI 434 Hist of Pol/Soc Theory 4 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A consideration of selected writers and themes of late 19th and 20th century political theory. Writers include Hegel, Clausewitz, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Lenin, Rowis, Foucault, and Habermas. The rise of industrial society, scientism, the romantic revolt, revolutionary movements, socialism and liberal-democracy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POL1 433
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
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POLI 458 (De-)Coloniality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Explores the theorization of colonialism, including settler colonialism, as a political phenomenon. Explores the connection between colonialism and political thought, with both an historical and contemporary focus. Explores how political thinkers have and are responding to, resisting, and undermining coloniality.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): one 300-level course in political theory
- Note: This course is in the Political Theory field.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yann Allard-Tremblay
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POLI 459 Topics in Political Theory 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course will deal with a specific problem area in Political theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A 300- or 400-level course in political theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 470 Philosophy, Economy & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The application of normative political theory and the history of political thought to state-society and state-market relations and governance. The justice and ethics of economic policies and modes of production; social-theoretic and economic examinations of the state and the state system from social theory and economic theory.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 561 Seminar:Political Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A topic in political philosophy such as democracy, liberty, property or nationalism, or a political philosopher, is studied to enable students to research a topic in depth, to present their papers to the seminar, and to engage in and profit from discussion and debate.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in political philosophy
- Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year Honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Catherine Lu
- Aberdeen M Berry
Methods
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POLI 210 Poli Sci Research Methods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova, Brendan Szendro
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POLI 311 Intro to Quantitative Pol Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Building on POLI 210 (or equivalent), this course will introduce students to modern quantitative political science methods and teach them the requisite programming skills for data analysis. The course will provide students the foundational statistical skills to apply to their own research projects and to become more informed consumers of quantitative data in and outside of the academic context.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): POLI 210 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brendan Szendro
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POLI 312 Intermed. Quant. Political Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Building on POLI 311 (or equivalent), this course will deepen students’ understanding of modern quantitative political science tools as well as deepen their statistical programming skills.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 311
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Elissa Berwick
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POLI 313 Intro to Qual Methods:Poli Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Introduction to the basic concepts, approaches, and techniques of qualitative research methods in political science. It covers both positivist and interpretivist approaches, and techniques such as interviewing, focus groups, case studies, comparative historical analysis, discourse analysis, archival research, and ethnographic research.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restrictions: POLI 210 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tania Islas Weinstein
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POLI 461 Adv. Quant. Political Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A lab course that deals with topics not covered in POLI 311 or POLI 312 and applicable across political science subfields. Such topics include: Estimating models with limited and categorical outcomes; dealing with time-dependent data; estimating models of duration; advanced spatial methods; advanced text-as-data methods; advanced network methods .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Special courses
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POLI 490 Indep Reading & Research 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Final year Major, Joint Honours and Honours students wishing to pursue a specialized interest will be allowed to undertake a program of independent reading and/or research in that area under the supervision of a member of staff. Students will not be permitted to register for this course until they obtain consent from a Political Science professor to supervise them.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction(s): Not open to Minor students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 499 Honours Essay 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Regular meetings between student and professor, and the writing of a well researched essay. The essay should demonstrate some experience with primary sources, the ability to explore various theoretical perspectives as well as to organize and present a set of arguments in a systematic and thorough manner. The essay will be graded by a second reader from the Department designated by the supervisor. Students will not be permitted to register for this course until they obtain consent from a Political Science professor to supervise them.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction(s): Open to final-year Joint Honours and Honours students only.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 599 Internship:Political Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The internship shall consist of a minimum of 150 hours of work over a period of 12 weeks, plus a major research project based on the internship. The major project will ordinarily consist of a major research paper, plus a substantial written record of the work conducted during the internship.
Offered by: Political Science
- Restriction: Open, with permission, to Honours, Joint Honours and Majors students in years U2 and U3, and graduate students. This course does not count as a 500-level seminar under the Honours requirements.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Minor [program medium BA POL8 MINOR]
Fields of Political Science
We divide our course offerings into the following fields:
- Canadian Politics
- Comparative Politics (Developed and Developing Areas)
- International Politics
- Political Theory