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Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.POLI 410. Canadian Political Parties.
Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 410 Fall 2022
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A critical examination of major debates within the literature on Canadian voting behaviour and public opinion.
Syllabus: Poli 412 Fall 2021
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 417 Winter 2020
Course information not available.
Syllabus: Poli 419 Fall 2017
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 420 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Not yet available
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.POLI 422. Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A specific problem area in comparative politics.
Syllabus: Poli 422-001 Fall 2023
Syllabus: Poli 422-002 Fall 2023
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 423 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 424 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course involves a detailed analysis of a limited area of American politics and government.
Syllabus: Poli 425 Fall 2015
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Syllabus: Poli 426 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected problem areas in Canada's political process, political culture, constitutional development, and machinery of government.
Syllabus: POLI 427 Winter 2024
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Nationalism.
Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 431 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in comparative politics.
Syllabus: Poli 432 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 433 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 434 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 435 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 436 Winter 2025
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Economy: Trade.
Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus:Poli 441 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 442 Fall 2023
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: POLI 443 Winter 2022
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A specific problem area in International Politics.
Syllabus:Poli 444 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 445 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 446 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 448 Winter 2020
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.POLI 450. Peacebuilding.
Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 450 Winter 2022
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus:Pol 451 Fall 2018
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus:Pol 452 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus:Pol 458 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will deal with a specific problem area in Political theory.
Syllabus: Pol 459-001 Winter 2024
Syllabus: Pol 459-002 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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
.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Pol 470 Winter 2021
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization.
Syllabus: Pol 473 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli_474_Winter_2017
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 475 Winter 2012
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: Poli 476 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus:Poli 478 Winter 2018
Course information not available.
Syllabus: Poli 480 Winter 2015
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected problems of Canadian socio-economic and political structures; political culture; constitutional development, and governmental structure.
Syllabus: Poli 521 Winter 2025
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.
Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on comparative politics.
Syllabus: POLI 522 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Seminar on comparative politics.
Syllabus: Poli 524-001 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
Syllabus: POLI 561 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A research seminar dealing with topics in the field of international politics.
Syllabus: POLI 575 Winter 2025