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Department of Political Science

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Graduate Courses

Below you will find descriptions for courses offered in this field of study. You will find a general overview of the topics covered and any prerequisite course(s) or grade requirements, credit value and exclusions.

Some courses are listed as exclusionary to one another. This means that students may not take both courses for academic credit. Graduate courses which have undergraduate exclusions may be co-located (delivered in parallel). Some courses are restricted to enrollment in specific graduate programs, or may require instructor/graduate coordinator permission to register.

Not all courses are offered each year, and offerings may be cancelled in the event of low registration. Please consult the current  for this year's offering. For further information, please contact the program.



Courses offered by the Department are organized into four fields, as follows:

  • Canadian Politics
  • Comparative Politics
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Political Theory

Each field (with the exception of Political Theory) contains courses offered as core graduate seminars, and specialized sub-field courses.  In addition, directed reading courses may be arranged on an individual or small group basis with appropriate faculty members. Reading courses are particularly appropriate in areas closely related to a student's thesis research and are often offered by a student's thesis supervisor.

Note: Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the current timetable for this year’s offerings.

Canadian Government and Politics

Core Graduate Seminars:

  • .03: Advanced Seminar in Canadian Politics

Sub-field Courses

  • .03: Canadian Parties in Comparative Perspective
  • .03: Urban Governance in Canada
  • .03: Canadian Urban Politics in Comparative Perspective
  • .03: Introduction to Public Policy
  • .03: Introduction to Policy Analysis
  • .03: Politics of Reason, Passion, and Biology
  • .03: Canadian Public Administration
  • .03: The Politics of Health Care

Comparative Politics

Core Graduate Seminars:

  • .03: Comparative Theory
  • .03: Approaches to Development

Sub-field Courses:

  • .03: Comparative Development Administration
  • .03: Human Rights and Politics
  • .03: The EU as a Global Actor
  • .03: Comparative Perspective on the Development State
  • .03: Politics of Southern Africa
  • .03: Politics of Climate Change

Political Theory and Methodology.

Sub-field Courses:

  • .03: Human Rights: Philosophical Issues
  • .03: The Politics of Affect: Theories of Emotion and Political Life
  • .03: Political Theories of International Ethics and Global Justice
  • .03: The Social and Political Constructions of Health and Medicine
  • .03: Classical Liberalism and Democracy
  • .03: Theories of Violence, Persecution and Genocide

International Relations and Foreign Policy

Core Graduate Seminars:

  • .03: International Relations Theory 1: Order, Conflict and Change
  • .03: International Relations Theory 2: Cooperation, Institutions and Development

Sub-field Courses:

  • .03: Indigenous Global Politics
  • .03: Japanese Foreign Policy
  • .03: Issues in Global Security and Development
  • .03: Security Development Nexus; Theory, Policy & Complex Operations
  • .03: Contemporary Security Studies
  • .03: Canadian Foreign Policy
  • .03: Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in World Politics
  • .03: International Diplomacy: Institutions and Practices
  • .03: International Political Economy
  • .03: Politics of the Sea II

Research Seminar

  • .03:  Research Methods and Design

Directed Reading Courses

Graduate students taking directed reading courses register under one of the following designations, depending on whether the course extends for the first term, the second term, or the full academic year:

  • .03: Readings in Political Science
  • .03: Readings in Political Science

Thesis

Students register for the thesis under the appropriate designation, as follows:

  • .00: MA Thesis
  • .00: PhD Thesis