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POL Political Science CoursesPOL102Y1 A survey course placing contemporary and enduring issues in the context of the Canadian
political system. Topics may include: Quebec and national unity, cultural and regional
diversity, aboriginal self-government, electoral reform, the public policy process. How do
we change our institutions and how are we shaped by them? POL103Y1 Introduces students to political science by comparing Canada to a wide range of other
countries working through the fundamental political concerns of power, authority,
democracy and equality, and facing common challenges, such as ethnic and cultural
diversity. POL108Y1 An introduction to some of the basic issues in contemporary global politics. The course
begins with an examination of globalization and its consequences for states and citizens.
It then looks at a series of issues in global politics, and their consequences for Canada
and Canadian policy. Instructors draw on faculty within the Department to help address the
range of important issues. The class is conducted in an electronic classroom utilizing
digital projections, and an Internet connection. POL200Y1 A selective presentation of critical encounters between philosophy and politics, dedicated to the quest for articulation and founding of the just/good society. Among the theorists examined are Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Locke. POL201Y1 The political roots and consequences of the economic crisis and mass poverty that afflict many societies in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The efficacy and practicality of various development strategies and policies. POL201Y1 Politics of the Third World POL203Y1 Development of government in the United States, the main features of the American political tradition, contemporary patterns of politics and policy-making. Evolution of the Constitution with reference to individual rights, federalism, and governmental powers; the functioning of executives, legislatures, bureaucracies, parties and pressure groups in the context of current policy problems. POL204Y1 Explores the struggles to build democracy and a market economy after communist rule. Topics include: the Soviet system and its collapse; constitutions, federalism, presidential power, and executive - legislative conflict; ethnic politics and ethnonationalism; the new classes; corruption and organized crime; Russia’s relations with its neighbours; and, comparison of the transition process in post-Soviet states. POL208Y1 The course analyzes the impact of the individual, the nation-state, and the
international and transnational systems on international conflict and conflict resolution,
and examines the major problems the international community confronts in a rapidly
changing international environment. POL209Y1 Economic, demographic, social, technological and budgetary pressures are forcing
Canadian governments to rethink public policies, program delivery, bureaucratic structures
and how the state interacts with citizens. Students are introduced to governance and
policy issues and develop practical skills through lectures, case studies, comparative
analysis, briefing notes, guest speakers and role-playing. POL211Y1 (formerly POL339Y) 52L, 26T POL213Y1 Survey of the theory and practice of modern communication as it affects Canadian (and
American) politics. Major writers considered include: Ellul, Innis, McLuhan, Chomsky,
Meyrowitz. Topics include: media ownership, public regulation, election campaigns,
polling, journalism as a “profession.” POL214Y1 Canada’s political system: its key governmental institutions, especially Cabinet
and Parliament; federalism; the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; political parties and
voting behaviour; ideologies and political culture; public opinion and pressure groups;
regionalism and Quebec. Useful as a general course on Canada and a foundation for more
specialized study. POL215Y1 The rise to global prominence of East and Southeast Asia in the 20th century has been shaped by conditions that differ from those in Europe and North America. This course explores these historical differences in order to provide a developmental context within which contemporary political and economic institutions, ideas and events can be considered. POL242Y1 This course is aimed at helping Political Science students to understand and use the
quantitative methods and research designs now widely employed throughout the discipline. POL299Y1 Research Opportunity Program POL300H1 An introduction to the field of comparative politics. Content in any given year depends
on instructor. POL301Y1 The continuing relevance of pre-colonial Africa; the nature and legacy of colonial
rule; African nationalism and the consolidation of power in the newly-independent states;
government, party and the people; the role of the military; national integration;
dependency and neo-colonialism; socialism and development; democracy and human rights. POL302Y1 An introduction to comparative politics with a focus on Western Europe: types of
democracy, changing economic and social governance, organized interests in Europe, party
landscape, social movements. Special attention to Germany, Britain, France, Italy, and the
European Union. POL303Y1 This course explains the history of the two Germanies since 1945, and examines
contemporary German politics and their implications. POL304Y1 (formerly POL202Y) 52L POL305Y1 The colonial heritage, the failure of nation-states to develop as integrated and
autonomous power structures, dependent capitalism and political order, contrasting types
of domination, rigid monopolization and the flexible use of the state by the ruling
sectors, national revolution and the socialist alternative. POL310Y1 Analysis of different aspects of conflict management, including security regimes, U.N.
peacekeeping, mediation, bilateral as well as multilateral techniques. POL311Y1 A study of the ideas that underlie Canadian politics emphasizing the similarities and
differences between political parties. The sources and nature of liberalism, conservatism,
socialism, nationalism, and multiculturalism in Canada. POL312Y1 Canada’s response to the challenges of globalization and the post-cold war world.
The major alternative theoretical approaches, the changing doctrines and patterns of
Canadian foreign policy from 1945 to the present, the making of Canadian foreign policy,
relations with the United States, within NAFTA, and with other global regions. POL313Y1 Psychological implications of political theories. Attention to alternative approaches
to research and theorizing. The bearing of psychological perspectives on political issues. POL314Y1 (formerly POL314H) 52L POL315H1 (formerly POL315Y) 39L POL316Y1 Constitutional, political, administrative, and financial aspects of federal-provincial
relations, regionalism, and cultural dualism. POL317Y1 Major theories and concepts in the fields of public administration and public policy,
drawing on the experience of advanced industrial nations. POL319Y1 The American Constitution and the Supreme Court’s role in its exposition and
development. The fundamental principles of the constitution, judicial power, federalism,
civil rights, freedom of speech and religion, criminal procedure. Discussion of Supreme
Court cases. Comparisons with Canadian constitutional law throughout. POL320Y1 The development of political thought from the Enlightenment and through the 19th
century; implications for political thought in the 20th century. Democratic and
anti-democratic tendencies. POL321Y1 (formerly POL321H) 52L POL323Y1 An exploration of the issue of justice among nations. Is such justice genuine or is it
largely spurious? What are the prospects for a just international order? Careful
examination and thorough discussion of texts by Thucydides, Rousseau, Kant, and other
first-rate thinkers on these issues. POL324Y1 Integration in Europe: an introduction to the institutions of the European Union and
the political players within; its policies; implications for state-society relations in
Europe; and consequences for international relations. Comparisons with other forms of
regional integration such as NAFTA, AFTA or MERCOSUR. POL325H1 Theories of Political Change (formerly POL325Y) 26L POL326Y1 The foreign policy of the United States: tradition and context of American
decision-making, the process by which it is formulated, application to a number of
specific regions and problems in the world. POL330Y1 The relationship between the individual’s quest for the good life and the
political order. The role of the wise man in civil society. Study of a small number of
texts. POL332Y1 A study of the role, autonomy, and power of courts in countries with different
political regimes (USA, France, Russia), and of the problem of legal transition in
formerly authoritarian, especially post-communist states. POL333Y1 Similarities and differences in provincial political systems. Comparative analysis of
provincial societies, cultures, and institutions. Examination of political parties,
leaders, elections, voting behaviour, and policy outputs. POL334H1 (formerly POL334Y) 26L POL335Y1 Politics and Government in Northeast Asia (formerly POL335H)
52L POL336H1 Government and politics in Canada’s preeminent province. Topics include the
historical, socio-economic, and comparative settings of provincial politics. Attention is
devoted to institutions, parties and elections, intergovernmental relations and the policy
continuities and discontinuities of recent years. POL337Y1 (formerly POL210Y) 52L POL338Y1 An interpretive study of the meaning and significance of the Enlightenment. Central
themes and issues are explored through selected readings and thinkers - Locke, Kant, Hume,
Rousseau, Vico, Montesquieu. POL340Y1 International law as an instrument of conflict resolution. Recognition, sovereign
immunity, subjects of international law, jurisdiction. POL341Y1 We analyze how globalization (market forces independent of state control) and
continentalism (processes of integration codified in NAFTA) are transforming Canada’s
position on the world stage and the capacity of federal and provincial governments to meet
the needs of their citizens economically, politically, and culturally. POL342H1 A postpositivist and postmodernist critique of mainstream international relations
thinking. In deconstructing prevalent assumptions about world politics as represented
primarily by neorealist and neoliberal thought, this course highlights alternative
perspectives on the construction and the emancipatory potential of political life. POL343Y1 The history and politics of international governance, with particular emphasis on the
League of Nations and its 19th century antecedents, the United Nations and the emergence
of nongovernmental organizations; informal institutions and structures; and specific issue
areas such as development, trade, finance, human rights and the environment. POL344Y1 A comparative examination of the development of a variety of social movements, and
their engagement with state institutions. The women’s movement in Canada, the U.S.,
and various European countries receive significant attention. Movements focusing on
labour, the environment, aboriginal issues, disability, race, and other issues are also
discussed. POL345H1 Introduction to Israeli politics. Israel’s political system: its origins, its
formal structure, its informal cues, and its current crisis. Particular attention given to
the relation between Israel’s political institutions and their ability to withstand
the pressures emanating from Israel’s fractured society. POL346Y1 The relationship between human-induced environmental stress and national and
international security, with a special focus on the likelihood of environmentally related
violence in the developing world. Some treatment of the technical aspects of global
environmental change. POL347Y1 The comparative politics of the environment. An examination of the environmental
movement in northern countries (Canada, United States, Western Europe), and its extension
into southern countries (Latin America, Africa and Asia). Analyses differences in policies
and politics between northern and southern regions, and the local effects of
globalization. POL348Y1 Concepts and themes of comparative politics in both developing and advanced industrial
states; concepts include political culture, class analysis, rational choice,
institutionalist approaches; themes include democratization, authoritarian regimes,
nationalism, states and markets. POL395H1/396H/397Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in a faculty research project. Offered only
when a faculty member is willing and available to supervise. Interested faculty review
plans with the Undergraduate Director, and then make the opportunity known to students as
appropriate. Check with Undergraduate Office for more details and faculty proposal form. POL398H0/399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. See page 42 for details. POL400H1 (formerly POL400Y) 26S POL402Y1 (formerly POL402H) 52S POL404Y1 (formerly POL404H) 52S POL405Y1 A study of Marxism as political economy and as philosophy with emphasis upon
dialectics. Begins with Kant, Hegel and Marx. Includes Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin,
Preobrazhensky, Pashukanis; Hilferding, Bernstein, Kautsky, Luxemburg, Korsch, Gramsci;
Marcuse, Lukacs, Althusser, Habermas. Theme: relations between science, economics,
politics and law. POL407Y1 Historical examination of the theoretical bases of Canadian politics. The contributions
of theorists such as George Grant and Charles Taylor to the understanding of Canadian
politics. POL409Y1 (formerly POL409H) 52S POL411H1 (formerly POL411Y) 26S POL412H1 (formerly POL412Y) 26S POL416Y1 The course explores the theoretical nature of the international system and its
historical evolution. POL417Y1 The countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East; their impact on the
international system, and the external and internal factors that influence their
international behaviour, with particular focus on civil wars. POL417Y1 Third World in International Politics POL418Y1 The social and economic problems faced by large third world cities; relationship
between urban politics and the kinds of solutions that are advanced. Settlement issues and
low-cost housing policies, unemployment and marginal populations, the dynamics of urban
government, and the politics of planning. POL419Y1 The use of advanced data analysis techniques in the social sciences, management and
analysis of large datasets, techniques of multivariate analysis, problems of causal
inference and interpretation of data. POL422Y1 Ethnic politics and emergence of ethnonationalism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet
world, especially the role of ethnic politics and ethnonationalism in the collapse of the
Soviet state and post-Soviet relations. Law and politics in the USSR and its successor
states, especially the politics of judicial and constitutional reform since 1985. POL423H1 The course examines public sector budgeting at the federal and provincial levels in
Canada. It investigates how economic, political and institutional factors are transformed
into budgetary policy especially during times of fiscal constraint. Comparative analysis,
budgeting theory, simulations and case studies inform this seminar. POL424Y1 An examination of the competing conceptions of knowledge, “quantitative” and
“qualitative,” that have shaped the academic study of politics. Methodology form
a philosophical standpoint. Topics discussed include objectivity, values, value freedom,
scientific explanation, behaviouralism, historicism, the sociology of knowledge, and
interpretation. Readings from Comte, Weber, Mill, Popper, Strauss, Kuhn, Habermas,
Gadamer, and Taylor. POL426H1 (formerly POL426Y) 26S POL427Y1 This course examines the theoretical presuppositions orienting the construction of the
behaviour and skills of democratic citizenship; simultaneously, students consider what is
involved. The course consists of three parts: No One Truth, Evoking the Other, and the
Spirit of Equality. POL428Y1 Explores cultural, institutional and structural explanations for political change and
regime types in Southeast Asia; strong emphasis on nationalism, ethnic/religious conflict
in the region. POL431Y1 (formerly POL431H) 52S POL432Y1 (formerly POL432H) 52S POL433H1 (formerly POL433Y) 26S POL434Y1 This course explores, through the writings of its foremost advocates and adversaries,
the Enlightenment, the movement to found political life on the principles of scientific
reason, universally applicable and accessible to human beings. POL435Y1 Political Economy of Asia Pacific (formerly POL435H)
52S POL437Y1 This course investigates the implications of the Internet for world order. In the first
half of the course, we undertake a close reading of a major theorist of technology. In the
second half of the course, we canvass several major issue-areas in the Internet-world
order nexus. POL438H1 Selected issues in comparative politics. Varies from year to year. POL440Y1 Comparative analysis of the former Communist states of Eastern Europe and the
post-Communist successor states. POL441Y1 Selected issues in Asian politics. Content in any given year depends on instructor. POL442Y1 This seminar focuses on one or more themes of contemporary concern in Latin American
politics. POL443H1 Selected issues in comparative politics. Varies from year to year. POL444Y1 An examination of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Philosophy of Right. POL445Y1 (formerly POL445H) 52S POL445Y1 Canada and the Third World POL446Y1 A comparative study of Camus and Arendt. POL450H1 (formerly POL450Y) 26S POL451Y1 The relationship between politics and the news media, mainly in Canada and the U.S.
Topics and major writers considered include: Innis, McLuhan, Chomsky, Bagdikian,
concentration of ownership, election campaigns, polling, the press gallery, legal issues
and libel chill, regulation of broadcasting, and the impact of new technologies. POL452Y1 What is multilevel governance? Sources, structure, actors, processes, challenges. Focus
on organizing redistributive policies, participation and accountability. The European
Union compared with federal and semi-federal systems (e.g. Canada, U.S.A., Germany...) and
the European Union compared with regional and global regimes (NAFTA, WTO...). POL454Y1 Organized around important topics in study of international political economy. With a
focus on the industrialized world, it explores the political underpinnings of the global
economy. Some emphasis placed on empirical examination of international monetary and
financial issues. Trade and investment issues are also treated in a context which
evaluates the explanatory power of various theoretical approaches. POL456Y1 This course explores the tension between majority rule and minority rights as it
implicates the United States Supreme Court. Proceeding historically, the course examines
both legal doctrine and political practice relative to “rights talk” in the
United States. POL457Y1 The American political tradition rests on the pillars of liberty and equality, limited
government and popular sovereignty. Yet the meaning of these ideals has always been
essentially contested. This course examines the principal contests for the national
character from the pre-revolutionary period to the present. POL459Y1 The relationship of military force to politics: Nuclear war and deterrence,
conventional war, revolutionary war and counter-insurgency are examined from the
perspectives of the U.S., Russia and other contemporary military powers. POL460Y1 Studies on a modern political thinker or thinkers since Rousseau. POL461H1 (formerly POL461Y) 26S POL462Y1 Political parties and party systems in Canada, United States and selected European
countries. Electoral systems, problems of representation, voting and elections and
processes of political change in western democracies. POL464H1 In the post-cold war, globalizing international system, the institutions of the G7 are
emerging as an effective centre of global governance. Alternative conceptions of global
governance and theories of international cooperation are used to explain G7 performance.
National approaches to G7 diplomacy are assessed. POL465H1 The performance of the G7 and other international institutions in securing cooperation
and compliance, and shaping international order in major contemporary issues of political
economy (finance, trade, employment, development), security (arms control, regional
security, democracy and human rights) and transnational global issues (environmental
protection, drugs, crime, infectious disease). POL473H1 The structure and political processes of local government in Canada. Topics include
finance, provincial-municipal relations, elections, local government reform, and selected
case studies. POL474H1 A comparative survey and critical examination of major theories of public policy-making
and related approaches to policy analysis. Theories are applied in turn to selected cases
of Canadian policy development which are analyzed from a comparative perspective. POL475H1 (formerly POL439H) 26S POL479H1 This course examines the contemporary politics of the Middle East and North Africa. It
seeks to examine the relative importance of political, socio-economic and ideological
factors in the context of such issues as the resilience of authoritarism, the rise of
civil society, and the resurgence of Islamic activism. Theoretical discussion is followed
by case studies. POL480Y1 Historically, liberalism has coped with the fact of social difference through doctrines
of colour - or difference - blindness. Recent feminist and other critics of liberalism
have argued that liberal conceptions of justice and impartiality fail to treat members of
marginalized groups as equals. This course explores both sides of these debates. POL481H1 This course examines North American contributions to the development of non-linear,
non-essentialist, systemic modes of evaluation of social/cultural reality. Authors studied
include Joanna Macy, Gregory Bateson, Noam Chomsky and William Connolly. POL484H1 A seminar on a central problem in political thought. It proceeds through the reading of
a small number of major texts. Content in any given year depends on instructor. POL485H1 A seminar on a central problem in political thought. It proceeds through the reading of
a small number of major texts. Content in any given year depends on instructor. POL486H1 For advanced students of international relations. Various topics are taken up each
year, the content of which depends on the instructor. POL487H1 For advanced students of international relations. Various topics are taken up each
year, the content of which depends on the instructor. POL488H1 In depth examination of specific themes relating to contemporary African politics.
Content in any given year depends on instructor. POL489H1 In depth examination of specific themes relating to contemporary African politics.
Content in any given year depends on instructor. POL490H1 Examines in depth enduring and emerging issues in Canadian politics. Content in any
given year depends on instructor. POL491H1 Examines in depth enduring and emerging issues in Canadian politics. Content in any
given year depends on instructor. POL495Y1 Open only when a faculty member is willing and available to supervise. Students must
find an appropriate supervisor in the Department and obtain the approval of the Director
of Undergraduate Studies before enrolling. Obtain details and an application form from the
Department Undergraduate Office. POL496H1/497H1 Open only when a faculty member is willing and available to supervise. Students must
find an appropriate supervisor in the Department and obtain the approval of the Director
of Undergraduate Studies before enrolling. Obtain details and an application form from the
Department Undergraduate Office. |
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