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All graduate courses offered by the Department of Political Science are listed below. Click on the course number for a brief description of the course, the schedule for the current academic year, and the instructor.
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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 610. Public Policy: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives.
Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar will focus on the comparative analysis of public policy issues. We examine explanatory models of the evolution and formation of public policy, as well as comparative methodology. We also focus on the study of public policy issues that illustrate the specific policy environments of Canadian and comparative examples.
Syllabus: Poli 610 Winter 2015
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Qualitative methodology, including topics on: philosophy of science, interpretivism, causation, comparative methods, case studies, critical junctures and path dependence, concept formation and measurement, case selection, necessity and sufficiency, fuzzy sets, and interviews and fieldwork.
Syllabus: Poli 611 Winter 2021
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar offers an overview of the fundamental principles of political science research. Emphasis is placed on acquainting students with the methods and techniques most commonly used by political scientists. Topics include research project design, procedures for carrying out research, as well as both qualitatively- and quantitatively-oriented methods of data collection, processing, and analysis.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 612 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A seminar on a theme in contemporary political theory or in the history of political theory.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 613 Fall 2023
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 613 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A broad survey of major works in the history of political thought, mostly or entirely drawn from the reading list for the Ph.D. comprehensive exam in political theory.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 614 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examines a variety of key feminist thinkers, the debates they spark, and the concepts they create. While some time will be devoted to outlining the historical evolution and context of ideas, the bulk of the course will focus on understanding and evaluating the concepts, conclusions, and assumptions of various feminist political thinkers. Particular focus on Canadian thinkers and politics.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 615 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the concepts underlying modern approaches to the study of politics. The scope of the discipline will be delineated and the foundations of empirical research, including the philosophy and methodology of science especially as these apply to social science, will be considered. Various alternatives and critiques will be presented and evaluated.
Syllabus: Poli 616 Fall 2019
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to central normative issues in the study of politics. The seminar consists of lectures, oral presentations, discussion and research papers.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 617 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to regression techniques common in political science, including applied multiple regression techniques, beginning with basic linear models and ending with models for binary or ordinal dependent variables. Methodological issues are taught using substantive issues and debates in the discipline.
Syllabus: POLI 618 Fall 2024听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A consideration of the different dimensions of politics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity, and inequality, emphasizing the Canadian case in comparative perspective.
Syllabus: Poli 619 Fall 2020听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Strategies for studying the Canadian political process. Pluralist, Marxian and state autonomist approaches for analysing the relative significance and inter-relationships of basic components of the Canadian political system. Although one purpose of the course is to survey the literature on individual topics, a broader purpose is to employ individual research strategies to develop conclusions about the nature, distribution, and exercise of power in Canada.
Syllabus:poli_621_fall2023_syllabus.pdf
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of a selected topic in Canadian politics.
Syllabus: Poli_622 Winter_2021听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A research-oriented introduction to selected theoretical and empirical works on Canadian constitutionalism and judicial politics. The substantive focus of the course concerns the politics of constitutional change and the political impact of constitutional decisions by Canadian courts.
Syllabus: Poli 623 Winter 2010听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar examines how political scientists engage with historical research. The course will interweave two broad themes: (1) methodological and ontological issues in historical social science, including the nature of historicist explanations, the comparative-historical method, path dependence and critical junctures, rational choice explanations, and evolutionary theory; and (2) substantive macro theorietical questions that are central to the genre of historical social science, including questions of modernization, democratization, revolutions, state formation, colonialism, political parties, and historical analogies in foreign policy-making. In interweaving these two themes, we are interested in the broad macro ontological frameworks, the merits of the substantive arguments, and the interaction between the two.
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POLI 626 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction for graduate students to the sub-discipline of comparative politics. The logic of comparative analysis as well as a number of alternative paradigms for analyzing and comparing political systems and processes.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 628 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Political developments in the Russian Federation, Belarus, the Caucasus, and Central
Asia. Exploration of formal and informal political institutions, political economy, identity and nationalism, civil society and social movements, conflict and cooperation, and geopolitical relationships across the region in comparative perspective.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 629 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of recent trends and current debates in the electoral politics, political economy and political sociology of Europe. The course will focus on developments at two levels: that of national political systems and that of the region as a whole, particularly as embodied in the European Union.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听Poli 630 Fall 2023
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Theoretical underpinnings and empirical challenges of federal states from a comparative perspective on industrializing countries, with Canadian federalism providing an important example. Issues include federalism and ethnic conflict, fiscal federalism, and federalism and markets.
Syllabus: Poli 631 Winter 2017听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A critical examination of major debates within the comparative literature on voting behaviour and public opinion. The work discussed will draw primarily on research conducted in the United States, Canada and Western Europe.
Syllabus: Poli 632 Winter 2019听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the literature on Southeast Asian politics. Topics include: state structures, political regimes, political parties, political economy, nationalism, ethnicity, and religion. Emphasis on comparative analysis within the region and on the different analytical perspectives employed to study Southeast Asia.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 633 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Critical examination of some major approaches to the study of Quebec politics and society, with particular emphasis on issues of nationalism, social and political movements, ethnicity, language and class conflicts, federal-provincial relations, as well as an analysis of the role of intellectuals and party politics in the deliberation process.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 636 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A specific problem area in comparative politics.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听 POLI 639 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of political and socio-economic development in the Middle East, with particular emphasis on the Arab world. Topics to be addressed include state formation and consolidation; Arab nationalism; civil society and state-society relations; the politics of Islam; petro-politics; the political economy of economic liberalization; and future patterns of political change.
Syllabus: Pol 640 Fall 2023听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines major political and social changes in South Asia. Explores such topics as colonialism and nationalism; trends in mass mobilization and electoral politics; regime changes; economic policies and their impact; and conflicts over authority patterns, policy agendas, and national boundaries.
Syllabus: Poli 641 Fall 2018听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Selected problems in contemporary comparative African politics and political thought. The work of the seminar centres around research papers prepared and presented by participants.
Syllabus: Not available at this time
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Theoretical approaches to the politics of identity with reference to experiences in different world regions. The politics of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, race and gender, and the relationship of such forms of identity politics to democracy, tolerance, pluralism, violence, socio-economic change and equality.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 643 Winter 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
China in the broad literature of comparative politics, including the state-building, the political economy of growth, contentious politics, and authoritarian rule.
Syllabus: Poli 645 Winter 2021听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A specific problem area in comparative politics.
Syllabus: Poli 646 Winter 2020听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course explores changing patterns of social, economic and political relations in Latin America, especially at the level of civil society. It examines such topics as state formation, institutional development, regime transformation and the insertion of Latin American countries in both the international capitalist economy and the inter-state system.
Syllabus: Poli 648 Winter 2018听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
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 650 Winter 2022听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Political developments in European states as well as the European Union (EU) from a
comparative politics perspective. Exploration of political institutions, political economy, state building, identity and nationalism, civil society and social movements, party politics, EU enlargement, and EU-level political processes.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听 POLI 659 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course provides an examination of the theoretical questions regarding the epistemology and ontology in fieldwork-based research, debates about research ethics, and discussions about what constitutes 鈥渢he field.鈥� The aim is to give students the critical tools that are necessary to prepare them to conduct different types of field research, which can include participant-observation, interviewing, and archival research. The course will also engage with critical perspectives on issues such as positionality, reflexivity, transparency, representation, and embodiment.
Syllabus: not available at this time
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of a range of interpretive theories andmethods, which include: semiotics, hermeneutics,discourse analysis, and ordinary language analysis. Toolsto analyze 鈥渢exts鈥� broadly defined, which includes:documents, films, media content, including people鈥檚enunciations and actions.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Methods for causal inference using a potential outcomes framework. Topics will include instrumental variables, difference-in-difference estimation, regression discontinuity designs, and matching. Examples will be drawn from across Political Science subfields.
Syllabus: Poli 666 Winter 2022听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A specific problem area in International Relations.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 670-001 Fall 2024
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听POLI 670-002 Fall 2024
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is designed to give students a thorough background in the basic theories and models used in International Relations. It emphasizes breadth, in order to ground students in the variety of approaches employed in the field of international politics.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听 POLI 671 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
For students in international and comparative politics, a course in IPE in two senses: 1) the use of the economic model of purposive behaviour to examine international phenomena; 2) the politics of global economic issues such as production, trade, finance, debt, technology transfer, economic coordination. Connections between domestic political economies and the IPE, alternative strategies of state adjustment to a changing IPE.
Syllabus: Poli 672 Winter 2021听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The main theories and issues in international political sociology as an approach to international relations. Focus is on the political constitution of international social artefacts such as institutions, norms, identities, practices and communities.
Syllabus: POLI 676 Winter 2025
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A workshop intended to help M.A. and Ph.D. students prepare their thesis proposals and chapters. Writing techniques and methodology will be covered. Students critique seminar presentations by leading scholars on their new works.
Syllabus:Poli 678 Fall 2017
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Covers theoretical and historical literature on international security, strategy, war, and cooperation. Includes systemic, societal and normative explanations or war, peace, security, and change.
厂测濒濒补产耻蝉:听听Poli_679 Fall 2023听
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the theories, concepts and empirical work on advanced democracies with a focus on issues of social change. Theories of the welfare states, social capital, postmaterialism, political participation, social movements and issues of diversity are studied from a variety of methodological perspectives.
Syllabus: Poli 680 Winter 2018听
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Credits: 0Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Departmental-wide research seminar, mandatory for all PhD students resident in Montreal who have completed their comprehensive exams. Students present their current research and receive critical feedback.