Undergraduate Studies
Our innovative Political Science undergraduate program allows you to choose your “core” and specialized courses from six fields:
- Canadian Politics: institutions, processes, and behavior federally, provincially, and locally; analysis of elections, parties, and public policies; identities and interests shaping political expression; Canada as a settler-colonial state
- Gender and Politics: the production of gender by the state, society, law, and media; intersections of gendered, racialized, Indigenous, and classed identities; the gender politics of private life; feminist and queer theories
- Comparative Politics: forms of government and politics in countries and regions including East Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Latin America; the nature and origins of popular political movements
- Indigenous Politics: Indigenous communities and nations; Indigenous political thought and knowledges; colonization and decolonization; paths of truth and reconciliation; comparative Indigenous feminisms
- Political Theory: critical ideas and ideals grounding of power, citizenship, justice, disability, culture, democracy, rights, and sovereignty
- International Relations: ideas animating nation-states and international political regimes; global governance, finance, trade and aid; foreign policy among states and regions; approaches to conflict and peace/post-conflict contexts
To change your Major or Minor or declare a Certificate, use the relevant form in the Faculty of Arts Forms Cabinet. The FAQs page has lots of answers, too.