When you have completed Political Science 342: Introduction to Comparative Politics, you should be able to achieve the following course objectives. Identify the components of system theory and explain ...

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Overview POLI 355: Political Philosophy: Plato to Machiavelli provides an overview of classical political thinking about the best life for humankind and the best ways to live together as a community ...

Cultural Studies 201: Cultural Studies and Everyday Life is a junior-level, three-credit course that takes as its organizing metaphor, Raymond Williams' remark that “culture is ordinary.” This course ...

Overview The primary aim of POLI 390 is to introduce the study of Canadian federalism and explain the relationship between the federal and provincial governments. Federalism is a complicated and ...

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Overview Political Science 330: International and Global Politics is a three-credit, intermediate-level university course that introduces the main theoretical approaches to world politics and the main ...

Overview This course examines how the environmental policy process in Canada works. In the course, students will become familiar with Canadian environmental organizations and government structures, ...

COMP 698 and instructor approval. For details, students must contact the MSc CIS Administrative Assistant to obtain permission to register in this course. System integration is a pervasive aspect of ...

After completing POLI 480, students should be able to critically assess how the information technology revolution has reshaped power and economic production on a global scale, facilitated ...

Overview CRJS 494: Crime and Intelligence Analysis introduces the discipline of criminal intelligence analysis, with a specific focus on its application within policing. Crime analysis is a discipline ...

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