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POL2102H1S L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL490H1S L0101
Topics in Canadian Politics I
Canada in Question: A Country Founded on Incomplete Conquests
Themes
This courses examines the proposition that Canada as a political community is best understood as a country founded on two incomplete conquests. The course analyses the consequences of Britain’s incomplete conquest of New France in 1763 and its peace agreement with nations native to Northe Ameerica in 1764. Each session of the course will consider a landmark deveolopment or event in Canada’s constitutional development. These will include the impact of British loyalists, Confederation, the Riel Rebelllion, Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, Multiculturalism, Patriation, the Political Renaissance of First Peoples, the Charter of Rights, and the Decline of Parliamentary Democracy. Though much of the course material is historical, the historical narrative is examined through the lens of political science and political theory.
Texts
Peter H. Russell, Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People, 3rd edition, University of Torornto Press, 2004.
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...