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100-level courses

Course Code *	Title	Section	Instructor(s)	Room	Time	Enrol **
POL101H1F	The Real World of Politics: An Introduction	L0101	Dos Santos	TBA	M 12:00 - 2:00
POL101H1S	The Real World of Politics: An Introduction	L0101	Dos Santos	ON LINE-A	TBA
POL106H1F	Contemporary Challenges to Democracy: Democracy in the Social Media Age	L0101	Poetranto	TBA	W 9:00 - 11:00
POL107H1F	What Went Wrong? A Post Mortem of Political Disasters, Catastrophic Policy Failures, and Epic Marches of Folly	L5101	Gilady	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00
POL109H1F	Might and Right: Power and Justice in International Relations	L5101	Zarnett	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00
POL109H1S	Might and Right: Power and Justice in International Relations	L5101	Zarnett	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00
POL196H1F	FYF Seminar: The China Challenge	L0101	Falkenheim	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	R
POL196H1S	FYF Seminar: The China Challenge	L0101	Falkenheim	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	R

200-level courses

Course Code *	Title	Section	Instructor(s)	Room	Time	Enrol **
POL200Y1Y	Political Theory: Visions of the Just/Good Society	L5101	Desborough	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00
POL200Y1Y	Political Theory: Visions of the Just/Good Society	L0101	Sabl	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00
POL201H1F	Politics of Development	L0101	Gnamo	TBA	W 1:00 - 3:00
JPI201H1F	Indigenous Politics in Canada	L0101	Yesno	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00
POL205H1S	International Relations in the Anthropocene	L0101	Neville	TBA	M 9:00 - 11:00
POL208H1F	Introduction to International Relations	L0101	Gunitsky	ON LINE-A	TBA
POL208H1S	Introduction to International Relations	L5101	Pomeroy	TBA	R 5:00 - 7:00
POL212H1S	Understanding War	L0101	Nedal	TBA	T 9:00 - 11:00
POL214H1F	Canadian Government	L5101	Sevi	TBA	M 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL214H1S	Canadian Government	L0101	Mockler	TBA	W 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL218H1F	State, Society and Power in Comparative Perspective	L0101	Bertrand	TBA	R 11:00 - 1:00
POL219H1S	Unpacking Political Systems: Institutions and Behaviour in Comparative Perspective	L0101	Hansen	TBA	R 11:00 - 1:00
POL222H1F	Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning I	L0101	Ariga	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL222H1F	Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning I	L0201	Ariga	TBA	T 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL222H1F	Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning I	L5101	Ariga	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL223H1S	Globalization and Development: Issues and Challenges	L0101	Gutiérrez	TBA	W 1:00 - 3:00
POL224H1S	Canada in Comparative Perspective	L5101	Mockler	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL232H1S	Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning II	L0101	Ariga	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL232H1S	Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning II	L0201	Ariga	TBA	R 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL232H1S	Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning II	L5101	Ariga	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P

300-level courses

Course Code *	Title	Section	Instructor(s)	Room	Time	Enrol **
POL301H1F	Colonial Legacies and Post-Independence African Politics	L0101	Prichard	TBA	W 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL304H1S	Topics in Methods: Quantitative Study of War	L0101	Nieman	TBA	M 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL305H1F	Introduction to Latin American Politics and Societies	L0101	Kingsbury	TBA	M 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL307H1S	Japanese Politics	L0101	Lipscy	TBA	W 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL310H1S	Nationality Building in Central Europe	L0101	Magocsi	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00	P
JPS315H1S	LGBTQ Politics	L0101	Moreau	TBA	M 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL316H1F	Contemporary Canadian Federalism	L0101	McCallion	TBA	T 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL320H1F	Modern Political Thought: Freedom and Equality	L5101	Kingston	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL321H1S	Modern Political Thought: Progress Through History	L5101	Kingston	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL324H1S	European Union: Politics, Institutions and Society	L5101	Pavone	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL325H1S	Contemporary Latin American Politics	L0101	Kingsbury	TBA	M 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL327H1F	U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex World	L5101	Jurgensen	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL328H1S	Politics and Government in South Asia	L0101	Murali	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL329H1S	Experiences of Conflict	L0101	Khoshkar	TBA	M 11:00 - 1:00	P
JPA331H1S	Rise of China as a Global Power	L0101	Ong	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL337H1S	The Canadian Constitution	L0101	Hirschl	TBA	T 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL338H1F	Queer International Relations	L0101	Moreau	TBA	T 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL340H1F	International Law: Foundations	L5101	Quayat	TBA	R 6:00 - 8:00	P
POL341H1S	International Law: Operation of the International Legal Order	L5101	Quayat	TBA	R 6:00 - 8:00	P
POL347H1F	U.S. Government and Politics: Constitutional Structure and Development	L0101	Hurl	TBA	W 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL350H1S	Politics of East Central Europe	L0101	McElroy	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL351H1S	Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective	L0101	White	TBA	R 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL352H1F	Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods	L0101	White	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL354H1F	Politics and Society in Russia	L0101	McElroy	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL356H1F	Canadian Political Parties and Elections	L0101	McCallion	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL358H1F	Conflicts, Minority Rights and Para-States in Europe	L0101	Austin	TBA	T 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL359H1S	Enlarging Europe: The European Union and Its Applicants	L0101	Austin	TBA	T 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL360H1S	Topics in Latin American Politics: Political Ecology and Extractivism in the Americas	L0201	Kingsbury	TBA	T 1:00 - 3:00	P
JPR364H1F	Religion and Politics in the Nation State	L0101	Marshall	TBA	M 3:00 - 5:00	P
JPR365H1S	Global Religion and Politics	L0101	Marshall	TBA	M 3:00 - 5:00	P
JPR374H1F	Religion and Power in the Postcolony	L5101	Marshall	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL377H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics I: Violence, Development, and Difference	L0101	Gutiérrez	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL377H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics I: Development: History, Debates and Problem-Spaces	L0201	Salman	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL377H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics I: Gender & the Politics of Development	L0201	Salman	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL377H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics I: Becoming Israel: War, Peace and the Politics of Israel's Identity	L0101	Talal	TBA	M 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL378H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics II: Cities and Citizenship	L0201	Enright	TBA	R 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL378H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics II: Law and Political Development	L0301	Pavone	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL378H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics II: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	L5101	Oron	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P
JPS378H1S	Sex and the State	L0101	Moreau	TBA	M 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL378H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics II: Jews and Power	L0101	Talal	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL379H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics III: Civil Liberties in the United States	L0101	Ewing	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL379H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics III: Transnational Feminisms: Questioning Power from the Margins	L0101	Gutiérrez	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL380H1F	Topics in International Politics: Gender and Intersectionality in Global Politics	L0101	Bakan	TBA	M 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL380H1F	Topics in International Politics: Decision-Making in International Security	L0201	Schramm	TBA	R 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL380H1S	Topics in International Politics: Global Nuclear Politics	L0201	Nedal	TBA	R 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL380H1S	Topics in International Politics: Selected Puzzle in International Security	L0101	Gilady	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL381H1F	Topics in Political Theory: Political Agency Under Modernity	L0101	Williams	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL381H1S	Topics in Political Theory: Theories of Liberal Democracy	L0101	Williams	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL381H1S	Topics in Political Theory: Classical Political Thought	L0201	Rabinowitz	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL382H1S	Topics in Canadian Politics: Elections and Voting	L5101	Sevi	TBA	M 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL382H1S	Topics in Canadian Politics: Canadian Parliament's Rules and Operations	L0101	McCallion	TBA	T 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL384H1S	Global Environmental Governance from the Ground Up	L0101	Neville	TBA	R 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL385H1S	Issues in Contemporary Greece	L0101	Triadafilopoulos	TBA	R 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL386H1S	U.S. Government and Politics	L0101	Hurl	TBA	W 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL387H1F	Politics in Europe	L0101	Hansen	TBA	R 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL388H1S	Politics and Government of Southeast Asia	L0101	Poetranto	TBA	M 11:00 - 1:00	P

400-level courses

Course Code *	Title	Section	Instructor(s)	Room	Time	Enrol **
POL405H1F	The Military Instrument of Foreign Policy: Concepts and Approaches	L0101	Braun	TBA	M 11:00 - 1:00	P*
POL410H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics III: The Politics of Infrastructure	L0101	Enright	TBA	M 9:00 - 11:00	P*
POL412H1S	Human Rights and International Relations	L0101	Zarnett	TBA	M 3:00 - 5:00	P*
POL417H1F	Politics of North-South Relations	L5101	Gnamo	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P*
POL418H1S	Human Security and Intra-state Conflicts in the Global South	L5101	Gnamo	TBA	T 5:00 - 7:00	P*
POL421H1F	Maimonides and His Modern Interpreters	L0101	Green	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00
POL425H1S	State and Development in Historical Perspective	L0101	McElroy	TBA	M 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL426H1S	Democracy and Dictatorship	L0101	Way	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P*
POL428H1F	Federalism and Diversity in Canada (and Beyond)	L0101	McCallion	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00	P*
POL433H1F	Topics in United States Government and Politics: Presidential Politics in America	L0101	LeDuc	TBA	T 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL438H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics I: Living in the Illicit Global Economy	L0101	Gutiérrez	TBA	R 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL438H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics I: Judicial Politics	L0201	Pavone	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL443H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics II: Globalization, Democracy, and Growth	L0101	Manger	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL447H1F	Political Economy of Development	L0101	Eyoh	TBA	T 1:00 - 3:00	P*
JPA453H1F	Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective	L0101	Ong	TBA	M 3:00 - 5:00	P
JPF455H1F	Conceptualizing Cities in a Global Context	L0101	McCarney	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00
POL455H1F	Twentieth Century Ukraine	L0101	Magocsi	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00	P
JPF456H1S	Global Cities - Core Issues and Challenges	L0101	McCarney	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P
JPR458H1S	Postsecular Political Thought: Religion, Radicalism and the Limits of Liberalism	L5101	Marshall	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00	P*
POL466H1F	Topics in International Politics III: Dealing with Dictators	L0101	Schramm	TBA	T 9:00 - 11:00	P*
POL466H1S	Topics in International Politics III: Ideas and Identity in US Foreign Policy	L0101	Schramm	TBA	R 1:00 - 3:00	P*
POL466H1S	Topics in International Politics III: Global Indigenous Politics	L0201	Lightfoot	TBA	M 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL469H1F	Ethics and International Relations	L0101	Bertoldi	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P*
POL474H1S	Politics and Policy Analysis	L0101	Craft	TBA	W 1:00 - 3:00	P
POL476H5F	Moral Reason and Economic History	L0101	Day	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00
POL478H1S	Topics in Methods: Experiments in Political Science	L0201	Sevi	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL478H1S	Topics in Methods: Data Management and Visualization for Political Scientists	L0101	Donnelly	TBA	M 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL479H1F	Topics in Middle East Politics: Rethinking Middle East Politics	L5101	Salman	TBA	R 5:00 - 7:00	P*
POL479H1S	Topics in Middle East Politics: Comparative Urbanisms in the Middle East & North Africa	L5101	Salman	TBA	R 5:00 - 7:00	P*
POL484H1F	Topics in Political Thought I: Democratic Theory	L0101	Williams	TBA	W 9:00 - 11:00	P
POL484H1S	Topics in Political Thought I: Privilege and Opportunity	L5101	Sabl	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL485H1F	Topics in Political Thought II: Plato on Justice and Political Virtue	L5101	Bartels	TBA	W 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL485H1S	Topics in Political Thought II: Spinoza and the Invention of Liberal Democracy	L0101	Orwin	TBA	T 4:00 - 6:30	P
POL486H1F	Topics in International Politics I: Is the World Falling Apart?	L0101	Gilady	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P*
POL486H1S	Topics in International Politics I: The Soviet Collapse	L0201	Gunitsky	TBA	T 11:00 - 1:00	P*
POL486H1S	Topics in International Politics I: Women at the Helm - Gender, Leadership, and Global Politics	L0101	Schramm	TBA	T 9:00 - 11:00	P*
POL487H1F	Topics in International Politics II: Psychology of International Security	L0101	Pomeroy	TBA	R 9:00 - 11:00	P*
POL487H1S	Topics in International Politics II: The Planet's Last Frontiers: Governance of Antarctica, Oceans and Outer Space	L0201	Green	TBA	W 11:00 - 1:00	P*
POL487H1S	Topics in International Politics II: The Global Politics of Science Fiction	L0301	Gunitsky	TBA	R 11:00 - 1:00	P*
POL487H1S	Topics in International Politics II: The Changing Face of Armed Conflict: From Interstate War to Asymmetric Warfare	L0101	Gilady	TBA	M 1:00 - 3:00	P*
POL490H1F	Topics in Canadian Politics I: Political Discourse in Canada	L5101	Greenaway	TBA	M 5:00 - 7:00	P
POL490H1S	Topics in Canadian Politics I: Identity Politics in Canada	L0101	McCallion	TBA	W 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL491H1F	Topics in Canadian Politics II: Political Participation: Who Gets Elected?	L0101	Sevi	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL491H1S	Topics in Canadian Politics II: Institutions and Behaviour in Canadian Parliament	L0101	McCallion	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00	P*
POL492H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics IV: Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Governance	L0201	Haress	TBA	T 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL492H1F	Topics in Comparative Politics IV: Comparative Law and Social Change	L0101	Kahraman	TBA	R 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL492H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics IV: American Political Development	L0101	Ewing	TBA	R 11:00 - 1:00	P
POL492H1S	Topics in Comparative Politics IV: Comparative Constitutionalism in the Developing World	L0201	Haress	TBA	T 3:00 - 5:00	P
POL496H1F	Independent Studies	L0101	TBA	TBA	TBA	E
POL496H1S	Independent Studies	L0101	TBA	TBA	TBA	E
POL497H1F	Independent Studies	L0101	TBA	TBA	TBA	E
POL497H1S	Independent Studies	L0101	TBA	TBA	TBA	E
POL499Y1Y	Senior Thesis and Thesis Seminar	L0101	Kingsbury	TBA	F 9:00 - 11:00	E

^* For an explanation of any course codes see Codes Used in Timetable Listings.

** P = Priority; E = Department’s Permission; P* = Priority, with various capacity for the different enrolment controls.

^† The course syllabi listed on this site are not necessarily the final versions and should not be taken as binding. Course syllabi may be altered subsequent to their being posted here. Students are responsible for attending classes and making themselves aware of the adjustments made to the syllabus.

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