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M.A. Degree Requirements

Students have the option of fulfilling the degree requirements by course work with comprehensive exams or coursework and a thesis:

Course Work With Comprehensive Examinations

In this option students take six half courses (or their equivalent) and write comprehensive examinations. Three half courses are taken during the fall term and three in the winter term. In July, students write comprehensive examinations in one major (2 subfields) and one minor area (1 subfield).

Major Areas and sub-fields:

Canadian Politics

  1. Institutions Federalism and Constotutional Issues
  2. Public Policy, Public Administration & Political Economy
  3. Social Movements, Interest Groups, Political Parties, Elections and the Mass Media

Comparative Politics

  1. Theories of Comparative Politics
  2. Comparative Advanced Industrial Democracies
  3. Comparative Public Policy

International Relations (minor only)

  1. International Relations Theory
  2. Global Political Economy
  3. Globalization and Transnationalism
  4. Regionalism and Foreign Policy

Political Theory

  1. Classical Political Thought
  2. The Basis of Modern Political Thought
  3. Developments in Liberal-Democratic Theory
  4. Social and Critical Thought

Public Policy

  1. Theories and Approaches
  2. Public Policy Studies: Comparative Public Policy
  3. Public Policy Studies: Canadian
  4. Administration, implementation and Institutions

Minor areas:
Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and Public Policy.

Course Work and Thesis

Students pursuing this option take five half courses (or their equivalent) during the first academic year and write a thesis, which must demonstrate independent research skills. Students who wish to write a thesis must submit a thesis proposal for departmental approval by December.

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