Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

Laurentian University

Canada,Ontario

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36 Months

Duration

CAD 25,960/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 129

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Canada, Ontario

Type: University

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1960

Total Students: 9,000 +

Int. Students: 500 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, CA

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

Program Overview

Explore the world of politics and the politics of the world. Take on the pressing issues of our time; debate the ways forward. Studying political science will help you develop the knowledge, the skills and the qualities of
character to address the multiple issues that face the Canadian political system and the international community:

  • the Charter of Rights and how it reflects the changing face of Canadian society
  • the rights of indigenous peoples, decolonization and the politics of natural resource development
  • unemployment, debt, inequality and socio-economic justice 
  • the place of francophones in Canada and Ontario, immigration, minority cultures and national identity
  • climate change, resource wars, global instability and conflict resolution
  • globalization and a multipolar world or one led by the US, international security and the dangers of war

Political Science Program Year by Year

  • First year: students are introduced to the basic concepts and theoretical controversies that shape the field of inquiry, and to enough empirical material about current political systems and issues to relate the concepts to contemporary political controversies;
  • Second year :students are initiated into the major sub-fields of Political Science—Canadian politics, comparative politics, international relations, political philosophy—their history, their specific approaches and preoccupations, with some sense of their place in relation to the discipline as a whole and encourage students to begin reflecting on the methods and epistemological assumptions appropriate to the study of politics;
     
  • Third year: courses enable/require students to bring the conceptual, empirical, historical and methodological elements they have acquired to bear upon case studies or disciplinary controversies in the sub-fields that interest them and, in so doing, to deepen their appreciation of the challenge, the difficulties and the limits as well as the cognitive possibilities, of putting the basic elements of Political Science to work in specific contexts;
     
  • Fourth year: continues and prolongs this type of work, introducing topics and assignments that demand somewhat greater independence of thought and affording students the possibility of working on a subject of interest as a focal point around which to weave the various strands of knowledge, information, insight and method acquired along the way into an independent contribution to scholarship.

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