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POLI 101: CANADIAN POLITICS Dr. Daniel Westlake MW 14:30-15:50 CRN: 22485 DSB C103 This course will give you an introduction to the social bases of Canadian politics focusing on the distribution and exercise of political power. Topics will include: regionalism, Québec nationalism, and economic inequality; political parties, voting, interest groups and the mass media; the policy process. POLI 103: THE WORLDS OF POLITICS Dr. Andrew Wender/Amy Verdun TWF 10:30-11:20 CRN: 22494 DTB A120 What is Politics? What is Political Science? This popular course introduces the study of politics from a wide range of levels, from the local community to the world as a whole. Students are introduced to the three sub-fields of politics, comparative politics, international politics, and political theory, as well as to debates and approaches common to the discipline. The fields are examined through the lens of democracy–a foundational, yet contested, concept in the discipline. POLI 201: CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT Dr. Jamie Lawson MR 11:30-12:50 CRN: 22505 DTB A102 This course is an introduction to Canada’s governing institutions, their origins, and the conceptual frameworks used to understand them. Canada’s constitutional framework emerged gradually, rather than being developed in a comprehensive plan. Key topics include the imperial legacy, Crown sovereignty, parliament, the prime minister and cabinet, the courts, federalism, and security forces. POLI 202: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL THEORY Dr. Simon Glezos TWF 13:30-14:20 CRN: 22512 DTB A102 This is the required introductory course to the field of political theory within political science. We study a select number of classical texts in political theory and contemporary texts in order to provide an overview of the field and the types of questions it addresses. The emphasis is on the development of critical reading, speaking and writing skills in the analysis of political questions such as freedom, oppression, justice, nonviolence and participation.

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POLI 210: COMPARATIVE POLITICS Dr. Feng Xu TWF 11:30-12:20 CRN: 22519 DTB A102 How does politics work in different countries around the world? Is there a better way of doing politics than the way we do it here? Why are there so many differences between how democracy works in one country compared to another? Why is there so much political conflict in some countries and not others? These are some of the many questions that drive students and scholars of comparative politics. We want to know how politics works in different countries around the world. POLI 240: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Dr. Michael Webb TWF 9:30-10:20 CRN: 22526 DTB A110 This course will give you the knowledge and theoretical background necessary to make sense of international events. We examine the key influences that shape our understanding of global politics, including questions of war and peace, sovereignty, globalization, international human rights and the environment. We also explore the nature and role of the main players that interact on the global stage, including states, transnational corporations, international organizations and terrorist groups. POLI 300A: ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THOUGHT Marta Bashovski TWF 12:30-13:20 CRN: 22533 COR A221 This course examines a lineage of vital political thinkers and themes linking across greater than one and a half millennia in the history of ideas and civilizations running, specifically, through the eras of ancient Greece, late antiquity, high medieval Europe, and classical Islam. The figures on whose thought we will focus–Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Ibn Khaldûn– asked some of the most fundamental political questions imaginable, addressing such matters as the nature of justice, the structure and life cycle of ideal (and essentially flawed) states and societies, and the ultimate character and aims of law.

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POLI 305: DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY Dr. Avigail Eisenberg MW 14:30-15:50 CRN: 22534 COR A125 This course examines the challenges to democracy in the age of diversity. We begin by examining the emergence of three different approaches to diversity–the politics of difference, multiculturalism and the politics of recognition–then examine challenges to these approaches drawn from feminism, post-colonialism, and other critical perspectives, while considering these challenges in the practical context of current political debates. POLI 311: GOVERNMENTS AND POLITICS IN EUROPE Dr. Daniel Schulz TWF 11:30-12:20 CRN: 22535 COR A225 This course in comparative political analysis is designed to provide an overview of key historical, social and institutional aspects of contemporary European politics. The material is laid out thematically, rather than countryby-country, and focuses on comparative governance structures. We will look at central issues and political processes, to include political parties, elections and electoral systems, interest groups, linkage institutions, parliaments and executives, welfare states, and other relevant topics. POLI 313B: U.S. POLITICS: PUBLIC POLICY, THE CONSTITUTION, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES Dr. Colin Bennett MR 11:30-12:50 CRN: 22536 COR A129 In this course, we examine the American political system from the perspective of the constitutional framework, and the role of the Supreme Court. We will analyze some of the most critical policy issues of the day: abortion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, gun control, voting rights, campaign financing, health care, and others. Students will read some key cases, explore the constitutional questions and thereby gain a broader grasp of the operation of the contemporary American political system. POLI 319: COMPARATIVE ELECTORAL SYSTEMS (ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS) Dr. Daniel Westlake MR 11:30-12:50 CRN: 23758 MAC D114 This course will explore the impact that electoral systems have on who runs in elections, who voters support, parties’ electoral success, and the incentives that parties have to respond to meet the interests of different groups of voters. POLI 335: GENDER AND POLITICS Dr. Grace Lore MW 16:30-17:50 CRN: 22537 COR B111 This course examines how gender, or the social construction of femininity and masculinity, has affected governance in different parts of the world. Following an examination of key theoretical perspectives on gender http://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/

and governance, we will survey how gender affects participation in state structures and civil society groups as well as policy outcomes in established and new democracies. Lastly we will focus on gender and governance as they pertain to international governmental and non-governmental organizations. POLI 338: APPROACHES TO POLITICAL ANALYSIS Dr. Reeta Tremblay W 13:30-16:20 CRN: 22538 MAC D109 This seminar course examines various approaches to contemporary political analysis, with a focus on the assumptions of different theoretical orientations; the conditions under which knowledge claims are made and valued; and variants and critiques of different approaches. Students will be expected to examine and critically evaluate a range of theoretical traditions. Note: Required for Honours students in their third year. Students majoring in Political Science who wish to take this course should contact the instructor directly. POLI 340: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Dr. Claire Cutler MW 11:00-12:50 CRN: 23751 FIA 103 How have theorists and practitioners conceptualized and shaped the regional and global frameworks within which states and other major actors have operated? This course will trace the crucial formative influences that have influenced the development and global expansion of the modern Westphalian system as well as examine alternative systems from different regions and eras. POLI 341: THE UN AND GLOBAL ISSUES Dr. Carla Winston TWF 9:30-10:20 CRN: 22539 FIA 103 This course examines the UN’s role in global politics. Although it explores traditional issues relating to the institution’s origin, structure and function, its main animating question asks, “Whose interests are served by the UN?” This question exposes the institutional divide that often separates powerful states from weak states. It also reveals the ongoing tension between competing principles of order and justice and highlights the differences between security for the state and security for the person. POLI 344: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Dr. Michael Webb TWF 12:30-13:20 CRN: 22540 COR B135 International political economy is the study of relationships between politics and economics at a level beyond that of an individual country. This course will introduce a variety of theoretical perspectives used to examine the interaction between global politics and economics. We will also examine global politicaleconomic trends, and the politics of issues such as international finance, trade and foreign debt.

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POLI 346 CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY Dr. Will Greaves TWF 13:30-14:20 CRN: 22541 COR B129 This course explores Canada’s involvement in global politics. However, rather than providing a purely descriptive account of the history of Canadian foreign policy, it conducts a critical analysis that interrogates the trends and activities that have come to define Canada’s international personality and the various forces and actors that have shaped Canada’s global engagement. POLI 348: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Dr. Scott Watson M 18:00-20:50 CRN: 22542 COR B129 This course examines the question of security in global politics. It surveys the orthodox approach to strategic studies, which focuses on state security, before turning to the field’s recent embrace of previously marginalized concepts, like gender, the environment and human security. It also traces the critique mounted by critical geopolitics, which argues that traditional understandings of geopolitics do not simply provide objective analysis, but instead construct the world in ways that enable militaristic policies. POLI 349: NON-STATE ACTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM (ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS) Dr. Carla Winston TWF 11:30-12:20 CRN: 22543 FIA 103 This course use two interconnected themes – power and structure – to explore the variety of non-state actors in the contemporary international system. How are these actors structured, and how does this affect their use of power, or the use of power upon them? How do they interact with states, state-based institutions, supranational organizations, and with each other, within the structure of the international system? POLI 350: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Dr. Julie Williams W 18:30-21:20 CRN: 22544 COR B111 This course explores the external factors affecting contemporary public sector management in Canada, the changing structural and value context within which public servants work, the key processes in which they are engaged and how those processes are changing. We will focus primarily on the federal and provincial governments, but references will also be made to public administration at other levels. POLI 372: LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS Dr. Michelle Bonner TWF 9:30-10:20 CRN: 22545 COR B111 In the 1970s, most countries in Latin America were either under authoritarian regimes or engaged in civil wars. By 1990, most counties in the region were electoral democracies and no longer involved in official internal wars. This course gives students the opportunity to http://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/

understand the politics of this region through a critical examination of democracy and authoritarianism. The countries we will discuss in the course include: Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil. POLI 373: AFRICAN POLITICS Dr. Marlea Clarke MR 13:00-14:20 CRN: 22546 COR B129 This course explores the political economy of development in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing on case studies from four countries in the region: Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Nigeria. It examines several of the most pressing recent challenges for the continent such as donor intervention; oil and conflict; poverty reduction; food, agriculture and rural development; and China’s role in Africa. POLI 374: URBAN POLITICS IN CHINA Dr. Feng Xu TWF 13:30-14:20 CRN: 22547 COR B135 This course explores the transition and transformation of post-Mao China through the lens of urban politics. We will use a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze problems of power, governance, and socio-cultural change. Topics may include: the modern history of Chinese cities (imperial, republican, socialist), space economies (regionalism), migration, urban governance, urban inequality, land; urban society and culture, and urban social movements. POLI 378: COMPARATIVE FEDERALISM Dr. Reeta Tremblay MR 10:00-11:20 CRN: 22548 COR B111 This course explores the major theoretical questions surrounding federalism and the political dynamics within federal states. Through analysis of federal societies in both the Global North and South, students will learn about the origins and political organization of federations, and examine the complex relationships between federal political structures and their underlying political communities. We will pay special attention to the structural tensions and societal challenges that frequently beset federations and threaten their longterm survival. POLI 380: COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS Dr. Arthur Kroker T 18:00-20:50 CRN: 22549 COR A129 Communications and Politics is an issues-oriented course that explores the impact of digital media on contemporary politics as well as the politics of communication itself. Beginning with a discussion of key theories of communication, the course will investigate what happens when digital media intersects the real world of politics, namely a fundamental change in the actual practice of politics (campaign strategies, media narratives) as well as in the communication of popular resistance (Idle No More, Occupy, the Quebec student Phone: 250-853-3567

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protests, etc.). The course will also explore how recent technological innovations in digital media (surveillance, cyber-warfare, robotics, outsourcing) powerfully shape the political future. POLI 433 A01/533: “UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL SECURITY” ISSUES IN POLITICS (Seminar) Dr. Will Greaves W 16:30-19:20 CRN: 22552 DTB A357 The concept of security is essential for understanding developments in global politics, but what 'security' means has changed substantially since the end of the Cold War. Contemporary security studies is asking questions such as: What and who should be considered threats to global security? Whose security are we, and should we, be most concerned about? Who is empowered to speak about and act upon claims made in the name of ‘security’? How do phenomena such as globalization, climate change, epidemic disease, transnational terrorism, complex peace operations, humanitarian intervention, and the rise of new regional powers affect global security? This course examines these and other issues within security studies, and introduces students to conceptual and theoretical tools to make sense of the numerous, various, and contradictory understandings of the term ‘security’. POLI 442/533: INTERNATIONAL LAW (Seminar) Dr. Claire Cutler T 11:30-14:20 CRN: 23752 DTB A318 This seminar will explore the nature of the relationship between the disciplines of international relations and international law. Each views international law through theoretical lenses that are distinctive to their discipline, but that also give rise to some common concerns. While the historical origins of modern international law and the states system are important, so too are the dominant ways in which each field has framed understandings of regulating the use of force, human rights, economic development, transnational corporations, indigenous peoples, and gender relations.

POLI 458/HDCC 400: TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS Dr. Jamie Lawson M 14:30-17:20 CRN: 22554 DTB A357 Through concrete case studies and analytical frameworks, this course explores critical political economic analysis in a strategic approach to environmental conflict, dispossession, and just transitions to a greener political economy. Issues covered include natural resource extraction, manufacturing, finance, and consumption in shaping environmental politics in Canada, its diverse provinces, and selected linked or comparator countries. POLI 463/533/LAW 343: INDIGENOUS LAW AND POLICY (Seminar) Dr. Heidi Stark M 17:30-20:20 CRN: 22555 DTB A357 Indigenous nations maintain a unique legal and political relationship with the United States and Canada. Indigenous peoples, as the original inhabitants, engaged in diplomatic accords and treaties with newcomers that outlined their sovereign status and national character. In addition, the United States and Canada have further recognized and entrenched Indigenous rights within their state constitutions, statutes, executive orders, and judicial decisions. This course will compare and contrast US and Canadian Indigenous law and policy, paying particular attention to the constitution, court cases, and legal doctrines.

POLI 456: THE POLITICS OF THE INTERNET (Seminar) Dr. Colin Bennett R 14:30-17:20 CRN: 22553 DTB A357 Despite being barely 20 years old, the public internet has significantly transformed modes of capital distribution, communication and the means of political action. The internet has, and continues to, shape interactions between citizens, governments and corporations. This course will investigate some of the most significant dimensions and activities that are inextricably linked to the internet.

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