IMPORTANT NOTE: 
A STUDENT MUST COMPLETE EACH COMPONENT OF THE COURSE REQUIREMENTS BEFORE A FINAL GRADE WILL BE ISSUED 

Fall Term

Week                        Topics                  Required Reading          Recommended Reading

Weeks 1-2-3

 1) Course Orientation
2)  Skills to Succeed Workshops
3) Your World: An Introduction to     Some Key Contemporary     Political Issues, Ideas, Personalities     and Events
4) The Great Issues of Politics
5) Beliefs and Values in the Polity
    Political Socialization
6)What is Politics?
   What is Political Science? 		Bateman:
Introduction
and Chapter 1

Guy:
Chapters 1 and 2
Appendix B		 Craig McKie, Using the Web for Social Research

A writer's style guide such as Diana Hacker's, A Canadian Writer's Reference

You may find the following book to be a useful resource: John McMenemy, The Language of Canadian Politics: A Guide to Important Terms and Concepts
( Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1995) ISBN 0-88920-230-3
Week 4 1) Democratic Values and Representation
    -civic virtue; political community         and identity
    -ideas of order and justice; equality,
     egalitarianism; freedom; rights and
     obligations...		 Bateman,
Chapters 2, 3, 11		 Reading on Reserve:
Paul Johnston and T.C. Pocklington,
"Democracy and Representative
 Government"
Week 5 1) Introduction to Ideologies
    - Liberalism     
    - Conservatism		 Guy, Chapter 3
Bateman:
Chapters 4, 5		 Reading on Reserve:
Don Carmichael, "Political
Ideologies and Values" in T.C. Pocklington's book, Representative
Democracy
Week 6 1) Ideas and Ideologies:
    - Social Democracy, Populism...
    - Feminism, Post-modernism,
      Deep Ecology...
 Bateman,
Chapters 6, 7, 8		 Bateman,
Chapters 2, 10

Week 7

 1) Nation, States, Rank, and Power
    - What is a nation-state?
    - economic capability; military       power; strategic policy		 Guy,
Chapter 4

Bateman,
Chapter 9

Week 8

 1) Constitutional Frameworks and
     Constitutionalism
2) The Canadian Charter of Rights and
    Fredoms
3) Law and the Judiciary		 Guy,
Chapters
9 and 10

Bateman,
Chapter 12

 Reading on Reserve:
Peter Russell, "The Three Dimensions of Charter Politics," in James P. Bickerton
and Alain G. Gagnon (eds.) book,
Canadian Politics

Week 9

 1) What is Federalism?
     -theories of federalism; assymetrical
       federalism; comparative federal        systems
     -Canadian federlaism in the 90s
2) Regionalism
     -regional politics and culture
     -H. A. Innis' hinterland-metropolis
       thesis		 On Reserve:
R. Jackson & D. Jackson, "Dimensions of Federalism," chapter 6 in Politics in Canada		 Bateman,
Chapters
14 and 24

Weeks 10-11

 1) Sovereignty and Identity
2) Quebec in Canada:
    What does Quebec want?		 Reading on Reserve:
Roger Gibbins,
Conflict and Unity,
chapter 4

Week 12

 Review

Winter Term

Week 13 Charter Politics and Federalism Bateman,
Chapters 12, 14, 24,
Appendix A		                                                      
Week 14 Governments and Legislatures
Federal Institutions		 Guy, Chapters 7, 5
Week 15 Executives Guy, Chapter 6
Week 16
 The Administration of Government Guy, Chapter 8
Week 17 1) Political Parties
2) Electoral Systems
3) Pressure Groups
4) The New Electronic Commonwealth?		 Guy, Chapters 11-12
Week 18 The Welfare State Readings to be
assigned
Week 19 The Welfare State in Transition
    - Introduction to the Public Policy Process
 Online Readings to be assigned
Week 20 Public Policy:
   -Health, Environmental, Culture...
    Trade and Industrial Policies
  		 Online Readings to be assigned
Week 21 The New Media Society Online Readings to be assigned
Week 22 The International System Guy, Chapter 13
Week 23 International Law and Diplomacy Guy,
Chapters
14 and 15
Week 24 Our World...The Next Millennium Guy, Chapter 16

Have a great term!