This course provides a critical examination of how the State manages the issue of human rights. It explores the development of human rights through...
This course offers both a thematic and a practical introduction to the Canadian public policy-making process, beginning with the context in which...
This course examines major theoretical perspectives on modern industrial states, including pluralism, neoliberalism, Marxism and feminism. An effort...
This course examines the statutory and regulatory basis of Canadian public administration. The course explores existing techniques of control of...
This course will provide students with an overview of public sector planning and budgetary processes, the financial management systems within...
This course examines how labour, employers and government interact to regulate how Canadians work. Students will acquire an enriched understanding of...
This is a one-semester course utilizing both lecture and lab experience. No familiarity with the fundamental elements of research or statistics is...
This course surveys different approaches to organization and bureaucracy in advanced industrial societies. The major focus is on the exercise of power...
This course examines the expanding use of "partnerships" between government and other agents, both public and private, in the delivery of "public...
When governments choose to intervene in a policy area, they create programs. This course examines the process by which planning and evaluation of...
Deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in public administration has influenced the state's internal operations, modes of...
This course responds to key issues in today's rapidly evolving public sector. Students will examine key issues in Canadian and comparative context....
Contemporary public policy has become inherently comparative in nature, as decision-makers and citizens demand that policy initiatives be justified in...
This course examines both the formal and informal relations between the federal and provincial governments of Canada, as well as the effect these...
This course will explore selected themes chosen by the instructor through applied and theoretical reading, class discussion, and presentations from...
This course will offer an overview of literature in public sector leadership in a comparative context (Canadian, other Westminster systems, republican...
Enrolment in the Practicum Option and this course requires evidence of at least two years of full-time and appropriate work experience relevant to the...
The student will propose a topic in public policy for independent study, research, and analysis. The research paper topic is authorized, supervised,...
This course examines the key issues in contemporary comparative indigenous policy and politics by comparing both the similarities and the differences...
This course examines the role of public/private partnerships in the economic development and delivery of services in Aboriginal communities. The...