Professor: Nergis Canefe
Office Location: Ross 654
E-mail: ncanefe@yorku.ca
Office Hours: W 9.30-11.30
Telephone: 416 736 2100 ext. 88843

YORK UNIVERSITY
POLS 1000B 6.0 (Winter)
INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS
Fall/Winter 2004-05

Tutorial Groups
TUTR 01 (668902/545802) W 11:30-12:30, FS 320
TUTR 02 (668903/545803) W 12:30-1:30, FS 320
TUTR 03 (668904/545804) W 8:30-9:30, VH 2005
TUTR 04 (668905/545805) W 8:30-9:30, R S104
TUTR 05 (668906/545806) W 17:30-18:30, R S104
TUTR 06 (668907/545807) W 16:30-17:30, TEL 0015
TUTR 07 (668908/545808) W 9:30-10:30, CC 208
TUTR 08 (668909/545809) W 9:30-10:30, CC 318
TUTR 09 (668910/545810) W 17:30-18:30, WC 115
TUTR 10 (668911/545811) M 16:30-17:30, VH 1154

Course Description:

• This course introduces students to the study of politics. In the second term of the course, special emphasis is placed upon international dimensions of politics, comparative study of states and societies, and, real world practices of democratic (and undemocratic) states. The entire class meets for two hours weekly for lectures by the course director. Students meet an additional (third) hour in small tutorial groups to discuss topics raised by the lecture and the assigned readings.

Degree Credit Exclusions (DCE): This course is similar to the following course and is considered a DCE. AK/POLS 2410 6.0

Course Materials
Required Texts:

The two textbooks listed below must be purchased by all the students attending to the course.

Phillips Shively, 2005. Power and Choice. An Introduction to Political Science. McGraw Hill.

Thomas Bateman, Manuel Mertin and David Thomas, eds., 2004 (third edition). Braving the New World. Readings in Contemporary Politics. Scarborough, ONT: Thomson and Nelson.

Course Requirements, evaluation and due dates:
Assignments: There will be two in-tutorial short exams, and, a final exam. The short-exams are worth 20 points each. The final will be worth 50 points. Your regular participation in lectures and tutorials will constitute 10 percent of your term grade. The total will then be added cumulatively to your grades from the first term. Due dates will be announced in class in advance. They are also marked at the syllabus.

Where to hand in assignments:

Note: the Department drop box is only to be used for late papers.

The short exams will take place in class during the tutorials. If you miss them without an official excuse, you will not be allowed to take a make-up.

Please note that make-ups are scheduled for the end of the term, which is a very hectic time of the year when all other exams are also taking place.

Participation – regular attendance is expected from all registered

students, both to the tutorials and to the classes. Active attendance will constitute 10 percent of your term grade.

Note: Students who encounter extenuating circumstances during the term which may interfere with the successful completion of exams or other course assignments should discuss the matter with their tutorial leader or course instructor as soon as possible. Students with physical, psychiatric or learning disabilities may request reasonable accommodations in teaching style or evaluation methods, as outlined in Appendix A the Senate Policy on Students with Special Needs. They should advise the director at the earliest opportunity, so that appropriate arrangements may be with the assistance of the Office for Persons with Disabilities, the Counselling Development Centre or the Learning Disabilities Program.

Departmental E-mail list: Political Science majors are encouraged to subscribe to the Departmental E-mail list that will post announcements about job opportunities, special events, career information and scholarships and awards. To subscribe, follow the instructions on the Department website: www.arts.yorku.ca/politics