Faculty Program in Population and Global Health (B.A.) (54 credits)
Offered by: Department of Global and Public Health (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Program credit weight: 54
Program Description
The B.A.; Faculty Program in Population and Global Health is an interdisciplinary program with a competency-based approach that focuses on values, skills and approaches foundational to improving health equity and population health both locally and globally. The key issues in population, global and Indigenous health are complemented by ethical principles, data literacy, research methods and knowledge translation. Areas of specialization include the following streams: Environment and Health; Culture, Society and Health; Diet, Lifestyle and The Life Course; Systems, Policy and Government; and Innovation and Leadership. There is an emphasis on teambased, problem-focused and communityengaged experiential learning. Blended learning will be used for some courses, which includes synchronous and asynchronous activities.
Degree Requirements — B.A. students
To be eligible for a B.A. degree, a student must fulfil all Faculty and program requirements as indicated in Degree Requirements for the Faculty of Arts.
We recommend that students consult an Arts OASIS advisor for degree planning.
Required Courses (33 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GPHL 200 | Foundations in Population and Global Health. | 3 |
Foundations in Population and Global Health. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Exploration of global policies, politics, industry and institutions and their neo-colonial underpinnings, and their influence on current global health theory, research and practice, with a special focus on the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and other racialized groups. The environmental and social determinants of health and health inequities, with attention to women and children’s health, communicable and non-communicable disease, and the complexities of disasters and humanitarian crises. Global health governance,systems, and innovations and social entrepreneurship in health. | ||
| GPHL 201 | Population and Global Health Ethics. | 3 |
Population and Global Health Ethics. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to the concepts of ethics and equity, in a broad range of applications, including power, privilege and positionality. Exploration of foundations of ethics as they apply to population and global health practice. Concepts of human rights, anti-racism, ethics and equity, informed by an understanding of the legacy of colonization, as they pertain to a wide array of global health issues. | ||
| GPHL 300 | Data Literacy | 3 |
Data Literacy Terms offered: Winter 2026 Introduction to foundational concepts in statistical thinking, data science and epidemiology including how to connect data to underlying phenomena and dealing with illustrating and interpreting data. | ||
| GPHL 301 | Introduction to Research Methods | 3 |
Introduction to Research Methods Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to quantitative, qualitative and participatory research approaches to population and global health problem solving, with a focus on critical skills in assessing research quality and relevance. Concepts include: the art of formulating a research question, and its implications for research design and implementation. | ||
| GPHL 302 | Knowledge Translation | 3 |
Knowledge Translation Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Key knowledge translation concepts, principles and practice as they apply to the formulation of policies and programs serving disadvantaged populations in resource-constrained settings. Interdisciplinary sharing and critical appraisal and application of existing knowledge to the development of global and public health policies, program content and its delivery. | ||
| GPHL 303 | Community Engaged Learning | 3 |
Community Engaged Learning Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to community engaged learning with a focus on the broader determinants of health. Exploration of the social, environmental and structural determinants of health and health inequities in the local community context. Exposure to the complexities of meaningful, ethical and productive community partnership, teamwork skills and workplace professionalism. | ||
| GPHL 400 | Critical Perspectives in Global Health | 3 |
Critical Perspectives in Global Health Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of critical issues in global health animated by invited research, policy and practice experts from low- and middle-income countries, including the decolonization of global health and power imbalances in global health governance, funding, research, teaching. Competencies in critical thinking, problem-solving interdisciplinarity and managing complexity will be emphasized. The unfinished agendas of tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, reproductive, child and adolescent health, and current global challenges, including pandemics, humanitarian crises and refugee health, environmental health and climate change, chronic disease, mental health, access to technologies, and global health governance, advocacy, and delivery. | ||
| GPHL 401 | Experiential Learning | 12 |
Experiential Learning Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A full-semester capstone practicum undertaken in the context of a community organization, mentored research activity or an internship with an international or local public health agency, focusing on a relevant global health-related issue, and skills in professional conduct, team work, effective communication and knowledge translation. | ||
Complementary Courses (21 credits)
21 credits are chosen from one of the following five streams, among which a maximum of 9 credits from the 200 level, and a minimum of 12 credits at the 300 level or above should be selected. Other courses may be used to fulfil each stream with permission of the program advisor:
Stream 1: Environment and Health*
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AGRI 411 | Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture. | 3 |
Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture. Terms offered: Winter 2026 International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development. | ||
| ENVR 200 | The Global Environment. | 3 |
The Global Environment. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 A systems approach to study the different components of the environment involved in global climate change: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The interactions among these components. Their role in global climate change. The human dimension to global change. | ||
| ENVR 201 | Society, Environment and Sustainability. | 3 |
Society, Environment and Sustainability. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used. | ||
| ENVR 202 | The Evolving Earth. | 3 |
The Evolving Earth. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Formation of the Earth and the evolution of life. How geological and biological change are the consequence of history, chance, and necessity acting over different scales of space and time. General principles governing the formation of modern landscapes and biotas. Effects of human activities on natural systems. | ||
| ENVR 203 | Knowledge, Ethics and Environment. | 3 |
Knowledge, Ethics and Environment. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies. | ||
| ENVR 400 | Environmental Thought. | 3 |
Environmental Thought. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars. | ||
| ENVR 401 | Environmental Research. | 3 |
Environmental Research. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Students work in an interdisciplinary team on a real-world research project involving problem definition, methodology development, social, ethical and environmental impact assessment, execution of the study, and dissemination of results to the research community and to the people affected. Teams begin defining their projects during the preceding summer. | ||
| GEOG 221 | Environment and Health. | 3 |
Environment and Health. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course introduced physical and social environments as factors in human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings. | ||
| GEOG 303 | Health Geography. | 3 |
Health Geography. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people. | ||
| GEOG 310 | Development and Livelihoods. | 3 |
Development and Livelihoods. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments. | ||
| GEOG 408 | Geography of Development. | 3 |
Geography of Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities). | ||
| GEOG 409 | Geographies of Developing Asia. | 3 |
Geographies of Developing Asia. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography. | ||
| GEOG 503 | Advanced Topics in Health Geography. | 3 |
Advanced Topics in Health Geography. Terms offered: Fall 2025 A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with emphasis on geographical perspectives in public health research. Topics include the social and environmental determinants of chronic and infectious disease, health and health-related behaviours. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography research. | ||
| PARA 410 | Environment and Infection. | 3 |
Environment and Infection. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Infectious pathogens of humans and animals and their impact on the global environment are considered. The central tenet is that infectious pathogens are environmental risk factors. The course considers their impact on the human condition and juxtaposes the impact of control and treatment measures and environmental change. | ||
| PARA 515 | Water, Health and Sanitation. | 3 |
Water, Health and Sanitation. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The origin and types of water contaminants including live organisms, infectious agents and chemicals of agricultural and industrial origins. Conventional and new technological developments to eliminate water pollutants. Comparisons of water, health and sanitation between industrialized and developing countries. | ||
| SOCI 331 | Population and Environment. | 3 |
Population and Environment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Main topics and controversies linking population processes and the environment. Topics include how population processes influence the environment, population responses to changing environments, policies related to these effects, variation across and within developed and developing countries. | ||
*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.
Stream 2: Culture, Society and Health
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ANSC 555 | The Use and Welfare of Animals. | 3 |
The Use and Welfare of Animals. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Understanding the roles in which animals are used by Society, especially in food production, companionship, research, and recreation; application of the scientific approaches that are used in assessing and improving animal welfare; and use of ethical approaches that are invoked in the use of animals, often in controversial contexts. An interdisciplinary course, based on active participation and discussion-method learning. | ||
| ANTH 202 | Socio-Cultural Anthropology. | 3 |
Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025 An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases. | ||
| ANTH 206 | Environment and Culture. | 3 |
Environment and Culture. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources. | ||
| ANTH 209 | Anthropology of Religion. | 3 |
Anthropology of Religion. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements. | ||
| ANTH 227 | Medical Anthropology. | 3 |
Medical Anthropology. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025 Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography. | ||
| ANTH 302 | New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. | 3 |
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies. | ||
| ANTH 314 | Psychological Anthropology 01. | 3 |
Psychological Anthropology 01. Terms offered: Fall 2025 A survey of current theories and methods employed in psychological anthropology. Some areas considered are: cross-cultural studies of socialization and personality development; cultural factors in mental illness; individual adaptations to rapid socio-cultural change. | ||
| ANTH 322 | Social Change in Modern Africa. | 3 |
Social Change in Modern Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change. | ||
| ANTH 325 | Anthropology of the Self. | 3 |
Anthropology of the Self. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A review of the anthropological problematization of the self. The course examines ethnographically how illness, mental illness, pharmaceuticals, psychoanalysis, possession, death, violence and colonization disrupt our commonsense notions of the self and its relation to the other. | ||
| ANTH 407 | Anthropology of the Body. | 3 |
Anthropology of the Body. Terms offered: Winter 2026 This course will survey theoretical approaches used over the past 100 years, and then focus on contemporary debates using case studies. The nature/culture mind/ body, subject/object, self/other dichotomies central to most work of the body will be problematized. | ||
| ECON 208 | Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. | 3 |
Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory. | ||
| ECON 313 | Economic Development 1. | 3 |
Economic Development 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment. | ||
| EDEC 233 | Indigenous Education. | 3 |
Indigenous Education. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 An exploration of Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy, primarily in Canada but also world-wide. Consideration of the diverse social, cultural, linguistic, political, and pedagogical histories of Indigenous communities. Examines how a teacher's professional identity and practice can be influenced by an understanding of Indigenous knowledge and worldviews. | ||
| EDEC 248 | Equity and Education. | 3 |
Equity and Education. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Introduction to and exploration of contemporary issues and theories about equity in education and society in Quebec/Canada from a range of perspectives, including the historical, political, social, and economic. Provides learning opportunities for future educators to critically reflect upon and engage with equity issues and concerns in relation to schooling, including the exploration of classroom resources and activities that foster anti-racism, anti-oppression and intercultural approaches. | ||
| EDEC 249 | Global Education and Social Justice. | 3 |
Global Education and Social Justice. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 A cross-curricular, interdisciplinary approach to teaching/creating learning experiences for students. It will foster critical thinking and nurture lifelong global understanding, active engagement and participation in relation to questions of social, economic, and environmental justice, by infusing these issues in the classroom. | ||
| HIST 238 | Histories of Science. | 3 |
Histories of Science. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the history of science, with attention to conceptual development and to institutional and social settings. Coverage will vary by instructor, but will include a range of periods (from antiquity to the 20th century), geographical settings, and themes (e.g. instrumentation; visualisation; experiment; science and society). | ||
| HIST 249 | Health and the Healer in Western History. | 3 |
Health and the Healer in Western History. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture. | ||
| HIST 292 | History and the Environment. | 3 |
History and the Environment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sketch of the history of the material aspects of human interaction with the rest of nature. Included will be a historian's view of the social, technical, and ecological implications of the great variety of activities devised by our species. Though global in outlook, this course will emphasize the relevant historiography of France, England and North America. | ||
| HIST 319 | The Scientific Revolution. | 3 |
The Scientific Revolution. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The intellectual and cultural history of science and technology, in Europe and in the wider world, from the time of Leonardo to the time of Newton (c. 1500-c.1700). | ||
| HIST 335 | Science and Medicine in Canada. | 3 |
Science and Medicine in Canada. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The social and intellectual history of science and medicine in Canada, from early exploration, through the rise of learned societies, universities and professional organizations, to World War II. | ||
| HIST 350 | Science and the Enlightenment. | 3 |
Science and the Enlightenment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Explores the relationship between the natural sciences and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Examination of works in post-Newtonian science as well as their broader cultural meaning, the history of material practices, the origins of social science, and the role of geography and international context beyond Western Europe. | ||
| HIST 356 | Medicine in the Medieval West. | 3 |
Medicine in the Medieval West. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The history of ideas about the human body, disease and therapeutics and the diverse practices of medicine in western Europe in the Middle Ages (ca. AD 300-1500), with particular attention to their social, intellectual, cultural and religious context. | ||
| HIST 374 | History of Sexuality in Canada. | 3 |
History of Sexuality in Canada. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sexuality as theory, culture, and historical experience in Canada from early contact period to the present. Chronological and thematic format. Topics include fertility and its control, prostitution and pornography, sexual repression and liberation in medicine and politics, queer theory and economies of pleasure. | ||
| HIST 412 | Women and Gender in Modern Britain. | 3 |
Women and Gender in Modern Britain. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Women and gender in modern Britain (1850 on). Topics include early feminist political agitation, including the suffrage movement; working-class women; changing notions of gender, sexuality and women's role; women and empire. | ||
| HIST 420 | Gender and Sexuality in Modern China. | 3 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern China. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The history of gender and sexuality in modern China. Topics include Chinese femininities and Chinese masculinities, theories of sexuality, and changing conceptions of gender identity under Confucianism, Western Imperialism, and socialism. | ||
| HIST 424 | Gender, Sexuality and Medicine. | 3 |
Gender, Sexuality and Medicine. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Gender, sexuality, and medicine since the colonial era, with a focus on North American experience. Topics will include reproductive medicine (puberty, childbirth, fertility control, menopause), changing perceptions of men's and women's health needs and risks, and ideas about sexual behaviour and identity. | ||
| HIST 425 | Global Food History. | 3 |
Global Food History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A history of food and drink in global history. Topics include: feasts and famines; the exchange of foodstuffs and drinking habits between cultures, especially the early modern 'Columbian exchange'; the history of civilizing processes (e.g, table manners); the origins of the restaurant and the making of modern food systems. | ||
| HIST 430 | Topics in Modern Medicine. | 3 |
Topics in Modern Medicine. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in the history of medicine in the 19th, 20th and/or 21st centuries will be explored through discussion of primary and secondary historical sources. | ||
| HSEL 308 | Issues in Women's Health. | 3 |
Issues in Women's Health. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Exploration of a wide range of topics on the health of women. Topics include use of health care system, poverty, roles, immigration, body image, lesbian health, and violence against women. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine. | ||
| HSEL 309 | Women's Reproductive Health. | 3 |
Women's Reproductive Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Concepts of health and medicalization. Canadian and international perspectives. Topics include contraception, abortion, infertility, menstruation, menopause, new reproductive technologies, prenatal care, childbirth. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine. | ||
| ISLA 200 | Islamic Civilization. | 3 |
Islamic Civilization. Terms offered: Fall 2025 An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century. | ||
| ISLA 210 | Muslim Societies. | 3 |
Muslim Societies. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace. | ||
| ISLA 310 | Women in Islam. | 0-3 |
Women in Islam. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles. | ||
| ISLA 355 | Modern History of the Middle East. | 3 |
Modern History of the Middle East. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict. | ||
| ISLA 360 | Islam and Politics in Africa | 3 |
Islam and Politics in Africa Terms offered: Winter 2026 Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis. | ||
| ISLA 421 | Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent. | 3 |
Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Survey of Islamicate legacies in South Asia from circa 1000—1947 Common Era, with a focus on the beginnings of Muslim political power in South Asia, the meaning of conversion to Islam before British colonialism, Muslim interactions with the non-Muslim majority, and Islamicate aesthetic legacies in the subcontinent. | ||
| SOCI 234 | Population and Society. | 3 |
Population and Society. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world. | ||
| SOCI 270 | Sociology of Gender. | 3 |
Sociology of Gender. Terms offered: Winter 2026 This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered. | ||
| SOCI 309 | Health and Illness. | 3 |
Health and Illness. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization. | ||
| SOCI 310 | Sociology of Mental Health. | 3 |
Sociology of Mental Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Three broad areas of sociological research on mental health and illness: definitions and measurement; social origins; and societal responses. Mental health and illness as a product of social circumstances. | ||
| SOCI 331 | Population and Environment. | 3 |
Population and Environment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Main topics and controversies linking population processes and the environment. Topics include how population processes influence the environment, population responses to changing environments, policies related to these effects, variation across and within developed and developing countries. | ||
| SOCI 335 | Sociology of Aging and the Life Course. | 3 |
Sociology of Aging and the Life Course. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This class will introduce students to the growing body of interdisciplinary research suggesting social factors strongly influence healthy and successful aging. Topics will include the impact of stratification (race, class, gender), neighborhood processes, social networks, family and partnerships, and bio-social interactions, on life trajectories and the aging process. | ||
| SOCI 365 | Health and Development. | 3 |
Health and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic. | ||
| SOCI 370 | Sociology: Gender and Development. | 3 |
Sociology: Gender and Development. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used. | ||
| SOCI 385 | Sociology of Human Sexuality. | 3 |
Sociology of Human Sexuality. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sociological perspectives on sexual activity and attitudes, and their consequences for individuals and society. Topics include gender and life-course patterns, race and class differences, social networks and STDs, and interactions of biological (hormonal, genetic) and social factors in shaping sex. Emphasis is on quantitative evidence from recent national surveys. | ||
| SOCI 405 | Families over the Life Course. | 3 |
Families over the Life Course. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course examines the comparative and interdisciplinary dimensions of family changes and their repercussions on individuals' life courses. It examines topics such as the effects of parental separation on children's well-being and development, or the impact of the diversification of family trajectories on the provision of care at old age. | ||
| SOCI 502 | Sociology of Childbearing | 3 |
Sociology of Childbearing Terms offered: Winter 2026 Seminar on the major theories and findings from the social scientific study of childbearing and child-rearing (i.e., fertility). Focus on the causal linkages between social change and changes in childbearing. Examination of contemporary and historical behaviour and attitudes across the globe. | ||
| SOCI 519 | Gender and Globalization. | 3 |
Gender and Globalization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms. | ||
| SOCI 545 | Sociology of Population. | 3 |
Sociology of Population. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The classic literature of sociology of population. Drawing reciprocal linkages between social and population processes: Historical, family and labour force demography, demographic and fertility transitions, mortality, ethnic and race relations, gender, macro-structural interaction theory, and the relation of population and the environment. | ||
*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.
Stream 3: Diet, Lifestyle and the Life Course
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 208 | Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. | 3 |
Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory. | ||
| ECON 310 | Introduction to Behavioural Economics. | 3 |
Introduction to Behavioural Economics. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to economic decision-making in markets and strategic environments, including bounded rationality, individual decision-making under uncertainty, and behavioural game theory. | ||
| EDKP 261 | Motor Development. | 3 |
Motor Development. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Changes apparent in motor behaviour from conception to old age. Two perspectives are emphasized: 1) contemporary and historical theories of human development, 2) development of motor behaviour and influences of physical growth, sensori-perceptual development, information processing and socio-cultural factors. | ||
| EDKP 292 | Nutrition and Wellness. | 3 |
Nutrition and Wellness. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course will examine the role of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water in a balanced diet. Students will be introduced to the affects of nutrition on exercise, sport performance and wellness. The validity of claims concerning nutrient supplements will be studied. | ||
| EDKP 330 | Physical Activity and Public Health. | 3 |
Physical Activity and Public Health. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Introduction to literature on the role of physical activity and general health and well-being. Examination of exercise adherence issues, exercise prescription, and the economic impact of physical fitness programs in the workplace. Epidemiologic literature. Concepts of health promotion and public health. | ||
| EDKP 395 | Exercise Physiology. | 3 |
Exercise Physiology. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Examination of the physiological responses of the neuromuscular, metabolic, endocrine, and circulatory and respiratory systems to acute and chronic exercise. | ||
| EDKP 405 | Sport in Society. | 3 |
Sport in Society. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An examination of the cultural, social, political and economic factors that influence sport in society. Special attention to the effects of gender, financial constraints and political policies on involvement in physical activity and sports programs. | ||
| EDKP 448 | Exercise and Health Psychology. | 3 |
Exercise and Health Psychology. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The psychological aspects of health and participation in exercise and physical activity. The application of psychological knowledge and methodology within exercise and health. Theory and evidence on selected topics in this area of study. | ||
| ENVB 305 | Population and Community Ecology. | 3 |
Population and Community Ecology. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Interactions between organisms and their environment; historical and current perspectives in applied and theoretical population and community ecology. Principles of population dynamics, feedback loops, and population regulation. Development and structure of communities; competition, predation and food web dynamics. Biodiversity science in theory and practice. | ||
| ENVR 202 | The Evolving Earth. | 3 |
The Evolving Earth. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Formation of the Earth and the evolution of life. How geological and biological change are the consequence of history, chance, and necessity acting over different scales of space and time. General principles governing the formation of modern landscapes and biotas. Effects of human activities on natural systems. | ||
| ENVR 203 | Knowledge, Ethics and Environment. | 3 |
Knowledge, Ethics and Environment. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies. | ||
| NUTR 307 | Metabolism and Human Nutrition. | 3 |
Metabolism and Human Nutrition. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course looks at the importance of nutrition from the molecular to the organismal levels in human health and disease. The focus will be on the significance of nutrients in regulating metabolism, and impact of genotype in the metabolism of nutrients. | ||
| NUTR 337 | Nutrition Through Life. | 3 |
Nutrition Through Life. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Nutrient utilization, requirements and recommended allowances as related to physiological development throughout the life cycle. Physiological, psychological and environmental determinants of eating behaviour. | ||
| NUTR 341 | Global Food Security. | 3 |
Global Food Security. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Food insecurity is one of the most critical issues humanity has faced in history. The magnitude of this phenomenon, reflected in its worldwide presence and in the number of individuals affected, makes it an imperative component of all nations' and of all internaltional agencies' agendas. Its complexity of determinants and its numerous consequences require the involvement of multipe disciplines and sectors. McGill undergraduate students as future professionals tackling global issues require an integrated and multidisciplinary training on food security. | ||
| NUTR 450 | Research Methods: Human Nutrition. | 3 |
Research Methods: Human Nutrition. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Introduction to how diverse approaches to nutrition research including international, community, laboratory, clinical, molecular, meta-analyses are necessary to advance the field of nutrition. Emphasis on ethics, scientific method, research process and analysis of results. | ||
| NUTR 501 | Nutrition in the Majority World. | 3 |
Nutrition in the Majority World. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition. | ||
| NUTR 505 | Public Health Nutrition. | 3 |
Public Health Nutrition. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course focuses on the nutrition status of populations, communities and groups of people using a public health lens. It identifies and assesses human nutrition issues and problems, their causes, influencing factors and social conditions using a social determinants of health framework. Offers opportunities to design and conduct needs assessments, design and plan programs and plan for their evaluation. The purpose and role of participatory approaches with diverse populations and Indigenous populations in particular will be analyzed. Health systems, public health and political influence in Canada, as related to nutrition will be addressed. | ||
| NUTR 512 | Herbs, Foods and Phytochemicals. | 3 |
Herbs, Foods and Phytochemicals. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the use of herbal medicines and food phytochemicals and the benefits and risks of their consumption. The physiological basis for activity and the assessment of toxicity will be presented. Current practices relating to the regulation, commercialization and promotion of herbs and phytochemicals will be considered. | ||
| PARA 410 | Environment and Infection. | 3 |
Environment and Infection. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Infectious pathogens of humans and animals and their impact on the global environment are considered. The central tenet is that infectious pathogens are environmental risk factors. The course considers their impact on the human condition and juxtaposes the impact of control and treatment measures and environmental change. | ||
| PARA 515 | Water, Health and Sanitation. | 3 |
Water, Health and Sanitation. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The origin and types of water contaminants including live organisms, infectious agents and chemicals of agricultural and industrial origins. Conventional and new technological developments to eliminate water pollutants. Comparisons of water, health and sanitation between industrialized and developing countries. | ||
| SOCI 335 | Sociology of Aging and the Life Course. | 3 |
Sociology of Aging and the Life Course. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This class will introduce students to the growing body of interdisciplinary research suggesting social factors strongly influence healthy and successful aging. Topics will include the impact of stratification (race, class, gender), neighborhood processes, social networks, family and partnerships, and bio-social interactions, on life trajectories and the aging process. | ||
| SOCI 405 | Families over the Life Course. | 3 |
Families over the Life Course. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course examines the comparative and interdisciplinary dimensions of family changes and their repercussions on individuals' life courses. It examines topics such as the effects of parental separation on children's well-being and development, or the impact of the diversification of family trajectories on the provision of care at old age. | ||
| SOCI 588 | Biosociology/Biodemography. | 3 |
Biosociology/Biodemography. Terms offered: Winter 2026 This course will explore linkages between social and biological systems, their influence on health and well-being over the life course, and on health disparities. Topics include classical sociological approaches to biosocial processes, sociobiology (reductionist, but population-based), and newer demographic studies on gen-environment, epigenetic, and stress-metabolic/allostatic processes. | ||
*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.
Stream 4: Systems, Policy and Government
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 208 | Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. | 3 |
Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory. | ||
| ECON 223 | Political Economy of Trade Policy. | 3 |
Political Economy of Trade Policy. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy. | ||
| ENVR 201 | Society, Environment and Sustainability. | 3 |
Society, Environment and Sustainability. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used. | ||
| GEOG 210 | Global Places and Peoples. | 3 |
Global Places and Peoples. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments. | ||
| GEOG 216 | Geography of the World Economy. | 3 |
Geography of the World Economy. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures. | ||
| GEOG 310 | Development and Livelihoods. | 3 |
Development and Livelihoods. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments. | ||
| GEOG 403 | Global Health and Environmental Change. | 3 |
Global Health and Environmental Change. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts. | ||
| GEOG 408 | Geography of Development. | 3 |
Geography of Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities). | ||
| GEOG 409 | Geographies of Developing Asia. | 3 |
Geographies of Developing Asia. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography. | ||
| HIST 201 | Modern African History. | 3 |
Modern African History. Terms offered: Winter 2026 While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization. | ||
| HIST 202 | Survey: Canada to 1867. | 3 |
Survey: Canada to 1867. Terms offered: Fall 2025 A survey of early Canada, from periods known mainly through archaeological records to the Confederation era. Social, cultural, economic and political themes will be examined. | ||
| HIST 203 | Survey: Canada since 1867. | 3 |
Survey: Canada since 1867. Terms offered: Winter 2026 A survey of the development of Canada from Confederation to the present day. Social, economic and political history will be examined in a general way. | ||
| HIST 211 | American History to 1865. | 3 |
American History to 1865. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Introduction to the history of colonial North America and the United States up to the Civil War, in their Atlantic context. | ||
| HIST 215 | Modern Europe. | 3 |
Modern Europe. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Survey of European history from the eighteenth century to the present. | ||
| HIST 218 | Modern East Asian History. | 3 |
Modern East Asian History. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries. | ||
| HIST 221 | United States since 1865. | 3 |
United States since 1865. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Examines the defining moments and movements in the U.S. since Reconstruction, including populism, progressivism, the World Wars, the New Deal, the Cold War, the sixties and its consequences. Emphasis on the political, social and ideological transformations that ensued. | ||
| HIST 223 | Indigenous Peoples and Empires. | 3 |
Indigenous Peoples and Empires. Terms offered: Winter 2026 History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800. | ||
| HIST 326 | History of the Soviet Union. | 3 |
History of the Soviet Union. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991, examining its origins in the collapse of autocracy, early Soviet utopianism, the rise of Stalin, the Second World War, Khrushchev’s reforms, the Cold War and the decline and eventual collapse of the USSR, as well as its legacies in the post-Soviet period. | ||
| HIST 338 | Twentieth-Century China. | 3 |
Twentieth-Century China. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms. | ||
| HIST 360 | Latin America since 1825. | 3 |
Latin America since 1825. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence. | ||
| HIST 361 | Topics in Canadian Regional History. | 3 |
Topics in Canadian Regional History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in Canadian regional history. Topics will vary by year. | ||
| HIST 363 | Canada 1870-1914. | 3 |
Canada 1870-1914. Terms offered: Winter 2026 This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities. | ||
| POLI 212 | Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/North America. | 3 |
Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/North America. Terms offered: Fall 2025 An introduction to fundamental comparative politics concepts and research that focuses on Europe and North America. Topics include: state and state institutions, parties and party systems, elections, protest and social movements, rule of law, corruption, regime transitions— democratization and autocratization. | ||
| POLI 221 | Government of Canada. | 3 |
Government of Canada. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025 An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary. | ||
| POLI 222 | Political Process and Behaviour in Canada. | 3 |
Political Process and Behaviour in Canada. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest. | ||
| POLI 227 | Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South. | 3 |
Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization. | ||
| POLI 243 | International Politics of Economic Relations. | 3 |
International Politics of Economic Relations. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations. | ||
| POLI 244 | International Politics: State Behaviour. | 3 |
International Politics: State Behaviour. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025 Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system. | ||
| POLI 319 | Politics of Latin America. | 3 |
Politics of Latin America. Terms offered: Winter 2026 This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today. | ||
| POLI 322 | Political Change in South Asia. | 3 |
Political Change in South Asia. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality. | ||
| POLI 324 | Comparative Politics of Africa. | 3 |
Comparative Politics of Africa. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism. | ||
| POLI 340 | Comparative Politics of the Middle East. | 3 |
Comparative Politics of the Middle East. Terms offered: Fall 2025 An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia). | ||
| POLI 341 | Foreign Policy: The Middle East. | 3 |
Foreign Policy: The Middle East. Terms offered: Fall 2025 An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. | ||
| POLI 345 | International Organizations. | 3 |
International Organizations. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system. | ||
| POLI 347 | Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace. | 3 |
Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution. | ||
| POLI 349 | Foreign Policy: Asia. | 3 |
Foreign Policy: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia. | ||
| POLI 359 | Topics in International Politics 1. | 3 |
Topics in International Politics 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A specific problem area in International Relations. | ||
| POLI 369 | Politics of Southeast Asia. | 3 |
Politics of Southeast Asia. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics. | ||
| POLI 372 | Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State. | 3 |
Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development. | ||
| POLI 422 | Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1. | 3 |
Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1. Terms offered: Fall 2025 A specific problem area in comparative politics. | ||
| POLI 423 | Politics of Ethno-Nationalism. | 3 |
Politics of Ethno-Nationalism. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies. | ||
| POLI 435 | Identity and Inequality. | 3 |
Identity and Inequality. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts. | ||
| POLI 441 | International Political Economy: Trade. | 3 |
International Political Economy: Trade. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies. | ||
| POLI 445 | International Political Economy: Monetary Relations. | 3 |
International Political Economy: Monetary Relations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank. | ||
| POLI 450 | Peacebuilding. | 3 |
Peacebuilding. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction. | ||
| SOCI 254 | Development and Underdevelopment. | 3 |
Development and Underdevelopment. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology. | ||
| SOCI 307 | Globalization. | 3 |
Globalization. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026 Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility. | ||
| SOCI 515 | Medicine and Society. | 3 |
Medicine and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The sociology of health and illness. Reading in areas of interest, such as: the sociology of illness, health services occupations, organizational settings of health care, the politics of change in national health service systems, and contemporary ethical issues in medical care and research. | ||
| SOCI 526 | Indigenous Women's Health and Healthcare . | 3 |
Indigenous Women's Health and Healthcare . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines (i) the health status of Indigenous women in Canada, (ii) Indigenous ways of knowing about health, (iii) healthcare services, delivery, and access for Indigenous women in rural and remote areas as well as in urban centres, (iv) and participatory health research with Indigenous communities. | ||
*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.
Stream 5: Innovation and Leadership
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 209 | Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications. | 3 |
Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy. | ||
| ECON 230D1 | Microeconomic Theory. 1 | 3 |
Microeconomic Theory. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The introductory course for Economics Major students in microeconomic theory. In depth and critical presentation of the theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution, welfare economics and the theory of general equilibrium. | ||
| ECON 230D2 | Microeconomic Theory. 1 | 3 |
Microeconomic Theory. Terms offered: Winter 2026 See ECON 230D1 for course description. | ||
| ECON 310 | Introduction to Behavioural Economics. | 3 |
Introduction to Behavioural Economics. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An introduction to economic decision-making in markets and strategic environments, including bounded rationality, individual decision-making under uncertainty, and behavioural game theory. | ||
| ECON 447 | Economics of Information and Uncertainty. | 3 |
Economics of Information and Uncertainty. Terms offered: Winter 2026 This course considers how uncertainty can be incorporated into the standard model of consumer and producer choice central to explaining or analysing a number of different economic phenomena. Topics include the information approach to explaining unemployment and problems in controlling health care costs. | ||
| MGCR 211 | Introduction to Financial Accounting. | 3 |
Introduction to Financial Accounting. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results. | ||
| MGCR 352 | Principles of Marketing. | 3 |
Principles of Marketing. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies. | ||
| MGCR 382 | International Business. | 3 |
International Business. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises. | ||
| MGCR 423 | Strategic Management. | 3 |
Strategic Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes. | ||
| MGPO 362 | Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship. | 3 |
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Study of the key aspects involved in starting and managing a new venture: identifying opportunities and analyzing new venture ideas, identifying common causes of failure and strategies for success, understanding intellectual property systems, comparison of multiple modes of funding. Applies to for-profit and not-for-profit start-ups. | ||
| MGPO 364 | Entrepreneurship in Practice. | 3 |
Entrepreneurship in Practice. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Provides hands-on experience with the development of an entrepreneurial venture or a contribution to an existing entrepreneurial venture. Involves the creation of a venture development or business plan. Applicable to many kinds of new ventures, both private companies and social enterprises. | ||
| MGPO 383 | International Business Policy. | 3 |
International Business Policy. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Development and application of conceptual approaches to general management policy and strategy formulation in multinational business involvement (exporting, licensing, contractual arrangements, turnkey projects, joint ventures, consortia); technology transfer, location and ownership strategies: competitive multinational relationships. Emphasis on pragmatic analysis, using case studies. | ||
| MGPO 435 | The Origins of Capitalism. | 3 |
The Origins of Capitalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course covers the evolution of modern business institutions from their roots in the early middle ages to the modern era. Covering economic issues in the context of arts and culture, it offers a "distant mirror on globalization." | ||
| MGPO 438 | Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. | 3 |
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value. | ||
| MGPO 440 | Strategies for Sustainability. | 3 |
Strategies for Sustainability. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations. | ||
| MGPO 445 | Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy. | 3 |
Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Analysis of industry structure, macro-environment, and evolution. Evaluation of strategic position, behaviour, and intent of organizations within industry context. Development of strategic recommendations for these firms. | ||
| MGPO 460 | Managing Innovation. | 3 |
Managing Innovation. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Firms face difficulties in developing new products. This course examines the new product development process to understand why problems occur and what managers can do. Topics include the creative synthesis of market and technology; the coordination of functions; and the strategic connection between the project and the strategy. | ||
| MGPO 469 | Managing Globalization. | 3 |
Managing Globalization. Terms offered: Fall 2025 This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries. | ||
| MGPO 475 | Strategies for Developing Countries. | 3 |
Strategies for Developing Countries. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance. | ||
| MSUS 402 | Systems Thinking and Sustainability. | 3 |
Systems Thinking and Sustainability. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Examines interconnected dynamics of organizations and social, economic, and ecological systems. Introduces systems thinking principles to foster learning, inform organizational decision-making, and solve real-world problems. Covers problem diagnosis and resolution of organizational and societal sustainability issues through causal loop diagrams, stock-and-flow mapping, group model building, computational simulations and case studies. | ||
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If chosen, students must take both ECON 230D1 Microeconomic Theory. and ECON 230D2 Microeconomic Theory.
*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.
**Courses offered by the Desautels Faculty of Management are capped, and the students from this program will not have priority registration. Thus, students should allow for at least four terms to complete Stream 5: Innovation and Leadership