Class notes Week 1(POG100)

POG 100: PEOPLE, POWER &
POLITICS
WEEK 1

Today’s Lecture
• Introduction
• Lecture structure
• Overview of the course content and assignments
• Introduction to politics: what is politics?
• Key political concepts



Course overview
• Course objective
 Introduction to the history and theory of politics, its key modern
institutions,
and its key subfields
• Required text
 Politics, Power and the Common Good: An Introduction to Political
Science,
6th edition, edited by Mintz, Eric, David Close and Oswaldo Croci.
Toronto:
Pearson Canada, 2021.
• Recommended dictionaries
 Listed on syllabus

Course Overview-Assignments
• Grade Breakdown:
 Two Reading Responses (each worth 10%)
 Final Essay (30%)
 Final Exam (30%)
 Tutorial/Participation (attendance, participation, presentation) (20%)

Course content- Overview of topics
• Politics
• Modern nation-state and globalization
• Idea of democracy
• Ideologies
• Constitution and the rule of law
• Political participation, Political parties, and Elections
• Forms of government
• Public policy and Public Administration
• Global politics and Development Studies