Courses

Students are required to complete six courses during their first year in the program: four core courses and two courses from the student's chosen field. For further details on course requirements, see the Degree Requirements link to the left. For full descriptions of all Global Governance core and field courses, consult Global Governance Course Descriptions. For descriptions of the full range of electives, consult the respective Calendars of each university which can be found here (please find courses under respective departments): WLU Online Calendar, UW Online Calendar

Core Courses 2010/2011

All students must complete the following three courses:

Core Course Component: GGOV 700(UW)/GV710 (WLU) Globalization and Global Governance

Economics Component: ECON 637 (UW)/GV 730 Economic Analysis and Global Governance

History Component: One of the following courses: HIST 605 (UW) Global Governance in Historical Perspective or GV720 (WLU) The History of Global Governance

Seminar Component: GGOV 701 (UW)/GV 701 (WLU) Research Seminar for Global Governance

Field Courses and Electives

Students must choose to specialize in one of the five fields of the program: Global Political Economy, Global Environment, Conflict and Security, Global Justice and Human Rights, Multilateral Institutions and Diplomacy, and Global Social Governance. Students must select at least two courses from their chosen field. Of these two, at least one course must be a course identified as "core" for that field (marked with an asterisk in the lists below).

Note: Not all courses are offered each year and more courses may be available.

Global Political Economy

*GGOV 610/PSCI 688 (UW) Governance of the Global Economy
GGOV 611/PSCI 689 (UW) Emerging Economies in Global Governance
GGOV 612/PSCI 612 (UW) Theories of Globalization
GGOV 613/PSCI 688 (UW) The Politics of National Innovation Systems
GGOV 614/PSCI 614 (UW) International Business and Development
GGOV 615/PSCI 615 (UW) Global Poverty
GGOV 618 (UW) Special Topics in Global Political Economy
GGOV 619 (UW) Readings in Global Political Economy
GGOV 620/ERS/PSCI 606 (UW) Governing Global Food and Agriculture
BU 633 (WLU) Financial Institutions
BU 643 (WLU) International Financial Management
BU 701 (WLU) Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable World
BU 733 (WLU) Corporate Governance
EC 649 (WLU) International Finance
ECON 631 (UW) International Trade Theory
ECON 632 (UW) International Finance
ECON 635 (UW) International Trade and Development
ECON 661 (UW) Comparative Economic Systems
ECON 665 (UW) Economics in History
HIST 606 (UW) International Development in Historical Perspective
IP 622 Contemporary Issues in International Economic Relations
IP 641 (WLU) Macroeconomic Policy in an Interdependent World
PO 640 (WLU) International Political Economy
PSCI 631 (UW) State and Economic Life
PSCI 689 (UW) International Political Economy

Global Environment

*GGOV 620/ERS/PSCI 604 (UW) Global Environmental Governance
*GGOV 621/ERS/PSCI 606 (UW) Governing Global Food and Agriculture
GGOV 628 (UW) Special Topics in Global Environment
GGOV 629 (UW) Readings in Global Environment
BU 615 (WLU) Environmental Management
ERS 660 (UW) / GG 660 (WLU) Perspectives in Resource and Environmental Management
ERS 675 (UW) Ecological Economics
GG 635 (WLU) / GEOG 635 (UW) International Development: Theories and Practice
GG 660 (WLU) / GEOG 660 (UW) Perspectives in Resource & Environmental Management
GG 665 (WLU) / GEOG/PLAN 665 (UW) Environmental Planning Theory and Practice
GG 668 (WLU) / GEOG/PLAN 668 (UW) Environmental Assessment
GG 673 (WLU) / GEOG 673 (UW) Geographical Perspectives on Resource Management -International Issues and Prospects
IP 611 (WLU) The Economics of Environmental Accords
IP 612 (WLU) Contemporary Issues in Environmental Policy
IP 613/GG 664 (WLU) Special Topics in International Environmental Policy

Conflict and Security

*GGOV 630/PSCI 678 (UW) Security Ontology
GGOV 631/PSCI 679 (UW) Security Ontology - Issues and Institutions
GGOV 632/PSCI 654 (UW) Post-War Reconstruction & State Building
GGOV 638 (UW) Special Topics in Conflict and Security - Managing Nuclear Risk
GGOV 639 (UW) Readings in Conflict and Security
HI 610A (WLU) War and Society in the 20th Century
HI 615A (WLU) War and Genocide in Europe
HI 616A (WLU) War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
HI 696B (WLU) Outside the Laws of War (directed studies)
HI 696I (WLU) Crisis and Conflict in Northeast Asia, 1890s-1960s
HI 715 (WLU) Modern European History
HIST 604 (UW) Theory and Practice of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
HIST 610 (UW) War and Society in the Twentieth Century I
HIST 611 (UW) War and Society in the Twentieth Century II
HIST 632 (UW) History of the United States I
IP 631 (WLU) Economic Policy and Human Security
PO 648 (WLU) Peace and Reconstruction
PSCI 636 (UW) Organized Crime and Politics
PSCI 655 (UW) Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution
PSCI 659 (UW) Conflict and Conflict Resolution
PSCI 681 (UW) Power Politics and World Order Studies
PSCI 685 (UW) Critical Security Studies
PSCI 687 (UW) Explaining Interstate War

Global Justice and Human Rights

*GGOV 640/PSCI 658 (UW) Humanitarianism and Human Rights
*GGOV 641/GV 760 (WLU) Human Rights and Global Governance
GGOV 642/PSCI 639 (UW) Global Social Governance
GGOV 643/PSCI 616 (UW) Global Health Governance
GGOV 648 (UW) Special Topics in Global Justice and Human Rights
GGOV 649 (UW) Readings in Global Justice and Human Rights
HI 715 (WLU) Modern European History
HIST 603 (UW) Nationalism and Ethnic Policies of Multinational States
HIST 606 (UW) International Development in Historical Perspective
HIST 607 (UW) Human Rights in Historical Perspective I
HIST 608 (UW) Human Rights in Historical Perspective II
HIST 626 (UW) Modern European History I
HIST 627 (UW) Modern European History II
HIST 635 (UW) Race in Modern History I
HIST 636 (UW) Race in Modern History II
IP 632 (WLU) Contemporary Issues in Human Security
PO 644 (WLU) Comparative Ethnic Politics
PO 652 (WLU) Human Rights and Retrospective Justice
PO 671 (WLU) Issues in Third World Politics
PO 692D (WLU) Comparative Truth Commissions
PSCI 624 (UW) Justice and Gender
PSCI 639 (UW) Global Social Governance
PSCI 651 (UW) Democracy and Development
PSCI 760 Human Rights and Global Governance

Multilateral Institutions and Diplomacy

*GGOV 650/PSCI 657 (UW) International Organizations and Global Governance
GGOV 651/PSCI 617 (UW) Unconventional Diplomacy and Global Governance
GGOV 652/PSCI 618 (UW) Non-State Actors in Global Governance
GGOV 658 (UW) Special Topics in Multilateral Institutions and Diplomacy
GGOV 659 (UW) Readings in Multilateral Institutions and Diplomacy
PSCI 684 (UW) International Diplomacy
BU 808 (WLU) Organizational Theory
HI 768 (WLU) United States History
HIST 632 (UW) History of the United States I
HIST 633 (UW) History of the United States II
HIST 651 (UW) Historians and Public Policy
PO 642 (WLU) Politics and Governance Beyond the State
PO 649 (WLU) Canada, the US and the UN: Multilateral Cooperation in a One Super-Power World
PO 670 (WLU) Canada and the Third World
PSCI 634 (UW) Comparative Public Administration
PSCI 639 (UW) Global Social Governance
PSCI 664 (UW) Canada and the World: Foreign Policy

Global Social Governance

*GGOV 642/PSCI 639 (UW) Global Social Governance
GGOV 614/PSCI 614 (UW) International Business and Development
GGOV 615/PSCI 615 (UW) Global Poverty
GGOV 621/PSCI 606/ERS 606 (UW) Governing Global Food and Agricultural Systems
GGOV 643/PSCI 616 (UW) Global Health Governance
HIST 606 Intl Dev in Historical Perspective
PO670 Canada and the Third World (WLU)
IP631 Economic Policy and Human Security (WLU)

(Course times and locations listed here: UWaterloo, WLU)

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