University of Toronto Mississauga
POL112H5
Democracy in Theory and Practice
What was the average?
B-
2.5 GPA across 4 observed terms. Most recent: Fall 2022.
How is it graded?
35% final
From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 17 graded components.
How confident is this?
High
A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.
From the calendar
Official source · University of Toronto MississaugaThis course examines democratic theory and practice by analyzing formal institutions and informal political practices. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of modern democracies through case studies from Canada and other global regions.
- Prerequisite
- None listed
- Exclusions
- POLA51H3
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture · 11 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Fall 20224 terms observed
This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.
The newest observation is from Fall 2022. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.
Per-term figures stay hidden until each term clears five contributors. 4 observations can support one honest number; they cannot support 4.
Where the marks come from
Fall 2026 syllabusExtracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.
How well we know this course
2023–2025Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for POL112H5, across 2 years between 2023 and 2025.
- 1
- Final exams
- 1
- Syllabi
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What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | University of Toronto Mississauga | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 4 terms | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| 2 archived documents, 2023-2025 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
| Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: J. Bumgardner) | Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga) | 2026-09-05 | official syllabus |
Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
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