University of Toronto Mississauga
POL115H5
Evidence and Argument in the Study of Politics
What was the average?
C+
2.3 GPA across 2 observed terms. Most recent: Winter 2023.
How is it graded?
40% final
From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 18 graded components.
How confident is this?
Med
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 introduces the art of talking politics by teaching students how to make arguments based on reasoning, evidence, and critical thinking. It covers research design, experimental and observational methods, and qualitative versus quantitative approaches.
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture · 11 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
Any one of these
n, or a
What people actually got
Last observed Winter 20232 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 Winter 2023. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.
This rests on 2 reported terms. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.
Where the marks come from
Fall 2026 syllabus40% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.
Extracted 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.
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 2 terms | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: A. Magos) | 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 A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
You’ve read the average. Now use it.
Add POL115H5 and the Fall 2026 weighting loads with it — Pyko tracks what you've earned and solves for what the final has to be.
Pyko is an independent student platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the University of Toronto. Course names and codes are used descriptively to identify courses.