Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
POL208H1
Introduction to International Relations
What was the average?
B
3 GPA across 2 observed terms. Most recent: Winter 2026.
How is it graded?
15% final
From the 2023 syllabus. 4 graded components.
How confident is this?
Med
A small number of terms, so read it as a range.
From the calendar
Official source · Faculty of Arts & ScienceThis introductory course examines some key themes and issues in global politics, including interstate war, human rights, international institutions, and the evolution of the global order.
- Exclusions
- POL208Y1POL208Y5POL209H5POLB80H3POLB81H3
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture · 12 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
One option from each line
4.0 credits
or 1.0 credit in POL, JPA, JPF, JPI, JPR, JPS, or JRA courses
What people actually got
Last observed Winter 20262 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.
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
2023 syllabusExtracted from a published 2023 syllabus by deterministic parser. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.
How well we know this course
2022–2024Pyko’s archive holds 4 documents for POL208H1, across 3 years between 2022 and 2024.
- 1
- Final exams
- 3
- 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 | Faculty of Arts & Science | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 2 terms | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| Assessment weighting | Course syllabus, 2023 | 2026-07-25 | summary permitted |
| 4 archived documents, 2022-2024 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
23 courses list POL208H1 as a prerequisiteThe other 13 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names POL208H1 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what POL208H1 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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