Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
POL218H1
State, Society and Power in Comparative Perspective
What was the average?
B
2.85 GPA across 2 observed terms. Most recent: Fall 2022.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
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 · Faculty of Arts & ScienceThis course is designed to introduce students to major issues and challenges that shape states, determine how they are governed, and how they change. The course helps to explain major events such as state transformation, democratization, authoritarian rule, civil conflict and social mobilization.
- 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 Fall 20222 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.
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.
How well we know this course
2022–2023Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for POL218H1, across 2 years between 2022 and 2023.
- 1
- Final exams
- 1
- Midterms
Both a midterm and a final appear in what we hold, so this course has historically been assessed on both rather than on a single end-of-term paper.
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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 |
| 2 archived documents, 2022-2023 | 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 A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.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
3 courses list POL218H1 as a prerequisiteThe other 2 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names POL218H1 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what POL218H1 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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