University of Toronto Mississauga

POL243H5

Research Methods for Political Science I

Credit0.5

InstructorG. Dancy

Prerequisite1.0 POL credit or 4.0 credits

Total contact hours24 lecture · 11 tutorial

Evidence1 term · 1 syllabus

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What was the average?

3 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Fall 2025.

How is it graded?

25% final

From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 23 graded components.

How confident is this?

Low

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

This course introduces scientific inquiry and research in political science, covering quantitative and qualitative methods. Students learn to transform ideas into research papers, write literature reviews, and plan hypothesis tests.

Prerequisite: 1.0 POL credit or 4.0 credits
Exclusions: POL222H1POL242Y5
Contact hours: 24 lecture · 11 tutorial; Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

What people actually got

Last observed Fall 2025

3 GPA

1 term observed

n = 1student contributedMississauga offerings only

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 1 reported term. 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 syllabus

Final Exam 25%

Participation 10%

Final Exam · 25%Participation · 10%Research Design Assignment 1 · 6.67%Research Design Assignment 2 · 6.67%Research Design Assignment 3 · 6.67%Tutorial Exercise 1 · 5%Tutorial Exercise 2 · 5%Tutorial Exercise 3 · 5%Tutorial Exercise 4 · 5%Tutorial Exercise 5 · 5%Tutorial Exercise 6 · 5%Reading Quiz 1 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 10 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 11 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 12 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 2 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 3 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 4 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 5 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 6 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 7 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 8 · 1.25%Reading Quiz 9 · 1.25%

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

Per-term breakdownHeld back deliberately. Splitting 1 observations across terms would be false precision.

Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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Claim	Source	Captured	Status
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours	University of Toronto Mississauga	2026-07-25	public fact
Historical average across 1 term	Student contributions, consented	2026-07-25	user contributed aggregate
Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: G. Dancy)	Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga)	2026-09-05	official syllabus

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What this opens up

3 courses list POL243H5 as a prerequisite

POL244H5Research Methods for Political Science II

The other 2 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names POL243H5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what POL243H5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.

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POL222H1Cannot be taken with this course · St. George

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