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Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George

POL386H1

U.S. Government and Politics

Prerequisite1 requirement, 7 options
Total contact hours24 lecture
Evidence1 syllabus · 2 papers
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POL386H1

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
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You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

Not reported

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How is it graded?

5 components

From the 2024 syllabus. 5 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

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From the calendar

Official source · Faculty of Arts & Science

Who rules the United State of America? This course will investigate this question by examining how power is attained and how power is exercised in American elections, the legislative process, the bureaucracy, and the federal courts. Particular attention will be paid to the role of national interest groups, regional economic interests, and new modes of political mobilization.

Exclusions
POL203Y1POL203Y5POL386Y1POLC92H3POLC93H3
Contact hours
24 lecture
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

1.0 credit in POL, JPA, JPF, JPI, JPR, JPS, or JRA courses

Where the marks come from

2024 syllabus
Final Draft · 40%In-Person Final · 35%attendance/speaking in class. In · 10%Exam · 10%Participation · 5%

Extracted from a published 2024 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

2023–2024

Pyko’s archive holds 4 documents for POL386H1, across 2 years between 2023 and 2024.

2
Final exams
2
Syllabi

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What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursFaculty of Arts & Science2026-07-25public fact
Assessment weightingCourse syllabus, 20242026-07-25summary permitted
4 archived documents, 2023-2024Pyko archive2026-07-25index only

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