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Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George

POL490H1

Topics in Canadian Politics I

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Prerequisite2 requirements, 14 options
Total contact hours24 seminar
Evidence1 syllabus · 2 papers
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POL490H1

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 79.2% across the remaining 101% to finish at 80%.

Your weights total 101%, not 100% — the answer assumes the rows above are the whole course.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

6 components

From the 2024 syllabus. 6 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

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

From the calendar

Official source · Faculty of Arts & Science

Examines in depth enduring and emerging issues in Canadian politics. Content in any given year depends on instructor.

Contact hours
24 seminar
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

One option from each line

POL214H1, POL214Y1, POL215H5, POL216H5, POL224H1, POL224Y1, or POLB50Y3

1.0 other POL, JPI credit in Canadian politics. See the Department's website http:, politics.utoronto.ca, undergraduate, courses, fallwinter-timetable, or for POL courses by area group.

Where the marks come from

2024 syllabus
Meme Assignment* · 40%Syllabus Quiz* · 20%Essay Outline · 15%Presentation · 15%Unresolved component · 10%Participation · 1%

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

2015–2024

Pyko’s archive holds 3 documents for POL490H1, across 3 years between 2015 and 2024.

2
Final exams
1
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
3 archived documents, 2015-2024Pyko archive2026-07-25index only

Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

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