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Instruction offered by members of the Faculty of Arts.
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Graduate Courses
Only where appropriate to a student's program may graduate credit be received for courses numbered 500-599.
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Strategic Studies
601
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MSS First Term Co-operative Education
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Strategic Studies first term co-operative education work placement.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(4 months)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the co-operative education option of the MSS program.
NOT INCLUDED IN GPA
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Strategic Studies
602
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MSS Second Term Co-operative Education
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Strategic Studies second term co-operative education work placement.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(4 months)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the co-operative education option of the MSS program.
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Strategic Studies
603
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Questions and Methods
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A Block Week introduction to research design and methods in Military and Strategic Studies. Introduces the field, its history, major methodological debates and challenges of interdisciplinary research.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to Military and Strategic Studies graduate program.
NOT INCLUDED IN GPA
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Strategic Studies
609
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The Canadian Military in the Second World War
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An examination of the political parameters imposed by the Canadian government, the quality of Canadian leadership, and the "fit" between British forms of military organization and the fighting quality of Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Strategic Studies
611
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Canadian Military Studies
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Canadian military studies, excepting the two world wars. Topics will include the evolution of Canadian defence policy, past or present, the development and evolution of the Canadian Forces or any of its main elements (army, navy or air force), Canadian military operability with the military forces of Allied nations, and the relationship between Canadian foreign policy and the use of the Canadian military.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Strategic Studies
613
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The Canadian Military in the First World War
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The development and operational achievements of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wartime civil-military relations and conscription politics.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3S-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Strategic Studies 613 and History 520 will not be allowed.
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Strategic Studies
649
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Special Topics in Military and Strategic Studies
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Course Hours:
3 units; H(3S-0)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Strategic Studies
651
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Reading Seminar
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Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Strategic Studies
653
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Research Seminar
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Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Strategic Studies
655
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Classics of Strategy
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Strategic thought from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz, Mahan to Corbett. Analyzes the writings of classic strategic thinkers and then, by way of case studies, examines their theories as they pertain to military and political planners from the Peloponnesian War to the present.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(History 655)
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Strategic Studies
657
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Intelligence; Information Operations; and "Command, Control, Communications and Computers"
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An assessment of the history of intelligence, information operations, and command systems for military and diplomatic institutions as well as contemporary theory and practice related to these issues.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Strategic Studies
659
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Sea Power
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The meaning of sea power and an assessment of how modern states use it. An analysis of the writings of major naval strategic thinkers and case-study examination of the application of those theories from Nelson to the present.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Strategic Studies
662
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Advanced Studies in Canadian Arctic Security
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The Canadian Arctic is an emerging area of concern due to changes scarcely imaginable even a few years ago. Examines the nature of some of these changes – e.g. climate change and the northern seas’ dramatically changing ice conditions, growing recognition of the region’s resource wealth, and evolving international relations in the circumpolar region – and what they mean for Canadian Arctic Security.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3S-0)
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Strategic Studies
663
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Wars – Causes and Aftermaths
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An examination of the complexity and experience of conflict and war as well as the broader institutions that govern post-conflict recovery and transition in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Special attention will be paid to the methodological complexities of studying violence.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3S-0)
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Strategic Studies
751
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Reading Seminar
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Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Strategic Studies
753
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Research Seminar
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Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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