Evaluation Components/Assignments 25% NOTE: This Course Prohibits the use of Generative AI

Evaluation Components/Assignments 25%

NOTE: This Course Prohibits the use of Generative AI in Graded Assignments

In this course, all work should be completed by you and you alone. As such, you are not allowed to use generative artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E and other similar AI tools to help you complete any of your graded work in this course. If you do not know whether an online resource or tool can be used in this course, please contact me for guidance. Any use of generative AI in this course will be considered a breach of the Senate Policy on Academic Honesty. For more information, please review AI Technology & Academic Integrity: Information for Students.

Students are asked to keep all research notes and draft versions of your work. You may be asked to present these if it is suspected that an AI app was used to help complete your work. These drafts can be used to show how your work was developed and provide evidence that the work is your own. Additionally, students may be asked to meet individually with the professor to discuss and demonstrate knowledge of the assignment.

Assignments are submitted through eclass. It is the student’s responsibility to get a receipt from Turnitin when submitting essay assignments.

Please ensure quality assignment submissions. Given the short timeline and the fast pace of content there is no opportunity for re-submission of assignments.

While class powerpoints are provided, students are to cite the appropriate text page for content, rather than Dr. Sander’s powerpoint slides. Please use your text.

Please use in-text citations in your papers rather than footnote format. All direct quotations require a page number.

Assignment:

Issue & Reflection Papers 1&2

Reflection papers should be approximately 5 pages, double spaced, 12 point font with page numbers, a cover page (which does not count in the 5 pgs). This is an essay assignment, requiring an opening with a topic/thesis statement, introduction and conclusion as well as full referencing where required. All papers must be written in a professional manner, with an expectation that they have been thoroughly proofread to ensure appropriate style including correct spelling, grammar, and sentence structure. All papers MUST be submitted through Turnitin in eclass.

Issue & Reflection Paper 1: Bill 21

Students must review class material relating to Bill 21 and view Political Blind Date: Religious Symbols (Season 4, Episode 5).

After providing an outline of the issue and summarizing the two positions evident in this episode of Political Blind date, in your opinion, is Bill 21 a human rights infringement or is it an essential component in Quebec’s evolution as a secular society free of religion in public life? How does this fit with our Canadian identity? What should be the response, if any, of our representatives in government at a national and provincial level? Substantiate your position with evidence from your viewing, material from the unit and text.

Materials:

Required Text: Malcolmson, P., Myers, R., Baier, G., Bateman, Thomas M.J. (2021). The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada, Seventh Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Class 1

Introductions, Course Outline, Assignments

The Canadian Regime: Overview of principles similar to that of the UK and aspects that are similar to that of the US

Malcolmson et al: Chapter 1

Note: For all classes: Additional Readings and Resources are found in “Agenda&Organization” document and/or on eclass for the Week

Class 2

What is a Canadian? Issues that unite and divide

The Constitution

Malcolmson et al: Chapter 2; text pp201-203)

Additional Readings and resources as per unit

Class 3

Responsible Government

Key roles and responsibilities (partisan and nonpartisan)

The Crown: “Constitutional Monarch”

Policy Making Process

Malcolmson et al: Chapters 3 and 4

Additional Readings as per unit

Class 4

The Canadian Parliamentary System

Roles, conventions, business

Calls for Reform

Malcolmson et al: Chapter 5