Political Studies Courses

Scholarships and Awards

Who are the academic advisors?

  • provide advice and guidance to students in their first year of study
  • assist students with first year course selection
  • introduce students to first year Learning Communities
  • determine prerequisites for non-direct entry colleges
  • provide strategies for application to direct entry colleges
  • advocate for appropriate resources for students
  • located in the Undergraduate Student Office, Arts 265
  • Drop by, email or phone (306) 966-4231  

  • provide advice and guidance to students throughout their studies (including transfer, returning, second degree and graduating students)
  • monitor all program requirements and advise on College regulations
  • ensure students satisfy promotion and graduation standards
  • assist students facing academic difficulty
  • participate on academic appeals committee
  • advocate for appropriate resources for students
  • located in the Undergraduate Student Office, Arts 265
  • Drop by, email or phone (306) 966-4231

  • provide culturally relevant advice and guidance to Aboriginal students entering their first year of university and throughout their studies towards degree completion
  • assist Aboriginal students with course selection and registration
  • introduce first year Aboriginal students to Aboriginal Student Achievement Program Learning Communities
  • assist Aboriginal students with funding requests
  • advocate for appropriate resources for Aboriginal students
  • located in the Aboriginal Student Achievement Office, Arts 248)
  • Aboriginal students are not required to meet with Aboriginal student advisors in the ASAO. Aboriginal students may choose to meet with any advisor from any of the departments listed.
  • Drop by, email or phone (306) 966-4288

  • provide advice and guidance to students who have chosen their Major
  • help students choose courses in their Major
  • coordinate Spring Advising sessions for 3rd and 4th year students in the department of their major to ensure they are satisfying their major requirement and/or to provide guidance in course selection in their major
  • connect students to faculty experts in the field of their interest
  • located in each department.  Email political.studies@usask.ca to make an appointment

Study and Taught Abroad

Washington Center Internship Program

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars is a non-profit educational institution headquartered in Washington, D.C. It provides undergraduates, graduate students and professionals with internship opportunities located mainly in Washington, D.C. and in selected cities abroad. The internship program consists of a work experience tailored to the student's interest and academic coursework.  University of Saskatchewan students have the option of participating during Term 1, Term 2 or in the summer. Those students who participate in the summer will be registered in 9 credit units of University of Saskatchewan courses and those who participate in Term 1 or Term 2 will be registered in 15 credit units of University of Saskatchewan courses.

POLS 298.3 - Introduction to the Politics of the European Union

Travel with a uSask professor and other uSask students while studying the politics of the European Union. These studies will be enhanced through visits to the EU institutions such as the European Parliament, Council of the European Union and others. There will also be visits to memorials and museums.

Internships

International Opportunities

Exchanges

The Department of Political Studies has been active in establishing exchange programs with both foreign and Canadian universities. At the present time, programs exist linking the University of Saskatchewan with Chernivtsi State University in Ukraine and with the Universities of Marburg, Oldenburg, Greifswald and Rostock in Germany.

The Chernivtsi exchange program allows a group of ten Saskatchewan students to spend six weeks every second year, beginning in 1994, with Ukrainian students at Chernivtsi State University taking intersession courses on the politics of transition in the former Soviet republics. In alternate years, Chernivtsi students spend the intersession in Saskatoon doing courses with Saskatchewan students. Because courses are taught in English, no foreign language requirement exists for participating in this program.

Each of the exchange programs involving the German universities allows two Saskatchewan students to go abroad for a year of studies (and students from each of these universities will spend an academic year at the University of Saskatchewan). Saskatchewan students going to Germany are expected to have sufficient knowledge of German to do university-level courses. Hence, while there are some variations in the level of proficiency required at the German universities, students not proficient in the language who wish to participate in an exchange should plan their academic programs to include courses in German during their first years of undergraduate work.

Credit for courses successfully completed at the institutions participating in the exchange programs is transferable to the University of Saskatchewan.