Comprehensive Exam Archive

Canadian Politics

Spring 2017: Canadian Politics PhD Exam: Core, Federalism and Regionalism, Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Economy

Spring 2014: Canadian Politics PhD Exam: Core, Parties, Elections, Public Opinion

Fall 2010 – Spring 2007: Canadian Political PhD Exam: Core, Parties and Elections, Federalism and Regionalism, Canadian Political Thought, Parliament

Comparative Politics

Spring 2021: Comparative Politics

Fall 202: Comparative Politics

2019: Comparative Politics Catalogue of Core Comprehensive Exam Questions

Spring 2019: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Latin America

Spring 2019: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Southeast Asia

Spring 2018: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Comparative Parties and Political Institutions

Spring 2018: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Comparative Political Economy

Spring 2016: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, The State, Latin America

Fall 2015: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Public Policy, Comparative Political Economy

Spring 2015: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, The State Comparative Public Policy

Spring 2015: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Public Policy

Spring 2015: Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Ethnicity and Social Movements

Fall 2014: Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: ore, Ethnicity and Social Movements

Spring 2014: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Democratization, Chinese Politics

Spring 2014: Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Political Economy, Political Economy of Development

Spring 2014: Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Parties and Political Behaviour

Spring 2014: Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, China

Spring 2014: Minor, Comparative Politics PhD Exam: Core, Comparative Political Economy

International Relations

Fall 2023: International Relations

Fall 2021: International Relations

Spring 2020: International Relations

Fall 2017: International Relations PhD Exam: International Security

Spring 2017: International Relations PhD Exam: International Relations Theory

Spring 2017: International Relations PhD Exam: International Relations Theory, Norms and Legitmacy

Spring-2017: International Relations PhD Exam: International Organization

Spring 2017: International Relations PhD Exam: International Security

Spring 2017: International Relations PhD Exam: International Political Economy

Spring 2016: International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory and International Political Economy

Fall 2015: International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, Security

Spring 2014: International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, International Political Economy, Security

Spring 2014: Minor, International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, International Political Economy, Security

Fall 2010 – SPring 2007: International Relations PhD Exam: IR Theory, International Organization, International Politics Economy, Security

Political Theory

Note: Copies of previous PT comp reading lists are available for PhD candidates, please contact Chris Fernandez (christopher.fernandez@ubc.ca).

Spring 2022: Political Theory

Fall 2021: Political Theory

Spring 2020: Political Theory 2

Spring 2020, Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Said

Fall 2019, Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Arendt

Fall 2018: Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Marx

Fall 2017 Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Foucault

Spring 2017: Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Ricoeur

Spring 2016 Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Aristotle, Demos and Boundary Problems in Democratic Theory

Fall 2015 Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Aristotle, Rawls, Judging Compromises in Democracries

Spring 2015 Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches,  Hobbes, Tocqueville, Democracy and Violence

Fall 2014 Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Arendt, Weber, Ethno-Cultural Diversity Accomodation

Spring 2014 Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Foucault, Deliberative Democracy

Fall 2009 Political Theory PhD Exam: Approaches, Foucault, Kant, Habermas, Arendt, Tocqueville, Mill, Berlin, Marx, Aristotle, Dewey, Montesquieu, Nietzche, de Beauvoir, Locke, Bourdieu, Machiavelli, Freud, Hobbes

Spring 2008 Political Theory PhD Exams: Tocqueville, Foucault, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Taylor, Berlin, Marx

US Politics

Fall 2015 – US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Public Policy, Political Behaviour

Fall 2015 US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Political Behaviour

Spring 2014 US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Political Behaviour, Media

Spring 2007 US Politics PhD Exam: Core, Foreign Policy, Presidency, Public Management and Bureaucratic Politics, Congress, Public Policy

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