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Social and Political Thought - Liberal Arts and Professional Studies


For purposes of meeting program requirements, all nine-credit general education (foundation) courses will count as six credits towards the major or minor.

Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary (Linked) BA

The Social and Political Thought program is an Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA program. The program is housed in the Department of Social Science. Social and political thought majors must co-major in another department/discipline in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, or with kinesiology and health science or psychology in the Faculty of Health. Students must take at least 36 credits in the Social and Political Thought program and at least 36 credits in the co-major according to the requirements and regulations specified by each department/discipline for an Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA program. Courses taken to meet social and political thought requirements cannot also be used to meet the requirements of the departmental major. Students in these interdisciplinary programs must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 4000 level, including at least six credits in social and political thought and six credits in the departmental major. For further details of requirements, refer to the listings for specific Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA programs.

Note: in a double major program, a course may count only once toward major credit.

Residency requirement: a minimum of 30 course credits and at least half (50 per cent) of the course credits required in each undergraduate degree program major/minor must be taken at York University.

Graduation requirement: students must successfully complete (pass) at least 120 credits which meet the Faculty's degree and program requirements with a cumulative grade point average of at least 5.00.

General education: 24 credits of general education chosen from humanities, modes of reasoning, natural science and social science, including a minimum of six credits in each of humanities, natural science and social science.

Major credits: the 36 credits in social and political thought must include the following:

Upper-level credits: at least 36 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level, including at least 18 credits at the 4000 level.

Credits outside the major: students who graduate in this program are deemed to have fulfilled this requirement.

Honours Minor BA

The Honours Minor BA program described may be combined with any approved Honours BA program that offers a major/minor option in the Faculties of Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, Health, Liberal Arts and Professional Studies or Science and Engineering. For further details on requirements, refer to the listings for specific Honours programs that may be pursued jointly with other Faculties.

Note: in a major/minor program, a course may count only once toward major credit or minor credit.

Minor credits: the Honours Minor in social and political thought comprises at least 30 credits including the following:

  • six credits chosen from: AP/SOSC 2550 6.00 or AP/SOSC 2570 9.00;
  • 18 credits at the 3000 level chosen from the Social and Political Thought program list of courses;
  • six credits at the 4000 level chosen from the list of social and political thought courses.

Note: at least six credits in the minor must be at the 4000 level.

Social and Political Thought Courses

Not all of the courses listed below will necessarily be offered in any given year.

With the approval of the program coordinator, and subject to course exclusion and residency requirements, students may complete other courses for program credit in social and political thought.

AP/ANTH 2100 6.00
AP/ANTH 3220 6.00
AP/ANTH 3320 3.00
AP/ANTH 3320 6.00
AP/ANTH 3350 3.00
AP/ANTH 3350 6.00
AP/ANTH 3360 6.00
AP/ANTH 3370 6.00
AP/ANTH 4110 6.00
AP/HIST 2100 6.00
AP/HIST 2220 6.00
AP/HIST 2300 6.00
AP/HIST 2710 6.00
AP/HIST 2790 6.00
AP/HIST 3000 6.00
AP/HIST 3120 6.00
AP/HIST 3415 6.00
AP/HIST 3531 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/SOSC 3210 6.00)
AP/HIST 3710 6.00
AP/HIST 3810 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/HUMA 3781 6.00)
AP/HIST 4350 6.00
AP/HIST 4370 6.00
AP/HIST 4690 6.00
AP/HIST 4750 6.00
AP/HIST 4800 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/HUMA 4220 6.00)
AP/HUMA 2100 9.00
AP/HUMA 2160 9.00
AP/HUMA 2915 9.00
AP/HUMA 2920 9.00
AP/HUMA 3100 6.00
AP/HUMA 3205 6.00
AP/HUMA 3925 6.00 (cross-listed to: SC/STS 3925 6.00)
AP/HUMA 4170 6.00
AP/HUMA 4227 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/HIST 4810 6.00)
AP/PHIL 2010 3.00
AP/PHIL 2015 3.00
AP/PHIL 2020 3.00
AP/PHIL 2025 3.00
AP/PHIL 2050 6.00
AP/PHIL 2060 3.00
AP/PHIL 2070 3.00
AP/PHIL 2075 3.00
AP/PHIL 2120 3.00
AP/PHIL 2130 3.00
AP/PHIL 2250 3.00
AP/PHIL 3110 3.00
AP/PHIL 3120 3.00
AP/PHIL 3125 3.00
AP/PHIL 3635 3.00
AP/PHIL 3265 3.00
AP/PHIL 3270 3.00
AP/PHIL 3640 3.00
AP/PHIL 4050 3.00
AP/POLS 2900 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/PPAS 2900 6.00)
AP/POLS 3011 3.00
AP/POLS 3020 3.00
AP/POLS 3025 3.00
AP/POLS 3040 3.00
AP/POLS 3070 3.00
AP/POLS 3075 3.00
AP/POLS 3140 3.00 (cross-listed to: AP/SOSC 3280 3.00)
AP/POLS 3270 3.00 (cross-listed to: AP/REI 3270 3.00)
AP/POLS 3275 3.00 (cross-listed to: AP/REI 3275 3.00)
AP/POLS 3455 3.00 (cross-listed to: AP/SOSC 3175 3.00, AP/GL/WMST 3517 3.00)
AP/POLS 4010 3.00
AP/POLS 4015 3.00
AP/POLS 4025 3.00
AP/POLS 4030 3.00
AP/SOSC 4500 6.00
AP/POLS 4045 3.00
AP/POLS 4055 3.00
AP/POLS 4065 3.00
AP/POLS 4090 3.00
AP/POLS 4091 3.00
AP/POLS 4106 3.00
AP/POLS 4200 6.00
AP/RU 2750 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/HIST 2310 6.00, AP/HUMA 2750 6.00)
AP/SOCI 2040 6.00
AP/SOCI 3020 6.00
AP/SOCI 3340 6.00
AP/SOCI 3355 3.00
AP/SOCI 4075 3.00
AP/SOCI 4210 3.00
AP/SOCI 4470 3.00
AP/SOCI 4615 6.00
AP/SOCI 4910 6.00
AP/SOCI 4930 6.00
AP/SOSC 2100 6.00
AP/SOSC 2550 6.00
AP/SOSC 2570 9.00
AP/SOSC 2730 6.00
AP/COMN 2830 9.00 (cross-listed to: AP/SOSC 2830 9.00)
AP/COMN 2840 9.00 (cross-listed to: AP/SOSC 2840 9.00)
AP/SOSC 3120 6.00
AP/SOSC 3140 6.00
AP/SOSC 3210 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/HIST 3531 6.00)
AP/SOSC 3280 3.00 (cross-listed to: AP/POLS 3140 3.00)
AP/SOSC 3410 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/POLS 3553 6.00)
AP/SOSC 3480 6.00
AP/SOSC 3510 6.00
AP/SOSC 3512 6.00
AP/SOSC 3550 6.00
AP/SOSC 3560 6.00
AP/SOSC 3552 6.00
AP/SOSC 3570 6.00
AP/SOSC 3571 3.00
AP/SOSC 3590 6.00
AP/SOSC 3820 6.00
AP/SOSC 3916 6.00
AP/SOSC 3930 6.00
AP/SOSC 4050 6.00
AP/SOSC 4500 6.00
AP/SOSC 4810 6.00
AP/SOSC 4917 6.00
AP/SOSC 4918 6.00
AP/GL/WMST 2510 9.00 (cross-listed to: AP/HUMA 2930 9.00, AP/SOSC 2180 9.00)
AP/GL/WMST 3516 3.00 (cross-listed to: AP/POLS 3450 3.00, AP/SOSC 3170 3.00)
AP/GL/WMST 4500 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/SOSC 4160 6.00, GL/SOCI 4685 6.00, GL/SOSC 4685 6.00)


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