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You will be automatically enrolled for the four mandatory courses in the program. As soon as possible you will need to select your elective courses. Normally, you would have the RMC website to access course calendars, academic regulations, and so on. It should be back up soon. In the meantime, you might try the Wayback machine from archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rmc-cmr.ca - try the 24 January image of the website. At the bottom of the first page, there’s a link Academic, and you should be able to navigate from there, although it’s a bit awkward. I have provided the course descriptions and semester in which they are offered below, and we can talk about who is teaching them and what they are like. If you have My Services and an RMC account, you can access that information through the academic search function.
Download a bilingual list of course descriptions here [click this link]
Beside each course description you will find the term in which it is offered (in the attached document). All courses are offered as a single section unless noted.
Not all course outlines or syllabi are available. Those received are posted below.
Prerequisites for mandatory and optional courses are deemed to have been met for NEPDP candidates, by virtue of their leadership courses and service experience. In practice, there may be gaps in individual knowledge and academic skills necessary for success. Candidates should start early to identify their weak areas and plan to develop the necessary knowledge and skills before arriving at RMC. The academic bridging program sponsored by the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities will focus on key skills illustrated in other pages on this website. Content knowledge packages to help you prepare have been provided by some instructors.
The prerequisite for most MPL courses is PSE103 Introduction to psychology. NEPDP candidates typically have more than enough experience as experts in the human domain to perform well in upper year psychology courses without this prerequisite. Normal NCM experience in presenting and facilitating groups ensures that most candidates have no problem with seminar participation and presentations in senior level MPL courses. Research and essay-writing skills in general are addressed in the bridging program.
To be developed.
Senior courses in Canadian politics normally require POE205 Canadian Government and Society as a prerequisite. A good way to confirm that you understand the basic institutions of Canadian government is to test your knowledge of the late Senator Eugene Forsey’s classic pamphlet, How Canadians Govern Themselves (50 pages). Available here or on the Library of Parliament website.
The prerequisite for the mandatory POE317 and most other politics courses involving international relations is POE116, Introduction to International Relations. This gives students an understanding of theories of international relations which are helpful for discussing the topics addressed in upper year courses. Professor McKay has assembled the following resources to help students prepare for upper year courses in international relations and strategic studies where IR theory will be useful.
McKay (2020) Notes on international relations theories.
Snyder, J. (2004) One World, Rival Theories. Foreign Policy, No. 95, Nov/Dec, 52-62.
Walt, S.M. (1998) International Relations: One World, Many Theories International Relations. Spring. 29-46.
Moravcsik, A. (1997) Taking Preferences Seriously: A liberal theory of international relations. International Organization 51:4 (Autumn) 513-553.
PSE301 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership
PSE401 Military Professionalism and Ethics
PSE454 Advanced Leadership
POE317 Introduction to Contemporary Strategic Studies
HIE346 The History of Canadian Forces Operations
HIE360 The Rise of Peacekeeping
HIE362 History of Peacekeeping since 1980
HIE406 Canadians and the World: Canadian Foreign Relations 1867 to the Present
HIE452 War, Peace, and Civil Society in Modern History
HIE477 An Introduction to the History of Terrorism
PSE312 – Applied Military Psychology
PSE346 - Persuasion and Influence
POE 324 - International Organizations
POE328 - Canadian Political Institutions
POF328 - Institutions politiques canadiennes
POE332 - Public Administration in Canada
POE334 - Canadian Public Policy Making
POE374 - Science, Technology and Pubic Policy
POE 410 - International Conflict Management
POE 414 - Contemporary International Issues and Events
POE 416 - Canadian Foreign and Security Policy
POE 432 - Civil-Military Relations
POE488 – Law of Armed Conflict
GOE305 - World Regional Geography: Europe and/or the Americas
FRF440 Vie et mort des grands héros de l'Antiquité
FRF444 La rhétorique moderne.
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David Last, CD, PhD
Associate Professor, Political Science
Royal Military College of Canada
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