GOVN 301: Governance, the Public Sector and Corporate Power explores the changing relationships between business, society and government in contemporary Canada. It examines the changing patterns of governance; the privileged position of corporate Canada in society's power structure; the phenomenon of globalization and the international extension of business power; the role of the mass media in shaping culture and dominant ideas within society; the restructuring of economic and social policy; constitutional change; the marketization of the state; the transformation of citizen into customer; the increased threat to social cohesion and also considers the future of the public sector in Canada.
Welcome to Governance 377/ Criminal Justice 377/ Legal Studies 377: Issues in Access to Information and Privacy Protection. This senior level course examines the regulatory regime governing information access and protection of privacy in a globalized, networked world. It explains access and privacy rights and interests, and explores their application, including balancing the competing ideas of transparency and privacy as both are identified as a public good.
- Coordinator: lornas
Welcome to Governance 377/ Criminal Justice 377/ Legal Studies 377: Issues in Access to Information and Privacy Protection. This senior level course examines the regulatory regime governing information access and protection of privacy in a globalized, networked world. It explains access and privacy rights and interests, and explores their application, including balancing the competing ideas of transparency and privacy as both are identified as a public good.
Governance 380 / HRSV 363: Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Governance is a senior-level, three-credit course that provides an overview of the nonprofit and voluntary sector. The goal of the course is to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of governance, leadership and management in the nonprofit sector in an increasingly complex environment. The course provides students with knowledge of the major conceptual and theoretical perspectives on the voluntary sector, and encourages them to apply what they are learning in a very practical way to understanding and dealing with challenges currently faced by voluntary sector leaders and managers.
Governance 390/Political Science 392: Public Policy and Administrative Governance has been designed for senior undergraduate students who are interested in the creation and implementation of Canadian public policy.
Governance 400 / Political Science 400 / Human Services 400: Governance and Leadership is a three-credit, senior-level course. It provides an overview and theoretical understanding of the common elements and differences that shape leadership in the public, voluntary, and private sectors and the implications of these similarities and differences for the interaction among the three sectors on public policy issues. You will have an opportunity to learn about the basic ideas and debates concerning the nature of leadership in each sector and how institutions and processes of management and governance in each sector shape the development of its leaders and their role.
- Coordinator: lornas
In the early 1980s Western governments took measures to reduce public spending, deficits, and debt in order to restore public trust in government and streamline public service management in the era of global competition. The resulting changes in public management made the public sector organization a flatter organizational form characterized by partnerships with the private and nonprofit sectors. The outcomes have been dizzying.
- Coordinator: lornas