Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs

Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs
Type Public
Established 1999[1]
Director Mary Francoli[2]
Location Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Campus Urban
Website www1.carleton.ca/akcollege/

The Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs is an institute within the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University. It offers three programs: the four-year Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management (BPAPM), the ten-month Master's of Political Management, and the new four-year multidisciplinary Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS).

It was founded in 1999 and is named after former senior Canadian public servant Arthur Kroeger.[1]

Degree granting

As a College rather than a department, it has an institutional status at Carleton equivalent to the School of Journalism, which offers a Bachelor of Journalism degree (B.J.), and the College of the Humanities, which offers the Bachelor of Humanities (B.Hum.). Each of these units have higher admission requirements than their faculty norms, and distinct, well-respected degree programs.

Programs

Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management

The Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management is a specialized four-year honours degree dedicated to the study of public policy within an interdisciplinary framework. Students completing a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management are required to complete a series of "core courses" throughout their undergraduate career.[3] Each student must complete a one-semester (0.5 credit) capstone seminar as well as an undergraduate thesis: an Honours Research Essay (HRE) in order to graduate.[3] Students pursue these courses according to their area of specialization.

Students have the option to complete a co-op designation as a part of their degree.[4] To graduate with co-op designation, it requires three four-month work terms, with the option for a fourth term.[5] With the work-study schedule for B.PAPM, to graduate with the co-op designation it can take an additional 1-3 semesters to complete the program, dependent on course requirements and the number of work terms.

The degree is consistently regarded as one of Carleton's top undergraduate programs, alongside Journalism, Architecture and International Business.[6]

Areas of specialization

It offers seven areas of specialization for undergraduates:[7]

  1. Communication and Information Technology Policy
  2. Development Studies
  3. Human Rights
  4. International Studies
  5. Public Policy and Administration
  6. Social Policy
  7. Strategic Public Opinion And Policy Analysis

Bachelor of Global and International Studies

The Bachelor of Global and International Studies is a specialized, interdisciplinary four-year degree, offered as both a general and an honours. The degree was conceptualized and developed by former program director Chris Brown[8]. On top of selecting one of 17 different specializations/streams[9], students are required to complete a variety of core GINS courses such as "Global and Transnational History" and "Ethnography, Globalization, and Culture" to gain a nuanced understanding of global and international processes from the perspectives of a variety of disciplines[10]. The BGInS degree also has a mandatory second-language requirement[11] as well as a built-in International Experience Requirement for honours students.[12]

Although a relatively new degree program offered at Carleton, having introduced its first cohort of students in the fall of 2015[13], the BGInS degree has attracted high rates of applications. In the first year the degree was offered, the administration saw 505 applications[14]. Along with the core faculty[15] the degree is taught by over 120 affiliated faculty members from 19 different academic units across the university (such as law, politics, and history) to provide larger breadth of knowledge for students to draw upon, and they often also supervise Honours Research Essays that students complete in their fourth year of study.[16]

Areas of specialization

The BGInS degree is multidisciplinary, composed of 17 specializations (called 'streams' in the general degree) that range from regional to thematic.[17] They are listed below:

a) Thematic Specializations and Streams

  1. French and Francophone Studies
  2. Global and Transnational History
  3. Global Development
  4. Global Genders and Sexualities
  5. Global Inequalities and Social Change
  6. Global Law and Social Justice
  7. Global Literatures
  8. Global Media and Communication
  9. Global Politics
  10. Globalization and the Environment
  11. Globalization, Culture, Power
  12. International Economic Policy
  13. Migration and Diaspora Studies
  14. Teaching English in Global Contexts

b) Regional Specializations and Streams

  1. Africa and Globalization
  2. Europe and Russia in the World
  3. Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Master's of Political Management

The Master's of Political Management is a ten-month program[18] which includes a ten-week internship in a minister's or a members' office.[19] The program offers "core courses" in Institutions and Governance, Strategic Communications, and Political Management.[19] Other courses include communications, management, and political marketing.[19][20]

The program was made possible by a $15 million donation from Clayton Riddell, after whom the program is named.[21] The implications of this donation was later criticized for allowing donor influence over the budget, hiring, and curriculum.[22] The agreement was later rewritten to clarify that the five-person steering committee does not have the power to "approve" hiring and curriculum decisions and instead only provides advice.[23]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Arthur Kroeger". Arthur Kroeger College. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  2. ↑ "Kroeger College Personnel Listing". Carleton University. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Core Courses". Arthur Kroeger College. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Co-op". Arthur Kroeger College. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "Carleton University". Canadian Association for Co-operative Education. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  6. ↑ "Maclean's - 2013 Guide to Canadian Universities". Maclean's. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Specializations". Arthur Kroeger College. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  8. ↑ "Message from Program Founder". BGInS Students' Society. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Specializations". Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "Core Courses". Carleton University. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "Language Requirement". Carleton University. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "BGInS IER". Carleton University. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  13. ↑ "BGInS About". Carleton University. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "BGInS Applications Strong". BGInS Faculty. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "BGInS Core Faculty". BGInS Administration. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  16. ↑ "Affiliated Faculty". BGInS Administration. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  17. ↑ "Specializations and Streams". Carleton University. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  18. ↑ "Canada's First University Program in Political Management Announces Key Faculty Appointments". Daily Exchange. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  19. 1 2 3 "Program Description". Political Management. Archived from the original on 15 January 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  20. ↑ "Carleton University to Create Canada's first Political Management Master's Program". Realities Behind the Headlines. 20 June 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  21. ↑ "Carleton receives $15M donation to set up political grad school". Ottawa Business Journal. 2 June 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  22. ↑ Runnalls, Jeremy (17 Sep 2012). "Donor Dollars". Corporate Knights. Retrieved 25 Nov 2012.
  23. ↑ Cheadle, Bruce (28 Aug 2012). "Carleton University rewrites controversial $15-million donor deal". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 25 Nov 2012.
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