Urban Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto Scarborough

The cross-disciplinary minor equips you with a range of conceptual tools and methodological skills. We focus on giving you the background and capacities to understand and analyze the processes of city-regional and municipal governance, and policymaking in Canada and across comparative perspectives. Our main emphasis is on exploring the dilemmas that contemporary local governments face around policy and governance, and how these issues are unique from those experienced at other levels of government.  

You’ll explore the distinctive ways public deliberation leads to local policymaking, and gain a thorough, practical knowledge of government challenges and responses, including ways they approach limits on structural revenue, infrastructure deficits and socio-spatial polarization, and how they navigate competition for investment, and inadequate accountability and ethics regimes for politicians and public servants.

Department
Human Geography
Degree offered
Honours Bachelor of Arts
Program options
Minor
Enriched learning
Sample courses
  • Housing Policy and Planning
  • Whose Land? Indigenous-Canada-Land Relations
  • Planning and Governing the Metropolis
Admissions
Social Sciences & Humanities
Department
Human Geography
Degree offered
Honours Bachelor of Arts
Program Options
Minor
Combined degree options
Enriched Learning
Sample courses
  • Housing Policy and Planning
  • Whose Land? Indigenous-Canada-Land Relations
  • Planning and Governing the Metropolis