Graduate courses
Community development (CD)
Core courses
- CD 501 - Setting the Foundations for Community Change
- CD 505 - Research Foundations for Community Development
- CD 512 - Program and Project Design, Management and Evaluation
- CD 526 - Communication and Engagement
- CD 530 - Systems Thinking, Innovation and Strategic Planning
- CD 531 - Leadership and Transformation
Final project
Elective courses
- CD 506 - Enterprise Development for Community Benefit
- CD 509 - Developing Capacities to Lead and Manage in the Non-profit Sector
- CD 518 - Citizen Participation and Democratic Governance
- CD 522 - Understanding and Mainstreaming Gender
- CD 590 - Directed Studies
You may take elective courses from other departments with permission of the graduate adviser.
Public Administration (ADMN)
Core courses
- ADMN 502A - Research Methods for Policy and Practice
- ADMN 502B - Data Analysis and Interpretation
- ADMN 504 - Government and Governance
- ADMN 507 - Leadership and Ethics in the Public Sector
- ADMN 509 - Economics for Policy Analysis
- ADMN 512 - Public Financial Management and Accountability
- ADMN 531 - Performance and Strategic Human Resource Management
- ADMN 550 - Strategic Communication and Engagement
- ADMN 551 - Administrative Justice System in Canada
- ADMN 556 - Managing Public Policy
- ADMN 557 - Public Sector Research Methods
- ADMN 598 - Master's Project
- ADMN 599 - Master's Thesis
Elective courses
- ADMN 523 - Special Topics in Public Sector Management
- ADMN 531 - Performance and Strategic Human Resource Management
- ADMN 537 - Foundations for Program Evaluation
- ADMN 544 - Economic Evaluation Methods and Applications
- ADMN 547 - Intergovernmental Relations in Canada
- ADMN 548 - Special Topics in Public Policy
- ADMN 577 - Strategic Planning and Implementation
- ADMN 578 - European Union Urban Region Policies
- ADMN 580 - Qualitative Evaluation Approaches and Methods
- ADMN 581 - Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation
- ADMN 582 - Topics in Evaluation and Performance Measurement
- ADMN 589 - Co-op Seminar: Introduction to Professional Practice
- ADMN 590 - Directed Studies (as approved by the graduate adviser)
MPA students can also take these as electives:
- approved upper-level (400) undergraduate courses
- graduate-level courses in other disciplines
You may need to take prerequisites if you take electives outside the program. These prerequisites will not count towards completion of your MPA program.
Registering in courses outside the MPA program requires permission from the graduate adviser and the other program's instructor. You will need to submit a graduate course change form.
Focus areas
Focus your graduate program electives in an area of interest. Our course focus areas range from climate change and planetary health to Indigenous governance.
Normally, you will only take the required number of electives for your degree. Most of our graduate programs require 2 electives.