The doctoral program is designed to give students the necessary foundation for making original contributions to knowledge. Graduate courses provide students with analytical and theoretical tools used in particular subfields. This general training includes specialized training in research methods. Recent graduates of our doctoral program are pursuing diverse employment opportunities.
Thesis
A thesis for the doctoral degree must constitute original scholarship and must be a distinct contribution to knowledge. It must show familiarity with previous work in the field and must demonstrate ability to plan and carry out research, organize results, and defend the approach and conclusions in a scholarly manner. The research presented must meet current standards of the discipline; as well, the thesis must clearly demonstrate how the research advances knowledge in the field. Finally, the thesis must be written in compliance with norms for academic and scholarly expression and for publication in the public domain.
Required Courses
POLI 700 PhD Research Seminar
POLI 701 Ph.D. General Written Examination First Field
POLI 702 Ph.D. General Written Examination Second Field
POLI 799 Ph.D. Oral Comprehensive Examination
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Political Science: Gender and Women's Studies
The graduate option in Gender and Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary program for students who meet the degree requirements in Political Science and who wish to earn 6 credits of approved coursework focusing on gender and women's studies, and issues in feminist research and methods.
This option is a cross-disciplinary specialization run by the McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. The student's doctoral thesis must be on a topic centrally related to gender and/or women's studies.
Esperado January 2025
Data de início
Esperado Agosto 2024
McGill University
Downtown Campus,
845 Sherbrooke Street West,
MONTREAL,
Quebec (QC),
H3A 0G4, Canada
Students holding a master’s degree in political science may be eligible for admission to the Ph.D. program. In some instances, outstanding students with a B.A. in Political Science may be admitted directly into the Ph.D. program without having completed an M.A. degree. They will be considered Ph.D. 1.
A minimum score of 100 on the Internet-based test (iBT), with each component score not less than 20 is required for admission. The IELTS (International English Language Testing Systems) with a minimum overall band of 6.5 is also acceptable.
Application Deadline: For Fall Term: Jan. 15.
Os requisitos para o IELTS podem variar de acordo com o curso que você escolher.