Study Politics, History & Economics at King's

Do you have a passion for the big issues facing our world today? Want to work with others to find changes and make things better? The Politics, History & Economics (PHE) program at King's is a unique interdisciplinary degree that prepares students for life and careers in law, policy, and the public sphere.

Inside this program

Wrestle With Hot Topics

It's important to engage in good conversations about war, peace, human rights, and individual freedoms. As a PHE student, you will learn roles that different actors— government, non-profits, business, media, schools, and the church—each can play in human flourishing.

Focus On Applying Learning And Theory To Real Life Situations

Dig deeper into concerns and challenges facing our local, national, and global communities. Explore how we arrived at where we are today and possible actions and changes that could  bring healing and justice to more people.

Study Three Disciplines In One Degree

Why? Each discipline provides expertise relevant to participation in the public sphere and society at large. Together, a study of politics, history, and economics equips students to apply a broad range of thinking and tools to complex and ever-changing situations.

Off-Campus Opportunities

Internships

PHE students are encouraged and assisted to participate in internships during their studies where possible. Internships count toward the number of courses needed to graduate and offer valuable work experience and networking opportunities.

Laurentian Leadership Centre

King's students are offered special placement into the Laurentian Leadership Centre (LLC) in Ottawa, Ontario through Trinity Western University. The program combines a half-time internship with courses in leadership, public policy, and more. Previous students of LLC have interned with the Prime Minister’s Office, members of parliament, senators, minister offices, and NGOs. Students may take the program as a student, or as a graduate, of The King’s University.

Research Profiles

A Paradise Among Leprosariums: Hansen's Disease and Affective Containment in the Panama Canal Zone Caroline Lieffers Humanities & Social Sciences

The Panama Canal Zone’s American administration established Palo Seco Leper Colony in 1907 in order to contain individuals with Hansen’s disease, but containment was never a simple strategy. This article argues that the administration intentionally used rhetoric to alter their fear of Hansen's disease to promote pity and the view that using isolation was a form of care, which supported the United States' claim that incarceration was curative and part of a global project of humanitarianism, civilization, and modernity. At the same time, residents at Palo Seco often reworked or simply rejected these affective claims and close attention to the archival record finds examples of their anger, love, and hope, as well as pain, stigma, and loneliness.

Worldviews in the Air: The Struggle to Create a Pluralist Broadcasting System in the Netherlands John Hiemstra and Jeffrey Dudiak Humanities & Social Sciences

The contemporary Dutch broadcasting system is impossible to categorize according to standard models of broadcasting systems. It crosses the boundaries of public and private, non-profit and for-profit, neutral and value-laden, and secular and religious. This book explains the origins of this unequivocally unique pluralistic system.

Communism Mark Sandle Humanities & Social Sciences

Why did communism grow so quickly? Why did it spread to turn almost half of the world red by the mid-1970s? What impact did it have upon capitalism and capitalist society?

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