Learn more about the academic programs we are delivering in Summer 2025. If you have any questions about part-time studies, please contact us.
Prerequisites:
Admission into the Government Relations Program.
While government relations practitioners share similar skill sets across sectors, much of what they do it shaped by, and reflects, the nature of their work environment. This course examines how the GR function is managed in different environments, from the business/corporate sector, to private consultancies ranging from local sole practitioners to regional, national and international service agencies and issue and non-profit associations.
The course also explores the underlying rationale behind the ethical and legislative constraints on certain types of actions to which all participants - politicians, political staffers and party supporters at all three levels of government - in the process are held accountable.
Employing cases and examples as the foundation for understanding and analyzing the intersection between principles, theory and practice, this course explores the underlying management and ethical expectations to which management, or clients, hold GR practitioners.