Centre for Peace Studies Exit Survey

Welcome to our exit survey for recent graduates of the Centre for Peace Studies! We appreciate any information you might be able to give us in response to any of our questions. The data you contribute will be used to help us evaluate our strengths and weaknesses as a department.

Your participation is voluntary, and strictly anonymous. Your answers will be for our files only. Your name, if you choose to give it in response to Question #11, will be sent separately from your other answers. You are free to ignore this question if you prefer, or any other question on this survey; doing so will not prevent you from submitting any other answers you have provided.

The survey is being conducted for the purposes of "quality assurance studies" under the Government of Canada Tri-Council Policy Statement on research ethics, s. 1, art. 1.1, paragraph d. Your answers will not be used in professional research.

The survey should take about 10-15 minutes to complete.

What will you do after graduation? Do you have any immediate plans for further studies, or for employment? What are your long-term career goals?

Why did you choose to take a programme in Peace Studies? How does it support your future hopes or objectives?

What prior exposure did you have to Peace Studies, before coming to McMaster? (E.g. home library, high school, college, another university, etc.)

In your opinion, what skills or professional traits did you acquire or develop as a result of your studies in Peace Studies?

Which of McMaster's research facilities and resources did you use while completing your degree in Peace Studies? (E.g. Mills Library, Humanities Computing, etc.) Which did you find most useful?

Are there any research facilities and resources you would have liked to use while completing your degree, but which weren't available?

Did you ever attend the Bertand Russell Peace Lectures, the Mahatma Gandhi Lectures on Nonviolence, or any of the other public lectures or seminars sponsored by the Centre for Peace Studies? If so, how did these events contribute to your educational experience at McMaster?

Which Peace Studies courses did you find most influential, educational, or interesting? Please choose from the list below. Feel free to comment on why you appreciated these courses.

1A03 Introduction to Peace Studies	1B03 Introduction to the Study of War	2A03 Conflict Transformation
2AA3 Modern Carribean	2G03 Latin America since 1820	2I03 Social & Political Issues
2II3 Modern Germany	2S03 War in the West, 1789-1945	3A03 Critical Race Studies
3B03 Peace-Building Through Health Initiatives	3E06 Postcolonial Cultures: Theory and Practice	3F03 The Modern Middle-East
3I03 European Powers, 1870-1945	3II3 America Since 1898	3KK3 History of the Vietnam War
3L03 Social Action, 1500-2000	3M03 Philosophies of War and Peace	3MM3 Literature of Israel and Palestine
3N03 Ethical Issues: Communication	3O03 Slavery in the Atlantic World	3RR3 War & Society in 20th-Century Britain
3VV3 War & Society in Britain, 1485-1815	3W03 Contemporary Native Literature in Canada	3X03 Contemporary Native Literature in the United States
3Y03 Topics in Peace Studies	3Z03 Women & Men in War & Peace	4A03 Research seminar
4B03 Independent research	4C03 Theory of Value	4D03 Literature as Peace Research

Feel free to comment in the text box below on why you appreciated these courses.

Would you recommend any changes to our programme? Was there any subject matter you'd have liked to have studied here, in which we didn't offer a course? Are there any requirements that you felt were inappropriate to your interest, or that disinclined you from pursuing a degree in Peace Studies?

Feel free to give us any additional comments or recommendations as to the strengths and weaknesses of our programme.

May we have your contact information (e-mail address, postal address, or phone number), so we might contact you in the future?