Implementation Plan
| Recommendation | Proposed Follow-up | Responsibility for Leading Follow-up | Timeline for Addressing Recommendation |
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1. Core Curriculum: we recommend that the appropriate authorities at RMC consider making a marginal alteration in the Core Curriculum to permit a small amount of greater flexibility for students |
This is a college wide process and extends beyond the terms of references of the MSS Chair |
MSS chair and the Dean of SSH | Note: in the context of recent one-year pause of few SSHprogrammes/departments by the Commandant, The SSH Dean has formed a SSH wide Committee in order to formulate recommendations (by September 2025) regarding future SSH programming, which could affect the MSS program. |
| 2. MSS curriculum: we recommend that the MSS curriculum be revisited with an eye to providing a broader and more relevant course matrix, and that the reforms of the course matrixes in History and Political Science recommended in their IQAP reports to reduce duplication and addresses gaps be informed by the needs of the MSS program. | Syllabus Committee (Fall 2024) has approved both History and Political Science Departments submissions with impact on MSS curriculum. |
Stakeholder Departments in consultation with MSS Chair and the Dean of SSH |
Completed. HIE/F 360 is terminated and replaced with 5 Optional courses. GOE/F202 is terminated and replaced with POE/F 22. POE/F218 is now a mandatory MSS course. POE220 (Methodology) is now exclusion to the mandatory MSS course HIE/F 206. |
| 3. MSS Program Committee: we recommend that the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities convene a permanent standing MSS Program Committee to consider the MSS curriculum. | MSS Committee could be pursued as a future step to formalize the interprogrammes cooperation in order to enhance MSS initiatives while maintaining its core mandate: Military and Strategic Studies. |
MSS Chair, History and Political Science heads and the Dean of SSH in consultation with the office of the registrar |
Note: please read the note above for point 1. |
| 4. MSS courses: we recommend that the MSS Program be given the right to mount their own courses when in the view of the MSS Program Committee a course should be offered. |
The implementation has resource implications for new courses. The program has suggested exploring including MSS topics in existing MSS mandatory courses. |
MSS, History and Political Science Heads in consultation with the Dean of SSH and the registrar | Note: Read the note above for point 1. Furthermore, the enhanced formalization of MSE/F424 and MSE/F426 is in progress. |
| 5. Library: because of the significant problem posed by the lack of access to JSTOR, we recommend that this matter be pursued at the most senior level to the appropriate authorities. | This recommendation needs to be met ASAP in order to facilitate research and teaching at more generally to diversify the pedagogical resources including peer viewed and primary references. |
MSS Chair, Chief librarian, Dean of SSH, Department Heads, and VPA in consultation with the Principal |
Partially completed. The Chief Librarian in consultation with MSS Chair has made new procurement of electronic sources relevant to MSS Mission. |
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Administration: we recommend that:
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MSS Program committee | MSS Chair, Dean of SSH and VPA. |
Partially complete
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