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As winners of the 2024 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest (SLC-UWC), Aryan Sharifi and Sheridan Nix, who are currently in their second year, were recently published in the SLC-UWC Journal. We are pleased to announce that both winning papers were written for political science courses.

Written for professor Aaron Hoffman’s course, POL 141: International Relations, Sharifi’s paper ‘War’s End? Realist, Liberal and Constructivist Perspectives on the Decline-of-War Thesis’ explores the “decline-of-war thesis” and argues that while realism rejects the thesis due to the persistent nature of power struggles between states, liberalism and constructivism support it.

Psychology student Sheridan Nix wrote her paper for senior lecturer Clare McGovern's  POL 151: Law and Justice course. Her paper, ‘An Argument for Policymaking’, considers how judges decide controversial cases. She argues that in a fast-changing society like Canada, judges should consider policy, and not simply legal doctrine alone.

The SLC-UWC Journal is an annual compilation of the past year’s contest winners and honourable mentions. The journal provides a platform for undergraduate students to share their papers with a broader audience and improve their academic writing skills.

The award-winning papers listed above are available to our faculty members and students as valuable resources for teaching and academic writing. To access them for future reference, please visit: