Videos and Podcasts
Get a taste of our community: watch an LA&PS video, or listen to an audio podcast.
Message from the Dean
Hear from Dr. Martin Singer, dean of LA&PS.
- Welcome to university - some of the best years of your life
- LA&PS: an exciting university experience
- Preparing you for your career and for life
- A life's education
Student Profiles
What's life really like at York? Our students give you the inside scoop.
- Michael Kolenko: find your passion at York
- Neil Britto: benefits to engaging in university life
- Lua Farnoush: living what she's learning
- Ani Mamikon: how students can succeed at York
- Rufaro Mudimu: opportunities for international students
- SOARING program: hear how Rufaro and other students are being rewarded for getting involved
Up Close and Personal with Alumni
York grads reflect back on their experience.
- Erica St. Louis: looking back and forward
- Muhammad Zain Ul Haq: getting involved pays off
Research Matters
Our faculty are experts in their fields. Learn about some of their innovative research projects.
- Professor Robert MacDermid: lobbying for bans on corporate municipal funding
- Professor Barrie Wilson: provocative book challenges traditional understandings of Christianity
- Professor Julia Richardson: adventurous academics working abroad
- Professor Jimmy Huang: improving health care through information technology
- Karolyn Smardz Frost: unearthing lost slave history
Academic Departments & Programs
Faculty, students and alumni talk about some of our programs.
- School of Administrative Studies - message from Director Paul Evans
- Administrative Studies (Accounting): it's about more than just bookkeeping
- Administrative Studies (Income Tax Law): explore Canada's changing and complex tax laws
- Administrative Studies (Law, Governance & Ethics): get a glimpse into this unique area
- Administrative Studies (Marketing): hear from Professor Alex Rusetski
- School of Human Resource Management: message from Director Monica Belcourt
- Bachelor of Human Resources Management: a demand for qualified HR professionals
- Department of Equity Studies: for those passionate about human rights and social justice
- Race, Ethnicity & Indigeneity: the only program of its kind in Canada
- Indigenous Studies through REI: hear from professor Bonita Lawrence
- School of Information Technology: where business and technical courses meet
- School of Social Work: message from Director Wilburn Hayden
Recent Guest Lecturers
We bring lots of interesting and high-profile speakers to campus each year.
- Tim Cork: networking and career guru, bestselling author, presents at career conference Feb. 2010
- MP Bob Rae: hear from Federal Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic/ former ON Premier, Feb. 2010 (audio only)
- Nancy Fraser: renowned critical theorist presents at annual Vico Lecture, Nov. 2009
