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Becoming Investment Ready - A Course and Program for Technology Entrepreneurs Who Want to Build Fund-able Ventures

Description The program will be an interdisciplinary experiential learning course that can help promise ventures prepare for investment, and will primarily run over the summer, through LaunchYU summer program. Students will work in their venture teams to prepare their ventures for Business Angel crowd funding investment. Project Lead(s) Andrew Maxwell Faculty Lassonde School of Engineering […]

Advancing Work-focused and Community-focused Experiential Education in the Faculty of Science

Description This project seeks support to broaden EE offerings in Science by consolidating and extending the reach of our co-op/internship initiatives, and by developing initiatives and curricular elements that will address the goal of developing Community-focused EE opportunities. This is likely to include the re-development, consolidation, and expansion of our work-focused programs and the development […]

Building Experiential Education at York: The York University Entrepreneurial Internship

Description This project is to develop entrepreneurial internships that will provide students an opportunity to become entrepreneurs and create career options for themselves and others after they graduate. Innovation York, the School of Administrative Studies (SAS) and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) are partnering to develop this internship program based on […]

Bodies In Action: Movement and its role in social justice

Description Students will learn the theories that drive social justice movements, definitions of community, and boundary-making and its effects within community-building. Students will then interact with community partners, specifically on campus student groups or clubs that will perform the activity. This project aligns with and advances the University's commitment to EE for students and the […]

The Next Wave of Experiential Education: An Interactive Simulation Video

Description The purpose of this project is three-fold:  To develop and refine an interactive simulation video (with an embedded story line and decision-making points) geared to teach a conflict resolution communication skill, to undergraduate nursing students in a 4000 level Integrated Practicum course, in the context of providing culturally competent client care. To evaluate the […]

York U Visual Arts + Projects

Description Working in partnership with Toronto art galleries, colleagues in Visual Arts will integrate into existing and future courses opportunities for students to access gallery operations, exhibition and screening opportunities, archival and personnel resources, and internships. This will allow students to explore links between contemporary art practices and their forms of dissemination. Project Lead(s) Yam […]

York U Abroad

Description This project is intended to expand international opportunities available to York students, which now include a range of exchange programs and internships, by adding a summer study abroad program through which they will be able to earn credit towards their degrees. Working with Faculties and programs, York International will build on its experience, infrastructure […]

York University Business Continuity Planning Toolkit (YU-BCPT) for Canadian Small Business

Description This interactive training and capacity-building program will involve students, faculty, alumni and volunteer experts in the development of a business continuity planning tool kit to assist small businesses in implementing plans to prepare for and respond to various kinds of emergencies and business disruptions. Components include training workshops offered on-campus, on-site, and online, and […]

The Charrette, A Model for Creative Development

Description We have been invited by a major Canadian internationally renowned performance company to create a partnered student-centred creative project. The planned collaborative activity is a pilot project: a pan-Faculty 3 credit course for upper level students drawn from all 6 departments and from the Digital Media program. A small, specific creative activity will be […]

Geoinformation Based Disaster & Emergency Management Training Facility – Prototype Set Up

Description In order to integrate theoretical concepts with practice, we plan to bring together geoinformation expertise from the Geomatics Engineering, the disaster risk management from the Disaster and Emergency Management Program, and the practitioners’ expertise from the Emergency Preparedness Program (EPP) to benefit our students. We intend to develop a geoinformation based disaster and emergency […]