{"id":352,"date":"2021-04-14T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/interdisdev\/?page_id=352"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:39:48","slug":"our-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/interdis\/our-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"lead text-primary\">Nearly 50 Years of Successfully Combining Academic Rigour and Flexibility!&nbsp;<span class=\"text-dark\">The YorkU MA in Interdisciplinary Studies\u2014one of the first formalized graduate programs in Canada\u2014enables highly motivated students to study within three distinct disciplines in order to deeply explore a particular problem or phenomenon.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button bg-primary-2 text-white rounded-0 learnmore-block p-2 text-right\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/interdis\/about-interdisciplinary-studies\/\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#810001\">Read More About Us &amp; Our History <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-right small pl-2\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Structure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Interdisciplinary Studies&nbsp;(IS)&nbsp;is as unique as the students who seek us out!\u202fThe structure we set out below is meant to enable a combination of academic rigour and\u202fflexibility. Each IS student\u2019s vision of an intellectual and\/or creative project is an individualized programme of study and research, which is not predetermined by departmental or disciplinary expectation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To earn the Interdisciplinary Studies MA degree students are required to accumulate 18 graduate course credits, write a thesis proposal, participate in IS programme workshops, present a colloquium on research in progress,&nbsp;complete a thesis and defend it at oral examination.&nbsp;Applicants may choose&nbsp;the&nbsp;2-year programme of study and research&nbsp;as full-time students&nbsp;or&nbsp;the&nbsp;3-year&nbsp;part-time option.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kt-accordion-id352_81b272-bb .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:8px;}.kt-accordion-id352_81b272-bb .kt-accordion-panel-inner{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);}.kt-accordion-id352_81b272-bb .wp-block-kadence-pane .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-xs, 1rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-xs, 1rem);}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-accordion-id352_81b272-bb .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{display:block;}.kt-accordion-id352_81b272-bb .kt-accordion-inner-wrap .kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:8px;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-accordion alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-id352_81b272-bb kt-accordion-has-5-panes kt-active-pane-0 kt-accordion-block kt-pane-header-alignment-left kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"true\" data-start-open=\"none\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-3 kt-pane352_bd875c-ee\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Course Work and Colloquium Series<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>Students elect any three recognized fields of inquiry each taught and researched at York.&nbsp;Successful applicants normally take a course in each of those three disciplines, with their fourth course being a practicum, a research methodology course, a directed reading or another option collaboratively chosen with their supervisory team.&nbsp;The&nbsp;course work is&nbsp;completed&nbsp;during the first year&nbsp;of&nbsp;full-time&nbsp;studies&nbsp;or&nbsp;during the first and second years&nbsp;of&nbsp;part-time studies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure successful passage from proposal to thesis, every IS student is required to deliver a public presentation of their research in progress as part of the program\u2019s annual Colloquium Series. This series provides an opportunity for IS students to share and discuss research in progress with other students and faculty. It takes place over several weeks every winter term, between late February and early April. Full-time students present in their second year, part-time students in their&nbsp;third year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-4 kt-pane352_2f6118-f3\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Supervisors<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>Each&nbsp;IS student works with a committee of three full supervisors, each of whom must be qualified to teach and oversee research at the graduate level as members of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Faculty of&nbsp;Graduate&nbsp;Studies.&nbsp;Each supervisor represents one of three different disciplines pertinent to the student\u2019s chosen topic of inquiry. IS students meet with supervisors individually and with the supervisory committee as a whole. Students are responsible for&nbsp;arranging these meetings, providing agendas and keeping accurate minutes. Once approved, the minutes of the full-committee meetings eventuate in interim and annual reports on the student\u2019s progress through the programme.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At any given time, one supervisor serves as coordinating chair of the supervisory committee. The current coordinating chair represents the full supervisory committee at the colloquium presentation of a student\u2019s research in progress and on the committee examining the MA thesis at oral defence. Full-time funded students are also appointed as paid graduate assistants to their supervisors, to work within strictly mandated limits on projects that complement their own programs of study and research.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-5 kt-pane352_688377-e2\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Thesis and Culmination of Program<\/strong>me&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>The career of every IS student culminates in the completion of an independently researched and academically innovative MA thesis, which is subject to defence at oral examination.&nbsp;Historically, the program\u2019s understanding of the word \u2018thesis\u2019 has been flexible. IS students may choose to produce either a conventional manuscript-based written MA Thesis (about 120 pages) or an MA Thesis that combines a&nbsp;creative component with a&nbsp;shorter conventional manuscript-based&nbsp;written work&nbsp;(about 80 pages).&nbsp;The&nbsp;creative&nbsp;component&nbsp;may draw singly or in combination upon any discursive, performing, visual and\/or artisanal arts and crafts. Through this, the conventional manuscript-based written component provides a scholarly framework for the creative component.&nbsp;The programme culminates&nbsp;in&nbsp;a full oral defence, with an external examiner, an inside arms-length examiner and one examiner from their supervisory team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover full-width\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-black-background-color has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-6341\" alt=\"An abstract background with a mix of red, green, and blue, featuring two lines resembling light rays\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cvr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/08\/BG-3-scaled.jpeg\" style=\"object-position:62% 39%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"62% 39%\"\/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-a61a84c6c4fd6771610adc6d9a17ede8\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cvr\/training-opportunities\/collaborative-specialization\/\">Discover our <em>Collaborative Specialization in Vision Research<\/em> at York <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-right small pl-2\"><\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns learnmore-block is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2024\/07\/learnmore.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11892\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:53px;height:76px\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn More<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education. Contact our Graduate Programme Administrator to learn more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/interdis\/contact\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/interdis\/future-students\/how-to-apply\/\">How to Apply<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns social-bar-block is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 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