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Graduate Diploma in International and Security Studies

The Graduate Diploma in International & Security Studies provides master’s and doctoral students the opportunity to specialize in the area of international and security studies, and to have this specialization noted on their transcripts.  

The Diploma is awarded concurrently with the master’s or doctoral degree for which the student is registered. All requirements for the Diploma and master’s or doctoral degree must be fulfilled before the Diploma is awarded.  

  1. Students must complete at least two graduate courses relevant to international security studies such as those listed below. At least one of these must be over and above the usual requirements for the degree.
    • GS POLS 6086 3.0 Thinking Power and Violence: From Nietzsche to Agamben
    • GS POLS 6225 3.0 Critical Security Studies
    • GS POLS 6275 3.0 Ethnonationalist Conflicts and World Politics
    • GS POLS 6515 3.0 The Making of the Modern Middle East: Politics, States and   Societies
    • GS ANTH 5145 3.0 Critical Approaches to Gender, Displacement, and Mobility
    • GS DEMS 5060 3.0 Terrorism Studies I
    • ES ENVS 5070 3.0 Extraction and Its Discontents
    • GS PIA 6314 3.0 The Environmental Crisis: International and Public Policy Implications
  2. Students must prepare a research paper on a subject approved by the Coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in International & Security Studies. The paper cannot be submitted as part of any course. It will be reviewed by the diploma coordinator. 
  3. Students must write their major research paper, thesis or dissertation on a topic approved by the diploma coordinator and relevant to international and security studies.

All candidates for the Diploma must first be admitted to a graduate program at York University. They may register for the Diploma once their master’s or doctoral program of study has been clearly defined, normally before the coursework has been completed.

For more information, contact the Graduate Diploma Coordinator, Jennifer Pybus (Associate Professor, Department of Politics), at jpybus@yorku.ca.

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