Graduate School at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education. With our cross-disciplinary programming, experiential learning opportunities, and partnerships, we provide a modern and innovative education for a changing world. We are dedicated to enhancing the academic and professional experiences of our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Graduate Studies is where the next generation of impactful careers and cutting-edge ideas are born. There's a place for you at York University.
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
MA
Our research-intensive MA is a uniquely focused but flexible graduate program, which combines theoretical-academic learning with practical research proficiencies and place-based knowledge about the Global South. Students are offered a full range of conceptual and methodological tools necessary for a deeper comprehension of the current issues and challenges of sustainable human development in a globalizing world. The MA is structured as a five-term program combining course work, fieldwork and internship/placement.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
MES, PhD
With a profound commitment to environmental and social justice, the Graduate Program in Environmental Studies contributes to solving some of the most pressing socio-environmental issues of our times. Both the Master's and Doctoral degrees are designed to teach and empower diverse thinkers through multi-disciplinary approaches and hands-on learning opportunities by engaging in an extensive array of environmental concerns, approaches and actions to make positive change.
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
MA
The Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies—one of the first formalized graduate programs in Canada—enables highly motivated students to study within three distinct disciplines in order to deeply explore a particular problem or phenomenon. Students have the option to propose a research project and choose scholarly lenses from an intriguing range of interdisciplinary fields. The student’s unique area of inquiry may combine the fine arts, sciences, health, social sciences, engineering, humanities, law and more.
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