Department of Anthropology

Work/Study Program

The Work/Study Program at York is an excellent way for undergraduate students to gain a paid, work-integratred learning experience on campus.

Certificate in Culture, Medicine & Health

Medical Anthropology provides an anthropological perspective on health and illness processes. It also explores the socio-cultural factors shaping the experience of illness, patterns of health and disease and access to health care services.

Certificate in Advocacy & Public Engagement

This certificate encourages student activism by offering a critical, cross-cultural perspective on major public issues. It also demonstrates how to effect change by drawing on political forces outside the discipline.

Anthropology

This program focuses on a comparative study of the world’s societies. You will ask critical questions about contemporary, past and future social life. You will explore the four major themes of the program including gender, health and the body; nature, science and religion; culture and performance; and power, politics and development.

Louise Biely Yolles Scholarship

The Louise Biely Yolles Scholarship will be awarded in alternate years as follows: 1) granted to an outstanding full time anthropology major who completed 90 credits; awarded to a student with the highest CGPA who has clearly demonstrated promise in at least one of these areas: social justice, ethics, psychoanalytic anthropology, child development, the role […]

Institute for Social Research Scholarship

This award will go to the full-time continuing undergraduate student majoring in sociology, psychology, political science, geography, economics or anthropology, who has achieved the highest grade point average on a minimum of five full courses at least one of which is in the major completed in the previous fall/winter.

Nicol, Vince and Wensley Prize in Anthropology

Three prizes will be awarded: one each to the second-, third- and fourth-year anthropology majors having the highest cumulative grade point averages. Students must have had an average of three full courses or equivalents per year since admission to York to qualify. Established to honour former staff members, Irene Wensley, Rena Nicol and Beryl Vince […]