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Department of Humanities

Doing Culture: Narratives of Cultural Production

Offers students opportunities to engage with the local cultural sector in order to better understand the relevancy of cultural organizations in a multicultural city. The course explores cultural relationships, combining theoretical and experiential components in a blended learning environment where students hone transferable skills and develop professional contacts.

Certificate in Indigenous Studies

Engage with the Indigenous history, culture and arts. Learn about contemporary and legacy colonial issues facing Indigenous people and efforts at redress.

Certificate in Black Canadian Studies

This is the place to learn and examine the histories, cultures and experiences of Black Canada. You’ll learn about people of African descent in the Americas through cultural studies, history, literature and music.

Individualized Studies

This program is designed for students whose academic interests are best met by a customized program of study that allows them to choose courses across the University. The program is unique to York and allows you to create your own path.

Humanities

This program emphasizes the different ways in which human cultures and their multiple forms of expression have developed historically and continue to develop today.

Children, Childhood & Youth

This program will examine how to engage children and discern children, and young people's voices in historical and cultural contexts. You will come to understand the human condition from the child’s perspective.

Ioan Davies Award

This award is given annually to an outstanding MA and/or PhD student in the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture who has demonstrated interest in topics reflected in the work of Ioan Davies: critical cultural theory, communicative culture in the global arena, communicative culture in everyday life, technology and identity, and the culture of cities. […]

Beverly Margaret Reynolds Scholarship

Established to honour the late Beverley Margaret Reynolds, York employee and alumna, this scholarship will be awarded to a student who has completed at least 30 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 7.00 (B+) and who has completed 12 credits in courses related to third world studies. Preference will be given to students who […]

Arthur Haberman Award in History and Humanities

This award is made annually to a Founders College student majoring in history and/or humanities who has achieved the highest cumulative grade point average in courses taken in the major department and/or division. No student may receive the award more than once. In order to qualify for this award, students must have attained a minimum […]