This award, in the form of a book certificate, is given to an exceptional undergraduate student writer for accumulative achievement in creating writing. To be eligible, students must be nominated each spring by an instructor in the Creative Writing program.
The Babs Burggraf Award in Creative Writing offers financial assistance to a Year 4 student majoring or minoring in creative writing with proven talent and achievement in the area of short story writing. Faculty members in the program will nominate Year 4 students (successful completion of at least 84 credits) who have submitted short stories […]
This award was established by York University alumni and friends to provide a bursary to a deserving York University upper year communication studies student. Priority will be given to those students who have shown an interest in or are taking courses in context and condition for radio broadcasting in Canada or affiliate courses. Recipients must […]
The Penny Jolliffe Scholarship is intended to honour the communication studies major who has compiled the most outstanding record in his/her Year 2 of study at York. The recipient must be returning for his/her Year 3 of study.
The prize is given to a student in the second-year "Information and Technology" course for the Communication Studies Program who has achieved top academic standing as recommended by the Course Director and is continuing on into third-year (minimum 54 earned creits) of the program. The Jerry Durlak Prize honours Professor Jerry Durlak, a long-time member […]
The award is given to a student in the second-year "Politics, Policy and the Media" course for the Communication Studies Program who has achieved top academic standing as recommended by the Course Director and is continuing on into third-year (minimum 54 earned creits) of the program.
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.
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 […]
The Chris Robinson Prize in Personal Finance will be awarded to the graduating BCom Finance student with the highest GPA in the courses which make up the required core curriculum in personal finance as certified by FP Canada: AP/ADMS3520,AP/ADMS3531, AP/ADMS3541, AP/ADMS4505,AP/ADMS 4506, AP/ADMS4507 and AP/ADMS4508.
The Gold Prize in Finance will be awarded to the BCom student graduating with the highest Major GPA in the BCom honour major in Finance. The prize will be awarded at the June convocation and will consider all undergraduate BCom graduates from the October, February and June convocation cycles.