C4 Odyssey: Are you ready to take the lead on a real-world project? Want to gain skills in interdisciplinary teamwork and project management? Eager to feel impact on the world? Then, C4 Odyssey is for you… Ideal for Students who are ready to manage their own research project and to apply their disciplinary training in a diverse, non-disciplinary context. Time Commitments […]
Collaborative, interdisciplinary projects are the heart of the C4 classroom. They are supported by on- and off-campus partners who want to work together with students to create social impact. Projects 2022/2023 Explore the 2022/2023 Project Page to learn about the projectsavailable to C4 students. Project Archive Peruse the Project Archive to see how past teams […]
Foster and Celebrate Student Success C4 concludes the academic year with an exciting event. Learn more about Summer Capstone Day below! Summer Capstone Day Celebrate C4 student success at the public, pan-campus event, York Capstone Day. C4 students wrap up their project journey by participating in activities throughout the event day and compete for awards. […]
C4 is unlike any other course you have ever experienced at York: Sign up to attend a C4 Info Session! Find the right gateway course for you Learn more about the next C4 Class: Winter 2025 Coming Soon What is it like to be in the C4 Classroom? Take a look at the videos below […]
C4 was launched at York in 2019 with the goal of bringing students together from across York's campuses with community and industry experts who want to partner with us to create powerful social impact. Metrics Badges 0 + Students engaged in C4 since 2019 0 Faculties across YorkU campuses 0 + majors across different Faculties […]
Course Instructor, EUC Alexandra is a PhD candidate at York University in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) with an interdisciplinary research focus that combines performance studies, the energy humanities, and decolonial approaches to storytelling. Alexandra is also a Toronto-based theatre artist and runs a company that creates original and research-based works about […]
Course Instructor Education Margaret is joining the C4 teaching team from the Faculty of Education where they are working on their PhD. Their research is exploring borderlands of identity, relationship and collaborative world building through the use of utopian fiction. Margaret has been engaged in social justice activism and education for over 25 years through […]
Course Instructor AMPD Joel is a faculty member in the School of Administrative Studies and teaches foundational courses in the BCom program along with upper-level courses in sustainability. His research also falls under the banner of sustainability, and current projects run the gamut from examining personal behaviours and “green” office building dynamics, to studies on […]
Project Management Lead Zemina has 10+ years of project management experience in the academic space where she has been able to work directly with students, staff, and faculty on large-scale, transformative projects. Through this time, she realized that she is particularly interested in understanding how systems (society and higher education, for instance) are built and […]
Who is our project partner? MaRS is North America’s largest innovation hub located here, in Toronto, ON. They bring together the innovation community to grow the economy and make an impact and work across 4 four main sectors: health, cleantech, fin(ancial) tech, and enterprise. They have been able to make significant impact by nurturing over […]