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Postsecondary Education: Community, Culture & Policy

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113 Winters CollegeGradProgram@edu.yorku.cayorku.ca/edu/students/postsecondary-education-community-culture-policy-faculty-of-education/

The Graduate Diploma in Postsecondary Education: Community, Culture and Policy invites students with an interest in the study of universities, colleges, adult and community-based education to deepen their knowledge of and research expertise in these areas.
Course themes include:

  • the history and philosophy of postsecondary education;
  • student transitions from schooling to college, university and the world of employment;
  • access, equity and the education of new Canadians;
  • the student experience;
  • disabilities and postsecondary education;
  • adult and community education;
  • gender and postsecondary education;
  • the political, economic and legal dimensions of university and college life;
  • professionalization; the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning;
  • the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning; and,
  • the internationalization of higher education.

The graduate diploma is offered in two ways:

Concurrent (Option A): The requirements for the Graduate Diploma in Post-Secondary Education: Community, Culture & Policy are completed concurrently with a master’s or doctoral degree. This is referred to as a “type 2” diploma.

Direct-entry (Option B): The Graduate Diploma in Post-Secondary Education: Community, Culture & Policy can be completed as a stand-alone non-degree diploma. This is referred to as a “type 3” diploma.