Location | Email Address | Program Website |
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S712 Ross | sptprog@yorku.ca | yorku.ca/gradstudies/spth/ |
Founded in 1973, York University’s unique interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, leading to the MA and PhD degrees, undertakes to encourage, develop, and advance the analysis of social and political ideas with the aim of integrating intellectual interests common to the humanities and social sciences. The program represents a wide range of intellectual approaches but it does aspire to study social and political thought in its larger historical and cultural context. In cooperation with participating academic disciplines across the University, the program’s curriculum is structured around four flexible areas of study:
The Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought encourages students to work independently and to become creative teachers and scholars. In selecting their courses, students are expected to acquire a broad balanced knowledge of the field as a whole, as well as to pursue their own specialized interests. In all cases, students have to take very considerable personal initiative on their own to develop an intellectually coherent pattern of study which leads to the writing of an original major research paper (master’s) or doctoral dissertation (PhD) in social and political thought. Students are required to be adequately prepared in those languages essential to their dissertation research.
In addition to the courses in the Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, students may choose interdisciplinary courses from the Graduate Programs in Communication & Culture, Economics, English, History, Humanities, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and graduate programs in other relevant disciplines.
Application Procedures
Since the number of places in the program is limited, students should apply as early as possible in advance of the deadline advertised by the Graduate Admissions Office. Applications for admissions are only considered for the following September. Students wishing to transfer from other graduate programs must follow the normal application procedure. Students who have applied by the deadline are normally notified of the University’s decision in April. Students are expected to accept or to decline admission within one month of the date of the offer of admission. Application forms and further information may be obtained from https://futurestudents.yorku.ca/graduate or the Graduate Admissions Office, York University, Bennett Centre for Student Services, Third Floor Reception, 99 Ian Macdonald Boulevard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3; (416) 736-5000. In addition to arranging for transcripts from all universities attended and for three letters of reference to be sent directly to the University, applicants are also asked to submit a statement of intention and a sample of their written work. Where possible the paper should be pertinent to the interests the student wishes to pursue in the program. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed by the Social & Political Thought admissions committee.