Having students role play characters in a multi-player, online science fiction game is one way to increase their critical thinking skills. That’s the idea behind a new course starting May 9 at York University that has students choosing their own game adventure. The first-year course – Reasoning about Morality and Values: Critical Thinking Skills […]
Appearing at regular intervals in YFile, Open Your Mind is a series of articles offering insight into the different ways York University professors, researchers and graduate students champion fresh ways of thinking in their research and teaching practice. Their approach, grounded in a desire to seek the unexpected, is charting a new course for future […]
The Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) has announced the selection of York Political Science and Social Science Professor Judith Adler Hellman as the recipient of the association’s 2016 Distinguished Fellow Award. The distinction is conferred on individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to CALACS. Hellman […]
The program of Portuguese & Luso-Brasilian Studies is pleased to announce that Christian Araujo has been awarded the inaugural Portuguese Gives You Wings award, sponsored by Azores Airlines. This new award was open to York University students enrolled in an elementary Portuguese language class (POR1000), and rewards the academic excellence of one student with […]
Independent sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato will be at York University’s Keele campus for a two-day event featuring a screening of his audiovisual project Assemblages (2010), made with artist Angela Melitopoulos, and his upcoming book, Wars and Capitalism, co-authored with Eric Alliez. The event on April 25 and 26 is co-sponsored by the Department […]
History Professor Craig Heron has won the 2015 International Labor History Association (ILHA) Award for his book, Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City. The ILHA choice for book of the year honours an outstanding contribution to labour history. Heron’s book reveals the realities and struggles of the Canadian working class through the lives of Hamilton, […]
York University’s School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) held its first “Celebrating Public Service Reception” at Queen’s Park on March 21. The event, held in the Ontario Legislature Dining Room, provided York’s SPPA students with an opportunity to meet and connect with senior public officials, MPPs and their own program alumni. It also provided […]
Three York University students from the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certificate program spent a week as assistant teachers in the Meiji Language Program at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan. The program is a one-week course open to Japanese undergraduate students of Meiji University. TESOL students have been invited to Tokyo since […]
A group of students enrolled in Multicultural & Indigenous (MIST) 1050: Introduction to Indigenous Thought was given a first-hand glimpse into local aboriginal history when they boarded a First Story Toronto bus tour recently. The engaged learning opportunity was organized by Professor Maggie Quirt in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), after […]
YouthREX at the School of Social Work has created an online hub for sharing information and ideas to help break barriers unique to marginalized youth. The eXchange for Youth Work will facilitate youth workers, youth and all who have a vested interest in youth well-being. The eXchange for Youth Work launched March 31 and will […]