Professors S. Harris Ali, from Faculty of LA&PS Department of Sociology, and Roger Keil, of the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, are co-authors, with Creighton Connolly, of Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities (Wiley, 2023) to be featured at a sociology research presentation on Jan. 25 from noon to 2 p.m. The event will focus […]
The interactive Moving Forward webinar series is a part of a growing effort to bring the unique voices of Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) alumni to comment on important topics. Launched in September 2020, Moving Forward invites students, alumni, faculty, staff and others into meaningful conversations about how to move forward in uncertain times like the […]
Date: February 16, 2023Time: 12 -1:30 p.m.Location: 051 McLaughlin College, Courtyard LevelType: In-person event A celebration of the opening of a multipurpose space for Black undergraduate and graduate student community at York University. Black students and Black faculty will be introduced to the space and each other.
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) announces the full return of the Summer Study Abroad program, which offers nine courses that take students to Italy, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Ecuador, South Korea or Honduras. Summer abroad courses have a combined format, with one to three weeks of class instruction at the Keele Campus and […]
Thomas Klassen, author and professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University, is the co-editor of a newly published book that examines how governments in South Korea solve problems. Titled, Policy Analysis in South Korea (Policy Press, 2023), the book studies how public policies and programs that lessen or resolve social, economic and […]
York University Humanities Professors Leslie Saunders and Gail Vanstone, together with Dana Patrascu-Kingsley, a contract faculty member in the Department of English, offer their list for the best books to read over the holiday break and beyond. When YFile contacted the three organizers behind York University’s acclaimed Canadian Writers in Person (CWIP) series about their picks for the best books of […]
Paul Lawrie, associate professor of Afro-American history and Black inclusion advisor at York University, hosted the event for Black graduate students in November with the goal of conceptualizing a more diverse University. Earlier this year, Lawrie began his term as the Black inclusion advisor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). Lawrie […]
The annual School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) Student, Alumni and Community Recognition Awards ceremony was held on Nov. 24. John Riches, a graduate of the Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL) program, Durham Region paramedics deputy chief, and last year’s recipient of the Foster-Greene Award for Excellence in Public Policy, Administration and […]
Undergraduate students studying Canadian social policy paired up with students in South Korea to examine key areas of social policy, including heath care and income security. Professor Thomas Klassen (Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) and Professor Sophia Seung-yoon Lee at Chung-Ang University in Korea, both taught public policy courses in the fall term at their […]
Samia Tawwab, a professor of Italian studies, brought hands-on learning opportunities to students thanks to the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies’ Experiential Education (EE) Fund. This autumn, students enrolled in Media and the Idea of Italy (AP/IT3775 6.0) and The Italian Short Story (AP/IT 3371 3.0) embarked on a series of field trips […]