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YORK UNIVERSITY<br />
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN GEOGRAPHY<br />
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, FACULTY OF<br />
LIBERAL ARTS & PROFESSIONAL STUDIES<br />
DATE FOUNDED: 1962<br />
GRADUATE PROGRAM FOUNDED: 1967<br />
DEGREES OFFERED: B.A., B.Sc., M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.<br />
GRANTED 9/1/14-8/31/15: 12 Masters, 8 Ph.D.<br />
STUDENTS IN RESIDENCE: 394 Majors (Undergraduate),<br />
44 Masters, 42 Ph.D.<br />
GRADUATE DIRECTOR: P. Vandergeest<br />
DEPARTMENT CHAIR: J. Mensah<br />
DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATIVE ASST: K.<br />
Cunningham<br />
FOR CATALOG AND FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE TO:<br />
Graduate: Peter Vandergeest, Director, Graduate Program in<br />
Geography; Undergraduate: Tarmo Remmel, Director of the<br />
Undergraduate Program, Department of Geography, Faculty of Liberal<br />
Arts & Professional Studies, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto,<br />
Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. Telephone (416) 736-5106 (graduate);<br />
(416) 736-5107 (undergraduate). Fax (416) 736-5988. Internet:<br />
www.yorku.ca/laps/geog<br />
PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH FACILITIES:<br />
UNDERGRADUATE: The Geography Department offers undergraduate<br />
degrees in both the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and<br />
the Faculty of Science, and a certificate program in GIS and Remote<br />
Sensing. Geography majors intending to pursue a teaching career may<br />
apply to co-register in the Faculty of Education in their second year.<br />
More than 70 courses are offered by the department each year in a full<br />
range of topics leading to either a B.A. or B.Sc. degree. The<br />
Department also offers a B.Sc. in Environmental Science. Students<br />
can take a 90-credit Bachelor Program or, if grade point average<br />
permits, choose from among several 120-credit Honors Bachelor<br />
Programs, many of them interdisciplinary in nature, including a<br />
Specialized Honors B.A. in Geography & Urban Studies.<br />
GRADUATE: Doctoral research is offered in two fields of<br />
specialization: Biophysical Processes and Critical Human Geography.<br />
The PhD degree requires 2.5 full courses and comprehensive<br />
examinations in preparation for dissertation research. Extensive<br />
opportunities for professional development in teaching and research<br />
skills are available. Support for fieldwork and research costs, as well<br />
as conference attendance is available. MA/MSc candidates choose one<br />
of two programs: (a) 2 full course equivalents and a thesis, (b) 3 full<br />
course equivalents and a major research paper. Research strengths in<br />
Critical Human Geography include: Development Studies; Feminist<br />
Geographies; Globalization: Economic Restructuring and Cultural<br />
Politics; Labour Geography and Labour Market Regulation;<br />
Nationalism, Citizenship, Empire and the State; Political Ecology,<br />
Landscape and Socio-Nature; Immigrant Communities, Migration and<br />
Transnationalism; and Urban Spaces and Social Issues. In Biophysical<br />
Processes research strengths include: Biogeography and<br />
Biogeochemistry; Fluvial Geomorphology and Hydrology;<br />
Geoinformatics; Northern Environments; and Streams, Wetlands and<br />
Watersheds. The Graduate Program in Geography also has close ties<br />
with interdisciplinary research units at York: the City Institute; York<br />
Centre for Asian Research; the Centre for Research on Latin America<br />
and the Caribbean; the Centre for Research on Work and Society; the<br />
Centre for Refugee Studies; the Centre of Excellence for Research on<br />
Immigration and Settlement; and the Institute for Research and<br />
Innovation in Sustainability.<br />
ACADEMIC PLAN, ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS, AND<br />
FINANCIAL AID:<br />
UNDERGRADUATE: Full year program in the Faculty of Liberal Arts &<br />
Professional Studies and Faculty of Science. Information on<br />
admission requirements and financial assistance is available from the<br />
York University Admissions Office.<br />
GRADUATE: Admission to MA/MSc study requires a recognized<br />
Honors degree, or equivalent qualification, with a minimum B (or<br />
second class) standing. Doctoral applicants are expected to have<br />
completed an MA/MSc by the time they enter the program with a<br />
minimum B+ average. Funding packages are offered to all graduate<br />
students, based on a combination of teaching assistantships, graduate<br />
assistantships and scholarships. Funding is provided to doctoral<br />
students for up to 6 years of study, and to Masters students for up to 2<br />
years.<br />
GRADUATE FACULTY:<br />
Alison Bain, Ph.D., Cambridge, 2002, Associate Professor — Urban<br />
social, urban cultural, and feminist geography; creative city<br />
theory and cultural planning; geographies of artistic labour,<br />
creative practice, and cultural production; redevelopment and<br />
social inclusion in neighbourhoods, cities and suburbs; public<br />
space contestations and interventions; gender and sexual identity<br />
politics<br />
Ranu Basu, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2002, Associate Professor<br />
— Urban social and political geography/planning; theories of<br />
collective action and community organization; inequality and<br />
social justice; geographies of public education; geographic<br />
information systems (GIS) in the social sciences<br />
Richard Bello, Ph.D., McMaster, 1983, Associate Professor — climate<br />
of northern environments; response of the hydrological cycle<br />
and carbon budget to global warming<br />
Kean Birch, Ph.D., Oxford Brookes, 2007, Assistant Professor —<br />
economic geography; regional socio-economic development;<br />
European regional policy; knowledge economies; the emerging<br />
bioeconomy; varieties of neoliberalism and neoliberal<br />
restructuring; marketization through public-private partnerships;<br />
corporate power and governance<br />
Jon Caulfield, Ph.D., York, 1991, Associate Professor — downtown<br />
Toronto neighbourhoods; residential redevelopment of<br />
deindustrialized space in inner Toronto; old church buildings in<br />
inner Toronto; use of photographs in urban research<br />
Qiuming Cheng, Ph.D., Ottawa, 1994, Professor — GIS system<br />
development; spatial statistics and fractal modeling; spatial<br />
decision support system; non-linear image processing and<br />
pattern recognition; mineral resources assessment; water system<br />
modeling; mathematical geology<br />
Raju Das, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1996, Associate Professor — political<br />
economy of Third World development; state theory and statesociety<br />
relations; social capital; social movements; agroglobalization;<br />
South Asia<br />
Taly Drezner, Ph.D., Arizona State, 2001, Associate Professor —<br />
Biogeography; arid lands; disturbance, invasion and dispersal<br />
Lisa Drummond, Ph.D., Australian National University, 2000,<br />
Associate Professor — urban geography; gender; Southeast<br />
Asia; postcolonial cities; Asian popular culture; Vietnam<br />
William Found, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1966, Professor<br />
Emeritus — landscape analysis, program implementation and<br />
evaluation, environmental management, Caribbean islands<br />
Bryn Greer-Wootten, Ph.D., McGill, 1968, Professor Emeritus —<br />
ontological and epistemological bases of geographic research<br />
relationships between social research and public policy<br />
processes, especially resource management (energy, global<br />
climate change) phenomenology of environment, especially<br />
women's narratives<br />
Christian Haas, Ph.D., University of Bremen, 1996, Professor — sea<br />
ice and snow thickness; ocean-ice atmosphere interaction; Arctic<br />
climate change; airborne geophysics, satellite remote sensing<br />
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