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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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