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Graduate Studies, Office of the Dean York University 230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street 1 Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 Tel: (416) 736-5521 yorku.ca/grads Change to Program/Graduate Diploma Academic Requirements Proposal Template The following information is required for all proposals involving a change to program/graduate diploma academic requirements, including admission requirements. To facilitate the review/approval process, please use the headings below (and omit the italicized explanations below each heading). 1. Program/Graduate Diploma: Graduate Program in Sociology 2. Effective Session of Proposed Change(s): Fall/Winter 2015-2016 3. Proposed Change(s) and Rationale The description of and rationale for the proposed change(s) should provide information with respect to each of the following points. Please provide: a) A description of the proposed change(s) and rationale, including alignment with academic plans. The Graduate Program in Sociology currently has five approved OCGS fields: Critical Social Theory; Culture and Identities; Global Sociology; Nature/Society/Culture; Processes, Practices and Power. In the fall of 2013 the Curriculum Committee was tasked with reviewing and revising these fields. This mandate was in response to a major recommendation of the 2013 Cyclical Program Review Report, specifically that the Program review the “the definition of the Quality Council-approved fields and the manner in which these articulate with comprehensive sub-areas and with faculty members’ research areas.” The suggestion that the fields require revision is echoed in several other sections of the report and has also been raised at a number of Graduate Program meetings over the past few years. The proposed revisions better reflect areas of expertise of current faculty members, recent hiring, trends in the discipline, and the research interests of graduate applicants. These changes do not reflect a change in substance, focus, or direction of the program or the degree requirements. b) An outline of the changes to requirements and the associated learning outcomes, including how the proposed requirements will support the achievement of program/graduate diploma learning objectives. Program requirements for both the MA program and PhD program will remain the same. The revisions will enhance learning outcomes by better clarifying the relationship between the core parts of the curriculum—courses, fields of study, comprehensives, theses, etc. The addition of the Methods and Epistemology field, for example, is designed to make explicit the complexity of knowledge, of how general and discipline-specific beliefs operate together, and of the relationship between epistemological perspectives and interpretations and methods. The changes will also bring the Graduate Program into closer alignment with our recent departmental hiring and with graduate applications at the MA and PhD levels. c) An overview of the consultation undertaken with relevant academic units and an assessment of the impact of the modifications on other programs/graduate diplomas. (Where and as appropriate, www.yorku.ca/grads/ | www.facebook.com/YorkUGradStudies Graduate Studies, Office of the Dean York University 230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street 2 Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 Tel: (416) 736-5521 yorku.ca/grads the proposal must include statements from the relevant program/graduate diplomas confirming consultation/support.) The Curriculum Committee held a series of meetings with faculty and students to discuss the degree to which the current fields represented their research interests and their views on revising the fields. An email survey was used to solicit feedback from program members unable to attend these meetings. This information was used to revise the description of the fields to more clearly articulate the Program’s areas of strength; pave the way for a clearer link between the fields and the comprehensives; and respond to the concerns raised by the Cyclical Review in a meaningful way. A motion to adopt the revised fields of interest was approved at the April 16 program meeting. The modifications to the description of the fields have no impact on other programs/graduate diplomas. d) A summary of any resource implications and how they are being addressed. (Attention should be paid to whether the proposed changes will be supported by a reallocation of existing resources or if new/additional resources are required. If new/additional resources are required, the proposal must include a statement from the relevant Dean(s)/Principal.) The resource implications will be minimal and temporary. Beyond the resources needed to inform students, faculty, and external audiences (e.g., on websites, application forms, and print material advertising the program), there will be no new resources required. e) A summary of how students currently enrolled in the program/graduate diploma will be accommodated. No accommodation is required. The changes to the fields will be communicated to students through the website, by email, and in a Program meeting. 4. Calendar Copy Using the following two-column format, provide a copy of the relevant program/graduate diploma requirements as they will appear in the graduate Calendar. Existing Program/Graduate Diploma Information (change from) Proposed Program/Graduate Diploma Information (change to) Fields of interest: critical social theory; global sociology; culture and identities; processes, practices and power; nature/society/culture Fields of interest: critical social theory; global sociology; culture and identities; inequalities, power, and social justice; methods and epistemology Critical Social Theory. The Graduate Program in Sociology is widely recognized for providing rigorous and diverse training in classical and contemporary theory, as well as for sustaining innovative research from a variety of theoretical paradigms. Our program’s distinctiveness stems from its long-standing commitment to critical and interpretive approaches. Rooted as they are in the classics, these approaches also include more recent developments in Marxism, phenomenology and hermeneutics, German and French strands of critical Critical Social Theory. This field combines rigorous and diverse scholarship in classical and contemporary theory. It likewise sustains innovative research from a variety of theoretical paradigms. Our program’s distinctiveness stems from its longstanding commitment to critical and interpretive approaches. Rooted as they are in the classics, these approaches also include more recent developments in Marxism, social interactionism, phenomenology and hermeneutics, German and French strands of critical theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism. These diverse www.yorku.ca/grads/ | www.facebook.com/YorkUGradStudies Graduate Studies, Office of the Dean York University theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism. These diverse perspectives share a commitment to interpreting the meaning of social action, questioning the taken-for-granted character of everyday life and that of the existing social order. They, likewise, pay attention to various forms of power in society. Global Sociology. This field combines the program’s longstanding interest in area studies, comparative sociology, critical development studies, and refugee and immigration studies with emerging work in global approaches to citizenship studies, transnational social and cultural formations, and the cultural politics of environment. Researchers address the interactions among the local, national, and global dimensions of social and cultural life. The program has a strong institutional history in the study of four regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, South and South-East Asia, North America, and the Middle East. Substantive research has dealt with topics such as: diasporas,displacement and exile; social movements; genealogies of development; identities and space; networks; state policies and responses to migration; genealogies of citizenship beyond the nation-state; the constitution of public spaces through new communications technologies; global environmental issues; the roles of women in migrant communities; the political economy of health; and the character of urban cultures and economies in world cities. Culture and Identities. This field unites the program’s traditional strengths in interactionist, phenomenological, and social-psychological approaches to cultural processes and the self with pioneering work in cultural studies on the representation, proliferation and politicization of identities grounded in newer paradigms (postcolonialism, poststructuralism, queer and diaspora studies, etc.). Fields of inquiry range from studies of the family, households and intimate relationships to patterns of socialization, and the role of religion in social life. The construction of identity through bodies, sexualities, gender, ethnicities, racialization, migration, citizenship, cities, space and place, as well as modes of governmentality are, likewise, a central concern. These various interests are linked 230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 Tel: (416) 736-5521 yorku.ca/grads perspectives share a commitment to interpreting the meaning of social action and questioning the takenfor-granted character of everyday life and the existing social order. They also pay attention to various forms of power in society. Global Sociology. Research in area studies, comparative sociology, critical development studies, and in refugees and immigration is brought together with emerging work on global and transnational approaches to citizenship, social and cultural formations, and the politics of the environment. Research in this field addresses the interactions among the local, national, and global dimensions of social and cultural life. The focus is on four regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, South and South-East Asia, North America, and the Middle East. Substantive research deals with such diverse topics as: diasporas, displacement and exile; genealogies of development; identities and space; networks; state policies and responses to migration; genealogies of citizenship beyond the nation-state; the constitution of public spaces through new communications technologies; global environmental issues; the roles of women in migrant communities; the political economy of health; and the character of urban cultures and economies in world cities. Culture and Identities. This field explores the intersections between identities and cultures in a range of social relationships and contexts. It combines the program’s traditional strengths in interactionist, phenomenological, and socialpsychological approaches with paradigms in postcolonialism, poststructuralism, queer and diaspora studies. The construction of identity through bodies, sexualities, class, gender, ethnicities, racialization, migration, citizenship, religion, space and place, as well as modes of governmentality, are a central concern. Attention is paid to the ways in which these categories and practices intersect with various relations of power. www.yorku.ca/grads/ | www.facebook.com/YorkUGradStudies Graduate Studies, Office of the Dean York University 230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street 4 Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 Tel: (416) 736-5521 yorku.ca/grads through their commitment to a specifically sociological focus on cultural processes, the relations of power, and the sites of socio-political struggle shaping these processes. Methodological strategies include the use of historical, crosscultural, survey, interpretive, textual, and ethnographic research. Processes, Practices and Power. This field integrates teaching and research on social processes, institutional practices, and power and inequality. Members of the program study the forms, practices, and textures of institutional life, including how they are generated and reproduced, where and by whom, their effects, particularly in terms of social and moral regulation, and forms and means of resistance and change from both a contemporary and historical perspective. These topics are taken up in both Canadian and international contexts, especially in relation to the workings of race and racialization, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Areas of concentration within the field include: Work and Labour; Health Studies; Social Regulation; Law and Crime; and the Sociology of Education. Current research deals with the links between class, education, and social mobility; social movements acting within civil society; governmental discourses and mechanisms; transnational organized crime and corruption; violence, abuse and conflict resolution; narrative forms of popular trials; comparative studies on the restructuring of global capitalism and labour relations; the gendered, racialized, and class-based character of health systems; structural sources of racism, capitalism, and patriarchy; the development and influence of intellectual, economic, and political elites; and varieties of social histories. Nature/Society/Culture. This field regroups teaching and research in a number of established and emerging areas of interest: environmental sociology, the sociology of the body, governmentality approaches to health, and critical studies of science and technology. Work in these fields underlines the indelibly socio-cultural character of naturalized categories and practices, such as the body, sexuality, the life course, health and illness, and technoscience. Attention is focused on the ways in which these categories and practices intersect with various relations of power in society (gender, sexuality, class, race and ethnicity), as well as how more Inequalities, Power, and Social Justice. This field brings together work in a variety of areas -- health, education, work, labour, incomes, housing, families, organizations and meaning. The emphasis is on the study of social inequalities, power, and struggles for social justice from a variety of contemporary and historical perspectives, including: political economy, historical/political sociology, critical social theory, poststructuralism, and feminism. In general, the focus is on the forms, practices, and textures of institutional and everyday life that produce inequality, including how it is generated and reproduced, where and by whom, and with what effects on social and moral regulation. Studies of social inequality may have a parallel emphasis on justice, resistance and change, on the role of advocacy and activism, on large-scale social movements, and on community-based research. Methods and Epistemology. The focus here is on the dynamic interplay of theory and methods in conducting inquiries into “the social”--including the structural constraints and experiences we must negotiate as sociologists. This field explores how theories, ideologies, politics, identities, and/or locations enter what can be known as well as the tools, techniques, practices, and/or lenses that are used to explore and critique knowledges. The use of, quantitative, qualitative, primary and secondary data are addressed. It likewise includes deconstruction, and comparative-historical strategies as these approaches are applied to the wide array of institutions and practices that are studied by sociologists today. www.yorku.ca/grads/ | www.facebook.com/YorkUGradStudies Graduate Studies, Office of the Dean York University 230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street 5 Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 democratic processes of public participation can be fostered. The aim is to explore the boundaries between the natural, social, and the cultural realm, as they have been conventionally constituted in the human sciences. A principal concern is the causes and consequences of environmental degradation. The focus is on environmentalism, violence, and displacement; the intersection of the urban and nature; and the impact of techno-scientific developments upon social life. www.yorku.ca/grads/ | www.facebook.com/YorkUGradStudies Tel: (416) 736-5521 yorku.ca/grads