These courses must be completed in sequence, and are taken in addition to a full course load. No additional course fee is assessed as registration is included in the Co-op Program fee. Co-op Preparation Course Requirements: 1. Students must be available for work terms in each of the Fall, Winter and Summer semesters and must complete at least one of their required work terms in either a Fall or Winter semester.
This, in turn, requires that students take courses during at least one Summer semester. For information on fees, status in Co-op programs, and certification of completion of Co-op programs, see the 6B. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop the academic and professional skills required to pursue employment in these areas, or to continue on to graduate training in an academic field related to Population Health upon graduation.
To be eligible for their first work term, students must be enrolled in the Major Co-op Program in Health Studies - Population Health and have completed at least 9.
The Minor in Health Humanities provides an interdisciplinary exploration of human health and illness through the methods and materials of the creative arts, humanities, and critical social sciences.
This interdisciplinary Minor program is open to all undergraduates regardless of major or disciplinary backgrounds. See the following website for more information. Students will note that some courses at the B-, C-, and D-levels may have additional prerequisites; therefore, students selecting the Minor as a Subject POSt must choose their courses carefully to ensure that they have the necessary prerequisites.
Note : Relevant Health Humanities-related courses selected from other academic units and disciplines, not already listed below, may be approved for the Minor in Health Humanities on a case-by-case basis. Please consult the Program Supervisor to determine the potential eligibility of relevant courses that are not listed below. Program Requirements This program requires the completion of 4. At least 0. Notes : 1. They provide students with the opportunity to explore more specialized topics related to Health Humanities based on their academic interests and professional aspirations.
This the first part of a sequence of two courses designed to introduce theory, contemporary topics, and analytical techniques related to the study of health issues. Examples of topics include: social determinants of health, basic anatomy, introduction to child development, introduction to the life course and aging, disease, health economics and policy, and applicable research methods.
This the second part of a sequence of two courses designed to introduce theory, contemporary topics, and analytical techniques related to the study of health issues. An introductory course to provide the fundamentals of human nutrition to enable students to understand and think critically about the complex interrelationships between food, nutrition, health and environment. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the main principles that are needed to undertake health-related research.
Students will be introduced to the concepts and approaches to health research, the nature of scientific inquiry, the role of empirical research, and epidemiological research designs. This course will present a brief history about the origins and development of the public health system and its role in health prevention. Using a case study approach, the course will focus on core functions, public health practices, and the relationship of public health with the overall health system.
Basic to the course is an understanding of the synthetic theory of evolution and the principles, processes, evidence and application of the theory. Laboratory projects acquaint the student with the methods and materials utilized Biological Anthropology. Specific topics include: the development of evolutionary theory, the biological basis for human variation, the evolutionary forces, human adaptability and health and disease.
This course is an introduction to the basic biological principles underlying the origins and development of both infectious and non-infectious diseases in human populations. It covers population genetics and principles of inheritance. An interdisciplinary consideration of current and pressing issues in health, including health crises, care, education, policy, research, and knowledge mobilization and translation. The course will focus on emerging questions and research, with attention to local and global experts from a range of disciplines and sectors.
An interdisciplinary examination of a case study of a major contemporary health issue--the biological, physiological, social, economic, epidemiological, and environmental contexts of current and pressing issues in health, including health crises, care, education, policy, research, and knowledge mobilization and translation.
This course will explore the science that underpins policy responses and actions and the policy and social change agendas that inform science, with attention to local and global experts from a range of disciplines and sectors. This course focuses on public and private financing mechanisms for health care in Canada, emphasizing provincial differences and discussing the systems in place in other developed nations.
Topics will include the forces of market competition and government regulation as well as the impact of health policy on key stakeholders. Students will also learn how to apply simple economic reasoning to examine health policy issues. This course introduces students to Social Determinants of Health SDOH approaches to reducing health inequities, and improving individual and population health.
Students will critically explore the social, political, economic, and historic conditions that shape the everyday lives, and influence the health, of people. This course introduces students to anthropological perspectives of culture, society, and language, to foster understanding of the ways that health intersects with political, economic, religious and kinship systems. Topics will include ethnographic theory and practice, cultural relivatism, and social and symbolic meanings and practices regarding the body.
This course focuses on functional changes in the body that result from the disruption of the normal balance of selected systems of the human body. Building on the knowledge of human biology, students will learn the biological basis, etiopathology and clinical manifestations of selected diseases and other perturbations, with a focus on cellular and tissue alterations in children. An introduction to human health through literature, narrative, and the visual arts. Students will develop strong critical skills in text-centered methods of analysis i.
An introduction to interdisciplinary disability studies through humanities, social science, and fine arts, with a strong basis in a social justice orientation that understands disability as a relational, social, and historical symbolic category, and ableism as a form of oppression. Students will develop strong critical skills in interpretation and analysis of artworks i. Topics including representations of disability in media, including literature and film; medicalization and tropes of disability; disability activism; and intersectional analysis of disability in relation to gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and class.
This course uses historical, anthropological, philosophical approaches to further understand the relationships intertwining women, health and society. Women's interactions with the health sector will be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to the social and gender construction of disease and the politics of women's health.
In this reading and writing-intensive course, students will read works of Canadian sociology to learn about critical social science approaches to the study of health and social problems. They will learn how to read, write and do research in the postpositivist paradigm. They will question taken-for-granted assumptions doing health and social research.
They will experiment with fieldwork and gain new theoretical and applied reading, writing and researching skills. An introduction to the fundamental concepts in health informatics HI and the relevance of HI to current and future Canadian and international health systems. This course will provide students with an introduction to the rehabilitation sciences in the Canadian context.
Students will gain knowledge regarding the pressing demographic needs for rehabilitation services and research, as well as the issues affecting the delivery of those services. This course will introduce students to the regional, national, and global patterns of chronic disease and demonstrate how demography, behaviour, socio-economic status, and genetics impact patterns of chronic disease in human populations.
Using epidemiological studies we will examine these patterns, assess their complex causes, and discuss strategies for broad-based preventative action. This course considers how the category of disability works globally across geographic locations and cultural settings.
Combining an interdisciplinary social justice-oriented disability studies perspective with a critical decolonial approach, students continue to develop an understanding of disability as a relational, social, and historical symbolic category, and ableism.
Students will develop strong critical skills in interpretation and analysis of both social science texts, works of theory, and artworks i. Topics including representations of disability in global and diasporic media, including literature and film; medicalization and tropes of disability across cultures; human rights and disability activism around the world; and intersectional analysis of disability in relation to gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and class in diverse global contexts.
This course focuses on the transition from birth to old age and changes in health status. Topics to be covered include: socio-cultural perspectives on aging, the aging process, chronic and degenerative diseases, caring for the elderly. This course will explore bio-social aspects of health and development in children. Topics for discussion include genetics and development, growth and development, childhood diseases, the immune system, and nutrition during the early years.
Environmental issues are often complex and require a holistic approach where the lines between different disciplines are often obscured. The environment, as defined in this course, includes the natural biological and built social, cultural, political settings.
Health is broadly defined to include the concept of well-being. Case studies will be used to illustrate environment and health issues using an ecosystem approach that includes humans as part of the ecosystem.
Adopting ecological, epidemiological, and social approaches, this course examines the impact of infectious disease on human populations. Topics covered include disease ecology, zoonoses, and the role of humans in disease occurrence. The aim is to understand why infectious diseases emerge and how their occurrence is intimately linked to human behaviours. This course will apply students' knowledge of health studies and human biology to solving real-life cases in global health, such as the Ebola outbreaks in Africa or the acute toxic encephalopathy mystery illness among children in India.
This case-study-oriented course will focus on the application of human biology principles in addressing current cases in global health. Epidemiology is the study or the pattern and causes of health-related outcomes and the application of findings to improvement of public health. This course will examine the history of epidemiology and its principles and terminology, measures of disease occurrence, study design, and application of concepts to specific research areas.
An examination of a current topic relevant to health studies. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to helping students prepare to tackle complex emerging health issues and to explore ways of addressing these issues through public policy.
A range of contemporary and newly-emerging health issues are discussed and analyzed in the context of existing policy constraints within Canada and worldwide. This course examines the role of all levels of Canadian government in health and health care. The impact of public policies, health care policy, and access to health care services on the health of populations is considered. The course also examines the role of political parties and social movements in the policy change process.
This course surveys a selection of health care systems worldwide in relation to financing, reimbursement, delivery systems and adoption of new technologies. How do these different systems deal with tough choices, such as decisions about new technologies? The set of international health care systems we focus on are likely to vary by term but will include a subset of OECD countries as well as countries with large populations that are heavily represented in Toronto such as China and India.
This interdisciplinary course draws on diverse theoretical and analytical approaches that span the humanities, social sciences and life sciences to critically explore the diverse relationships between gender and health, in local and global contexts. Particular attention is given to intersections between sex, gender and other social locations and processes that impact health and health inequities across the lifespan, including the impacts of ableism, colonialism, hetero-normativity, poverty, racialization, and sexism on women's and men's health, and related health research and practice.
Through course readings, case studies, group discussions, class activities, and course assignments, students will apply these theoretical lenses and develop analytical skills that : 1 advance a more contextualized understanding of gender and health across the lifespan, 2 provide important insights into gendered health inequities, and 3 speak to strategies and social movements that begin to address these challenges. In this reading and writing-intensive course, students will learn to see, think and write sociologically and ethnographically about how policy, law and various forms of regulation, as structural determinants of health, impact everyday life.
Students will design and conductive unobtrusive fieldwork to develop new theoretical and applied skills. Damouras E mail: sotirios. Academic Directors: S. Ahmed Email: mgmtss utsc. Damouras Email: sotirios. Program Director: C. Arsenault E-mail: mgmtcoop utsc. The Double Degree program is a Work Integrated Learning WIL program that combines academic studies with paid work terms in public and private enterprises.
Depending on their needs and abilities, students work in areas such as finance, insurance, data analytics, accounting, consulting, business intelligence, marketing, policy, strategic planning and entrepreneurship. The Double Degree program will equip students with a comprehensive understanding of financial markets, and develop the business and quantitative skills required to function in them.
The Double Degree program operates on a trimester schedule, featuring three terms Fall, Winter and Summer in each Calendar year. Students work or study in all three terms for five years, or until graduation requirements are met.
It requires 11 four-month terms of study and 3 four-month work terms. Students applying directly from high school are admitted on the basis of academic performance. Applicants must also submit a Supplementary Application Form. Application for admission will be considered only for the round during which the student has made the Subject POSt request. Students considering switching to the Double Degree program should consult with the program supervisors as soon as possible.
Decisions are made when all grades have been received. Students must have completed at least 4. Students may apply until they have completed up to Students who have completed more than For those who apply with more than 4. Applicants must submit a resume and covering letter to the Management Co-op Office during the limited Subject POSt request period outlined on the Office of the Registrar website.
For information on what to include in your resume and covering letter, visit the Management Co-op website. An interview may also be required. Students whose CGPA falls below 2.
Students on probation will be reinstated to the Double Degree program if they complete at least 2. Students who cannot get out of probation in two consecutive sessions, or whose CGPA falls below 2. Program Requirements The Double Degree program requires the completion of Communications requirement 0. Management requirements 5. Science requirements 9. Economics requirements 2.
Finance requirements 3. At least four courses 2. NOTE : In selecting options and electives, students should refer to the guidelines for program breadth and depth found in section 6A. Students are advised to consult regularly with the Academic Supervisors, or the Program Director, if they have questions regarding course selection and scheduling.
It is however the students' individual responsibility to ensure that they have completed the correct courses to make them eligible for each work term and that they have correctly completed program and degree requirements for graduation. Students who apply after the first year and are successful in receiving a June offer will be expected to complete a Co-op Advancing Your Career Exploration AYCE course beginning in the third week of June, and continuing throughout the summer.
For information on fees, status in Co-op programs, and certification of completion of Co-op programs, see Section 6B. Students removed from the program for this reason may request re-instatement if they complete at least 2.
This opportunity will be provided only once. This Double Degree program creates an accelerated pathway for students who would otherwise have to complete two separate Specialist programs and two separate degrees. It will provide students with a thorough, interdisciplinary education in both literary studies and Psychology.
The Double Degree program takes advantage of existing synergies to allow students to complete both undergradudate programs and degrees within five years, without compromising on the core requirements of either program. Enrolment in the Double Degree is limited. Students may apply after completing a minimum of 4. Students should apply to the program before they have completed 7. Program Requirements This program requires the completion of Introduction to Psychology 1.
Laboratory Methods 1. Statistical Methods 1. Breadth in Psychology at the B-level and C-level 4. Seminars in Psychology at the D-level 1. Additional 0. All of the following 2. Courses selected to complete this component can be in either English or Psychology or a combination of the two.
Capstone Requirement 1. Co-op Supervisor of Studies: S. Dalili Email: sdalili utsc. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop the academic and professional skills required to pursue employment in these areas, or to continue on to graduate training in an academic field related to Biochemistry upon graduation.
Enrolment Requirements The minimum qualifications for entry are 4. Prospective Co-op Students: Prospective Co-op students i. Failure to submit the program request on ACORN will result in that student's application not being considered. Program Requirements Students must complete the program requirements as described in the Major Program in Biochemistry.
Co-op Work Term Requirements Students must satisfactorily complete three Co-op work terms, each of four-months duration. To be eligible for their first work term, students must be enrolled in the Major Co-op Program in Biochemistry and have completed at least 7. In addition to their academic program requirements, Co-op students complete up to five Co-op specific courses.
These courses are designed to prepare students for their job search and work term experience, and to maximize the benefits of their Co-op work terms. They cover a variety of topics intended to assist students in developing the skills and tools required to secure work terms that are appropriate to their program of study, and to perform professionally in the workplace. These courses must be completed in sequence, and are taken in addition to a full course load.
No additional course fee is assessed as registration is included in the Co-op Program fee. By participating in these activities, you are developing important skills, knowledge and experience that you can apply in courses, work and in planning for your future. If you can't find your program on the list or are still deciding what program is best for you, you may want to start with Get to Know Yourself and Explore Your Program Options , where you can find career options for your program.
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