<Faculty of Health

General Information

In 2005, York University's Senate and Board of Governors approved a new Faculty of Health. This major new initiative represents an exciting opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students with varied interests and academic backgrounds to examine health and health care from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

The new Faculty offers a range of perspectives on health drawn from natural science, social science, nursing, humanities, management and administration. The Faculty's vision is driven by the following principals and goals:

• to promote York's expertise in teaching, research, and practice in health by bringing it together in one Faculty;
• to foster the development of new academic programs in health at York that capitalize on existing strengths among faculty members across the University; and,
• to create an academic environment and culture that will support the continual development of novel, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to health and health care.

This multi-disciplinary approach creates opportunities to explore a wide variety of health issues ranging from public policy decisions to the search for better clinical interventions.

A variety of methods for studying health and social phenomena is used in the Faculty, ranging from experimental and epidemiological techniques to clinical case studies, oral histories and ethnographic observation. Research focuses not only on hospitals and clinics but communities, homes, farms, schools, factories and the global economic environment.

Programs which were offered in the Faculties of Arts, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies and Science and Engineering have been drawn together into the Faculty of Health. In September 2006, students who were pursuing the following programs were transferred to the Faculty of Health:

Faculty of Arts Programs:

Bachelor of Arts with Honours, majoring in kinesiology and health science
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts with Honours, majoring in psychology

Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies Programs:

Bachelor of Health Studies, with Honours, all majors
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, with Honours, all streams
Bachelor of Arts with Honours majoring in psychology
Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Science with Honours, majoring in psychology

Faculty of Science and Engineering:

Bachelor of Science with Honours, majoring in kinesiology and health science
Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Science with Honours, majoring in psychology

Students who transferred to the Faculty of Health in September 2006:

Students who were transferred to the Faculty of Health from one of the programs listed above are expected to follow their original Faculty's rules and regulations and degree requirements which were in effect in the session in which they were admitted.

Previous undergraduate calendars are available on the Web at this URL: http://calendars.registrar.yorku.ca/index.htm

Students admitted to the Faculty of Health in 2007-2008:

The Faculty of Health is in the process of amalgamating legislation from three separate Faculties into one. As such, rules and regulations for Faculty of Health students pursuing bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degree programs will follow the rules and regulations (general education requirements, grade point average requirements etc.) from the originating Faculty, and will be appropriately directed in various sections of this calendar.

Bachelor of Science Students: Follow the rules and regulations of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, see Regulations Governing Undergraduate Degree Requirements, Faculty of Science and Engineering section of the calendar.

Bachelor of Arts Students: Follow the rules and regulations of the Faculty of Arts, see Rules and Regulations, Faculty of Arts section of the calendar.

Bachelor of Health Studies Students: Follow the general education rules of the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, see Rules and Regulations, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies section of the calendar.