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Department of Social Science

For purposes of meeting program requirements, all nine-credit general education (foundation) courses will count as six credits towards the major.

Honours BA: 120 Credits

Residency requirement: a minimum of 30 course credits and at least half (50 per cent) of the course credits required in each undergraduate degree program major/minor must be taken at York University.

Graduation requirement: students must successfully complete (pass) at least 120 credits which meet the Faculty's degree and program requirements with a cumulative grade point average of at least 5.00.

General education: 24 credits of general education chosen from approved courses in humanities, modes of reasoning, natural science and social science, including a minimum of six credits in each of humanities, natural science and social science.

Major credits: students must complete 72 credits, as follows:

Note: with permission of the program coordinator, students can replace AP/SOSC 4040 6.00 with AP/SOSC 4041 6.00 (cross-listed to: ES/ENVS 4041 6.00), AP/SOSC 4042 6.00, AP/SOSC 4043 6.00 or AP/SOSC 4044 6.00.

Note: with permission of the program coordinator, ESL students may replace AP/SOSC 1340 9.00 with AP/SOSC 1349 9.00.

Upper-level credits: at least 36 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level, including at least 18 credits at the 4000 level.

Credits outside the major: at least 18 credits.

BA: 90 Credits

Residency requirement: a minimum of 30 course credits and at least half (50 per cent) of the course credits required in each undergraduate degree program major/minor must be taken at York University.

Graduation requirement: students must successfully complete (pass) at least 90 credits that meet the Faculty's degree and program requirements with a cumulative grade point average of at least 4.00.

General education: 24 credits of general education chosen from approved courses in humanities, modes of reasoning, natural science and social science, including a minimum of six credits in each of humanities, natural science and social science.

Major credits: students must complete 54 credits, as follows:

Note: with permission of the program coordinator, ESL students may replace AP/SOSC 1340 9.00 with AP/SOSC 1349 9.00.

Upper-level credits: at least 18 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Credits outside the major: at least 18 credits.

Statistics Requirement

All business and society majors must complete at least three credits in an approved statistics course. Students normally complete the approved statistics course as part of their stream requirement. However, not all of the streams require or include as a course option an approved statistics course. Students who combine two streams which do not include an approved statistics course must complete at least three credits in an approved statistics course in addition to their stream requirements.

Note: statistics courses are offered in many of the streams and many of these courses have course credit exclusions. Check course descriptions carefully for course exclusions to avoid duplicating course work.

Approved courses: SC/MATH 1532 3.00 is the recommended statistics course for BUSO majors who do not have a different statistics requirement in one of their streams.

Other approved statistics courses are:

Business and Society Streams

Students must choose any two of the streams listed below.

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

The Environment

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

The Firm

Note: prerequisites for courses must be met. Check course descriptions carefully for prerequisite requirements.

Students must choose from either Option A or Option B listed below.

Option A - Microeconomic Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: students may not combine The Firm (Option A - Microeconomic Analysis) with The Macroeconomy (Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis).

Option B - Organizational Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: if AP/ECON 2500 3.00 and/or AP/ECON 3210 3.00 are taken as part of The Macroeconomy, they must be replaced in The Firm (Option B - Organizational Analysis) with courses chosen from the listed course options at the 2000 or 3000 level.

The Global Economy

For the Honours program: students must also include the following six credits:

Labour

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Law and Governance

For the Honours program:

The Macroeconomy

Note: prerequisites for courses must be met. Check course descriptions carefully for prerequisite requirements.

Students must choose from either Option A or Option B listed below.

Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: students may not combine The Macroeconomy (Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis) with The Firm (Option A - Microeconomic Analysis).

Note: if AP/ECON 2500 3.00 and/or AP/ECON 3210 3.00 are taken as part of The Firm, they must be replaced in The Macroeconomy (Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis) with courses chosen from the listed course options at the 2000 or 3000 level.

Option B - Public Policy Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: if AP/ECON 2500 3.00 and AP/ECON 3210 3.00 are taken as part of The Firm (Option A - Microeconomic Analysis), they must be replaced in The Macroeconomy (Option B - Public Policy Analysis) with AP/POLS 2910 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/PPAS 2910 6.00).

The Media and Communication

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Professions, Occupations and Social Change

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

The Social Economy

For the Honours program

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