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M.S.W. Collaborative Programs
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work Participation in Interdisciplinary Graduate Collaborative Programs at the University of Toronto.
The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in collaboration with other graduate departments offers interested students opportunities to develop and integrate graduate training in multidisciplinary fields. Students accepted into a collaborative program must meet all academic requirements for their degree and requirements of the collaborative program.
The following are Collaborative Programs approved for students registered in the M.S.W. program at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.
See links below to the School of Graduate Studies website for the Collaborative Programs we participate in.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Addiction Studies
- CoPAS Program Director: Prof. Bruna Brands
- Social Work Coordinator: Prof. Dale Kuehl
- CoPAS Web Site
- Requirements: PLEASE NOTE that students must apply and be accepted into the M.S.W. Program before applying to the CoPAS Program. You can apply to CoPAS at any time following notice of your acceptance to the M.S.W. program CoPAS application form.
The graduate programs listed above; in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, and the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit; participate in the Collaborative Program in Addiction Studies at the University of Toronto. The purpose of the program is to develop and integrate graduate training in the multidisciplinary field of addictions, an area that includes the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and psychoactive substances, as well as gambling and other addictive behaviours. Master's programs requiring a thesis, practicum, or research paper, and Doctor of Philosophy programs are included. Upon fulfilment of the program requirements, transcripts issued by the School of Graduate Studies will denote completion of the Collaborative Program in Addiction Studies.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course
- Coordinator: Lynn McDonald
- Web site
The Collaborative Program in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course prepares students for specialization in the field of aging and/or the field of palliative and supportive care, with an emphasis on viewing aging issues within the perspective of the life course. The Collaborative Program offers students two options of study:
- aging and the life course
- palliative and supportive care
Students must apply to and register in a home participating unit (i.e., one of the graduate programs listed above), and follow a course of study acceptable to both the graduate unit and the Collaborative Program in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course.
Upon successful completion of the requirements, students receive, in addition to the master's degree from the home graduate unit, the notation on their transcript: "Completed the Collaborative Program in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course".
Collaborative Graduate Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
- Contact the Program Administrator
- Web site
The collaborative master's degree program in Asia-Pacific Studies is designed to provide graduates with advanced training in a particular discipline and in the historical and social science studies of modern East and Southeast Asia. The major topics of emphasis are political economy, modern and contemporary social history, international relations, gender, political and social change, economic development, and cultural studies. The program contributes to the development of an integrated and interdisciplinary research community in Asia-Pacific Studies at the University.
Applicants are expected to meet the admission and degree requirements of both a home unit and the program in Asia-Pacific Studies. The collaborative master's degree program requirements can be met concurrently with, or in addition to, home unit requirements. Students who successfully complete the requirements of the collaborative program will receive the notation “Completed Collaborative Program in Asia-Pacific Studies” on their transcript in addition to the master's degree from the home unit.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Community Development
- Coordinator : David Hulchanski
- Web site
The Collaborative Program provides students with a multidisciplinary graduate education in community development. Community development involves working with community members and groups to effect positive change in the social, economic, organizational, or physical structures of a community that improve both the welfare of community members and the community's ability to direct its future.
Students must apply to and register in a home participating unit (i.e., one of the graduate departments or faculties listed above), and follow a course of study acceptable to both that unit and the Collaborative Program in Community Development. Applications are considered for the master’s degree programs listed above.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Ethnic and Pluralism Studies
- M.S.W. Coordinator: Rupaleem Bhuyan
- Email Ethnic Studies
- Web site
Our program aims to serve as a focal point for the study of ethnic and race relations across a range of disciplines and professional fields at the University of Toronto. The university has a wealth of resources related to such issues as: indigenous peoples, immigration, nationalism, cultural and linguistic groups, ethnic communities, and inter-group attitudes and relations. Each of these has impacts across a range of institutions – in employment and the economy, education, health and social services, local communities, politics and government, and in regional and international relations. The result is a comprehensive pool of specialized knowledge and experience doing justice to the complexities involved in considering the "Canadian mosaic," parallel issues in other countries, and across the globe. An understanding of these issues in the making of policy, and the possibilities for the application of future research are exciting.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Health Services and Policy Research
Coordinator: Ronda Cockerill
Web site
The Collaborative Program is part of the Ontario Training Centre in Health Services and Policy Research (OTC). The consortium seeks to improve graduate education for students who are interested in becoming health services and policy researchers. Graduates of the collaborative program demonstrate knowledge of Canada’s health care system, health services and policy research tools, and theories of population health, knowledge production and knowledge transfer.
M.S.W. students must apply to and register in a home participating unit and follow a course of study acceptable to both that unit and the Collaborative Program. Completion of a thesis under the supervision of a core faculty member of the Collaborative Program that addresses the theme of health services and policy research, plus participation in one Summer Institute are required for masters degree programs. Students who complete the Collaborative Program at the master level are not eligible to participate at the Ph.D. level.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Sexual Diversity Studies
- Coordinator: David Brennan
- Web site
The Collaborative Program in Sexual Diversity Studies, offered by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, is a rigorously interdisciplinary program recognizing sexual diversity studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. While it has emerged as an autonomous scholarly area, many of those who work within it engage questions of gender, ethnicity, race, Aboriginal status, (dis)ability, and class, to highlight the importance of exploring their interaction with sexual differences.
The graduate degree programs listed above participate in the Collaborative Program. From their home departments, students may take up questions from their own disciplinary or programmatic perspective, but explore it through the theoretical and methodological lens of sexuality studies.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Women and Gender Studies
- Coordinator: Sheila Neysmith
- Web site
The Graduate Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies (CWGS) provides a formal educational context for the pursuit of interdisciplinary research in women and gender studies and advanced feminist scholarship. The program, offered at the master's and doctoral levels, provides a central coordinating structure to facilitate and disseminate research in women and gender studies through student and faculty research seminars, colloquia, circulation of work in progress, study groups, conferences, and publications. The CWGS contributes to the development of an integrated research community in women and gender studies at the University of Toronto.
The graduate programs listed above participate in the Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. The collaborating units contribute courses and provide facilities and supervision for graduate research. The program is administered by the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). The CWGS brings together 33 graduate programs providing more than 100 courses and involving over 100 graduate faculty members.
Students who successfully complete the requirements of the collaborative program will receive the notation “Completed Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies” on their transcript, in addition to the master's or doctoral degree from their home graduate unit.
Collaborative Graduate Program in Women's Health
- Coordinator: Charmaine Williams
- Web site
The Collaborative Program in Women's Health provides interdisciplinary training in women's health research and practice for graduate students at the University of Toronto with the goal of:
- Helping students develop shared understandings of the complex interactions of biology and environment, sex and gender;
- Providing students with the necessary skill set to undertake and lead interdisciplinary, collaborative health care research projects;
- Enhancing mutually beneficial relationships among researchers and practitioners of women's health across the university and its affiliated teaching hospitals.
To successfully complete the Collaborative Program in Women's Health, students must also successfully complete the program requirements of their home graduate unit. Master's students who successfully complete the program will have the following notation added to their transcripts: 'Completed the Collaborative Program in Women's Health.'