York University

:This article is about the Canadian university. For the British university, see University of York.

Academics

York University has been traditionally strong in arts and social sciences. York's Faculty of Arts is the largest in Canada. It is especially well-known for its law and business schools.

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Arts - Canada

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York University has the greatest number of humanists and social scientists in Canada. Its history department, especically strong in Canadian history, is viewed by many to be the strongest in Canada. Its political science department, one of the world's leading centers for the study of radical political economy, has been noted in Maclean's annual ranking of universities.

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The Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies' School of Administrative Studies is the largest business undergraduate program in Canada. The Faculty of Fine Arts is known to be one of a kind in North America. Its joint Bachelor of Design program with Sheridan College is the first and largest in the province of Ontario.

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Sheridan College - Ontario

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Its internationally-renowned Faculty of Education (also known as the "Toronto School of Liberal Education") offers its students more teaching experience than any other education program in Ontario.

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Education - Toronto School of Liberal Education - Ontario

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Osgoode Hall Law School, is Canada's largest, and one of the oldest. Osgoode and the law school at the University of Toronto, are generally viewed to have the leading law faculties in Canada.

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Osgoode Hall Law School - University of Toronto

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The Schulich School of Business is ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers the International Business Administration program which is the first of its kind in Canada.

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Schulich School of Business - Canada

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York University's Faculty of Graduate Studies is Ontario's second largest graduate school offering graduate degrees in a variety of disciplines. There are several joint graduate programs with the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.

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Ontario - University of Toronto - Ryerson University

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The School of Women's Studies at York University is one of the oldest of its kind and offers the largest array of courses in this field in the country, in both official languages.

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As well, York is involved in many space projects and has a pair of small telescopes on campus. The university offers the only Space and Communication program in the nation. York?s Centre for Vision Research has developed a ?virtual reality room? called IVY (Immersive Virtual Environment at York) in order to study perception of gravity and motion, and how humans orient themselves spatially. The room is the only six-sided immersive environment in Canada, and one of a mere handful internationally. Its walls, ceiling and floor are comprised of pixel maps generated by a cluster of computers running Linux. The entire structure is made of the same glass used in the CN Tower?s observation deck. The floor alone took two years to complete. The research is being used by the Canadian Space Agency and National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) to find ways to help strengthen astronauts? sense of ?up? and ?down? in zero gravity environments.

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Virtual reality - Perception - Gravity - Motion - Pixel - Linux - CN Tower - Canadian Space Agency

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York's libraries, located in five buildings, contain over six-and-a-half million items - books, print periodicals, theses, archival materials, micro-forms, maps, films and music CDs. York has more than 2.5 million books and subscribe to 13,000 electronic journals. The Osgoode Hall Law School houses the largest law library in the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Osgoode Hall Law School - Commonwealth of Nations

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