Interdisciplinary perspectives
Students in the Master of Laws (LLM) and Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) may apply to participate in one of five collaborative specializations offered by cognate divisions at the university, including the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Women and Gender Studies Institute, and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies.
Admission to the collaborative specialization must be approved by both our faculty and the collaborative specialization lead.
If you wish to apply for admission to one of these collaborative specializations, please review the SGS admissions procedures for collaborative specializations.
Collaborative Specialization Lead: Dalla Lana School of Public Health
This program prepares students to specialize in bioethics with an emphasis on innovative interdisciplinary research and scholarship.
Innovations in basic and clinical science often raise profound ethical issues for which appropriate answers and optimal solutions do not currently exist but that, with applied research, can be better understood. Students enrolled in this collaborative specialization are expected to conduct innovative research in relation to the discipline of their home unit (Faculty of Law) and to have a working knowledge of selected bioethical issues from the current viewpoint of each of the other relevant disciplines.
Upon successful completion, you will receive your degree in your discipline as well as the notation Completed Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics on your transcript.
Collaborative Specialization Lead: Dalla Lana School of Public Health
This program offers students the opportunity to develop cooperative and interdisciplinary graduate education and research in global health.
Global health is viewed as an integrative construct that focuses on the inter-relationships between local, regional, national, and international factors influencing health and effective interventions and policies that will address these factors.
Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of your home unit and the collaborative program, you will receive the notation Completed Collaborative Collaborative Specialization in Global Health on your transcript.
Jewish Studies
Collaborative Specialization Lead: Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies within the Faculty of Arts & Science
The Centre builds on the expertise and range of its faculty members. Their diverse strengths are reflected in the four areas of concentration for this collaborative specialization:
- Classical Judaism
- Jewish Philosophy and Thought
- Jewish History and Social Sciences
- Jewish Cultures, Languages, and Literatures
As a scholar in Jewish Studies, you must be deeply grounded in a specific academic discipline, but you also need exposure to the full breadth of Jewish texts, contexts and concepts. The Centre provides this broad, interdisciplinary training to graduate students in a variety of fields.
Women and Gender Studies
Collaborative Specialization Lead: Women and Gender Studies Institute within the Faculty of Arts & Science
An opportunity for advanced feminist studies in concert with your LLM or SJD.
This program offers a rich interdisciplinary environment in which to grapple with how gender and sexuality are tangled with questions of race, citizenship, embodiment, colonialism, nation, global capitalism, violence, aesthetics, and other pressing concerns.
Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of your home unit and the collaborative specialization, you will receive the notation Completed Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies on your transcript.
Sexual Diversity Studies
Collaborative Specialization Lead: Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies within the Faculty of Arts & Science
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.
Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of your home unit and the collaborative program, you will receive the notation Completed Collaborative Specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies on your transcript.