Admission and Program Requirements

Admission Requirements

• Applicants shall be enrolled in a participating doctoral degree program in the graduate unit in which the research is conducted, which is known as the participating home graduate unit. The applicant shall meet the admission requirements of both the home graduate unit and the collaborative program.
• Students who complete the Collaborative Program at the master’s level will not be eligible for the program at the doctoral level.

Program Requirements

• Students must meet all respective degree requirements of the School of Graduate Studies and the participating unit.
• Students must meet the requirements of the collaborative program as follows:

1. 0.5 full-course equivalent (FCE) seminar in Comparative Research Methods in Diaspora and Transnational Studies (DTS). As part of the Research Methods seminar, students are required to submit an ethnographic, archival, or documentary paper on a diasporic community in Toronto or elsewhere.
2. 0.5 FCE DTS topics course (DTS 2000H, DTS 2001H or DTS 2002H); course themes to be decided each year by the collaborative specialization committee. The DTS collaborative components may be taken as electives for the purpose of satisfying home unit requirements.
3. If the student undertakes a major paper or thesis in their home unit, this will be on a topic in diaspora and transnational studies, approved by the collaborative specialization committee.