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The
Robert F. Harney Professorship And Program
The Robert
F. Harney Professorship
and Program in Ethnic, Immigration,
and Pluralism
Studies supports and promotes interdisciplinary research
and teaching
on
ethnic diversity and interethnic group relations in Canadian society in
a comparative context. Its purpose is to develop graduate
programs
in the study of ethnicity, and to involve faculty, professionals, and
students
from various disciplines. Expertise in the study of ethnicity is
greatly valued by social agencies, consulting firms, hospitals, civic
organizations,
and other institutions that deal with issues that include: immigration
and immigrant adjustment, Native Peoples, race and race relations,
attitudes towards diverse cultures,
minority group conflicts, and cultural diversity policies.
The Harney
Professorship and Program offers a Collaborative Graduate
Program in
Ethnic and Pluralism Studies in which students have the
opportunity to take
courses
outside
of their department or faculty as they work towards an
interdisciplinary
specialization at either the Master's or the Doctoral level. Please
note that this program
does not confer a degree of its own, but upon
successfully completing program requirements, students receive a
specialization noted on
their transcripts as "Completed Collaborative Program in Ethnic and
Pluralism
Studies." in addition to the
Master's
or Doctorate in their area.
Participating
departments and faculties include: Anthropology,
Centre for
European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES),
Geography,
History,
Industrial
Relations and Human Resources (CIRHR), Nursing Science,
Political
Science,
Religion, School of Public
Policy and Governance,
Social
Work, Sociology,
Sociology
and Equity Studies in Education (SESE), Theory and Policy
Studies in Education (TPS),
Women and
Gender Studies Institute (WGSI).
For more
details, please visit our "Graduate Program"
page.
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- New!
Students who
wish to participate
in the Collaborative Graduate Program in Ethnic and Pluralism Studies starting Fall 2012
should contact the
Program Administrator (Momo Kano Podolsky) or the
administrator of their home graduate unit.
Please note
that all students who have been accepted into a graduate
program by one
of the collaborating units (see list above) are automatically
eligible
to enrol in our Ethnic and Pluralism Program. For course requirements
and details, please visit our
"Graduate Program" page.
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- Our
new website will be coming soon!
Please check often to see the re-designed website for the Harney
Program.
- Harney
Professor Jeffrey Reitz was featured in the TVO program 'Allen
Gregg in conversation'. You can now watch
the video of his interview
on line.
Video topic: Immigration expert
Jeffrey Reitz talks about several aspects of
immigration; that immigrants are still settling in the large cities and
often form ethnic enclaves which may result in residents not fully
integrating into Canadian life and feeling isolated; the pluses and
minuses
of the "points" system is assessing immigrants and the legalities of
temporary workers; that immigrants still feel a sense of
discrimination;
that Canada's multicultural policies have been successful in
integrating
newcomers.
Professor Reitz also wrote
"Support for immigration connected with our national identity"
for the Vancouver Sun on December 13,
2011, and "Supporting
immigration is just so Canadian" for the Toronto
Star on November 7, 2011.
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