A
Decision sciences and management information systems, finance, management, and marketing.
Aeronautics and propulsion, avionics and control, structures and materials, and space engineering.
Acquisition of second-language phonology; second language literacy; pedagogical grammar; social issues in bilingualism; second language vocabulary and pronunciation; pedagogy for second language learning; and psycholinguistics of bilingualism.
Development of symbolization and aesthetic response in children; the early development of artists; history of art education; museum education; adult education; multi-cultural and aboriginal issues; women in art and art education; built environment education; response to art; post-modernism; digital technologies and art education.
Amerindian and Inuit art and architecture, Canadian and North American architecture, craft, painting, photography and sculpture, as well as other media, from the 17th to the 21st centuries; European art and theory from the Middle Ages to the present; art criticism; visual and material culture; feminist and gender studies; industrial archaeology and museum studies.
B
Animal biology and behaviour, cell biology/biochemistry, ecology, evolution and conservation, microbiology/molecular biology, plant biochemistry and biotechnology.
Computer-aided design; performance of building envelope and materials; building environment (HVAC, acoustics, illumination, air quality); building and energy; wind effects on buildings; building structures; and construction management.
Professional MBA, Executive MBA, and Investment Management MBA.
C
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, biochemistry and biophysical chemistry, bioinorganic and physical inorganic chemistry, organic and physical organic chemistry, computational chemistry, materials and solid state chemistry, nanoscience, and synthetic inorganic chemistry.
Special education; social-emotional development; play; day care environment and curriculum; family-school partnerships; school reform; literacy; numeracy; educational testing; children’s health and well-being; and popular culture.
Structures, bridge engineering, earthquake engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, water resources, and environmental engineering.
Nature and conception of audiences, cultural studies, rhetoric, the history of communication, film and documentary production, film and television studies, feminist and postcolonial theory, gender and technology, religion and media, international and development communication, visual studies, semiotics of landscape and environment, political communication, alternative and activist media, video advocacy, intermedial art practices, sound art, video and media arts, performance and game studies.
Mobile computing and wireless networks, distributed systems, computer networks and protocols, parallel algorithms and architectures, ad hoc networks, numerical analysis and scientific computing, semantics of programming languages, databases, knowledge-based systems, data mining, semantics web, symbolic and algebraic computation, combinatorial algorithms, mathematical programming, artificial Intelligence, natural language processing, pattern recognition, image processing, 3D graphics and computer gaming, visualization techniques, multimedia computing, bioinformatics, software architecture, requirement engineering, software measurement, user interface, software comprehension and maintenance, and dependable software.
Art and psychoanalysis; art and trauma; art as witness; art of the Holocaust; arts-based research; audience as witness; civic engagement through arts inquiry; community art studio movement; community music therapy; conflict resolution and the creative arts therapies; documentary film and social change; ethics of reception; feminist music therapy; guided imagery in music; music therapy; myth and story in therapy; palliative care; performance ethnography; phenomenological research; postmodern theory; sand play therapy; service learning through the arts; social justice and music therapy; therapeutic theatre; trans-cultural issues; violence against women and children.
E
Economic development, economic dynamics, econometrics, environmental and natural resources economics, financial and monetary economics, game theory, industrial organization, international trade and finance, labour economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, public economics, and regional economics.
Gender issues, adult education, diversity, policies and practices, school reform, moral education, democratic education, and intercultural education.
Computer-based learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, distance learning, classroom processes, human performance technology applications, program evaluation, educational evaluation and new technologies, corporate applications of educational technology, systemic modeling of educational systems, learning styles and strategies, multimedia research and development.
Systems, control and robotics; circuits and systems; communications; computer communications and protocols; signal processing; high performance architecture; software engineering; VLSI systems; microelectronics; microwave and optoelectronics; antennas and electromagnetic compatibility; power electronics and adjustable speed drives.
English literature from Old English to postmodernism; from the British Isles, Canada, and the United States to postcolonial literature; and from practical criticism to methodological and theoretical studies.
Littératures francophones et résonances médiatiques, writing, translation, court interpretation.
Athletic therapy and clinical exercise physiology.
F
Film and moving image history, film and moving image aesthetics, film and moving image theory, film, moving image and cultural theory, Canadian and Québécois film, experimental film, queer media, documentary, experimental documentary and ethnography, Contemporary European and Global Art Cinema, transnational cinema, auteur studies, film acting, digital cinema/new media and screen studies, film and philosophy, Japanese cinema, Indian cinema, Latin American cinema, Soviet/Russian Cinema, Feminism, film theory, semiotics, animation, film culture and technology, cinema and the senses, American Cinema, and the history and epistemology of film studies.
International financing consortia, efficiency of capital markets, financing of small- and medium-sized businesses, corporate finance, capital markets, and business economics.
G
Policy-oriented studies, with an emphasis on urban, environmental, and social issues, including river management, climate change, urban design, immigration, sustainable forestry, landscape ecology, indigenous resource management, political ecology, sustainable transportation, population and environment, economic development, and metropolitan government.
H
Exile and utopia, early 20th-century avant-garde literature, relationship between orality and literary history in Spanish America, Colonial studies, Latino-Canadian literature, translation and comparative literature, national identity in Spain and Spanish America, theatre, icons, images and other popular media and visual representation; interdisciplinary approaches to Spanish literature and culture, feminist theories, gender issues, canon formation, short narrative, contemporary Spanish-American indigenous literature, transatlantic studies, Applied Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (as related to Spanish).
Histories of the Americas and of Europe, non-Western history (India, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa), as well as sub-fields and genres, clustering around five main themes: culture; gender and sexuality; public history and memory; international and transnational history; and genocide and human rights.
Interdisciplinary doctoral studies in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts.
Applications of group development and small group leadership; organizational development and change interventions; cross cultural perspectives of management and leadership; coaching and mentoring relationships; the development of learning organizations; civic engagement; organizational creativity; community intervention and interventions with community workers; and participatory action research.
I
Systems engineering, software engineering, middleware, systems security, cryptography and data security, cyber forensics, incident handling, security evaluation, biometrics, communication networks, communication protocols, image processing, 3d graphics, computer vision, pattern recognition, design science, requirements engineering for product design, tele-geo-informatics, augmented reality, infrastructure and facilities management, project management, geographic information systems, statistics, supply chain management, quality management, e-business systems, decision support systems, rfid, operations research, optimization, and artificial intelligence.
J
News geography, health and science reporting, discourse analysis, issues of representation, culture and technology, sociology of journalism, diversity, and gender and journalism.
M
Actuarial mathematics and mathematical finance, analysis, partial differential equations, applied mathematics, dynamical systems, mathematical physics, differential geometry, number theory, computational algebra, probability and statistics, and mathematics education.
Computational fluid dynamics; industrial control systems and robotics; composites; mechanical systems and manufacturing; microfabrication and micromechatronics; thermo-fluid and propulsion; biomedical and human factors engineering; vehicle systems engineering; new product development processes; manufacturing system analysis; flexible and cellular manufacturing; production and inventory planning; intelligent manufacturing, operations planning and quality control; operations research; network and supply chain management; combinatorial optimization; safety engineering; virtual manufacturing and design; simulation; and airline revenue management. Numerous laboratories for computer-aided design, computer-integrated manufacturing, robotics, ergonomics, composite materials and structures, fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, machine tools, flight simulation and control, fuel control, heating and air conditioning systems, vibration, rotor dynamics, vehicle dynamics and heat transfer.
P
Anglo-American analytic and continental thought, Anglo-American analytic philosophy, philosophy of natural and social sciences and continental thought.
Theoretical and experimental condensed matter physics (electron paramagnetic resonance, Mossbauer effect, quantum transport in microstructures); applied physics (sensing devices); nanotechnology; biophysics, including optical, spectroscopic and electrochemical methods to explore energy and charge transfer processes in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, and designing photovoltaic devices and biosensors; statistical physics (neural networks, ferromagnetism); theoretical elementary particle physics and high energy physics (supersymmetry, supergravity, field theory, CP violation).
Public policy and administration, Canadian and Québec politics, international politics, comparative politics, and political theory.
Behaviour neuroscience, clinical and health research, human development and developmental processes, and cognitive science.
R
Religion in Antiquity; the Greco-Roman world; biblical studies (Hebrew Bible and New Testament), the history of Christianity, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the social history of Early Christianity, as well as in the late medieval and early modern periods; the history of the study of religion; Hindu philosophy and Hindu asceticism; Tantra in South Asia; the social history of Indian Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism and Islam; religions of Tibet and China; Tibetan-Buddhism and popular religions of China; classical and modern Shiism, Muslim law, and Islamic mysticism; religions of Iran; ecology and religion; contemporary new religious movements; business ethics and medical ethics; the comparative study of religious ritual; and women in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
S
Globalization, social inclusion/exclusion, perception and representation, and justice and social ethics.
Legal anthropology, economic anthropology, gender and development, kinship, religion, identity, anthropological linguistics, the senses, and the history of anthropology.
Interests range from new rural economy and development to race and ethnic relations, comparative social history, social theory, and cultural sociology.
Innovative studies that cross more than one recognized field.
Fibres, film production, open media, painting and drawing, photography, print media, sculpture and ceramics.
T
Biblical periods, Gnostic and apocryphal literature, the patristic age, the medieval and reformation eras, fundamental and applied ethics, spirituality, and contemporary theologians, as well as religion and politics.
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