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Thompson Rivers College's School of Humanities will provide a brand new postgraduate diploma program specializing in politics and worldwide research after proposed packages have been accredited earlier this month.
TRU's Board of Administrators accredited the brand new packages on June 14, following approval from the College Senate in Might.
In line with a report back to the Senate, college students within the new packages will examine subjects associated to Canada, worldwide politics and indigenous research, in addition to strategies and theories.
“Collectively, these themes form college students' studying concerning the historic, social, political and coverage context to discover 21st century points between Western Canada and the Asia-Pacific area,” the report stated.
In line with the report, doable examine subjects embrace immigration, non permanent migrant labor, colonial and anti-colonial politics, worldwide training, funding, neighborhood partnerships and commerce.
“Understanding the affect of those ongoing tensions and established relationships on Canada's prosperity and international social accountability is the first focus of the Postgraduate Diploma in Politics and Worldwide Research,” the report says.
A second report for the brand new main states that the bachelor's program will cowl comparable areas of examine.
Each the brand new graduate program and main will make the most of present school and programs. No new course sections might be added as a result of present sections have sufficient capability to accommodate new college students for each new packages, the report stated.
“Nevertheless, there’s a threat that if extra educating items are created, the rise in tuition charges is not going to be adequate to cowl the direct prices of educating,” it stated in a report back to the Board of Administrators.
In line with the report back to the Senate, the fifth-year Put up-Baccalaureate Diploma in Politics and Worldwide Research is anticipated to have 14 full-time college students, evenly distributed between home and worldwide college students.
The report cites the chance to review in Canada for 2 years, the development of training and the worldwide focus of this system on Western Canada and the Asia-Pacific area as causes for the doable rejection of this system for overseas college students.
The brand new main is anticipated to incorporate roughly 40 full-time home and 10 full-time worldwide college students inside 4 to 5 years.
A report stated the brand new packages would “assist appeal to and retain college students for the brand new Grasp of Arts in Human Rights and Social Justice and leverage the expertise, capability and experience of our school members.”
The brand new packages might be run by the School of Philosophy, Historical past and Politics and are anticipated to start in fall 2024.