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Health Sciences (MSc) Graduate Students
Laurier's Master of Science (MSc) in Health Sciences program prepares you to explore health from a unique cell-to-society perspective, integrating biomedical and social approaches to understand and address today's health challenges. Choose from two fields of study, Molecular and Medical Sciences (MMS) or Community, Public and Population Health (CPPH), and customize your degree through either a coursework or thesis option. Whether you're advancing your expertise through course-based learning or conducting original research alongside faculty mentors, you'll gain the advanced knowledge, research skills, and interdisciplinary perspective needed to make an impact in health-related careers and future academic pursuits.
Funding
Teaching Assistantships
A full 1.0-credit teaching assistantship (TA) is 130 hours of work in a term, including any preparatory time required by the student.
A 0.5-credit TA is 65 hours of work in a term, including any preparatory time required by the student.
Instructors are responsible for ensuring that teaching assistants (TAs) work no more than the required number of hours and that all work is related to the course.
Work can entail laboratory teaching, marking, exam proctoring, laboratory preparation, etc.
Please note: Teaching Assistantships are only garunteed to students enrolld in the Thesis system of study who are still within thier two-year funding period.
Other Funding Opportunities
About the Program
Mission Statement
We aim to promote an enhanced intellectual climate for students using interdisciplinary approaches to research. Using a cell-to-society framework, our students will push the boundaries of how theory and methods are applied to specific topics in the health sciences and how scientific knowledge can be developed to address social problems. Students will conduct research in novel ways that forge new paths in areas of research where there is little and/or much-needed Canadian work
Objectives
- Explore the complexity of health challenges and solutions from interdisciplinary perspectives
- Produce knowledge that is relevant to communities and other knowledge users (e.g., policy makers, scientists, industry, clinicians)
- Contribute to innovative solutions to complex health problems through collaboration with knowledge users
- Prepare for research, policy, and service provision careers in the broader health sector and/ or opportunities for further graduate or professional education
- Engage in fostering and promoting an inclusive community where all disciplines are respected, and where equity and diversity principles are actively promoted
Core Competencies
- Demonstrate knowledge of a cell-to-society perspective where factors that contribute to health are examined from biological to social perspectives
- Identify and utilize methods from a range of traditions and contribute to methodological innovation in understanding and solving complex health problems
- Demonstrate methodological competence and theoretical rigour through undertaking independent research (i.e., a thesis project) including proposal development, data collection and analysis, and scientific writing
- Evaluate and identify from the range of approaches to facilitate knowledge translation and mobilization activities in an appropriate manner to targeted audiences
- Demonstrate an understanding of cultural humility and an appreciation for issues relevant to community audiences throughout the research process