Students interested in a particular subject area can focus their studies by enrolling in a curriculum stream. By providing an organized sequence of courses in particular subject areas, the curriculum streams provide guidance and structure, ensuring students receive a comprehensive, challenging, and well-rounded education in the subject area. The curriculum streams will also:
- equip students with the necessary critical lawyering skills to engage with difficult and complex problems
- encourage intellectual collaboration
- develop student expertise in the subject area, exposing them to the significant theories, principles and conceptual frameworks
Each curriculum stream concludes with a capstone course in third year. In the capstone course, students engage in a major research and writing exercise that will consolidate, deepen, and enrich their understanding of the subject area.
The curriculum streams available at Osgoode are:
- International, Comparative and Transnational Law
- Labour and Employment Law
- Litigation, Dispute Resolution, and the Administration of Justice
- Tax Law
Each stream is supervised by a faculty convenor, who reviews the course of studies selected by each student in the stream and convenes a student meeting in the fall to discuss the curriculum and answer questions. The faculty convenor also administers the regulations governing the stream and has broad discretion to:
- grant program credit for non-program courses and courses completed at other institutions while on exchange or letter of permission
- permit courses to be taken out of order
- recommend to the Assistant Dean (JD Program) that a student enrol in more than two seminars in a term.
See the syllabus for a complete description of each stream’s structure and requirements.