Field(s) of Specialization
- Community Health
- Health and Physical Education
- Leisure, Health and Wellbeing
- Nursing
- Recreation, Sport and Community
- Sport Management
Faculty and Administration
Dean
Peter Tiidus
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Interim Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies
Wendy Ward
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Administrative Graduate Coordinator
Joanna Amodeo
905-688-5550, extension 4792
mastersahs@brocku.ca
South Block 441
Community Health
Core Faculty
Professors
Anthony Bogaert (Health Sciences), Dan Malleck (Health Sciences), Lynn McCleary (Nursing), Terrance Wade (Health Sciences)
Associate Professors
Manal Alzghoul (Nursing), Joanne Crawford (Nursing), Pauli Gardner (Health Sciences), Madelyn Law (Health Sciences), Kelli-an Lawrance (Health Sciences), Danielle Molnar (Child and Youth Studies), Miya Narushima (Health Sciences), Sheila O’Keefe-McCarthy (Nursing)
Assistant Professors
Alisa Grigorovich (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Valerie Michaelson (Health Sciences), Constance Schumacher (Nursing)
Health and Physical Education
Core Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Nancy Francis (Kinesiology)
Professors
Maureen Connolly (Kinesiology), Ken Lodewyk (Kinesiology), Philip Sullivan (Kinesiology), Cathy van Ingen (Kinesiology), Philip Wilson (Kinesiology)
Associate Professors
Jarold Cosby (Kinesiology), Timothy Fletcher (Kinesiology), Nathan Hall (Kinesiology), Ian Ritchie (Kinesiology), Danny Rosenberg (Kinesiology)
Assistant Professors
Sean Locke (Kinesiology), Rob Millington (Kinesiology)
Participating Faculty
Chunlei Lu (Education)
Leisure, Health and Wellbeing
Core Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Colleen Hood (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Professors
Tim O’Connell (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Shalini Singh (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Associate Professors
Martha Barnes (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Sanghee Chun (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Scott Forrester (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Pei-Chun Hsieh (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Garrett Hutson (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Kyle Rich (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Erin Sharpe (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Colleen Whyte (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Assistant Professors
Corliss Bean (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Alisa Grigorovich (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Nursing
Core Faculty
Professors
Lynn McCleary (Nursing), Dawn Prentice (Nursing)
Associate Professors
Manal Alzghoul (Nursing), Joanne Crawford (Nursing), Jane Moore (Nursing), Sheila O’Keefe-McCarthy (Nursing), Zaida Rahaman (Nursing), Jennine Salfi (Nursing), Karyn Taplay (Nursing)
Assistant Professors
Danielle Dunwoody (Nursing), Kathryn Halverson (Nursing), Farhana Madhani (Nursing), Elizabeth Orr (Nursing), Constance Schumacher (Nursing), Amina Silva (Nursing), Vanessa Silva e Silva (Nursing), Salima Sulaiman (Nursing)
Recreation, Sport and Community
Core Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Colleen Hood (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Professors
Tim O’Connell (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Shalini Singh (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Associate Professors
Martha Barnes (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Sanghee Chun (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Scott Forrester (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Pei-Chun Hsieh (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Garrett Hutson (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Kyle Rich (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Erin Sharpe (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Colleen Whyte (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Assistant Professors
Corliss Bean (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Alisa Grigorovich (Recreation & Leisure Studies)
Sport Management
Core Faculty
Professors
Julie Stevens (Sport Management), Dawn Trussell (Sport Management)
Associate Professors
Nicholas Burton (Sport Management), Chris Chard (Sport Management), Laura Cousens (Sport Management), Curtis Fogel (Sport Management), Craig Hyatt (Sport Management), Shannon Kerwin (Sport Management), Lisa Kikulis (Sport Management), Cheryl Mallen (Sport Management), Brad Millington (Sport Management), Michael Naraine (Sport Management), Kyle Rich (Recreation & Leisure Studies), Olan Scott (Sport Management), Kirsty Spence (Sport Management/Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies)
Assistant Professors
Ryan Clutterbuck (Sport Management), Michele Donnelly (Sport Management), Changwook Kim (Sport Management), Ashley Thompson (Sport Management), Michael Van Bussel (Sport Management)
Program Description
The Master’s program in Applied Health Sciences offers Master of Arts degrees in the fields of Community Health; Health and Physical Education; Leisure, Health and Wellbeing; Nursing; Recreation, Sport and Community; Sport Management and Master of Science degrees in the fields of Health Sciences and Kinesiology. Students receive a unique educational experience which combines mentorship of the student by a faculty supervisor and extensive small group work with fellow students and faculty from each of the five academic departments represented in the program: Health Sciences, Nursing, Kinesiology, Recreation and Leisure Studies and Sport Management. Students will gain in-depth training, knowledge and research experience through their thesis work while also benefiting from the broad, cross-disciplinary approach followed in the course work. The advanced course work and strong research experience are intended to prepare students to continue their graduate training at the doctoral level. Students will also be prepared to pursue the wide variety of career possibilities in health, kinesiology, recreation, and sport management.
The objectives of the program are: a) to foster students’ ability to do high quality, scientifically rigorous research in their discipline; b) to expand their understanding of concepts, theories and practices in their discipline such that they can successfully advance to doctoral studies; c) to provide the knowledge base and skills to analyze and evaluate programs, policies, environmental issues, and organizational structures related to applied health sciences; d) to enhance students’ abilities to apply and disseminate new knowledge and practices to colleagues, practitioners, policy makers/analysts, and other professionals in applied health sciences.
Facilities
The Faculty has over twenty labs including behavioural/observation labs, “dry” biophysical labs, “wet” biophysical labs, functional assessment labs and anatomy/physiology teaching labs. A number of graduate student spaces are available for use by FAHS graduate students. Students have access to a variety of software programs, including SPSS, SAS, and other discipline-specific software. Also available is a large format printer for printing posters, and various scanners, cameras, and devices for digital analysis.
Admission Requirements
Successful completion of a four year Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, from an accredited university in a relevant discipline (for example, Health Studies, Nursing, Recreation and Leisure Studies, Kinesiology or Sport Management), with an average of not less than 75% (mid-B) over the last two years of full-time undergraduate study. Students with a Bachelor’s degree in such related fields as Psychology, Planning, Sociology, Gerontology, Social Work, Biology and Business may also be eligible, although additional course work may be required. Applicants must have undergraduate preparation in research methods in either quantitative or qualitative data analysis. Applicants who do not have an undergraduate research methods course and/or an undergraduate data analysis course may be admitted to the program as a conditional student. These students, however, must successfully complete, at the undergraduate level, the research methods and/or data analysis course within the first two terms in order to continue in the program. Agreement from a faculty advisor to supervise the student is also required for admission to the program.
The Graduate Admissions Committee will review all applications and recommend admission for a limited number of candidates.
Admission to part-time study is not normally available. Individuals interested in part-time study should consult with the Graduate Program Director.
Program Notes
A thesis proposal will be required of all MA students in the program.
- The proposal should contain a detailed statement of the research problem and significance in terms of its contribution to knowledge and/or practice, a precise account of the methodology or research techniques to be employed, plus an outline of the proposed data analysis procedures to be used.
- The student will be required to present and defend this proposal before the student’s thesis supervisory committee.
- The final thesis based on the completed research must also be successfully defended to satisfy the thesis requirement.
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