Academics
Windsor offers more than 120 majors and minors and 55 master's and doctoral degree programs across nine faculties:
- Faculty of Arts & Social Science
- Anthropology; Communication Studies; Criminology; Dramatic Art; English; French; History; Language, Literature and Cultures; Labour Studies; Music; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; Social Work; Sociology; Visual Arts; Women's Studies
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Engineering
- Civil Engineering; Electrical and Computing Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Industrial and Manufacturing and Systems Engineering; and Mechanical, Automotive, Aerospace and Materials Engineering.
- Odette School of Business
- Accounting, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Finance and Strategy
- Faculty of Graduate Studies
- Faculty of Human Kinetics
- Sport Studies, Movement Science and Sport Management
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Nursing
- Faculty of Science
- Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, General Science.
University of Windsor also provide Inter-Faculty Programs offering cross-departmental majors like Forensics, Environmental studies and Arts & Science concentration. There are nine cooperative education programs for 1,100 students.
The Faculty of Law is one of six in Ontario, and has a major teaching and research focus on Social Justice issues. It publishes two law journals the Faculty led Access to Justice and the student run, peer-reviewed Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues.
Law students may study Human Rights Law, Poverty Law, Aboriginal rights law and legal issues affecting women, minorities and children. The faculty, in conjunction with Legal Aid Ontario, runs a downtown Windsor community legal clinic called Legal Assistance Windsor, that is staffed with supervising lawyers, law students, and social workers; it is aimed at meeting the legal needs of persons traditionally denied access to justice. This clinic operates in the area of landlord tenant law as well as social benefits.
The University of Windsor runs a second legal clinic, Community Legal Aid, located at the corner of Sunset and University. This clinic is a Student Legal Aid Services Society (SLASS) clinic, which is staffed primarily by volunteer law students and overseen by supervising lawyers, called review counsel. This clinic operates primarily in the areas of criminal law, landlord tenant law, and small claims court. The clinic offers free legal services to those who qualify financially and all students of the University of Windsor.
The faculty also has a joint, American Bar Association ABA-Approved LL.B-J.D.degree program with the University of Detroit Mercy. The program is completed in three years with students taking courses at both the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy. Upon completion students earn both Canadian and American legal accreditation and can pursue licensing in any Province in Canada (aside from civil law in Quebec) and any State in the United States of America.
As of 2008, the University of Windsor is also home to a satellite campus of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry of the University of Western Ontario. There are currently 92 medical students studying full-time at the Windsor campus.
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