Description: This module is set up to help prepare students preparing to start an undergraduate degree in engineering in the fall. The module will be broken up into four sections: introduction to engineering, review of basic math skills for engineering, using empirical data with Excel, and group project management and organization.

Start Date: May 4, 2020

Description: Writing a good essay is a skill that many of us can find daunting and mysterious. This module will unlock some of the secrets of writing a good essay and by breaking it down into workshops on the research question, thesis construction, organization, and effective language, we will become much more successful and persuasive communicators.

Facilitator: Colin Sharpe

Description: Biz Prep 101 will help prepare you for what to expect when heading into Business at university, and look to connect what you learn in school to corporate-world experience. Lessons will include an overview of subjects and careers; an overview of Excel, with some exercises to practice (optional); tips for resumes and interviews; and interviews with people working corporate jobs.

Description: Nietzche once wrote that if you stare into the void long enough the void stares back into you, and from 1965 when the Marines first land at Danang to the fall of Saigon in 1975, we see the full circle of American History and a betrayal of American ideals.  In Vietnam we see Americans, once a beleaguered and rag tag guerilla force fighting a distance Empire, become the Empire. In Vietnam, we see a nation once dedicated to freedom foment racial strife at home and abroad. Above all, in Vietnam we see the truth of Mark Twain's warning that, "what gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."

Start Date: April 30, 2020

Description: Have you ever used any of these expressions per se, et cetera, re, or quid pro quo and wondered exactly what and why you're saying it? They're all derived from the rich Latin heritage that has shaped Modern English. The goal of this course will be to give you some basic understanding of the Latin language and, in particular, why it is still important despite it being considered a 'dead' language. You will see that Latin is alive and well and you use it every day!

Session Timing: 10 sessions x 1 hour each, 3 times per week

Description: Participants will learn how to take a spark of an idea and craft it into a one-act play.  A public play-reading of their work will culminate the module.

Description: This course will look at the introductory principles of forensic science with a broad view of the discipline. Topics include an introduction to what forensic science is and the history, forensic chemistry and toxicology, forensic biology and DNA testing, Canadian law, criminology, forensic osteology and anthropology, and more. A background in science would be helpful but not necessarily required. 

Description: How to write blogs, articles, editorials, and books and how to get what you write published.