Allies in Health: 4th Annual Community & Patient Fair
This interprofessional event is an opportunity for UBC health and human service students and faculty to connect with and learn from community health organizations and individuals living with chronic health conditions. The fair will include patient panels, community exhibits, and prizes. Volunteers also needed.
Habits of Highly Effective Writers
‘Publish or perish’ is the mantra of the successful academic. Yet few academics have been explicitly trained as writers, and fewer still have been schooled in the intricate art of maintaining research productivity without sacrificing work-life balance. Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard 2012), has interviewed more than 80 successful academics from across the disciplines to find out about their professional formation as writers, their daily work habits, and their habits of mind. In this interactive workshop, she will present a smorgasbord of evidence-based strategies for colleagues who aspire to write more confidently, stylishly, engagingly, daringly, or simply more prolifically.
TA Training Poster Display
This poster display will showcase the different processes departments and faculties use to train their teaching assistants. It is intended to provide information to students who may be interested in becoming TAs, and it is also an opportunity for faculties to share information with each other about their approaches to TA Training.
Ticketing Information: This is a free event, open to the public. Everyone is welcome. For more information visit http://vpacademic.ubc.ca/ta-training-programs/
Vancouver Human Rights Lecture: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Aboriginal Human Rights
Indigenous issues will be discussed.
First Nations Languages of British Columbia: Loss and Revitalization
British Columbia is the ancestral home of more than half the Aboriginal languages of Canada – and all are critically endangered and at risk of loss within a generation. Learn about the First Nations languages of BC, the unique systems of knowledge that sustained First Nations’ cultures for thousands of years, and why the loss of First Nations languages matters.
Democracy and Two-Party Politics in the United States
The United States has historically managed its national politics through two dominant political parties. Examine this relatively unique system of representative politics by looking at some significant election examples from the Revolution to the present, and conclude with a discussion of what divides the present Democratic and Republican parties and what this might mean after the 2012 election.
Leonard Cohen: Poetry, Prose and Passion
Before you head off to hear Leonard Cohen perform live in Vancouver in November 2012, come to this one-day course on Cohen’s life and songs, taught by his biographer. Please read Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993) and Beautiful Losers (1966) prior to the course, and listen to a sampling of Cohen’s songs and musical arrangements, including his latest album, Old Ideas (2012).
GMAT® Analytical Writing Assessment Seminar
Gain essential strategies to tackle this unique portion of the GMAT that is not multiple choice. Benefit from information and tips on optimizing your score under time pressure and gain practice in a timed Analytical Writing Assessment exercise in a computer lab to simulate the test environment.
Career Testing Package
Studies show that people who work in a career that supports their intrinsic interests are happier, more successful and better fulfilled in life. For individuals feeling stuck in an unsatisfying job, considering a major career change, or re-entering the workforce after an extended absence, the Career Testing Package provides a positive first step towards a career path more aligned with intrinsic interests, personal style and individual strengths. The assessment package includes four inventories designed to increase understanding of your individual aptitudes, career interests, work-related personality and key values.
The package is administered in a two-and-a-half-hour group setting and is followed approximately one week later by a private, one-hour session with a professional career counsellor. The assessments in the package include the Wonderlic Personnel, Strong Interest Inventory, Work Personality Index and Career Values Scale.
Career Testing Package
Studies show that people who work in a career that supports their intrinsic interests are happier, more successful and better fulfilled in life. For individuals feeling stuck in an unsatisfying job, considering a major career change, or re-entering the workforce after an extended absence, the Career Testing Package provides a positive first step towards a career path more aligned with intrinsic interests, personal style and individual strengths. The assessment package includes four inventories designed to increase understanding of your individual aptitudes, career interests, work-related personality and key values.
The package is administered in a two-and-a-half-hour group setting and is followed approximately one week later by a private, one-hour session with a professional career counsellor. The assessments in the package include the Wonderlic Personnel, Strong Interest Inventory, Work Personality Index and Career Values Scale.