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Apartment hunting Workshop organized by the Housing and Job Bank (HOJO) and the International Students Office (ISO).

Apartment hunting Workshop organized by the Housing and Job Bank (HOJO) and the International Students Office (ISO).

Three days of intensive training with Alannah Young Leon and Denise Nadeau Wednesday, August 30th, Thursday, August 31st, and Friday September 1st, 2017 Co-presented by the Indigenous Directions Leadership Group (IDLG), and the Department of Religions and Cultures, Tiohtiá:ke / Montréal

Apartment hunting Workshop organized by the Housing and Job Bank (HOJO) and the International Students Office (ISO).

Graduate School Base Camp is a condensed version of key GradProSkills workshops which lay the foundations for a positive and productive grad school experience. During these carefully selected workshops, participants will learn fundamental skills, gain an awareness of important university rules, and be pointed to key resources. Base camp is recommended for newly admitted graduate students, and in particular international students who are new to the Canadian university context and graduate students who are returning to university after an extended absence.

(Forming, Using and Troubleshooting Groups and Teams)

Come meet representatives from Roland Berger Strategy Consultant, an international firm that advises and assists large national and multinational companies and organizations on various senior management issues.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

This 90-minute workshop is designed to guide JMSB graduate students through the major business resources that are available via the Concordia Library system, to help students maximize their research expertise and time. We will show students how to find company and financial information, industry surveys, SWOT analysis, market research reports and consumer data. Furthermore, we will demonstrate how to gain access to peer-reviewed journals and popular business sources such as the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review.

This workshop aims to ensure that participants do not miss out on the little-known research tools and tricks which can be indispensable for effective graduate level research at Concordia in all subject areas. We will cover essentials such as: 1. Pinpointing the best spots on the library web site for graduate students 2. Discovering services, resources and perks reserved for grad students only 3. Knowing when and how to seek in-depth assistance from Concordia subject specialists 4. Using specialized and subject-specific resources, and getting started with lit reviews 5. Optimizing access to Concordia resources from on and off campus 6. Efficiently accessing material within and beyond Concordia's walls 7. Getting a peek at managing that material via tools like Refworks 8. Setting up Google Scholar to find Concordia resources Participant questions and input will be invited throughout the session.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Graduate School Base Camp is a condensed version of key GradProSkills workshops which lay the foundations for a positive and productive grad school experience. During these carefully selected workshops, participants will learn fundamental skills, gain an awareness of important university rules, and be pointed to key resources. Base camp is recommended for newly admitted graduate students, and in particular international students who are new to the Canadian university context and graduate students who are returning to university after an extended absence.

In the age of Big Data, nothing communicates complex information better than data visualizations. In this hand-on workshop, the Webster Library’s new Visualization Studio will show you how to bring data to life and use it to tell a compelling story. First, we will present an overview of the evolution of data visualization. Then we will look at best practices and fundamental design principles to create high-impact visualizations. We will learn to identify different types of data visualization and how to use them effectively. We will break down the process and key steps in preparing a successful data visualization, including learning to ask the right questions, exploring concepts, exploring data, generating ideas, selecting the right concept and implementing a visualization. Finally we will work with an open data set to build a visualization that tells a story using Tableau. By the end of the workshop, we will have built a beautiful interactive dashboard. We will also give an overview of different tools that are available to students and the general public. This workshop is ideal for scientists, journalists, educators, artists, communication professionals and anyone curious about data, or with an interest in communicating data with creativity and clarity.

This workshop will focus on the main sources of social statistics in Canada, namely Statistics Canada's Website, the Canadian Census, the National Household Survey (NHS), and CANSIM. Provincial statistics (Institut de la Statistique du Québec) will also be mentioned. The second part of the presentation will present the concept of microdata and introduce students to data available through the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI). We will review the best methods to identify relevant surveys. The various types of data files (PUMFs, Master Files) will be described and students will be shown how to access those files via the Odesi database, or by going to the Research Data Centre at McGill (QICSS). There will be a demonstration of Odesi which will focus on searching the platform for surveys and individual variables and on downloading datasets and associated documentation.

In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use RefWorks, a web-based tool that you can use to organize the references you find in library catalogues and databases, insert citations in your papers, and prepare bibliographies or reference lists quickly and effectively, in a wide variety of citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, et cetera). We will also discuss how to integrate RefWorks with Microsoft Word using RefWorks' Write'n-Cite tool, and how to share your RefWorks folders and citations (e.g., for collaborative projects or to disseminate reading lists). No experience with RefWorks is necessary.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

This one hour seminar is designed to assist humanities and social science PhD students who are interested in thinking about how to transition their dissertations to book manuscripts for consideration by a university press.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

This 90 minute workshop will focus on introducing you to Engineering Village, a sophisticated discovery platform for current and past engineering & computer science literature tracked in databases such as Compendex and INSPEC. Other important engineering resources will also be highlighted. The workshop will cover how to use Engineering Village to find articles and conference papers in your field, track research in particular journals or by specific authors and monitor new research output going forward. We will also show you briefly how what you learn here can be applied to other resources.

Learn about several applications that will help you manage your research documents, cite references, prepare bibliographies, and collaborate with other people doing research together. Examples of reference management applications include Zotero, Mendeley, and RefWorks among others. How can you choose the right one to support your needs? This workshop will address some techniques for using different reference management applications and help you understand key differences in the way each tool can make your research and writing processes easier.

Learn helpful strategies to improve your sleep and overall performance.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Skills of Communication is a full-day session featuring the tools and tips of better verbal communication. It will test your assumptions and mental models and for many it may be the first time you learn about the Ladder of Inference, the Johari Window and more. The goal is to make you more aware of the tools available to help you become a better communicator in both your work and personal lives. The mastery of these skills is a long-term process, but by simply becoming more conscious of the various communication styles, including your own, you can approach conversations differently and change conversational direction to achieve better outcomes.

The Webster Library’s new Visualization Studio will help you discover creative coding using Processing. Processing is a flexible environment for creative sketching and rapid prototyping of ideas and concepts. It’s free, open source, efficient and easy to learn. Processing makes it so easy to turn ideas into pixels on a screen that sometimes the process feels like magic. In this hands-on workshop we will learn to program graphics, animations and interactivity in Processing by building fun sketches. Processing is very beginner-friendly, but it’s also powerful enough for professionals to use as a design tool for large-scale installation work, motion graphics, complex data visualization and more. It’s trivial to export your Processing sketch to any platform (Windows, Mac OSX, Web, etc.) as a standalone application so you can conveniently share your work with a wide audience. No prior programming knowledge is necessary, though if you have some programming experience, you will still get something out of this workshop.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

When working with others, we often forget the impressions and impact we have on those around us. We often dismiss just how important our personal reputation impacts the way we are perceived and in turn, how others relate to us and ultimately, what opportunities are opened to us. From first impressions to making a lasting impression, this one-day workshop will provide you with tips, tricks and tools from dressing the part to knowing how to apply effective communication techniques and professional behaviour when working closely with others.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use RefWorks, a web-based tool that you can use to organize the references you find in library catalogues and databases, insert citations in your papers, and prepare bibliographies or reference lists quickly and effectively, in a wide variety of citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, et cetera). We will also discuss how to integrate RefWorks with Microsoft Word using RefWorks' Write'n-Cite tool, and how to share your RefWorks folders and citations (e.g., for collaborative projects or to disseminate reading lists). No experience with RefWorks is necessary.

This workshop will introduce you to strategies that can be used to help increase your research impact, and explore ways in which research impact indicators can be used to identify potential collaborators in your field of research. The session will explore the databases and approaches used to determine these research impact indicators, as well as the importance of author identification tools in your academic work.

The wonderful world of Virtual Reality is growing every day. Get ready to hop on the VR train with this dynamic, hands-on workshop from the Webster Library’s new Visualization Studio. With Unity, anyone can develop content for VR technologies! Indeed, Unity is a fantastic game engine that is well suited for beginners and expert developers alike. In this workshop you will build your first Mobile VR game from scratch in Unity, and will learn the fundamentals of building creative experiences. This workshops will act as a jumping-off point for you to dive into the world of VR creation. No previous experience is required, everyone is welcome!

This session will provide an overview of the requirements for systematic review searches. This session will consist of a lecture and practical exercises. **Participants are strongly encouraged to bring search topics.**

This workshop focuses on the numerous art-related search tools and resources in the library and how to use them in conjunction with google scholar and other web tools. You will discover strategies for tracking down hard-to-find materials as well as learn about library services that give you access to an expansive network of resources in Concordia Library and beyond.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.

Intentionally create the life you want.

Our regular information sessions on the Concordia Student Exchange Program are the first step to studying abroad at one of our 174 partner schools in 39 countries worldwide, all the while earning credits that can go towards your degree back home! Drop in on our CSEP info session to find out more about this amazing opportunity.