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GPWL913 - Eating Well with Little Time or Money

Section 1

November 24, 2020, 13:00 - 14:00, Tue

GPCB602 - Optimizing LinkedIn

Section 2

November 24, 2020, 13:30 - 15:30, Tue

Section 1

February 10, 2021, 13:00 - 15:00, Wed

Section 2

March 26, 2021, 09:00 - 11:00, Fri

GPTK768 - History of Canada’s Residential Schools and Its Impacts on Indigenous Peoples’s Education

Section 1

December 2, 2020, 10:30 - 12:00, Wed

The intent of this workshop is to increase participants’ critical analysis and understanding about the history and role of Canada’s Residential Schools and its impacts on Indigenous Peoples, key findings from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report and its implications on decolonizing teaching and learning. ~~~ Participants will gain a critical understanding about the history and role of Canada’s Residential schools and its impacts on Indigenous peoples and education from a historical and contemporary context. ~~~ This workshop is led by Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf. Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf is Turtle Clan and is a citizen from the Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, Kahnawake Territory, which is part of the Rotinonhsión:ni Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. She is a Kanien’kehá:ka educator and scholar who joined Concordia university in January of 2018 and is the Director Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy . Her primary role is to develop university-wide training for Concordia faculty on decolonizing and Indigenizing their curriculum programs of study in ways that re-center the advancement and integration of Indigenous peoples’ diverse humanities - intellectual, scientific and cultural knowledge systems, worldviews, epistemologies, histories, research and pedagogies across all academic units. She also serves on the Indigenous Directions Leadership Group. Her faculty teaching and Indigenous-centered curriculum design experiences in various academic programs in the Humanities span across Canada and the United States. In addition, Donna has vast experiences working in Indigenous communities on a local, national and international level in the areas of Indigenous-centered education, language and cultural revitalization programs. Her current research interests are in decolonization and advancing Indigenous Humanities, Indigenous –centered-education, protection and promotion of Indigenous language and cultural rights, Indigenous land rights and rights to self-determination and Human Rights.

GPTK715 - Gina Cody School's Health and Safety Workshop for TAs

Section 2

December 15, 2020, 14:00 - 15:30, Tue

Section 1

January 15, 2021, 14:00 - 15:30, Fri

GPLL7 - Strategies for Grad School Success: Designing your MAP to Success

Section 1

January 14, 2021, 11:00 - 13:00, Thu

New graduate students often encounter a variety of challenges as they discover an educational reality that can be very different from their undergraduate experience. Studying remotely in the midst of a pandemic adds its own set of challenges too. In this 3-part interactive workshop series, you will learn what it takes to be a successful graduate student and gain strategies to achieve your academic and career goals in a healthy and balanced way during the unusual circumstances brought on by COVID-19. While the combination of all three workshops provides the most complete overview of how to maximize success in grad school, students can choose to register for only one or two workshops or attend all three. A unique registration is required for each session. This is part 1 (Designing your MAP to Success) of the workshop series. The other two workshops in the series are: GPLL8 - Strategies for Grad School Success: Maintaining a Healthy Balance GPLL9 - Strategies for Grad School Success: Developing your Academic and Career Potential *** This session is the same as the MAP to Success session that was offered as part of orientation programming for new graduate students. If you already attended the MAP to Success, you do not need to attend this session.*** ~~~ PART 1: Designing your MAP to Success 1- Understand how graduate-level learning is different from undergrad studies 2- Identify the main factors associated with academic success and common challenges faced by graduate students 3- Gain awareness of resources available to support grad students’ success 4- Create a personal action plan for success based on your own unique strengths and weaknesses ~~~ This workshop will be led by Monica Boulos, M.A., c.o. Monica Boulos is the First-Year Support Counsellor at Concordia’s Student Success Centre. She completed her M.A. in Counselling Psychology in 2011 and has been working with the team of Services for New Students since 2012. She offers one-on-one supportive counselling to all first-year students, first-year check-ins in a group format, as well as a variety of orientation sessions and workshops like this one, tailored to first-year students.

GPCB634 - Job Search Skills

Section 1

January 20, 2021, 13:00 - 15:00, Wed

Section 2

February 26, 2021, 09:00 - 11:00, Fri

GPLL8 - Strategies for Grad School Success: Maintaining a Healthy Balance

Section 1

January 21, 2021, 11:00 - 13:00, Thu

GPCB632 - Resume and Cover Letter Writing

Section 1

January 27, 2021, 13:00 - 15:00, Wed

Section 2

March 12, 2021, 09:00 - 11:00, Fri

GPLL9 - Strategies for Grad School Success: Developing your Academic and Career Potential

Section 1

January 28, 2021, 11:00 - 13:00, Thu

New graduate students often encounter a variety of challenges as they discover an educational reality that can be very different from their undergraduate experience. Studying remotely in the midst of a pandemic adds its own set of challenges too. In this 3-part interactive workshop series, you will learn what it takes to be a successful graduate student and gain strategies to achieve your academic and career goals in a healthy and balanced way during the unusual circumstances brought on by COVID-19. While the combination of all three workshops provides the most complete overview of how to maximize success in grad school, students can choose to register for only one or two workshops or attend all three. A unique registration is required for each session. This is part 3 (Developing your academic and career potential) of the workshop series. The other two workshops in the series are: GPLL7 -Strategies for Grad School Success: Designing your MAP to Success GPLL8 - Strategies for Grad School Success: Maintaining a Healthy Balance ~~~ PART 3: Developing your academic and career potential 1- Understand the importance and process of effective career planning 2- Learn how to seek and create opportunities to expand your network and skill sets 3- Learn how to stand out and get ahead in your field of study 4- Identify best practices for fostering positive working relationships with class or lab mates, professors and research supervisors ~~~ This workshop will be led by Monica Boulos, M.A., c.o. and Laura Mitchell, Ph.D. Monica Boulos is the First-Year Support Counsellor at Concordia’s Student Success Centre. She completed her M.A. in Counselling Psychology in 2011 and has been working with the team of Services for New Students since 2012. She offers one-on-one supportive counselling to all first-year students, first-year check-ins in a group format, as well as a variety of orientation sessions and workshops like this one, tailored to first-year students. Laura Mitchell is the Director of Concordia’s Student Success Centre and Executive Director of Student Services. She completed her Ph.D. in 2004 in the area of psychological management of physical pain and was a Psychology Professor for 12 years in both Scotland and Canada. In 2015, she became the Director of the new Student Success Centre at Concordia, and continues to teach in the Centre's University Skills for Success courses.

GPCB410 - Funding, Internships and Networking Strategies

Section 1

February 3, 2021, 09:00 - 11:00, Wed

Are you seeking to expand your professional network, develop a research partnership or land an internship? Join us to learn more about Mitacs graduate research funding programs and how they can help you carve out your career path. This workshop will present an overview of the industrial research landscape in Montreal, Quebec and Canada. Participants will learn how to identify a potential employer or research partner, and develop strategies to approach a company for an internship or partnership. Mitacs builds partnerships between academia, industry and the world to create a more innovative Canada. Through unique research funding and training programs, Mitacs aims to support the development of the next generation of innovators with vital scientific and business skills. This workshop provides an overview of the Mitacs Accelerate, Elevate, Globalink, Step and Converge programs. It also outlines basic techniques for identifying and reaching out to industry partners. ~~~ In this workshops, participants will: 1 - Get hands on techniques to identify and reach out to an industry partner. 2 - Gain insight on Canada’s innovation and productivity challenges. 3 - Learn which Mitacs resources are best suited to support your research and career objectives. ~~~ This workshop is led by Anna-Maria Moubayed, PhD, Mitacs Business Development Specialist for Concordia University. Anna-Maria joined Mitacs in 2019, while teaching Art History at Concordia University, following a doctoral degree in Art History at Queen’s University, Kingston. Previously completing her undergraduate and graduate studies at Concordia University, Anna-Maria is an art historian with an interdisciplinary passion for research and innovation. Her role at Mitacs is to connect university-based researchers with industry and community partners to drive economic development in Canada through collaborative innovation projects, which engage graduate students in work-integrated learning experiences. Her full profile is available at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annamariam/.

GPCB630 - Interviewing Skills

Section 1

February 3, 2021, 13:00 - 15:00, Wed

Section 2

March 19, 2021, 09:00 - 11:00, Fri

GPDI552 - Build Your ePortfolio with Beginner Wordpress

Section 1

February 5-26, 2021, 09:30 - 10:30, Fri

This course combines the learning of two professional skills into one: you will learn how to build your ePortfolio while also learning how to use Wordpress.com. This project-based course will be taught over 4 weeks using multiple channels, including video tutorials on Udemy (6.5 hours), Zoom lectures (4 hours), and weekly assignments. Components of your ePortfolio will be due incrementally so that, by the end of course, you will have a version of an ePortfolio that you can share with potential collaborators and/or employers. No previous Wordpress knowledge is required. Your ePortfolio is a personal website that encapsulates your work as a graduate student and early career professional. Think of it as an expanded CV. Whereas a CV ‘tells’ the reader of your achievements, the ePortfolio ‘shows’ the reader what you’ve done in detail. EPortfolio’s are increasing requested in job applications since they summarize your skills and accomplishments in a way that is aesthetically pleasing. It is an opportunity to show your professional identity and maybe even be discovered! The ePortfolio for this course will contain the following pages: 1. About: a brief biographical statement 2. Contact: a way to encourage correspondence 3. Projects: publications, multimedia/audiovisual works, media appearances, etc. 4. Optional pages for your education, research interests, extracurricular activities, etc. This hybrid course spans 4 weeks with four 1-hour synchronous lectures over Zoom on Friday mornings. Between the weekly lectures, participants MUST consult recommended videos available through the Udemy workshop, “Wordpress for Beginners - Master Wordpress Quickly” taught by Andrew Williams. These videos will cover essential information that will not be covered in the lectures but is key to building your ePortfolio. A Moodle site will also exist. Udemy course link: https://concordia.udemy.com/course/wordpress-for-beginners-course/ ~~~ In this workshop you will learn to: - Acquire a domain, design a site map, and build a basic Wordpress website - Explore themes and tools to customize a website using best practices - Create an ePortfolio featuring your projects, biographical statement, and contact information ~~~ This workshop is led by Maya Hey. Maya Hey is a Vanier scholar (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) and PhD candidate (ABD) in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She was also a Concordia Public Scholar (2018-2019), aiming to bridge the gap between academic research, industry professionals, and media makers. Her doctoral research examines fermentation and feminist theory, particularly attending to questions of power, performativity, and material practice.

GPWL939 - Income Taxes (Financial Skills for the Real World)

Section 1

February 9, 2021, 09:00 - 11:00, Tue