SYC National Conference at the University of Toronto Mississauga.This conference is for university and college students across Canada to learn, share, and implement environmental and sustainability initiatives on their campus.
This year’s theme is The Healthy Campus and a focus will be placed on how the environment of the campus affects students. So the healthier the campus, the healthier the students.
http://sustainablecampuses.ca/pages/registration-page
Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue
Semester in the City - Spring 2013
Are you an undergraduate looking for an exciting and innovative way to learn? Are you interested in learning with students from post-secondary institutions outside your own? Apply now for the spring 2013 semester of SFU’s Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue: Semester in the City, as part of Vancouver’s CityStudio.
Students will work full-time as a cohort with the City of Vancouver to implement Greenest City 2020 urban sustainability strategies and focus projects towards meeting the these goals. The Spring 2013 CityStudio cohort will focus on urban interventions at the neighbourhood scale of implementing demonstration projects related to Greenest City
Goals. Specific community plans as well as the document Vancouver 2020: A Bright Green Future will inform and provide context for our work.
CityStudio is an initiative within Vancouver’s Campus City Collaborative (C3), an energetic hub of learning and leadership where post-secondary students work with City staff, community and business experts to research, design and implement projects that work towards the achievement of Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 Action Plan. In addition to this core studio course, 12 partner courses from the 6 campuses will simultaneously engage the theme, share research and work, and participate in events.
http://www.citystudiovancouver.com
This 15 credit (SFU - DIAL 390, 391, 392) full time course will be held at Vancouver’s CityStudio and is open to students from six Vancouver post-secondary institutions (SFU, UBC, BCIT, Langara, Emily Carr, VCC).
Students will be selected from interdisciplinary areas represented by all post secondary institutions; geography, health science, engineering, planning, social sciences, arts,
business, food systems and design.
This course runs Monday thru Friday 9:30-3:30. The course is intensive and experiential and students should not be taking any other courses during this term. This is a full course load.
The cohort will meet in the studio (located under Cambie Bridge near Olympic Village) 5 days/week, Monday - Friday from 9:30am - 3:30pm.
Faculty include Dr. Janet Moore and Dr. Sean Blenkinsop from SFU’s Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue, and Duane Elverum from Emily Carr University. For faculty bios, see http://www.sfu.ca/dialog/undergrad/faculty+guest.html
Course Outline can be found at: http://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/undergrad/
Applications for the Spring Semester in the City at CityStudio Vancouver are due October 15, 2012.
Application details can be found online at:
http://www.sfu.ca/dialog/undergrad/application.html.
Students will be informed of the status of their application by mid November 2012. After students are accepted to the program we will assist non-SFU students in applications to become an SFU student for the term. Students will gain SFU credits and SFU fees will apply.
For further information about the courses, the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue and for application information, visit our web sitewww.sfu.ca/dialogue/undergrad
If you have further questions after visiting our website, contact the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue at [email protected], and CityStudio at [email protected]
