Graduate Orientation Schedule 2015

Last updated:  September 2nd/2015 11 am

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

Time

Event

Location

8:30-9:30

SAGE breakfast event

PAS 1229

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome

PAS 1229

9:45 - 11:00

Faculty speed dating / overview of grad courses

PAS 1229

11:00 - 12:00

Taking grad courses (including library / research component)

PAS 1229

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

HH 232

1:00 - 2:00

Coop as UWaterloo English Grad Student - Scott Davis

PAS 1229

New PhD student session

HH 232

1:00 - 3:00

Key Permit session

HH 252

2:10 - 3:10

New MA student session

PAS 1229

3:20 - 5:30

SAGE presentation

  • Work/Life Balance in Kitchener/Waterloo
  • Mental Health/Accessibility as a Grad Student and a TA
  • So... How do I get more funding? And what is this "SSHRC" thing everyone's talking about?
  • Planning your graduate career
  • But what is it really like to be a TA?
  • Quickfire Q&A

PAS 1229

Thursday, September 10th, 2015

9:30 - 11:30

Faculty of Arts Orientation - Workshop on Academic Integrity
- 9:30 am – General Welcome (Linda Warley and Doug Peers)
- 9:45 am – Academic Integrity Workshop (mandatory milestone session)
- 10:45 am – Representative from Career Action to speak (Stephanie Burley)
- 11:15 am – Closing remarks (Linda Warley)

AL 116

11:00 - 12:00

Returning PhD student session

PAS 1229

11:30 - 1:00

Arts BBQ lunch for incoming students

Arts Quad
(Rain location
AL Foyer)

1:00 - 5:00

TA and GI mandatory teaching training session

  • 1:00-1:50 General Introduction (all graduate students, PAS 1229)
  • 2:00-2:50 Teaching Writing through Feedback (all graduate students, PAS 1229)
  • 3:00-3:50 Strategies for Online Teaching (new MA and PhD students, PAS 1241); Teaching Philosophies and Best Practices (continuing PhD students, PAS 1229)
  • 4:00-4:50 Introduction to LEARN (new MA and PhD students, PAS 1241--bring a laptop if possible); Strategies for Classroom Teaching (continuing PhD students, PAS 1229)

PAS 1229

5:00 - 9:00

SAGE social

Molly Bloom's

Friday, September 11th, 2015

10-11:30

ENGL 109 (Online) TA meeting - Dadey

ENGL 109 GI meeting - Condon

HH 150

HH 227

ENGL 201F TA meeting  - Hadfield

HH 138

11:30-1

Key Permit session

HH 253A

1:00-2:00

Research Ethics

HH 2107

2:00-3:00

GI orientation session (all GIs)

HH 2107

2:00 - 5:00

XDM Boot camp

44 Gaukel Street

5:30 - 7:30

Department Welcome Reception

 and

PhD Program 25th Anniversary Celebration

School of Accounting (HH) Atrium

Saturday September 12th, 2014

10:00 - 2:00

XDM Boot camp

44 Gaukel Street