Student resources

Graduate Studies useful links and forms

Recent books and papers

We try to keep an updated display of recent publications in the Hagey Hall third floor hallway. This display showcases works by members of Philosophy at UWaterloo and is updated by the student engagement coordinator. If you have an item you would like to display, please drop it off in the mailroom after notifying the student engagement coordinator.

Placement

If you are planning to apply for jobs or post-docs during any given academic year, please let the Graduate Chair know in September, or as early as possible after that. The Graduate Chair will do their best to support your search. 

Email

We’ll be using your uwaterloo email in our emails and lists, so please ensure that you read email sent to that address one way or another.

Scholarship list from Grad Studies Office

Learn about both internal and external awards and funding opportunities that are available for graduate students from the Current Graduate Students website. If you’d like to apply or have questions, talk to the graduate coordinator. 

Centre for Teaching Excellence

  • The university's Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) provides workshops, microteaching modules, classroom observations and other sessions that help prepare graduate students for their teaching roles.
  • Graduate students who have taken full advantage of these opportunities have subsequently reported that they had more confidence in their role as TAs and instructors and felt better prepared for university teaching.
  • Graduate Student Teaching Awards are awarded annually for excellence in teaching and teaching assistantship.

Colloquia

  • It is expected that graduate students will regularly attend department colloquia; these are generally held on Fridays from 3:30-5:00p.m.
  • For those of you who are new to the program, after talks by local speakers everybody is welcome to come out for drinks (usually at the Grad House), and after talks by visitors a small group of faculty and grad students take the speaker out for dinner (see “Colloquia Dinners,” below).
  • You can find out about upcoming events on the events page.

Colloquia Dinners: The post-talk dinners are a great opportunity for grad students to meet philosophers from other Universities and to talk philosophy.

  • To encourage more grad students to attend, and we will subsidize the cost of dinners for grad students. We will cover up to $30 per grad student per meal, subject to the University’s accounting rules (most notably: alcohol is not covered; you are allowed to order alcohol, but you will have to pay for it yourself).
  • If you would like to come to dinner, let the colloquium director know by the end of the day on the Wednesday before the talk. There will be a maximum number of grad student spaces per dinner; in the event that more people want to attend than there are spaces, the colloquium director will decide who will attend and notify everybody. In practice, this will likely mean that everybody will get to attend at most one dinner this year. (However, if you are interested in attending, it is always a good idea to let the colloquium director know and also to tell them if you would prefer to attend a dinner later in the term.) Colloquium director is a service role and is occupied on rotation. I you are not sure who the current colloquia director is contact the student engagement coordinator. 

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