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Newly launched site targets Grad Student needs

Mike — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:05:04 +0000

Graduate students! Try the newly launched Grad Navigate website intended to keep you in the know about upcoming graduate-specific workshops and services. Opportunities are offered by departments across campus on a wide range of topics.

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ALDS professor explores challenges for Kurdish

Mike — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:42:50 +0000

Applied Linguistics Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami is currently researching the tensions, challenges, opportunities, and threats surrounding Kurdish, the language and the people. Here what he had to say to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Artemeva receives grant

Mike — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:53:28 +0000

Congratulations to ALDS professor Dr. Natasha Artemeva and collaborator Dr. Craig Bennell (Psychology) on receiving a 2013 Development Grant for proposed research into “The Genre of the Suicide Note”.

ALDS professor receives research award

Mike — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:55:48 +0000

Congratulations to Dr. David Wood for being one of eight recipients of the 2013 FASS Junior Research Award, for his project, “An Idiodynamic Investigation of the Relationship between Willingness to Communicate and Speech Fluency in a Second Language”.

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ALDS, collaborating program with new MA in Digital Humanities

Mike — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:43:43 +0000

Carleton University is pleased to announce a new collaborative MA in Digital Humanities. The program is designed to add value to existing degree programs by offering courses focused on the rapidly growing field of digital humanities. Applicants must already be enrolled in one of the participating MA programs and, upon completion of their degree, they will obtain an MA in their chosen field with a designated concentration in Digital Humanities.

Learn More:

Digital Humanities website
Specific program requirements
How to apply (Application Deadline: 1 August, 2013)

Participating programs:

Anthropology
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
Art History
Canadian Studies
English Language and Literature
Film Studies
French and Francophone Studies
History
Music and Culture
Philosophy
Public History
Sociology

2012-13 Outstanding SLaLS TA Awards

Mike — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:00:03 +0000

SLaLS recognized five outstanding teaching assistants for their outstanding service during the 2012/2013 academic year at an event Monday, May 12.

Congratulations and heartfelt appreciation to recipients of this year’s SLaLS Outstanding TA Awards.

Sarah Cebukski

nominated by Ann Laubstein (Linguistics)

Chloe-Grace Fogerty-Bourget

nominated by Natasha Artemeva (Applied Linguistics)

Charlotte Hayman

nominated by Jacquie Ballantine (Linguistics)

Olga Shapalova

nominated by Marina Sabanadze (Russian)

Ahlem Tabib

nominated by Guillaume Gentil (Applied Linguistics)

ALDS grad student receives outstanding TA award

Mike — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:01:51 +0000

Congratulations to ALDS graduate student Don Myles on receiving a 2013 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for his work in the academic English as a Second Language program.

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Attention Graduate Students

Mike — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:37:16 +0000

The Three-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT)

The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs is pleased to announce the inaugural Three-Minute Thesis competition for Carleton graduate students. The original competition was created by The University of Queensland, Australia in 2008. The idea is for grad students to deliver a clear and concise oral presentation of their independent research, presenting the key idea and impact of their research in three minutes or less. The 3MT will take place on March 26-27 as part of the Graduate Research Forum organized by the Graduate Students’ Association.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three competitors. The top two participants will then be funded to compete at the Provincial 3MT competition at Queen’s University.

Full details are available on the 3MT website.

Participation is first come, first served to a maximum of 48 participants.

Chancellor’s Medal winner loves the study of language

Mike — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:50:58 +0000

Buried under her master’s studies at McGill University, with midterms looming, 23-year-old Fayden Sara Bokhari takes a few hurried minutes to reflect on her three years at Carleton University pursuing a bachelor of arts degree in applied linguistics and discourse studies (ALDS), with a minor in psychology.

Winner of the Chancellor’s Medal as she graduates this fall, Bokhari says…

“Learning Genres of Teaching” presentation online (Artemeva)

Mike — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:43:44 +0000

Visit the Genre Studies Network group on Facebook to listen to Natasha Artemeva’s 6 October 2012 presentation “Learning genres of teaching: A rhetorical approach to the study of written genres.”