Glendon College

First Year Transition Course Supported by Experiential Learning and eLearning: A 3 pronged approach to enhancing the First Year Experience

Description This transition course takes an integrated approach to promoting first-year student success by developing their fundamental skills, academic skills, personal/intrapersonal skills, and team-work/interpersonal skills. The course will contribute to the development of York’s three identified priority areas: First Year Experience, Experiential Learning and eLearning. Project Lead(s) Rosanna Furgiuele Faculty Glendon College Funding Priority Student […]

Jumpstart – Successful Transition to University

Description This pilot project involves a summer program, led by experts in various fields, to help students make a successful academic and personal transition to university by providing tools and skills to adjust to academic demands of university, develop techniques for effective study, and adapt to a new environment. A peer mentor component introduces students […]

Glendon School of Field Studies

Description This scientific project offers a series of intense two-week field courses held throughout the summer session on Glendon’s own campus, with 82 lush acres of parkland and gardens acting as a natural laboratory. Students will learn a variety of techniques in ecological research while in the field without the cost of expensive research stations […]

Glendon Work-Integrated Learning Program

Description Targeting two types of experiential education—placements and internships—the Glendon Work-Integrated Learning Program will coordinate effort between academic units and administration. The structure will help strengthen the current placement programs, and launch a collaborative internship pilot project with one of Glendon’s academic units. Project Lead(s) Mario Roy Faculty Glendon College Funding Priority Experiential Education Connect […]

Student Leadership Development: From the Classroom to the Community

Description This project involves the creation of a 3 credit elective course on student leadership development to be housed in Multidisciplinary Studies at Glendon College. The course will adopt The Social Change Model of Leadership Development. This model is inclusive in that it is designed to enhance the development of leadership qualities in all students […]

Language Training for Studies in French

Description This project sheds a critical look on how we define proficiency in a second language. One aspect of the project aims at creating a curriculum in French as a second language for academic purposes (FAP) that is relevant and interesting to young adults attending college or university and studying in specific fields. The project […]

Bilingual Open Educational Resources for Civic and Social Stewardship

Description This AIF project is empowering students to become bilingual leaders by designing modules engaging knowledge transfer across cultures and languages for a certificate in civic and social stewardship at Glendon. Using cognitive strategies such as summarizing, questioning, clarifying the remix, reuse and repurposing of Open Educational Resources (OER) students are encouraged to acquire the […]

Virtual Learning Skills Program

Description This pan-university project aims to build on the momentum of a number of previously successful and related AIF projects that the co-leads for this project have developed and sustained.This project also aims to complement other successful AIF projects including YU START, SPARK, the First-Year Instructor Toolkit, and the Virtual Learning Commons because it seeks […]

The Glendon Digital Media Lab (GDML)

Description The Glendon Digital Media Lab (GDML) is a scalable umbrella project designed to optimize the integration of course-focused Experiential Education (EE) strategies at Glendon. GDML provides a range of media hardware and software, as well as limited services to course-specific initiatives. It offers students hands-on experience in digital production. Budget and resource optimization is […]

French proficiency and academic success in bilingual education: linking content-based courses and french for specific academic purposes tutorial

Description The purpose of this project is to develop and implement a model of linked-courses that put together content-based courses (taught in French), such as History, Political Science, Sociology, and French for Spec1jic Academic Purposes (FSAP) tutorials, for native and non-native French students. With this project, the Language Training Centre for Studies in French, the […]