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With the new term now upon us, The Ring put out a call across campus to find out what’s new at UVic. Here is a selection of items we received in response.
NEW SERVICE
Professor Study Tips, a new online database, provides learning tips and strategies from UVic professors. It was developed by Student UVic Peer Helpers in association with Counselling Services, the Teaching and Learning Centre, Student and Ancillary Services, the Writing Centre and many faculty and staff members. www.proftips.uvic.ca/
NEW FACULTY
Dr. Rachel Cleves (history) who has just published a book with Cambridge University Press on American reactions to violence in the French Revolution and the significance of those reactions for the development in the 19th century of humanitarian movements, including the anti-slavery movement.
Dr. Elizabeth (Betty) Davies (nursing), an expert on palliative and end-of-life care, particularly pediatric palliative care, family bereavement, and collaborative, participatory research.
Dr. Scott Hofer, Mohr Chair in Adult Development and Aging (psychology, Centre on Aging). brings exceptional strengths in longitudinal analysis including new methods for integration of analyses across existing longitudinal studies, for data collection using intensive measurement designs, and for measurement and analysis of change.
Professor James Hopkins, National Aboriginal Economic Development Chair (law and business), begins teaching at UVic this term, offering courses in Aboriginal economic development and issues in business law.
Dr. Alex Kuo (health information science), whose research interests are health data interoperability, health database and data warehousing, data mining application in healthcare, and e-health.
Dr. Trevor Lantz (environmental studies) is an ethnoecologist with a focus on traditional knowledge, climate change, and ecology.
Dr. Lenora Marcellus (nursing), whose research interests are neonatal nursing, transition of the high-risk newborn to the community, creating supportive environments for neonatal development, perinatal substance use, women’s health, leadership, and quality improvement.
Dr. Richard Marcy (public administration), with research interests in strategic leadership development, leader adaptability, leadership as management of meanings, constructive-developmental theory and leadership.
Dr. Jill Milne (nursing), whose areas of Interest: include urology, women’s health, health promotion, quality of life, informed and shared decision-making, patient-centered and patient-generated outcomes.
Dr. Tara Ney (public administration, dispute resolution), whose research interests include peace and conflict studies, conflict management, social healing and trauma, community interventions and restorative justice.
Madam Justice Carolyn S. Phillips of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta joins the Faculty of Law as its judge-in-residence for the 2009–10 academic year, during which she will be participating in various legal education programs.
Dr. Charlotte Reading (human and social development, Centre for Aboriginal Health Research) is renowned for her work in the area of sexual and reproductive health of Aboriginal women.
Dr. Reuben Rose-Redwood (geography, whose research draws upon the insights of critical social theory to explore the historical geographies of the modern city, the production of calculable spaces, and the spatial politics of memory and place-making.
Dr. Debra Sheets (nursing), whose research interests focus on gerontology and geriatric nursing—and in particular sources of resilience as well as meaning in later life and at end of life.
Dr. Brian Starzomski (environmental studies) is the inaugural Ian McTaggart-Cowan Professor of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Restoration.
Dr. Marilyn Uy (business) focuses on organizational behaviour and the motivational and emotional processes that entrepreneurs experience when starting up a new venture.
Dr. Barbara Waterfall (social work) whose research interests include Anishnabe-centred social work discourse, decolonizing Indigenous social work education and practice, engaging with anti-colonial thought within education and practice, and employing spirituality within the context of teaching and practice.
Dr. Richard Wolfe (business) uses sports as a lens through which he studies and teaches corporate strategy, innovation, and leadership.
Dr. Ming Xiang (linguistics), is a psycholinguist whose current research focus is on sentence processing, combining both behavioral and neuroimaging methods, and studyingpeople effortlessly achieve the daunting task of processing large amounts of linguistic information rapidly.
NEW PROGRAMS AND COURSES
EDCI 499 Indigenous Knowledge
Offered in the First Peoples’ House, this course offers hands-on experiences and insight into local Indigenous ways of knowing, learning and teaching. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all faculties, community and faculty members.
FA100: Creative Being
This new fine arts course offers an overview of historical and contemporary theories and practices of creativity across a variety of disciplines and cultures, open to students from all faculties.
GS 501 Special Topics in Applied Research in Housing and Homelessness
An interdisciplinary graduate course offered through graduate studies with support of nursing focusing on such topics as homelessness; rental market and market housing; Aboriginal housing needs; senior housing needs; women fleeing violence and housing issues; anticipating future housing needs in BC; and sustainable and green housing. As part of the course, students will work on projects with the Ministry of Housing and Social Development, providing original research that could influence policy development.
HSD 460 Special Topics: Healthy Sexuality
This course provides students with opportunities to explore the dynamic role sexuality plays in human experience and the mechanisms by which individuals can achieve healthy sexuality.
HSD 580 Special Topics: Aboriginal Public Health
This graduate course introduces students to critically assess the current state of Aboriginal public health and social policy in Canada.
POLI 103: The World of Politics
A new introductory course covering diverse approaches to political analysis through a focus on democracy, taught in a team format by three regular faculty and coordinated by a new senior instructor.
American Sign Language 100A and B
Unique in Canada—ASL courses offered at other Canadian post secondary institutions are professional development courses leading to a professional sign language interpreter’s designation—these credit courses in the Faculty of Humanities have been established in response to a growing demand for university graduates who can engage effectively with Deaf clients, customers, patients and co-workers customers or clients.
Computer Graphics and Gaming Option in Computer Science
The innovative and award-winning group of graphics faculty in the Department of Computer Science have developed this unique program option for students interested in gaming development, 2D and 3D computer graphics, image processing, perception and computational aesthetics, modeling, animation, and more.
Global Deadlocks and Global Solutions: Financial Crises, Climate Change, Pandemics, Terrorism, Human Rights
Centre for Global Studies and Division of Continuing Studies present a ten-session, evening course in which researchers, policymakers, and teachers from the CFGS will demonstrate global approaches to pervasive worldwide crises and innovative visions of global governance as a force for common good.
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