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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018
By Matt Gergyek If you asked your average working journalist how their profession connects to the field of humanities or vice versa, you’d probably leave them stumped. The ancient worlds of Plato and Aristotle and the study of history, philosophy and art – the foundations of the humanities discipline – aren’t usually seen as... More
Monday, July 31, 2017
I graduated from the Humanities program in 2008 with a combined honours in Biology (in the era before there was an official 'stream' of curriculum geared towards this). With Dr. Laird's encouragement, I applied and was accepted to medicine at McMaster University. There, I completed my MD in 2011 and went on to pursue... More
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Former HUMS Student Discusses Life and Learning at Carleton Recent graduate of the Bachelor of Humanities program, Leonor Vulpe Albari, has just received some very exciting news. Albari, who graduated from Carleton in 2014 and is now in the midst of wrapping up a Master’s of Law (LLM) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has just... More
Monday, May 4, 2015
Graduate Student in Biology/Biochemistry University of Toronto This may seem surprising, but I was not interested in the liberal arts coming out of high school. My interest in medicine made me think that I would follow some friends into programs geared towards medicine at the University of Ottawa. For whatever reason (probably more dumb... More
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The College is proud to announce the following achievements of some of our soon to be June Graduates! Gabrielle Doiron (HUMS-SAC) won a SSHRCC, CGS M scholarship. She will begin an MA at Concordia where she will research the toy and children’s furniture designs of Bauhaus designer Alma Buscher. Aleks Godlewski (HUMS-BIO) will be... More
Sunday, March 8, 2015
High-School Biology Teacher American College of Sofia, Bulgaria I completed the Humanities and Biology program at Carleton in 2011, spent a year teaching in England, then moved to Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Education degree, with biology and philosophy as my teaching subjects. I am now a high school Biology teacher at the... More
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Policy Analyst Health Canada After completing the Bachelor of Humanities in 2001, I began a varied career in the public service. I have worked in five federal Departments in a number of very different roles. I began with a brief stint with Immigration Canada, where, as an Inland Officer, I investigated immigration cases (e.g.... More
Monday, January 26, 2015
Department Head of English Ottawa Catholic School Board Through my years in the Bachelor of Humanities, I met many people who challenged me to question everything and to find out who I would become, not what I would become. My education through the B.Hum. did not train me for a specific vocation, but rather... More
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Fourth-Year Medical Student University of Ottawa I chose the Humanities and Biology program at Carleton University because, coming out of high school, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to pursue the liberal arts or sciences. I saw the Hums and Bio program as the opportunity to do both. As a bonus, I would have... More
Monday, September 22, 2014
Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine University of Ottawa—Ottawa Hospital After studying for a Bachelor of Humanities with a Minor in Biology, I was accepted to the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, and am now in the midst of my residency in Emergency Medicine at the Ottawa Hospital. I can’t imagine... More
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Managing Director Suske Capital Oakville, ON When I applied to the College of Humanities in 1997, I could never have imagined the breadth of opportunities the program would afford me. During my four years at the College, I was given many gifts. I learned how to write. I learned how not to write. I... More
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