Spend a day at Carleton and experience life as a university student firsthand!
Through the Student for a Day program, you'll be paired up with a current Arts and Social Sciences student and get the chance to attend a class, have lunch on us, and learn more about our programs, campus, and professors, as well as all of the amazing resources that make Carleton great.
If you’re interested in being an Arts and Social Sciences student for the day, please fill out the form below and we'll be in touch! If you have any questions about the Student for a Day program before completing the form below, please contact Jesse McClintock.
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Introduction to African Studies II (Monday 2:35pm-4:25pm)Introduction to contemporary political, economic, and social dimensions of Africa.
Communication Differences (Tuesday or Thursday 11:35am – 12:55pm) A survey course highlighting a variety of communication differences and disabilities. Specific topics vary from year to year but typically will include speech, language, fluency and hearing differences and disabilities. During the week of March 11- 15th the topic discussed will be Aphasia.
Art and Society: Renaissance to the Present (Thursday 11:35am – 2:35pm)A survey of art, architecture and related visual forms in their expanding contexts from the Renaissance to the present. Ways of understanding visual culture through this span of history.
Stories, Power, and Place in Odawang / Ottawa (Tuesday 2:35pm – 5:25pm)Exploration of Odawang/Ottawa as a settler-colonial border city built on unceded Algonquin territory and tensions between the national, global and local in Odawang/Ottawa.
Experiential Learning in Childhood and Youth Studies (Friday 8:35 - 10:25am)An examination of the philosophies, purposes, methods, techniques, and issues of childhood and youth studies through engagement with children and youth in campus and community settings. Students will make connections to theoretical and curriculum frameworks and current debates and perspectives.
Mysteries of the Mind (Tuesday or Thursday 1:05pm – 2:25pm)Challenges faced in understanding the mind, and some of the approaches cognitive science has brought to bear on them. Topics may include the nature of knowledge, how we learn, the extent to which human thinking is rational, biases in thinking, and evolutionary influences on cognition.
Reading Literatures and Cultures (Tuesday 11:35 – 2:25pm)A seminar style course that introduces students to the study of literature at the university level through the study of a small pool of texts in great depth with a focus on more advanced techniques of research and project design. Students will work collectively and in small groups on interpreting a single text as they are guided through the stages of developing research questions, locating and working with secondary sources, critical thinking, project design, argument construction, close reading, and scholarly writing.
Location is Everything (Wednesday 8:35am – 11:25am)Where we live affects who we are. The role of geographic location and environment on human perception, behaviour, and well-being, viewed at scales ranging from local to global; methods of collecting and interpreting information about location.
Film Genre: Science Fiction (Tuesday 8:35am – 11:25am)This course examines questions of generic form, drawing examples from world cinema.
Introduction aux études littéraires (Tuesday or Thursday 1:05pm – 2:25pm)Survol historique des littératures d'expression française: principaux auteurs, grands mouvements, évolution des genres. Initiation aux méthodes et notions d'analyse littéraire.
Maps, Satellites and the Geospatial Revolution (Monday 11:35am – 1:25pm)Introduction to the creation and use of maps using a variety of geospatial tools to better understand and resolve physical, social and environmental problems. Overview of geomatics (cartography and map design, geographic information systems, GPS, remote sensing)
Introduction to Human Rights (Monday 4:05 – 5:55pm)Human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics may include the foundations and nature of rights, roots of inequality and oppression, aboriginal rights, racism, women and rights, sexual orientation, state and corporate power, economic exploitation, the environment and rights, warfare, torture, and social movements.
Indigenous Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Sexualities (Friday 11:35-2:25pm)Indigenous articulations of gender, sex, and sexualities. This may include a focus on specific embodied roles and responsibilities within Indigenous communities, individual and collective identities, gender-based violence and resistances, and complex relationships between external and lateral systems of power and privilege.
Introduction to Linguistics (Monday or Wednesday 1:05pm – 2:25pm)Survey of topics in linguistics: language change, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and processing. May include language typology, language contact and writing systems. During the week of March 11- 15th the topic discussed will be language acquisition.
Theoretical Studies: Applied Rhythmic Training (Monday or Wednesday 10:05am - 11:25am)The study of the rhythm of common-practice and world musics, with emphasis on applied performance, movement, and dictation.
Happiness, Well-Being, and the Good Life (Monday or Wednesday 4:05pm – 5:25pm)A philosophical exploration of what makes a good human life. Topics may include the role of happiness, well-being, and flourishing in a good life, the relations between these aspects, and the extent to which they depend on luck and social considerations.
Introduction to Psychology (Monday 11:35am – 1:00pm or Tuesday 10:05am – 11:25am)A survey of topics associated with psychology's role as a social science, including social psychology, personality, clinical psychology, and mental health.
Introduction to Feminist Social Transformation (Monday 2:35pm-4:25pm)Overview of intersectional feminist debates as well as historical and contemporary theoretical traditions in gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, and disability studies. Topics include the social construction of femininity, masculinity, and other identifications; Indigenous, decolonial, and transnational feminisms.