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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SENATE GRADUATE & RESEARCH COUNCIL

NOTICE OF MEETING

DATE: Monday 18 March 2019 TIME: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon PLACE: Needles Hall, Room 3318

Chair – C. Dean

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1. Declarations of Conflict of Interesta. Excerpt from Bylaw 1, section 8*

2. Minutes of 11 February 2019* and Business Arising

3. Co-chairs’ Remarks

4. Curricular Submissionsa. Applied Health Sciences*b. Engineering*

5. University Researcha. Clinical Research Ethics Committee – membership changes* (Joza)

6. Graduate Awards* (O’Neill)a. Bhattacharyya Family Graduate Award - endowmentb. Perimeter Institute (PI) Residency Graduate Scholarship – trustc. Agibcona Masters of Mathematics for Teachers Award – trustd. Science Domestic Graduate Scholarship – operating

7. Academic Program Reviewsa. Status of Reports under Review

8. Research Centres and Institutesa. Renewal: Waterloo Centre for Germanic Studies* (James Skidmore)

9. Other Business

10. Next Meeting: 8 April 2019 from 10:30 a.m. - 12 noon; NH 3318 Information

*material attached** to be distributed separately

“SGRC” to be approved on behalf of Senate “SEN” to be recommended to Senate for approval

8 March 2019 Kathy Winter, PhD, CPsych Assistant University Secretary

SGRC - 18 March 2019 page 1 of 71

https://uwaterloo.ca/academic-program-reviews/status-reports-under-review

Excerpt from Senate Bylaw 1

8. Declarations of conflict of interest

8.01 At the beginning of each meeting of Senate or any of Senate’s committees or councils, the chair will call for members to declare any conflicts of interest

with regard to any agenda item. For agenda items to be discussed in closed session, the chair will call for declarations of conflict of interest at the

beginning of the closed portion of the meeting. Members may nonetheless declare conflicts at any time during a meeting.

8.02 A member shall be considered to have an actual, perceived or potential conflict of interest, when the opportunity exists for the member to use confidential information gained as a member of Senate, or any of Senate’s

committees or councils, for the personal profit or advantage of any person, or use the authority, knowledge or influence of the Senate, or a committee

or council thereof, to further her/his personal, familial or corporate interests or the interests of an employee of the university with whom the member has a marital, familial or sexual relationship.

8.03 Members who declare conflicts of interest shall not enter into debate nor vote upon the specified item upon which they have declared a conflict of

interest. The chair will determine whether it is appropriate for said member to remove themselves from the meeting for the duration of debate on the

specified item(s).

8.04 Where Senate or a committee or council of Senate is of the opinion that a

conflict of interest exists that has not been declared, the body may declare by a resolution carried by two-thirds of its members present at the meeting

that a conflict of interest exists and a member thus found to be in conflict shall not enter into debate on the specified item upon which they have declared a conflict of interest. The chair will determine whether it is

appropriate for said member to remove themselves from the meeting for the duration of debate on the specified item(s).


University of Waterloo SENATE GRADUATE & RESEARCH COUNCIL

Minutes of the 11 February 2019 Meeting [in agenda order]

Present: Jeff Casello, Charmaine Dean, Jeremy Bergen, Raouf Boutaba, David Clausi, Bernard Duncker, Ana Ferrer, Rhona Hanning, Lauren Meliss Holt, Bruce Hellinga, Christiane Lemieux, Daniel Martel, Daniela O’Neill, Max Salman, Simron Singh, Jackie Stapleton, Shirley Tang, Linda Warley, Shawn Wettig, Kathy Winter (secretary) Resources: Jennifer Kieffer, Amanda McKenzie, Alyssa Voigt Guests: Lyndon Jones Regrets: Amelia Clark, Trevor Clews, Julie Joza*, Alexander Mercado*, Bruce Muirhead, Kirsten Müller, Naima Samuel*, Richard Staines*, Mike Szarka, Takin Tadayon Organization of Meeting: Jeff Casello, co-chair of the council, took the chair, and Kathy Winter acted as secretary. The secretary advised that due notice of the meeting had been given, a quorum was present, and the meeting was properly constituted. 1. DECLARATIONS OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST No conflicts of interest were declared. 2. MINUTES OF 14 JANUARY 2019 AND BUSINESS ARISING The minutes were approved as distributed—noting minor editorial correction under 5, 6a. Hanning and O’Neill. Carried. Under business arising (item 5 - Bylaw 2 - changes to section 4.02), Winter provided rationale and historical context for why “or designate” only appears for the membership category, university librarian.

3. CO-CHAIRS’ REMARKS Casello spoke to: (a) Student experience review - decreased sense of optimism by 4th year undergraduate studies as compared to peer institutions; lacking sense of community among graduate students. University self-assessment to be submitted to external reviewers, be prepared to participate during upcoming site visit; (b) Banting competition - 0 received second consecutive year, Banting to provide feedback on goodness of fit and research idea; (c) General announcements – graduate impact webpage (council members encouraged to suggest whom to feature), upcoming grad talks (4th April 2019), cyclical program reviews (please be prepared to be a reviewer). Dean spoke to: (a) Strategic Planning Consultations underway for development of the University's Research Strategic Plan, which will link with priorities of University's strategic plan. An Internationalization Strategic Plan is similarly being developed. (b) University of Waterloo Interdisciplinary Trailblazer Fund A new fund has been established to catalyze cross-campus interdisciplinary collaborations by providing stipend support for teams of Graduate Students and/or Postdoctoral Fellows. This program has been designed to encourage applications from two or more Faculty members with different home Departments/Schools and preferably from different Faculties, where the proposed project must include elements from at least two different disciplines, based on the 2019 Canadian Research and Development Classification (http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/crdc-ccrd-eng.aspx). The overall intent is to provide seed funding (maximum $80K) for promising, novel projects that would allow the cross-campus team to initiate joint research and position them strongly for external funding opportunities, such as the recently announced federal New Frontiers in Research Fund (http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/index-eng.aspx).


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http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/crdc-ccrd-eng.aspx

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Calls for proposals will be issued twice a year, with deadlines in March and September. Priority will be given to applications where the co-applicants have not previously collaborated. Early career researchers (individuals within five years of their first academic appointment) will be encouraged to apply, but the program is open to Faculty members at any career stage. As part of the adjudication process, consideration will be given to the extent to which underrepresented groups (women, Indigenous Peoples, members of visible minorities and persons with disabilities) have been included within the proposed research team. (c) National Research Council The University of Waterloo (UW) and the National Research Council (NRC) have advanced discussions on the development of a collaboration centre linking NRC organizationally with UW. Several focused discussions with members of UW and NRC were held to identify key areas of collaboration, particularly in the area of the Internet of Things. The centre is expected to build on collaborations between about 5-10 researchers at UW and, similarly, 5-10 researchers at NRC. NRC was provided substantial investment by the 2018 federal budget to advance their priorities, including this linkage. (d) Climate Institute The landscape for clean growth and climate change research and advice in Canada has evolved significantly over the past decade. Even so, much more needs to be done for Canada to transition towards a prosperous low carbon, climate-resilient society. There are striking challenges in terms of both the research that is undertaken and how it informs policy decisions and the overall national conversation on climate change. A proposal has been submitted for the establishment of a Climate Institute, linked to the University of Waterloo, to consider integration across the three pillars of mitigation, clean growth and adaptation, linkages to policy, policy research, and engagement of underrepresented groups. 4. RESEARCH CENTRES AND INSTITUTES a. Renewal: Centre for Ocular Research & Education. Council heard a motion to approve the 5-year renewal of the Centre for Ocular Research & Education, as presented. Lyndon Jones presented a brief history of the Centre from its 1988 start; in discussion: CORE membership, graduate student supervision. Wettig and Duncker. Carried. b. Dissolution: Centre for Ecosystem Resilience & Adaptation. Council heard a motion to recommend to Senate the dissolution of the Centre for Ecosystem Resilience & Adaptation with the Centre account remaining open until the end of fiscal year 2019, as presented. In discussion: parameters around funding continuation, fulfilled centre mandate. Singh and Ferrer. Carried. 5. CURRICULAR SUBMISSIONS a. Engineering. Council heard an omnibus motion to approve items 1-4 and 6-7. In discussion: English for Multilingual Speakers (EMLS) technical/professional writing course (under item 3 and 7) – where it’s offered, grading. Hellinga and Wettig. Carried. Council heard a motion to recommend to Senate to approve the revision to 4 Master’s and 3 PhD programs within the department of Chemical Engineering by replacing the core course list with prescribed courses foundational to the discipline and introducing a mandatory seminar-based (half) course focused on research methods and ethics training, effective Fall 2019, as presented under item 5. Hellinga and Wettig. Carried. b. Environment. Council heard an omnibus motion to approve items 1 (cross-listed with Arts – 10 December 2018 SGRC 4b item e) to 5 as presented. Singh and Hanning. Carried. 6. GRADUATE AWARDS Council heard a motion to approve item (a), as presented. O’Neill and Hellinga. Carried. Council received item (b) as information – noting that this was in response to the friendly amendment from 14 January 2019 under item 8b.


7. OTHER BUSINESS Salman recognized Wettig in relation to recent assistance provided to graduate students in Science. 8. NEXT MEETING The next meeting will be on Monday 18 March 2019 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon in NH 3318.

28 February 2019 Kathy Winter, PhD, CPsych, Assistant University Secretary


MEMORANDUM TO: Kathy Winter, Secretary, Senate Graduate and Research Council FROM: Tracy Taves, Faculty Graduate Administrator, Applied Health Sciences cc: Rhona Hanning, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies DATE: February 4, 2019 SUBJECT: Applied Health Sciences Faculty Graduate Studies Committee (FGSC) Report to

Senate Graduate and Research Council The attached report was approved by the Applied Health Sciences Faculty Council on January 26th and is being forwarded to Senate Graduate & Research Council. Would you please place it on the agenda for the next Senate Graduate & Research Council meeting? Thank you!


From Applied Health Sciences Graduate Studies Committee (December 10, 2018)

To Admin Council (January 9, 2019)

Graduate calendar changes for Applied Health Sciences

1. COURSE INACTIVATIONS 1.1 School of Public Health and Health Systems* 1.1.1 Motion: To inactivate PHS 603 and replace with HLTH 603.

Rationale: The subject code change for all PHS courses was submitted in May/June 2018 to create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). The subject code for PHS 603 could not be changed because the course already existed as HLTH 603 for the research program in SPHHS. The HLTH 603 course was never scheduled for research students and will now be used for the professional online 603 course that is scheduled each spring.

1.1.2 Motion: To inactivate PHS 633 – Water Quality and Public Health. Rationale: PHS 633 is no longer being offered by the School.

2. COURSE CHANGES 2.1 School of Public Health and Health Systems* 2.1.1 Motion: To revise course subject code from PHS to HLTH and catalog number from 641 to 640.

Rationale: To create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). Allows students greater visibility to courses offered within the department. The HLTH 641 course already exists as a practicum course in the School of Public Health and Health Systems (SPHHS) but is intended for research based SPHHS students and has a lower credit weight.

2.1.2 Motion: To revise the course description and course title for HLTH 603 (i.e. Keep old PHS course

content, title, description with change to HLTH subject code). Change meet type to ONLINE. Old Course Description for HLTH 603:

A critical analysis of health policy formulation, implementation and evaluation related to population health initiatives and health care delivery. The course will include discussion of the role of various regional, provincial, and national agencies in health care policy formation. It will examine various health care systems, their funding and how the Canadian healthcare system compares with systems in other countries. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. New course description for HLTH 603: A critical analysis of policy formulation, implementation and evaluation related to public health policy. This course will provide an introduction to contemporary issues in public health policy, as well as an overview of the public health system in Canada. The course will emphasize applied examples of public health within the Canadian context. Old Course Title: Health Policy New course Title: Health Policy in Public Health

Rationale: To create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). Allows students greater visibility to courses offered within the department. The HLTH 603 course already exists as a dormant course for the research based program in the School of Public Health and Health Systems


(SPHHS) and will now be used for the professional online programs. The course title and description change will make it consistent with the original PHS course that HLTH 603 is replacing.

3. ACADEMIC PLAN CHANGES 3.1 School of Public Health and Health Systems* 3.1.1 Motion: MHE Grad calendar revisions as a result of prefix and course numbering changes. Changing

PHS subject codes to HLTH subject codes and practicum course number from 641 to 640. 3.1.2 Motion: MHI Grad calendar revisions as a result of prefix and course numbering changes. Changing

PHS subject codes to HLTH subject codes and practicum course number from 641 to 640. 3.1.3 Motion: MPH Grad calendar revisions as a result of prefix and course numbering changes. Changing

PHS subject codes to HLTH subject codes and practicum course number from 641 to 640. Removing inactivated PHS courses from the elective course list. Replacing dormant HLTH course with relevant PHS course with same course number.

Rationale for 3.1.1 – 3.1.3: To change all PHS subject codes and course numbers to align with all other SPHHS courses with the subject code HLTH. To make sure there were no scheduling issues with previous HLTH courses that are no longer on offer.

*attachment


Senate Graduate and Research Council – Course/Milestone –

New/Revision/Inactivation form

Faculty: Applied Health Science Effective term: Term/Year Spring 2019

Course ☒ New ☐ Revision ☐ Inactivation ☒

Milestone ☐ New ☐ Revision ☐ Inactivation ☐

New milestone title: Chhhhh hh hhhhh

For course revisions, indicate the type(s) of changes: Inactivate PHS 603 and schedule HLTH 603 instead (e.g. consent, description, title, requisites)

Course Subject code: Chhhhh hh hhhhh Course number: PHS 603 Course Title (max. 100 characters incl. spaces): Health Policy in Public Health Course Short Title (max. 30 characters incl. spaces):

Grading Basis: NUMERICAL

Course Credit Weight: 0.50

Course Consent Required: ☐ Chhhhh hh hhhhh

Course Description:

A critical analysis of policy formulation, implementation and evaluation related to public health policy. This course will provide an introduction to contemporary issues in public health policy, as well as an overview of the public health system in Canada. The course will emphasize applied examples of public health within the Canadian context.

New course description (for revision only):

Meet Type(s): Lecture Online Chhhhh hh hhhhh Chhhhh hh hhhhh Chhhhh hh hhhhh Primary Meet Type: Lecture Requisites:

Special topics course: Yes ☐ No ☒ Cross-listed: Yes ☐ No ☒ Course Subject(s) to be cross-listed with and approval status: N/A Sections combined/heldwith: N/A

Rationale for request:

The subject code change for all PHS courses was submitted in May/June 2018 to create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). The subject code for PHS 603 could not be changed because the course already existed as HLTH 603 for the research program in SPHHS. The HLTH 603 course was never scheduled for the research students and will now be used for the professional online 603 course that is scheduled each spring.

Prepared by: Michelle Fluit Date: 21-Nov-18

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Course ☒ New ☐ Revision ☐ Inactivation ☒


New milestone title:

For course revisions, indicate the type(s) of changes: Inactivate PHS 633

Course Subject code: Course number: PHS 633 Course Title (max. 100 characters incl. spaces): Water Quality and Public Health Course Short Title (max. 30 characters incl. spaces):



Course Consent Required: ☐

Course Description: This course covers the principles and methods of water quality management, major water contaminants (including infectious agents) affecting public health, prevention strategies and regulatory monitoring and reporting activities in Canada. Course open to MPH students. Others may be admitted with consent of instructor.

Meet Type(s): Lecture Primary Meet Type: Lecture Requisites: PHS 604. Master of Public Health students only - Also offered Online

Special topics course: Yes ☐ No ☒ Cross-listed: Yes ☐ No ☒ Course Subject(s) to be cross-listed with and approval status: Sections combined/heldwith:

Rationale for request: PHS 633 is no longer being offered by the School.




https://uwaterloo.ca/quest/graduate-students/glossary-of-terms






Course ☒ New ☐ Revision ☒ Inactivation ☐


New milestone title: Chhhhh hh hhhhh

For course revisions, indicate the type(s) of changes: Revise the course description and course title for HLTH 603 (i.e. Keep old PHS course content, title, description with change to HLTH subject code). Change meet type to ONLINE.

Course Subject code: Chhhhh hh hhhhh Course number: HLTH 603 Old Course Title (max. 100 characters incl. spaces): Health Policy New course Title: Health Policy in Public Health Course Short Title (max. 30 characters incl. spaces):



Course Consent Required: ☐ Chhhhh hh hhhhh

Course Description:

A critical analysis of health policy formulation, implementation and evaluation related to population health initiatives and health care delivery. The course will include discussion of the role of various regional, provincial, and national agencies in health care policy formation. It will examine various health care systems, their funding and how the Canadian healthcare system compares with systems in other countries. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.


A critical analysis of policy formulation, implementation and evaluation related to public health policy. This course will provide an introduction to contemporary issues in public health policy, as well as an overview of the public health system in Canada. The course will emphasize applied examples of public health within the Canadian context.

Meet Type(s): Lecture Online Chhhhh hh hhhhh Chhhhh hh hhhhh Chhhhh hh hhhhh Primary Meet Type: Lecture Requisites: SPHHS Grad Students Only, Also offered Online

Special topics course: Yes ☐ No ☒ Cross-listed: Yes ☐ No ☒ Course Subject(s) to be cross-listed with and approval status: N/A Sections combined/heldwith: N/A





Rationale for request:

• To create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). Allows students greater visibility to courses offered within the department. The HLTH 603 course already exists as a dormant course for the research based programs in the School of Public Health and Health Systems (SPHHS) and will now be used for the professional online programs. The course title and description change will make it consistent with the original PHS course that HLTH 603 is replacing.





Faculty: Applied Health Science Effective term: Term/Year Fall 2019

Course ☒ New ☒ Revision ☒ Inactivation ☐


New milestone title:

For course revisions, indicate the type(s) of changes: Change in subject code from PHS to HLTH and catalog number from 641 to 640 (e.g. consent, description, title, requisites) Course Subject code: Course number: PHS 641 to HLTH 640 Course Title (max. 100 characters incl. spaces): Professional Experience Practicum Course Short Title (max. 30 characters incl. spaces):

Grading Basis: CEDIT/NO CREDIT


Course Consent Required: ☐

Course Description:


The supervised practicum is intended to provide the student with an opportunity to apply course learning in a health or health system setting. The placement may involve any of the activities or functions of students' field of study: public health, informatics, evaluation, etc. A contract stipulating practicum objectives, and work to be completed and evaluated to meet these objectives, must be jointly approved by the student, the student's field supervisor, the academic supervisor, and the practicum coordinator. A written report by the student, together with a letter from the field supervisor, are used by the practicum coordinator to evaluate student performance at midterm and completion of the practicum. Graded on a Credit/Non-credit basis. Course open to School of Public Health and Health Systems students only. Completion of all prerequisite coursework is required before commencing the practicum.

Meet Type(s): Practicum Primary Meet Type: Requisites: Special topics course: Yes ☐ No ☒ Cross-listed: Yes ☐ No ☒ Course Subject(s) to be cross-listed with and approval status: Sections combined/heldwith:



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Rationale for request: To create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). Allows students greater visibility to courses offered within the department. The HLTH 641 course already exists as a practicum courses in the School of Public Health and Health Systems (SPHHS) but is intended for the Research based SPHHS students and has a lower credit weight.


CURRENT PHS COURSES TO BE INACTIVATED TITLE

NEW HLTH COURSES TO REPLACE THE INACTIVATED PHS COURSES

CROSS-LISTED COURSES

PHS 641 Professional Experience Practicum HLTH 640


Graduate Studies Program Revision Template

Prior to form submission, review the content revision instructions and information regarding major/minor modifications. For questions about the form submission, contact Trevor Clews, Graduate Studies Office.

Faculty: Applied Health Science

Program: Master of Health Evaluation (MHE)

Program contact name(s): Michelle Fluit, John Garcia

Form completed by: Michelle Fluit

Description of proposed changes: Note: changes to courses and milestones also require the completion/submission of the SGRC Course/Milestone-New/Revision/Inactivation form (PC docx version or MAC docx version).

1) Inactivate course: PHS 603 due to the change in subject code from PHS to HLTH and already existing HLTH 603.

2) Replace the inactivated PHS 603 with existing but dormant HLTH 603 (on campus) 3) HLTH 603: slightly modify description and title and changed delivery mode from on campus to also offered

online. 4) Change to the list of required courses for MPH professional program: replacing PHS 641 with HLTH 640

– Professional Experience Practicum

Is this a major modification to the program? No

Rationale for change(s):

1) To create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). 2) The HLTH 603 course already exists as a dormant course for the research based programs in the School

of Public Health and Health Systems (SPHHS) and will now be used for the professional online programs. 3) Change better reflects the course and the delivery structure. Course was not being offered to on-campus

students. 4) To create consistency across the department in course subject codes (PHS to HLTH). Subject code and

course number needed to be changed as research program in SPHHS already had a HLTH 641 practicum course.

Proposed effective date for HLTH 603: Term: Spring Year: 2019

Proposed effective date for HLTH 640: Term: Fall Year: 2019

Current Graduate Studies Academic Calendar (GSAC) page (include the link to the web page where the changes are to be made):

https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies-academic-calendar/applied-health-sciences/school-public-health-and-health-systems/master-public-health-mph

Current Graduate Studies Academic Calendar content:

Proposed Graduate Studies Academic Calendar content:

Degree requirements Coursework option:



https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies/faculty-and-staff/graduate-program-and-coursemilestone-changes

https://uwaterloo.ca/academic-reviews/graduate-programs/major-modifications


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https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies/sites/ca.graduate-studies/files/uploads/files/sgrcformcoursemilestonesubmission_for_pc_0.docx

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• Graduate Academic Integrity Module (Graduate AIM)

• Courses o The MHE program includes the

completion of 10 graduate-level courses. 8 (including the practicum course) of the 10 courses are required core courses plus 2 electives.

o Required courses HLTH 605B Quantitative

Methods and Analysis HLTH 614 Foundations of

Program Evaluation HLTH 651 Theory and

Applications in Program Evaluation

HLTH 652 Qualitative Methods and Analysis

HLTH 653 Evaluation Practice and Management

HLTH 654 Systems Thinking and Analysis in Health Program Planning and Evaluation or HLTH 611 The Health Care System

HLTH 655 Health Measurement and Survey Methods

PHS 641 Professional Experience Practicum

o Elective courses Students must also complete 2

elective courses. The following is a list of possible elective courses offered by the School of Public Health and Health Systems:

HLTH 606B Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health

HLTH 608 Health and Risk Communication in Public Health

HLTH 609 Management and Administration of Public Health Services

HLTH 611 The Health Care System

HLTH 617 Population Intervention for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion


• Courses o The MHE program includes the

completion of 10 graduate-level courses. 8 (including the practicum course) of the 10 courses are required core courses plus 2 electives.

o Required courses HLTH 605B Quantitative

Methods and Analysis HLTH 614 Foundations of

Program Evaluation HLTH 640 Professional

Experience Practicum HLTH 651 Theory and

Applications in Program Evaluation

HLTH 652 Qualitative Methods and Analysis

HLTH 653 Evaluation Practice and Management

HLTH 654 Systems Thinking and Analysis in Health Program Planning and Evaluation or HLTH 611 The Health Care System

HLTH 655 Health Measurement and Survey Methods

o Elective courses Students must also complete 2

elective courses. The following is a list of possible elective courses offered by the School of Public Health and Health Systems:

HLTH 603 Health Policy in Public Health

HLTH 606B Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health




HLTH 617 Population Intervention for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion


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HLTH 632 Health Economics and Public Health

HLTH 638 Special Topics in Public Health: Public Health and Social Justice

HLTH 656 Quantitative Methods and Analysis for Program Evaluation Practice

PHS 603 Health Policy in Public Health

o At a minimum, students must obtain an average of 75% or higher in aggregate on the courses presented in fulfilment of the degree requirements. Grades on all courses presented to fulfill the degree requirements must be 70% or higher. A grade below 70% in any course or failing to maintain an average of 75% will necessitate a review of the student's status by the School and may result in a student being required to complete additional coursework or being required to withdraw from the program. The School reserves the right to stipulate additional coursework if it is necessary for the student's preparation.


HLTH 638 Special Topics in Public Health: Public Health and Social Justice

HLTH 656 Quantitative Methods and Analysis for Program Evaluation Practice

o At a minimum, students must obtain an average of 75% or higher in aggregate on the courses presented in fulfilment of the degree requirements. Grades on all courses presented to fulfill the degree requirements must be 70% or higher. A grade below 70% in any course or failing to maintain an average of 75% will necessitate a review of the student's status by the School and may result in a student being required to complete additional coursework or being required to withdraw from the program. The School reserves the right to stipulate additional coursework if it is necessary for the student's preparation.

How will students currently registered in the program be impacted by these changes?

1) PHS subject code no longer exists. Students will be able to find all required courses under the new subject code HLTH.

2) Students will be able to take HLTH 603 in place of PHS 603 3) Course name and description will reflect online course content 4) PHS subject code no longer exists. Students will be able to find all required courses under the new

subject code HLTH. New subject code and course number will be in place for new cohort starting in 2019.

Departmental approval date (mm/dd/yy): 11/27/2018 Reviewed by GSO (for GSO use only) ☒ date (mm/dd/yy): 11/29/2018 Faculty approval date (mm/dd/yy): Senate Graduate & Research Council (SGRC) approval date (mm/dd/yy): Senate approval date (mm/dd/yy) (if applicable):





Program: Master of Health Informatics (MHI)




































• Courses o Required courses

The MHI program requires the completion of 10 graduate-level courses. 8 (including the practicum course) of the 10 courses are required core courses. The remaining 2 courses are electives:

CS 634 Security and Privacy in Health Systems

CS 638 Principles of Data Management and Use


HLTH 612/CS 792 Data Structures and Standards in Health Informatics

HTLH 613 Information Technology for the Health Professional

HLTH 615 Requirements Specification and Analysis in Health Systems

HLTH 637 Public Health Informatics (offered online)

PHS 641 Professional Experience Practicum

In situations where a student has previously taken a course with learning objectives similar to that of a required MHI course, a higher level graduate course in the same domain area will be substituted.

o Elective courses 2 of the required 10 courses are

electives. The following online courses are currently offered and can be chosen as electives:

CS 636 Introduction to Computer Networks and


• Courses o Required courses

The MHI program requires the completion of 10 graduate-level courses. 8 (including the practicum course) of the 10 courses are required core courses. The remaining 2 courses are electives:

CS 634 Security and Privacy in Health Systems

CS 638 Principles of Data Management and Use


HLTH 612/CS 792 Data Structures and Standards in Health Informatics

HTLH 613 Information Technology for the Health Professional

HLTH 615 Requirements Specification and Analysis in Health Systems

HLTH 637 Public Health Informatics (offered online)

HLTH 640 Professional Experience Practicum

In situations where a student has previously taken a course with learning objectives similar to that of a required MHI course, a higher level graduate course in the same domain area will be substituted.

o Elective courses 2 of the required 10 courses are

electives. The following online courses are currently offered and can be chosen as electives:

CS 636 Introduction to Computer Networks and








Distributed Computer Systems



HLTH 614 Evaluation of Public Health Programs

HTLH 616 Decision Making and Systems Thinking in Health Informatics

HLTH 631 Public Health Surveillance


HLTH 654 Systems Thinking and Analysis

HLTH 661 Geographic Information Systems and Public Health

HLTH 662 Global Health PHS 603 Health Policy

in Public Health STAT 631 Introduction

to Statistical Methods in Health Informatics

Students can also choose from online and on-campus courses offered by both Computer Science and the School of Public Health and Health Systems with the permission of the program leader.

o At a minimum, students must obtain an average of 75% or higher in aggregate on the courses presented in fulfilment of the degree requirements. Grades on all courses presented to fulfill the degree requirements must be 70% or higher. A grade below 70% in any course or failing to maintain an average of 75% will necessitate a review of the student's status by the School and may result in a student being required to complete additional coursework or being required to withdraw from the program. The School reserves the right

Distributed Computer Systems

HLTH 603 Health Policy in Public Health



HLTH 614 Evaluation of Public Health Programs

HTLH 616 Decision Making and Systems Thinking in Health Informatics

HLTH 631 Public Health Surveillance


HLTH 654 Systems Thinking and Analysis

HLTH 661 Geographic Information Systems and Public Health

HLTH 662 Global Health STAT 631 Introduction

to Statistical Methods in Health Informatics

Students can also choose from online and on-campus courses offered by both Computer Science and the School of Public Health and Health Systems with the permission of the program leader.

o At a minimum, students must obtain an average of 75% or higher in aggregate on the courses presented in fulfilment of the degree requirements. Grades on all courses presented to fulfill the degree requirements must be 70% or higher. A grade below 70% in any course or failing to maintain an average of 75% will necessitate a review of the student's status by the School and may result in a student being required to complete additional coursework or being required to withdraw from the program. The School reserves the right




to stipulate additional coursework if it is necessary for the student's preparation.

to stipulate additional coursework if it is necessary for the student's preparation.










Program: Master of Public Health (MPH)




















Degree requirements Degree requirements














Coursework option:


• Courses

• The minimum course requirements are 10 one-term (0.50 unit weight) graduate courses, 2 two-week block courses (0.50 total weight) and a practicum (1.50 unit weight).

• Students will attend on-campus on two occasions for 2-week block courses. The first, HLTH 602A Foundations of Public Health, will occur at the start of the program and the second, HLTH 602B Capstone Integrative Seminar for Public Health, will bring students back together at the end of the program after completion of all coursework and the practicum:

o The objective of HLTH 602A, the Foundations of Public Health course is both to orient the student to the philosophical and practical bases of public health, and to kindle the student's passion for public health as a career and as a societal activity.

o HTLH 602B, the MPH capstone course, will provide an opportunity to apply public health tools, concepts and best practice to address current issues facing public health organizations and build relationships with front line public health practitioners. On campus preparation and completion of assignments during the spring term are also requirements for the completion of HTLH 602B.

• Additional required courses are as follows: o HLTH 604 Public Health and the

Environment o HLTH 605B Quantitative Methods and

Analysis o HLTH 606B Principles of Epidemiology

for Public Health o HLTH 607 Social, Cultural and

Behavioural Aspects of Public Health I o HLTH 608 Health and Risk

Communication in Public Health o HLTH 609 Management and

Administration of Public Health Services

o PHS 603 Health Policy in Public Health

Coursework option:


• Courses

• The minimum course requirements are 10 one-term (0.50 unit weight) graduate courses, 2 two-week block courses (0.50 total weight) and a practicum (1.50 unit weight).

• Students will attend on-campus on two occasions for 2-week block courses. The first, HLTH 602A Foundations of Public Health, will occur at the start of the program and the second, HLTH 602B Capstone Integrative Seminar for Public Health, will bring students back together at the end of the program after completion of all coursework and the practicum:

o The objective of HLTH 602A, the Foundations of Public Health course is both to orient the student to the philosophical and practical bases of public health, and to kindle the student's passion for public health as a career and as a societal activity.

o HTLH 602B, the MPH capstone course, will provide an opportunity to apply public health tools, concepts and best practice to address current issues facing public health organizations and build relationships with front line public health practitioners. On campus preparation and completion of assignments during the spring term are also requirements for the completion of HTLH 602B.

• Additional required courses are as follows: o HLTH 603 Health Policy in Public

Health o HLTH 604 Public Health and the

Environment o HLTH 605B Quantitative Methods and

Analysis o HLTH 606B Principles of Epidemiology

for Public Health o HLTH 607 Social, Cultural and

Behavioural Aspects of Public Health I o HLTH 608 Health and Risk

Communication in Public Health o HLTH 609 Management and

Administration of Public Health Services








o PHS 641 Professional Experience Practicum

• At a minimum, students must obtain an average of 75% or higher in aggregate on the courses presented in fulfilment of the degree requirements. Grades on all courses presented to fulfill the degree requirements must be 70% or higher. A grade below 70% in any course or failing to maintain an average of 75% will necessitate a review of the student's status by the School and may result in a student being required to complete additional coursework or being required to withdraw from the program. The School reserves the right to stipulate additional coursework if it is necessary for the student's preparation.

• To graduate from the environmental health sciences stream, a student is required to complete the required core courses plus 2 stream specific courses HLTH 624 Environmental Toxicology in Public Health and HLTH 634 Environmental Epidemiology for Public Health and at least 1 elective from the listed HLTH or equivalent courses.

• To graduate from the socio-behavioural sciences stream, a student is required to complete the required core courses plus 2 stream specific courses HLTH 614 Foundations of Program Evaluation and HLTH 617 Population Intervention for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and at least 1 elective from the listed HLTH or equivalent courses.

• MPH general degree students will be required to complete the required core courses as well as 3 elective HLTH courses. Graduate courses from other departments may be acceptable if approved by the MPH Program Committee.

• Students admitted for a probationary year will be required to complete HLTH 605B Quantitative Methods and Analysis (fall term) and HLTH 606B Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health (winter term) with an average of at least 73%. If a student’s average on these courses falls below 73% but not below 70%, their status will be reviewed by the Department Graduate Committee. Normally a student will not continue on probationary status for more than two terms.

o HLTH 640 Professional Experience Practicum

• At a minimum, students must obtain an average of 75% or higher in aggregate on the courses presented in fulfilment of the degree requirements. Grades on all courses presented to fulfill the degree requirements must be 70% or higher. A grade below 70% in any course or failing to maintain an average of 75% will necessitate a review of the student's status by the School and may result in a student being required to complete additional coursework or being required to withdraw from the program. The School reserves the right to stipulate additional coursework if it is necessary for the student's preparation.

• To graduate from the environmental health sciences stream, a student is required to complete the required core courses plus 2 stream specific courses HLTH 624 Environmental Toxicology in Public Health and HLTH 634 Environmental Epidemiology for Public Health and at least 1 elective from the listed HLTH or equivalent courses.

• To graduate from the socio-behavioural sciences stream, a student is required to complete the required core courses plus 2 stream specific courses HLTH 614 Foundations of Program Evaluation and HLTH 617 Population Intervention for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and at least 1 elective from the listed HLTH or equivalent courses.

• MPH general degree students will be required to complete the required core courses as well as 3 elective HLTH courses. Graduate courses from other departments may be acceptable if approved by the MPH Program Committee.

• Students admitted for a probationary year will be required to complete HLTH 605B Quantitative Methods and Analysis (fall term) and HLTH 606B Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health (winter term) with an average of at least 73%. If a student’s average on these courses falls below 73% but not below 70%, their status will be reviewed by the Department Graduate Committee. Normally a student will not continue on probationary status for more than two terms.



M E M O

TO: Kathy Winter

FROM: B. Hellinga, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies

Faculty of Engineering

RE: Senate Graduate and Research Council Agenda

DATE: February 20, 2019

Please place the following motion forward for approval at the next meeting of SGRC. This motion was approved by EFC via e-vote on February 1, 2019.

1. The Department of Systems Design Engineering would like to put forward the following 5

specializations to be added to their MEng program:

a) Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning b) Biomedical Systems c) Human Factors d) Mechatronics & Physical Systems e) Vision, Image & Signal Processing

Rational for changes:

a) These specializations will add structure to the MEng program by allowing students to specialize in certain areas of study and receive recognition for that specialization from the Department which is highly valued when searching for a job in industry. These study path options stitch together already existing courses into a comprehensive learning experience for students who wish to, not only receive a course based Masters, but also benefit from a certain level of focus in their course selection.

Bruce Hellinga BH: bm




Faculty: Engineering

Program: Master of Engineering (MEng) in Systems Design Engineering

Program contact name(s): Janine Blair

Form completed by: Sarah Landy


Update of MEng degree requirements to include 5 new specializations.

Is this a major modification to the program? Yes


These specializations will add structure to the MEng program by allowing students to specialize in certain areas of study and receive recognition for that specialization from the Department which is highly valued when searching for a job in industry. These study path options stitch together already existing courses into a comprehensive learning experience for students who wish to, not only receive a course based Masters, but also benefit from a certain level of focus in their course selection.

Proposed effective date: Term: Spring Year: 2019


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Program information

Admit term(s) o Fall o Winter o Spring

Delivery mode o On-campus

Length of program o The normal duration of this program is

16 months. Program type

o Master's o Professional

Graduate specializations

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Biomedical Systems Human Factors Mechatronics and Physical Systems Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Program information

Admit term(s) o Fall o Winter














Registration option(s) o Full-time o Part-time

Study option(s) o Coursework

Admission requirements

Minimum requirements o An Honours Bachelor's degree (or

equivalent) with at least an overall 75% standing from a recognized university.

o A Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score is required for all students whose undergraduate degree is not from Canada or the USA.

Application materials o Résumé o Supplementary information form o Transcript(s)

References o Number of references: 3 o Type of references: 2 academic

English language proficiency (ELP) (if applicable)

Degree requirements

Graduate Academic Integrity Module (Graduate AIM)

Courses

Students must complete the following 2 core Systems Design Engineering graduate courses:

o SYDE 600 Systems Theory, Models, Research & Design

o SYDE 660 Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1

In addition to the 2 core courses, students must complete 6 Engineering graduate courses (0.50 unit weight per course) counting towards degree credit from the University of Waterloo satisfying the following criteria:

o At least 2 Systems Design Engineering courses at the 500, 600 or 700 level.

o At most 2 courses at the 500 level. o At least 3 courses at the 600 level.

All course selections are arranged by the student.

Note: these requirements are in addition to satisfactory completion of any transitional

o Spring Delivery mode

o On-campus Length of program

o The normal duration of this program is 16 months.

Program type o Master's o Professional

Registration option(s) o Full-time o Part-time

Study option(s) o Coursework

Admission requirements

Minimum requirements o An Honours Bachelor's degree (or

equivalent) with at least an overall 75% standing from a recognized university.

o A Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score is required for all students whose undergraduate degree is not from Canada or the USA.

Application materials o Résumé o Supplementary information form o Transcript(s)

References o Number of references: 3 o Type of references: 2 academic

English language proficiency (ELP) (if applicable)

Degree requirements Graduate Academic Integrity Module (Graduate

AIM)

Courses

o Students must complete the following 2 core Systems Design Engineering graduate courses:

SYDE 600 Systems Theory, Models, Research & Design

1 of: o SYDE 660A Systems Design

Graduate Workshop 1 - AI and Machine Learning,


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courses that may be specified at the time of admission.

Note: the Faculty of Engineering requires that no more than one-half of the courses used for credit toward a graduate degree may be taught by a candidate's supervisor(s). In the case of co-supervision in small research groups, it may be necessary to relax this rule; however, the student's file must contain a statement of formal approval from the Department and endorsement from the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Engineering.

o SYDE 660B Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 – Biomedical Systems,

o SYDE 660C Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 – Human Factors

o SYDE 660D Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 - Mechatronic & Physical Systems,

o SYDE 660E Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 - Vision, Image & Signal Processing, or


o In addition to the 2 core courses, students must complete 6 Engineering graduate courses (0.50 unit weight per course) counting towards degree credit from the University of Waterloo satisfying the following criteria:

At least 2 Systems Design Engineering courses at the 500, 600 or 700 level.

At most 2 courses at the 500 level.

Students in the MEng in Systems Design Engineering program may also choose to pursue one of the following five Graduate Specializations:

1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

2. Biomedical Systems 3. Human Factors 4. Mechatronics and Physical Systems 5. Vision, Image and Signal Processing

A Graduate Specialization is a University credential that is recognized on the student’s transcript but not on the diploma and is intended to reflect that a student has successfully completed a set of courses that together provide an in-depth study in the area of the Graduate Specialization. A student will only obtain the Graduate Specialization on their transcript if they have completed the requirements associated with the MEng degree and the requirements associated with the Graduate Specialization. All MEng Graduate Specializations in Systems Design Engineering consist of a set of 4 graduate (0.50 weight) level courses and this set is comprised of a mix of specified and elective courses. Specified courses are those that are prescribed as part of the Graduate Specialization. Elective courses are those that are on a list of courses designated as electives for a given Graduate Specialization. The requirements for



Proposed Graduate Studies Academic Calendar content: each of the five Graduate Specializations are described below. 1. Graduate Specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Students must satisfy the following: 3 Specified courses: SYDE 522 Machine Intelligence or

SYDE 552 Computational Neurosciences

SYDE 660A Systems Design Graduate Workshop 1 – AI and Machine Learning

SYDE 675 Pattern Recognition

Elective courses (at least 1 course from the following list):


o SYDE 671 Advanced Image Processing

o SYDE 672 Statistical Image Processing

o SYDE 673 Video Processing & Analytics

o SYDE 674 3D Computer Vision & Imaging

2. Graduate Specialization in Biomedical Systems Students must satisfy the following:

3 Specified courses: SYDE 660B Systems Design Graduate

Workshop 1 – Biomedical Systems At least 2 from the following list:

o SYDE 544 Biomed Measure & SIP

o SYDE 684 Materials Biocompatability

o SYDE 750 Topic 20 Topics in Systems Modelling: Modeling of Biomechanical Systems

o SYDE 750 Topic 36 Topics in Systems Modelling: Assistive Tech and Rehab Eng

Elective courses (at least 1 from the following list or an additional course from the Specified course list)

o SYDE 552 Computational Neurosciences

o SYDE 556 Simulating Neurobiological Systems




o SYDE 652 Dynamics of Multibody Systems


o SYDE 677 Medical Imaging

Note that only one 500 level course may be used to satisfy the requirements of a Graduate Specialization. Therefore, if SYDE 544 is taken as a Specified course, then SYDE 552 and SYDE 556 cannot be taken to satisfy the Elective course requirement.

3. Graduate Specialization in Human Factors Students must satisfy the following:

3 Specified courses: SYDE 660C Systems Design Graduate

Workshop 1 – Human Factors At least 2 from the following list:

o SYDE 542 Interface Design or SYDE 543 Cognitive Ergonomics

o SYDE 642 Cognitive Engineering Methods

o SYDE 644 Human Factors Testing

Elective courses (at least 1 from the following list or an additional course from the Specified course list):

o SYDE 533 Conflict Resolution o SYDE 662 Systems Design

Graduate Workshop 2 o SYDE 740 Advanced Cognitive

Ergonomics

Note that only one 500 level course may be used to satisfy the requirements of a Graduate Specialization. Therefore, if SYDE 542 or SYDE 543 is taken as a Specified course, then SYDE 533 cannot be taken to satisfy the Elective course requirement.

4. Graduate Specialization in Mechatronic and Physical Systems

Students must satisfy the following: 3 Specified courses: SYDE 660D Systems Design Graduate

Workshop 1 - Mechatronic & Physical Systems




At least 2 from the following list:o SYDE 553 Advanced Dynamicso SYDE 652 Dynamics of

Multibody Systemso SYDE 655 Optimal Controlo SYDE 682 Advanced MEMS,

Physics, Design & Fabricationo SYDE 683 Modelling,

Simulation & Design of MEMSo SYDE 750 Modelling Continuum

Systems


o SYDE 531 Design Opt. underProbabilistic Uncertainty

o SYDE 631 Time SeriesModelling

o SYDE 661 Model-based robustdesign

o SYDE 662 Systems DesignGraduate Workshop 2

Note that only one 500 level course may be used to satisfy the requirements of a Graduate Specialization. Therefore, if SYDE 553 is taken as a Specified course, then SYDE 531 cannot be taken to satisfy the Elective course requirement.

5. Graduate Specialization in Vision, Image and SignalProcessing

Students must satisfy the following: 3 Specified courses: SYDE 660E Systems Design Graduate

Workshop 1 - Vision, Image & SignalProcessing

At least 2 from the following list:o SYDE 575 Image Processingo SYDE 671 Advanced Image

Processingo SYDE 677 Medical Imaging


o SYDE 544 Biomed Measure &SIP

o SYDE 633 Remote SensingSystems

o SYDE 662 Systems DesignGraduate Workshop 2




o SYDE 672 Statistical Image Processing

o SYDE 673 Video Processing & Analytics

o SYDE 674 3D Computer Vision & Imaging

o SYDE 675 Pattern Recognition

Note that only one 500 level course may be used to satisfy the requirements of a Graduate Specialization. Therefore, if SYDE 575 is taken as a specified course, then SYDE 544 cannot be taken to satisfy the Elective course requirement.

All course selections are arranged by the student.

Note: these requirements are in addition to satisfactory completion of any transitional courses that may be specified at the time of admission.


Students who are already in the program will not have the option to avail of these specializations due to the requirement of new design courses which have not previously been offered

Departmental approval date (mm/dd/yy): 01/10/19 Reviewed by GSO (for GSO use only) ☒ date (mm/dd/yy): 01/22/2019 Faculty approval date (mm/dd/yy): 02/01/19 Senate Graduate & Research Council (SGRC) approval date (mm/dd/yy): Senate approval date (mm/dd/yy) (if applicable):


Memorandum

To: Members Senate Graduate and Research Council From: Julie Joza

Director Research Ethics

Date: February 25, 2019 Subject: New Membership to Research Ethics Committees

Clinical Research Ethics Committee (CREC)

The following is information for consideration by the Senate Graduate and Research Council on an individual seeking appointment to the Clinical Research Ethics Committee at the March 18, 2019 meeting.

New member:

Diane McInnis, LLB, for a 3 year term from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2022 as a legal member. Diane will be taking on the position of the committee member knowledgeable in law. Diane has varied background that includes a BSc, experience in basic research, teaching, a trademark license and is currently acting as a Family Law Practitioner. She has been an observer at two CREC meetings, met with administrative staff and committee members, and is eager to engage in the ethical review portion of the research ethics process. Diane will be replacing Eduardo Krupnik, whose term in this role is ending March 2019. Please refer to the attached letter or interest and resume.


November 18, 2018

DELIVERED BY EMAIL PDF ONLY: [email protected] and [email protected]

University of Waterloo

Clinical Research Ethics Committee

200 University Ave. W.

Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1

Dear Ms Joza and Dr. Hoot

Re: Volunteer Opportunity, University of Waterloo Legal Member for

Clinical Research Ethics Committee

Further to our telephone conversation on November 6, please find attached my Resume. I am very

interested in working with your Committee. I have a keen interest in ethics in general, as it pertains not

only to my own work in the practice of law, but the importance of confidentiality and the protection of

rights of people who volunteer to take part in research conducted at the University.

Prior to attending law school, I completed an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and physiology at

Dalhousie University, and worked in research labs in both the psychology department, and at the medical

school. In the years 2000- 2003, I practiced intellectual property law and had some experience with patent

work and obtained my trademark license. I no longer practice IP law and currently my practice is

restricted to family law, but this is to say that I have a pretty good understanding of the scientific method,

and the importance of ethical review of research, particularly those which employ human subjects.

The three core principles are set out in the Tri-Council Policy Statement for Ethical Conduct of Research

Involving Humans, of respect for persons, concern for welfare and justice are important for the work that

I do as a family lawyer, a collaborative practice lawyer and a family mediator, as well as my work acting

for children and youth in the field of child protection. These are universal values that I try to apply in all

aspects of my life. They are not things to be taken for granted.

The work that you do is valuable and important, and I am willing and interested in volunteering for such

important work.

If you have any questions or concerns or wish to speak to me further, I would be happy to hear from you.

Yours Very Truly,

Diane L. McInnis, B.Sc., B.Ed., LL.B Barrister and Solicitor

Collaborative Family Practice

Family Mediator


Diane Lynn McInnis

238 King St. South

Waterloo, Ontario

N2J 1R4

519-954-5291

[email protected]

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

2015 Personal Rights Panel, Ministry of the Attorney General, Office of the Children’s Lawyer

2011 Family Mediator

2011 Collaborative Practice Level II interdisciplinary Legal Professional

2008 Special Education Part I University of Western Ontario

2001 Trademark License Federal Court of Canada

1992 Admission to Ontario Bar Ontario Court of Appeal, Toronto, Ontario

1990 LL.B. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1986 Teacher License Ontario College of Teachers

1986 B.Ed. Secondary Sciences Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1985 B.Sc. Biology/Psychology Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2011 to present Sole Practitioner, Family Law, Waterloo, Ontario

2007-2008 Teacher, Contract Senior Secondary Credits, St; Louis Adult Learning

Centre, Kitchener, Ontario, teaching Biology and Law

1999-2002 Lawyer, Intellectual Property, Armstrong and Associates, Cambridge,

Ontario

1992-93 Lawyer, Private Practice in area of family and criminal law, as well as

Agent for the (then) Official Guardian, and duty counsel under the Mental

Health Act

1990-1991 Articling Student, Beard Winter, Barristers and Solicitors, Toronto

1989 Teacher, Research Methods, Library Technicians Program, Nova Scotia

Community College, Halifax Nova Scotia

1988 & 1989 Teacher, Grade 9 advanced math and grade 10 basic math, summer school, and occasional teacher, Toronto District School Board, Toronto


1986-87 Teacher, Grade 9 science, grade 11 advanced chemistry, grade 9 general

chemistry, grade 12 advanced physics and OAC Biology,

Carleton Separate School Board, Orleans, Ontario

RECENT VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

2015- present OCLF Conference Committee Volunteer

2014-present Core Group of Collaborative Law Association of the Region of Waterloo

and OCLF Liason

2011- present Speaker, “Legal Implications of Marriage”, Waterloo Marriage Preparation

Course

2009-2011 Financial Agent, Green Party of Canada, Kitchener-Waterloo EDA

2004-2009 Teacher, Parish Religious Education Program (PREP) Our Lady of Lourdes

Parish, Waterloo, Ontario

2005-2008 Founder and Organizer of the Annual Green Energy Conference for

Youth, on behalf of ABC, Waterloo, Ontario

2004-2010 Strong Start Volunteer (a literacy initiative for children in kindergarten

and grade 1) Westmount Public School, Kitchener, Ontario

2005-2007 Special Education Advisory Committee, Representative for the

Association for Bright Children, Waterloo Region District School Board

2005-2007 Meals on Wheels, delivering meals one day per week

2000-2003 Coordinator of Kindergarten Religion Program, Our Lady of Lourdes

Parish, Waterloo, Ontario

2002 Coach, Soccer Fun, Waterloo Minor Soccer, Waterloo, Ontario

1999-2005 School Council Member, including 1 year as the WRAPSC Rep and a year

and a half as Council Chair, Westmount Public School, Kitchener, Ontario

1994-95 Waterloo Region Legal Aid Clinic Board of Managers

GENERAL INTERESTS AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES


MEMORANDUM February 25, 2019 TO: Kathy Winter, Privacy Officer and Assistant University Secretary, Senate Graduate

and Research Council FROM: Heidi Mussar, Associate Director, Graduate Financial Aid & Awards RE: Agenda items for Senate Graduate & Research Council – March 2019 Items for Approval a) Bhattacharyya Family Graduate Award - endowment

An award valued at $1,500 will be provided annually to a graduate student who had previously been living in India. The student must be registered full time in the first year of a research-based Master’s or Doctoral program in the Department of Chemical Engineering. If an eligible candidate cannot be found in a particular year within Chemical Engineering, the award will be extended to other departments in the Faculty of Engineering where preference will then be given to students whose research crosses over with Chemical Engineering. Selection will be based on academic achievement. The Associate Dean, Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Engineering will select a recipient annually in the spring term. This award is made possible by a donation of $25,000 from Dr. Dilip Bhattacharyya, a Waterloo engineering alumnus with an equivalent match being made by the Faculty of Engineering.

b) Perimeter Institute (PI) Residency Graduate Scholarship – trust Perimeter Institute (PI) Residency Graduate Scholarships are available to PhD stuents registered full time at the University of Waterloo for up to a maximum of four years. Students who are of exceptional merit as demonstrated by being competitive for tri-agency awards and who are conducting research in Foundational Theoretical Physics will be considered. Studetns must have completed the Perimeter Scholars International Program (or equivalent), and be working with either a PI and/or a UW faculty member who specializes in Foundational Theoretical Physics. In addition to criteria for academic excellence, applicants will be assessed on their potential for enhancing theoretical physics research excellence in Canada, as defined by (a) the significance and impact of their research to date; (b) their proposed research plan and its potential for creating a significant contribution to the field; and (c) other prescribed merit criteria agreed by PI reviewers. The scholarships will be valued to ensure that students receive a net amount after tuition and fees between $23,000 and $32,000 per year. The scholarship is renewable for up to three years, contingent upon satisfactory academic progress as determined by the student’s supervisory committee; in certain circumstances, renewal for a fourth year is possible but is contigent upon the student’s degree completion plan and approval by the scholarship committee. Students interested in being considered for this scholarship must apply. In consultation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and departments in the Faculty of Mathematics (e.g.,


Applied Math and Pure Math), PI will recommend students for consideration of the award, based on the scholarship application. A committee appointed by the Chair of Physics and Astronomy will approve the final list of recipients and confirm the value of each student’s scholarship. In instances where students from Faculties other than Science (i.e., Mathematics) are being recommended, a representative from that Faculty shall be appointed to the committee. This scholarship is made possible through a maximum annual donation of $1M from Perimeter Institute and supersedes the Perimeter Institute PhD Award that was created in 2010.

c) Agibcona Masters of Mathematics for Teachers Award – trust An award valued at $4,200 per year will be awarded annually to a part-time graduate student enrolled in the Master of Mathematics for Teachers program through the Centre of Education in Mathematics & Computing (CEMC) in the Faculty of Mathematics. Selection will be based on current experience teaching in an indigenous or northern/remote community in Canada. Preference will be given to a student entering their first year of the Master of Mathematics for Teachers program. However, if no elgible candidate is found, the award will be given to a continuing student who fits the award criteria. Interested students are to submit an application. This award is made possible by a donation from Barry Ferguson and Angela Googh with the goal to support math education in northern, remote and indigenous communities in Canada. The award was named in honour of the donors’ ancestor, Agibcona. The period of this defined term award will be from 2020 to 2024. The first selection will be made in June 2020 and the last in June 2024. The total gift is $21,000.

Items for Information d) Science Domestic Graduate Scholarship – operating

Previously approved at SG&RC in September 2018, the Faculty of Science would like to make the following changes to the award for the 2019/2020 cohort of recipients:

Current:

o Year 1 funding of $15k paid across three terms: $15k is comprised of $10k from GSPA which is split in equal amounts and paid as a scholarship across two terms plus $5,000 from the Faculty of Science that is paid as a scholarship in a term(s) when the student is not receiving a TA.

o Year 2 funding of $5,000 is paid entirely by the Faculty of Science o The scholarship from GSPA provides an additional $10k on top of the minimum

funding provided by the Faculty of Science.

Proposed:

o Year 1 funding of $12,500 paid across three terms: $12,500 is comprised of $10k from GSPA equally paid as a scholarship ($5k) and as a GRS ($5k) plus $2,500 from the Faculty of Science paid as a GRS.

o Year 2 funding of $7,500 is paid entirely by the Faculty of Science o The scholarship from GSPA provides an additional $5k on top of minimum funding

provided by the Faculty of Science.


Notes:

1. the GSPA portion of $5k that is being paid as a GRS is being processed via a regular graduate scholarship nomination.

2. Total combined funding for years 1 and 2 still equals $20,000 3. Total combined funding for PhD students remains unchanged.


The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is a research institute at the University of Waterloo.

Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 CANADA [email protected] / 519.888.4567, x39627 / @uWaterlooWCGS

12 February 2019 Dear Senate Graduate and Research Council: Please find enclosed the quinquennial report of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies covering the years 2014-2018 inclusive. I have two requests:

1. That the Centre’s status as a research institute of the University of Waterloo be renewed for a five-year period;

2. That the request for assistance in the governance section of the report (p.5) be acted upon. The Centre was founded in 2004 when no Policy 44 existed; although interdisciplinary, it was largely an initiative of the Deparrtment of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and therefore it fell under the org unit of GSS. With the advent of Policy 44 making Centres such as WCGS responsible to the Dean of the Faculty in which they’re located, and given the new finance and human resource management procedures at the university, it is necessary for a separate org unit within the Faculty of Arts be established for the Centre.

Sincerely, James M. Skidmore Director


1

Quinquennial Report of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies for the Period 2014-2018

Introduction SUBMITTED 13 FEBRUARY 2019

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is a focal point for German studies research in Canada. Founded in 2004, and supported by an endowment of over $3,000,000 donated by local community members, the Centre is a university research institute with strong community engagement.

Over the past five years the Centre has spent over $300,000 to support research activity and dissemination, provide scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students, and program events for the wider Waterloo Region community. As the Centre’s endowment has grown, it has been able to hire a part-time (17.5 hours/week) administrative assistant, bring in internationally-renowned guest speakers (e.g. Timothy Snyder, Richard Levin Professor of History, Yale University), and support research projects involving the disciplines of applied linguistics, literary studies, film studies, and history, to name the most prominent.

With its firm financial footing and strong record of activities, the Centre is able to start planning a new phase in its history where there will be increased emphasis on scholarly communication and collaboration while maintaining its cultural programming and student support. The Centre therefore requests renewal of its research institute status for a five-year period (2019-2023).

This report is organized as follows:

§ Overview 2014-2018o Research Highlightso Scholarshipso Community Engagemento Administrative Matterso Governanceo Organizational Charto Financial Statement and Budgets

§ Plans for 2019-2023o Estimated Budget 2019-2023

§ Suggestions for External Reviewers§ Appendices

o Appendix One – Research and Cultural Programming, 2014-2018 (p. 9)o Appendix Two – Research Colleagues Survey (p.19)o Appendix Three – Member Survey (p. 22)o Appendix Four – Membership (p. 24)o Appendix Five – Scholarship Recipients (p. 26)o Appendix Six – WCGS Charter (Policy 44) (p. 27)o Appendix Seven – Letter of Support from the Dean of Arts

**To be distributed separately - SGRC secretary note


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Overview 2014-2018

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies has a mandate to be active in three broad areas: supporting research into any aspect of the society and culture of the German-speaking world; managing scholarship support for university students, at Waterloo and throughout Canada; organizing events and other programming of interest to the scholarly and general communities.

Research Highlights

§ The Grimm Lecture Series - The Grimm Lecture is held annually. A leading scholar is invited togive a keynote research lecture at a heavily promoted public. The popularity of the lectures has grown; turnout of 75 people was normal, but the last two lectures have attracted audiences in the 200- and 300-person range.

o 2014: Dennis Mahoney (Vermont): Recreating Nature: German Romantic Landscapesas Cultural Ecology

o 2015: Alice Kuzniar (Waterloo): The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of 1800:Medicine as Cultural History

o 2016: James Retallack (Toronto): Democracy in Disappearing Ink: The Politics ofExclusion in Germany

o 2017: Timothy Snyder (Yale): The Holocaust as History and Warningo 2018: Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge): When would Capitalism End?

§ WCGS Book Prize – This initiative was launched in 2018 to recognize excellence in GermanStudies scholarship. Any scholarly book published in English (or in French by a Quebec publisher) during the award year (2017) by a first-time author was eligible. A jury made up of five scholars from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom considered 14 books. From a shortlist of six books the winner was announced in early January 2019: Alice Weinreb, Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany, published by Oxford University Press. The prize is $2,000 plus an invitation to give a keynote address at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

§ Germans of Waterloo project – Begun in 2013, this research project was initiated by thenWCGS Director Mathias Schulze in response to a request from leading community members of the Centre for a project highlighting those German-Canadians who emigrated to this area after the Second World War. Over 120 interviews were conducted and transcribed by graduate students. Graduate students were paired with faculty members of the Centre to write book chapters on different facets of the migration experience. This book is currently being edited by a team of three Centre members and is expected to be published in 2019.

§ Member research – In response to a request for members to provide evidence of the role theWaterloo Centre for German Studies has played in their research endeavours, information was received from a number of members. (This can be viewed in Appendix 2.)

§ Other Research Highlights – a selection of research undertakings supported by the Centre. Fora full list see Appendix One.

o 2014: Transcultural Perspectives on German Studies – a joint conference between theUniversities of Waterloo and Mannheim


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o 2014: 100 Years since World War I: Dictatorship and Democracy in an Age of Extremes – a panel discussion featuring scholars and the Consul Generals of France, Germany, and Poland

o 2016: Spinoza, Goethe, Deleuze: All is Leaf (or Rhizome) – a seminar on Spinoza through the lenses of Goethe and Deleuze

o 2016: Storyworlds – a research symposium organized by the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies

o 2016: City on Edge – an exhibition at Waterloo Region Museum on the changing of the name of Berlin, Ontario to Kitchener was provided extensive research support from the Centre

o 2017: Antisemitism in Germany’s New Right. A History of the Present – invited lecture by Prof. Mathias Funck (Berlin) on the rise of populism in Germany

o 2017: Boehringer, Michael, et al (eds). Glaubenssysteme: Belief Systems in Austrian Literature, Thought and Culture. Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2017.

o 2018: The Role of the Imagination in German Educational Thought – a two-day workshop funded by the Centre

§ Feedback from membership survey (conducted January 2019 via e-mail questionnaire to the Centre’s mailing list of 450+ people; 80 people responded) – Centre members were asked to comment on the statement “The Waterloo Centre for German Studies has had a positive impact on the field of German Studies.” (See Appendix 3 for the complete Member Survey.)

o Strongly agree: 42 respondents o Agree: 19 respondents o Disagree: 1 respondent o No opinion/can’t answer: 18 respondents

Scholarships

§ Stork Awards in German Studies – these scholarships support students at Waterloo and other Canadian universities to undertake language and cultural studies in German-speaking Europe. Scholarships range from $500 to $2000.

o 78 UW students have received awards o 23 non-UW students have received awards o The Centre improved its communications to other Canadian universities last year, and

that resulted in a large increase of interest from non-UW students § The Cecilia and Late George Piller Graduate Research Award – two $4,000 scholarships are

awarded annually. Any Faculty of Arts graduate student with a major research focus on any aspect of the German-speaking world is eligible to apply. 10 awards have been made in this reporting period.

§ New award – the Centre Director has worked with a member of the German-Canadian community to establish a new set of scholarship (5 annually, each worth $1,000) to support

Community Engagement

§ Cultural events – the Centre offers organizational and financial support to facilitate an array of readings, film series, and other cultural events that feature the diversity of German-speaking culture and society. The full list of events is found in Appendix One; here are some highlights:


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o 2015: Führerbunker – the Centre sponsored the premiere of this experimentalchamber opera

o 2015: Maria Speth film retrospective – screenings of three films along with sessionswith the filmmaker

o 2015: Lichtgrenze (The Berlin Wall as a Border of Light) – film and director visit of the2014 art installation commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall

o 2016: Contra punctus – reading by author Michael Goettingo 2016: God’s Busted Knee and more – reading by author Marc Degenso 2016: Almost Everything Very Fast – reading by author Christopher Kloebleo 2017: CALLIOPE Austria: Women in Society, Culture, and the Sciences – travelling

exhibition from the Austrian Cultural Forum partially funded by the Centre o 2017: Anna Magdalena Kokits – Austrian pianist whose Canadian tour was co-

sponsored by the Centre o 2017, 2018: German Language Film Festival – annual festival of three films shown at

the Princess and co-sponsored by the Centre and the embassies of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

o 2018: Drew Hayden Taylor Searches for Winnetou – indigenous filmmaker screenedhis CBC documentary on the German fascination with American indigenous culture

o 2018: Denial – film screening and discussion to mark Holocaust Education Week§ The Centre undertook a review of its social media and website presence in 2018 and made a

number of changes to improve communication and outreach. We’ve noticed a considerable uptake in interest in our messages, tweets, postings, and whatever else it is you do in this new media landscape.

§ Feedback from membership survey (conducted January 2019 via e-mail questionnaire to theCentre’s mailing list of 450+ people; 82 people responded) – Centre members were asked to comment on three statements about events and community engagement programming. (See Appendix 3 for the complete Member Survey.)

o “The Waterloo Centre for German Studies does a good job of helping the universityand wider communities engage with the society and culture of the German-speaking world.”

§ Strongly agree: 53 respondents§ Agree: 23 respondents§ Disagree: 1 respondent§ No opinion/can’t answer: 3 respondents

o “WCGS programming (e.g. public lectures, seminars, film programs, etc.) is of highquality.”

§ Strongly agree: 62 respondents§ Agree: 9 respondents§ Disagree: 1 respondent§ No opinion/can’t answer: 7 respondents

o “The Waterloo Centre for German Studies does a good job of keeping me informedabout their events and activities.”

§ Strongly agree: 72 respondents§ Agree: 8 respondents§ Disagree: 0§ No opinion/can’t answer: 0


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Administrative Matters

§ In 2013 the Centre had attained enough financial growth to hire a part-time (17.5 hours/week)administrative assistant. The position was filled by Loris Straus in Fall 2013. In January 2018 she resigned to pursue some writing and educational opportunities, and the Centre hired Misty Matthews-Roper, a graduate of the university’s MA program in Intercultural German Studies. The position was also upgraded to USG Level 5.

Governance

§ In 2015 the Centre created a charter to align the Centre’s governance with the new UniversityPolicy 44 on Research Centres and Institutes. See Appendix Six.

§ One issue that has arisen with respect to governance and administration of the Centre: underPolicy 44, the Centre reports to the Dean of Arts as a faculty-level research institute. However, the Faculty’s administrative practices have always treated the Centre as a branch of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Although the Centre draws its base membership from GSS, it is not a program of GSS; it is an interdisciplinary centre with members from a variety of departments both within and outside the university. This creates problems for the Centre with regard to managing its endowment and staffing since its Org Unit number is shared with GSS. For example, some financial information and accounting goes through the GSS Chair even though that office has no authority over the finances or staffing of the Centre. Requests made to the financial administrators of the Faculty of Arts to rectify this situation so that the Centre’s finances can be fully compliant with Policy 44 have been ignored. The Centre requests that the Office of Research provide assistance to resolve this matter so that the Centre can manage its affairs according to university policy.

Organizational Chart

WCGS Director (James Skidmore)

WCGS Administrative Assistant (Misty Matthews-Roper)

Executive Committee as per Policy 44

Chair - Director of the Centre (ex officio)Associate Dean (Research) as delegate of the Dean of Arts (ex

officio)Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies (ex officio)Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies (ex officio)

Two at-large members (UW faculty members)


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Financial Statement and Budgets

As of 31 Dec 2018 Principal Available Balance Endowment - General $2,646,530.41 $106,899.19 Endowment – Stork $566,333.96 $16,281.07 Trust Account - General $4,342.51 Trust Account - Piller $44,187.50

2018-2019 Budget – General

Income Balance 1 May 2018 $76,288.44 Income 2018-2019 $79,382.91 Sub-total Income $155,671.35

Expenses Administrative Assistant salary

$26,000

Director course release $10,000 Office Expenses $5,000 Grimm Lecture $8,000 Experiment symposium

$4,000

Imagination workshop $13,000 Hayden Taylor event $1,500 Bruce event $500 Advertising $1,000 Sub-total Expenses $69,000

Surplus (Deficit) $86,671.35

2018-2019 Budget – Stork Awards

Income Balance 1 May 2018 $3,791.05 Income 2018-2019 $16,990.02 Sub-total Income $20,781.07

Expenses Scholarships Summer 2018 (paid out May-June 2018)

$4,500

Scholarships Summer 2019 (paid out April 2019)

$12,000

Sub-total Expenses $16,500 Surplus (Deficit) $4,281.07


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Plans for 2019-2023

Over the past year the Centre’s Director has been consulting with members of the Centre and the Executive about the general thrust of the Centre’s activities. The experience with the Germans of Waterloo project, which dominated the Centre’s activities and expenditures for a period of three years, has taught us that the Centre should be more about facilitating research than undertaking research directly. The Centre’s focus areas will remain the same, but there is agreement that there will be a shift in emphasis towards the facilitation of research by concentrating on two modalities, Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Collaboration. The Centre’s healthy financial situation will allow for an expansion of its activities in these areas.

§ Scholarly Communicationo Public Scholarship – since the Centre straddles the academic and community spheres,it

makes sense that its scholarly communication emphasize broad knowledge transfer that can benefit the university, the discipline, and the broader public.

o Current activities, such as the book prize and the Grimm lecture, have provided somemovement in this direction and will continue.

o The Centre Director will be spending most of 2019 exploring the establishment of ascholarly knowledge transfer website and journal tentatively entitled Public German Studies. Borrowing the definition of public scholarship developed by Indiana and Purdue universities, public scholarship “is an intellectually and methodologically rigorous endeavor that is responsive to and builds trust with public audiences.” The Centre’s leadership believes that there is room in the field of German studies for a more active presence in public scholarship by German studies scholars. This would be an academic endeavour, with peer oversight and review, but serving a broader audience.

o Public German Studies would emphasize the development of the skills needed tocommunicate complex ideas and findings to experts and non-experts alike. To do so, this will require workshops and webinars for scholars and graduate students to explore methods of communication that can reach broader audiences, research assistantships and internships for graduate students to deepen their abilities in this form of scholarly communication, and professional copy editing of scholarly communication (something often lacking in academic journals).

§ Scholarly Collaborationo In reviewing the activities of the Centre, the Centre’s leadership has been pleased with

the variety, scope, and intensity of the Centre’s research and event programming. Successes such as the Poetics and Nature research group (headed by Alice Kuzniar) exist, but there is room for intensifying the involvement of scholars in the activities of the Centre, both UW-based academics and graduate students, as well as colleagues from other institutions.

o To make advances in this area, the Centre needs to offer programming of interest andvalue to academic colleagues. While the Centre will maintain its level of research and event programming, over the next five years steps will be taken to solidify the Centre’s role as a facilitator of scholarly collaboration. This work will overlap with the scholarly


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communication efforts outlined above, but in addition the following initiatives will be explored:

§ German Ideas Lab – a workshop series highlighting current issues in theGerman studies disciplines in which colleagues with demonstrated expertise in the area will be brought in for a one-day symposium with Centre members. The success of the Centre’s smaller, more targeted colloquia and symposia indicates that this could be a more manageable approach to intellectual exchange than larger-scale conferences.

§ Purchase and provide access to collaboration tools (such as Zoomvideoconferencing) to any colleagues at UW or elsewhere who could make use of such tools for a German studies research project.

§ Provide more social and informal opportunities for intellectual exchange alongthe lines of the Poetics and Nature research group activities.

Estimated Budget 2019-2023

Estimated Income Balance 1 May 2019 $86,671.35 Income 2019-2023, based on current rates

$400,000.00

Sub-total Income $486,671.35 Estimated Expenses

Administrative Assistant salary

$140,000

Director course release $50,000 Office Expenses $25,000 Grimm Lecture $50,000 Other Lectures $50,000 Symposia, Workshops $75,000 PGS Journal $25,000 PGS Internships $50,000 Sub-total Expenses $465,000

Estimated Surplus (Deficit) $21,671.35

Suggestions for External Reviewers

§ Jörg Esleben, Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa§ Karin Bauer, Professor of German, McGill University§ Annette Timm, Professor of History, University of Calgary§ Simone Lässig, Director, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC


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Appendices

Appendix 1 – Research and Cultural Programming, 2014-2018

Event Name Date Short Description

1. Free German Movie Screenings 01/13/2014

Dr. Alice Kuzniar of the Germanic & Slavic department hosted a free German-movie screening at East Campus Hall at the university. All movies are subtitled unless otherwise noted.

2. KW German City Walk app 1/17/2014

In conjunction with Goethe-Institut and the Consulate of Germany, an app was developed for different cities with strong German influences and heritage.

3. Jochen Horisch: Richard Wagners Theorie-Theater

02/07/2014 Invited Lecture

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Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

03/06/2014 A series of research talks by candidates for the John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies.

5.

Waterloo Colloquium on Language Learning and Teaching 2014

04/07/2014 An annual conference featuring student presentations.

6.

Bertha von Suttner, A Life of Peace - Concert and Exhibit

05/20/2014 In cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum and Conrad Grebel University College.

7. CAUTG 2014 05/24/2014 Support for a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German.

8. Transcultural Perspectives on German Studies

06/10/2014 A joint conference of the University of Waterloo and Universität Mannheim.

9. Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes

09/15/2014

This photo exhibit documented the rise of dictatorship and later on democracy in the 20th century. It was sponsored by The Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Deutschlandradio Kultur, and the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.

10. Mother Courage 09/21/2014 Members of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies saw a Stratford Festival performance of German playwright Berthold Brecht's play, Mother Courage/Mutter Courage.

11. Zug in die Freiheit/Train to Freedom

09/23/2014 Students and community members viewed a movie about one train trip and the train's passengers as they left Prague for West Germany during the fall of Communism.


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12.

Thomas Wortmann: Beim Haupte des Autoren. Referenzspiele in Elfriede Jelineks Theatertexten und deren Inszenierung

09/30/2014 Invited lecture.

13. The Dawn of Freedom: East Germany 1989

10/08/2014 Mat Schulze's presentation covered his own first-hand account of being a student in Leipzig in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down.

14.

100 Years Since WWI: Dictatorship and Democracy in an Age of Extremes

10/28/2014 The consuls general from the Polish, German, and French consulates in Toronto, and UW History Department Faculty Member Gary Bruce discussed various topics on the 100 years since WWI.

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German-Canadian Business and Professionals' Association

11/11/2014 The WCGS hosted the monthly meeting for a local German-Canadian business association.

16. Grimm Lecture: Recreating Nature 11/18/2014

Dennis Mahoney, the Wolfgang and Barbara Mieder Green and Gold Professor of German at the University of Vermont, presented the thesis that today's environmentalism has its roots in the German romantic movement.

17. International Education Week 11/20/2014 The WCGS participated in a showcase of international research

opportunities.

18. Kaffee, mein Geliebter 11/25/2014 Members of the community and donors took in a performance by

undergraduate students studying German.

19. German Studies Forum 12/03/2014 German researchers from UW and neighbouring universities met at

UW to discuss their research projects.

20. Movie trip: Into the Woods 01/22/2015 A field trip for a course on fairy tales.

21. Die Walküre (The Valkyries) 01/28/2015

Ann Marie Rasmussen, the Diefenbaker chair, took her undergraduate class German literature class to Toronto to view a production of Wagner's famous opera.

22. Führerbunker 02/11/2015 The WCGS sponsored this experimental chamber opera about Hitler's final days in his bunker.

23. Daniela Wolff 03/02/2015 A local author, who is a German national, read from her crime novel and answered questions from students.

24.

What Do Language Learners Do, Exactly?

03/20/2015 Bryan Smith outlined how eye-tracking technology can help researchers better understand what language learners do when using computers to learn.


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25. Maria Speth Film Retrospective 03/25/2015

Maria Speth is an award-winning director from Germany. This event included screenings of three of her movies, Q&A sessions afterwards, and a workshop. Speth attended the last screening and conducted the workshop. The retrospective was done in partnership with the Goethe-Institut in Toronto and the University of Toronto.

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27. WCI German trip support 04/12/2015 Assistance provided to Waterloo Collegiate Institute.

28.

Lichtgrenze (The Berlin Wall as a Border of Light): A Talk by Creator Marc Bauder

05/29/2015 Lichtgrenze is an art installation created by Marc and Christopher Bauder, two German artists and filmmakers. Marc Bauder gave a talk at the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies' conference.

29.

Visual, Cultural and Literary Codes: Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies' Annual Conference

05/29/2015

This is the annual conference of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Keynote Speakers are Prof. Dr. Beate Henn-Memmesheimer from Universität Mannheim and German filmmaker and artist Marc Bauder.


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Grimm Lecture: The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of 1800: Medicine as Cultural History

09/25/2015

Alice Kuzniar, Professor of German and English at the University of Waterloo, is currently working on her fifth book, The Romantic Art of Homeopathy. She reviewed numerous ways in which homeopathy is a product of its time. Referencing German philosophers, poets, physicists, and physicians from around 1800, she looked at the pervasive notion in Romantic science of a “vital life force” and how it informed homeopathy’s concepts of healing and the infinitesimal dose.

32.

Julya Rabinowich's Transnational Poetics

10/30/2015

Even before migration became such an urgent issue in the European Union, it was the focal point of Julya Rabinowich’s writing and art. Prof. Guenther explores how Rabinowich transforms practices of cultural transfer and translation into narrative and dramatic art forms that highlight the impact of political persecution and economic developments, such as the globalization of capital, and the ensuing border crossings on the marginalized poor across various continents.


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33.

The Commodification of Language in Late Modernity

11/02/2015

In this talk Prof. Heller will consider some of the ways in which the authenticity of language, culture and identity associated with the nation-state have been destabilized by the conditions of the globalized new economy (sometimes referred to as late or high modernity, or late capitalism). In particular, using examples from francophone Canada, Prof. Heller will talk about some of the dilemmas related to the commodification of language both as symbol of authenticity (as in tourism, or the locavore movement) and as a technical skill (as in call centres, or translation).

34. Nature and Education Circa 1800

11/21/2015

Isis was the veiled goddess of nature who inspired German writers from Schiller to Novalis. Jean Paul Richter, too, fantasized about Isis: once one tried to lift the veil on nature, he said, the veil would continually extend itself. How, then can one come to know and learn about nature? What tropes and language are used to make nature become visible? How does one communicate and disseminate this knowledge? How, in short, is nature re-mediated around 1800? This workshop was organized by the WCGS Research Group on Poetics and Nature circa 1800.

35.

Remediating Nature: Presenting the Natural World in 18th Century Children's Literature

11/21/2015

Nikola von Merveldt researches children's literature and its historical context. Her studies focus on the history of the book as a material object and social medium that isn’t only the intellectual product of the author, but also the commercial, technological, and cultural product of an epoch.

36.

Digging up the Doll: Inherited Memories of the Removal of German Nationals From Eastern Europe

11/26/2015

In this paper Prof. Warley considers her mother’s experiences as a child refugee in 1945. She was just one of millions of German nationals who were forced from their homes in various parts of Eastern Europe during the final months of WWII when Hitler and Stalin moved the borders. Prof. Warley will discuss how her mother’s story—and those like it—are passed on to their children and become part of the next generation’s subjectivities.

37. German Studies Forum 12/07/2015

The German Studies Forum aims to 1) inform colleagues and graduate students about funding opportunities for German Studies research through the WCGS, 2) initiate new and boost existing collaborative research among colleagues and graduate students of universities in southwestern Ontario, and 3) foster new and extended venues for the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of research. We'll have very short (1-minute) presentations in the morning, during which individual colleagues and graduate students can introduce their research interests, ideas, and projects. This will be followed by a few presentations about projects in progress. Breakout sessions for groups interested in the same or similar projects will take place in the afternoon.


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38.

Digital Games for Language Learning: State of the Art, Research, and Practice

12/08/2015

As digital gaming has increased in popularity and become a global practice, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) researchers and second and foreign language (L2) educators have begun reconsidering games as potential L2 teaching and learning (L2TL) resources. To provide an overview of this new field, this talk surveys the history and theory of games in CALL and presents the origins of the field, rationale for the use of games in L2TL, games purposed for L2TL, and major research findings.

39. Contra Punctus: Author Visit from Michael Goetting

01/26/2016

Michael Götting is an author, journalist and curator. His novel Contrapunctus (Counterpoint) was published in September 2015. He received his MA in North American Studies and German Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. Götting writes for ZEIT ONLINE, Deutschlandfunk and the Tagesspiegel and works as a freelance artist and curator for Berlin's postmigrant theatre Ballhaus Naunystrasse. Currently, he is living in Toronto, working on his second novel. Excerpts from Contrapunctus will be read in both English and German. Afterwards, the floor will be opened to questions. The discussion will be held in English. All are welcome, and knowledge of German isn't necessary.

40.

God’s Busted Knee & More: A Visit From Author Marc Degens

02/23/2016

Marc Degens, born in 1971 in Essen, Germany, has been living in Toronto since 2014. He’s a writer, publisher, program director of the publishing house “SuKuLTuR”, and e-book dealer (minimore.de). He studied German Literature and Sociology in Bochum, Germany. “Unsere Popmoderne,” his column about fictitious novels, ran from 2001 to 2012 in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and “Volltext.” In 2009, SuKuLTuR Verlag published the novel “Strobo,” which was the epicentre of a copyright infringement case about Helene Hegemann’s debut novel, “Axolotl Roadkill.” Marc Degens has published numerous books, including four novels.

41. Concordia School papers 03/01/2016 The Centre provided support for the indexing of these documents.

42. Eichner Book Project 03/01/2016 The Centre provided support for the preparation of this manuscript

by a Centre member (David John).

43.

Spinoza, Goethe, Deleuze: All is Leaf (or Rhizome--take your pick)

03/12/2016

The German Romantic Novalis called Baruch Spinoza a "God-intoxicated man." Next to Rousseau, there is hardly a more influential thinker for late 18th-century German intellectual life. Spinoza's belief in the unity of nature and spirit, along with the unity of all that exists, was attractive to Lessing, Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling, among others. After Gilles Deleuze's re-popularization of Spinoza, the 17th-century philosopher's influence cannot be underestimated for a range of theoretical approaches today, from affect theory to neo-vitalism. This seminar dug deeper into understanding Spinoza by first studying Goethe through Spinoza and then Spinoza through Deleuze.

44.

Film screening: Die andere Heimat (dir. Edgar Reitz)

03/16/2016

The concluding film (which is also a prequel) to Edgar Reitz magnum opus Heimat. Released in 2013 to great acclaim, "Die andere Heimat" returns to the village of Schabbach, but this time it is the middle of the 19th century.


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45.

Was nützt die Ferne in Gedanken? Edgar Reitz’ Filmepos „Die andere Heimat. Chronik einer Sehnsucht“

03/18/2016

“Hope dies,” summarizes Thomas E. Schmidt in the German national paper Die Zeit, “and yearning outlives it by far.” Reitz’s film can be seen that way. This presentation, however, suggests a different perspective: namely that the film presents a longing to travel as a subtle cultural technique of staying home.

46.

Mapping educational trajectories: What effect does transitioning between online and on-campus courses have on learning?

04/15/2016

Online courses can provide students with new forms of social and learning interaction, widen their access to education, and offer an individualized learning experience in large classes. However, little research exists examining how students transfer between online and on-campus courses and what effects this has on students’ academic success. This presentation discusses new data gathered from language courses with online and on-campus counterparts that help to better understand the extent to which online learning enables students to meet their intended learning outcomes.

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48. Storyworlds 05/09/2016 Support for a symposium organized by Centre member Ann Marie Rasmussen.


50. City on Edge @ Waterloo Region Museum

07/01/2016 The Centre funded background research work for this exhibition; grad student members of the Centre were hired to do the work.

51. Elora Immersion Excursion 09/10/2016 The Centre provided support for a language immersion weekend

organized by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies.

52.

Von Berlin zu Kitchener: Connotations and Cultures

09/15/2016 A public panel organized by the Centre commemorating the 100th anniversary of the renaming of Berlin, Ontario.

53.

Undergraduate Colloquium in German Studies at University of Toronto

09/24/2016 The Centre provided support for student travel and other costs to this national conference.

54.

Grimm Lecture: Democracy in Disappearing Ink: The Politics of Exclusion in Germany before Hitler

10/16/2016 A lecture by James Retallack, University of Toronto.


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55.

Author Visit: Christopher Kloeble - Almost Everything Very Fast

11/01/2016 Kloeble will be reading from his work and will then answer questions from the audience. A book signing will take place at the end.

56. Reading Group 11/01/2016 Almost Everything Very Fast, by Christopher Kloeble

57.

Author Reading with Thomas Perle: wir danken der partei

11/08/2016

Thomas Perle ist ein junger deutscher Autor und Regisseur. Er wurde 1987 in Rumänien geboren und emigrierte 1991 mit seiner Familie nach Deutschland.Von 2008 bis 2015 studierte er an der Universität Wien Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaften. 2013 erhielt er den Wiener exil-Literaturpreis, 2015 vom Bundeskanzleramt Österreich das Startstipendium für Literatur, 2016 den ersten Preis beim 28. Literaturpreis der Nürnberger Kulturläden. Momentan arbeitet er an seinem Debütroman wir gingen weil alle gingen., der 2017 im Verlag edition exil erscheint.

58. Animal Studies and the Voice of the Other

12/05/2016

Ron Broglio will trace back to the 18th-century sensibility movement contemporary post-humanist ideas of animals having a voice. In his talk, he will pursue what animal studies can push against in terms of the animal “rights” movement. Co-sponsored by the UW English Dept and WCGS Research Group "Poetics and Nature circa 1800"

59. German Studies Forum 12/12/2016 An informal colloquium of members of the Waterloo Centre for

German Studies.

60. Berlin Artist Talk 02/01/2017 A talk by Paul Roorda, a Canadian artist working in Berlin, held in conjunction with the Berlin Field Trip course.

61.

Grimm Lecture: The Holocaust as History and Warning

02/06/2017 A lecture by Timothy Snyder, Yale University.

62. Did Luther Invent High German? 04/04/2017 A lecture by Centre Director Mat Schulze marking the 500th

anniversary of Luther's 95 theses. L

63. Reading Group 04/25/2017 Die Vermessung der Welt, by Daniel Kehlmann

64.

Data-Driven Learning: Can and Should Language Learners Become Corpus Linguists?

05/05/2017

"Data-driven learning means using real data in the classroom. In the case of language learners, this means using data collected from interviews, writing samples, and other real examples of language. In Linguistics, this data is not hard to come by: it is stored in corpora (sing. corpus), large digital textual databases. As useful as this style of teaching can be, it is still far from common pedagogical practice. Why? Because its discovery-based nature is similar to building and testing hypotheses in research, something that can be very challenging to second-language (L2) learners. Join University of Kansas researcher Nina Vyatkina as she outlines what DDL is, shows examples of DDL she has used in her own classroom, and shares with us intriguing results of learner performance and perception. "


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Negotiating Understanding: Responding to Formulations in Interaction

05/15/2017

Conversation Analysis Research Workshop “Formulations” in spoken interaction propose an understanding of some state of affairs — of what another person has been telling or doing. This workshop examines a broad range of such sequences in which an understanding is formulated in conversation and then accepted or rejected. Such sequences allow us to trace how shared meaning and understanding is constructed in everyday interaction.

This workshop is organized jointly by the WCGS Applied Linguistics research group and the Institute for the German Language and is held in Mannheim. Participants are researchers and graduate students from Canada, the US, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Each participant prepares and leads a data session, in which a collection of examples of a specific interactional pattern is analyzed as a group. The workshop further includes a critical discussion of the concept of “formulations/formulating” in conversation analytic and interactional linguistic work.

66. German Language Film Festival 05/17/2017 A joint venture with Princess Cinemas and the Embassies of Austria,

Germany, and Switzerland.


68. Reading Group: Choose Your Own Book

07/25/2017 The WCGS Reading group met to discuss the German books they had read that summer.

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Women’s Authorship in Contemporary German Cinema

07/31/2017 Centre members Alice Kuzniar and Mario Hirstein were funded by WCGS to go to a workshop in Berlin.

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Markus Funck: Antisemitism in Germany's "New Right." A History of the Present

09/14/2017

Invited Lecture. The rise of a right-wing populist movement and the political successes of the Alternative für Deutschland have been accompanied by a number of public scandals and charges related to antisemitism. While intellectuals of the "New Right" insist on their dissociation from any form of Nazim and racial thought, critics point to the inherent antisemitism of völkisch thought, to the ambivalent relation to Germany's National Socialist past, and to the "New Right's" rejection of the established memorial culture of the Holocaust. Using recent examples as well as historical references, Marcus Funck discussed the public discourse on antisemitism among the "New Right."

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CALLIOPE Austria: Women in Society, Culture, and the Sciences

09/27/2017

Women have far too often been forgotten, overlooked, and marginalised in Austria’s official historiography—a fact that lends all the more importance to this exhibition’s attempt to survey the past 200 years in light of the biographies of important Austrian women.

72. Austrian Pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits

09/29/2017 Award-winning Austrian pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits will play a selection works as part of her coast-to-coast tour during Canada 150.


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New fables for a New World: Burkard Waldis’s Aesopian Fable Collection

09/29/2017

Waldis’s text presents a critical point of view about the world that “everybody calls new now”. His medium of choice for giving advice for such a world is an old one: the fable.

Cosponsored by The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, Medieval Studies, and the SJU D.R.A.G.E.N. Lab.

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Reading: Carl Skoggard Reads From his Translation of Siegfried Krakauer's Georg

11/13/2017

Join us at Open Sesame for a reading by Carl Skoggard, translator of the novel Georg by Siegfried Kracauer. In a defeated nation seething with extremism right and left, young rookie reporter Georg is looking for something to believe in. For him, the past has become unusable; for nearly everyone he meets, paradise seems just around the corner. But which paradise? Kracauer’s grimly funny novel takes on a confused and dangerous time which can remind us of our own.

75. Novalis' "Lehrlinge zu Sais" 11/25/2017

Novalis drafted The Novices at Sais between 1798 and 1799. He planned to reconceive it as a “truly symbolic novel of nature” in 1800, but left the work incomplete on his death, leaving us a rich series of questions to explore. Join us for a workshop Nov 25.

76. Reading Group: Winnetou I, by Karl May

11/28/2017

"We're going back to the Wild West, German style, with Karl May's Winnetou I (1893). In this first, and perhaps most famous, instalment of the Winnetou trilogy, German Old Shatterhand meets and develops a deep friendship with Apache chief Winnetou. Our meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 28th, at 7PM at the historic Brubacher House."

77. 1st Annual Golden Boar Awards 12/05/2017 Short films were produced by students in German 101 and 102 and

were showcased in an Oscar style evening.

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12/11/2017 Grad students present on topics related to language teaching and learning.

79. Steffen Kaupp 01/16/2018 Cancelled due to weather

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The Role of the Imagination in German Educational Thought - Workshop

05/03/2018

From the eighteenth century to the present, German-speaking pedagogues (e.g., Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Hannah Arendt) have emphasized the importance of educating the imagination for the pursuit of social justice. Join us as we revitalize this important intellectual tradition for the Canadian university!

81. German Language Film Festival 05/24/2018

Films are donated to the Centre from the embassies of Germany, Austria and Swizterland. 3 week film festival held at the Princess Theatre. WCGS usually introduces the films.

82. WCGS Reception for Members 07/05/2018 AGM for WCGS members held at the University Club

83. Reading Group Summer 2018 08/07/2018 Gehen, Ging, Gegangen by Jenny Erpenbeck


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84. Grimm Lecture 2018 09/20/2018

In recognition of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, WCGS is honoured to welcome distinguished Professor Gareth Stedman Jones for the Grimm Lecture 2018. He is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London and author of Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (2016).

85. Drew Hayden Taylor Searches for Winnetou

10/24/2018

There is a peculiar relationship between Germany (and other European countries) and the First Nations people of North America. It all goes back to the writings of Karl May, a 19th-century author who created one of the most popular characters in German literature, Winnetou. While visiting Germany on numerous occasions to give lectures, Mr. Taylor was confronted by the legacy of these real and imaginary people. And as a First Nations man, it made an impression on him. On a trip last year, he took a film crew and documented this phenomenon. This is the result.

86. Film Screening: Denial

07 Nov 2018

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and Hillel Waterloo held a screening of the 2016 film “Denial” starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, and Timothy Spall. It tells the story of David Irving’s vexatious lawsuit against historian Deborah Lipstadt after Lipstadt correctly characterized him as a Holocaust denier. The film is a powerful reminder of the need to combat hate by defending historical truth.

87. Reading Group Winter 2018 11/29/2018 The WCGS Reading Group met to discuss the German books they

had read in the fall.


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Appendix 2 – Research Colleagues Survey **To be distributed separately - SGRC secretary note


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Appendix 3 – Member Survey

Total number of responses: 82 Self-Identification as Faculty Member UW (14); Faculty Member Non-UW (16); Student UW (5); Student Non-UW (2); Community Member (36); Other/Don’t know (9)

Questions/Responses Strongly Agree

Agree Disagree No opinion/ Can’t answer

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) does a good job of helping the university and wider communities to engage with the society and culture of the German-speaking world.

53 23 1 3

WCGS programming (e.g. public lectures, seminars, film programs, etc.) is of high quality.

62 9 1 7

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) does a good job of keeping me informed about their events and activities.

72 8 0 0

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies has had a positive impact on the field of German studies.

42 19 1 18

Additional Comments:

1. Mehr Nachrichten auf Deutsch. Mehr lustige Filme und mehr Lustiges auf Deutsch und nicht immer so viel Ernstes und Dramatisches und Trauriges waere schoen.

2. The WCGS is doing a superb job. I realize how fortunate we are to have it, and by no means take it for granted.

3. WCGS programming tends to lean heavily towards the academic side. It would be helpful if programming content was more approachable and relatable. Events during the dinner or early evening hours could allow for more people to attend. Parking on campus is always a challenge and can be costly which may deter some people from attending.

4. The Timothy Snyder lecture in particular was fantastic. 5. I attended the workshop in May 2018 that struck me as well conceived and well organized. Great job. 6. I am not very involved with the WCGS. Not because of a lack of interest but because of a lack of time.

Therefore I could not answer several of the questions. 7. As a founding member I am disappointed. The Centre is just to preoccupied with the Third Reich and

the Nazis 8. The WCGS is included in my will and I hope it will exist for many years to come. It's work is very

important. 9. the research group run by Dr. Alice Kuzniar and funded by WCGS has been very useful in fostering

my research activities, as a forum to present ideas and to hear about related work by colleagues. 10. The WCGS serves the important function of keeping the German heritage of this area current and

relevant. Thus, it also offers an intellectual counterpoint and complement to the tradition of Oktoberfest.

11. I often travel to WCGS to participate in events, such as the public lectures. These events bring internationally-renowned scholars to speak on topics of interest across the social sciences and humanities. In my experience they draw audiences comprised of academics and also the general public, thus performing important public outreach and creating links with other post-secondary institutions. With initiatives such as the WCGS book prize and funding for students and scholars at all career stages it is an important resource locally and internationally.


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12. The events hosted by the WCGS are constantly well-organized and interesting, and concern a wide array of topics. Thank you!

13. As the principal of the German Language School in London Ontario I highly appreciate the activities and always informative announcements of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies. I believe such initiatives have an important impact on German studies even if only by making colleagues and students in the field aware of the issues covered by the events.

14. You guys are doing a great job. Keep it up. I especially liked the Drew Haydn Taylor presentation last year and the Timothy Snyder one two years ago.

15. Keep up the great Grimm lectures! I loved Timothy Snyder's 2017 Grimm lecture and went on to read several of his books. The 2013 Grimm lecture was a bit more "niche" -- I enjoyed it because I'd seen half the films referenced; my husband found it less accessible.

16. WCGS is an important feature of UW's scholarly landscape. It provides research support, cultural programming, and scholarship funding that benefits individuals, the university, and the wider community.

17. Would welcome more guest lectures to enhance the visibility of German Studies. 18. As a former mature student at U Waterloo, I feel WCGS does a fantastic job on keeping me informed

of a multitude of up coming events. I know their actions have enriched my life, and an fortunate they are a part of the UW Community.

19. I really appreciate the wide range of public talks that span science, literature and film, low and high brow, installation, and ecology. I wish I could attend more events, but the 401 is sometimes an inhibitor. But when I have been able to attend, I've never regretted it! The book group is also an excellent idea. Even if I haven't been able to participate in any of them, the texts that were mentioned often inspired me to get a copy of the book and put something new on my own reading list. Keep up the great work!

20. Have found event invitations from WCGS well organized and the actual events thought provoking and engaging. Often speakers would bring up such interesting topics that have enticed members in the audience to research the presentations further to gain additional insight. I like both the idea of the member survey and your recent book prize. From my perspective (being uncomfortably close to that Wall; story of my life it seems) you are doing a great job.

21. I don't attend all the events, but the ones I have gone to are excellent. 22. Just recently moved to the area from Toronto and look forward to participating in some of the events

WCGS has to offer.


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Appendix 4 – Membership Faculty Members Total: 59 (UW - 25; non-UW - 34)

University of Waterloo Other universities 1. Michael Boehringer - (Germanic & Slavic

Studies Chair) Harald Bauder - Ryerson (Geography)

2. Barbara Schmenk - (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

Diane Bielicki - UofT (German)

3. Emma Betz - (Germanic & Slavic Studies) Alec Cattell - Texas Tech (Language Learning Lab) 4. Alice Kuzniar - (Germanic & Slavic Studies) Belinda Kleinhans - Texas Tech (German) 5. Grit Liebscher - (Germanic & Slavic Studies) Christine Lehleiter - UofT (German) 6. Paul Malone - (Germanic & Slavic Studies) Ute Lischke - WLU (German) 7. Ann Marie Rasmussen - (Germanic & Slavic

Studies) Alexandra Zimmerman - WLU (German)

8. James Skidmore - (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

Paola Mayer - UofG (German)

9. Andrea Speltz - (Germanic & Slavic Studies) David T. McNab - YorkU (Indigenous Thought and Cdn Studies)

10. Mathias Schulze - (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

Gabrielle Mueller - YorkU (German)

11. Gary Bruce - (History) Mareike Mueller - UIC (German) 12. Marlene Epp - Conrad Grebel (History and

Peace & Conflict Studies) Nikolai Penner - McMaster (German)

13. Geoffrey Hayes - (History) Jean Wilson - McMaster (German) 14. David G. John - (Germanic & Slavic Studies) John H. Smith - UCI (German) 15. Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach - (History) Peter Wood - USasK (German) 16. Lynne Taylor - (History) Thomas Wortmann - Uni Mannehim (Germanistik) 17. Markus Moos – (Planning) Justus Fetscher - Uni Mannheim (Germanistik) 18. Tara Collington – (French Studies) Regine Zeller - Uni Mannheim (Germanistik) 19. Douglas Peers – (History) Christina Kraenzle - YorkU (German) 20. Imre Szeman – (English – Communication) Ruediger Mueller - UoGuelph 21. Jasmin Habib – (Political Science) Markus Stock – Utoronto (German) 22. Altay Coskun – (Classics) Angelica Fenner – Utoronto (German) 23. Christine McWebb – (French Studies) James Retallack - UToronto (History) 24. Greta Kroeker – (History) David Pugh – Queen’s (Languages and Literatures) 25. Goetz Hoeppe – (Anthropology) John Noyes – UToronto (German) 26. Jennifer Askey -UAlberta (German) 27. Erol Boran -UToronto (German) 28. Angela Borchert- Western (Modern Lang & Lit) 29. David Darby – Western (Modern Lang & Lit) 30. Kyle Frackman – UBC (CENES) 31. Anna Orich - Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

(German) 32. Stefan Soldovieri – Utoronto (German) 33. Ervin Malakaj – UBC (CENES) 34. Iris Bruce – McMaster (English)


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Students Total: 56

1. Lori Straus - UW (PhD) 2. Derreck Andrews - UW (IcGS) 3. Taylor Antoniazzi - UW (IcGS) 4. Ina Bendig - UW (IcGS) 5. Anna Burket - UW (IcGS) 6. Sara Ghaffarian - UW (PhD) 7. Tanya Hagman - UW (IcGS) 8. Christine Kampen Robinson - UW (PhD) 9. Myriam Léger - UW (PhD) 10. Katharina Leuner - UW (IcGS) 11. Judith Linneweber - UW (IcGS) 12. Allison Cattell - Uw (PhD) 13. Sara Marsh - UW ( PhD) 14. Maike Mueller - UW (IcGS) 15. Jennifer Redler - UW (PhD) 16. Julia Roitsch - UW (IcGS) 17. Daniela Roth - UW (PhD) 18. Sam Schirm - UW (PhD) 19. Friederike Schlein - UW (PhD) 20. Katharina Schroeder - UW (PhD) 21. Katharina Unkelbach - UW (IcGS) 22. Stefanie Templin - UW (IcGS) 23. Sara Werthmueller - UW (IcGS) 24. Misty Matthews-Roper - UW (IcGS) 25. Kristin Yaworski - UW (IcGS) 26. Wes Lindinger - UW (IcGS) 27. Jeff Lapalme - UW (IcGS) 28. Richard Barnett - UW (IcGS) 29. Mario Hirstein - UW (PhD) 30. Feiran Lei - UW (MA) 31. Jen Luckhardt - UW (MA) 32. Alexander Sullivan - UW (IcGS - PhD) 33. Allisa Melitzer - UW (IcGS) 34. Erica Swyers - UW (IcGS) 35. Elizabeth Milne - UW (IcGS) 36. Ryan Carroll - UW (PhD) 37. Janina Krieger - UW (IcGS) 38. Jelena Srdjenovic - UW (MA) 39. Lisa Huehner - UW (IcGS) 40. Julia Baumann - UW (IcGS) 41. Lisa Schmidt - UW (IcGS) 42. Louisa Morick - UW (IcGS) 43. Philipp Stremlau - UW (IcGS) 44. Kyle Massia - UW (PhD)

45. Julia Baumann - UW (IcGS) 46. Judith Hallwachs - UW (IcGS) 47. Ziya Allahverdiyev - UG (UG) 48. Jakob-Michael Stephan - UW (IcGS) 49. Rebekka Corneil - UW (PhD) 50. Konrad Gaerdes - UW (PhD) 51. Jana Koepcke - UW (PhD) 52. Myrto Provida - UW (IcGS) 53. Michael Eppelmann - UW (IcGS) 54. Stephanie Cooper - UW (IcGS) 55. Gerlinde Weimar-Stuckmann - UW (PhD) 56. Kyle Scholz - UW (PhD )

Number of Community Members: 381


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Appendix 5 – Scholarship Recipients

Piller Recipients Guderian Recipients Stork Recipients (Total - 101)

2018 • Alexander Sullivan • Mario Hirstein

2017 • Sarah Marsh

2018 • 10 UW Students • 22 Non-UW Students

2017 • Christina Moss • Samuel Schirm

2015 • Ryan Carroll

2017 • 14 UW Students

2016 • Ryan Carroll • Alan Maricic


2015 • Sara Ghaffarian • Katharina Schröder

2015 • 14 UW Students • 1 Non-UW Student

2014 • Christine Kampen-

Robinson • Daniela Roth



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Appendix 6 – WCGS Charter

Approved at the WCGS Executive Committee meeting – 24 September 2015

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies was founded and approved by Senate in 2004, with renewals in 2009 and 2014. Most of its operations are supported by private endowment.

Objectives

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies has the following mandate:

• To conduct research on the language, culture, and society of German-speaking peoples, from both historical and contemporary perspectives;

• To provide a wide range of educational and cultural activities for the academy and the broader community;

• To engage with German-Canadian heritage.

Organizational and Reporting Structure

The structure of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies shall be as follows:

• The Executive Committee shall be the governing body of the Centre and has the authority to execute and monitor the affairs of the Centre, subject to all applicable University policies, including Policy 44 (Research Centres and Institutes).

• The Director of the Centre shall manage the Centre, its employees, and its activities.

The Executive Committee

Membership

• The Director of the Centre, who will also act as chair of the Committee* o Term of office: ex officio

• The Associate Dean of Arts (Research) as delegate of the Dean of Arts (the Responsible Officer of the Centre as per Policy 44)

o Term of office: ex officio • Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

o Term of office: ex officio • Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies

o Term of office: ex officio • Two at-large members the Executive Committee:

o Eligibility: members of the Centre who are also Regular Faculty at the University of Waterloo as defined in Policy 76 (Faculty Appointments), and at least one of whom is normally not a member of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

o Term of office: two years (renewable) o In consultation with Centre membership, the Director nominates at-large members to serve on

the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee must approve the nominations. o Only the Dean of Arts may remove an at-large member of the Executive Committee.


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*Although Policy 44 states that the Responsible Officer for the Centre (here, the Dean of Arts) or his/her delegate will function as the Chair of the Committee, the Centre in consultation with the Associate Dean of Arts has decided that it is better to have the Director chair the Committee.

Responsibilities

The Executive Committee serves as the primary executive authority of the Centre and oversees the Centre’s activities. The Executive Committee shall:

• Enact rules and regulations for membership of the Executive Committee and the conduct of its affairs; • Recommend appointment of the Director and other leaders to the Dean of Arts; • Appoint and remove Members, and establish categories of membership and associated fees; • Plan and implement the Centre’s development; • Establish processes to manage and monitor the Centre’s financial affairs; • Establish and enforce rules and regulations governing the Centre’s activities, provided such rules and

regulations are consistent with University policies, procedures and guidelines; and • Establish such Committees as it deems necessary to discharge its responsibilities; this may include

establishing advisory bodies comprised primarily of external Members for the purpose of providing strategic or scientific advice to the Executive Committee or the Director.

• Vetting the applications of prospective Members of the Centre.

Meetings

• The Executive Committee will meet at least once annually and additionally as appropriate. • The Executive Committee will conduct its business transparently.Meetings of the Executive Committee

will be open to Regular Members of the Centre, with advance notice of at least seven days being given of any meeting. Minutes will be taken at all meetings of the Executive Committee and will be available to the Members of the Centre.

The Director

Appointment and Term of Office

• The Director must be Regular Faculty at the University of Waterloo as defined in Policy 76 (Faculty Appointments).

• The Director is appointed by the Dean of Arts on the recommendation of the Executive Committee. In making this recommendation, the Executive Committee will seek the views of the Centre’s membership.

• Appointment process: o At least nine months prior to the expiry of the current Director’s appointment, the Dean

ascertains the director’s his/her interest in continuing. § If the Director wishes to continue, the Dean approaches the Executive Committee (less

the Director) to ascertain its opinion on reappointment before making a final decision. § If the Director does not wish to continue, the Dean instructs the Executive Committee

(less the Director) to form a Director Nominating Committee. o The Director Nominating Committee will be comprised of the Executive Committee (less the

Director) who will also elect a committee chair from amongst themselves.


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o The Director Nominating Committee should make its recommendation to the Dean of Arts at least six months prior to the expiry of the current Director’s appointment.

• The Director’s term is determined by the Dean of Arts and is normally for a five-year period. The Director’s term may be extended or renewed by the Dean of Arts with the support of the Executive Committee.

• The Director’s performance is reviewed annually by the Dean of Arts. With prior knowledge of the Director, the Dean will seek confidential input from the Executive Committee, Members of the Research Centre, and its staff by any means s/he deems appropriate.

• The Director may only be removed from office for cause, which is to be understood in relation to the duties of the Director as described herein. Causes for removal include negligence, incompetence, unprofessional conduct, and inability to maintain the confidence of the Members. The procedures governing removal for cause shall be those set out in section 4 of Policy 40 – The Chair, except that all references to the “Chair” shall mean the Director.

• In the event of the Director’s absence for any prolonged period, arrangements should be made for the Dean to appoint an Acting Director for a period of no more than one year.

• If permitted by the Executive Committee, the Director may delegate some of his/her responsibilities to one or more Associate Directors and/or to one or more staff members.

• The procedures followed by the Director in all matters shall be governed by prevailing departmental and/or Faculty practices, as applicable, and by University policies, procedures and guidelines.

• Compensation: normally, the Director receives an annual course release paid for by the Centre, or the equivalent amount in the form of an RAship for a student if the Director wishes to forego the course release.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the Centre’s operations and managing its budget; • Recommending appointment and removal of staff to the Dean of Arts; • Supervising staff members; • Establishing working groups or Committees to provide appropriate guidance and advice in support of

his/her responsibilities; • Preparing an Annual Report to the Executive Committee; • Discharging all responsibilities set out in the Centre’s charter, and as directed by the Executive

Committee.

Centre Membership: Categories and Responsibilities

Membership categories and criteria

• Regular Members: members of the University of Waterloo faculty (as outlined in Policy 76) • Student Members: graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo or other

universities • Research Members: non-faculty instructors at the University of Waterloo or elsewhere; postdoctoral

fellows at the University of Waterloo or elsewhere; faculty members at other institutions • Community Members: other persons interested in the activities of the Centre.

All applications for membership will be vetted by the Executive Committee. Members of the Centre can join and leave the Centre at any time. The Centre will confirm continuing membership of all members on a regular basis.


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Privileges and responsibilities of membership

• Members are eligible to request funding from the Centre for research projects or to support special events or activities.

• Members are encouraged to participate in the activities of the Centre.

Ratification of this Charter

This charter, and any changes to it, will be ratified by the Executive Committee and subject to the approval of the University of Waterloo Senate Graduate and Research Council.


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