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ISSUE XIII NOVEMBER 2013 VOLUME II DID YOU KNOW? CUOL OVERSEES THE OPERATION OF CARLETONS ENRICHMENT PROGRAM, THE EMCP? DID YOU KNOW? CUOL INVIGILATES OVER EIGHTY EXTERNAL UNIVERSITIES AND INSTITUTIONS. THE SERVICE ACCOMMODATES TEST AND EXAM SESSIONS FOR STUDENTS INCLUDING NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALS. DID YOU KNOW? THE CUOL STUDENT CENTRE HOURS FOR THE FALL & WINTER TERMS ARE MONDAY TO FRIDAY, 8:30 AM TO 7:00 PM; THERE IS A SECTION FOR VIEWING LECTURES THAT IS OPEN 24/7. OnLine focus In this Issue: Julie Dempsey – Professor Profile Patti Proulx Rick Taylor Blasts from EMCP past Tales from the Field A Fine Balance Tech Corner - Uniiverse SASC Advising for CUOL Students From the moment high schoolers set foot in professor Julie Dempsey’s mini-enrichment course, they are university students. “While they are here for the week, I tell them that they are [held to] the same high expectations,” says Dempsey, who has been an EMCP instructor for four years. “I enjoy seeing how excited the students are about coming to the university and how much they appreciate being treated like an adult.” Dempsey’s mini-enrichment course, Can Psychology Help Catch a Criminal?, was last year’s most popular course offered by EMCP— and with its CSI-like title, it’s no surprise students were intrigued. The class is an introduction to forensic psychology that explores topics like why eyewitnesses make mistakes and what makes a person commit a crime, as well as delving into police interrogations, criminal profiling and jury decision-making. It’s the kind of class that sticks with the student long after the mini-enrichment week has passed—Dempsey recalls siblings of EMCP “It would be great to see the program grow in terms of more courses being offered so even more students are able to participate this would also increase the variety of courses for students to choose from,” says Dempsey. “I know the students would love if the program ran multiple times a year or was for two weeks instead of one. “ -o- With skies darkening and temperatures dropping, we're looking ahead to warmer weather—and to Carleton's mini-enrichment program coming this May! We spoke with the instructors and students who make it a resounding success year after year. Plus, some time management tips and an event-ful app for the end-of-semester grind. students introducing themselves, telling her they chose to take her class based on their brother or sister’s experience. It’s a testament to Dempsey’s goal for her EMCP students: to spark enthusiasm and a love of learning that will carry over to their future schooling. “I hope that after EMCP the students are excited about learning and are excited about continuing a post-secondary education,” says Dempsey, who also taught the CUOL counterpart to her EMCP course, titled Introduction to Forensic Psychology, last fall. “It’s even better if I inspire the students to pursue a career in psychology, law, or criminal justice.” They’re fields within which Dempsey continues to dig deeper herself. Her current eyewitness memory-focused research is reminiscent of that of a character out of a true-crime documentary—she is working on a project that examines how the number of perpetrators involved in a crime impacts identification accuracy. As for her work with EMCP, Dempsey is looking forward to seeing the program continue to expand, both in length and in curriculum. Julie Dempsey - Professor Profile Meet the forensic psychology expert who teaches EMCP’s most popular course. Julie Dempsey -teaches Psychology and an EMCP course

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ISSUE XIII NOVEMBER 2013 VOLUME II DID YOU KNOW?

CUOL OVERSEES THE OPERATION OF

CARLETON’S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM,

THE EMCP?

DID YOU KNOW?

CUOL INVIGILATES OVER EIGHTY

EXTERNAL UNIVERSITIES AND

INSTITUTIONS. THE SERVICE

ACCOMMODATES TEST AND EXAM

SESSIONS FOR STUDENTS INCLUDING

NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALS.

DID YOU KNOW?

THE CUOL STUDENT CENTRE HOURS

FOR THE FALL & WINTER TERMS ARE

MONDAY TO FRIDAY, 8:30 AM TO 7:00

PM; THERE IS A SECTION FOR VIEWING

LECTURES THAT IS OPEN 24/7.

OnLine focus

In this Issue:

Julie Dempsey – Professor Profile

Patti Proulx

Rick Taylor

Blasts from EMCP past

Tales from the Field

A Fine Balance

Tech Corner - Uniiverse

SASC Advising for CUOL Students

From the moment high schoolers set foot in

professor Julie Dempsey’s mini-enrichment

course, they are university students.

“While they are here for the week, I tell them

that they are [held to] the same high

expectations,” says Dempsey, who has been an

EMCP instructor for four years. “I enjoy seeing

how excited the students are about coming to

the university and how much they appreciate

being treated like an adult.”

Dempsey’s mini-enrichment course, Can

Psychology Help Catch a Criminal?, was last

year’s most popular course offered by EMCP—

and with its CSI-like title, it’s no surprise

students were intrigued. The class is an

introduction to forensic psychology that

explores topics like why eyewitnesses make

mistakes and what makes a person commit a

crime, as well as delving into police

interrogations, criminal profiling and jury

decision-making.

It’s the kind of class that sticks with the student

long after the mini-enrichment week has

passed—Dempsey recalls siblings of EMCP

“It would be great to see the program grow in

terms of more courses being offered so even

more students are able to participate this would

also increase the variety of courses for students

to choose from,” says Dempsey. “I know the

students would love if the program ran multiple

times a year or was for two weeks instead of

one. “

-o-

With skies darkening and temperatures dropping, we're looking ahead to warmer weather—and to Carleton's mini-enrichment program coming this May! We spoke with the instructors and students who make it a resounding success year after year. Plus, some time management tips and an event-ful app for the end-of-semester grind.

students introducing themselves, telling her they

chose to take her class based on their brother or

sister’s experience. It’s a testament to Dempsey’s

goal for her EMCP students: to spark enthusiasm

and a love of learning that will carry over to their

future schooling.

“I hope that after EMCP the students are excited

about learning and are excited about continuing a

post-secondary education,” says Dempsey, who

also taught the CUOL counterpart to her EMCP

course, titled Introduction to Forensic Psychology,

last fall. “It’s even better if I inspire the students

to pursue a career in psychology, law, or criminal

justice.”

They’re fields within which Dempsey continues to

dig deeper herself. Her current eyewitness

memory-focused research is reminiscent of that of

a character out of a true-crime documentary—she

is working on a project that examines how the

number of perpetrators involved in a crime

impacts identification accuracy.

As for her work with EMCP, Dempsey is looking

forward to seeing the program continue to

expand, both in length and in curriculum.

Julie Dempsey - Professor Profile

Meet the forensic psychology expert who teaches EMCP’s most popular

course.

Julie Dempsey

-teaches Psychology and an EMCP course

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Patti Proulx

Accounting aficionado Patti Proulx engages high-schoolers and CUOL students with her interactive approach to teaching finance.

Rick Taylor lunges forward into the River

Thames, into icy water he describes as the

colour of curry, littered with toiletries and

human debris. It was here that English poet Lord

Byron sliced through three miles of the longest

river in England in 1807, and where his casket

floated in his funeral procession 17 years later.

“It’s unknown what’s in the lake,” says Taylor,

who has taught at Carleton since 1995. “There’s

a whole British empire under there.”

Taylor is on a watery mission with a simple goal:

to swim with writers. Though he didn’t finish his

dip in the River Thames—police boats were

circling and the MI5 headquarters were a little

too close for comfort—there are many more

with whom he has swam, whether in person or,

like Byron, in spirit.

“Sometimes I’m thinking how gross it is or how

scary it is,” says Taylor. “But the water definitely

makes the connection stronger.”

Taylor is an author and creative writing teacher,

who leads workshops on the subject with titles

like “Write by the Lake Writer’s Retreat”. He is

currently working on his fourth book, a semi-

autobiographical narrative titled Water and

Desire: Swimming with Writers and Others. It’s a

work in progress chronicling his swims with

literary figures ranging from Ernest

Hemmingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Oliver

Sacks to Dylan Thomas. Taylor revisits both

swims explored within their work, and swims the

writers themselves have completed—for some,

even the last of their lives.

When Patti Proulx prompts her mini-enrichment students to present a business idea during her course’s mock-Dragon’s Den game, there’s no predicting what they’ll come up with. “I can tell you that they have a rich imagination,” says the Carleton University contract instructor. “The products and services they invented this year ranged from ‘Rent-a-Grandma’ to futuristic apps that can do anything for you.” Proulx’s EMCP course, titled Accounting: Not Just for Bean Counters, gives middle- and high-schoolers a taste of a university-style curriculum, with some fun twists and turns along the way. From jelly beans to kidney beans, Proulx’s game-heavy, bean-themed methodology helps distil complex subjects into bite- (or should we say, bean) sized lessons for her students. Proulx been leading EMCP courses for two years now, but is also a CUOL instructor currently teaching a course for non-business students called Survey of Accounting. Using online tools like polleverywhere.com, students can engage with her using their cell phones or laptops, answering questions based on course material. Proulx guides students through the financial statements, vernacular and business decision-making processes they will undoubtedly encounter along their career paths.

In one of his eeriest endeavours to date, he

swam a mile of the river in which Virginia Woolf

committed suicide, Taylor doesn’t let much

stand in his way of swimming with his fellow

writers—he has jumped over walls, cut through

marshes, dived off cliffs and even evaded

authorities at Hemmingway’s old house-turned-

museum in Key West, Fla. to swim a few laps in

his pool (he was swiftly kicked off the property

afterwards).

Taylor’s wetsuit is his second skin. He dons one

every other day from May through October,

almost right up until an ice sheath covers the

lake for his swims at home in Val-Des-Monts,

Que., but craves the open water in Hawaii,

Florida and Costa Rica.

“I’ve been a crazy swimmer for 40 years,” says

Taylor, who is also an avid surfer.

While Taylor has added a somewhat morbid

twist to his life aquatic, he’s eager to start

swimming with more live writers. Margaret

Atwood turned him down, claiming to be too out

of practice.

“The living writers are harder to book a time

with,” he says.

In the meantime, he’ll just keep swimming.

-o-

Rick Taylor

-teaches English and an EMCP course

Patti Proulx

-teaches Business and an EMCP course

“More importantly though, they learn how to read

or watch business media and understand what’s

going on,” she says.

Proulx, a financial whiz who works part-time for

five non-profit organizations doing accounting

controllership work when she’s not at Carleton,

hopes to see more courses added to the EMCP

roster in the coming years. She thinks the program

helps to attract students who have had a positive

mini-enrichment experience to the university.

What does Proulx hope her students take away

from their week at Carleton U?

“That university is fun. That learning is fun,” she

says. “That the experience they get is proportional

to the effort they make.”

-o-

Rick Taylor

Meet the Carleton instructor who is swimming with the dead for his upcoming book.

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.

began calling in January requesting admission to

School of Rock!” he says. “Given this interest in

earth sciences, we have added a second course

called Natural Disaster Hollywood Blockbusters:

Fact or Fiction?” Participants are selected by their

school for the EMCP, pick their “top ten” choices

and then are assigned to the course they will take

on a first-come, first-serve basis, explains

Querido.

As Cornejo points out, although high schools do

not include geology as an option for students,

Canada’s economy is dominated by natural

resource industries, including oil and gemstones

and there is a significant demand for

geoscientists. Given the need for professionals

with earth sciences knowledge and skills, Cornejo

has found that corporations are willing to support

School of Rock! “With corporate donations from

companies such as Northern Shield Resources Inc.

which often have Carleton graduates on staff, we

have been able to purchase hand lenses and rock

identification guides for the students as well as

pay for fieldtrips and handouts,” she says. Many

of the donors have also been involved in research

at the University.

Cornejo began preparation for School of Rock! in

September and has been gathering samples and

worksheets since January. She has found the

assistance of the Department of Earth Sciences

invaluable. The course is implemented with the

support of faculty sponsor Claudia Schroder-

Adams, who leads lectures and activities, Earth

Sciences student Aaron Phillips, who administers

the course with Cornejo, and Beth Halfkenny, the

Department of Earth Sciences curator and

geological technician, who helps with the

administrative tasks. Cornejo participated in a

similar event as a high school student and really

wanted to give back by creating an EMCP course.

“Plus, it is an excellent opportunity for me to gain

valuable teaching experience.”

“Carleton University is eager to participate in

EMCP, as it showcases Carleton’s academic

programs to prospective high school students—

it’s an effective way to introduce students to the

University,” says Querido. Carleton University

offers Awards of Excellence to students applying

to Carleton who have participated in EMCP for at

least one year and show academic excellence.

-o-

School of Rock! Carleton-style is all about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic formations not boogie woogie, but that did not make it any less popular with the high school students who signed up for the course last year as part of Carleton’s Enrichment Mini-Courses Program (EMCP). Liz Cornejo, the earth sciences master’s student responsible for developing and teaching the earth sciences course, was very pleased with the feedback she received from students. She regularly had participants tell her that they loved the hands-on activities that she prepared for them and she could see the excitement in their faces whenever they learned something new. The program, which made its debut last year, was so successful that Cornejo is now getting ready to introduce another group of 18 Grade 8 to 11 students to the world of geology. During the week-long program, students receive an overview of the contents of the first-year earth sciences courses offered at Carleton. Subjects include mineral deposits, structures, erosions, how to date rocks, exploration techniques and climate. “Geology is not usually offered in schools so this is our chance to show students what’s available at the university level, as this may be the only time they study Earth Sciences,” says Cornejo. She has deliberately included many different topics which introduce the participants to the world of earth sciences through hands-on activities, presentations, computer and creative work and anticipated fieldtrips. “It is important that students really engage with the material and I give them the opportunity to do a variety of activities such as visiting Hog’s Back Falls to interpret the rocks and its geological history, going to the Museum of Nature’s dinosaur exhibit and creating a field map on campus.”

Nestor Querido, Supervisor, CUOL Support

Services, and a member of the Carleton

University EMCP steering committee, points out

that most of the science and engineering courses

that the EMCP offers are in high demand and fill

up quickly. “This year students and parents

Earth Sciences’ School of Rock! By Mandy Sinclair

A reprint from previously featured EMCP articles

Blasts from EMCP past—meet the

School of Rock and Animals: Friends, Family and Food!

We have posted articles and photos from previous EMCP years.

Middle-school student Dana Strauss, of Cornwall, Ontario, said she wants to rehabilitate horses when she’s older. While taking a course called Animals: Friends, Family and Food, taught by Craig McFarlane, she said she jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the Enrichment Mini-Courses Program (EMCP) not only because of the course offerings, but because her older brother had went to Carleton for a mini-course last year. “I really wanted to go to prove that I could do it too,” she says. Nearly 1,000 students from middle and secondary schools in the surrounding areas descended on the Carleton University campus to take part in the annual program. The program provides students in Grades 8-11 (Ontario) and Secondary II to V (Quebec) an enriched learning chance to experience “what it is like in university,” says Nestor Querido of CUOL Support Services, who organizes the EMCP at Carleton. The program is also offered at the University of Ottawa and La Cité collégiale. When the time comes for Strauss to choose a university, if she comes to Carleton she may receive something extra for taking part in the program. Students who have participated in the EMCP in the past and are accepted into a full-time first-year program by one of the participating post-secondary institutions, have the chance of receiving an EMCP Award of Excellence. “Each year we award four $1000 awards, enough for textbooks or whatever,” says Querido. Querido cites the opportunity to participate in interesting and engaging mini-courses and the chance to meet students from other schools and school boards as the reasons for the program’s ongoing success. EMCP began in 1981 and has hosted over 40,000 students.

Cont’d. on next page - Rehabilitating Horses

Rehabilitating Horses

A reprint from Charlatan -May 2009

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One of the most overwhelming tasks we face as teenagers is choosing a university or college. For many of us, higher education is a question mark—we’ve taken part in their sports camps and pass campuses on the OC Transpo, but what goes on behind the lecture hall doors can be a complete enigma. What if you had a leg up early on? Every year, Carleton plays host to about 1,000 promising students from grades 8 to 11 for a week of heightened learning with a university-style schedule and curriculum, called the Enrichment Mini-Courses Program, or EMCP. We are one of the four institutes that take part, including La Cité Collégiale, the University of Ottawa and St. Paul University. Students can choose from about 50 mini-courses across five different faculties. It’s our hope that Carleton leaves a lasting impression on these students, and there are a few who leave a lasting impression themselves, and are presented a $1,000 Excellence Award scholarship to continue their education with us down the road. “One of my favourite memories is of my best friend and I exploring Carleton University’s campus for the first time,” says second-year criminology and criminal justice student Thana Ridha, who was awarded the scholarship. “I remember thinking how big and amazing the campus is. I would have never imagined that one day I would be a student here!” Ridha got involved with the mini-enrichment program in 2008, when she was nominated by her Grade 8 teacher to participate in the program.

While she didn’t know about the award before enrolling at Carleton, she recalls her mini-enrichment week as an unforgettable experience. Second-year commerce student Devin Fraser is also an EMCP alumnus now enrolled in Carleton’s Sprott School of Business. “I think the best part about the program was getting a feel for the 'grown-up' life of university,” says the accounting major. “It allowed me to experience what it was like going to Carleton University for an entire week.” Both Ridha and Fraser have found CUOL courses to be a great way to fit additional credits into their schedules. As high-acheivers with busy calendars, online courses have allowed them to adapt courses to fit their respective lifestyles. “There are so many demands on students’ time nowadays, and having the flexibility to complete a course on my own time instead of a scheduled lecture time was a huge benefit,” says Fraser, who plans on pursuing a Chartered Professional Accountant designation after graduation. “I'm always looking for better ways to create flexible schedules so that I have more control over my own time and CUOL has been a great way to do this!”

-o-

Tales from the Field

We spoke to a couple of former winners of the EMCP award, now Carleton CUOL students themselves.

EMCP Scholarship recipients Thana Ridha and Devin Fraser

Carleton University hosts over 1000 students

from 22 school boards from eastern Ontario

and western Quebec in fifty available programs.

“We’ve had very positive feedback,” says Nestor

Querido, “Parents are interested in their child’s

experience and the students like our campus.”

One Grade 8 student has even asked for more.

“If possible to add a second week to the course

because I had so much fun. It was amazing, our

professor was great and made the subject come

alive to me!”

-o-

Cont’d. from previous page –

-Rehabilitating Horses “There is also the prestige of being selected by these institutions,” Querido says. Halfway through the week, Carleton’s president and vice-chancellor, Dr Roseanne Runte, addressed the students saying, “Congratulations on having been chosen to be part of this week. I know that not everybody in your school got chosen, but you did, and so, I think you should applaud yourself.” “There is no other investment that you can make that’s better,” she said speaking to the importance of higher education. “You go to university, and you invest in yourself and your future.” More than 2,500 students were sent to take part in the program this year at the three institutions, which offered 125 different courses combined.

-o-

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Number your commitments from essentials to

extras and, if necessary, do some clutter-cutting

from the bottom of the list. It’ll free up some time

in your schedule and some space in your mind to

help you excel at those things most important to

you, whether it’s school, a primary source of

income, or a favourite hobby. Listing your

responsibilities will help you evaluate what’s

eating up most of your time and can help give you

some perspective, too—is a little added income

worth the added stress?

4. For the Yes-Man (or Woman): We’ve all been

there—the social calendar starts to spread

through the scholastic calendar and you’re finding

it harder and harder to decline the invitations

(celebrating Halloween for five nights in a row?

Why not!). Whether it’s friends, extra-curriculars

or extra courses that you’re finding it difficult to

turn down, there comes a time when everyone

just has to say no to the non-essentials. Take

some time every Sunday to determine how many

nights out you can afford to take that week, and

stick to it. If you’re being pressured into joining an

intramural team, plot out practices and games

into your current schedule and analyze how much

of a time commitment it’s going to be before

blurting out a yes. If the white space in your

school calendar is shrinking by the semester, see if

you’re taking any unnecessary credits, or if you

can take them at another time. It’s much easier to

add more to your schedule later on than take

away once you’ve committed.

5. For the constantly distracted: Giving into

tempting diversions can be the most challenging

part of online courses. Check in with yourself—are

you the kind of person who can listen to a playlist

It’s the catch-22 of the modern-day student—you have to work to pay tuition, but the free time you have to work is next to nonexistent. And if you spend too much time waiting tables and not enough on your thesis proposal, you put future job prospects at risk. Don’t even mention eating properly and getting eight hours of sleep a night. So how are you supposed to balance it all? Squeezing in-class courses, online courses, internships and part-time jobs into one schedule is no cakewalk, but it can be mastered—with time to spare for a social life and the occasional Breaking Bad marathon. 1. For the procrastinator: Take it from the queen of leaving things until the last minute: You’re probably not going to grow out of your procrastinating habit anytime soon (and your future employer may just end up praising your cool under tight deadlines). But if your calendar is jam-packed, procrastination can be seriously detrimental to your GPA—not to mention your mental health. Start by investing in an agenda. And no, an iCal app doesn’t count. Lists are critical for the chronic procrastinator, and something as simple as checking things off a to-do list can help break daunting tasks into bite-sized pieces (i.e. “Solidify thesis statement” as opposed to “write essay”). Psychotherapist and author Julie Bijou says the reason lists work for procrastinators is that they bring tasks to the front of your mind, making them harder to push aside. 2. For the overly employed: So you’ve held onto your part-time serving job, have taken on a TA position and are doing some peer tutoring on the side to pad your resume (and your wallet). All this on top of making the grade can be a daunting test in time management. If this sounds familiar, now is the time to start prioritizing.

while essay-writing without the quality of your

work suffering? Do you have the hardest time

focusing on an empty stomach? Figure out what

puts you in a work mood—whether it’s a corner

seat at the library that makes it impossible to

people-watch or leaving your phone on the

opposite side of the room. Remember,

sometimes the things that make homework

more temporarily tolerable are the same things

slowing the process down and hindering your

full potential. If you think you can give an online

lecture your full attention with Friends reruns

playing in the background, chances are you’re

fooling yourself.

5. For the all-nighter puller: It’s a rare university

student who hasn’t had to work through the

night once or twice. In fact, some of us actually

work better during the wee hours. But we don’t

have to tell you too many all-night cram

sessions can take their toll—and even be

dangerous. That woozy adrenaline rush you get

at 3am? Sleep deprivation can actually cause

temporary euphoria (and no, that’s not a good

thing). It’s also correlated to memory loss and

lower grades. In the weeks leading up to a

period chock-full of deadlines, try blocking out

two hours a night to get a head start on

assignments in advance. Get the bulkier work,

like research and readings, out of the way

before crunch time. Lastly, tackle the most

daunting assignments first and save the simpler

ones for the days closer to the due date. Easier

said than done, but your grades, health and

overall wellbeing will thank you in the long run.

-o-

A Fine Balance

Time management tips and tricks for every kind of student.

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Remembering Arif Merani

It was with heavy hearts that we said goodbye to Arif Merani on October 14. We were heartbroken to hear about the tragic collision that stole his life. From all of us at CUOL, our sincerest condolences to the family, friends and classmates of Arif. It is our hope that the Carleton community bands together to support one another in this time of need.

-o-

Or, if you’re the one hosting an event, you can

even sell tickets through the app. In a couple of

taps, you can explore a free sushi-making

workshop, themed pub crawls, a short film

festival, a Tough Mudder training camp and a

suspension yoga class, to name a few. From

concerts to conferences, pottery to pasta-

making, Uniiverse will make you look at your city

in a whole new light (and stay within your

student budget, too). The best part? It’s free to

download, with no subscription fees and no costs

to post an event.

Now you’ll have an answer for the “so, what are

we doing tonight?” texts when they start rolling

in—and maybe even a couple of options for the

naysayers.

The Uniiverse app is compatible with the iPhone,

iPad and iPod touch, and all services are available

through www.uniiverse.com.

-o-

Uniiverse

How many times have you run into this

scenario: A bunch of friends are coming into

town for a visit or reunion weekend, and you’re

the one charged with coming up with the plans.

Craig Follett gets it—and wants to help you out.

Follett is the co-founder and CEO of Uniiverse, a

popular site-turned-iPhone app that harnesses

students’ loves of social media and events,

connecting face-to-face with behind-the-screen

socialization. Launched last month, it’s a brand-

new social marketplace app that Follett calls the

“eBay of activities”. The centre of Uniiverse is

events you actually want to attend—not the

club-promoter spam that clogs up your

Facebook feed. He likens it to Netflix for movies

and Amazon for books, in that it recommends

events based on the user’s likes and what his or

her friends are doing.

Used by more than 26,000 local event

organizers and service providers, Uniiverse is

run by an algorithm based on Twitter, Facebook

and Google feeds to generate custom

recommendations for each user, show you what

your friends are up to, and allows you to browse

nearby activities under categories like sports,

food and drink, learning and culture, and social.

TechCorner

- A D V E R T I S E M E N T -

CU Testing Centre

(carleton.ca/testingcentre)

The CU Testing Centre provides invigilation services to other institutions. We accommodate exam sessions for distance students from other universities in a proper learning environment and facilitate a large number of tests and exams for non-academic students seeking additional qualifications or admission to professional schools. The Centre has acquired considerable expertise and is capable of providing online exam access for computer-based exam sessions. An NCTA member and a CCTC participant.

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Fall ‘13 CUOL Final Exam Schedule (http://tinyurl.com/cs5u8rn)

LOCAL EXAMS (Carleton Campus)

TORONTO (Seneca College) For Distance students only!

HAMILTON (Academy of Learning) For Distance Students only!

COURSE MIDTERM EXAM DATES/LOCATIONS COURSE MIDTERM EXAM DATES/TIMES COURSE MIDTERM EXAM DATES/TIMES

BIOL 1010 T Thursday, December 19, 2013 19:00

BIOL 1010 T * TBA (please check http://tinyurl.com/cs5u8rn)

BIOL 1010 T Thursday, December 19, 2013 13:00

BIOL 1902 T Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:00

BIOL 1902 T TBA BIOL 1902 T Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:00

BUSI 1001 R Saturday, December 14, 2013 9:00

BUSI 1001 R TBA BUSI 1001 R Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:00

BUS 1002 W Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:00

BUS 1002 W TBA BUS 1002 W Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:00

BUSI 1003 T Friday, December 13, 2013 9:00

BUSI 1003 T TBA BUSI 1003 T Friday, December 13, 2013 9:00

BUSI 1402 T Thursday, December 12, 2013 19:00

BUSI 1402 T TBA BUSI 1402 T Thursday, December 12, 2013 13:00

CDNS 2510 R/ FINS 21510 R

N/A CDNS 2510 R/ FINS 21510 R

N/A CDNS 2510 R/ FINS 21510 R

N/A

CGSC 1001 T Friday, December 20, 2013 14:00

CGSC 1001 T TBA CGSC 1001 T Friday, December 20, 2013 14:00

CHEM 1001 T Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:00

CHEM 1001 T N/A CHEM 1001 T N/A

CHEM 1004 T Tuesday, December 17, 2013 19:00

CHEM 1004 T TBA CHEM 1004 T Tuesday, December 17, 2013 13:00

CHEM 2302 T Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:00

CHEM 2302 T N/A CHEM 2302 T N/A

CIVE 5610 R Wednesday, December 18, 2013 19:00

CIVE 5610 R TBA CIVE 5610 R Wednesday, December 18, 2013 13:00

CIVE 5615 R Tuesday, December 3, 2013 18:00

CIVE 5615 R N/A CIVE 5615 R N/A

ERTH 1006 T Wednesday, December 18, 2013 14:00

ERTH 1006 T N/A ERTH 1006 T N/A

ERTH 1010 T Wednesday, December 18, 2013 14:00

ERTH 1010 T TBA ERTH 1010 T Wednesday, December 18, 2013 13:00

GEOG 2200 T Sunday, December 15, 2013 19:00

GEOG 2200 T TBA GEOG 2200 T Monday, December 16, 2013 9:00

HIST 3109 T N/A HIST 3109 T N/A HIST 3109 T N/A

HIST 3902 T N/A HIST 3902 T N/A HIST 3902 T N/A

ISCI 1001 T Monday, December 16, 2013 9:00

ISCI 1001 T TBA ISCI 1001 T Monday, December 16, 2013 13:00

ISCI 2000 T Friday, December 20, 2013 9:00

ISCI 2000 T TBA ISCI 2000 T Friday, December 20, 2013 9:00

LAWS 2201 T N/A LAWS 2201 T N/A LAWS 2201 T N/A

Are you registered in a CUOL or Evening

course and need to see an Advisor? Do you

have questions about changing your major,

adding a minor or dropping a course but aren’t

on campus during the day?

The Student Academic Success Centre is happy

to announce extended advising hours during

the 2013 fall term for students registered in

CUOL or Evening courses only. This option is

available in an effort to accommodate those

students who are not on campus during our

regular office hours and cannot use our drop-

in advising service. We will be scheduling

appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday

evenings at 5:00 p.m., but space is limited, so

please contact us via email to schedule your

advising session soon! Please note that after-

hours advising may not be available for all

requests; we will work with you ensure your

academic needs are best met.

The Student Academic Success Centre is located

in 302 Tory Building, down the hall from the

Registrar’s Office. Please send your appointment

request to [email protected] from your cmail

account. Be sure to include your full name,

student ID and detailed information about your

inquiry.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

SASC Advising for CUOL Students

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LAWS 2301 T Monday, December 16, 2013 9:00

LAWS 2301 T * TBA (please check http://tinyurl.com/cs5u8rn)

LAWS 2301 T Monday, December 16, 2013 13:00

LAWS 2501 T Saturday, December 21, 2013 14:00

LAWS 2501 T TBA LAWS 2501 T Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:00

LAWS 2908 T N/A LAWS 2908 T N/A LAWS 2908 T N/A

LAWS 3305 T / HIST 3305 T

Saturday, December 14, 2013 9:00

LAWS 3305 T/ HIST 3305 T

TBA LAWS 3305 T / HIST 3305 T

Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:00

LAWS 3307 T Friday, December 13, 2013 19:00

LAWS 3307 T TBA LAWS 3307 T Friday, December 13, 2013 9:00

NEUR 3204 T Thursday, December 19, 2013 19:00

NEUR 3204 T TBA NEUR 3204 T Thursday, December 19, 2013 13:00

PANL 5006 F N/A PANL 5006 F N/A PANL 5006 F N/A

PHYS 1901 T Saturday, December 21, 2013 19:00

PHYS 1901 T TBA PHYS 1901 T Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:00

PHYS 1905 T Sunday, December 15, 2013 9:00

PHYS 1905 T TBA PHYS 1905 T Monday, December 16, 2013 9:00

PSYC 1001 T Friday, December 20, 2013 19:00

PSYC 1001 T TBA PSYC 1001 T Friday, December 20, 2013 14:00

PSYC 2001 T/ NEUR 2001 T

Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2001 T/ NEUR 2001 T

TBA PSYC 2001 T/ NEUR 2001 T

Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2100 T Friday, December 20, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2100 T TBA PSYC 2100 T Friday, December 20, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2200 T/ NEUR 2200

Saturday, December 14, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2200 T/ NEUR 2200

TBA PSYC 2200 T/ NEUR 2200

Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:00

PSYC 2400 T Tuesday, December 17, 2013 14:00

PSYC 2400 T TBA PSYC 2400 T Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2500 T Sunday, December 15, 2013 19:00

PSYC 2500 T TBA PSYC 2500 T Monday, December 16, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2700 T Friday, December 13, 2013 9:00

PSYC 2700 T TBA PSYC 2700 T Friday, December 13, 2013 9:00

PSYC 3403 T Saturday, December 21, 2013 9:00

PSYC 3403 T TBA PSYC 3403 T Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:00

RELI 1710 T Thursday, December 19, 2013 14:00

RELI 1710 T TBA RELI 1710 T Thursday, December 19, 2013 13:00

RELI 2732 T Sunday, December 22, 2013 14:00

RELI 2732 T TBA RELI 2732 T Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:00

TSES 3001 T Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:00

TSES 3001 T TBA TSES 3001 T Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:00

FULL CREDIT

COURSE MIDTERM EXAM SCHEDULE

FULL CREDIT

COURSE MIDTERM EXAM SCHEDULE

FULL CREDIT

COURSE MIDTERM EXAM SCHEDULE

CDNS 1000 V Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:00

CDNS 1000 V TBA CDNS 1000 V Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:00

CLCV 2305 V

TBA CLCV 2305 V

TBA CLCV 2305 V

TBA

ECON 1000 V TBA ECON 1000 V TBA ECON 1000 V TBA

LAWS 1000 V TBA LAWS 1000 V TBA LAWS 1000 V TBA

SOWK 1000 V N/A SOWK 1000 V N/A SOWK 1000 V N/A

TSES 2305 V N/A TSES 2305 V N/A TSES 2305 V N/A

CUOL – D299 LA, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 Web: www.cuol.ca or www.carleton.ca/cuol Email: [email protected] Tel: 613.520.4055 Fax: 613.520.3459

CUOL Newsletter

Reporter/Writer:

Chelsey Burnside

Layout:

Nestor Querido

Contributors:

Maria Brocklehurst | Jeff Cohen

Patrick Lyons | Nestor Querido