Since so many students on the unofficial AthaU Facebook page ask about the turnaround time for marking assignments and exams, we’ve found these two relevant articles from our archives. So you’re saying tutors are human, too? Writer Deanna Roney looks at the flipside of the tutor-student equation. “Sometimes I think we forget that there are… Read more »
“What are we laughing at?” Upon entering a room full of twitters it’s an innocuous enough question. Here in the Youtube era we may not want to see the crude or unusual videos being shared, yet the cause laughter itself remains psychologically prescient. Plus, there’s also the timeless possibility that we are the butt of… Read more »
Film: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen It would be too easy to claim this film as an indictment of the United States alone, but its historical setting predates any solid sense of Canadian identity. The characters, like my parents and great grandparents, freely moved back and forth across the border,… Read more »
One year, you might contract not just one disease, but more than five: “Just one in 20 people worldwide … had no health problems in 2013, with a third of the world’s population (2-3 billion individuals) experiencing more than five ailments, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2013”… Read more »
Scholarship name: 10 Words or Less Scholarship Sponsored by: StudentScholarships.org Deadline: January 31, 2019 Potential payout: $500 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be between 14 and 25, and be attending school in the fall of 2019. What’s required: A comment on any post on the StudentScholarships Facebook page, answering the question: “In 10 words or less,… Read more »
I got assigned a role to teach marketing at a community college. Before this, I had never heard of the four P’s of marketing: product, place, price, and promotion. However, I could’ve succeeded remarkably in the teaching role had the school used a certain textbook. The textbook would’ve made learning simple and fun for the… Read more »
There’s a reason why Portland, Oregon, is known as food truck city. Even in the coldest months of winter, the food trucks have lines that bend around the corner. Coming from Edmonton, where food trucks are only associated with the hottest days of summer, it was a refreshing experience to sample some delicious local cuisine… Read more »
Evolutionary Anthropology (ANTH 336) is a three-credit intermediate-level course that provides a general introduction to various topics related to the evolution of human adaptations, including various human behaviours. This course has ANTH 278 (Human Evolution and Diversity) or equivalent as a prerequisite and it has a Challenge for Credit option available. Evolutionary Anthropology consists of… Read more »
Bannock and a Movie “Indian Horse”, Part 1 of 2 Fri, Jan 25, 12:00 to 1:00 pm MST Athabasca University, Peace Hills Trust Tower, 12th floor, Room 1222, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton AB In-person; limited seating Hosted by Nukskahtowin, AU Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research indigenous.athabascau.ca/documentation/HonorYourWord.pdf Register by phone (780)428-2064 or e-mail… Read more »
People are exceptionally creative—they can come up with all kinds of excuses why they don’t eat healthy. These can range from it takes too much time to prepare vegetables (but they’ll spend over 10 minutes in a running vehicle in a drive-through for take-out) to it’s too expensive to eat healthy (but if they tracked… Read more »