FREN 201 (First Year University French II) is a three-credit introductory French course that further develops the ability to read, understand, speak, and write French. This course enables and encourages students to use French in social situations, discuss a variety of issues, and express opinions. In addition, the course leads students through a major review… Read more »
Dear Barb: Hi, I have just begun taking courses at AU after having been out of a school and working for the last 10 years. When I graduated high school I was one of the top students in my class, but now I’m barely passing and finding the work very difficult. It’s disappointing and I’m… Read more »
Yes. It’s late. I know. On Monday, my partner and I were in a traffic accident. We weren’t at fault. The elderly driver of the other vehicle flew through a stop sign and with no warning and slightly slippery roads, I couldn’t stop us before we T-boned into them. Now, before you worry, physically, the… Read more »
“The men at the factory are old and cunning You don’t owe nothing, so boy get runnin’ It’s the best years of your life they want to steal” – The Clash, ‘Clampdown’ I consider myself to have been fortunate enough to come of age in the late 1970s, early 1980s, a sort of chronological intertidal… Read more »
Let there be light, spring seems to say! More light, spring light, the light of the dawning of the furtherance of our higher education! Okay, ahem, please excuse this lofty language but doesn’t the oncoming reality of spring make any potential seem more plausible? This time of year, the subliminal becomes liminal in the light… Read more »
Hiding ingredients are a means for many parents to sneak nutrients into their children’s meals. We may be unaware of the additional zucchini that was added to our carrot muffins or the bananas that were slipped into our afternoon smoothie. Now, speaking as an adult, I never fully appreciated what the ingenuity that came up… Read more »
What time wasters haunt you? I waste an hour every morning reading health articles. But I convince myself that, when I turn 70, I’ll write the MCAT and enter an undergraduate program in medical science education. I could become a doctor by the time I turn 80. So, for the past two days, I’ve poured… Read more »
One year, Mom didn’t write to wish me a happy birthday. We weren’t getting along and often clashed. The next day, I found out she had a minor heart attack on my birthday. I felt responsible and saddened. “The current odds when it comes to your health are that you will die from the effects… Read more »
EDUC 210 (The Canadian Training System) is a three-credit, junior-level introduction to the Canadian labour-market training system. Labour-market training comprises policies, programs, and activities intended to result in an adequate number of appropriately trained workers. In Canada, the labour-market training system has four main components: postsecondary education, government labour-market policy, employer workplace training, and community… Read more »
Dear Barb: I am in my first year of university, while also taking a course from AU each semester. I’m anxious to get through school and begin working on my career. Being a student, obviously I don’t have a lot of money and I’m having a hard time budgeting. I get some grant money and… Read more »