ARTS AND SCIENCE ONLINE | OCTOBER 2020 ENEWSLETTER
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Important dates
FALL 2020
October 26-30: Fall Mid-term Break
November 2, 2020: Last day to drop fall term and multi term classes without financial penalty
November 2, 2020: Last day to drop without academic penalty
November 7, 2020: Last day to submit exam accommodation requests (If applicable)
December 7, 2020: Classes end
December 10 - 23, 2020: Exam Period
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Winter 2021 course enrolment in SOLUS
Please note that during this time, students are not able to add, drop or swap winter term classes. Access to your Winter Term course enrolments will reopen on Monday, November 9, 2020.
Please note: Students may still drop Fall term courses during the SOLUS suspension between September 23 and November 8.
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Time to check in
How are your classes going so far? Do you have questions? Join our mid-term check in session on Tuesday, October 20 at 12pm EST or Wednesday, October 21 at 7pm EST to connect with ASO, each other, and ask any questions you have. We'd love to check in with you and see how you're doing so far in the term.
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Peer Mentor Program
New to online learning? Would you like to get words of wisdom, tips and tricks from other students about online learning? Our peer mentor program provides students with an opportunity to interact with experienced online learners who can support you in your online learning journey.
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Career Services workshops
Looking to improve your resume? Get tips on interview skills? Attend virtual career fairs? Build your professional network? Queen’s Career Services offers a wide variety of weekly virtual workshops, webinars and events. As a Queen’s student you have access to their events and workshops calendar. To access the Queen’s Career Services event calendar, follow these steps:
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Visit this web page
- Click LOG IN, choose STUDENT and sign in using your net ID and password
- On the left hand side click EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
- Click on the EVENTS/WORKSHOPS CALENDAR
- You will be able to explore and register for any virtual workshops and events you’re intersted in
Queen’s Career Services also offers virtual drop in career advising and other career tools to help you navigate your future career path. Visit the Career Services website to check out all of these tools.
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Student Academic Success Services resources
Appointments:
SASS continues to offer all of its one-on-one appointments through video conferencing software specially designed for writing and academic skills support. Students can book appointments with our team of professional staff and senior student volunteers at http://queensu.mywconline.com. Appointments are available every day of the week and throughout the day. Options include:
- Learning strategies: to discuss time management, reading, notetaking, exam prep and test anxiety, focus, motivation, etc.
- Writing: to work on written essays, reports, and papers in any discipline and at any stage of the writing process.
- English as an additional language: to work with a specialist on speaking, writing, reading and listening skills for university-level work.
Appointments are free and available to all Queen’s students, including part-time and distance students.
Workshops:
SASS hosts a number of workshops each month to help improve students' academic skills. Check out this upcoming session:
Catching up in School
Most students find that they fall behind in one or more courses. It’s never too late to get back on track, so our Peer Learning Assistants have designed this class to answer your questions and produce a plan of action.
Academics 101:
Academics 101 is a series of free self-study online tutorials designed to help students enhance their academic skills. In seven short sessions, you’ll learn the basic skills needed to master online learning and excel throughout your time at Queen's. You can work through each section at your own pace and at any time.
Tutorials include:
- University expectations
- Time management
- Reading and notetaking
- Math skills for university
- Academic writing
- Exams and tests
- The first six weeks of the semester
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Contagion Culture Lecture Series
This series is a Faculty of Arts and Science collaboration which helps to make sense of this pandemic through the expertise and insights of Arts and Science faculty members.
The series is live-streamed on Zoom every Tuesday at 4:00 PM EDT/EST.
Upcoming events:
Oct. 13 - The World of Work Post-Pandemic - Don Drummond, School of Policy Studies, Patrick Deutscher, School of Policy Studies
Oct 20 - The Black Death: A Global Pandemic and its Consequences in the Middle Ages - Adnan Husain, Department of History, Margaret Pappano, Department of English
Oct 27 - Libraries and COVID-19: How libraries are working to optimize digital access during a pandemic - Mark Swartz, Queen's University Library
Nov 3 - Racism, Scapegoating, and Blame in the History of Epidemics - Jenna Healey, Department of History
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Conversations with the Dean
The Faculty of Arts and Science would like to invite you to the next informal "Conversations with the Dean" event, a brown bag lunch with the Dean, faculty, staff, and students, at 12:00 noon on October 14, via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 811 9670 4946
Passcode: 391470
Find your local number here.
Please join the conversion and feel free to bring a lunch with you!
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Show Your Spirit on #QueensuDay
Be a part of Queen's Day celebration from wherever you are. Gear up in tricolour and share how you're celebrating from home on social media.
Check out the Queen's Day web page here
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Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office enewsletter
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office at Queen’s University is expanding their communications. You can now find them on Instagram here (*new*), and Facebook here where they share education, resources, and information about upcoming events.
The SVPRO is also starting a newsletter which will contain survivor centric self-care tips and resources as well as education and upcoming events happening on campus in the realm of Gender Based Violence Prevention.
The link to subscribe to the SVPRO enewsletter can be found here.
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Have questions?
Arts and Science Online is here to help you with registration, online course access, exam centres, course selection, program requirements, and general information about your courses or online studies. When writing to Arts and Science Online ([email protected]), please use your Queen's email address and provide your Student ID number in the message. This will help the front desk team when answering your questions.
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