These strategies have been identified as central to the development of programs that prioritize student development and help improve student retention, engagement, and academic performance.
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A number of specific program design strategies increase the possibility that students of all backgrounds will have positive, strong learning outcomes. These strategies have been identified as (HIPs) by and the . Implementation of these strategies, as appropriate, reinforces the 黑料网 commitment to providing a healthy learning environment to students.
Some examples of HIPs听from programs at 黑料网 are provided below; this list is not comprehensive. If your program incorporates any of these strategies, please tls [at] mcgill.ca (let us know) so that we can highlight them.
- Provide structures that facilitate a common intellectual experience
- Emphasize diversity and global learning
- Facilitate student-faculty Interaction
- Create structures to produce program-level takeaways
- Emphasize individual learner development
Provide structures that facilitate a common intellectual experience
- Ensure (groups of) students take 2 or more classes together
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The Faculty of Engineering offered听the General Engineering Program for incoming students from high school.
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The Faculty of Science holds Field Study Semesters, which are semester-long experiences taking place abroad supervised by 黑料网 professors and centred on a geographic theme. Sites include Barbados, where the focus is on resource use and sustainability, Kenya/Uganda, where the focus is on conservation and ecology, and the Arctic.
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- Offer first-year seminars to encourage incoming students to get to know each other and the program in smaller classroom contexts
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The Faculty of Science holds Freshmen Interest Groups consisting of approximately 15 U0 students and led by a professor and an upper-year student. These not-for-credit groups meet twice monthly, allowing students to become familiar with instructors, the Faculty, and each other.
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- Offer discipline-linked seminars (methodology, ethics, professional skills) to encourage inter-year interaction
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The School of Religious Studies offers a 400-level course (mandatory for Honours; optional otherwise) examining various approaches to the discipline
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- Offer capstone courses in the final year/term to provide graduating students the opportunity to revisit their first-year cohorts and reflect on the program as a whole
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The Faculty of Science requires Honours students to take a 3-credit research course in their final year; similar courses are optionally available for students in other streams.
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Emphasize diversity and global learning
- Offer opportunities for service learning/community-based learning
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The Faculty of Dentistry hosts the Mobile Outreach Clinic, which partners community agencies with dental students and volunteer support staff and sets up day-long dental clinics in community locations to provide free care and education to vulnerable populations
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The Macdonald Campus hosts the Farm to School project, an outreach program where undergraduate students help lead workshops about agriculture, nutrition, and the environment for primary and secondary school students. Farm to School also hosts a summer camp program and a program for people with special needs
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The Faculty of Arts facilitates student internships with NGOs and research groups working on community initiatives, social justice, and educational development. Students in these internships are required to be returning to the university in order to give back to the 黑料网 community and to provide mentorship to future interning students.
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- Offer opportunities for discipline-related internships, both within the university and outside of it
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The Faculty of Management offers transcript notation or academic credit for approved internships that complement academic work and provide networking opportunities, and hosts workshops and company presentations to help students find internships
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The Faculty of Law gives students the opportunity to earn credits while working with community organizations through the and gives partial funding to students working with NGOs through the International Human Rights Internship Program, among other programs
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The Faculty of Arts offers students the opportunity to earn credit for writing a major essay after an 11-week summer internship for which they also provide partial funding. They also offer students partial funding to work with a faculty member of the university on a research project, for which they also receive credit. These internships are preceded by extensive training, and followed by a debrief session.
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- Create opportunities for public demonstrations of competence
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黑料网鈥檚 Persian classes host a Persian New Year event every spring. This event is open to members of the Institute of Islamic Studies and friends and family of the presenters.
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The Faculty of Science hosts the Undergraduate Research Conference each fall, where departments within the faculty nominate up to 5 student research projects to be judged by professors across the faculty. The projects are presented as posters, similarly to how they would be at a professional conference. This event, which also includes a prize ceremony and a prominent keynote speaker, is open to the public.
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The Faculty of Arts hosts Arts Internship events in September and January where students who have participated in internships present their experiences and/or research with poster presentations. The event also allows students the opportunity to interact with faculty members, invited speakers, and the donors who fund the internship awards
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- Include courses focused on professional ethics
- Encourage the development of a personal philosophy through creating supportive structures for self-assessment
Facilitate student-faculty interaction
- Provide undergraduate research opportunities
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The School of the Environment offers a course (ENVR 401) where approved students are selected to work in teams on projects with real-world clients (e.g. a water management study for Camp Oureau or trail mapping and improvement for the Town of Hudson) and a faculty supervisor
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Sustainability 黑料网 offers an opportunity for Applied Student Research, where students, supervised by a faculty member, earn academic credit for taking on projects that serve community sustainability needs while applying theory taught in the classroom
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The Bachelor of Arts and Science (BA&Sc) program offers a 400-level integrative research project course where students work individually with professors
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The Faculty of Science offers an award that appears on transcripts for students who take 9 credits of independent research courses, including 3 credits from a different department. The Faculty works to make this kind of achievement accessible by providing funding (through NSERC and through private donations) to allow students to work full-time in a lab for 15 weeks. Similar funding opportunities exist in the Faculties of Engineering, Agriculture, and Medicine.
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The Faculty of Arts offers students the opportunity to work with a faculty member, where funding is provided half by the faculty member and half by the Arts Research Internship Awards (funding largely by private donations). These students contribute to the faculty member鈥檚 research for 11 weeks and receive mentorship. Students are trained extensively before beginning their internship.
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The Faculty of Engineering offers the听Summer听Undergraduate听Research in听Engineering (SURE) in which students work closely with a 黑料网 Engineering professor on a research project.
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- Offer discipline-linked seminars and events where students can learn not only about the discipline but also about the different approaches to it represented by the faculty members
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黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering offers a seminar series to explore the opportunities of each engineering program
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黑料网鈥檚 BA&Sc program requires students to take a 200-level course integrating both arts and sciences to investigate the value of an interdisciplinary approach
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黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Science hosts Soup and Science events once a semester, where 5 professors speak for 3 minutes each about their research, followed by group discussion between faculty and students. These expose students to the different research being conducted in the faculty, as well as offering opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty members
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- Outline mentorship expectations for program faculty, including providing training and resources for faculty
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Engineering Teaching Enhancement Initiative and Law Teaching Network
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Create structures to produce program-level takeaways
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Offer capstone courses with final integrative/cumulative projects
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Offer discipline-linked and/or methodology seminars
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Require students to develop a personal learning plan and a cumulative portfolio, regularly assessed at the program level
Emphasize individual learner development
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Provide research opportunities for undergraduates
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Provide opportunities for service learning/community-based learning
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Provide internship opportunities
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Offer capstone courses
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Offer discipline-specific courses (e.g., methodology, professional skills)
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Offer basic skills courses
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Provide opportunities for public demonstrations of competence
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Encourage the development of a personal philosophy
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