Transcript Western University presentation to students 2015

Presentation
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ABOUT WESTERN
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Founded in 1878
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Leading research-intensive
university
• 1,500 full-time faculty
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over 400 majors, minors
and specializations
• 120 professional and
graduate programs
Canada’s most
beautiful campus
• 1,200 acres on the Thames
River
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87 buildings
• 8 libraries hold the 4th largest
collection in Canada
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• campus residences with 5,000
available spaces
RESEARCH
EXCELLENCE
• $220 million in annual
research funding
• 66 Canada Research Chairs
• Hundreds of endowed
chairs
• Interdisciplinary groups,
networks & centres
• Over 500 active
international collaborations
CANADA’S BEST
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
• 35,000 students
• 2,800 international students
from 109 countries
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Students who pursue a third
mobility at Western will have
access to shared office space,
first rate library facilities, and
the opportunity to connect with
professors and grad students
who work in the same area
12 FACULTIES
AND SCHOOLS
ARTS & HUMANITIES
DON WRIGHT FACULTY OF MUSIC
EDUCATION
ENGINEERING
GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES
HEALTH SCIENCES
INFORMATION AND MEDIA STUDIES
LAW
RICHARD IVEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
SCHULICH MEDICINE & DENTISTRY
SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE
RESEARCH AREAS
• Gender Studies; theory and criticism
• Transitional Justice and post-conflict
reconstruction
• Ethnic and migration studies
• Media studies: political economy of media
& cultural studies
• Political science, economics, sociology,
anthropology, etc.
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8 libraries hold the 4th largest collection in
TOPICS
• Democratization, state formation, political
economy
• US foreign policy; global governance
• International law, the ICC, genocide, and
UN Diplomacy (Dimitrov)
• Russian, East and Central European
history and politics; Ukraine (Dyczok)
• Memory studies; critical theory