Western University Canada

Western University Canada

University of Western Ontario, Canada or simply Western University Canada is a famous public research university with more than thirty thousand undergraduate students on board. It was established more that 140 years ago and has graduated a great number of Nobel Laureates and famous scholars. The home of the university is the city of London in the province of Ontario, which is only 200 km away from New York, the USA.

Programs 

Western University of Canada offers various undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies programs so everyone can find a program that suits their needs and aims. Undergraduate programs of Western University vary from Music to Mathematics and Science as Western University values students with different passions, abilities, fostering diversity and equality. A student may choose to study different fields on various faculties such as: Arts and Humanities, Health Sciences, Kinesiology, Engineering, Social Science, Science, Music, Information and Media Studies, Management and Organizational Studies and a number of others. For example, if one chooses to study on the faculty of Arts and Humanities in Western University, they may start a program of Classical Studies aimed at studying and researching Greek and Roman languages, literature, archeology and history together with Latin, philosophy, mythology and political theory. During the studies students gain profound understanding of the Mediterranean, Greek and Roman worlds and the traces of how their cultures and languages shaped the modern world as we know it today. The program is interdisciplinary, which means that the studies combine a double concentration in Arts and also in Social studies, so students can learn Classical Students together with Visual Arts, Literature and Philosophy to build up creative and diverse minds with comprehensive knowledge of the field of Classics. A student of Western University may take the program of Classical Studies and choose to achieve a Bachelor of Arts, Specialization or Honors Specialization undergraduate degree, depending on the number of courses a student is ready to take.

Arts and Humanities of Western University of Canada also encompasses the program of Creative Arts and Production, for the students, who strive to achieve all the necessary knowledge to build a career in Media or spheres pertinent to production and arts. The aim of the program of Western University is to encourage students to create and generate ideas themselves, together with studying theory about Theatre and Film industries, Political Economy of Media, Music Performance, Studio Art or Gender and Sexuality and a number of other elective courses, depending on the interests and plans of an individual student.

Western University of Canada offers students who have a propensity for languages to study the program of Linguistics or some can take a Minor or a Major in Linguistics if they are going for the Honors Specialization degree in Western University. Together with it, Western University offers students courses of French, Arabic, Hebrew, Portuguese, Ancient Greek, Latin and Mohawk, where students are offered to study the language itself or the literature, translation studies, culture and film industry of the chosen language. A student may also go to one of the exchange programs in the country of the language they learn, as Western University understands the importance of not just learning the theory of languages, but actually immersing into it to understand all its peculiarities and aspects, which are impossible to apprehend by studying theory exclusively. Student who do an Honors Degree in the French language, have an opportunity to study in France during their third year of studies just as well as students who study Spanish can go to Mexico, Cuba and of course Spain to hone their knowledge of the language being surrounded by native speakers. Generally, the department of languages and cultures offers students to gain Bachelor of Arts in three and four years and Honors Bachelor of Arts in four years, studying German, Italian or Spanish language and the culture of the chosen language speakers or Intercultural Communication, Digital Humanities, Comparative Literature etc.

One of the unique undergraduate programs of Western University of Canada is Management and Organizational Studies, which combines the studies of management, data and humans as the program is a confluence of Management, Business and Social studies. A student may choose their major among six of them such as Management and Legal Studies, Finance, Commercial Aviation Management, HR Management etc. Students are free to choose whether they want to achieve Honors Specialization, Honors Double Major or Specialization degrees upon graduation from Western University.

On the Graduate level the Department of Languages and Cultures of Western University of Canada offers to undertake Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies. The first one is dedicated to doing research on literature and culture, by comparing the correlation between its linguistic, ethnic and linguistic boundaries and aspects. Graduate students of Western University of Canada are encouraged to do research in the sphere of literature in collaboration with professors and researchers from the Departments of Women’s Studies, Classical Studies and English Writing Studies which opens up the possibilities to join studying literature together with other fields, which can or could have influenced the development and history of literature.

Other graduate programs of Western University of Canada include Accounting, Anthropology, Computer Science, Economics, Geology, Media Studies, Visual arts, Psychology, Statistics, Theology, Social Work and others. On the graduate level a student can achieve Master’s, Doctoral degrees, Collaborative Specialization or a Graduate Diploma.

In the continuing education program, a student can achieve a professional certificate in Advanced Leadership, Business Communication, Creative Writing, Project Management, Marketing or Non Profit Management. And also accelerated Certificates of Emotional Intelligence, the Python programming language, French Essentials or Mobile Apps Development. Achieving a certificate in Western University of Canada shows the employers that students have a high level of required skills and knowledge, which in turn serves them as an aid to employment and just raises overall self-confidence, as a person knows that they achieved a certificate which is basically an official confirmation of their abilities.

As Ontario borders with Quebec, Western University of Canada also offers French Immersion courses in the bank of Saint Lawrence River, in the city of Trois-Pistoles. During the program students will be able to learn and practice the French language, immersing into the francophone Quebec Culture. The program is offered by the university beginning from the year of 1932 and considered to be one of the oldest in the whole of Canada. The French immersion programs can last for two weeks for adults, a week for families and there is also a five-week credit French immersion program. The program of Western University can also be taken in the online mode.

In Western University international students are offered to take any of the programs of Western University of Canada, moreover, some international students are even eligible for scholarships. There are, for example, Refugee Scholarship for Afghan students, President’s International Admissions Scholarship and Scholarship for Black and Native students. As for the fees, an international student should pay around forty thousand dollars for a year on the undergraduate level if they choose studying Arts or Social Sciences and a ten thousand more if they choose Management and Organizational Studies. Full-time graduate studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities will cost an international student from four thousand dollars for studying the Classics program, for example, to thirteen thousand dollars, as for the Food and Nutrition program.

Accommodation

International students of Western University of Canada can reside either on campus or off campus. The first option means that a student will live with other students in a hall of residence. There is a building of Western University devised specifically for the residence of the first year students. Overall there are eleven different residence buildings among which students can choose the one, which suits them the most. For example, some dorms are made in a traditional style which means that students can choose whether to live in a shared room or in a private room, also there is a mandatory meal plan which costs for $6250 and washroom and kitchen are located outside of a suite. On the other hand, there are five suite-style buildings, with one of them offering the possibility of not purchasing a meal plan. In the suite-style buildings, students live in a private room with a private kitchen and a washroom, moreover with a double sized bed. Residence in the last one will cost a student around eleven thousand dollars and living in the traditional style residence will cost from eight to nine thousand, depending on the type of room. Almost all the dorms of Western University are equipped with workout rooms, air conditioning and all of them have laundry facilities, in room cleaning services and study lounges.

Future prospects

After graduation from Western University of Canada, an international student may decide to stay in Canada to work. To achieve this goal a foreign citizen, who successfully accomplished the full-time studies in Western University earning a diploma, a degree or a certificate, can apply for a post-graduation work permit which allows them to work in Canada full-time for up to three years. After this step, a former student who has gained some work experience in Canada can try to achieve a permanent residence and stay in Canada for good.

 

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