University of Windsor
University of Windsor
The city of Windsor, the capital of cars in Canada or the «City of Roses». It is located in the province of Ontario, with the Detroit river inside of it. This city is known for it's often flooded and walloped by tornadoes and thunderstorms. Nevertheless, it persists to be a beautiful place, a leading manufacturer of automobiles. The city of Windsor has a well developed tourism industry, with its casinos, restaurants and parks. Here you can also find a famous University of Windsor - the southernmost in Canada.
Programs
In University of Windsor you may choose the program which better suits your personality, as there is an ample of various educational programs awaiting for you to be enrolled in. For the undergraduates and graduates, for the ones who want to obtain a diploma or a certificate, or continue education, all these are gladly provided by University of Windsor.
It has a program of aeronautics leadership. Fascinating as it sounds, it’s actually a unique opportunity to become a private or commercial pilot, aero engineer or flight dispatcher. During the program you will have a chance to attend such courses as flight training, climate and atmosphere, as real aeronautic specialists.
If you don’t find such a dangerous profession as a pilot as something you would like to pursue in your life and you’re more of an art person? There is an acting program in University of Windsor for the ones who wish to be actors, voice-over artists, directors or producers. This program of University of Windsor is a wonderful place to try yourself in the field of acting, learn different techniques of improvisation, secrets and rules of theaters and performing on stage. Who knows maybe this program will be a start for your famous career as a Hollywood star? It’s interesting that to be enrolled in the program you need to undergo the audition process. A student is to prepare two monologues for the audition: it’s essential that one of them should be from one of the Shakespearian plays and another piece should be from one of the modern plays.
Another program connected to the previous one is communication, media and film. After graduating you may also become a producer, a director, a creative director or communication strategist. During the program of University of Windsor you will study various courses such as film production, pop-culture, public relation and even podcasting, so as to understand the sphere inside out and become a true specialist of media and films.
University of Windsor offers one more program dedicated to theatre and performance and it’s the Dramatic Art. Here students also learn how to act on stage, render and draw for the theatre, improvise and design. Theatrical field is rapidly developing today as people demand more and more mental pabulum to enrich their knowledge, so theatre performing certainly will not become an outdated occupation any time soon. University of Windsor also allows students to learn drama together with education, if a student is interested not just in acting, but also in teaching people the craft. After graduating you may become an acting teacher of any age group.
If you have a predisposition to languages and have a thing about Shakespeare, you may go for an English program. There you’ll learn how English is connected with other languages, what origins it has and also learn more about world literature and writing. Understanding how the language machine works, you have an opportunity to become a journalist, a teacher, a copywriter and a researcher of linguistics after finishing the undergraduate program of the English language.
Together with it you may study creative writing to acquire the tools and methods of composing powerful, touching, influential texts for advertisement campaigns, fiction and non-fiction books or for applying it to the other spheres you plan to work in the future. Knowing how to use such a strong tool as words, you may work not only as a writer or a copywriter, but also as an editor or a publisher.
Some people can’t choose just one path they want to follow in life, as they have diverse interests. University of Windsor perfectly understands them and offers an interdisciplinary program of Arts and Sciences, during which you can learn a discipline from the Arts and from the Science such as combining drama with biomedicine, or music and chemistry. A student can choose one major from the Arts and a minor from the Sciences or vice versa, but if they wish to have a profound understanding of both Science and Arts programs, they are also allowed to choose two majors from both of the fields. After graduation, you may apply the acquired knowledge from different spheres to make up something unique, which would become an amalgamation of Scientific and Arts disciplines.
University of Windsor allows students to study the program of Forensics, which is an extremely popular field due to its high importance for the safety of society and the prestige surrounding the profession. Learn how to analyze every little detail from the crime scene, investigate the evidence of the murder, rape or a fraud, using the state of the art equipment, lasers and scanners - all these and much more a student do during studying forensics in University of Windsor. Besides that, they study chemistry, biology and even cyber ethics. The program is available for the Bachelor’s of Fine Arts and Bachelor’s of Arts degrees.
As the world is making attempts to get rid of all the bias, prejudice and another discriminating actions, the need for learning how all these concepts work is growing. To fight the final remnants of inequality, we need to understand where it actually stems from, how it influences the society and why it perpetuates to exist. University of Windsor offers a program of Women and Gender studies which allows one to get a scientific outlook of the modern problems, concerning minorities, LGBTQ+ representatives and just the most vulnerable and oppressed groups of the society. Then you may continue your studies on the graduate level, for example in the Carleton University in Ottawa, which Master’s in Women and Gender studies lasts for two years.
As far as graduate level programs are concerned, one of the programs offered by University of Windsor is Master of Education, after obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in education or an equivalent to this. After obtaining a Master's in Education, you will be ready to become an educator, who knows all the most modern ways of teaching, inspiring students and making them love the process of education.
Another Master’s program offered by University of Windsor is Philosophy. If you have always been searching the answers for the questions about the meaning of life, values and virtues of human beings, it is a good opportunity to start research on the matters you’ve been ruminating about, while going for the Master’s in Philosophy.
University of Windsor has the co-op education programs, which means that you can work together with studying in the university. It basically means that you’ll immediately implement the theory you learn in the classes to the real work, getting feedback and valuable recommendations from the employers. The process of combining theory with practice makes the studies in University of Windsor as effective as possible.
Accommodation
University of Windsor has three halls of residence, each having its own peculiarities.
The first one is called Alumni Hall, it’s a five storey building where more than 300 students live in the suites. Each suite contains two private bedrooms, a shared washing room and kitchen.
Another dormitory is called Cartier Hall where students of the first year reside. Each room here is shared by two students, while the washing room is shared by four students.
Another Hall of Residence is called Laurier Hall, it has ten floors with the kitchen on the lower floor and microwave rooms on each of them. Students can live in the private rooms there, which are also equipped with a mini fridge, a desk, a closet and wifi. Students can relax or study in the shared lounge and study rooms.
The first dorm - the Alumni Hall is the most expensive to reside in, it costs about $8600 for an academic year, the cost of the second and thirds halls are a thousand dollars less, which is approximately $7700. Living in the Halls of Residence it is obligatory to buy meal plans, which means that you can have a meal cooked for you in the dining room. It can be quite useful if you are not into cooking yourself. With all the extra time, you may dedicate more energy to your studies or hobbies.
International Students
International students are to pay around $28000 if they want to obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautics during the full time studies. This price includes health insurance, tuition fees and other payments necessary for an international students to make. The Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science would cost less - around $20000, including health insurance, recreation fees, bus pass etc. After graduating an international student may decide to get a permanent resident in Ontario, which can be done through Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program, if they meet all the enlisted criteria.
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