Additional Resources & Links
COHT
The Centre for Oral History & Tradition (COHT) seeks to further excellence in the practice of oral history in our academic milieu and in the southern Alberta community at large. COHT will aid researchers when they synthesize, catalyze and develop their research into new ideas; identify, establish and assist oral history projects undertaken in southern Alberta in general; and provide a portal or link to the outer research world.
Institute for Child & Youth Studies
The University of Lethbridge's Institute for Child & Youth Studies (I-CYS) is a multi-disciplinary research institute committed to examining what children and youth mean as social, demographic, artistic, legal, and existential categories. While strongly grounded in the humanities and social sciences, I-CYS connects scholars working in all disciplines and faculties at the University of Lethbridge and beyond.
Liberal Education
The concept of liberal education is central to the teaching philosophy at the University of Lethbridge.
It is the idea that a university education is meant to cultivate an attitude of freedom and the critical exploration of ideas through exposure to a diverse cross-section of disciplinary approaches.
Liberal education helps focus your growth in:
the liberal arts
a general intellectual background
the development of a great depth and breadth of knowledge across an array of disciplinary approaches in the humanities, sciences and social science
The aim of this type of education is to enable you to become an independent, well-rounded and thoughtful individual, who actively contributes to your community.
Academic Writing Program
The Academic Writing Program offers introductory and advanced classes in rhetoric and composition across all three campuses at the University of Lethbridge.
This program will help you build a wide-range of the skills you will need to develop to be successful at the university-level across the disciplines.
This pragmatic, genre-based, Writing-in-the-Disciplines approach will allow you to will gain valuable insight and experience in the theory and practice of reading and writing.
Register for a class in the Academic Writing Progam today!