This field trip consists of a trip to New Bedford, MA, the setting for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, for students in the Moby Dick Reflectioins class. In addition to being the setting of Moby Dick’s beginning scenes, New Bedford, MA, was also one of the two or three most important seaports in the United States...

Lateef Martin, an experienced speaker on race and comics in the early Cold War era, will be invited to speak to History students on this subject. The students will be asked to read Truth: Red, White and Black. It’s the story of a black soldier who was experimented on to become the very first Captain America-before...

The Scotiabank National Marketing Case Challenge (formerly the BDC Case Competition) is in its 14th year in the CEGEP network. This is a formative event for our students, who train for 5 months by analyzing university-level marketing cases, developing oral presentation skills, and learning to think on their feet (literally) in order to respond to...

North South Studies is a social science profile that teaches about the intricate relationship between countries of the Global North and those of the Global South. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective, giving students the opportunity to explore the social, political and economic structures that generate and perpetuate poverty and inequality in the world....

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is a play presented at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre. This play will serve to tie into a section of our Social and Economic History: The Family course which deals with families on the margin and under threat. The class has looked at various groups of individuals in the past whose...

The visit to the Armand Bombardier Museum serves as an inspirational tool for  Mech Tech students. Armand Bombardier was not an analytical engineer – he was essentially a hands-on Mechanical Technologist that started Canada’s largest company with 50,000 employees worldwide. All this took place an hour and a half from Montreal. The BRP (formerly Bombardier...

The objective of this project is to offer an opportunity to students, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to connect to seal hunting, a contemporary and important issue in our country as well as internationally, in a tactile and deep way. After learning about Inuit seal hunting from the Inuit perspective eight groups of students in anthropology...

Students will visit the old prison of Trois-Rivières built in 1822-1823 which is now part of the musée québécois de culture populaire. The visit includes a group session with an ex-convict who will describe the harsh reality of prison life in the 1970s and 1980s, just before the prison closed its doors. The visit also...

Students will have a guided tour of the museum and then they will  explore the exhibition. The objective is to analyze some of the artifacts on display and reflect on their historical meaning. For instance, the museum displays the admission book where we can read the names of the women admitted as postulants, their age,...

Otsitsaken:ra (Charles) Patton will come to speak to classes about the Great Law of Peace, which inaugurated the Haudenosaunee Confederacy centuries before the arrival of settlers to Turtle Island. This confederacy exists today and is also known by names like the Iroquois Confederacy or the Six Nations that it consists, including the Kanienke:ha or Mohawk...