The students of the learning communities class Counting the Cost: Social Justice in Canada? will have the opportunity to visit the community of Kahnawake. This field trip has been designed and organized by Diane Labelle, the Director of The First Nation Regional Adult Education Center. Students will be participants on a cultural and historical tour...

Students will visit the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see the exhibit “Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art.,” This exhibit ends a larger one (“From Africa to America: Picasso Face to Face, Past and Present”), which includes works by contemporary artists of African descent (including one by Kehinde Wiley, the artist who...

Students will visit the Queens of Egypt Exhibit at Pointe-à-Callière Museum as part of their Western Civilization class. The exhibit features numerous historical objects depicting the life and culture of Ancient Egypt, including funerary objects, a mummy (!), the famous bust of Nefertiti, and much more. In addition, the focus of the exhibit is the...

The Dawson English Journal is an academic journal, published online and in print, which features compositions written by Dawson students for their English courses (and related subjects). The journal is run by an editorial team made up of students. We get submissions of assignments from students across all programs, and we publish them (online and...

The Dawson Reading Series is an ongoing event that brings writers and storytellers to entertain, inform, educate, and inspire creativity in our student population. The intention of the series is to give access to many diverse voices that cross the genres of literature into illustration, animation, performance, indigenous affairs, LGBTQ, environmental issues, and so on....

The Liberal Arts Anthology is an annual project culminating in the publication of essays, short stories, poems, photographs, drawings, etc. by 1st & 2nd year students in the program. The project is run entirely by students (planning, coordinating collaborators, editing, desktop publishing).

The Dawson College annual Bilingual Business Administration Case Competition offers 48 teams (120 students) from participating CEGEPs across Quebec the opportunity to demonstrate their presentation skills and business acumen by analyzing, assessing and solving a business case. There are three components, Marketing, Accounting and Entrepreneurship cases to be analyzed as well the Business component. Our...

The Plaza Alexis Nihon Business Plan Competition is a new initiative for the second year by the Business Administration Department. It will approach ALL students in ALL programs in Dawson to participate in the submission of business plans for business ventures that are socially responsible. It will involve over 3000 students including all programs: Commerce,...

As an extension of the text which is the focus of the Humanities course students are taking, a professional theatre production of this same text will give students added insight and appreciation of the original. A live dramatization of Dostoevsky’s novel conveys to the students the richest possible translation of their reading experience. It also...

The Walking Tour of St. Henri is an opportunity for students to step outside the classroom and to consider key concepts in geography and the social sciences in relation to their physical surroundings. The tour weaves together historical events and contemporary conversations, focusing on issues of urban planning, inequality, housing, gentrification, community-building and activism in...