In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8th, Women’s/Gender Studies students are organizing various activities from March 6th to March 8th. Over a three-day period, we will have speakers and events in Conrod’s to celebrate past and present women’s achievement, and also to highlight issues that still need to be overcome. Activities will include...

The Law, Society & Justice trip to Ottawa allows students to experience the Supreme Court of Canada as well as question period at Parliament. Students will tour the Supreme Court, observe an actual Supreme Court hearing, and participate in a mock trial organized and guided by the Supreme Court support staff. In addition, the students will...

The BDC Case Competition is a formative event for Dawson 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 questions posed by industry experts. Throughout the Case Competition process, technology students are informed of the benefit of the...

The Manufacturing & Field trips course offers students the opportunity to visit manufacturers here in Quebec to learn and see first hand how products (which they design in class) will be made. This enables them to interact with manufacturers, ask questions and receive feedback pertaining to their designs, helping them grasp how designs are made...

In exploring alternative ways of learning, New School’s It’s Showtime! Class will perform an original script: From Dio To Dawn: The Bacchae Retold at the Dawson Theater. 20 students from 12 different programs will join together challenging themselves in a dynamic exploration of the Greek classic. 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Dawson Theatre

Scandal! Vice, Crime and Morality in Montreal, 1940-1960 History students will get the opportunity to visit this exhibition which provides an extensive comprehension of the different aspects of crimes in Montreal. The exhibition is perfect to illustrate to what extent Montreal was a ‘ville ouverte’ in the 1940s and 1950s. Canada’s largest city in the...

University of Vermont Professor Todd McGowan, one of the world’s leading experts on film theory, will lead a three-hour workshop with students in the Reflections seminar, “Reading Alfred Hitchcock: Film, Text, Context.”

The visit at the Musée des Hospitalières will help history students assess the reality of women’s lives in nineteenth- century Quebec. As we reflect on the reasons why so many Quebec women decided to remain single and join a religious congregation, we tackle the delicate questions regarding women’s socioeconomic opportunities in the nineteenth century. This visit will...

The Dawson Reading Series invites authors to read for students at the college and answer their questions at an event held once a semester. We strive to invite writers who demonstrate a high degree of creativity which can help to inspire students.

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 so that friends,...