School of Graduate Studies
Queen's UniversityExpanding Horizons
Workshops for Graduate and Professional Students
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Overview - what is the EXPANDING HORIZONS Workshops Series?
The School of Graduate Studies (SGS), in partnership with student service providers at Queen’s, offers Expanding Horizons - a series of workshops and seminars to support the academic, personal, and professional success of our graduate students. Graduate students are encouraged to participate according to their needs and interests and may take one or as many workshops/seminars as they would like. Graduate students may also be interested in attending an assortment of workshops across theme areas in order to earn a not-for-credit Certificate in Professional Development in the process (see below).
The program is based on a framework proposed by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies which identifies areas of skills and competencies that prepare graduate students for their future roles and that are not typically integrated into their academic programs. Expanding Horizons offers workshops in five (5) skill areas and students who complete at least one (1) workshop from each of the five areas and 12 workshops in total will receive a certificate of completion from the School of Graduate Studies.
Scheduling & Registration
Registration (Moodle) – Graduate students need to register once for access to the Moodle system using their Queen’s Net-ID and password. Once in the system, students then register to have access to the SGS 001 Expanding Horizons “course” (listed under Graduate Studies in course categories, sub-category SGS) and it's workshops. Each workshop you wish to attend you need to sign up for it. Find the “Face to Face” icon (bottom right column). Click on this to open up the full listing of workshops. You will only be able to sign up for workshops in the current term. Click into the workshop you wish to attend and sign up.
Students may add to or cancel their registration for a particular workshop at any time. There is no cost, but sign up is required in order to track participation, as well as to determine eligibility should you wish to go for the certificate in professional development. If you need to cancel, please do so early, so that others can sign up. In many workshops, numbers are restricted to the size of the classroom.
Expanding Horizons MOODLE URL address is: https://moodle.queensu.ca/course/view.php?id=1605
- For workshops hosted by MITACS, you will need to register directly with Mitacs (http://www.mitacs.ca/step). Mitacs will provide us the names of those who participated, so we can manually add you to our system.
- For workshops hosted by QUIC, you will need to register directly with QUIC by sending an email with the session you wish to attend to quic.training@queensu.ca . QUIC will provide us the names of those who participated, so we can manually add you to our system.
- For workshops hosted by the joint initiative between the Human Rights Office, Human Resources & the Equity Office, you will need to register directly on the Human Resources website and go to the learning catalog. Use your netID and password and register for the appropriate course.
- For workshops co-hosted between SGS and Queen's Student Alumni Association (QSAA), register using QSAA registration system. If you are new to their system, first register at: Queen's University Alumni Relations Event Registration system. For subsequent times, a direct link to the event registration will be provided.
- To Register for all other workshops go to Expanding Horizons MOODLE URL address: https://moodle.queensu.ca/course/view.php?id=1605
Partners – Career Services, Health Counselling and Disability Services, the Centre for Teaching and Learning, Human Rights Office, Human Resources, Learning Commons - Queen’s Library, Learning Strategies and the Writing Centre, Mitacs, Office of Research Services, Queen’s University International Centre, the School of Business & Queen's Student Alumni Association.