Community Garden a blooming success!
FHASS farmers Karen MacDonald and Andrew Staples were part of last year’s Sheridan Community Garden at the Trafalgar campus. Learn more about this initiative here, and check out this handful from last fall’s harvest!
Paul Vermeersch embodies the &; Wins everything!
Prof. Paul Vermeersch (Creative Writing & Publishing) has had quite a year. On top of welcoming this year’s incoming class of Creative Writing & Publishing students, he published three poems in the Mexican journal Periodico de Poesia, translated… Read More
Creative Writing & Publishing students launch Savant-Garde
Not even a year into the curriculum, a group of ambitious and energetic students in FHASS’s new Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing have launched their own online digital publishing venture. You can check out Savant-Garde: An… Read More
Voices of South Asia
Voices of South Asia was held last May in honour of South Asian Heritage Month. It included such speakers as Brampton Mayor Linda Jeffrey, Dr. Alok Mukherjee, CBC journalist Piya Chattopadhyay, Dr. Vicki Bismilla, and internationally-acclaimed tabla player… Read More
Thea Lim’s new novel reviewed!
Congratulations to Prof. Thea Lim (Creative Writing) on the upcoming publication of her novel, An Ocean of Minutes (Viking/Touchstone). Check out an early glowing review of this highly anticipated novel from Kirkus Reviews here, and be sure to… Read More
Hee-Seung Kang on Student Responses to Teacher Feedback
Prof. Hee-Seung Kang (ESL) recently co-published an article about student responses to teacher feedback in the Journal of Response to Writing. You can read the abstract below, or skip straight to the full article here. Congratulations, Hee-Seung! This… Read More
Drs. Pulis and Cumming hit the beach
Prof. Sara Cumming (Sociology) and Jessica Pulis (Criminology) from the Department of Social and Life Sciences just returned from a four day conference in Long Beach, California. The two presented a paper co-written by Prof. Michael McNamara (Creativity) and… Read More
Jessica Pulis and Alex Hollenberg win SSHRC Explore Grant
Drs. Pulis and Hollenberg were recently awarded a SSHRC Explore Grant – the only Explore Grant awarded at Sheridan College this year. Their research, in collaboration with the Elizabeth Fry Society of Peel-Halton, Ellen House, the Vanier Centre… Read More
Introducing the Research Skills Toolkit
By Kathleen Oakey, MLIS Over the 2017-2018 Academic Year, library staff delivered just over 115 hours of in-class instruction to more than 530 students across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. While library-led workshops are incredibly valuable… Read More
Intersections: Incorporating, not Indigenizing
By Prof. Anna Bartosik (ESL) I am not an expert on Indigenous knowledge. Neither are you, I am guessing. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued Calls to Action addressing federal, provincial, and territorial governments, in collaboration with survivors,… Read More
