INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / October 1, 1991

 

England study tour combines
landscape, literature

a geographic
point of
view. We
look at the
development
of settle-
ment,
villages ver-
sus farms,
the growth
of towns
such as Bath,
the Roman

city.”

   

 

$2,800, and includes return air far,
accommodation, some meals, and
transportation. An initial payment of
$1,400 is due November 30, and
the final balance is due March 30,
1992.

Students will have various
projects to do in each area, says
Peerless, but the courses can be
audited. “We're aiming at the
regular student who needs to pick
up transfer courses, but it’s also for
people who like to get out and do
something different,” she says.

 

Marrs says “The grading process will be just
landscape like a classroom, but the evaluations
lays a cru- will be field-oriented. The final exam
English landscapes will be studied from both literary es for will be in the form of a project.”
and geographical perspectives on next spring’s tour. writers, For more information, contact
especially Liz Peerless at 527-5306 or Brian

England is a country of beautiful
landscapes. Images evoked by the
haunting loneliness of the Yorkshire
moors, the Lake District’s rugged
beauty, and the cultivated lushness
of southern England wind their way
through plots and characters of
some of the world’s best literature.

But the great English writers like
Austen, Lawrence, Hardy and
Bronte were not only products of
their natural surroundings; they lived
in cities and towns and villages that
were products of human history, of
Roman occupation, of Norman
invasion and Saxon resistance.

A Douglas College study tour to
England next spring allows students
to study the relationship between
people and landscape from both
literary and geographical perspec-
tives. Geography Instructor Liz
Peerless and English Instructor Brian
Marrs are organizers of the tour,
which offers university-transfer
credit courses in the two disciplines.

“We thought that cultural geog-
raphy and English literature would
be very complementary,” says Peer-
less. “For example, in Haworth,
English students will look at the
Bronte family (Charlotte and Emily)
from the literatary perspective. At
the same time, the geography
students will look at the village from

English. “Wordsworth is the most

Marrs at 527-5287. @

important landscape writer of any
type. He spent thousands of hours
walking in the Lake District, as did

other writers like
Coleridge. Characters
from those areas are
rooted in his poetry.
Wuthering Heights
certainly draws on the
world of the moors,
and we'll visit the
parsonage the Brontes
lived in. Hardy made
extensive use of the
landscape for mythologi-
cal associations,
timelessness, eternal
themes, eternal pas-
sions; landscapes are a
large part of his whole
romantic mythos.”
The three-week tour
will also visit the Lake
District, Yorkshire,
Dorset, Stratford, and
London. The trip dates
will be approximately
May 18 to June 6,
1992. Participants must
register in at least one
of English 102, English
106, Geography 111,
or Geography 213.
The estimated cost is

 

Academic Dean

 

Dawson College is seeking to fill the position of Academic Dean. The
Academic Dean is the Chief Academic Officer of the College and reports
to the Director General.

Located in downtown Montreal, Dawson College is the largest of
Quebec's colleges of general and vocational education. It offers two-
year pre-university programs and three-year professional programs in
English to the broadest possible student population. .

Dawson College has an enrollment of more than 7,000 full-time day
students in its 35 programs, as well as 3,500 continuing education
Students. It has recently consolidated its operations on two centrally
located campuses and continues expansion of its principal location.

~ The successful candidate will be committed to public education and
prepared to provide academic leadership to the College in the rapidly
changing educational context of Quebec. Qualifications sought include
strong leadership and communications skills, demonstrated administra-
tive ability in an educational milieu, teaching experience, an advanced
university degree (Ph.D. preferred), and fluency in both English and
French.

Salary and benefits will be in accordance with the Quebec govern-
ment scale for Class | colleges, with the current salary range for this
position being $59,080 to $78,576.

Dawson College celebrates its ethnic and cultural diversity and
welcomes applications from all qualified persons. Applications will be
treated with complete confidence and should be submitted, together
with a full résumé, no later than October 4, 1991 to :

DAWSON

ClO EFTel es

The Academic Dean Search Committee
Dawson College

3040 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3Z1A4

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