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Speakers Dr Jim Dragna Student Success Manager Through an engaging blending of cross cultural story-telling and cognitive psychology formulations, Dr Dragna will talk about the successful transition of students from secondary school to tertiary education. His topic is: What Were You Thinking? A Guide to Understanding the Adolescent and Young Adult Mind. Dr Dragna is from the United States where he was involved in tertiary education as an administrator, consultant, lecturer and mental health provider for more than twenty-five years. A licensed psychologist, he specialises in the treatment and development of adolescents and young adults. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame with master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the field of counseling psychology. 6 Brad Harasymchuk Emerging Leaders’ Development Programme Coordinator The Emerging Leaders Development Programme (ELDP) is a year-long student-led leadership programme offered to Emerging Leaders, Dr. Ngau Boon Keat and Dux scholarship recipients at UC. The leadership programme consists of five parts including: a residential retreat, group service learning projects, leadership forums, student team dinners, as well as a yearend celebration. Brad Harasymchuk is currently a PhD student in the College of Education as well as the coordinator of the Emerging Leaders Development Programme. Dr Billy O’Steen Senior Lecturer College of Education Dr O’Steen will discuss the emerging UC Graduate Profile and how this links to employability skills. Within this wider framework he will talk about students’ experiential learning through the Christchurch 101 programme, the benefits and how this sets UC students apart. Dr O’Steen holds a PhD from the University of Virginia and, prior to working at UC he was involved in a number of projects including teaching English at a secondary school in Tennessee and two community colleges in California, and facilitating multi-cultural education programs in Brazil and Tennessee. At UC Dr O’Steen’s teaching and research focuses on curriculum design, higher education, and professional development with a particular emphasis on experiential education and service learning.
Programme information School of Business and Economics Join the Dean of Commerce, Dr Ross James, for an update on the latest developments and some exciting new degree offerings for 2014. Associate Dean of Commerce, Neil Crombie, will provide an update on the changes for students wishing to pursue a career in accounting. Economics lecturer Steve Agnew will talk about his research paper “Transitioning from Year 13 to first year: the behaviour of first year economics students”, due to be presented at the Australasian Teaching Economics Conference in July. Student advisors will be on hand to discuss other majors and programmes. College of Arts Dr Bronwyn Hayward and Associate Professor Michael Grimshaw will discuss what it is to be an arts student at UC. What are they about? What can they expect when they choose to study arts at UC? What do we do to give them the best study experience we can? Following this there will be an opportunity to view an exhibition at the Campus Gallery. The exhibition is a collaboration between art history and fine arts students and will feature a talk followed by a short tour of the School of Fine Arts’ studios. College of Engineering Join the Dean of Engineering, Professor Conan Fee, for an update on engineering and forestry science degrees for 2014. Then take some time to view a range of final year projects and work undertaken by students across the engineering disciplines, computer science and mathematics and statistics. There will be an opportunity to talk to students about their work, discuss the background to their projects and discover more about their time at UC. School of Law Associate Professor Chris Gallavin, Dean of Law, will talk about the development of the School of Law in the post-quake Canterbury environment in which students will play a pivotal role in supporting the community, the profession of law and the wider commercial and cultural community. With great need comes the opportunity for law students to show leadership, help the community which will provide a strong point of difference in the commercial world come graduation. His talk will emphasise the opportunities for law students and graduates at UC. College of Science Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Science), Professor Wendy Lawson, will give an overview of the range of degrees and majors available and what makes UC science different. Academic staff will outline the opportunities available to students majoring in biological sciences and biochemistry, including the endorsements of ecology, environmental science, biotechnology and biosecurity. Specialists from communication disorders will provide a session covering speech and language pathology and audiology. We will finish with information on research areas in psychology, including applied and clinical psychology. College of Education The Bachelor of Sport Coaching is undergoing considerable change and in 2014 students will be able to select a specialisation (performance analysis, for example) or study the programme by distance, if desired. The new Bachelor of Health Sciences degree was launched in 2013 and interest is growing rapidly. Come and hear how this new degree is preparing students for employment in the rapidly growing health sciences sector. 7
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