Practicum

A significant feature of our program is the practicum requirement. Unlike students in other MA programs in the humanities, our students will satisfy nearly one-third of their degree requirements (9 credits out of 30) by undertaking a practicum in an organization – an institution, program, company, agency or office – in Sudbury (or in her/his home if the student is enrolled at a distance).

 

Possible placements include public and secondary schools, media organizations, health care facilities, industries, as well as governmental and non-governmental agencies.

 

The practicum is pursued in three stages (development, placement, research paper) over three consecutive semesters (winter, fall, winter). In the development stage, the student works with the Field Supervisor to set up a practicum placement and, in consultation with an academic supervisor, develops an intellectual approach including research questions. During the placement stage, the student works for the organization, keeps a reflective journal, and meets regularly with the academic supervisor. In the final stage, the student will write a major scholarly research paper and present their results at the annual Colloquium. High-quality research papers are published online by the HUMA website.

 

Practicum Colloquium

A unique and distinctive feature of the Humanities M.A. program is the practicum component. Students spend 100 hours over 10 weeks in an organizational milieu which tangibly demonstrates the interconnection of interpretation and values in our society. Students present their theories at the year-end Colloquium.

 

Practicum Essay Criteria  Since 2005, the Humanities MA Council has established a new policy for publication of the practicum essay on line. 'Faculty-Refereed Graduate Student Conference Publication' are only essays which have been evaluated by the Selection Committee are published in full; other essays are available through the Humanities MA office.

 

Faculty-Refereed Graduate Student Conference Publication
Alves, Manuel (2005)
Boucher, Martin (2010)
Cardinal, Nicole (2005)
Hobberlin, Matt (2011)
Jouppi, Monica (2010)
Loranger, Corine (2005)
Muredda, Angelo (2008)
Jennifer Nault (2011)
Szewczyk, Christina (2005)
Turner, Andrea (2005)

 

Practicum Essays and Summaries 
2011-2012             
2009-2010
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006

 

Year-End Colloquium 2011-2012

The Humanities MA students participated at the Year-End Colloquium on Thursday, April 19, 2012.  Click on the word "(abstract)" to view the abstract of the essay.

 

Bill Clay, (abstract)
Art & Indigeneity in a Post Conflict Society

 

Sean Cousins, (abstract)
Constructing Citizenship: Literacy, Labour, and Lessons on the Frontier

 

Jeff Langer, (abstract)
John Howard: The Narrative

 

Murdoch Matheson, (abstract)
Education, Ideology and Reform: An Interpretive Inquiry

 

Scott Neigh,(abstract)
Grounded in the Present, Pointing Towards the Future

 

Year-End Colloquium 2010-2011

Meredith Ambrose Teller, (abstract)
We Need Each Other: The Fight Against Poverty & Homelessness Begins as a Community

 

Bradley Belisle, (abstract)
Oraganizational Culture and "Reality": Terministic Screens and the NOSM Cultural Division

 

Matt Hobberlin (full text), (abstract)
Masked Darkness: Concealment and Disclosure in the Writings of Open Minds Quarterly

 

Sarah King Gold, (abstract)
Place in Progress: Students Making Public Art at Sudbury Secondary School

 

Steve Mallet, (abstract)
Imaginative and Creative Space in Principle and Practice: An Exploration of Cambrian College's Mission Statement

 

Jennifer Nault ((full text)), (abstract)
An Exploration of Ethnically Oriented Origin Narratives and Related Rhetorical Responses in the Transitioning Multicultural Reality of a Long Term Care Home

 

Alex Pereira
The Mental Illness Narrative: An Ongoing Battle

 

Year-End Colloquium 2009-2010

The Humanities MA students participated at the Year-End Colloquium on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. To see the group photo, click Colloquium 2010

 

Martin Boucher (
Aspects of NISA's Recovery Model: Free Space; Consumer-run/Client Centeredness; Self-Driven Occupational Development

 

Ginette Demers (abstract)
A Wild Woman's Way: Making Meaning of an All Female Group Adventure in the Natural World

 

Sergio Fortunato (abstract)
What Lies Within The Educational Community

 

Monica Jouppi (full text)
Constructing Public Image Through Epideictic Rhetoric,

 

Anja Laffrenier (abstract)
The Sudbury Theatre Centre: Building Community through Self-Reflection and Common Values

 

Mary Laur (abstract)
Sudbury Catholic District School Board Aboriginal Education Unit: Aboriginal Educational and Religious Redress

 

Terrance McDonald (abstract)
What Is It Good For?  Literacy and the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test

 

Constance Nolan (abstract)
Shelter: A Right or a Privilege?

 

Lucas Tait (abstract)
Technology and Education: Foucault's "Panopticism" and the Changing Nature of School

 

Scott Walker-Gillett (abstract)
Prescription for Collaboration

 

Year-End Colloquium 2008-2009

Caitlin Angeloff, Lockerby Composite School (summary)

"The Collision of Morality and Values: A parallel Analysis between Homer The Odyssey and Modern Day Culture"

 

Maria Begona, Sudbury Vocational Resource Centre (résumé)
"Que veut dire l'acte de lire et que veut dire l'acte d'enseigner à lire?" 

 

Christine Burke, The Children's Aid Society (summary)
"Two Steps Forward, One Step Back"

 

Rebecca Fraser, Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative (summary)
"Locating local: A Discussion of the Meaning of Local Within the Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative"

 

Jen Geddes, Sudbury Catholic District School Board (summary)
"The Values of Education in Ontario: For Whites and for Natives 

 

Julia Lowe, Valley View Public School (summary)
"At Home in the Green: A Case for Place-Based Education" 

 

Kristeen McKee, Les Grands Frères Grandes Soeurs de Sudbury (summary)
"À la recherche d'une forte identité communautaire pour la collectivité avec Les Grands Frères Grandes Soeurs de Sudbury" 

 

Heather Wilson, Manitoulin Family Resources (resume)
"Splintered: An Investigation into Northern Ontario Social Services"  NB The summary is not available

 

Year End Colloquium 2007-2008                              

Daniel Beaudry, Canadian Diabetes Association, Sudbury and District Branch (summary)

"Crisis and Reorganization in a Health Service Provider: A Case Study, The Canadian Diabetes Association"

 

Patrick Bennett, Canadian Millenium Scholarship Foundationl, Montreal (Summary)
Reading the Canadian Millenium Scholarship Foundation 

 

Amanda Berloni, Conroy Trebb Scott LLP (Summary)
"Struggling with Power: Women and the Law Firm"

 

Ann Bolton, Ontario International Development Agency/India (Summary)
Model for Change: A Critical Look at an NGO in India 

 

Samantha Burns, Sudbury Theatre Centre (Summary)
"To Work, To Play: Protestant Ethics and the Playhouse" 

 

Catherine Kidd, The Daily Press, Timmins (Summary)
"Keeping a Public Trust in an Age of Transition: A Community Newspaper's Struggle for Balance"

 

Stephanie Leon, Development and Peace/Développement et paix (Summary)    
"Relationships through Volunteering: The Fight to Maintain Interest in Volunteer Based Organizations"                                                       

 

Daryn Ley, Canada Revenue Agency (Summary)   
"Values, Ethics and Loyalty: A Brief Meta-Ideological Understanding of Sub-Culture at Sudbury Taxation Centre"                                                                         

 

Evelyn Moores, Biidaaban School Sagamok Anishnawbek, Massey (Summary)     
"Assimilation, Educational Pedagogy, and the Implementation of the Anishnaabe Immersion Program at Biidaaban Kinoomaagegemik"             

 

Angelo Muredda, Easter Seal Society, Sudbury Office (full text)
"'Disability Solutions': Subjectivity and the Business of Disability"  (Summary) 

 

Janice O'Reilly, Trillium Health Centre, Toronto (Summary)
"Today's Volunteers...Are They Compassionate Angels, or Just Tired of Being Alone?" 

 

Maritza Portugal, The Art Gallery of Sudbury (Summary)   
"What is art? An approach to the Art Gallery of Sudbury and Friedrich Nietzsche's perspectives"                                              

 

Brittany Sauve, Lockerby Composite School (Summary) 
"Education and Punish: Law in the Eyes of Ontario's Autocratic Curriculum"            

 

Year-end Colloquium 2006-2007

Evan Bate, Sudbury & Manitoulin Workforce Partnerships Board (summary)

By Whose Authority: Issues of Performativity, Identity and Transformative Writing in a Humanities M.A. Practicum"

 

Gabriela Benitez, White Pines Collegiate & Vocational School (summary)
"Images, Youth and Identity Formation: A Social Exploration in the Visual Arts Classroom at White Pines Collegiate & Vocational School” 

 

Melanie Bourke, Access AIDS Network (summary)
“Sex Education in Special Needs: Normalizing the Impaired or Impairing Normalization” 

 

Sophie Edwards, Little Current Public School (summary)
“A School Under Pressure: The Value of Helpfulness” 

 

Rhonda Ferguson, Art Gallery of Sudbury (summary)
"Children, Censorship, and the Obscene in Art Galleries” 

 

Stephanie Fisher, Synagogue (summary)
 "An Unexpected Study of Unity" 

 

Emily Hill, L'Arche Sudbury (summary)
"Recognizing Humanity in Others: L'Arche Sudbury's Mission of Hope " 

 

Kemal Krluch, Supportive care Program Regional Cancer Program of the HRSRH (summary)
"Healing through Narrative"

 

Christina Rousseau, Family Enrichment Centre (summary)
"Spirituality in Contemporary Culture and in Healthcare Practices"

 

Stephanie Tabliabracci, CANIMUN (summary)
"Technology’s Effect on Culture and Thought in the Modern Workplace or: How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Jo"

 

Terri-Lynn Walton, Lasalle Secondary School 
"Two-Sides of Education: A Report on One High School’s Struggle to Succeed” 

 

Year-End Colloquium 2005-2006

Jennifer Bennett Pond, The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Toronto (summary)
Abiding the Gap Between Illness & Death: Home Palliative Care  

 

Bradley Blythe, John Grant High School, Montreal (summary)
Discovering a more comprehensive view of a ‘vocation’ in society: re-framing the nature of ‘vocation’ and the ‘mission’ of John Grant High School 

 

Ryan Cooney, Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School (summary)
The Power of Language in an Education: Without Question 

 

Ric deMeulles, WSIB (summary)
Ulysses to Minerva: Investigating whether written texts prepare us to read organizations?  

 

Xiaoxiao Du, Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School (summary)
Secondary School English Languge Instruction in Sudbury (Canada) and in Anshan (China): A Comparative analysis 

 

Robyn Green, Library and Archives Canada, Film and Broadcasting Section, Ottawa (summary)
Identity Sickness: Archive Fever at the National Archives of Canada 

 

Taryn Green, St. Andrew School (summary)
Life Skills Education: Boundaries and Horizons at St. Andrew RC Separate School 

 

Grace Kimpinski, Sudbury Women’s Centre (summary)
Peering through the keyhole: People, policies, and procedures of the Sudbury Women’s Centre, a grass-roots feminist organization

 

Toby Koffman, MCTV (summary)
Breaking News: An interpretation of broadcasting's involvement in Northern Ontario." -It's a look at my role as a reporter, and CTV's role as a news organization, in shaping a sense of community in the North (summary)

 

Emily Mackwood, United Way (summary)
The Meaning of Philanthropy: a look into the driving force of the United Way 

 

Margaret Manchester, Nishnawbe Aski Nation (Thunder Bay) (summary)
A The Concept of Knowledge and the Interpretation of Language, Culture and Science. I know, I believe and you ask me to prove it." The Scientific Word versus The Traditional Oral Knowledge 

 

Lisa Mihajic, GEODE (summary)
GEODE: Complexities in Community Building  

 

David Pasivirta, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Vancouver (summary)
Tanya Pothier, Access AIDS Network
The Business of AIDS  

 

Maureen Riche, Ontario SPCA (summary)
Animal Welfare, Animal Rights and the OSPCA: Negotiating a Human-to-Animal Ethic 

 

 Tee Jay Rosene, Dynatec (summary)
Consolidation Inc.: Exploring Corporate Dynamics Through Transition, Dynatec into FNX Mining Inc. 

 

Jill Weaving, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, Vancouver (summary)
Translations within English: working on the development of an inter-sectoral ‘Arts, Health and Seniors Project’