TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND PLANNING: WELCOME AND PROGRAM SESSIONS
12:30 -1:30pm: Department Lunch for Graduate Students, Grad Administrators, GGAPSS, Faculty
Debates Room, 2nd Floor at Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
1:30-2:00 pm: Department Welcome Session for Incoming Graduate Students
Debates Room, 2nd Floor at Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
Richard DiFrancesco
Virginia Maclaren
Samantha Larocque, SGS Program Coordinator
2:00 - 2:15 pm: Graduate Geography and Planning Student Society (GGAPSS) & Graduate Student Union (GSU) Introduction
Debates Room, 2nd Floor at Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
2:30 - 2:50 pm: Human Geography Session:
MA Program Introduction
D. Leslie, S. Wakefield
Sidney Smith Hall Room 2125 / Physical Geography Session:
MSc Program Introduction
J. Chen, T. Smith
Sidney Smith Hall Room 5017A / Concurrent Sessions:
Departmental Space Tours
Nickie Van Lier & Michael Chrobok
Departing from the Sidney Smith Hall
5th Floor Lounge at 2:30, 3:30 & 4:30 pm
Computer Lab Orientation
Alexis Robinson & Emily Hawes
Sidney Smith Hall Room 617 (G Floor)
2:30 – 5:30 pm
Website Biography Creation
Alexis Robinson & Emily Hawes
Sidney Smith Hall Room 617 (G Floor)
2:30 – 5:30 pm
Your cohort representatives
will lead the way!
2:50 - 3:10 pm: Human Geography Faculty
Introduction for MA & PhD
Students
Sidney Smith Hall Room 2125 / Physical Geography Faculty Introduction for MSc & PhD
Students
Sidney Smith Hall Room 5017A
3:10-3:30 pm: PhD in Human Geography
& PhD in Planning
Program Introduction
Sidney Smith Hall Room 2125 / PhD in Physical Geography
Program Introduction
Sidney Smith Hall Room 5017A
3:30 - 3:50 pm: Planning Faculty Introduction
for MScPl & PhD in Planning Students
Sidney Smith Hall Room 2125
3:50 - 5:00 pm: Master of Science in Planning Program Introduction
Richard DiFrancesco, PAC Representative
Sidney Smith Hall Room 2125
OTHER ACTIVITIES DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2017
TIME / ACTIVITY / LOCATION / FACILITATORS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
9:00-12:00 pm / Teaching Assistant Training Session &
CUPE 3902 Unit 1 Information Session / Sidney Smith Hall
Room 5017A / TATP Facilitators, Emily Hawes & Holly Wacker
12:00-2:00 pm / Lunch / Q&Awith
CUPE Stewards / Sidney Smith Hall
Room 5017A / Emily Hawes & Holly Wacker
3:00-5:00 pm / Bike & Brew Tour / Bikechain
Meet in front of GSU Pub, 16 Bancroft Avenue / Alexis Robinson & Léa Ravensbergen-Hodgins
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
1:00-3:00 pm / The Great, Big, “Everything You Need to Know About…” Information Session / Sidney Smith Hall
Room 5017A / Topics Include:
Funding Packages & Research Assistantships
Conference & Research Funding
Program Milestones (Forming a Committee, Comps, etc.)
Student-Supervisor Relations
Writing Supports
Adam Zendel, Isabel Urrutia, Michael Chrobok, Diala Lteif, Léa Ravensbergen-Hodgins, Nickie Van Lier, Dr. Jane Freeman (Graduate Centre for Academic Communication)
3:00-5:30 pm / The Famous
Annual Critical Campus Walking Tour / Sidney Smith Hall
Room 619 (Taylor Room) / Adam Zendel
5:30 pm onwards / Graduate Student Social / Harvest Noon Café Space
16 Bancroft Avenue,
2nd Floor of GSU Pub / Michael Chrobok & GGAPSS Representatives
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
3:00-5:00 pm / Indigenous Walking Tour / St. George Campus
Location TBD / First Story Toronto
5:30 pm onwards / Department Pub Night / Fox and Fiddle
280 Bloor Street West / Department of Geography & Planning
***All graduate students, faculty, and staff are welcome!***
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
6:00-9:00 pm / Planning Mixer / Duke of York Pub
39 Prince Arthur Avenue / Planning Alumni Community
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
5:00-8:00 pm / ***Mandatory***
Anti-Oppression, Anti-Violence, & Consent Culture Workshop / Sidney Smith Hall
Room 1071 / Victoria Herrera, Isabel Urrutia & Silence is Violence
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
3:00-5:00 pm / Professional Development Workshop on Grants for Graduate Students
(NSERC, SSHRC, etc.) / Sidney Smith Hall
Room 5017A / Professional Development Committee
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
3:00-5:00 pm / Graduate Geography and Planning Student Society Annual General Meeting & Elections / Sidney Smith Hall
Room 5017A / Michael Chrobok
***All new students are encouraged to attend
and run for a position!***
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
7:00 pm onwards / Graduate Student Campfire / Dufferin Grove Park
875 Dufferin Park Avenue / Emily Hawes, Nickie Van Lier & Rachel Phillips
Check your @mail.utoronto.ca email accounts for updates and changes!There are all kinds of events going on across campus. Keep an eye out for the Gradlife emails, and the GSU Digest forwarded by our GSU reps.