Resources & Opportunities for Post-Secondary Youth
UNIVERSITIES
Institut Français at the University of Regina responds to the educational needs of Francophone and Francophile university students in Saskatchewan. It helps in the cultural, linguistic, and professional development of the Francophone community and offers courses, programs, and services at the university level, in French, at the University of Regina. For more information, visit http://institutfrancais.uregina.ca/
Le Cercle Français, University of Saskatchewan is a university group to give students, professors, and friends of the University of Saskatchewan the chance to use their French and learn more about the French environment in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. For more information, visit www.ffslerelais.ca.
Baccalauréat en Education, University of Regina, offers a quality development for those who would like to teach in Francophone or French immersion schools and core French. For more information, visit education.uregina.ca/
Each year, CPF-SK offers two bursaries of $500.00, awarded to University of Regina students registered in 15 credit hours in the first year of the Baccalauréat en éducation française or in the Certificate in French as a second-language program, on the basis of academic achievement, extracurricular activities in French, and financial need. Applications available at the Institut français.
The University of Ottawa has committed to giving each National Concours participant a $2000 bursary for the University of Ottawa, and the first place winners of the five categories will receive a $20,000 bursary over 4 years, which is a commitment of $100,000 per year. For more information on Concours d'art oratoire, please click here or contact CPF-SK
The University of Calgary and the Réseau français at the University of Calgary are pleased to present an analytical index containing more than 2000 French sites chosen for their valued information. It is aimed at the Francophone and Francophile public interested in teaching or learning the French-language, literature, and the Francophone culture. For more information, please visit fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit/index.htm
EXCHANGES AND OTHER POST-SECONDARY PROGRAMS
Each year, the Senate of Canada offers a page program where fifteen university students from across Canada are selected to participate. The Senate Pages are responsible for a wide variety of activities associated with the legislative process. Moreover, they are given a direct opportunity to further their knowledge of parliamentary affairs by exposure to the rich tradition of Canada's Parliamentary system and the Senate of Canada. For more information, go to www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/programs/SenPages/SenPages-e.htm
Researchers at the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan are paving the way for the foundation of a regional sector of l'Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) in Saskatchewan. This new provincial sector of l'ACFAS aims to gather researchers and all that are passionate about science in the province to develop scientific changes in French in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan sector is made up of two chapters, Regina and Saskatoon. For more information, please visit www.acfas.ca/, or you can call Frédéric Dupré at 306.337.2357, or in Saskatoon, Raoul Granger at 306.975.5758.
Exchanges Canada is an excellent resource for youth exchanges in Canada and around the world. For more information please visit their website at http://exchanges.gc.ca.
Learn French through the Summer Language Bursary Program (SLBP) for five weeks this spring or summer and join the close to nine million Canadians and over 250 million people around the world who speak French! Visit www.cmec.ca/olp for more information.
Learn French through le Centre Linguistique du Collège de Jonquiere’s Bursary Student Program. The course consists of formal and informal language instruction in the context of Québec and French-Canadian culture. For more information, visit http://www.languages-jonquiere.ca/centre-linguistique/servicesformation.asp?formation=2&langue=3&ville=1.
Would you like to study French
in Québec? L'Université Laval has been
offering courses in French as a foreign or second-language for
over half a century at its campus in magnificent Québec
city. For more information visit www.elul.ulaval.ca.
