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Title: Adrian Shubert


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Languages in the Intercontinental Context
Glendon College and Trilingualism
  • Adrian Shubert
  • Associate Vice-President International

2
York University
  • Founded 1959
  • Large 53,000 students
  • Located at the centre of the Greater Toronto
    Area
  • Diverse
  • Comprehensive 11 Faculties
  • Interdisciplinary
  • High Quality
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong Top 500
  • Times Higher Education Top 50 (Social Science)

3
Internationalization at York
  • New phase July 2002
  • Internationalization strategy
  • Principles
  • Academic priorities are the principal motivation
    for internationalization at York University
  • Internationalization will be consonant with the
    Universitys commitment to social justice and
    equity,

4
Internationalization at York
  • 7 priorities
  • Languages the first
  • New languages Arabic, Hindi, Korean, Swahili,
    Tamil, Jamaican Creole
  • Integrate languages into degree programs
  • iBSc
  • iBA

5
Internationalization at York
  • A new emphasis on the Americas
  • New institutional partnerships in Mexico, Costa
    Rica, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Brazil
  • Art Gallery of York University
  • Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies

6
Glendon College
  • Yorks original home
  • One of Yorks 11 Faculties
  • Separate campus
  • Small liberal arts college
  • 2500 students
  • From 130 countries
  • 22 undergraduate programs

7
Collège Glendon
  • .
  • Escott Reid
  • A special mandate
  • Bilingualism
  • Canadas future leaders

8
Glendon College Towards a Hemispheric Institution
  • Kenneth McRoberts
  • A renewed vision
  • A trilingual, hemispheric institution

9
Glendon College Towards a Hemispheric Institution
  • iBA
  • All programs except one
  • Bilingual and Trilingual (English, French,
    Spanish)
  • Extremely popular
  • 12 all applicants 2008
  • 20 all applicants 2009

10
Glendon College Towards a Hemispheric Institution
  • Certificate in Spanish-English - English-Spanish
    Translation
  • Certificate of Trilingual Excellence
  • Teaching in Spanish
  • Las relaciones internacionales de América latina
  • Este curso ofrece una visión general de la
    evolución política, económica y cultural de
    Latinoamérica. Se estudian después los
    principios, las teorias e instituciones y el
    impacto da las relations internacionales de
    Latinoamérica, a nivel continental y mundial.
    Prerrequisitos Una nota de C en GL/SP 2610 6.00

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Glendon College Towards a Hemispheric Institution
  • Antares Press (2005)
  • Only trilingual press in North America
  • www.glendon.yorku.ca/
  • antares/english/index.html
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