Adrian Shubert

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Languages in the Intercontinental Context
Glendon College and Trilingualism

• Adrian Shubert
• Associate Vice-President International

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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)

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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,

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Internationalization at York

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

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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

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Glendon College

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

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Collège Glendon

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• Escott Reid
• A special mandate
• Bilingualism
• Canadas future leaders

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Glendon College Towards a Hemispheric Institution

• Kenneth McRoberts
• A renewed vision
• A trilingual, hemispheric institution

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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

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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