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What dor the modern Cana- students were males. Today, UW coag inQuebec,,s�,o�ient Rome." how the students are doing and UW's correspondence 40jtllents
dim housewife do with the time has close to 3,500 :,,,, dance Each course may be taken for where some may be going wrong. come from every province in
her automated, electronic house- stints all across Canada, and �half ��credit � of four a JJW de- months These tum tapes are amt to Canada and well. Some a number of
bald gadgetry saves her? 45 cent are women.each
1[ore and more of them, it "The housewives are finding duration (September to Dec- , "We try to make it as close to in isolated' communities; others
seems, are getting university us," is the way Dr. Ted Dixon, ember; January to April; May to the classroom experience as we are in the larger cities. Som are
educations in their spare time. UW physics prot"sor and also- August). Enrolment takes place can," says Dr. Dixon. "More's youthful; others are elderly.
And the backAo-school bit isn't ciate director of the correspon- in mid-September, mid -Dec- the professor's voice on the More than 150 courses are offered .,
confined solely to those living deuce program puts it. "Of ember or mid-March. tapes; there are the tutorial via correspondence. It is possible r`
near university communities, course, back in 1968 we were in- Waterloo pioneered the taped tapes. We also send each student to acquire a UW bachelor of arts .
either, volved solely with science lecture system in Canada. UW the names and home addresses of degree (in either psychology or
Comm the quiet time -of the courses which have not tradition- correspondence students are sent any others who may live nearby, history) entirely by ,
evening when the young ones are ally attracted large numbers of packages of cassettes of taped so they can get in touch with each dente. It is also possible to'
in bed and Dad is absorbed in TV women. But today there is a wide lectures-lWong with lecture other and possibly interact just acquire a bachelor's degree in
sports or whatever, Mom sits variety including courses in psy- notes, textbooks and sets of as students do on campus." either science or mathematics, or
down with her tape recorder and cthology, sociology, languages, assignments. They listen to the Waterloo also sends students a a master's degree in either 693
listens to a university lecture. It's history and so on. Some of the tapes (they must procure their questionnaire, half -way through science or mathematics, via cor-
not exactly a commonplace interesting subject areas in- own players), read the notes and the term, asking their opinion on respondence.
occurrence yet, but there's a clude: the sociology of sex roles, texts, and work on their assign- the courses and the professors. In "The future of our correspon ,.,
ped. family and kinship, utopian com- ments which they return to their addition, students are invited to dente program seems very pro -
For example, the University of munities, personality theory,professor for marking, according an annual class party on campus mising," says Dr. Dixon. "Un- »
Waterloo began offering corres- learning and motivation, early to a pre -arranged schedule. ... and some of them come from doubtedly the key to our success ONE OF THE ANNUAL features of the Santa Claus parade In Wingham was the entry
pondence courses featuring taped childhood education, the history After marking the assignments Zoo and 300 miles away to attend has been the taped lectures. They from the Wingham Volunteer Fire Department. The three engines heralded the approach
lectures, back in 1986. Initially, 90 of French Canada, German the professor prepares a "tutor- it. They meet their prof and the make taking a course much more of the parade with wailing sirens so that youngsters could get as close a look as possible at
per cent of the correspondence thought and culture, poetry and ial" tape in which he explains other students. like a real class experience . what was coming along Josephine Street Saturday afternoon.
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