Honours students
seminar: Graduate school applications and scholarship applications.
What
next?!
- identifying internal strengths and external skills as an
ANTH/Arts graduate
- your path: sustainers, evolvers, and
synthesizers
- Who do you want to be?
Graduate school
applications:
Points to consider in choosing a graduate
school:
- program: anthropology? business? law? interdisciplinary
program?
- what does the school offer you?
- in terms of
programs, faculty research interests, funding possibilities, symbolic capital,
etc.
- do background research: get in touch with potential faculty
supervisors; if possible, get in touch with current graduate students there to
find out what they say (some may be from StFX); find out who has graduated from
that school; look at publications of faculty from the school
Points to
consider in applying to a graduate school:
- what do you offer the
school?
- how much work will you entail for them? are you a self-starter?
do you have research experience? etc.
- how do you prove you are an
attractive student for them?
- write a perfect application: show you can
put together a research plan; show you have good writing, research and
analytical skills; match your interests to the interests of the faculty
-
get strong references: for this you had to start when you started at StFX; give
referees plenty of time to write their letters; give them information about what
you want out of the school; give them your applications and ask for advice; give
them the information they need to write strong detailed letters; have good
marks; let them know the deadlines, what kind of referee you are asking them to
be (if there are distinctions between departmental and faculty references),
where to send the forms, give them the forms, etc.
- examples of grad schools and application forms:
-
University of Toronto, Anthropology:
- School of Graduate Studies- Dalhousie University:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
- applying
Scholarship applications
Tip: Getting a scholarship, no matter how small, is something
you can put on a c.v. and will count in your favour for future applications
- see notes above about getting references
Resources:
- StFX
Research Office and research funding;
-
Government of Canada International Scholarships
- other websites, e.g. http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/scholarship-advice/scholarships-study-canada
- Rotary International scholarships, Mensa Canada, Soroptomist,
etc.
Filling out the application: as with graduate school
applications, you must follow the guidelines TO THE LETTER (deadlines, word
limits, requirements for written submissions, guidelines for what to include,
etc.)
- e.g. for SSHRC MA: application information
Where might it all lead?
- examples of jobs: http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs