Western's Return to Sport and Facility Reopening plans

Western is excited to reopen for students while meeting provincial guidelines, initially reducing capacity, and providing new and robust cleaning and safety protocols. Sport and Recreation appreciates that health and safety is a shared responsibility with those using its facilities.

For an extensive list of FAQs on the reopening of Western's Campus Recreation and their Sport Facilities, please visit www.westernmustangs.ca.  More information will be updated as it becomes available. As things continue to evolve in the province, Western will ensure that protocols and procedures also continue to evolve.

King's students create Bachelor of Social Work Yearbook

When the pandemic abruptly put an end to in-person classes for the 2019-2020 academic term, two students of the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program sought a way to gain closure and maintain connection with their classmates.

Read the full story here.

King's is now on TikTok!

You can now find King's on TikTok (@kingsatwestern). Give us a follow! If you have any ideas for new content, email Communications.

International Students!

Join King’s International on their Instagram (@kings_intl) every Wednesday where we will answer your questions on a new related topic each week! Ask us your questions about our events, visa requirements, study permits, etc. Join in all day.

If you are a new international student to King’s, we encourage you to sign up for both our bridging week and for a peer guide. Get involved virtually or in person! Please visit the International page for more information. You can also find information for students arriving from outside of Canada there.

Western also has some useful information on their International arrival page.

Waitlist Now Available for MEM and Sociology Students

A course waitlist has been created for MEM and Sociology students.

Please first review this new feature by visiting the student centre and reviewing the detailed instructions here prior to contacting Academic Counselling , as the staff there are working through a very high volume of student enquiries. 

In the meantime, if you need further information, please consult these important links:

Moving Online FAQs

Learn everything you need to know about online and blended learning.

See the FAQs here.

Psychology Courses

Psychology students: Looking for an opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills NOW to make a difference in the community and solve real-world problems that you care about? Take Psychology 4694 - Psychology for The Common Good.

Psychology for The Common Good is an experiential-leaning course where students partner with community groups to create research-based solutions.

NEW Psychology Course for Fall 2020!  

Special Topics in Psychology: Constructing Emotions 

The widely-held view that emotions are a reaction to external forces is wrong. Holding this view, as individuals and as a society, has wide-sweeping adverse effects for interpersonal relationships, mental and physical health, law, and public policy.

Want to learn more? Take Psychology 3992F (270) with Prof. Marcie Penner.

See the Psychology course offerings page.

New course! No prerequisites!

English 1028G: Viral Narratives

How can storytelling help us to think about our current global situation—and vice versa? This course will continue students' introduction to the study of narrative with a focus on the figure of the virus. We will examine narratives of various forms: novel, short story, photo-text book, history/nonfiction, personal essay, etc. Possible texts about life and storytelling in an epidemic include Mary Shelley's The Last Man; Virginia Woolf's essay "On Being Ill"; Billy Howard's multimedia Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS; Soraya Nadia McDonald's article "In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics" on The Undefeated online; and Emily St. John Mandel's recent novel Station Eleven. We will also explore "viral transmission" as a metaphor in order to think about the spread of stories between people and communities, across history, and online, with texts such as Gayathri Prabhu's novel Vetaal and Vikram: Riddles of the Undead and Indigenous author Leslie Marmon Silko's collection Storyteller. Along the way, we will consider whether and how each reading might affect how we process the present pandemic and its impacts on ourselves and others.

See the English courses page.

English at King’s has a course for everyone

The following English courses have no prerequisites:

Don’t have the prerequisite for the following courses? No problem! Email Jessica.Sommers@kings.uwo.ca to ask for permission to enroll:

You can visit the timetable or Student Centre to see schedules and the names of your English professors. You can always read our full course descriptions (be sure to click on “All Courses”).

Social Justice and Peace Studies Courses to Consider this Fall

SJPS 2290 - Eco-Spirituality: Eco-Spirituality focuses on traditional and emerging spiritual responses to our physical environment, climate change and modern development. We will strongly emphasize Indigenous practices and explore how human communities interact, respect and find meaning in the natural environment, and also examine the consequences of not doing so.

SJPS 3382 - Ecological Justice: Scientists are largely in agreement that we are living in the age of the Anthropocene. This course focuses on the ways in which human engagement and with exploitation of the environment has contributed to inequality, health impacts and future concerns for our ongoing activities on the planet.

SJPS 3365 - Advanced Dispute Resolution: Advanced Dispute Resolution: Our communities are rising up and demanding change in policing, housing and labour equity. How do we begin to solve the problem of engaging with groups who fundamentally disagree with how these issues should be solved? Our dispute resolution courses focus on building trust and communication between diverse social groups. This is a highly interactive course, rooted in simulations to give students real time experience in building strategies to resolve conflict at the community level.

See the SJPS courses page.

New Special Topics Course

RS 2291G (270) – Special topics: Ecology, Spirituality and Justice: How are ecology, spirituality, and justice interconnected? This new cross-listed course with SJPS examines the climate and ecological crisis through the lens of the emerging field of ecology and religion, including Indigenous spiritualities, Asian cosmologies, and Jewish-Christian eco-theologies, and relating ecological issues to race, gender, and poverty.

This is a blended course.

See the Religious Studies course offerings page.

New Human Rights Course

Human Rights 2800E

This course explores such questions as:

This team taught course features lectures and applied workshops by guest activists and practitioners discussing practical applications of human rights in today’s world. The course will serve as a core requirement of the new Human Rights Studies program.

Interested? Email Dr. Robert Ventresca.

The Write Place Summer Course Help

The Write Place is offering writing support for summer courses over Zoom and email. Go to the Write Place website to book an appointment or send an email to thewriteplace@kings.uwo.ca.

Student Emergency Fund

As a result of the generosity by Faculty, Staff, Professional Officers, Alumni and other community members as well as organizations, we are happy to announce that additional funds have been made available. The application to the Student Emergency Fund is open.

For further details, please visit the King’s Money Matters website.

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