This coming semester, CityStudio is being administered by SFU. Application and requirements are here and below.
Semester in the City - Spring 2012
This 15 credit (DIAL 390, 391, 392) full time course will be held at
Vancouver's CityStudio and is be open to students from six Vancouver
post-secondary institutions (SFU, UBC, BCIT, Langara, Emily Carr,
VCC). Students will work full-time as a cohort with the City of
Vancouver to implement Greenest City 2020 urban sustainability
strategies and focus projects towards meeting the these goals. The
best and brightest students will be selected from interdisciplinary
areas represented by all post secondary institutions; geography,
health science, engineering, planning, social sciences, arts,
business, food systems and design.
The Spring 2012 CityStudio cohort will focus on the neighbourhood
scale of implementing demonstration projects related to Greenest City
Goals of: Access to Nature, Local Food, and Green Economy. Specific
community plans as well as the document Vancouver 2020: A Bright Green
Future will inform and provide context for our work.
The cohort will meet in the studio (located under Cambie Bridge near
Olympic Village) 5 days/week, Monday - Friday from 9:30am - 3:30pm.
What is CityStudio? As an initiative within Vancouver’s Campus City
Collaborative (C3), CityStudio Vancouver aims to provide students and
faculty from Vancouver’s six post secondary institutions the
opportunity to collaborate with each other and with the City of
Vancouver on real-world projects that implement Vancouver’s Greenest
City 2020 Action Plan. In addition to this core studio course, a
number of partner courses from the 6 campuses will simultaneously
engage the theme, share research and work, and participate in events.
Course Outline - to be posted next week on both the SFU Undergraduate
Semester in Dialogue website (http://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/
and the CityStudio blog - http://citystudiovancouver.
Application Details can be found online at
http://www.sfu.ca/dialog/
Applications are due October 14, 2011. Students will be informed of
the status of their application by Nov. 1, 2011.
For further information about the courses and for application
information, visit our web site www.sfu.ca/dialogue/undergrad
or the CityStudio blog http://citystudiovancouver.
If you have further questions after visiting our website, contact the
Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue at ugsid@sfu.ca, and CityStudio at
citystudiocoordinator@gmail.
Application Requirements
- A one page letter that expresses your interest in the program
- A maxiumum 1 page resume
- College and University transcript (Official/Unofficial)
- Application form (send coordinator an email for application form)
