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Service learning
Service Learning 3000 and 4000 provide English and Modern Languages students (both individuals and cohorts of up to five students) with faculty supervised opportunities for civic participation and community involvement. EML faculty have supervised dozens of students, involving them in such activities as orienting International and Exchange students to Canadian culture, tutoring in the TRU Writing Centre, helping organize an international workshop and the school district’s Young Authors Conference, and working in various capacities with local arts organizations. Service Learning carries elective credit: third- and fourth-year students may take count up to six credits of Service Learning toward their degrees; with departmental approval, Service Learning courses that are directly related to the student’s program of study may be used to satisfy Majors requirements.
English awards
Harrison English Prize
Cash prize awarded annually to a student who successfully completes a first-year, academic English course and whose submission wins the English Essay Competition adjudicated annually by a panel of English faculty. No application necessary. Faculty Selection.
TRU Second-Year English Prize
Cash prize awarded annually to a student who successfully completes a second-year, academic English course and whose submission wins the English Essay Competition adjudicated annually by a panel of English faculty. No application necessary.
TRU Business and Technical Writing Prize
Income from an endowment established in 1992 will provide an annual prize to a top-ranking student completing a first-year business communication or technical writing course (2 semesters). Selection by faculty. No application necessary.
Cariboo Collage Award for Excellence in Writing
Income from this fund awarded annually to a student who has completed a 2nd- or 3rd-year writing class. Recipient will be nominated by Faculty, with Rhetoric and Composition Faculty choosing a winner. No application necessary. Faculty Selection.
EML Faculty Literature Award
This prize will be awarded annually to a top 3rd or 4th year student majoring in English. Faculty Selection: No Application necessary
Jensen, Wendy — Memorial Endowment
Income from an endowment established in 1992 will provide an annual bursary to a third-year student majoring in English. Deadline: 3rd Friday of September.
Young, Joan — Memorial Award
Income from an endowment established in 2000 will provide an annual bursary to a student majoring in English, with a minimum 3.00 GPA, and with demonstrated financial need. Deadline: 3rd Friday of September.
Modern Language awards, bursaries and opportunities
Les Koritz Memorial Fund Award
Simone Rey Fund Award
For more information on these awards, please contact the Modern Languages Coordinator.
The Micheline Pellerin Scholarship Award
The Micheline Pellerin Scholarship award seeks to keep the memory of Micheline alive by promoting the goal to which she dedicated her life: helping her students learn well. Each year, the top two language students receive an award, with the winners being chosen on a rotational basis from two of each of the languages offered at TRU.
For more information on this and other language awards, please contact the Modern Languages Coordinator.
Canadian Bursary Programs
There are many opportunities to learn and work in a French-speaking province or abroad. The Department of Canadian Heritage provides funding for Explore, while the provinces and territories assume the costs of the program's decentralized administration. The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, coordinates the program at the pan-Canadian level. Feel free to consult with the Modern Languages Coordinator and explore the following links
Language Assistant Programs
Working Abroad
CIEP offers opportunities to work in France, with over 400 assistantships available each year!
Work Study Opportunities
Work Study students are hired yearly to help out in the language lab from September to April. Students must have a working knowledge of one or more of Chinese, French, German, Japanese or Spanish and must be eligible for student loans. For more information, please contact the Modern Languages Coordinator.
