Canadian Government Grant

Dr Dervila Cooke, French Department, St Patrick’s College has been awarded a grant of $3,600 under the Canadian's government's Faculty Enrichment Program.  The Faculty Enrichment Program aims to assist academics in Irish Universities and Colleges of Higher Education to develop and teach new courses of which at least 50% of the content is devoted to Canadian material.  Dr Cooke will used the funds to research aspects of Quebec autobiography and travel writing while attending a summer school in Montreal this summer.  She will be offering a series of undergraduate lectures based on this research from the next academic year onward.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Tuesday December 15 2009