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School Outreach Sessions
School Outreach Sessions
School Outreach Sessions
Experience Arts & Humanities at Western through our interactive high school workshops and engaging mock lectures — available onsite at Western University campus on select dates through the year.
We offer a wide range of sessions to support your classroom learning. Depending on the outreach session, students may:
- Attend a university mock-lecture
- Tour state-of-the-art spaces on campus
- Participate in hands-on activities
- Join discussions with professors and Western students
Outreach sessions are designed to introduce secondary school students to new topics while also supporting and building on their current classroom learning.
Interested in one of the workshops below? High school teachers can email ahoutreach@uwo.ca to express their interest, and we'll follow up with registration and booking detailsENGLISH & WRITING STUDIES
Learn the basics of writing fiction and tap into your imagination to create your own original piece through focused writing activities.
DATE: Friday, October 23 at 10 AM
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
PRESENTED BY: Professor Aaron Schneider
DURATION: 120 minutes
CAPACITY: 10-25 students
BOOKING DEADLINE: 3 weeks out
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This interactive lecture explores the story-telling devices and politics of the award-winning musical, Hamilton. We will explore in detail Miranda’s novel take on American history and the narrative conventions he uses to tell his story.
DATE: No date yet. Check back later.
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
PRESENTED BY: Professor MJ Kidnie, English and Writing Studies
DURATION: 90 minutes
CAPACITY: 25-80 students
BOOKING DEADLINE: 3 weeks out
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FRENCH STUDIES
Outreach Activities
The Department of French Studies is committed to promoting French studies both in schools and on campus.
Visit Western!
Bring your students to attend a class in the Department of French Studies!
For questions, additional information, or to arrange a visit, contact Mirela Parau, Dept Assistant (mparau2@uwo.ca).
Visits to Secondary Schools
As part of our efforts to build connections with teachers and students at local secondary schools, we would be happy to visit you! A professor from the Department of French Studies, along with one or two students, will come and speak with you about the benefits of taking French courses at university and answer your questions.
If you would like to welcome us to your school, contact Mirela Parau, Dept Assistant (mparau2@uwo.ca).
GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES AND BLACK STUDIES
This interactive lecture is offered through Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and highlights the interdisciplinary focus of the Major in Black Studies. Drawing on Black Studies approaches to history, the session examines how narratives of slavery and African American contributions to the American Revolution have been represented, obscured, or contested in public history. Students are introduced to how historical knowledge is shaped by power, policy, and perspective, and how recovering these histories is central to Black Studies. The session engages students in thinking critically about whose stories are told, how they are told, and why that matters.
DATE: No date yet. Check back later.
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
PRESENTED BY: Professor Laurel Shire
DURATION: 45-60 minutes
CAPACITY: TBD
BOOKING DEADLINE: 3 weeks out
OTHER INFO: The session engages students in thinking critically about whose stories are told, how they are told, and why that matters.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
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LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LINGUISTICS
DATE: December 10, 2026
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
PRESENTED BY: Professor Nadine De Moras, Linguistics
DURATION: 60 min
CAPACITY: 20-50
BOOKING DEADLINE: 3 weeks out
OTHER INFO: By the end of the session, students will have a clearer understanding of what linguistics is and what its major branches study. They will see how linguistic principles shape the way we speak and think, often without our realizing it, and how linguistics is used in fields such as speech-language pathology, psychology, computer science, and cultural studies.
This dynamic workshop introduces students to applied linguistics by exploring how people learn, use, and teach languages. Participants will examine how we acquire our first language, why learning a second language can be both challenging and rewarding, and what effective language teaching involves. The session blends short explanations with hands-on activities that demonstrate how language behavior is often predictable. For example, to show how memory and language retrieval work, students will take part in activities where their responses can be anticipated based on research. We will also look at how errors in both first and second languages follow identifiable patterns, grounded in theories of language acquisition.Students will explore how personality influences language learning through simple experiments, and they will be introduced to practical learning strategies they can use and apply both inside and outside the classroom to improve their own study and memorization techniques.
DATE: No date yet. Check back later.
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 11-12
PRESENTED BY: Professor Nadine De Moras, Linguistics
DURATION: 45-60 minutes
CAPACITY: TBD
BOOKING DEADLINE: 3 weeks out
OTHER INFO: By the end of the workshop, participants will have a deeper understanding of how humans learn languages and what makes language teaching effective.
PHILOSOPHY
Join the Philosophy Department at Western for World Philosophy Day! Students will have the opportunity to join multiple mini-lecures with professors.
DATE: November 19 to conicide with annual World Philosophy Day
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
PRESENTED BY: Philosophy Professors
DURATION: Full-Day
CAPACITY: Multi-school event
BOOKING DEADLINE: 6 weeks out
Have you ever wanted to discuss issues that matter in a way that appreciates nuance and complexity? The Ethics Bowl is a space where discussion is used to untangle the nuanced topics. At the Ethics Bowl event, the goal is to share ideas, collaborate, and learn from disagreement. Each February, Western's Philosophy Department hosts the regional London Ethics Bowl where students compete in teams. The top team from the London Bowl will receive automatic entrance to the Ontario Championships hosted at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Registration via Ethics Bowl Canda is required to participate. Registration opens early September and closes in early October.
DATE: Early February 2027 TBD
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
PRESENTED BY: Philosophy Professors
DURATION: Full-Day
CAPACITY: Registration required
BOOKING DEADLINE: Registration opens early September and closes in early October.
OTHER INFO: https://www.ethicsbowl.ca/getting-started
VISUAL ARTS
DATE: No date yet. Check back later.
SUGGESTED GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
PRESENTED BY: Natalie Scola (PhD Candidate)
DURATION: 40-60 minutes
CAPACITY: 25-30 students
BOOKING DEADLINE: 3 weeks out
OTHER INFO: By the end of this workshop, students will be able to: 1. Practise visual literacy by analysing and interpreting formal elements to create meaning without prior context 2. Discuss the interdisciplinary nature of art history, including connections to history, politics, culture, and science. 3. Reflect on contemporary visual culture by identifying how present-day images and objects might be understood by future historians.