Global Summer School

Tags: Vol. 5, January 2025, Issue 1

This summer, Global Summer School (GSS) returned again! Each Faculty at Humber offered one course for elective credit. This year the Faculty of Social and Community Services ran the course Human Rights, Diversity and Social Inclusion for the first time.

Along with taking a Humber class, and fulfilling an elective credit in just three weeks, students also had the option to participate in a range of fun social activities, including tree-top trekking, a Blue Jay’s game, a boat party on Lake Ontario, river rafting, Canada’s Wonderland, and a trip to Niagara Falls.

Over 220 students attended GSS 2024, 175 of which came for this opportunity from abroad! Students joined from Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Brunei, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Germany, Japan, Kenya, Indonesia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the Philippines, Republic of Ireland, Taiwan, Thailand, the U.S.A, and the U.K. (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales)!

This is the second year an additional option of joining a week-long Research Bootcamp facilitated by the Office of Research & Innovation was also available. The bootcamp welcomed 31 students from Canada, India, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and Vietnam, to learn about different types of research, guidelines for conducting a research project, and hands-on experience undertaking a short project to experience the power of collaborative research practice.