Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències

world of art instills creativity. The world of science — methods. Combining the two provides an opportunity for ingenuity. However, at Queen’s, the combination is rare. Queen’s is among only a handful of Ontario universities that don’t require undergraduate students to take a mandatory cross-disciplinary credit. The absence of a required course persists, despite a recommendation made in favour of such a requirement nearly 16 years ago. However, while taking a course outside of a student’s primary discipline remains a choice, both students and professors have built interdisciplinary options into their university experience. Why doesn’t Queen’s have a mandatory breadth credit? “We are one of very few universities that maintain this…

commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some say the Great River will one day avenge the serpent. The term recalls the pre-colonial history of the land, where near present-day city limits there was an Attakapas Indian settlement. When the first census of the then Attakapas district was taken in 1766 there were already 40 Acadian and Creole households. During this time Louisiana’s French rulers allocated land for the…