File includes a detailed course training standard for the Police Technology Course and correspondence regarding a proposed certificate program at Dalhousie University in Liberal Studies for Police Officers.
Item is a letter written by Willam Lyall to certify that James Baxter attended a senior Latin class during the 1860-1861 session. The letter was written in Truro.
Item is a letter written by Prof. James Ross to certify that James Baxter attended a chemistry class at the Presbyterian College. The letter was written in Truro, Nova Scotia on April 12, 1862.
Item is a letter written by Willam Lyall to certify that James Baxter attended senior Greek and Latin classes during the 1862-1863 session. The letter was written in Halifax on December 18, 1863.
Item is a letter written by Thomas McCulloch to certify that James Baxter attended Latin classes at the seminary in Truro during the past three sessions. The letter was written at Dalhousie College, Halifax, on March 3, 1864.
Item is a letter written by James Baxter to President McKenzie (Arthur Stanley), written in Chatham on 2 November 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to Baxter's attendance at both the Presbyterian seminary in Truro and Dalhousie College in Halifax in the 1850s and 1860s, and mentions enclosed course tickets and notebooks.
Item is a letter sent to an unidentified person (possibly Arthur Stanley MacKenzie) by James Baxter. The letter was written in Chatham on November 2, 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to photographs of early Dalhousie professors and students sent along with the letter and names the people in the photographs.
Item is a ticket for the natural philosophy class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, in the 1892-1893 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxkter attended the class from October to April and is signed by Thomas McCulloch. The back of the ticket has a note from McCulloch stating that Baxter also took mathematics classes.
Item is a ticket to an ethics class taught by Professor Ross at Dalhousie College during the 1863-1864 session. James Baxter's name is written on the back of the ticket. The ticket is in a white envelope with Baxter's name written on it.
Item is a ticket to an electro-biology class at an unidentified school. The ticket is printed on thick blue card and Jame Baxter's name is written on the back.
Item is a ticket for a mathematics class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, during the 1860-1861 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxter attended the class and is signed by Thomas McCulloch.
Item is a ticket for a logic class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, during the 1860-1861 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxter took the class from October 10th 1860 to April 10th 1861 and is signed by James Ross.
Item is a ticket to a classics class at Dalhousie College, during the 1863-1864 session. The class was taught by Professor Johnson. James Baxter's name is written on the back of the ticket.
Item is a ticket to a metaphysics, esthetics, and belles-lettres class at Dalhousie College. The class was taught by WIlliam Lyall during the 1863-1864 session. James Baxter's names is written on the back of the ticket.
Item is a notebook used by James Baxter to take notes during lectures on logic delivered by Professor Ross. The lectures took place at the theological seminary in Truro, Nova Scotia between October 15, 1860 and April 10, 1861. The back of the notebook contains the signatures of people who attended the seminary and notes about them added by Baxter.
File includes correspondence with Dean Graham Taylor, Roberta Mazzanati, Tony Farrell (SMU), J. E. Holloway (Spanish), Giulio Molinaro (U of Toronto), Ruba Afani, Suzanne Garnier, Silvia Giuliani regarding the launching of Italian studies at Dalhousie University. Also included are minutes from the French department and a course evaluation for ASSC 1010 - Italian for beginners.
This course analyzed how words and sentences convey meaning in language. Students learn how lexical items can be represented in terms of their semantic components and how interrelated groups of words form semantic fields. At the sentence level, grammatical, pragmatic and logical aspects of meaning are introduced. The course also explored idiomatic expressions and the ubiquity of metaphor.
The course taught by applying concepts such as sources and influences, groupings and affinities, evolution and revolution to a broad range of contributions to linguistic theory, with particular emphasis on the last 150 years. Focusing on Ferdinand de Saussure, Hermann Paul, Hjelmslev, Guillaume, Jakobson, Martinet, and others.
Item is an interview transcript from Katherine McLaren's MEd thesis, The proper education for all classes: compulsory schooling and reform in Nova Scotia, 1890-1930.
Fonds contains materials documenting Brian Hall's research and teaching. Records include awards and notices of awards, correspondence, lecture and class notes, grant information, early zoology schoolwork, publication information, media coverage, seminar materials, photographs, and a reference card system.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on cell death. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as overhead slides, an omissions list, and a references list.
File contains documents relating to awards received by Hall from 2009 - 2010. Materials include awards, invitations, and letters of congratulations. The awards Hall received during this time include the Killam Prize and the induction into the Discovery Centre's Science Hall of Fame. Materials also include one invitation from the University of Calgary received at a later date.
File contains documents relating to Hall's Dalhousie appointments from 1968 - 2016. Materials include correspondence including salary discussions, notices from Dalhousie, reports of Hall's work, applications, narrative account of Hall's career, and applications for sabbatical.
File contains documents relating to Hall's appointment as the George S. Campbell Professor of Biology at Dalhousie from 2001-2007. Materials include Hall's research accomplishments, publications, and sources of financial support, correspondence, letters of appointment, and annual reports of Hall's work.
File contains documents relating to Hall's appointment as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1985. Materials include correspondence, administrative information regarding the Society, and a press release.
File contains documents relating to Hall's honorary degree received from the University of Calgary in 2014. Materials include a photograph of Hall in graduation robes, the 2014 convocation booklet and invitation for June 12, correspondence, a small news feature, and an outline for Hall's speech.
File contains documents relating to Hall's appointments at the University of Western Australia, including Fellow of the Centre for Human Biology and the Raine Visiting Professorship. Materials include correspondence, descriptions of seminars given by Hall from February 15 - May 15, 1993, and seminar posters.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures for his Biology 1000 class. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as lecture outlines.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures for his Biology 3050A class. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as lecture outlines.
