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SUMMER 2010 MINI
COURSES
COURSES RUN TWICE A WEEK FOR THE MONTH OF MAY*
*Excluding Middle Eastern Cooking, Sign
Language and workshops
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REGISTRATION
DATES
April
19
4:00-7:00pm – Lev Bukhman (2nd Floor – 3480 McTavish)
April
20
4:00-7:00pm – 433A (4th
Floor – 3480 McTavish)
April
21-23
4:00-7:00pm – Lev Bukhman (2nd Floor – 3480 McTavish)
LATE REGISTRATION ($5 EXTRA PER COURSE)
April
26
3:00-7:00pm – Lev Bukhman (2nd Floor – 3480 McTavish)
April
27
3:00-7:00pm – 433A (4th
Floor – 3480 McTavish)
April
28
3:00-7:00pm – Lev Bukhman (2nd Floor – 3480 McTavish)
CLICK HERE FOR THE COURSE LIST!
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OVER 20 DIFFERENT COURSES & WORKSHOPS!
THERE’S SOMETHING
FOR EVERYONE!
Please note: Mini
Courses reserves the right to cancel courses due to low enrolment.
For information on
our refund policy, click here.
Where are the classes?
(click on the location to see a map)
Ballroom
Third Floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish),
right in front of the stairs
B29/B30
Basement of Shatner Building (3480 McTavish):
Go downstairs, turn left, pass the elevators, and follow
the sign that says 'B29 and
B30'
Kitchen
Third floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish)
beside the Ballroom (room 304)
Master School of Bartending
1010 Sherbrooke
West
Lev Bukhman
Second floor of Shatner Building (3480 McTavish)
Should I take a Beginner or
Intermediate language course?
Beginner classes imply NO prior knowledge of the skill.
Intermediate classes imply some prior knowledge of the skill (either
through school or Mini Courses)
and a fair amount of comfort with the skill.
(click on the course for more information)
ARTS: Guitar Beginner, Painting, Photography Workshop
DANCING: Ballroom, Bollywood, Hip Hop
Beginner, Salsa Beginner
EATING &
DRINKING: Bartending (non-certification), Middle Eastern Cooking, Wine Tasting
EDUCATION: Public Speaking Workshop, Speed Reading
LANGUAGES: Arabic Beginner, Mastering Your English, French Beginner, French Intermediate, French Conversation,
Mandarin Beginner, Sign Language, Spanish Beginner
FITNESS &
HEALTH: Kick Boxing, Yoga, Zumba
PICKING A COURSE BASED ON WHEN IT IS?
SEE BELOW FOR FULL DETAILS
(Time, Location, Instructor, Price,
Description*)
*if available
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ARTS
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GUITAR BEGINNER
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 4:00-5:30pm – room B30
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Denis
Chang
$45
Have you always wanted to master this instrument
but never got the chance? Bought a guitar, but ditched the idea when you
saw the price of private lessons? Our extremely popular Guitar class is
the solution – here’s your chance to learn all those popular songs that
you love to sing to. Get your roommate’s guitar and learn to play at a
fraction of the price of private lessons!
Materials to bring: Guitar
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PAINTING
Tuesdays & Thursdays
– 7:00-8:30pm – B30
May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
Instructor: Ryan Leonoras
$45
This class focuses on improving drawing and painting skills by studying techniques such as perspective and colour use.
Each session is about learning and applying these techniques so that you can create your work as you envision it.
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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
(ONE-DAY)
May 15 – 1:00-5:00pm –
Mount Royal Park
One-day course
Instructor: Loretta
Stephens
$60
Only use your digital camera to update your Facebook
profile picture? This one-day class will teach you how to use all those
fancy functions on your digital camera and give you some great
opportunities to show off your newfound skills.
In this workshop, you will learn the basics of
artistic photography, specifically how to view your subjects
in an artistic manner and shoot them accordingly.
This workshop will be on shooting outside. Our
subject will be nature and landscape photography.
I will show you how you can take some fine art images of the everyday
scenes that you see in nature.
This workshop is primarily for the novice photographer, but people with
intermediate knowledge are welcomed as well.
Materials to bring: Digital camera (DSLR or other) and manual
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DANCING
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BALLROOM
Tuesdays & Thursdays
– 6:00-7:30pm – Ballroom
May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
Instructor: Linda Chou
$45
Add a new dimension to your life! Enhance your
appreciation of music and awaken your dancing genes. Ballroom dancing is
not only fun, it is a great way to get active and meet people (no partner
required!).
It is a wonderful stress reliever – exactly what
the professor ordered.
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BOLLYWOOD DANCE
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 5:00-6:30pm – Ballroom
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Trisha Pathak
$45
Be a part of the world's fastest growing dance
craze. If you thought Slumdog
Millionaire was a blast, wait until you see the kinds of moves you
will be busting out once you have had a taste of Bollywood. It is fusion
at its best: shades of Bhangra, Classical
Indian and Hip-Hop all thrown into one dance. We'll introduce you to the
basic moves and beats in contemporary Indian dance and then help you
master one dance every 90-minute weekly class It is the most fun-filled
way to stay fit.
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HIP HOP BEGINNER
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 6:30-8:00pm – Ballroom
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Urban
Groove
$45
Be part of the rich culture that is hip-hop! The
class will focus on technique and musicality as well as developing
freestyle confidence in a wide variety of hip-hop styles, including
popping, bboying / bgirling,
locking, vogueing/wacking,
and West Coast new school. This class is designed for beginner to
intermediate dancers with any or no dance background.
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SALSA BEGINNER
Tuesdays & Thursdays
– 7:30-9:00pm – Ballroom
May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
Instructor: Giselle Boukhaled
$45
Mambo fever swept the US back in the 50s and 60s
creating music at the time that was so revolutionary that much of it remains
popular today. In the late 1960’s, the music and dance took a quiet
transformation
and resurfaced as Salsa in the 90s.
In this course, we will pass on to you the
spirit of salsa and teach you everything you need to find yourself moving
on the dance floor. No experience is required.
Just bring your smile and a sense of humour as
we are looking to have a very social class!
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EATING & DRINKING
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BARTENDING WORKSHOP
(NON-CERTIFICATION)
(TWO-DAY)
May 21 & 28 –
6:00pm–9:00pm – Master’s School of Bartending
Instructor: Master’s School
of Bartending
$70
Think your drinks could use a bit more
creativity? Be the best host around with this newfound skill. During this
amazing-value class, you will familiarize yourself with shaking,
equipment set up, fruits and garnishes, glassware and of course
preparation (and tasting!) of various classic cocktails and drinks. This
is meant to be an introductory bartending course – you will not receive
an official certificate for having participated.
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MIDDLE EASTERN COOKING
Mondays – 6:00-8:00pm
– Midnight Kitchen
May 3, 10, 17, 31
Instructor: Nadia Helal
$70
Ever wonder how sultans, princes of Persia and Cleopatras eat? The genie has granted your wish.
Discover the marvels of Middle Eastern cuisine and experience the delights of this great ancient civilization.
Recipes for salads, soups and dips are just the tip of the desert.
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WINE TASTING WORKSHOP
(ONE-DAY)
May 14 – 6:00-9:00pm –
Master’s School of Bartending
One-day course
Instructor: Master’s School of Bartending
$60
Feel helpless when a sommelier has you sample
your bottle of wine at a restaurant? Here is your chance to learn why you
swirl, what to smell for, and where the best wines of the world come
from. Taught at the Masters School of Bartending, enjoy our 3-hour course
taught by an experienced sommelier. And don’t worry; you’ll get to taste
the wines as well.
What better way to spend a Friday evening?
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EDUCATION
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PUBLIC SPEAKING
WORKSHOP
(TWO-DAY)
May 8 & 9 – 10:00am-2:00pm
– B30
Instructor: Ryan
Cunningham
$60
Want
to ace that next class presentation? Learn the Dos and the DO NOTs of public speaking.
For those among you who feel nervous speaking
in front of crowds or those who want to sharpen their public speaking
skills, this course is for you.
Learn how to engage your audience, your
personal presenting style, and how to effectively use a PowerPoint so
that your presentation is more than your slides.
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SPEED READING
WORKSHOP
(ONE-DAY)
May 8 – 9:30am–4:30pm
– B29
One-day course
Instructor: Steve
Harris
$60
Run
by the Harris Institute, this extremely popular speed-reading course is again
being offered through Mini Courses. The one-day class always gets rave
reviews and regularly has students improving 50-150% in reading speed,
while also helping them improve comprehension and retention.
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LANGUAGES
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ARABIC BEGINNER
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 7:30-9:00pm – B29
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Essam Hallak
$45
This course in modern Arabic is designed
for non-Arabic-speaking students who have no knowledge whatsoever of
Arabic. The course focuses on standard Arabic: the phonology, the script
of literary Arabic, proper pronunciation, and elementary
vocabulary/writing expressions.
Students will be familiarized with some aspects
of Arab cultures in relation to Arabic language.
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MASTERING YOUR ENGLISH
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 7:00-8:30pm – B30
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Mitchell
Miller
$45
Are you a student whose essays’
winning content is being hampered by grammar and syntax mistakes?
Are you an intermediate ESL speaker
who wants to perfect their mastery of the English language?
Are you someone who wants to finally
master when to use that fancy semicolon or the enigmatic “whom”?
Then the “Mastering Your English” Mini
Course is for you! Taught by a certified English teacher, the course
will, in part, focus on enriched vocabulary; sentence structure; grammatical
form and function; rhetoric and figures of speech; and identification,
analysis and correction of common errors made in English. Moreover, the
course will be very open to different topics and concepts on which students
want to improve and about which students want to learn. The course will
be taught using different activities, multimedia tools and group work.
Emphasis is on enriching and
perfecting your English. This is not a course for people with no English
background.
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FRENCH I: BEGINNER
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 4:30-6:00pm – B29
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
FRENCH II: INTERMEDIATE
Tuesdays & Thursdays
– 4:00-5:30pm – B30
May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
FRENCH III: CONVERSATION
Tuesdays & Thursdays
– 5:30-7:00pm – B30
May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
Instructor: Christophe
Chenier
TO FIND OUT WHICH LEVEL YOU ARE BEST SUITED FOR,
PLEASE READ THE FRENCH
MINI COURSE REGISTRATION GUIDE
$45
Want to travel to France but can't speak the language?
Or are you just having trouble getting around outside the McGill Bubble?
Get a grip on all the French you need to get around in any Francophone
city around the world. The beginner’s class is a complete introduction to
the course, while intermediate is for students who still remember their
high school French. Do you already understand the majority of everything
you hear but just want to practice speaking? Then take advantage of our
French Conversation course to maximize your speaking practice.
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MANDARIN BEGINNER
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 5:30-7:00pm – B30
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Sharon Shao
$45
Mandarin is the official language for China’s
estimated 1.3 billion citizens. Moreover, China is now Canada’s
second-largest trading partner after the U.S.
After 30 hours, students will be able to carry
on a simple conversation in terms of greetings, inquiring time (numbers,
time, and date), sending invitations, ordering Chinese food, shopping in
China, asking about a place, making a phone call, asking about weather,
and more.
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SIGN LANGUAGE
Mondays – 3:00-5:00pm
– Ballroom
May 3, 10, 17, 31
Instructor: Nadia Helal
$45
Hands can be used for a lot more than texting and changing channels. Explore a unique and fascinating new form
of non-verbal communication. Learn the alphabet, numbers and more while immersing yourself
in a culture that may not be very vocal, but one definitely worth hearing.
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SPANISH BEGINNER
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 6:00-7:30pm – B29
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Ray Dawar
$45
Need to brush up the Spanish skills for your
next vacation to Mexico or Spain? Our teacher will make sure you fall in
love with the Spanish Language and Culture! This class is perfect for
those with very little to no knowledge of Spanish. While the course has
both oral and grammatical components, the focus will be on introductory
conversation skills. ¡Es excelente!
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FITNESS & HEALTH
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KICK BOXING
Tuesdays & Thursdays
– 5:00-6:00pm – Ballroom
May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
Instructor: Ricky Lew
$50
This course offers a unique opportunity to be
introduced to the dynamic techniques of kickboxing, to learn a practical
mean of self-defence and to workout a complete
regimen of physical conditioning. Footwork, kicks, flying-kicks, punches,
spinning-punches, blocking and weaving techniques are all taught.
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YOGA
Tuesdays & Thursdays
– 4:00-5:00pm – Ballroom
May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27
Instructor: Lawrence Lefcort
$45
Yoga is an ancient
practice dating back some 2500 years. It aims to unite body and spirit,
matter and heart in order to provide greater clarity in living and peace
of mind. In this course we will explore these concepts through asana
(postures), meditation and experiential practices that will show us how
the state of our heart mind
directly affects us and those
around us.
If you are interested in spiritual growth and living with greater ease
and clarity, this course if for you...
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ZUMBA
Mondays &
Wednesdays – 8:00-9:00pm – B29
May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17,
19, 26, 31
Instructor: Lina Barreto
$45
The Zumba® program
fuses salsa, reggeaton, bachata,
belly dancing, flamenco, cha cha, hip hop, merengue,
cumbia, mapale.... to
create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away.
You will achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast
in one exciting hour of calorie-burning,
body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements. Ditch the boring workout and join
the Party!!!
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Please note that the schedule (what day of the
week/what time/what location/what instructor/what dates/what price) is always
tentative until registration begins.
Mini
Courses retains the right to cancel a course due to low registration and
refund the students.
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