Guelph-Waterloo Anthropology MA Resources

Computing

Guelph

There are a number of facilities which are used for both undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. The college of Social and Applied Human Sciences at Guelph has three micro-computer laboratories to which students and faculty have access for teaching and research purposes. In total these ‘labs’ contain 63 desktops. One of these labs, located in MacKinnon room 125, is designed for Graduate student use. It has Pentiums, internet access and access to printers in MacKinnon, Room 029. Another lab, in MacKinnon 030, which is also an undergraduate lab, is available to graduate students. All of these labs are staffed by graduate students in the college.

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Guelph is assisted by a full-time technical advisor (Janice Hicks), who also provides support for the Department of Political Science. She is in charge of setting up and maintaining its computers and software. This person is available to help both students and faculty with Word Processing, statistical problems and most software/hardware problems. In addition to this support, the Department also benefits from the general expertise of the Computer Services Department. CSS operates a "Help Line" during normal University hours (x5888). While this line is operated by students, they have at their disposal all CSS resources and most problems can be fixed very quickly. Link: Computing and Communications Services (CCS),

Waterloo

There are well equipped computer labs in the Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology building where the Anthropology Department is located and in other buildings across the campus. Access to them is open to anyone with a University of Waterloo account, and many of these facilities are open on a 24-hour basis.

At Waterloo there are several full-time technicians on the Arts Faculty staff who provide assistance to all of the Departments and there are also computer help desks attached to both the Faculty of Arts and the University where students can receive advice and assistance. Link: Arts Computing Office.

Libraries

Students in this joint program may use library resources at both universities. The Library resources of Guelph and Waterloo are already integrated through the tri-University Trellis system. Both universities also provide access to the vital online resources of JSTOR, which contains the archives of 14 anthropology and 10 archaeology journals, as well as archives of other major journals in the social sciences and humanities. Both universities also subscribe to the HRAF online collections, which contain the searchable full-texts of a wide variety of significant anthropological articles and monographs. The Anthrosource journal collection, a compendium of all the journals under the auspices of the American Anthropological Association, has just been added to Waterloo’s resources. At both libraries, study carrels are available for graduate students.

At the Guelph library, there are 400 computers, comprised of 300 desktop workstations and 100 wireless-ready laptops. A student can borrow a laptop from the reserve desk, or use his or her own on the library's wireless network. The UW library has wireless internet access throughout the library, including study carrels and the coffee lounge. There is a computer laboratory within the library designed to accommodate students with a variety of special needs.

Library Homepages: University of Guelph; University of Waterloo

Laboratories

At the University of Waterloo, students will have opportunities to obtain research experiences by working with faculty mentors who maintain archaeology or physical anthropology laboratories for their own research.

Graduate Student Offices

At the University of Waterloo, at present, graduate students have shared office space for 4 terms and must use the space during their TA term. They are not guaranteed office space beyond a 4th term.