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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

dynamic King’s community, with its full slate of student-led social activities, will often keep you close to home.

Our students love the camaraderie and personal growth which come from residence lifee. W gr Wh herever you go on campus, you’ll alwayys run into friends.

You’ll know the faculty and staff, and they’ll know you. It’s an ideal climate for discovering who you are and who you want to become.

Halifax: The place to be If you’re looking for a friendly and vibrant city with lots of young people, come to Halifax.

Eight institutions of higher learning in one place means an abundance of intellectual energy and plenty of fun to be had. Perhaps you’ll spend a Saturdayy morning downtown at the Halifax Farmers’ Market before meeting up wiith friends at one of the city’s many coffee shops. Saturdayy night you might take in a playy or film screening, go dancing or watch your favourite sports team, choices which are all within walking distance of King’s. Just don’t be surprised if you spend more time on campus than not. The

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It’s easy to recognize a King’s student

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King’s is a place where we value and nourish ideas. Discussions flow effortlessly from the tutorial room to the stairwell, across the campus to the dining hall and back out into the quad.

There’s no better environment for developing an analytical eye and an inquiring mind, or for growing as an individual while you explore possibilities. Professors from other institutions say it’s easy to recognize King’s students by the way they apply logic, the way they ask questions, and their writing ability.

Great books. Inquisitive minds. Individualism.

Expansive spirit. Abundant bundant energy. Y You’ll ou’ll find King’s students are as uncommon and individual as the university they love.

The University of King’s g’s College was founded in Windsorr, Nova ova Scotia, in 1789 by Anglican Loyalists who moved to Nova ova Scotia in the wake of the American Revolution. evolution.

At the time of its establishment, it was, with the exception of the 15th century King’s Colleges in Cambridge and Aberdeen, the only foundation of that name in existence.

In 1923, following a disastrous fire in 1920, King’s accepted a generous grant from the Carnegie Foundation and moved to Halifax and into association with Dalhousie Universityy.

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Getting credit(s) If you are an Arts or Journalism student, FYP provides you with the equivalent of four of the five full credits needed for a complete first year.

Dalhousie and King’s Universities recognize

FYP as the equivalent to introductory courses in English, history, philosophy and sociology (except social anthropology). FYP Science is a three-credit version, with a proportionally reduced schedule and workload.

We trace the origins of much of Western European development through the institutions, art, religion and thought of Greece, Rome ome and Israel. The focus is on poetic and philosophical texts.

The Epic of Gilgamesh • The Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Job) • Homer, The Odyssey • Plato, The Republic • Virgil, The Aeneid

political philosophy and literature, the expansion to the world beyond Europe and a new view of nature.

The re-ordering of Christianity is seen through the Reformation and Counter-Reeformation.

Thomas More, Utopia • Machiavelli, The Prince • Montaigne, Essays • Shakspeare, The T Tempest empest and Othello • Marlowe, Drr. Faustus Faustus

We encourage F FY YP students to take their elective credit or credits in subjects other than English, historyy, philosophy and sociologgyy, as it allows more flexibility for upper-level study. Turn to the inside back cover for a complete list of avvailable areas of studyy. We will glad dlly advise you about your options.

Augustine, Confessions • Dante, The Divine Comedy • The Song of Roland Section III: The R Renaissance enaissance and R Reformation eformation

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Section IV: The Age of Reason Beginning with Descartes, we study the development of the modern concepts of freedom, nature and society. Special attention is paid to political theory and natural science in this section.

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy • Rousseau, On the Social Contract • Locke, The Second Treatise of Government • Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysicss of Morals

In this section we examine the foundations of modernity in the break-up of the medieval world. The Renaissance re-ordering of the world is seen through works of art,

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The important thing is to not stop questioning.

of liberalism and socialism relative to the revolutions in political and economic life. This century is seen as marking the transition between the European Enlightenment and the various preoccupations of the 20th century.

The big picture Havving spent an inspiring year in F FY YP, you can now continue your interdisciplinaryy journey by selecting one of King’s three combined honours degree programmes—contemporary studies, early modern studies, and history of science and technologgyy. These programmes give you the flexibility to strengthen and expand your understanding of the development of the Western tradition, while exploring new directions through King’s affiliation with Dalhousie.

Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History • Darwin, The Origin of Sppecies • Robespierre, Virtue and Terror • Mill, On Liberty • Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals Section VI: The Contemporary C o ontemporary World World

Section II: The Middle A Ages ges The main concern of this section is with the development of Christian forms in political, social and intellectual life as these grow in contrast to, and by assimilation of, ancient culture. We attempt to grasp the world of the late Middle Ages through Dante’s Divine Comedy.

The 20th century has given rise to a radical rethinking of various aspects of the European tradition, and a concern for the validity of much that has developed in the West.

For example, you might pair contemporary studies with history and select from courses which include “History of the Modern Middle East in the 20th Century” and “Orientalism and Occidentalism”. Perhaps you’ll match early modern studies with sociology and social

Eliot, The Waste Land • Freud, The New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis • Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex • Beckett, Krrapp’s Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces

anthropology and explore such courses as “People and Cultures of the W World: orld: Selected Area Studies” or “Ethnicity, Nationalism and Race”. Maybe you’ll link history of science and technology and neuroscience.

It’s up to you to pursue the combination that intrigues and challenges you.

You might also choose to build on what King’s and Dalhousie has to offer you by participating in one of close to 60 study abroad programmes.

And the learning never stops. King’s graduates have travelled diverse paths journalism, politics, business, laaw w, education, international development, policy and research, medicine, music, creative writing, acting, and the list goes on. In an ever-changing world you will be secure in knowing you havve the ability to learn, to write, to speak persuasively and with passion, and to be open to change in the light of others’ ideas.

Section V: The Era of Revolutions European culture and society from the French Revolution to World War I is the focus of this section. We endeavour to understand the rise

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Arts students require one elective course to complete their first-year course load.

Journalism students take the Foundations of Journalism course as their fifth course, music students take an applied skills course and science students choose two science courses.

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Western estern Medicine: The Beginnings of W the Birth of the Body Science Fiction in Film The Life, Science and Philosophy of Albert Einstein Feature Writing F eature W riting Courts Canada News Media & the C ourts in C anada Intro to Online Journalism Photojournalism Introduction to Radio Women Tradition W omen and the Documentary T radition * Arts and Science students may apply one full year journalism class toward their degree. Arts, Science and Management students in the Minor in Journalism Studies may apply five full journalism courses toward their degree.

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and here rocks flow more readily than in the rest of the mantle. The The lithosphere therefore “floats� on the underlying asthenosphere base of the asthenosphere is poorly defined but, from observations much as an iceberg floats in the ocean. This is why the dense basaltic of seismic waves, we know it to be about 250 kilometres down. ocean floors are at an average depth of about 4.5 kilometres below How do we know the asthenosphere can flow? In Chapter 1 we sea level, and the less dense continents stand at an average elevation discovered the ups and downs of the Earth’s surface. Such vertical of about 500 metres above sea level. Moreover, as we will see in Chapmovements provide the answer. The mobile nature of at least part ter 2, the lithosphere—the rigid outer shell of the Earth—is broken of the planet’s interior was recognized about ninety years ago from into tectonic plates, with the asthenosphere acting like a lubricating observations of regions such as Hudson Bay and the Baltic Sea, once oil that allows these plates to move. depressed by the weight of ice that accumulated during the last glaciation (Chapter 11). The ice sheet was 2 to 3 kilometres thick and very heavy. Where the weight of an ice sheet pushes down on the lithosphere, the underlying asthenosphere continental crust is displaced. The land or sea floor directly beneath the ice sinks up to several hundred lithosphere metres, and the land beyond the edge of mantle the ice sheet bows up slightly. After the ice melts, the Earth’s surface gradually recovers to its original levels. The process of vertical ere sph uplift and subsidence of the lithosphere in eno asth oceanic response to the addition and removal of crust material at the surface is known as isostasy.

Old, cold lithosphere such as that of the Canadian Shield is still rebounding from the most recent glacial retreat. In contrast, younger lithosphere, such as that under Structure of the outer layers of the Earth in terms of both rock composition (crust versus mantle) and rock strength (lithosphere versus asthenosphere). The latter relationship is the most important when considering plate tectonics (Chapter 2) Canada’s western mountains, has already because the outer, stiff lithosphere, consisting of rigid crust and outermost mantle, forms plates that float on the more fully rebounded.

CHAPTER SUPPORTED BY A DONATION FROM JAMES D. REIMER Without tectonic forces within the Earth’s lithosphere we would not have magnificent mountain ranges such as the Rockies.

This is a view of the Kananaskis Country of southwestern Alberta. RON GARNETT / AIRSCAPES.CA.

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n 1596, following the discovery of the New World and the creation of the earliest reasonably accurate global maps, the Antwerp-born cartographer Abraham Ortelius raised the possibility that continents had not always

been in their present positions. And in 1620, the English scientist Francis Bacon noted that the coastlines of South America and Africa would fit together snugly if the Atlantic were closed. Such ideas stayed in limbo until the early twentieth century, when American geologist Frank Taylor and German meteorologist Alfred Wegener independently suggested that continents had drifted apart. In 1910, Taylor reasoned that mountain ranges such as the Himalayas and the Cordillera resulted from the movement of continents. Wegener began to publish his ideas in

plastic asthenosphere.

1912. In a book published in German in 1915 (and in English in 1924 as The Origin of Continents and Oceans), he argued for the former existence of a single landmass or supercontinent, which he named Pangea. Further, he implied that the modern Atlantic Ocean originated when Pangea broke up. One of Wegener’s most persuasive

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Greenland’s temporary separation from North America began in the Cretaceous.

Between Canada and Greenland today are, from south to north, the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, BaďŹƒn Bay (collectively the Labrador-BaďŹƒn Seaway), and the narrow Nares Strait. It was clear to many early twentieth-century explorers that the two facing coastlines match up like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Even before the concept of continental drift had been generally accepted, several geologists made the case that Greenland on the one side and BaďŹƒn Island and Labrador on the other had drifted apart. They further suggested that Nares Strait was underlain by a transform fault with a left-lateral displacement of about 500 kilometres. Recent research has shown that this scenario is partly correct. About 100 million years ago, a series of rift basins developed, and these ultimately joined to form a late Cretaceous seaway from the Labrador Sea to BaďŹƒn Bay. Once formed, the Greenland Plate rotated away from North America as the Labrador-BaďŹƒn Seaway widened. So far then, early speculations were right. Where they went astray is a topic for the next chapter.

Cretaceous Park

The igneous rocks that form the Monteregian Hills are a source of rare minerals, such as this specimen of orange serandite GSPN .POU 4BJOU )JMBJSF 2VFCFD HELEN TYSON, FROM THE COLLECTION OF HELEN AND ROD TYSON.

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An excavated bone bed in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. DAVID EBERTH.

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Late Cretaceous rocks of the southern Western Interior Plains preserve some of the richest dinosaur assemblages in the world. So many fossils are found there mainly because of the wide range of environments in which the rocks were deposited, including rivers, lakes, swamps, and coastal settings. Much of Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan was then a subtropical coastal plain between the rising Rocky Mountains to the west and the Western Interior Seaway to the east. Over time, sea level uctuated and the shoreline migrated east and west, so particular types of dinosaurs and their habitats also changed. Floods, created by storms or by rivers breaking their banks, covered the landscape with sediment and buried the remains of animals and plants. Some of these remains became the wonderful diversity of fossils that continue to be discovered in the region. Today, much of southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan is a semi-arid grassland with deep river valleys in which poorly vegetated steep slopes and soft bedrock are easily eroded to reveal abundant fossils.

Over 80 dinosaur species are known from the region, from rocks ranging from 80 to 65.5 million years old. Half of these come from an 80-square-kilometre expanse of badlands near Brooks, Alberta, designated as Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There, the great diversity of dinosaurs comes from an even shorter interval that covers only about 1 percent of the roughly 160 million years that dinosaurs existed, but represents about 10 percent of known species. Hundreds of dinosaur specimens have been recovered from the Park, and many of these are displayed in museums around the world. Some of the best are on display at Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, the largest museum in the world dedicated to paleontology.

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bones and teeth of small and large theropods, ankylosaurs (armoured dinosaurs), hadrosaurs, pachycephalosaurs (bipedal, dome-headed dinosaurs), and ceratopsians.

Dinosaur fossils have also been found in southwestern Saskatchewan, the most striking among them a morethan-half-complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, found in the Frenchman Valley. Locally known as Scotty, this dinosaur can be viewed at the T. rex Discovery Centre in Eastend.

The dinosaur fossil treasury of the Western Interior Plains also includes trackways. For example, near the town A skull of the late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur Anchiceratops found between Morrin Bridge and Tolman Bridge in the Red Deer of Grande Cache in west-central AlberValley and now displayed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. COURTESY OF THE ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY. ta, folded rocks preserve thousands of tracks left by dinosaurs as they walked on a muddy shore about One of the most remarkable features within Dinosaur Park 105 million years ago. The footprints tell us that small to large is the Centrosaurus bone bed. Centrosaurus is a herbivorous dinosaurs, birds, and small mammals were all thriving together. horned dinosaur, one of the ceratopsian group, the best known Because the sea flooded the Western Interior Basin from of which is Triceratops. In an area the size of a football field, so time to time, many marine fossils are also known. Marine many ceratopsian bones litter the ground that it is hard to put vertebrate remains have been discovered in oil-sand exposures your foot down without stepping on one. It is estimated that near Fort McMurray in Alberta, including sharks’ teeth and hundreds of Centrosaurus are represented in the bone bed.

Research has shown that the dinosaurs in the bed may have died simultaneously, probably during a flood. The carcasses were feasted upon by meat-eaters such as Albertosaurus, and then the bones were washed around by subsequent floods so that the skeletons were broken up into a dense scattering of bones.

This find suggests that centrosaurs may have gathered, at least from time to time, in large herds.

Dinosaur Park’s story doesn’t end with dinosaurs. It is home to one of the most diverse ancient ecosystems known: aside from 44 dinosaur species, 31 mammal species have been extracted, along with 9 lizards, 13 turtles, 5 amphibians, 2 crocodiles, 2 pterosaurs, 6 birds, and 35 fish. And Dinosaur Park, as remarkable as it is, is by no means the whole paleontological legacy of the Western Interior Plains. For example, at Devil’s Coulee near Warner, Alberta, discoveries from rocks of about the same age as those in Dinosaur Park include several nests containing the eggs of duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) and small meat-eaters (theropods), as well as the bones of unhatched hadrosaur embryos and babies. To the south in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, famous for its rock art and magnificent hoodoos, the rocks contain some of Fossil embryo of the hadrosaur Hypacrosaurus from Devil’s Coulee, Alberta. COURTESY OF the oldest dinosaur body fossils in the province. They include THE ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY.

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Exploring Brain FunctionMental Health Links Around the world, experts increasingly believe that the roots of many psychiatric illnesses and mental health problems in general will be found in brain dysfunction.

Consequently, attempts to deal with psychiatric issues in the absence of understanding how the brain works—and what happens when it fails to function effectively— offer limited possibilities for success. The development of new tools to examine these functions has precipitated a tremendous interest in the neurological underpinnings of behavioural and emotional disorders and their treatment.

Mental health research is growing rapidly within Capital Health. Dr. Stan Kutcher, Chief of the Mental Health Program at Capital Health and Head of Dalhousie’s Department of Psychiatry, points out that from a baseline of almost nil a few years ago, the researchers associated with his department secure over $4 million annually in external funding.

including a magnetic resonance imaging centre, for the study of brain function in health and disease.

Psychiatry already has an active brain imaging program. Investigators are examining children with ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and adults with bipolar disorder and depression, along with a variety of other psychiatric conditions and types of cognitive impairments. Several groups are using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to study structural and chemical changes in the brain for diagnostic and treatment purposes, with a particular focus on differentiating various types of dementias and studying the effects of antidepressant treatments.

Another leading area of research is the bipolar program. A local team has secured major funding to study the role of genetics in bipolar illness. Since the late 1990s they have been collecting samples of genetic material and are compiling a bipolar registry, with the goal of identifying defects that may give rise to bipolar disorder in certain familial lineages and not in others. This line of investigation is expected to promote development of a strategy for better predicting and managing the disease.

Dr. Kutcher anticipates that projects such as these will pave the way for further innovative collaborations for mental health researchers with departments such as Surgery, Radiology, Pharmacology, Neurology, Psychology and Geriatric Medicine.

The Mental Health team has gained a reputation for specific expertise in the fields of psychopharmacology, bipolar disorder, mood disorders and first onset psychotic disorders. A well-equipped sleep lab at the QEII also allows them to play a leading role in circadian and chronobiology treatment and research.

A key characteristic of research in the Mental Health Program and Psychiatry is that it often links closely with research being conducted in other departments, such as Neurology, Pharmacology and Psychology, where basic and clinical research address aspects of brain function. The interactions among investigators with overlapping interests increase and enhance opportunities to strengthen research in psychiatry and mental health disorders. For example, the Dalhousie School of Medicine is a leader in neuroscience, pioneering techniques in therapeutic neurosurgery, neural transplantation and molecular neurobiology. Building on these and other strengths, Dalhousie and Capital Health are currently developing a Brain Repair Centre,

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Focus on Ophthalmology “Full-spectrum” is an appropriate description of a vision research program that ranges from complex molecular investigations of the optic nerve to finding new ways to ensure that a person with diabetes on a small, rural First Nations reserve has access to regular eye screenings.

As far as Dr. Raymond LeBlanc is concerned, building the strongest glaucoma research program in Canada was not enough. Over the last few years as head of Ophthalmology he has significantly expanded the scope of vision health research at the QEII. The glaucoma team has consistently been at the forefront of clinical research in Canada. Currently, there are several major long-term clinical studies looking at a variety of issues in glaucoma patients.

One CIHR-funded study examining ways of detecting progression has led to significant involvement in cutting edge image technology for this investigative group. The Canadian multi-centre Glaucoma Study (directed by the team at the QEII) is looking at factors that contribute to the progression of the disease, and may lead to changes in therapy. Other studies are looking at ocular blood flow and the role of auto-regulation.

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The retina group has main interests in diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. An epidemiological study carried out by this team in Nova Scotia has established that there is a marked deficiency in meeting national standards for vision care and screening for diabetic retinopathy. A pilot study conducted in the summer of 2001, involving a combination of mobile and fixed photographic screening clinics, showed that screening for diabetic retinopathy among persons with diabetes is effective and costefficient. The results of this pilot study will allow a better assessment of the proposed province-wide diabetic retinopathy screening program that is currently being considered by the Department of Health.

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Dr. LeBlanc is extremely pleased to have forged a direct link between The Department of Ophthalmology’s clinical teams and basic research through a program jointly funded by the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation and CIHR. Five full-time PhD scientists (and 20 students) from four different departments make up the core team that is conducting cutting-edge research at the cellular level, examining how cellular mechanisms of the optic nerve and retina interact. This work will have major implications for understanding conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy and developing new treatments for these conditions. Such collaborations will also help expand the opportunities for vision health research in the newly created Brain Repair Centre.

The vision health team’s involvement in clinical research has expanded to health outcomes and health delivery models as well.

The department has spearheaded a working group of ophthalmologists, family physicians, and optometrists that has looked at patientcentered models for the delivery of vision care. This unique approach, which recognizes that many vision care professionals have an extremely important role to play in the delivery of health care services, is being considered as a template in other parts of the country.

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P R O F E S S I O N A L’ S G U I D E

Career Crafting the Decade After High School

degree and trying, unsuccessfully, to find work in the field that appealed to her.

Recently she had become interested in working with animals and wanted to explore that option to see if it might be more meaningful. She said that it wasn’t as easy since getting married: “I have to be more calculated about exploring and go about it more intentionally. The question is, given my responsibilities, how can I satisfy my curiosity?”

Family responsibilities also influenced participants’ decisions to settle for the work situations they were in.

Rebecca explained the connection between her father’s death and her decision to settle for a job she didn’t particularly like:

Some participants felt that, once they took on family responsibilities, the time for exploring their options was beginning to run out. Maggie had spent much of the preceding decade in exploration, by taking a social work

When my father really became sick, I returned home.

I would never consider that an obstacle. It was a huge learning experience for me and something I’ll never regret. I decided to stay home after that to be close to my mom. That’s why I’m still here: to help her and support each other. Because of that, I took a job which sort of relies on previous skills. I’d already decided that I didn’t want to be in the field that I am currently in, but I fell back on that because it was a good job. I know it’s sort of settling for the time being, but for the right reasons.

Shifting Places I think drifting and exploring for awhile and then navigating is cool.

Kind of like getting thrown off a ship. You drift for awhile and then think this is getting a little boring so maybe I’ll swim this way for a little bit.

Then you’re like, it’s definitely this way and you swim to shore.

S Colin, a 26-year-old from Halifax The previous three chapters described the process by which participants found a place and the influencing factors that impacted on their career journeys. For the sake of clarity, the strategies and factors were discussed primarily in isolation of one another. By doing so, there is a danger of losing the most important finding of the study: the strategies and influences interacted with and informed one another in complex and unpredictable ways.

In this chapter, a case study is presented that illustrates how one participant moved back and forth between strategies and was influenced by different factors to varying degrees at different points along her journey.

Drifting Megan had “no dreams, no goals, and no plans” when she graduated from high school. Her school years were difficult: she was bullied emotionally and physically and she did poorly academically. She had no friends and was “socially handicapped” when she graduated. Megan’s experience in school left her with little confidence: she didn’t believe she was capable of doing anything beyond working on a road crew or an assembly line.

One of the few positive things Megan had in her life during high school was the emotional support of her mother and step-father. As she put it, they “built me up after I would come home everyday in a puddle” and constantly told her not to “let ‘them’ win.”

Megan hadn’t planned on pursuing post-secondary education because of her poor high school marks and lack of

confidence. However, her mother was adamant that she acquire skills that would make her self-sufficient.

Megan had no idea what interested her, so her mother decided that a computer technician program would be a fit with her personality. Her mother took matters into her own hands, phoning and going to the local college to get her registered. There was a waiting list, but her mother persuaded the college to accept her and paid the tuition.

Megan wasn’t particularly interested in the program, nor did she think she was capable of doing it. She agreed, however, to give it a try because she believed that there were no other options open to her.

Upon graduation, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I thought about going back to high school for a year, but my mother said “you’ve got to do something.” My mother managed to get me into a program

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before we can act has it backward.10 Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Ibarra contends that, because so many new ideas and bits of information surface once people get moving, that spending too much time upfront figuring out “the plan” wastes energy. She advises people in the midst of a career decision to get out of their heads and begin to take action (test-andlearn rather than plan-and-implement).

Given the tenacity of the Career Myth, it’s not surprising that this attitude dominates the public’s thinking about the school-towork transition. If young people and their parents believe that career pathways are supposed to be linear and unchanging, it follows that they would presume that it’s possible to be matched with a suitable career.

Moreover, career counselling approaches that emphasize certainty and promise neat answers are attractive to people who are rattled by the uncertainties and complexities of life. Little wonder then that young people want (and expect) counsellors to give them the answers. Career professionals themselves perpetuate the belief that young people can be matched with certainty to occupations when their primary intervention is to administer a battery of career inventories.2 This is not to say that we need to jettison the interest inventories, values exercises, and skills and aptitude assessments that are in most career professionals’ tool boxes. But we do need to reconsider how we think and talk about uncertainty and change with the young adults we work with. The same could be said for clients of all ages, but it’s particularly important for those of us who work with young adults because unpredictability and change is a defining feature of the early stages of their career journey.

The challenge for career professionals is to find a viable alternative to the Career Myth. What do we offer young people, if not the mythic idea of security and certainty?

We need to help young people accept that there will be a certain amount of disorder in their career journeys, at the same time encouraging them to look for the underlying patterns and themes that are expressed through their interests, values, and preferences.

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Recent decades have seen strides in the development of career counselling approaches that embrace unpredictability and change rather than trying to keep them in check through attempts to develop long-term career plans. Major contributions that support this new line of chaos-friendly approaches include: • H.B. Gelatt who gave us the term “positive uncertainty” and who suggests that people should head off in the direction of their career goals while staying open to the possibility that they will change their minds on the basis of new information or as circumstances change.3

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Collectively, these chaos-friendly approaches normalize the convolutions that characterize young people’s career journeys. They make it clear that long-term plans don’t make a lot of sense when there are so many wild cards that can profoundly impact on what happens. At the same time, they emphasize the need for young people to take action even as they wade into the sea of uncertainty.

• John Krumboltz who maintains that career development, at core, is a learning process and that emphasizing the next step as opposed to the final destination will do much to alleviate the anxiety many people experience.4 Along with two colleagues, Krumboltz also highlights the role of happenstance in people’s careers and recommends that people create their own luck by strategically doing things that increase the chances that positive unexpected events will occur.5 • Danielle Riverin-Simard who offers the idea that vocational identity provides hidden order to people’s seemingly disordered career journeys in that a person’s identity may change over time, but not generally in dramatic ways.6 • Robert Pryor and Jim Bright whose Chaos Theory of Careers suggests that people’s careers constitute a complex system in which many factors impact on one another in intricate ways which, in turn, lead to unpredictable outcomes.7 They emphasize the impact of the “butterfly effect” that is characteristic of complex systems which means that a small incident (such as a chance encounter) can produce a large variation in the outcome (such as entering a career field not previously considered).8 • Katharine Brooks who further operationalizes the use of chaos and complexity theory in career counselling with the development of her “Wise Wandering” coaching system.9 She advocates for “experimental wandering” and “intention setting” which increases the chances that positive unforeseen opportunities will be noticed.

• Herminia Ibarra who argues that the conventional wisdom that we must first know what we want to do

The strength of more traditional approaches is the emphasis they place on identifying people’s vocational personality which can provide a compass to guide young adults’ decision making and thereby lessen the chances they run aground.

Marrying the strengths of both approaches allows counsellors to help young people embrace the vicissitudes of their career journeys while still providing a means by which they can recognize what’s discernible in their lives that can guide them as they proceed.

Career Crafting Techniques The results of this study highlight the importance of normalizing unpredictability and change in the school-towork transition and providing young people with tools to work more effectively with this reality.

In the pages that follow, a series of strategies called Career Crafting Techniques is presented. These techniques counsel young people to recognize the need to take action in the face of uncertainty rather than spend too much time and energy trying to “figure things out.” In taking action, young people learn about themselves and make it more likely that positive unplanned events will occur that lead them to satisfying work.

From the work of Gray Poehnell and Norm Amundson, the term “crafting” was intentionally chosen as an alternative to the more traditional words, planning, management, or decision making.11 Crafting removes the inference that one can predict and control the future and emphasizes the uniqueness of individuals’ career journeys,

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as well as the proactive notions of practicing, doing over, mastering, and creating as they go along. The idea of crafting is in line with the reality that most young people construct their careers from the opportunities that are available to them rather than choosing a career pathway.12 Woven through the Career Crafting Techniques are the recurring themes of “Doing” and “Reflecting” on what’s next. All too often, young people do one without the other. Those who do without reflecting rush around doing education and career-related things in a frantic haphazard way. By doing so, they often fail to take full advantage of the opportunity for learning about themselves and the possibilities that are available.

Those who reflect without doing try to think their way to satisfying career decisions and never venture out to test the suitability of their choices. For many, it becomes a case of, “the more I think about it, the more confused and frustrated I get.” Then, when their choices don’t work, they are left feeling even more baffled and anxious.

The Career Crafting Techniques offer a way for service providers to integrate chaos-friendly career counselling approaches into their existing practice. They allow the career professional to retain many of the tools and processes they are accustomed to using while strengthening their utility. By shifting the focus from determining a goal and mapping a plan, these techniques allow the

Career Crafting Techniques DOING Know that it will be a journey Actively look for what sparks your interest Develop a “shopping list” to guide your journey Experiment with intent Create your own “lucky breaks” Take another step Plan with a pencil Do what you love somewhere in your life

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902-405-8480 • fax 902-405-8482 • quigleyslanding@eastlink.ca

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902-426-2373 • www.bio.gc.ca

Tammy Rehberg. 1531 Shore Rd. Tourist Home: 8 oceanview rooms (Q; 4 with balcony), 4-pc bath, mini-fridge. Light breakfast. Heritage-style house in fishing village; glassed-in breakfast area; pvt dock. Rates STC; cots $25; O/S rates. Year-round.

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2 Ochterloney St. GPS 44.66502, -63.57026. Cultural and performing arts centre with outdoor event plaza. Visual art gallery, weekend farmers’ and craft market, marina, and harbourside park. Admission charged for events. Year-round.

902-465-3455 • 866-725-3455 • fax 902-406-4988 • fishermansinn@eastlink.ca • www.theinnatfishermanscove.com

Halifax Metro Area

Uniacke Estate Museum Park 902-866-0032 • fax 902-866-2560 • viebahwi@gov.ns.ca • uniacke.museum.gov.ns.ca

15 Fort Sackville Rd. Dutch Colonial mansion (c 1770) with gambrel roof, hand-hewn beams, wishbone chimneys. Permanent and weekly exhibits, family histories, local history & archaeology, photos, summer events. Barrier-free on ground floor. Admission free. Jul 1–Aug 30, daily; tea room 2–4pm.

Albert & Mary Conrod. 25 Lighthouse Lane. GPS 44.60090, -63.46259. B&B: 3 rooms (Q): 4-pc bath, ceiling fan. Full breakfast. Games room, propane fireplace, pool table, CBTV. Boat charters arranged. Rates GTD; packages; O/S rates. Year-round.

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902-832-2336 • scott.manor@ns.sympatico.ca • www.scottmanorhouse.ca

Geena Gador. 98 Ridding Rd. B&B: 2 rooms (Q,S), 4-pc baths; 2-room family unit available. Light breakfast. Oceanview home.

Laundry facilities available. Off-street parking. Multiple-cat household. Rates STC; family unit $129; O/S rates. Year-round.

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902-434-6223 • 800-465-0767 • fax 902-434-2306 • contact@bccns.com • www.bccns.com

10 Cherry Brook Rd. Exhibits and displays on Black migration, settlements, and communities, telling the story of one of Nova Scotia’s founding cultures, dating back to the early 1700s. Also contemporary African Nova Scotian and African Canadian history. Admission: adult $6. Jun 2–Oct 4.

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30 John Brenton Dr. Campground with lake access, within the city. 1 yurt. Wood, ice. Supervised beach, tennis, walking trails. 24-hr staff. Rates STC; 48-hr CXL. May 11–Oct 14, STC.

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33 Sackville Dr. Documents, photos, garments, tools and artifacts of 19th-century Sackville; cooper and blacksmith shops (wheelchair-accessible); gardens; nature trails; Veterans Memorial Cenotaph. Tuesday teas; special events. Admission free. Jul 1–Aug 31, 10am–5pm daily (STC).

902-407-2002 • geenagador@gmail.com • catwalkbedandbreakfast.com

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Hammonds Atlantic Playland W Plains 902-865-1025 • www.playland.ns.ca 1200 Lucasville Rd. GPS 44.74162, -63.74722. Fun for the entire family: water slides, mini-golf, go-carts, batting cages, bumper cars & boats, rides, gravity house, arcade games. Corporate picnic area. Pay-as-you-go or bracelets; group rates. Jun 14–Sep 1, 11am–6pm daily; haunted castle in Oct.

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758 Hwy 1. GPS 44.90168, -63.84460. Grand country mansion (c 1815) of Attorney General Richard John Uniacke; original Georgian furnishings, portraits, ceramics. Walking trails (maps available). Admission charged (house only). Jun 1–Oct 4, STC; trails year-round, dawn to dusk.

902-443-1576 • 877-515-0551 • fax 902-445-6348 • wedgewoodmotel@hotmail.com • www.wedgewoodmotel.ca

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2463 Rocky Lake Dr. Gold mining artifacts, school pictures, archival records, sport records, stamp-mill model and blacksmith tools. Located in a former church built with naval construction techniques, giving the impression of an upside-down ship’s hull. Admission free. Jun 1–Aug 31.

902-422-1271, ext 106 • fax 902-423-3357 • conferences@ukings.ca • ukings.ca/conference-services

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902-861-1463 • waverleyheritagemuseum@gmail.com • waverleycommunity.ca/?page_id=1671

101 Yorkshire Ave Ext, Dartmouth. Hotel: 75 units (K,Q,S; incl 38 suites): 4-pc bath, DVD, fridge; 2 TVs, wet bar, microwave in suites. Complimentary breakfast, use of fitness room & business centre, parking. Rates GTD; F(17). Year-round.

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20 Sky Blvd. Atlantic Canada’s aviation history, from the first heavier-than-air flight in the British Commonwealth, the Silver Dart, to jet aircraft of the ’60s, ’70s & ’80s: photos, uniforms, medals, aircraft engines, weapons, 24 vintage aircraft. $5 donation suggested. May 15–Oct 1, daily.

902-465-4000 • 800-578-7878 • guestservices@travelodgedartmouth.com • www.travelodgedartmouth.com

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Joan Robillard. 1394 Edward St, Halifax. B&B: 2 rooms (Q), 4-pc bath; 1-bdrm H loft (D), 3-pc bath (S). Light breakfast 8:30am.

Charming Victorian home in quiet residential area, close to downtown amenities, university, parks. Rates STC. Year-round.

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This category includes national parks, historic sites, museums, and other attractions. See also listings under Galleries, Shops, Artists and Artisans; Outdoors; and Trails. Please be aware that GPS co-ordinates referenced in the listings may not be exact. For a key to symbols and codes, see p. 3.

5795 Africville Rd. Africville, a 150-year-old African Nova Scotian community, was destroyed in the 1960s. Audiovisual kiosks, pictures, descriptive panels, and artifacts in a replica of the church celebrate the community. Adult: $3.50. Year-round, Jun 1–Oct 15 Tue–Sun, O/S Tue–Fri.

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902-455-1474 • 877-612-1820 • keiths.brewery@gmail.com

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1496 Lower Water St. Animators in period costume and character bring 1863 Halifax to life in story and song as they lead guests through one of the oldest breweries in Canada, in a massive stone building (c 1820); 1-hr tours. Admission: adult $21. Year-round, call for tour times.

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Halifax Citadel. An extensive collection of Nova Scotian militaria, including uniforms, decorations, edged weapons and firearms. May 7–Oct 31, also Nov. 11.

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The Verandah Bed & Breakfast 902-494-9500 • www.theverandahbb.com

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