My first week at UdeM
It’s Saturday, 7 a.m., and I’m still finishing the reading I was supposed to have mastered by Tuesday. This term, according to our instructors, we have the courses with the heaviest content and workload:
1️⃣ Droit fédéral : Statut réfugié et personne à protéger
2️⃣ Droit fédéral : sélection du résident permanent
3️⃣ Droit fédéral : sélection du résident temporaire
4️⃣ Droit canadien : immigration et citoyenneté
5️⃣ Droit fédéral : Catégorie du regroupement familial
Studying seems quite unusual so far, since the format is very different from what I am used to. When I studied at university and graduate school, everything was based on lectures, where the material was discussed in detail. Here, most of the work is assigned to independent study, and in classes only complex and special cases from practice are dealt with. Teachers are highly qualified specialists with many years of experience, and what is especially valuable is that they share practical knowledge, not theory.
Although you can sometimes skip classes and watch recordings of them for several days, you still want to attend them. Despite physical fatigue, you can learn a lot of useful things from them if you listen carefully. Many of the situations that are discussed there will definitely be encountered in practice in the future, and this experience is invaluable. It may not always be possible to understand everything at once, but I am sure that over time the information will be useful to me, so I write it down.
Gradually, the volume of material that needed to be processed every week emerged. Fortunately, thanks to my work, I have learned to work effectively with texts: I can read diagonally, between lines and in different languages, and this helps me out a lot. Thanks to these skills, I have time to absorb and assimilate more.
Practical work, group assignments and tests in each subject are ahead.
Finally, I want to answer a question that many have asked me: after graduating from university, will I be able to work not only in Quebec, but also in other provinces?
⚠️Yes, of course! There are currently only two programs to train counselors, and one of them is the one I am currently studying in at the University of Montreal. It covers both the federal level and each province separately. The training takes place in French, but the documents are all duplicated and I read them in two languages to be aware of the terminology.
The license to be obtained after completing the training will give the right to work with all provinces, as well as at the federal level.
So, there are no serious restrictions here. Yes, there are certain nuances when working with individual provinces, but that’s a completely different story.
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