Mobility, Society, and Governance in North America
Montreal, Canada
Transportation and Travel
The program fees include a round-trip air ticket from a major airport near the student's home town to Montreal.
Housing and Meals
The Service des résidences provides full-time students with the opportunity to be housed on the Université de Montréal campus during the school year. Single- and double-occupancy accommodations are available, as well as rooms adapted to the needs of handicapped people. Rooms are available to students who want them during the summer, and to anyone else looking for a place to live in Montréal at this time of year. Rates are very reasonable.
The Logement hors campus Office (Off-campus Housing) maintains an up-to-date database of off-campus lodging, apartments, and rooms available in the university neighbourhood, and in neighbourhoods that are easily reached by bus or metro. The data can be consulted, on-site only, by any university student wishing to rent, share, or sub-let a lodging. In addition, the Bureau keeps the student population informed about issues affecting housing, such as leases, landlord relations, and sub-letting terms.
Students will prepare their own meals, or buy them in the campus cafeteria or nearby restaurants. The University of Notre Dame will provide a stipend for this purpose.
Cultural and Recreational Opportunities
Inaugurated in 1976 in the context of the Olympic Games, the UdeM's sports centre, CEPSUM, is composed of major installations: 5 racquetball courts that can be converted for handball, 6 squash courts, 12 badminton courts, 3 indoor tennis courts, an Olympic-size pool, a diving pool, an indoor racetrack, an indoor climbing wall, a skating rink, a fencing hall, a training area with weight training and cardiovascular equipment, gymnasiums for team sports, dance studios, combat rooms, saunas, whirlpools, and much more. The university also fields competitive teams in the following sports: ski, golf, tennis, swimming, badminton, women's and men's volleyball.
The Service des activités culturelles (SAC) contributes to cultural life on campus through training, experimentation, and shows. Some 90 workshops are offered to students in the visual arts, theatre, photography, music, video, dance, and many other fields of culture. The SAC also gives students concrete experience in the arts: its choirs and musical groups, theatre and dance troupes, and photo and video editing laboratories encourage a real and dynamic artistic practice. Lastly, the cultural soul of the SAC is expressed through its presentation activities, concerts, film screenings, and theatre productions throughout the year.
The university's Faculté de musique is also a locus of artistic activity and creation. Approximately 400 concerts are held per year, from student recitals to performances by the orchestra, the choir, the opera workshop, the gamelan ensemble, as well as electroacoustic events, along with shows by various chamber music, traditional, contemporary, and jazz groups. The faculty also hosts two internationally renowned resident ensembles, the Quatuor Alcan and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.
The Université de Montréal recently acquired an exhibition centre, which differentiates itself from other such centres by its mission: "to make known the contribution of university knowledge to the revitalization and development of our collective heritage." In addition, the content of the exhibitions aims to create synergy between two disciplines that are too often placed in opposition to each other: arts and science.
UdeM students also operate a radio station, CISM, which can be heard everywhere in Greater Montreal, and which is broadcast over the Internet. They also publish a newspaper, Quartier libre.
Health Care & Insurance
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