Full-time M.A. students in the Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies program receive a minimum funding package comprised of Research Awards and Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA). All applicants are also automatically considered for relevant Frost Centre scholarships such as the Leslie Frost Entrance Scholarship.

We encourage all applicants to apply for external scholarships provided through national granting agencies such as SSHRC, OGS, and the Trudeau Foundation. For students hoping to enter the M.A. program, applications to both SSHRC and OGS should be completed in the fall of your final undergraduate year. For those entering their first year of M.A. studies, SSHRC and OGS applications are made in the fall of the first year at Trent. The Graduate Studies office alerts students to these scholarship deadlines and coordinates their submissions. For information about other scholarship opportunities, including those by the Trudeau Foundation, please visit Graduate Scholarships.

M. A. students in our Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Program at Trent have an enviable success rate in winning scholarships.  Below are the number of our students who have received SSHRC, OGS, and other external scholarships in 2007-8:

                      2 - OGS

                      2 - SSHRC CGS

                      1 - CIHR

For more information about funding and financial aid please visit:
http://www.trentu.ca/graduatestudies/financialsupport.php

Graduate Teaching Assistantships

Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies M.A. students GTAs typically help with undergraduate course instruction in the Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies departments. GTAs may lead seminar groups in courses in Canadian Studies, Indigenous Studies, and other associated departments and programs, or do marking. GTA work commitments are limited to a maximum of 10 hours per week.

Graduate students find these GTA assignments useful in several respects: for those interested in pursuing further graduate studies, TAing provides exposure to the stimulation and challenges of university teaching. TAing also broadens contact with the larger Trent community, offering opportunities to meet faculty, staff, and students, and to become engaged with the larger project of university research and teaching.

Trent’s Instructional Development Centre supports GTAs through its Teaching Assistant Training Certificate Program. This program prepares Trent graduate students for TAing with a suite of training seminars and workshops. For more information about this program, please visit the Instructional Development Centre.