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Ken Steele distills dozens of interviews on the floor of North America's largest higher ed trade show, the Ontario Universities' Fair. This week we look specifically at what new programs are attracting student attention. With more than 100,000 prospective students and parents flooding the OUF, it\\u2019s a massive market test.

Unique Signature Programs:
Including Carleton\\u2019s Bachelor of Global & International Studies; Lakehead\\u2019s Outdoor Recreation, Mining, Forestry and Environmental Studies programs; Laurentian\\u2019s Forensic Science, Sports Administration, and Human Kinetics programs, and new Masters in Indigenous Relations; Trent\\u2019s Child & Youth Studies and Communications programs at their Durham campus; and the Fine & Performing Arts programs in Brock\\u2019s brand new facilities.

Professional Programs:
Including Science, Engineering, and Commerce at Guelph; Business and new Bilingual Engineering degrees at Laurentian; and UOIT\\u2019s new Mechatronics Engineering program.

Health, Medicine & Social Work:
Including Biomedical and Nursing programs at Laurentian; a new Biomedical Sciences program at Trent; and a new Health Sciences program and downtown facilities for Social Work studetns at Windsor.

New Law Programs:
The first new law school in Ontario in 43 years opened at Lakehead 3 years ago, with a focus on natural resources, sole practitioner law, and aboriginal law. Windsor\\u2019s dual Juris Doctorate program with the University of Detroit Mercy allows graduates to practice law in both Canada and the US. Laurier just signed a 2+3+1 agreement with the UK\\u2019s University of Sussex Law School, which allows students to enroll at Laurier and wind up with a Laurier BA, a British LLB, and be prepared to pass the Ontario Bar Exam as well.
Video Game Design:

UOIT has a Game Development & Entrepreneurship program, which has been very popular and has quite competitive admissions. Brock has a new interdisciplinary program in Video Game Design, offered jointly with Niagara College.

University/College Collaborations:
For more than a decade, the University of Guelph-Humber has been a success story for large-scale collaboration, but at the program level many Ontario universities and colleges have collaborations. Lakehead is partnering with Georgian College in Orillia to offer an Electrical Engineering program, and have others in development. Trent has a strong relationship with Durham College and UOIT, and with Fleming College, which has an environmental science focus as well. Laurentian is exploring several new pathways with College Bor\\xe9al and Cambrian College in Sudbury.

Ken closes with excerpts from a fun video by USC Viterbi, the NAE, and Funny or Die, which explores what it would look like if the E! Network covered Engineers like celebrities: https://youtu.be/P-OBJNkCanY

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