REGISTERING

Registration access times for students at the Bannatyne and Fort Garry campuses will be available in your Aurora Account on March 17.

To access your registration time:

1. Log into Aurora.
2. Select the “Open Registration Dashboard” card.
3. Select ‘Registration Time and Status’.
4. Choose the Academic Term from the dropdown menu to see your registration access time.

Once it is your registration date and time, you will only have that day to register. Beginning March 28^th at 1:00 p.m. CST, you will have 24/7 access until the last date to register.

If you can’t access your registration, make sure you are accessing Aurora during your registration access time. 

Once registration opens, you will have 24/7 access to register for courses in Aurora until registration closes.

You can familiarize yourself with the process of registering for courses on Aurora by consulting the written instructions on the Registration Steps webpage and the video tutorials available on the Aurora How-to’s webpage. You can find more resources 

HOLDS

It’s a good idea to check if you have any holds or if your student status prevents registration. Make sure you clear these up before your date to register.

REVISION PERIOD

In summer term, the last date to drop a course and the last date to add a course are the same date. To help prepare you, please take note of these important deadlines found on the Important Dates and Deadlines page.

WAITLISTS

Waitlists for Summer Term will open on March 28th at 1:00 p.m. CST. It is very important that all students claim their UM email account and keep it in good standing in order to receive Waitlist notifications. Once open, Waitlist Notifications are enabled 24/7.

• If you want to switch course sections, please contact your Advisor. You may not be able to switch sections when a course has a waitlist.
• If you miss the deadline to register for a waitlisted course you will need to re-register for the waitlist.

To learn more about waitlists, you can consult the Waitlist webpage.

For further questions, contact an academic advisor.

TUITION

Since courses span different parts of the term, there are two tuition fee deadlines for Summer term. The tuition payment deadline for courses beginning in May is May 21st 2025. This includes both May-June and May-August courses. The deadline for July-August courses is July 16 2025.

To keep track of the dates and deadlines for Summer term, see the Important Dates and Deadlines webpage.

Dr. Sarah Elvins has reimagined her course to incorporate a weekly kitchen lab component for the first time. “Adding the lab portion to the course allows for a more interactive experience. In the kitchen, we will cook and, of course, eat, as well as explore historic recipes, ingredients, tools, and technology,” explains Elvins.

Food Histories takes students back in time to investigate the U.S.’s distinct and varied food culture. The course will delve into themes including regional food, Indigenous experiences, immigration, industrialization and agriculture, the rise of advertising and convenience foods, technology, and the evolution of ‘home’ cooking.

Elvins adds, “Food can be so much more than just nutrition, the latest gadget, or the hippest Instagram photo. Food history helps us to explore society: class, gender, technology, communication – even cultural, social, and political implications – through what we ate and how we prepared it.”

Elvins hopes this unique experiential learning course is both enriching and fun for students. “Studying the past helps us to better understand our experience today. This course educates us on traditional historical topics through the lens of food and now with the weekly kitchen lab, helps make history a hands-on experience.” The course will be of interest to a broad audience including those in anthropology, sociology, food science, marketing, entrepreneurship, or human nutrition.

HIST 3760, Food Histories will be offered in summer session, June 4-26, Monday to Friday, 10:45 am- 12:45 pm. Course prerequisite is 6 credit hours of 1000 or 2000 History or special permission from the instructor.

When the first Jazz Camp started as an idea by the Faculty of Music’s Bernie Rose and Richard Wedgwood, it was because the faculty was looking for a way for young student musicians to increase their understanding and appreciation of jazz and improve their solo and performance skills. The pair approached Extended Education’s summer session to develop and administer the camp with the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music providing the instructors.

The first Jazz Camp attracted 34 students.

This year, Jazz Camp will max out with 100 students. Participants include high school students, university students, and even elementary-aged kids, teachers and parents. In fact, anyone can attend with some basic skills regardless of their age. All of them learn how to hone their jazz skills and have the chance to perform on stage.

During the first day of camp, students go through a basic audition to determine their ensemble group placement. “Every skill level is welcome,” says Warren Otto, Program Administrator for Jazz Camp, who has also been involved from the start, organizing camp details, including the end of camp student concert.

“We’ve had some very talented students attend camp over the years, and, thanks to Steve Kirby, Jazz Camp attracts some of the best musicians from the world of jazz as guest instructors. Jazz Camp gives students the chance to learn from some of the best jazz musicians anywhere,” says Otto.

Over the years, Jazz Camp has seen a wide range of students too.

There’s the music teacher, who comes every year, and the father who drove from Portage la Prairie every day with his 9- and 12-year-old daughters and jammed with his family.

Most of the students come for the chance to play with some of the best names in jazz and to have fun. Many come back year after year and have gone on to make jazz a part of their lives and careers.

Some notable Jazz Camp alumni include: Curtis Nowosad, a U of M graduate and Jazz Camp instructor, who was recently admitted to Manhattan School of Music as an elite fellow on a full scholarship; Will Bonness, U of M graduate and now U of M faculty; Devon Gillingham, recently won the internationally renowed Essentially Ellington student composition contest; and Connor Derraugh, a talented 17 year old piano and saxophone player who has attended Jazz Camp since he was 10.

And there’s the long list of guest instructors that reads like a who’s who of jazz. In past years students played with the likes of Peter Appleyard (a Canadian legendary vibes musician), Steve Turre, “who’s played with everyone” notes Otto, “you might know him as the trombonist in the Saturday Night Live Band,” and multi Grammy nominee and renowned saxophonist, Miguel Zenon. “This year’s special guest instructors are trombonist, Wycliffe Gordon, who’s played with Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie and Shirley Horn, and saxophonist, Steve Wilson, who has an equally impressive resume, including gigs with Chick Corea and Dave Holland.

The two 20th Anniversary guest instructors will join Jazz Studies staff Steve Kirby (bass), Quincy Davis (drums), Derrick Gardner (trumpet), Will Bonness (piano) and Anna-Lisa Kirby (vocals).

Every year the camp features a faculty concert at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and ends with a student concert. This year watch for noon-hour concerts on campus featuring Gordon, Wilson and Jazz Camp instructors and students.

“19 years ago jazz in Winnipeg was hard to find,” says Otto. “Today, you can find jazz being played somewhere in town every weekend. You can see the popularity of jazz grow through the efforts of Steve Kirby and the Jazz Studies faculty. The growing popularity of Jazz Camp is another example of that.”

The U of M Jazz Camp is a partnership between the U of M’s Faculty of Music, Jazz Studies and Summer Session in Extended Education, with support from Pepsi Bottling Group, Long and McQuade Musical Instruments, and St. John’s Music.

This article first appeared in the June 6, 2013 edition of The Bulletin.

The Faculty of Education is offering a new course this summer session called “Beyond Classrooms: Considering Education, Teaching and Learning in Non-School Settings.” In it, Bachelor of Education students will gain community-based education field experience.

Director of the faculty’s school experiences office Melanie Janzen created the course, which focuses on understanding community-based organizations and the role of education and teaching within organizations, alongside issues of social justice and pedagogy and practice to help expand the students’ views on education.

“Many of our teacher candidates have traditional views of what education is about. They want to get in front of a class and deliver a lesson,” explains Janzen. “I want our students to have experiences and opportunities to broaden their understandings of education, curriculum and teaching and to experience education in places that are not schools.”

Students will attend a weekly seminar and spend 20 hours a week for six weeks at one of the host sites including the Boys and Girls Club of Winnipeg, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba, Rossbrook House, ArtCity and Fort Whyte Alive.

Rossbrook House is an organization that provides more than 2,000 Aboriginal and inner-city youth with a safe place 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, including weekends and school holidays. Their co-executive director, Maria Vigna, says that Rossbrook House believes education is a pillar of positive change.

“Lived experience and reflection on that experience is an integral part of the learning process. We are happy to welcome [Faculty of Education] students to share in the life and energy that is here at Rossbrook House and to have an opportunity to build relationships,” says Vigna.

“The kids will have an opportunity to expand their world too. I have worked in a classroom and have deep respect for the learning that occurs there. At the same time, I know how enriching it is to encounter learning in daily life and allow that to be a classroom as well.”

To pass the course, the two Faculty of Education students who will be placed there must complete a project called The Reciprocity Project, in which they will be responsible for creating a resource for the host organization.

“The resource to be developed will be decided upon collaboratively between the student and each host organization, and will contribute to its educational programming. It might include anything from the development of particular educational materials or resources to innovative programs or curriculum programs,” explains Janzen.

“The purpose is to draw on B.Ed. student experiences — the students offer something back of value to the host organization to support the organization’s educational endeavours,” she says.

 This article first appeared in the May 23, 2013 edition of The Bulletin.