The listings may be viewed on the web, or in person in Room 113, Lambton Hall. Computers are available to create personalized housing searches based on amenities such as rental prices, location and housing type. The University of Western Ontario is a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, which gives it access to hundreds of survey and aggregate economic data sets from Canada, the United States and Europe. The Department of Sociology offers graduate students access to several stations for statistical work in a departmental computer lab. Additional networked micro-computer work stations reserved exclusively for graduate students are available in the Social Sciences Computer Lab in the Social Sciences Centre.
Students have access to e-mail facilities and modem connections.
Short courses providing instruction on the use of SSCL computing facilities and software are offered in fall, winter, and spring terms. For further information, please visit the UWO Social Science Computing Laboratory web site. About half of the M.A. students finish their program within six terms, while the other half take seven or more terms. The median number of terms for program completion on the part of Ph.D. students is 14. At the Ph.D. level, the program has included individuals from outside Canada, including Botswana, China, Colombia, Gambia, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turkey.