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Table of contents displaying all the individual works listed in the print copy of Beside the Point.

The "Leaders and Administrators Guide" is part of an open professional learning series developed for staff across post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. Guides in the series include: Foundations; Leaders and Administrators;…

Procrastination is a barrier to achieving personal goals. This project sought to test the effectiveness of implementation intentions (plan for a time and location connected to an action), purposeful delay (delaying tasks to increase motivation), and…

A 2014 report on Camosun's progress toward carbon neutrality.

The present experiment investigated the effect of black and white visual contrast on moral judgement. Participants were presented with a short text on a moral dilemma with either a black and white checkered border or a neutral gray border and were…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of caffeine on reaction time, as measured by PEBL2 software. To test this relationship, participants were measured across three tests within the PEBL2 software, with one group of participants…

Camosun College values lifelong learning and faculty development. The faculty stories in this report highlight how the college enables development through scheduled development time, professional development funds, innovation and creativity grants…

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a severe pathology that has been known to affect the functionality of individuals in their everyday lives even when the presence of a non-fearful stimuli is introduced, however, the effect of anxiety on…

The present study was undertaken in order to investigate the underlying neural mechanisms of associative memory encoding. Both nonexperimental (i.e., baseline) and experimental methods were used to study variations in associative memory encoding…

In this paper, we sought to understand what are the biological mechanisms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders so that we could learn how to be aware of our obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Previous research has found that obsessive-compulsive disorder…

In this paper we sought to understand which internal and external factors influence our dreams. Past research has shown that environmental factors influence our dream contents, our belief and experiences with the paranormal is a factor behind lucid…

Includes an interview with Sybil Harrison, Director of Learning Services.

Harnik is hungry, and finding home is hard when the fog is thick. With the aid of a sickly crow, he must navigate the parallel world’s terrain before night falls and the monsters come out to roam.

Camosun College values lifelong learning and faculty development. The faculty stories in this report highlight how the college enables development through scheduled development time, professional development funds, innovation and creativity grants…

In this paper, I sought to understand how nicotine withdrawal symptoms manifest, both psychologically and physiologically, with the goal of better understanding how these factors contribute to the maintenance of nicotine addiction. Previous research…