O P Q R

o - residency

Practicum
Work experience or hands-on portion of a class. For instance, clinical psychology students may spend several hours a week seeing clients to fulfill requirements for some classes. A practicum is smaller in scope than an internship and usually only lasts the length of a course which requires it.

Parchment
Official document issued by USask that communicates the nature of the credential and date of conferral.

Plagiarism
Is a breach of academic integrity, which includes use of someone else's work without providing proper attribution and passing it off as your own.

Residency requirement
Refer to the amount of time a student must spend in particular aspects of their program at USask.

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