Academic & Student Support

Tutoring

Welcome

The Acadia Tutoring Service connects you with the academic help you need, when you need it. Sessions with our faculty-recommended tutors start at $20/hour. We are also happy to recommend free tutorials and help centres.

Find a Tutor

Simply email us at tutoring@acadiau.ca. Make sure to include:

  • your name
  • your student number
  • the name and number of the course for which you’d like a tutor (e.g.: BUSI 1013 – Financial Accounting I) 
  • the name of the professor for this course

You will be asked to review and sign a tutoring agreement form (PDF). Please contact the tutoring coordinator if you have any questions.

 Learn more about paid tutoring

 

Free Tutoring and Help Centres

Acadia faculty and students also offer many free tutorials and help centres:

ELCELC
Writing CentreWriting Centre
FrenchFrench
GermanGerman
SpanishSpanish
BiologyBiology
Computer ScienceComputer Science
ChemistryChemistry
Economics and BusinessEconomics & Business
Math & StatisticsMath & Statistics
Stats ConsultingStats Consulting
PhysicsPhysics
KinesiologyKinesiology

A pair of students study together in the Vaughan Memorial Library

Contact

Elisabeth Frost
Tutoring Services Coordinator

tutoring@acadiau.ca

Acadia English Language Centre (ELC)

The Acadia English Language Centre (ELC) is now offering to help all international students who require language support. All appointments, workshops and tutorials are free and are delivered by qualified ELC instructors or campus and community professionals. This support is specifically designed for International Students, but it is open to all Acadia students. Learn more at our Language Support website.

Economics and Business Help Desk

The Business and Economics Help Desk offers support for students first-year courses:

Mondays from 6:30 to 8:00pm
Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4:00pm
Patterson Hall, Room 215

Chemistry Help Centre

The Chemistry Help Centre is a free service open to all students in all chemistry courses (introductory, organic, biochemistry, inorganic, analytical, physical) for help with their assignments, lab write-ups and general course questions.

Upper-year chemistry students will be available to help answer your questions:

Elliott Hall 303
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
6:00 - 9:00 PM

 

Acadia Statistical Consulting Centre (SCC)

Statistician On-call: 

The Acadia Statistical Consulting Centre (SCC) provides free statistical advice to Acadia University community members, addressing problems from Acadia faculty, staff and students. Work is carried out by experienced faculty consultants.

The Centre offers a number of services, including

  • designing and evaluating experiments and sampling schemes
  • conducting exploratory data analysis
  • advising on the choice of statistical methods
  • assisting in the interpretation and presentation of statistical results, including computer output (Minitab, SAS, SPSS, R, etc.)

Appointments can be made by calling the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 585-1382, or emailing ying.zhang@acadiau.ca.

SCC is located within the Department of Mathematics & Statistics in Room 151, Huggins Science Hall.

https://scc.acadiau.ca/

Computer Science

You can book appointments with the School's Computer Technician, Ibrahim Rashid, by emailing him at cs.consultant@acadiau.ca. He is available Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. He is located in CAR 209.

French

 

Mercredi/Wednesday
14h30 – 16h30 avec Marshall (BAC 362)

Jeudi/Thursday
10h30 – 12h30 avec Vincent (BAC 362) 

Spanish

Lunes/Monday
9:30 – 10:30: Patricia

Martes/Tuesday
9:30 – 12:30: Samida
10:00 – 11:30: Patricia

Miércoles/Wednesday
9:30 – 10:30: Patricia

Jueves/Thursday
9:30 – 12:30: Samida
13:00 – 14:30: Patricia

Viernes/Friday
9:30 – 10:30: Patricia

 

German

Tutoring takes place in BAC 315. Chat is also available over Microsoft Teams.

Contact: Kaya Böschen (161958b@acadiau.ca), Käthe Habenstein (151041h@acadiau.ca)

Montag/Monday
11:00 - 12:30: Kaya
12:30 - 2:00: Käthe

Dienstag/Tuesday
10:00 - 11:00: Käthe
12:30 - 1:30: Kaya

Mittwoch/Wednesday
11:00 - 1:30: Kaya

Donnerstag/Thursday
10:00 - 11:00: Käthe
12:30 - 2:00: Käthe

 

Biology Help Centre

The Biology Help Centre is available on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings from 6 – 9 pm in Room 230 of the Biology Building. Our awesome third- and fourth-year students that are ready to help with any biology-related questions from first- and second-year courses. We are here to help with lab reports, assignments, course material, midterm review, or just offer a place to chill out and study with other biology students! The first session will be held on September 16, and the last session will be December 4.

For any additional questions, please contact Clara Ryan: 159765r@acadiau.ca

Student tutors:

Mondays: Alexa Arnyek and Kelly Corscadden
Tuesdays: Jorja Thomas and Morgan Trombley
Wednesday: Kyleigh McDonald and Lachlan Simms

Kinesiology Help Centre

The School of Kinesiology is pleased to announce the creation of the Academic Support for Kinesiology students (ASK) drop-in help centre.

Located in AAC 386, this drop-in centre will have a pair of teaching assistants available to help.

Hours of Operation
Sundays 1:00-5:00 PM
Mondays 3:30-5:30 PM
Tuesdays 4:00-6:00 PM
Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 PM
Thursdays 3:30-5:30 PM

(Reminder: For Sunday help sessions, you will need to enter the KINE building through the AAC Box Office doors)