Arts lead everywhere!
The Faculty of Arts is home to approximately 7,500 students and more than 270 full-time professors. On the strength of 18 departments, schools, centres and institutes representing three main sectors (languages and literatures, fine arts and humanities), the Faculty offers undergraduate, certificate, master's and PhD programs in both English and French.
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Apply your studies to real world situations, in ways that benefit the community ! - Information about final exams and exam conflicts
News
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New ISSP’s report sets out ten essential criteria for making policy decisions
Created by the Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP), the peer reviewed and crowd sourced report entitled “Canada’s Future as an Innovative Society” provides Canada’s institutions of governance with a framework to support a coordinated, evidence-based approach to innovation policy development and assessment. From a review of evidence spanning over 60 years, it sets out ten essential criteria for making policy decisions in any and every portfolio. In their entirety, the criteria describe features that are necessary for effective innovation policies and sufficient to move Canadian innovation policy to the next level. Endorse and view the ISSP's report. -
uOttawa's Faculty of arts among the world's best in the subject of Philosophy, Linguistics, History and Communication: QS World University Rankings 2013
- Doctoral student in geography receives the prestigious Vanier Scholarship
Congratulations to Caroline Ramirez, one of the eight 2012-2013 Vanier Scholarship recipients of the University of Ottawa for her research project “Mémoire, minorité et territoire : Le souvenir du lieu au service de la construction territoriale et de la définition identitaire de la communauté". The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships is Canada's most prestigious program for doctoral students working in the health sciences, natural sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities. - Félicitations à Anne Gilbert, professeure au Département de géographie et directrice du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, récipiendaire de l'Ordre des francophones d'Amérique en reconnaissance de son dévouement pour le maintien et l'épanouissement de la langue française en Amérique du Nord. (See the spotlight!)
- Five graduates of the Department of Theatre honoured by the Fondation pour l’avancement du théâtre francophone au Canada for their remarkable involvement in theatre for Francophone minority communities. Congratulations to Craig Holzschuh, Mishka Lavigne, Lisa L’Heureux, Antoine Côté Legault et Guy Marsan !
- Two Faculty of Arts students selected as Canadian Northern Studies Trust Awards recipients for 2013-2014
Congratulations to MSc Geography candidates Alexandre Bevington and Emilie Herdes who were each awarded a $15,000 W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research. This annual prize is awarded to master’s students who are pursuing research in Canada’s North. - The University of Ottawa Chair in University Teaching is awarded to Professor Jenepher Lennox Terrion, in recognition of her excellence and innovation in teaching, her demonstrated educational leadership, and the quality of her proposed project.
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Faculty of Arts disciplines develop skills in high demand in the workplace
During his speech to the Canadian Club of Ottawa, University President Allan Rock defended the value of a university degree, including one in a Faculty of Arts discipline.
