How will your Question shape your future?

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WASHINGTON SEATTLE QUEST AT A GLANCE Accredited by the community is at while at DEGREE QUALITY the heart of Quest quest, ASSESSMENT BOARD >50% (Province of ) of students & member of the study abroad EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE

over 60 countries We would like to acknowledge 17% that the land on which we gather is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded NUMBER OF territory of the Skwxwú7mesh STUDENTS: 46% peoples (Squamish). Quest rank in from student 37% 700 University Canada sits on the engagement: countries canada represented: from Squamish traditional territory, #1 the us and we are grateful to have the 60+ opportunity to work, learn, and live in this blessed territory. Quest University Canada was founded WELCOME TO QUEST by former University of British Columbia Welcome to Quest President, Dr. . Quest opened with an inaugural class on We are Canada’s only independent, secular, September 1, 2007. liberal arts university designed for the future of undergraduate education. Quest University Canada is a non-profit university offering a single interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree (BA&Sc) on an intimate campus located one hour north of Vancouver in the beautiful Coast Mountains of British Columbia.

“We have a special opportunity to give back to the world, to help people in their struggle to live good and meaningful lives, to help find a story to tell which will sustain us and generations to come.” David Strangway (Order of Canada), Founder of Quest University Canada

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Follow your curiosity DISCOVER an Learn on the Block Plan, ENGAGE in collaborative and passion. Every Quest intentionally designed which allows you to focus work with a world-class student designs an curriculum and campus, on a single subject in-depth faculty and shared action interdisciplinary course where diverse individuals for three and a half weeks, with community partners to of studies around their are encouraged to take and learn through intensive, prepare for your career and own unique, academic risks and innovate. hands-on EXPERIENCE. to change our world. QUESTION. www.questu.ca Foundation Program Requirements - Years 1 & 2 Classes are taught on the Block Plan The Foundation Program allows you to broadly explore the liberal arts and The Block Plan allows you to immerse yourself in one course for a month at a sciences to gain the intellectual tools to address the complex problems time. This schedule is optimal for field work, faculty interaction, and research. of the 21st century. Develop your own academic Question and transcend Discussion-based classes are capped at 20 students and breakout rooms the boundaries of majors and disciplines while you study big ideas in the facilitate work in small groups. Work with brilliant, caring faculty tutors, whose Foundation Program. focus is to foster intellectual and personal growth.

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES CORNERSTONE EVOLUTION TEXTS SOCIAL SCIENCES Concentration Program Requirements - Years 3 & 4 PHYSICAL SELECT 3 SCIENCES The Concentration Program investigates one theme related to a student’s OF THE 4: individual Question, either in a single discipline or across multiple disciplines. LIFE • POLITICAL SCIENCES Refine your ideas in a Keystone project that reflects your passion, activism, ECONOMY RHETORIC BIODIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP • DEMOCRACY & research, and experience. JUSTICE MATHEMATICS OF BRITISH • GLOBAL COLUMBIA PERSPECTIVES • SELF, CULTURE, ARTS & SOCIETY HUMANITIES FOCUS COURSES: The main emphasis of the Focus

SOCIAL Courses is depth of understanding, sustained attention, ENERGY & WHAT IS LIFE? CULTURE SCIENCES and reflection on a Question of personal importance to MATTER the student. MIN 6 BLOCKS

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: Experiential learning allows EARTH, OCEANS, MATHEMATICS QUESTION LANGUAGE a student to formulate and pursue a question, the answer ACADEMIC STRUCTURE SPACE to which is not available in a classroom setting. This mode of learning emphasizes hands-on experience in a variety of forms. MIN 1 BLOCK / MAX 4 BLOCKS

CORNERSTONE: The Cornerstone block is the first course that all ELECTIVES: Electives are courses chosen by students students take upon entering Quest. The purpose of Cornerstone is to complement their area of concentration or to enable twofold: to introduce students to Quest, and to investigate a significant them to pursue other academic and post-graduate question through a variety of academic perspectives. interests. MIN 3 BLOCKS RHETORIC: After the Cornerstone block, all students take a required block in Rhetoric. The theme for the Rhetoric block varies according to KEYSTONE: The final block at Quest where students the individual tutor, but all sections of this block are designed to give prepare, then report their conclusions regarding students the opportunity to work intensively on well-developed writing the Question. and effective public speaking at the outset of their Quest career. 1 BLOCK QUESTION: As students near the end of the Foundation Program, all must take a block dedicated to the development of their ‘Question’— a personalized Question guided by their academic passions, outside interests, and career goals that directs their studies in the All Students Graduate with a Concentration Program. Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (BA&Sc) Degree Requirements: 32 Blocks (Foundation 16 Blocks + Concentration 16 Blocks) www.questu.ca/academic-map Here are some examples of students’ Questions... THE QUESTION

What is the relationship between education QUESTION INTERDISCIPLINARY and economic development? STUDIES

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOCUS COURSES PHYSICAL Worked with professors from Quest, SCIENCES POVERTY, INEQUALITY, & DEVELOPMENT the University of British Columbia, and to design a Quest MATH IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM LIFE course on the topic of education. The SCIENCES INDEPENDENT STUDY: course covers the history and philosophy EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT of Western education, as well as practical

aspects of teaching such as assignment MATHEMATICS BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS design and assessment. ARTS & UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY KEYSTONE HUMANITIES A qualitative research proposal intended SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY to examine children’s experiences and SOCIAL ELECTIVES teaching practices in elementary schools SCIENCES with different educational philosophies. MEDIA AND POLITICS

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QUESTION What is order in the physical sciences? At Quest, we don’t have traditional majors, FOCUS COURSES EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Worked with a transplant surgeon to design you design your own Question. PHYSICS I, II, & III and develop a pre-op booklet for patients that details the science related to transplant surgery. Inspiration doesn’t come from standard courses or rote lectures. At PHYSICAL SCIENCES LAB I & II ASTROBIOLOGY Quest, we do not have one-word, pre-programmed majors. Instead, KEYSTONE all second-year students formulate their own majors in the form of CALCULUS I, II, & III Developed a computer program that was used to model two chaotic systems: a double OBJECT-ORIENTED personalized Questions guided by their academic passions, outside PROGRAMMING pendulum system and a drive-dampened nonlinear spring system. interests, and career goals. The Question Block is a class dedicated LINEAR ALGEBRA

to the thoughtful development of students’ Questions. During ELECTIVES

this process, students each select a faculty mentor, who assists MATH AND MUSIC students in choosing upper-year courses and experiential learning CELL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESEARCH METHODS opportunities that allow for a deep and meaningful exploration of their Question in the Concentration Program. What are the roles of culture and community QUESTION in a healthy pregnancy and birth?

What would your Question be? FOCUS COURSES EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING The Question isn’t necessarily meant to be answered—think of it as Traveled to Ecuador with an organization called SEX, GENDER, & ORIENTATION Child Family Health International in order to your vehicle for intellectual exploration. This is your chance to study ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY live with medical students and shadow different maternal health care professionals. Saw first- big ideas that transcend traditional academic boundaries, all in a NUTRITION hand the realities of midwifery as a profession and gained an understanding of the complex way that fits your interests and aspirations. The Question not only AFRICAN SELF PERCEPTIONS cultural dynamics that influence maternal and guides your choice of courses and readings in the Concentration ASYMMETRY infant health.

Program, but also inspires your final Keystone Project. INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY KEYSTONE Both a paper and a documentary film. The ELECTIVES paper argues for the medical, economic, and EXPLORING THE ECOLOGICAL SELF psychological viability of homebirth, while the film was intended as an accessible resource www.questu.ca/academic-map FIELD ECOLOGY for the co-op of midwives in Squamish and audiences of all types. Experiential Learning “The freedom that students have to choose Learning Outcomes while at what experience they want to have and how One of the things that is radically quest, > it can fit their question is almost boundless. The Quest degree develops essential different at Quest is that students 50% One of my student’s question is ‘What is transferable skills—attributes that prepare of students the nature of olive oil?’ and she will do her pursue their questions outside of the study abroad experiential learning at a working olive graduates to be confident, life-long learners who classroom in self-designed Experiential grove, measuring heat signatures and olive will contribute to the betterment of our world. Learning blocks, which might include internships, study yields, but also considering cultural heritage, marketing, geology, and climate.” Study abroad, internships, and other off-campus abroad, research, activism, or volunteer work. The non- Steve Quane, learning opportunities allow students to gain linear trajectory from student to self-directed learner Ph.D. University of British Columbia insights and skills that they wouldn’t experience Physical Sciences Tutor leads our students to a confidence that serves them in a classroom, preparing them for their future well beyond their degree. educational goals and careers.

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ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING “My Kant course was an independent study that grew into a course that was the closest to a graduate seminar that I have ever led. By the end the students were not just learning about philosophy, but learning how to do philosophy.” Darcy Otto, Ph.D. McMaster University Humanities Tutor Field Courses Quest’s block system gives us the freedom to turn everyday worlds into amazing, experiential classrooms. Whether it’s the politics of health in South Africa or environmental conflict in Clayoquot Sound, students meaningfully engage with the social worlds they inhabit in a way that isn’t possible at other universities. www.questu.ca/learning FACULTY

“It speaks to the possibilities here when students and faculty are able to trust each other, respect “It is always a each other, and work together Quest Faculty pleasure to work collaboratively.” At Quest, we don’t call our faculty ‘professors,’ with students who Tamara Trafton are enthusiastic we call them ‘tutors’ because their role is not to Ph.D. Economics, about taking Vanderbilt University ‘profess,’ but rather to work individually with each student control of their faculty Social Sciences Tutor student to foster personal and intellectual growth. ratio: own educational Our faculty are committed teachers, scholars, and opportunities.” 14:1 Eric Gorham mentors who have come from universities around Ph.D. University of the world. Our academic success is proven, with Wisconsin-Madison Founding Tutor, tutors recognized as National Teaching Fellows, “There’s a moment in my Death Social Sciences alumni receiving prestigious graduate school of the Author course that scares “These students are doing me every time, but always works collaborative, graduate- fellowships, and current students publishing beautifully. I step away entirely level work, to be frank, award-winning research. and let the students run the class and I’m always jubilantly with two basic instructions: what surprised at their drive questions do you need to ask and and initiative.” Faculty-Student Relationships how will you answer them?” Ellen Flournoy Shira Weidenbaum When we mentor students at Quest, we take Ph.D. University Ph.D. Yale University of South Florida Humanities Tutor someone’s life and shape it with them. We find the Rhetoric Across the path that you need. It’s about taking your goals Curriculum Coordinator seriously, not just about the degree. We map it out together, shape your Question to pursue your Fei Shi interests, and respond to your goals. Ph.D. University of California, Davis Arts & Humanities Tutor

Jeff Warren Colin Bates Ph.D. University of Ph.D. Royal Holloway, British of London Life Sciences Tutor Arts & Humanities “The best part of my work Tutor is involving Quest students in projects to apply problem- “I don’t teach solving skills in tangible ways to help mathematics. Negar Elmieh community organizations.” I teach students.” Ph.D. University Richard Hoshino of British Columbia Glen van Brummelen Ph.D., Life Sciences Tutor Ph.D. Simon Fraser University Mathematics Tutor Founding Mathematics Tutor, National Teaching Fellow and one of Canada’s top 10 university teachers for 2017 James Cohn Ph.D. University of Chicago Founding Tutor, www.questu.ca/faculty Arts & Humanities Here are some examples over 60 Student Experience Quest Communities countries The student experience at Quest is as unique as of Clubs & Groups The intellectual experience at Quest is shaped 17% you are. You can run for election on the Student • Ecoquest by our diverse, international student population. Representative Council, promote health and justice • Model United Nations The University brings the best students together related to sex, gender, and sexuality at the Lumen Adventure Club from Canada, the U.S., and across the globe. While NUMBER OF • STUDENTS: 46% Room, engage in environmental activism as part of they are here they make connections that deepen from • Cross-Country Skiing Club 37% 700 Ecoquest, organize the Dancing Bear festival or an their learning and last a lifetime. Quest students canada • The Mark (Student Newspaper) from art show, join the Model UN and study abroad in volunteer with Syrian refugees and mentor local the us Run Club Bhutan, hike in the Yukon over Block break, or hole • school children. They work in the student-run up in the library for three and a half weeks of the • Swing & Bollywood Dance Club Upcycling Center, Apiary, and Community Garden. politics of decolonization or ribosome biology. With • Theater Club VOLUNTEER & the cultural scene of Vancouver just an hour south • Quest Poets’ Society LEADERSHIP and the amazing BC wilderness in our backyard, • Beekeeping Club opportunities—on and off campus Quest students enjoy the best of both worlds. • Zumba Club • Rotaract Club 40 CLUBS • Community Wellness Club ranging from radio production to • Gender & Sexuality Alliance Club outdoor adventure, • Right To Play At Quest chess to knitting, and food to debate. QUEST COMMUNITIES

www.questu.ca/life ATHLETICS & LEAP PROGRAM

Athletics and Recreation LEAP (Leaders in Elite Athletics Quest believes outdoor recreation and competitive sports encourage not only the mastery of skills, & Performance Program) but help to cultivate teamwork, achievement, The Leaders in Elite Athletics & leadership, commitment, determination, and Performance Program (LEAP) self-development. The University’s state-of-the- at Quest is a unique program art athletics and recreation complex offers a structured to accommodate the gymnasium, squash courts, weight rooms, an indoor special needs of accomplished rock climbing wall, a FIFA 2-star all-year playing student athletes and field, tennis courts, and outdoor basketball courts. performers. High-performance Quest offers a complete athletics and recreation athletes and professional performers are models program for all students to enjoy, including of passion, determination, and discipline. This varsity athletics, intramurals, and other organized program specifically caters to students balancing recreational opportunities that take advantage of rigorous academics with the pursuit of their sport our natural surroundings. or art at a highly competitive level by affording extra flexibility in housing, billing, and course Varsity Sports scheduling. Student accepted into LEAP are For more information eligible for a LEAP Scholarship. Quest offers varsity-level men’s and women’s about athletics at Quest, go to basketball and soccer within the PACWEST Athletic www.questkermodes.ca For more information about LEAP, go to Association. Student-athletes selected to play a varsity sport are eligible for Athletic Scholarships. www.questu.ca/leap

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www.questu.ca/kermodes Residence Life An integral part of our students’ remarkable growth is a result of living, studying, playing, and working together on a breath-taking campus. Located on the traditional territory of the Skwxwú7mesh campus (Squamish) peoples, the hilltop campus looks out on the majestic 6 residence Coast Mountains. The entrance to Garibaldi Provincial Park, buildings live on verdant rainforests, and world-class biking and hiking trails campus are footsteps away. There are three styles of campus residence for all four “Living in residence for four years allowed halls, but at the heart of each residence are the student floor years styles of me to experience Quest to the fullest. I could representatives, who coordinate activities and foster community. residence 3 easily collaborate with classmates on group Staff also live on campus as Village Advisors, as well as Faculty- projects or though assignments. I could attend and Artists-In-Residence. events offered by the faculty and staff who lived in my building. I was near all my friends so we could have late night tea and chat about the different classes we were in, host floor dinners and movie nights. My residence became a huge extended family and support system away from home.” Barbara Fernandes ’17

A strong sense of community is at the heart of Quest RESIDENCE LIFE

“Having all these people, with different interests, talents, and backgrounds, always just a few meters away, has been undoubtedly one of the most delightful parts of my Quest experience.” Lars Laichter, 3rd Year www.questu.ca/campus ALUMNI

“Being a student athlete Allison Black ‘11 Easton Smith ‘13 at an institution that Ph.D. Candidate M.Sc. in Bioethics, stresses excellence in both in Epidemiology Columbia endeavors added to my well- at University of University Washington roundedness as a professional Hai Feng-Hu ‘12 Graeme and as a member of society.” Stikeman Elliott LLP Stewart-Wilson ‘14 Brodan Thiel ‘13 M.Sc. in Political Master of Education Olenka Forde ‘13 Science at Ph.D Candidate in University of student at Hydrogeology at Simon Fraser University of British Mindy Skinner ‘15 University Columbia Resource Management Rebecca Dickinson ‘13 Technician with Midwifery, University Parks Canada Veronica Galvin ‘12 of British Columbia Aida Ndiaye ‘16 “Quest is Ph.D. candidate at M.P.P. Candidate at Blavatnik Yale University School of Government, 100% responsible for Juan Pablo Alcocer ‘15 University of Oxford converting me into a Biofields Renewable co-vice-president of functional intellectual. Energy, Mexico City Oxford Women Adrienne Bosworth ‘12 in Politics I wouldn’t trade the Ph.D in American experience, the friends, Alumni Literature at University of Illinois or the memories for Our first alumni graduated in 2011, but already anything else.” Isha Aran ‘12 Michael Luba ‘13 they are completing graduate degrees at some of Journalist at studying jezebel.com law at McGill the most prestigious universities in the world (Yale, “At 17, I did not University UBC, U of Illinois, Columbia, U of Toronto). Others know that Quest have gone on to work for government Ministries, was going to change renewable energy companies, digital marketing my life. Quest opened my heart and mind to firms, clinical research hospitals, and more. a new way of receiving, Ligia Batista ‘14 Premed M.A. student at internalizing, and University of Colorado & communicating ideas Clinical Research and experiences.” Coordinator for the Neuroscience Institute, Erica Benson ‘12 Children’s Hospital Colorado

“Quest has put me at an 94.1% 92.6% advantage over my co- 86.1% 40.5% workers because of the agility SAY QUEST OF ALUMNI ARE GOT INTO THEIR ARE DOING OR ADEQUATELY CURRENTLY IN TOP CHOICE OF HAVE ALREADY and adaptability that the Block PREPARED THEM OR PLANNING TO SCHOOL DONE MASTERS Plan forces.” FOR THEIR DO A FURTHER OR PHD Tucker Sherman ‘13 NEXT DEGREE DEGREE Cam Jones ‘11 Software Engineering Technical Lead The following results are based on the 2015 Alumni Survey Calum Matthews ‘13 at Nike Vancouver Island Tourism Céline Allen ‘15 www.questu.ca/alumni Medical Student, Queen’s University Cost of Attendance Scholarships Quest Athletic Scholarship Apply Now Range from $2,000 - $18,000 Quest University Canada is a not-for-profit institution Quest University Canada offers a number of entrance While academic performance is an important and receives no funding from any level of government. All scholarships to recognize students whose experiences Athletic scholarships are awarded to incoming students criterion for admission, we want to know more students, regardless of nationality, pay the same tuition and achievements indicate they will have extraordinary who possess extraordinary athletic skills and are selected about you than just your grades. Have you fees and have equal opportunity to apply for scholarships impact on our community. Scholarships are renewed to join one of Quest’s varsity teams—basketball and traveled? Volunteered in your community? and need-based financial aid. each year, provided you meet the scholarship renewal soccer. The application for this award is included in Do you write creatively? Play a sport or requirements. the Admissions application and will be reviewed upon instrument? What are your passions? 2018–2019 Tuition $35,000/year application completion.

Room and Board* $13,500/year David Strangway Award for Excellence Full Tuition Scholarship Quest LEAP Scholarship - $10,000 Application Requirements *Approximately, depending on room selection Named for the University’s first President and The Leaders in Elite Athletics & Performance Program (LEAP) at Quest allows athletes to pursue both an • Complete our FREE online application Founding Chancellor, the David W. Strangway Awards education and excellence in their athletic careers. applynow.questu.ca or Common Application Quest is committed to helping make its for Excellence honour the extraordinary career of Dr. Strangway and his vision that created Quest University Students must indicate on the Admissions application • Submit your most recent high school transcript program affordable and accessible to all Canada. Students interested in this award must submit that they plan to submit a LEAP application. The LEAP • Compose a 300-word essay from a choice qualified students. a specific application form from the Quest website. application can be found on the Quest website. If of topics Deadline to apply is March 1. approved for LEAP, you will be awarded the • Interview with an Admissions Counsellor* LEAP scholarship. Quest Presidential Scholarship *Only students who qualify will be contacted by their Range from $2,000 - $18,000 Need-Based Financial Aid Admissions Counsellor for an interview The Presidential Scholarship is awarded to students Quest need-based bursaries are non-re-payable funds who stand out not only academically because of their provided to students who demonstrate assessed unmet performance and curiosity, but also as profoundly financial need through our application process. Students Important Fall Term Deadlines influential people in their communities. The application receiving funding from government student loan for this award is included in the Admissions application programs, funding from a student line of credit or similar • December 1 Early Action Deadline and will be reviewed upon application completion. A funding source to support their cost of attendance will • February 1 Recommended Application Deadline resume of achievements and recommendation letters be considered in greater financial need and students are expected to utilize external funding options. The • March 1 Financial Aid Deadline is encouraged, but not required. Quest Financial Aid application deadline for entering • May 1 Enrolment Confirmation Deadline students is March 1. Students must re-apply prior to each academic year. After these deadlines, Admissions applications are APPLY reviewed on a rolling basis until the class is full. For more information about applying, visit www.questu.ca/apply www.questu.ca/apply QUEST UNIVERSITY CANADA 3200 University Boulevard Squamish, BC, Canada V8B 0N8 [email protected] Toll Free In North America (+1)888 783-7808 Phone: (+1)604 898-8000 Fax: (+1) 604 815-0829

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