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Concordia University Research Chairs — Analytical and Intuitive, from Under a • a Strong Sense of Community Microscope Or Through Field Work THINKING AHEAD IN ARTS AND SCIENCE JOIN THE CONVERSATION #CUalumni concordia.ca/artsandscience “The transition to an economy based on renewable biological resources, if done in a sustainable manner, promises to mitigate the substantial environmental and economic risks posed by the petrochemical-based economy. Our research on the discovery, characterization and applications testing of enzymes aims directly at developing solutions for industrial and environmental sustainability.” − Adrian Tsang, professor, Department of Biology; director, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics UNITED IN CRITICAL THINKING Concordia’s largest faculty nourishes creative and analytical minds, encourages expression, innovation, exploration and discovery — in the arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences Left brain or right brain? Arts or science? Our rewarding learning environment is ARTS AND SCIENCE Why choose? The Faculty of Arts and flexible, interdisciplinary and research- AT A GLANCE Science provides a thinking environment focused. Thanks to our small class sizes, that allows the next generation of our students collaborate closely with their • 27 academic units students, together with our professors professors. We feature: and alumni, to delve into the sciences, • 8 faculty-based research centres • Devoted professors with a passion humanities, social, life and health sciences. • 6 Canada Research Chairs for teaching We examine issues from multiple angles • 8 Concordia University Research Chairs — analytical and intuitive, from under a • A strong sense of community microscope or through field work. • 6 other research chairs/special research • Interdisciplinary learning professorships We are Concordia’s largest faculty and • A focus on sustainability • 6,380 undergraduate and we collaborate on research with peers 2,35 graduate students locally, nationally and internationally. • Hands-on experience in or out of We are anchored at both the Loyola classrooms and labs • 78 undergraduate programs and Sir George Williams campuses. We offer 230 programs that engage 7,000 • Daytime or evening classes • 56 graduate programs graduate and undergraduate students. Together, our community generates new • 572 full-time faculty ideas that build on current thinking. We • 52 part-time faculty including explore, we bring forth solutions and we graduate students innovate in an ever-changing world. • 98 full-time staff • 94,780 alumni CONCORDIA first With the luck of the Irish, Concordia becomes the country’s first university to offer a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Irish Studies in 203. CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 3 Concordia’s pioneering Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Liberal Arts College, the first of their kind in Canada, were established in 978. PAGE 4 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE SMALL COLLEGES FOR BIG THINKING Smaller colleges within a large, urban university provide an ideal setting for thoughtful exchange in specialized, cross-disciplinary areas: liberal arts, sustainability, women’s studies, public policy, Canadian Irish studies and science Our three colleges, two schools and At the Loyola College for Diversity and Students get a hands-on education at one institute prove that some of the Sustainability students probe some of the Concordia’s Science College. From most important learning can happen in most challenging issues facing humankind their first year, they participate in intimate settings. At these six outstanding in the 2st century. Our interdisciplinary ongoing research in state-of-the-art units, students and teachers exchange college draws on diverse discourse in the laboratories. Together with their peers ideas, form strong communities and host Faculty of Arts and Science to address and their professors, students contemplate seminars and guest lecturers in a small contemporary global issues. On campus problems and generate new ideas for college atmosphere, while accessing the and in the wider community, our students discussion. Our academic program is amenities and intellectual opportunities can contribute to sustainability through cross-disciplinary, which exposes students of our world-class, urban university. internships and research. Our focus to different ways of thinking. includes biodiversity and ecology, personal Concordia’s School of Canadian Irish and community health, science and the The Simone de Beauvoir Institute was one Studies explores the complex history and contemporary world, and culture and of the first, and remains one of the most rich culture of the Irish in Canada and communication. innovative, places in Canada to complete around the world. We look at history, art feminist studies and develop initiatives that and culture, politics, and the Irish diaspora. The School of Community and Public promote equality and social justice for all. The School collaborates with institutions Affairs is a place for local and global Courses explore local or global areas of in Ireland, Canada and the United States public policy discussion. We offer a interest from sexuality to violence and to promote Irish Studies. Concordia offers unique interdisciplinary education in poverty to militarism. Our students hone the only Canadian Irish studies program public policy analysis, advocacy and critical thinking and analytical skills that open in Canada with professors specializing community and economic development. a world of possibilities. exclusively in Irish-related subjects. The school is home to the First Peoples Studies program. A first of its kind The Liberal Arts College offers in Quebec, the program is designed an intensive introduction to the to increase understanding of First humanities and the social sciences — Peoples’ issues among students of all the best thinking and expression in backgrounds and places a unique focus Western history, philosophy, literature, on the Eeyouch (Cree), Kanienkeha’ka religion, science, music and art. Our (Mohawk) and Inuit peoples. undergraduate students develop critical and analytical skills rooted in key texts, images and music from antiquity to the present. Great books, rigorous study and a welcoming intellectual community provide the foundation for a wide variety of academic and professional pursuits. CONCORDIA first Canada’s first Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology is launched in 202. It brings together biologists, engineers and computer and social scientists seeking interdisciplinary solutions to environmental and health problems. CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 5 “My passion for the environment — fuelled during my studies at Concordia — led me to Oxford to pursue conservation studies. I’m really excited about the future ahead of me — and Concordia helped me a lot.” — Michael Noonan, BSc 2, recipient of the Campaign for the New Millennium Scholarship and 202 Rhodes Scholar PAGE 6 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE ARTFUL THINKING Renowned departments at Concordia offer our students world- class training for real-world careers and for the advancement of academic knowledge Concordia’s Department of Journalism The Département d’études françaises is As a centre for innovation in teaching and is celebrated for its development of the sole Canadian program to offer three research, the Department of Education working reporters. Students become academic fundamentals: language, literature takes a multidisciplinary approach to training knowledgeable and versatile journalists and translation. Students investigate students. The department offers four in print, radio, television and online subjects such as the history of translation, streams: educational technology, educational media. We integrate theory and socio-political issues in translation and the studies, child studies and applied linguistics. practice in production workshops literature of the Francophonie. Graduates are highly sought by school where equipment and facilities boards, daycares, health and social service replicate modern newsrooms. Real-life Concordia’s Department of Political agencies, human resource departments and assignments and newsroom standards Science offers Quebec’s only English- the business community. Our students can are universally applied. Students learn language graduate program in Public participate in courses offered at Concordia’s how to analyze social and political Policy and Public Administration. Students Observation Nursery, which helps parents get contexts where journalism is practised learn about connections between politics, involved in the education of preschoolers. — a key skill in the modern world. Our public policy and public administration. new master’s program allows for the Graduates are prepared for employment The Department of Mathematics and study of journalism from a scholarly, in the public or private sectors or for PhD Statistics is recognized for graduates who research perspective. studies. The department also hosts the work in a variety of fields such as actuarial Canada Research Chair in Comparative mathematics. Concordia is recognized by The first program of its kind in Canada Public Policy. the Society of Actuaries as a Centre of when it was launched, the Department of Actuarial Excellence — one of 24 worldwide Communication Studies is internationally Concordia’s Department of History has institutions to hold this designation. Our acclaimed. It features leading practitioners a distinguished record of training young students gain rigorous training for research in video, film, sound and intermedia. historians for careers in teaching and and development, as well as for jobs in Its
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