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QUEST IS UNIQUE. We offer one degree, the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences. Instead of taking five classes at a time, you immerse yourself in one course for 3.5 weeks. You create a Question instead of declaring a major. Our groundbreaking curriculum offers flexible, student-centred learning that combines intellectual rigour and creativity with hands-on experience. But what really makes us stand out? You. students maximum countries class size represented percentage of students percentage of similar universities who go abroad at students who receive in Canada least once scholarships and bursaries VIEWBOOK 2020–21 HELLO Our mission: to transform how our students think, question and engage with the world through a revolutionary educational model that sparks personal growth and intellectual development We are Canada’s first independent, not-for-profit, secular liberal arts and science university devoted entirely to excellence in undergraduate education. ACADEMIC OVERVIEW OVERVIEW ACADEMIC The Question Your Question will drive your final two years at Quest, OTHER HIGHLIGHTS An Education as Unique as You and can range from narrow to broad. Every student our groundbreaking curriculum creates a unique Question. In Quest history, no two Questions have been the same! FIELD STUDIES The Keystone Every student completes a Keystone, Quest's version of an undergraduate thesis. You'll work with a Faculty learn about topics Mentor to complete a significant project based on right in the field your interests. Your Keystone can take many forms depending on your academic path: original research, multimedia projects, creative portfolios and more. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT STUDENTS HAVE ASKED apply and develop your HOW SHOULD WE CREATE WHAT IS THE skills in real-world ARTIFICIAL GENERAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN situations INTELLIGENCE? LAW AND MORALITY? At Quest, we do things differently. Our degree, the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, HOW DOES RISK STUDY ABROAD allows you to play a central role in designing your own education. It also offers INFLUENCE CHOICE? WHY DO WE FEAR HOW DO OUR THE WRONG UNDERSTANDINGS you the best of both worlds: a basis for advanced studies if you want to go on to OF POVERTY specialize, with the flexibility of broad knowledge and skills. HOW CAN THINGS? SHAPE OUR ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE IT? choose from over a dozen partner TRANSFORM schools worldwide YEARS 1+2 YEARS 3+4 CONFLICT? HOW CAN ANALOGICAL REASONING WHAT IS The Foundation The Concentration HOW CAN FACILITATE THE LANGUAGE LANGUAGE Program at a Glance Program at a Glance SCIENTIFIC WE BUILD OF FILM? IMMERSION Your first two years will be focused The Concentration Program can be INQUIRY? on exploring disciplines and the customized to your unique interests BETTER relationships between them, and aspirations. Based on your CITIES? developing stronger research and Question, your Faculty Mentor will collaboration skills, and help you build your personalized HOW CAN learn or improve your designing a personal Question Quest degree by guiding you in your WE USE NATURAL HOW DOES RESOURCES WITHOUT MATHEMATICAL language skills to guide your studies. research and your choice of courses WHAT IS THE UNDERMINING THE and readings. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESILIENCE OF FORMALISM SYMMETRY AND BEAUTY? ECOSYSTEMS? INTERACT WITH PHYSICAL THEORY? HERE'S HOW NICOLE BUILT HER PERSONALIZED QUEST DEGREE Build Your Degree FOCUS COURSES ELECTIVES The Cold War Creative Writing THE FOUNDATION PROGRAM IN DETAIL Colonialism Studio Art Foreign Policy and the Time Travel Middle East Anthropology Political Identity and Conservation of The first two years of your degree consist of Conflict Migratory Species 16 courses, a multidisciplinary curriculum Postwar Europe CORNERSTONE RHETORIC that spans the liberal arts and sciences, tackling themes from the classic to the Quest for Antarctica KEYSTONE contemporary. Toward the end of your Security Studies Poles of Contention: second year, you will write your personalized War, Conflict, and History Question, developed with faculty guidance in Polar Governance as a War, Film, and History a dedicated course called Question. Path Towards Peace three Core courses EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW three Life Sciences Summer internship with Nicole is pursuing a one Mathematics HOMETOWN: Calgary, Alberta the Calgary Military Family master's in International two Physical Sciences QUESTION: How can we build peace? Resource Centre Relations from the three Social Sciences prestigious London School QUESTION three Arts & Humanities of Economics and one Language Political Science. NO MATTER HOW YOU BUILD YOUR DEGREE, HERE ARE THE THE CONCENTRATION PROGRAM IN DETAIL TRANSFERABLE SKILLS YOU'LL TAKE WITH YOU. quantitative and qualitative analysis In the Concentration Program, you design your own academic path while working with a Faculty Mentor. Inspired by your Question, self-direction critical thinking you’ll pursue what you’re most passionate about, taking 16 courses that include Electives and Experiential Learning along with your Focus courses. You’ll cap your undergraduate ethical interdisciplinary education with a Keystone project, which you understanding problem solving will present during your Keystone course. TRANSFERABLE SKILLS at least six Focus courses collaboration one to four Experiential Learning communication three to five Electives Keystone KEYSTONE global perspectives research BLOCK PLAN PLAN BLOCK Block Plan Benefits One Course at a Time IMMERSIVE INTERACTIVE a focus on in-depth learning HOW IT WORKS delve deeply into one learn through subject at a time discussion and get to know your Tutors 1 BLOCK FLEXIBLE COLLABORATIVE a Block runs for 3.5 weeks and is equal to one course in a traditional semester take a month off, or work closely with spend a Block in the field classmates who bring with your class multiple perspectives 3 HOURS “Because of the flexibility of the Block Plan, we had classes meet each weekday the opportunity to travel to from 9am-12pm or 1-4pm unique locations. Students are constantly learning At other universities, you’d be taking four or five different classes at once and cramming together, working together for exams. Not here. We’re the only university in Canada that operates on the Block Plan. and living together on these trips, which adds a 8 BLOCKS critically important element of community to our At Quest, you take one Block at a time, a education.” single course that meets for three hours each weekday for about a month. – Martin Lentz ‘19, LEAP you’ll typically take 8 Blocks per year A Block usually begins on a Monday and Block Break ends on the Wednesday of the fourth week. You’ll delve deeply into a topic, Every Block ends which may be laser-focused or pull from with a four-day many disciplines. weekend. This QUEST MOST UNIVERSITIES 32 BLOCKS is your time to Love the subject? You get to study re-energize before nothing but that for almost a month, the next Block and you’ll find related courses to build begins. Relax, you’ll need 32 Blocks on later. Don’t like it as much as you’d work on a creative to graduate thought? It’s over in 3.5 weeks. project, or go on an adventure; the The Block Plan also allows for an choice is yours! immersive experience where you work both independently and collaboratively. one course at a time multiple courses at once FACULTY FACULTY Quest prides itself on hiring faculty who embody the highest liberal arts ideals. Here Spotlight on Mentor and Mentee: are a few of our many Tutors Who Love to Teach Richard and Jeneva dedicated Tutors. the backbone of Quest The mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most important aspects of the Quest program. Your mentor will help you determine your Question, achieve your goals, and support your intellectual development. Here's what Richard and Jeneva have to say. DR. GLEN VAN BRUMMELEN Mathematics Glen is the recipient of the Haimo award, the top teaching award for undergraduate math in North America. MENTOR: DR. RICHARD HOSHINO MENTEE: JENEVA BEAIRSTO ‘18 "As Jeneva's mentor, I had the "The mentor-mentee privilege of being an essential relationship is something part of shaping her education, that makes Quest truly and equipping her for a life of unique, and I was lucky to DR. FEI SHI purpose and service. have Dr. Richard Hoshino, Arts and Humanities who is not only a brilliant (Literature, Theatre "It's been a joy to journey with mathematician and teacher, and Chinese) all my mentees, coaching but one of the kindest Known as Tutors rather than Professors to reflect the collaborative nature of learning at Quest, them to solve real-life people I’ve ever met. Fei, who has directed our faculty are exceptionally devoted to teaching. They are also involved in the community, problems and implementing theatre productions and can frequently be found around campus at events, and hosting discussions and workshops. the solutions: whether it's "My plan is to complete a in both Shanghai and for our university, for local master's degree in Urban California, encourages businesses, or in the case Analytics at the University his students to become Quest faculty are accomplished scholars, extraordinary of Jeneva, for a major transit of Glasgow." artists no matter what teachers and dedicated mentors. authority serving half a their field of study. million commuters each day!" They hold the most advanced degrees in their field, and teach highly specialized courses as well as interdisciplinary classes. Under their guidance, the benefits of the Block Plan come alive: