2020-2021 CAMROSE · ALBERTA · CANADA Top Reasons to Where Are We? Choose Augustana: Augustana is located at the heart of Alberta in the city of Camrose—a safe and friendly community about one hour southeast of Edmonton (the provincial capital of Alberta) and about three hours east of the Rocky Mountains. Camrose • Study in an innovative and is a vibrant university city; its 18,000 residents enjoy a community rich with unique environment at events in support of the arts, social interests, philanthropy, and athletics. It was one of the only liberal arts ranked as Canada’s 11th Best Place to Live in 2018!* and sciences campuses in Our 40-acre campus is just a short walk from the city centre, a lively downtown Western Canada core filled with unique shops, restaurants, grocery stores, banks, and medical facilities. Camrose is also the shopping hub for east central Alberta with a large retail district in the city’s west end. The campus is situated in ‘aspen parkland’ • Small Class Sizes: With terrain, giving our students easy access to a variety of outdoor activities such as a student-faculty ratio of cross-country running, skiing, and cycling. 16:1, your professors will know your name! • Residence-Based Education: Every new student is guaranteed a space in residence • International Opportunities: one in three of our students take part in an international experience throughout their degree (EIA) • Earn a highly-regarded and globally recognized University of Alberta degree • Build skills with hands-on learning opportunities to prepare you for the ever- changing job market *Source: Money Sense, 2018 2 Augustana Advantage At Augustana, we’re doing things a bit differently. As a small, Why Choose Augustana? residence-based liberal arts and sciences campus, we’re focused As a campus with a student population of just over 1,000, our on educating the whole person, which means that you’ll leave size and exclusive focus on undergraduate education allow us to Augustana with much more than just a University of Alberta be exceptionally responsive to student needs and to provide our degree. students with individual attention. In addition, we were called to Instead of training students for their first job, we foster well- action by the University of Alberta to be “strengthened as a living rounded individuals who are prepared for a variety of careers, who laboratory for teaching and learning innovation, to the benefit engage with the world as flexible thinkers instead of narrow- of the entire university” (UAlberta Strategic Plan, For the Public minded experts, and who become effective members in their own Good). communities. Our graduates not only have the ability to navigate At Augustana, you can study in a welcoming community that takes changing workplaces, but have spent time developing passions an interest in what’s important to you while you earn a world- that speak to the real world during their degree. In becoming class degree from one of the Top 5 Universities in Canada. thinkers, researchers, communicators, and collaborators who have had the opportunity to travel, work with community organizations, tackle real problems, study broadly across You’re unique, your education should be too! disciplines, and form close relationships with peers and mentors, our graduates receive a unique experience tailored to their own needs and individual futures. 3 Innovations New Calendar: 3-11 Project-Based Core Here, our classes don’t just stay in the classrooms. We’ve created In addition to the calendar, Augustana has developed innovations an innovative calendar, 3-11 (pronounced “three-eleven”), which is that further students’ ability to work in teams throughout their different from the traditional university schedule wherein students degree, including a project-based core. By implementing project- take two terms every year consisting of five courses each. based learning, where students work together to tackle real- Instead, we have designed a schedule to maximize high-impact world issues, we are preparing our graduates for the constantly learning opportunities, including group research projects, intense changing workplaces of the future. Students at Augustana are workshops, field experiences, educational travel, and applied encouraged to be creative thinkers and to collaborate across a work with community organizations and businesses. wide spectrum of disciplines. Completing projects on real issues, or what we have termed “wicked problems”, in partnership with community organizations, helps students to develop skills not just Our Fall and Winter terms are reconfigured to begin with a as academics but as valuable employees and citizens. 3-week block, where students only take one course and faculty only teach one course. Without competing academic obligations, students and professors spend more time together and engage in First Year Seminars activities that do not readily fit within a traditional class structure. What do zombies, dinosaurs, and Harry Potter have in common? They are all First Year Seminar topics that students new to The 3-week block is followed by an 11-week session, where Augustana can choose from for the Fall 3-week block as part students take three to four courses instead of five, a more of their Project-Based Core. While the seminar topics will vary, reasonable workload that reduces the normal stresses of the goal of these courses are the same: introducing students university life. The calendar also allows for other high-impact to university-level learning by guiding them to critically engage practices for every student new to Augustana: a Project-Based with multiple perspectives. During their First Year Seminar, Core, and First Year Seminars. students are building the skills and confidence they need to succeed throughout their entire degree within the first three weeks of university. Our seminars are limited to 25 students each. Students, therefore, engage deeply with course content and create close relationships with their professors and classmates. 4 New Majors The core is meant to encourage broad for law school, careers in the criminal Ethics and Global Studies study across several disciplines. Instead justice system, social work, and work with Students interested in travel, cross- of training our students for one specific government and non-profit organizations. cultural experiences, social justice, and job, we offer them the means to explore tackling world issues are a perfect fit for various subjects and build on the skills Creativity and Culture this major, which blends courses from employers are looking for that span philosophy, history, politics, and religious wide-ranging markets and vocations. These days, literacy isn’t just about studies. Students will learn how to have Essentially, we encourage them to reading words on a page. We deal with a voice, connecting past and present in develop the skill sets that are sought by various types of media on a daily basis, order to bring a global perspective to their employers both now and well into the and preparing for the future involves projects and to employment following future, regardless of the ever-changing learning to analyze and also work within graduation. This major is ideal for those work environment. Along with completing the complex media environments that who are interested in public affairs, project-based learning, our students have make up our world. Students in this major government, NGOs, international policy, or the option to study within thematically will develop the skills required to engage civil service. linked multidisciplinary majors, such as: with our ever-changing world by studying literature, cultural studies, art, language, music, and/or drama. Those looking to Students can obtain a Bachelor of Arts Law, Crime, and Justice Studies use their imagination and creativity to degree in the above multidisciplinary This major explores the relationship read, write, draw, and perform, and then majors, but can still take courses between law, politics and society, and hone those skills, are a perfect fit for this outside of the disciplines that their between individuals and the government. major. Graduates will be well prepared for multidisciplinary major focuses on. Students can explore the role of crime in a broad range of careers in art and design, society, criminal behaviour, the historical communications, library and information evolution of the law, and the ways in science, law, journalism, marketing, which law and crime are connected to publishing, entrepreneurship, and more. issues of social justice and inequality. This major provides an excellent foundation 5 Photo by: Eric Steele Augustana Programs, Majors, and Minors Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Science / Bachelor Interdisciplinary Studies (New!): Biology of Education (Secondary) Creativity and Culture Chemistry Combined - 5 years Focus Disciplines: Drama, English, Computing Science In this program, students complete their first Languages (French, German, General; Practicum three years at Augustana and their final two years Norwegian, Spanish), Visual Arts, Environmental Science at the North campus in Edmonton. and/or Music Mathematics & Physics Teaching majors: Physical Education Biology Ethics and Global Studies Kinesiology & Sport Studies; Chemistry Focus Disciplines: History, Political Outdoor Education General Sciences Studies, Philosophy, and/or Religion Psychology Mathematical Sciences Mathematics & Physics Law, Crime and Justice Bachelor of Management Physical Sciences