University of Toronto Scarborough
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The University of Toronto Scarborough (also known as U of T Scarborough or UTSC) is a satellite campus
of the University of Toronto
. Based in the Scarborough
district of Toronto
, Ontario
, Canada
, the campus is set upon suburb
an parkland in the residential neighbourhood of Highland Creek
. It was established in 1964 as Scarborough College, a constituent college
of the Faculty of Arts and Science
. The college expanded into a mid-sized university campus following its designation as an autonomic division of the university in 1972.
Academics of the campus are centered on a variety of undergraduate
studies in the disciplines of arts, sciences, and management, whilst also hosting limited postgraduate
research programs. Its neuroscience
program was the first to be offered in the nation. The campus is noted for being the sole provider of cooperative education
programs, as well as the Bachelor of Business Administration
degree, in the university. Through affiliation with Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology, it also offers enrolment in joint programs
.
The campus has traditionally held the annual F. B. Watts Memorial Lectures
, which has hosted several internationally renowned scholars, since 1970. Its nuclear magnetic resonance
laboratory was the first of its kind in Canada, allowing the campus to conduct influential research in the environmental science
s. The original building of the campus was internationally acclaimed for its architectural design. The Dan Lang Field is also situated at the campus, home to the baseball
team of the Varsity Blues
, the intercollegiate sports
club of the university.
river in Scarborough, Ontario
was purchased in 1911 by Toronto
-based businessman Miller Lash, who developed the site into his summer estate with a mansion, today known as the Miller Lash House. The mansion included 17 rooms, a barn, a coach house
, and three houses for his staff to dwell. Over the following years, over 100 acres of the estate was also used as farmland. Following the death of Miller Lash in 1941, the estate was acquired by E. L. McLean, an insurance broker, in 1944 for $59,000. He made new additions to the estate, including a swimming pool and change room, and a retaining wall
made in stone.
About 82 hectares (202.6 acre) of property was later purchased from McLean, just before his death, by the University of Toronto
for about $650,000 in 1963, as part of the university's regional expansion. The groundskeeper
of the land would continue to reside in the Highland Creek valley for the next 29 years. McLean's additions to the Miller Lash House, which would eventually become the residence of the campus's principal, were modernized and 70 acres of surrounding land north of the estate were also acquired. The University of Toronto established the Scarborough College as part of the institution's collegiate university
system and declared the campus as a branch
of the Faculty of Arts and Science
. D. C. Williams was appointed as the principal of Scarborough College and the planned Erindale College
, as well as vice-president
of the university. The college's faculty, consisting of 16 members, was also established and headquartered at the main campus in Downtown
. Designed by John Andrews
, the first building of the campus began construction the following year. Due to delays in construction after a strike among workers, the Scarborough College opened in temporary classes at the main campus to 191 full-time students in 1965. The first building of the college was completed in time for the following academic year.
The college included a 6000 square foot television production studio. This was for a unique video lecturing system the college was initially planned to have, that relies on the use of closed circuit television for teaching purposes. The system grabbed international media attention, and was complimented in the 1967 edition of Time
. However, the video lecturing system was abandoned after it was condemned for the lack of communicability of students with instructors. In 1972, the campus was reorganized as a separately governed division of the university's Faculty of Arts and Science, developing its own curriculum. In 1973, it became the first post-secondary
institution to adopt a course credit system in Ontario and the first cooperative education
program was established. The campus adopted its present name after being renamed University of Toronto Scarborough Campus in 1983 and University of Toronto at Scarborough in 1996.
neighbourhood in Scarborough
, the east-end of Toronto
. It is bounded entirely by Morningside Avenue to the west. Its eastern, northern and southern borders are not definite, however; the campus grounds extend north halfway between Highway 401 and Ellesmere Road and extends south just above Old Kingston Road
. Its eastern boundary is Military Trail
while south of Ellesmere Road and slightly further east while north of Ellesmere. Unlike the university's main campus, the University of Toronto Scarborough is located in a suburban area, consisting of residential houses along its eastern side and urban forestry
linking to Morningside Park
on its southern and western side. The Highland Creek
river runs through the southern portion of the grounds and contains walking trails that link to the campus and nearby neighbourhoods.
The Andrews Building, the original building of the campus named after its designer
, was built in a brutalist
architectural style and completed in 1964. The interiors were made to mimic streets of a city, with wide hallways and balconies on upper floors. It contains two separated wings, known as the Science Wing and the Humanities Wing, connected by an underground corridor. The Meeting Place, considered the intersection, is often used to hold cultural events in campus, as well as community events. The design of the Andrews Building, along with its unique closed circuit television teaching system, were targets of international acclaim during the decade. The Science Research Building, where post-graduate research facilities are located, is an extension of the Science Wing that was completed in 2008.
The 1970s and onward saw new buildings being designed in a modernist
style. The Recreational Building was completed in 1972, followed by the Bladen Building, which opened the next year and named after Vincent Bladen
, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
. An underground corridor completed in 1995, known as the Hall of Excellence, connects it to the Andrews Building. The Academic Research Centre (ARC) was built in 2003 as an extension of the Bladen Building with a copper finish. It contains the Bladen Library, also known as the University of Toronto Scarborough Library, which was relocated from its previous, smaller spot at the Bladen Building. The Doris McCarthy Gallery, also found in the ARC, exhibits works by Scarborough-born artist, Doris McCarthy
. The Social Sciences Building, home of the Department of Social Sciences, opened in 2004. Brick and limestone
were used to create the Arts and Administration Building, completed in 2005, which holds the Office of the Registrar and the principal's office. In 2011, the Instructional Centre opened as the largest building of the campus and became home to the Department of Management, the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, and offices of cooperative education
programs.
Student residence is located primarily in the southern part of the campus, consisting of townhouse
style homes. The first residence area, the Student Village, which was able to accommodate 250 students, was opened in 1973 after pressure from traveling students. In 1985, a former building of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
(CIBC) near the campus was also converted to student residence. The 4-storey high Joan Foley Hall, opened in 2003, is the first apartment-style residence complex on campus, named after the campus's first female principal. The N'Sheemaehn Child Care Centre, one of the university's non-profit
child day care
facilities, opened in 1990. The Student Centre was opened in 2004 through a project that was initiated and funded by students. Constructed using 18 tonnes of recycled steel from a demolished gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum
, its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) certification earned the building a Green Design Award from the City of Toronto. Adjacent to it are the campus's transit bus stop and passenger drop-off loop. The campus is linked to nearby transportation hubs, such as Scarborough Centre
and the Rouge Hill GO Station, by the Toronto Transit Commission
(TTC) and GO Transit
. Student and visitor parking is located in various spots around the campus, but larger lots are located north of Ellesmere Road.
In 2009, the municipal government of Toronto vowed to jointly fund the construction of a world-class, state-of-the-art athletics centre on campus, part of which would be used as a venue
during the Pan American Games in 2015
.
The campus is primarily an undergraduate
institution, thus it attracts the most direct-entry applicants from secondary school
s among the university's three campuses. The campus has nine academic department
s: the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, the Department of English, the Department of Humanities, the Department of Management, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Social Sciences. Students are diversified among concentrations
that are specialist degree
s, as well as the common majors and minors. The cooperative education
programs, which place students for up to three semesters in workplace
s pertaining to their field of study
, are unique to the campus in the University of Toronto
. Joint programs
with Centennial College, that award both a university degree and a college diploma
, are offered in journalism
, new media
, paramedicine
, industrial microbiology
, and environmental science. A service-learning
course, called Science Engagement, is also available.
Four departments of the campus contain programs that award a Bachelor of Arts
degree. The Department of Humanities has programs in non-English languages, history, visual
and performing arts
, linguistics
, religion
and philosophy
. It also offers a few interdisciplinary programs, such as women's studies
, cultural pluralism
and diaspora studies
. It is also one of the only two universities in Ontario
that grants an undergraduate degree in arts management
. The Department of English and the Department of Philosophy are newly created departments, whose programs were formerly supported by the Department of Humanities. At the Department of Social Sciences, a mixture of liberal arts
and science
based courses are offered. Programs include sociology
, anthropology
, political science
and geography
. Like Humanities, the department also houses many interdisciplinary programs including city studies, new media
, public policy
and international development studies. The Bachelor of Business Administration
degree is also unique to the campus, which is awarded by the programs in the Department of Management, which offers specialist degrees with fields in marketing, human resources, finances, accounting and economics. The university has four departments in the sciences, which award a Bachelor of Science
degree. The Department of Psychology includes programs in psychology, mental health and neuroscience
. The Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences oversees programs in physics
, astronomy
, environmental sciences and chemistry
. The Department of Biology offers programs and courses related to the biological and life sciences. The Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences teaches computer science
, mathematics and statistics. The campus offers a Master's degree
and a doctorate
in environmental sciences, its only postgraduate
program.
Prior to the opening of the Student Centre, the University of Toronto Scarborough was one of two university campus
es in Canada
to not have a student activity centre. Upon opening, it became the home of student life, governance, and culture of the campus. The Student Centre is a three-story 48000 square foot building, where the office of the Scarborough Campus Students' Union (SCSU), office of Student Affairs of the University of Toronto Scarborough, as well as other offices of student clubs and organizations, are located. It also contains a television
lounge, food court
, public house
, health and wellness centre, and multifaith prayer room.
Apart from the Student Centre's food court, other dining places on campus include The H-Wing Marketplace, located in the Andrews Building, and a future food court in the Instructional Centre. The campus also contains two Tim Hortons
restaurants in the Andrews Building. The Rex's Den is a pub and dine-in restaurant, located in the first floor of the Student Centre. It was formerly operated as The Bluffs, which opened subsequently after the opening of the Student Centre, but was closed down and re-opened with its present name and improved service in 2009.
Student media on the campus include Fusion Radio, the campus's student-run internet radio
station, and The Underground
, the campus's official student newspaper
. The campus also receives distributions of The Varsity
.
Satellite campus
A satellite campus or branch campus is a campus of a college or university that is physically detached from the main university or college area, and is often smaller than the main campus of an institution....
of the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
. Based in the Scarborough
Scarborough, Ontario
Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...
district of Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, the campus is set upon suburb
Suburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
an parkland in the residential neighbourhood of Highland Creek
Highland Creek, Toronto
Highland Creek is a neighbourhood in south-east Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that lies along the southern portion of the river of the same name...
. It was established in 1964 as Scarborough College, a constituent college
Collegiate university
A collegiate university is a university in which governing authority and functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges...
of the Faculty of Arts and Science
University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science
The Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto is one of Canada's largest and most prestigious arts and science teaching and research institutions. With almost 22,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students, Arts and Science represents over half the student population on the...
. The college expanded into a mid-sized university campus following its designation as an autonomic division of the university in 1972.
Academics of the campus are centered on a variety of undergraduate
Undergraduate education
Undergraduate education is an education level taken prior to gaining a first degree . Hence, in many subjects in many educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a bachelor's degree, such as in the United States, where a university entry level is...
studies in the disciplines of arts, sciences, and management, whilst also hosting limited postgraduate
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate education involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education...
research programs. Its neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
program was the first to be offered in the nation. The campus is noted for being the sole provider of cooperative education
Cooperative education
Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience...
programs, as well as the Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration
The Bachelor of Business Administration is a bachelor's degree in Commerce and business administration. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study in one or more areas of business concentrations; see below...
degree, in the university. Through affiliation with Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology, it also offers enrolment in joint programs
Double degree
A double-degree program, sometimes called a combined degree, conjoint degree, dual degree, or simultaneous degree program, involves a student's working for two different university degrees in parallel, either at the same institution or at different institutions , completing them in less time than...
.
The campus has traditionally held the annual F. B. Watts Memorial Lectures
Watts Lectures
The F. B. Watts Memorial Lectures, commonly known as the Watts Lectures, is a series of public lectures held at the University of Toronto Scarborough several times annually...
, which has hosted several internationally renowned scholars, since 1970. Its nuclear magnetic resonance
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Nuclear magnetic resonance is a physical phenomenon in which magnetic nuclei in a magnetic field absorb and re-emit electromagnetic radiation...
laboratory was the first of its kind in Canada, allowing the campus to conduct influential research in the environmental science
Environmental science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
s. The original building of the campus was internationally acclaimed for its architectural design. The Dan Lang Field is also situated at the campus, home to the baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
team of the Varsity Blues
Varsity Blues
The Varsity Blues is the name for the intercollegiate sports program at the University of Toronto. Its 26 athletic teams regularly participate in competitions held by Ontario University Athletics and Canadian Interuniversity Sport. The Varsity Blues traces its founding to 1877, with the formation...
, the intercollegiate sports
College athletics
College athletics refers primarily to sports and athletic competition organized and funded by institutions of tertiary education . In the United States, college athletics is a two-tiered system. The first tier includes the sports that are sanctioned by one of the collegiate sport governing bodies...
club of the university.
History
The 152 hectares (375.6 acre) land along the valley of the Highland CreekHighland Creek (Toronto)
Highland Creek is a river in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, emptying into Lake Ontario at the eastern end of the Scarborough Bluffs. It is home to several species of fish including trout, carp, and bass. It is a meandering river which, like most rivers in Toronto , travels through a...
river in Scarborough, Ontario
Scarborough, Ontario
Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...
was purchased in 1911 by Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
-based businessman Miller Lash, who developed the site into his summer estate with a mansion, today known as the Miller Lash House. The mansion included 17 rooms, a barn, a coach house
Carriage house
A carriage house, also called remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack.In Great Britain the farm building was called a Cart Shed...
, and three houses for his staff to dwell. Over the following years, over 100 acres of the estate was also used as farmland. Following the death of Miller Lash in 1941, the estate was acquired by E. L. McLean, an insurance broker, in 1944 for $59,000. He made new additions to the estate, including a swimming pool and change room, and a retaining wall
Retaining wall
Retaining walls are built in order to hold back earth which would otherwise move downwards. Their purpose is to stabilize slopes and provide useful areas at different elevations, e.g...
made in stone.
About 82 hectares (202.6 acre) of property was later purchased from McLean, just before his death, by the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
for about $650,000 in 1963, as part of the university's regional expansion. The groundskeeper
Groundskeeping
Groundskeeping is the activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically in an institutional setting. It includes mowing grass, trimming hedges, pulling weeds, planting flowers, etc. The U.S. Department of Labor estimated that more than 900,000 workers are employed...
of the land would continue to reside in the Highland Creek valley for the next 29 years. McLean's additions to the Miller Lash House, which would eventually become the residence of the campus's principal, were modernized and 70 acres of surrounding land north of the estate were also acquired. The University of Toronto established the Scarborough College as part of the institution's collegiate university
Collegiate university
A collegiate university is a university in which governing authority and functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges...
system and declared the campus as a branch
Satellite campus
A satellite campus or branch campus is a campus of a college or university that is physically detached from the main university or college area, and is often smaller than the main campus of an institution....
of the Faculty of Arts and Science
University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science
The Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto is one of Canada's largest and most prestigious arts and science teaching and research institutions. With almost 22,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students, Arts and Science represents over half the student population on the...
. D. C. Williams was appointed as the principal of Scarborough College and the planned Erindale College
University of Toronto Mississauga
The University of Toronto Mississauga is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto, located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The university is set upon a park-like campus on the valley of the Credit River, approximately 33 kilometres west of Downtown Toronto...
, as well as vice-president
Chancellor (education)
A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....
of the university. The college's faculty, consisting of 16 members, was also established and headquartered at the main campus in Downtown
Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west...
. Designed by John Andrews
John Andrews (architect)
John Hamilton Andrews is a Canadian and Australian architect.John Andrews graduated with a bachelors from the University of Sydney in 1956. In 1957 he entered the masters of architecture program at Harvard University. After graduation he worked with John Parkin in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto,...
, the first building of the campus began construction the following year. Due to delays in construction after a strike among workers, the Scarborough College opened in temporary classes at the main campus to 191 full-time students in 1965. The first building of the college was completed in time for the following academic year.
The college included a 6000 square foot television production studio. This was for a unique video lecturing system the college was initially planned to have, that relies on the use of closed circuit television for teaching purposes. The system grabbed international media attention, and was complimented in the 1967 edition of Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
. However, the video lecturing system was abandoned after it was condemned for the lack of communicability of students with instructors. In 1972, the campus was reorganized as a separately governed division of the university's Faculty of Arts and Science, developing its own curriculum. In 1973, it became the first post-secondary
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
institution to adopt a course credit system in Ontario and the first cooperative education
Cooperative education
Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience...
program was established. The campus adopted its present name after being renamed University of Toronto Scarborough Campus in 1983 and University of Toronto at Scarborough in 1996.
Campus
The campus of the University of Toronto Scarborough is considered equivalent to a mid-sized university. It sits on 123 hectares (303.9 acre) of land, forming the west side of the Highland CreekHighland Creek, Toronto
Highland Creek is a neighbourhood in south-east Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that lies along the southern portion of the river of the same name...
neighbourhood in Scarborough
Scarborough, Ontario
Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...
, the east-end of Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. It is bounded entirely by Morningside Avenue to the west. Its eastern, northern and southern borders are not definite, however; the campus grounds extend north halfway between Highway 401 and Ellesmere Road and extends south just above Old Kingston Road
Kingston Road (Toronto)
Kingston Road is the southernmost major road along the eastern portion of Toronto, specifically in the districts of East York and Scarborough. Until 1998, it formed a significant portion of Highway 2...
. Its eastern boundary is Military Trail
Danforth Avenue
Danforth Avenue is an east-west arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its western end begins in Old Toronto from the Prince Edward Viaduct as a continuation of Bloor Street and continues through East York until intersecting with Kingston Road in Scarborough...
while south of Ellesmere Road and slightly further east while north of Ellesmere. Unlike the university's main campus, the University of Toronto Scarborough is located in a suburban area, consisting of residential houses along its eastern side and urban forestry
Urban forestry
Urban forestry is the careful care and management of urban forests, i.e., tree populations in urban settings for the purpose of improving the urban environment. Urban forestry advocates the role of trees as a critical part of the urban infrastructure...
linking to Morningside Park
Morningside Park (Toronto)
Morningside Park is a regional park located in Scarborough, Toronto. The park occupies most of the deep valley of Highland Creek where it borders the communities of West Hill and Highland Creek. Spanning , the park includes picnic areas, public washrooms, parking and footpaths which connect to...
on its southern and western side. The Highland Creek
Highland Creek (Toronto)
Highland Creek is a river in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, emptying into Lake Ontario at the eastern end of the Scarborough Bluffs. It is home to several species of fish including trout, carp, and bass. It is a meandering river which, like most rivers in Toronto , travels through a...
river runs through the southern portion of the grounds and contains walking trails that link to the campus and nearby neighbourhoods.
The Andrews Building, the original building of the campus named after its designer
John Andrews (architect)
John Hamilton Andrews is a Canadian and Australian architect.John Andrews graduated with a bachelors from the University of Sydney in 1956. In 1957 he entered the masters of architecture program at Harvard University. After graduation he worked with John Parkin in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto,...
, was built in a brutalist
Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement.-The term "brutalism":...
architectural style and completed in 1964. The interiors were made to mimic streets of a city, with wide hallways and balconies on upper floors. It contains two separated wings, known as the Science Wing and the Humanities Wing, connected by an underground corridor. The Meeting Place, considered the intersection, is often used to hold cultural events in campus, as well as community events. The design of the Andrews Building, along with its unique closed circuit television teaching system, were targets of international acclaim during the decade. The Science Research Building, where post-graduate research facilities are located, is an extension of the Science Wing that was completed in 2008.
The 1970s and onward saw new buildings being designed in a modernist
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
style. The Recreational Building was completed in 1972, followed by the Bladen Building, which opened the next year and named after Vincent Bladen
Vincent Bladen
Vincent Wheeler Bladen, OC was a Canadian economist and academic.A Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Toronto, in 1960, he was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Automotive Industry which helped to created the Canadian-American Automotive Agreement.In 1974, his book...
, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science
The Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto is one of Canada's largest and most prestigious arts and science teaching and research institutions. With almost 22,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students, Arts and Science represents over half the student population on the...
. An underground corridor completed in 1995, known as the Hall of Excellence, connects it to the Andrews Building. The Academic Research Centre (ARC) was built in 2003 as an extension of the Bladen Building with a copper finish. It contains the Bladen Library, also known as the University of Toronto Scarborough Library, which was relocated from its previous, smaller spot at the Bladen Building. The Doris McCarthy Gallery, also found in the ARC, exhibits works by Scarborough-born artist, Doris McCarthy
Doris McCarthy
Doris McCarthy, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian artist specializing in abstracted landscapes.Born in Calgary, Alberta, McCarthy attended the Ontario College of Art from , where she was awarded various scholarships and prizes...
. The Social Sciences Building, home of the Department of Social Sciences, opened in 2004. Brick and limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
were used to create the Arts and Administration Building, completed in 2005, which holds the Office of the Registrar and the principal's office. In 2011, the Instructional Centre opened as the largest building of the campus and became home to the Department of Management, the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, and offices of cooperative education
Cooperative education
Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience...
programs.
Student residence is located primarily in the southern part of the campus, consisting of townhouse
Townhouse
A townhouse is the term historically used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in many other countries to describe a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city. Most such figures owned one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year...
style homes. The first residence area, the Student Village, which was able to accommodate 250 students, was opened in 1973 after pressure from traveling students. In 1985, a former building of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is one of Canada's chartered banks, fifth largest by deposits. The bank is headquartered at Commerce Court in Toronto, Ontario. CIBC's Institution Number is 010, and its SWIFT code is CIBCCATT....
(CIBC) near the campus was also converted to student residence. The 4-storey high Joan Foley Hall, opened in 2003, is the first apartment-style residence complex on campus, named after the campus's first female principal. The N'Sheemaehn Child Care Centre, one of the university's non-profit
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
child day care
Day care
Child care or day care is care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's legal guardians, typically performed by someone outside the child's immediate family...
facilities, opened in 1990. The Student Centre was opened in 2004 through a project that was initiated and funded by students. Constructed using 18 tonnes of recycled steel from a demolished gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum
Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum is a museum of world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With its main entrance facing Bloor Street in Downtown Toronto, the museum is situated north of Queen's Park and east of Philosopher's Walk in the University of Toronto...
, its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
(LEED) certification earned the building a Green Design Award from the City of Toronto. Adjacent to it are the campus's transit bus stop and passenger drop-off loop. The campus is linked to nearby transportation hubs, such as Scarborough Centre
Scarborough Centre (TTC)
Scarborough Centre is a station on the Scarborough RT line of the Toronto subway and RT. It is located north of Ellesmere Road between Brimley and McCowan Roads, just south of Highway 401...
and the Rouge Hill GO Station, by the Toronto Transit Commission
Toronto Transit Commission
-Island Ferry:The ferry service to the Toronto Islands was operated by the TTC from 1927 until 1962, when it was transferred to the Metro Parks and Culture department. Since 1998, the ferry service is run by Toronto Parks and Recreation.-Gray Coach:...
(TTC) and GO Transit
GO Transit
GO Transit is an inter-regional public transit system in Southern Ontario, Canada. It primarily serves the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area conurbation, with operations extending to several communities beyond the GTHA proper in the Greater Golden Horseshoe...
. Student and visitor parking is located in various spots around the campus, but larger lots are located north of Ellesmere Road.
In 2009, the municipal government of Toronto vowed to jointly fund the construction of a world-class, state-of-the-art athletics centre on campus, part of which would be used as a venue
Venues of the 2015 Pan American Games
The 2015 Pan American Games will held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Pan American Games will run fron from July 10 to July 26, 2015.The venues will be divided into three zones - Central Games Zone , West Games Zone and East Games Zone...
during the Pan American Games in 2015
2015 Pan American Games
The 2015 Pan American Games, officially the XVII Pan American Games or the 17th Pan American Games, will be a major international multi-sport event that will be held from July 10–26, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Ajax, Barrie, Brampton, Caledon, Hamilton,...
.
Academics
Undergraduate education
Undergraduate education is an education level taken prior to gaining a first degree . Hence, in many subjects in many educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a bachelor's degree, such as in the United States, where a university entry level is...
institution, thus it attracts the most direct-entry applicants from secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
s among the university's three campuses. The campus has nine academic department
Academic department
An academic department is a division of a university or school faculty devoted to a particular academic discipline. This article covers United States usage at the university level....
s: the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, the Department of English, the Department of Humanities, the Department of Management, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Social Sciences. Students are diversified among concentrations
Academic major
In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits....
that are specialist degree
Specialist degree
-The Specialist degree in the Commonwealth of Independent States:The specialist degree was the only first degree in the former Soviet Union and currently is being phased out by the bakalvr's - magister's degrees....
s, as well as the common majors and minors. The cooperative education
Cooperative education
Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience...
programs, which place students for up to three semesters in workplace
Workplace
The workplace is a place where someone works.*Toxic workplace*Workplace aggression: A specific type of aggression that occurs in the workplace....
s pertaining to their field of study
Academic discipline
An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined , and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to...
, are unique to the campus in the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
. Joint programs
Double degree
A double-degree program, sometimes called a combined degree, conjoint degree, dual degree, or simultaneous degree program, involves a student's working for two different university degrees in parallel, either at the same institution or at different institutions , completing them in less time than...
with Centennial College, that award both a university degree and a college diploma
Diploma
A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to...
, are offered in journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
, new media
New media
New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...
, paramedicine
Paramedicine
Paramedicine is the unique domain of practice that represents the intersection of health care, public health, and public safety. While discussed for many years, the concept of paramedicine was first formally described in the EMS Agenda for the Future. Paramedicine represents an expansion of the...
, industrial microbiology
Industrial microbiology
Industrial microbiology or microbial biotechnology encompasses the use of microorganisms in the manufacture of food or industrial products. The use of microorganisms for the production of food, either human or animal, is often considered a branch of food microbiology...
, and environmental science. A service-learning
Service-learning
Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting, frequently youth service, throughout the community. As a teaching method, it falls under the philosophy of experiential education...
course, called Science Engagement, is also available.
Four departments of the campus contain programs that award a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree. The Department of Humanities has programs in non-English languages, history, visual
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
and performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
, linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...
and philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
. It also offers a few interdisciplinary programs, such as women's studies
Women's studies
Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...
, cultural pluralism
Cultural pluralism
Cultural pluralism is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, and their values and practices are accepted by the wider culture. Cultural pluralism is often confused with Multiculturalism...
and diaspora studies
Diaspora studies
Diaspora studies is an academic field established in the late twentieth century to study dispersed ethnic populations, which are often termed diaspora peoples...
. It is also one of the only two universities in Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
that grants an undergraduate degree in arts management
Arts administration
Arts Administration is the business end of an arts organization responsible for facilitating the day-to-day operation of the organization and fulfilling its mission...
. The Department of English and the Department of Philosophy are newly created departments, whose programs were formerly supported by the Department of Humanities. At the Department of Social Sciences, a mixture of liberal arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
and science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
based courses are offered. Programs include sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
, anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
, political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
and geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
. Like Humanities, the department also houses many interdisciplinary programs including city studies, new media
New media
New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...
, public policy
Public policy
Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...
and international development studies. The Bachelor of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business Administration
The Bachelor of Business Administration is a bachelor's degree in Commerce and business administration. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study in one or more areas of business concentrations; see below...
degree is also unique to the campus, which is awarded by the programs in the Department of Management, which offers specialist degrees with fields in marketing, human resources, finances, accounting and economics. The university has four departments in the sciences, which award a Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
degree. The Department of Psychology includes programs in psychology, mental health and neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
. The Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences oversees programs in physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
, environmental sciences and chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
. The Department of Biology offers programs and courses related to the biological and life sciences. The Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences teaches computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, mathematics and statistics. The campus offers a Master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
and a doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
in environmental sciences, its only postgraduate
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate education involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education...
program.
Student life
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
es in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
to not have a student activity centre. Upon opening, it became the home of student life, governance, and culture of the campus. The Student Centre is a three-story 48000 square foot building, where the office of the Scarborough Campus Students' Union (SCSU), office of Student Affairs of the University of Toronto Scarborough, as well as other offices of student clubs and organizations, are located. It also contains a television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
lounge, food court
Food court
A food court is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dining. Food courts may be found in shopping malls and airports, and in various regions may be a standalone development...
, public house
Public house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...
, health and wellness centre, and multifaith prayer room.
Apart from the Student Centre's food court, other dining places on campus include The H-Wing Marketplace, located in the Andrews Building, and a future food court in the Instructional Centre. The campus also contains two Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc. is a Canadian fast casual restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts. It is also Canada's largest fast food service with over 3000 stores nationwide. It was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, after an initial venture in...
restaurants in the Andrews Building. The Rex's Den is a pub and dine-in restaurant, located in the first floor of the Student Centre. It was formerly operated as The Bluffs, which opened subsequently after the opening of the Student Centre, but was closed down and re-opened with its present name and improved service in 2009.
Student media on the campus include Fusion Radio, the campus's student-run internet radio
Internet radio
Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...
station, and The Underground
The Underground (newspaper)
The Underground is the official student newspaper at the University of Toronto Scarborough. It began distributions in 1982 and is currently printed in a news magazine format. It is a member of the Canadian University Press....
, the campus's official student newspaper
Student newspaper
A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
. The campus also receives distributions of The Varsity
The Varsity (newspaper)
The Varsity is one of the main student newspapers of the University of Toronto. In publication since 1880, it is the second-oldest student newspaper in Canada....
.
Noted people
- Cindy NicholasCindy NicholasCynthia Maria Nicholas, CM is a former athlete and former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990.-Background:...
, Marathon swimmer - Daniel Scott TysdalDaniel Scott TysdalDaniel Scott Tysdal is a Canadian poet whose work approaches the lyric mode with an experimental spirit. In June 2007, Tysdal received the ReLit Award for Poetry....
, Canadian poet and professor of creative writing - David OnleyDavid OnleyDavid Charles Onley, OOnt is the 28th and current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada.Onley was a television journalist prior to his viceregal appointment. He worked primarily for Citytv as a science and technology reporter, and for the 24-hour news station CablePulse 24 as a news anchor and...
, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and former television journalist - Gord StellickGord StellickGord Stellick is a Canadian sports broadcaster and former NHL executive. Stellick formerly hosted The Fan 590 Morning Show with Don Landry, and also appears on Hockey Central on Rogers Sportsnet...
, Sports broadcaster and former General Manager of the Toronto Maple LeafsToronto Maple LeafsThe Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League... - Jeffrey DvorkinJeffrey DvorkinJeffrey A. Dvorkin is a Canadian-American journalist.A former Vice President of News and ombudsman for National Public Radio, Dvorkin moved to the United States in 1997 following a lengthy career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto and Montreal, where he was Managing Editor and...
, Canadian journalist - John McKayJohn McKay (politician)John Norman McKay, PC, MP is a lawyer and a Canadian politician. He is the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. McKay was formerly the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance while the Liberal party governed, but now serves as an opposition MP...
, Member of parliament in Canada - Laura-Ann PetittoLaura-Ann PetittoLaura-Ann Petitto is a cognitive neuroscientist and a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, known for her discoveries involving the language capacity of chimpanzees, the biological bases of language in humans, especially early language acquisition , and bilingualism and the bilingual brain...
- Cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist - Mary Anne ChambersMary Anne ChambersMary Anne Veronica Chambers is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 until 2007, and served in the cabinet in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty.-Background:...
, Former Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario - Modris EksteinsModris EksteinsModris Eksteins is a Canadian historian with a special interest in German history and modern culture. His works include Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age , which won the Ferguson Prize and the Trillium Book Award, and Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe,...
, Professor of History - Paul Tsaparis, President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard CanadaHewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
- Ruvindu GunasekeraRuvindu GunasekeraRuvindu Gunasekera is a Sri Lankan-born cricketer who has played one One Day International for Canada.-Early life:Gunasekara was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he began playing cricket at an early age, under the influence of his father, who was a player on the Sri Lanka A cricket team....
, Former batsman and youngest player ever of the Canadian national cricket team - Steve Howlett - Professional American football player