The Faculty of Arts is one of six faculties at the University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

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 in Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

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Departments

The faculty presently houses sixteen academic departments and the School of Accounting and Finance

University of Waterloo School of Accountancy

The School of Accounting and Finance at University of Waterloo is a professional school within the Faculty of Arts. The School was established in 1985 under the name 'School of Accountancy'. Its name was changed in 2008 to better reflect its program offering. The School has made important...

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Academic Departments:
Anthropology, Classical Studies, Drama and Speech Communication, Economics, English Language and Literature, Fine Arts, French Studies, Germanic and Slavic Studies, History, Independent Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Development Studies, Sociology, Spanish and Latin American Studies.

The Faculty of Arts offers seven undergraduate entry programs, over thirty majors and more than 400 degree options.

The University of Waterloo, along with University of Guelph

University of Guelph

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 and Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....

is a member of the Tri-University Graduate History Program, which combines the history departments of the three universities at the graduate level. Graduate students are registered at one of the three universities according to their supervisor, but can take courses at any of the campuses. This allows the group to have more diverse course offerings more efficiently.

Research

The Faculty of Arts is home to seventeen research centres, including:

• The Centre for Accounting Research and Education (CARE),
• Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology (CCAT),
• The Canadian Language & Literacy Research Network,
• The UW Centre for Child Studies,
• The Canadian Centre for Cultural Innovation (CCCI),
• The Centre for Cultural Management (CCM),
• The Early Childhood Education Centre (ECEC),
• The Centre for Election Studies,
• The Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance,
• The Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism (CFPF),
• The Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology (LT3),
• The Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre (SWORDC),
• The Survey Research Centre (SRC),
• Synaesthesia Research Centre,
• The UW Centre for Mental Health Research
• The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS),
• Waterloo Decision Research (WDR).

External links

• Faculty of Arts website
• School of Accountancy