The humanities and social science disciplines that constitute the Faculty of Arts share a common endeavor: to understand the human condition in order to improve it. This objective unites all the Faculty's teaching and research activities: from philosophical reflections on the nature of justice to the theory and practice of second language acquisition; from the study of ancient and modern literature and culture to sophisticated measurement of social phenomena; and from the study of modern media to contemporary debates about economic, social and health policy.
The social sciences and humanities are the soul of the University. Education in the Faculty of Arts, both undergraduate and graduate, gives students the tools to understand their world and to make it better.
Interdisciplinary programs
The scope of programs and options available in the Faculty of Arts means that students who are interested in traditional disciplines as well as those who are attracted to interdisciplinary work feel equally at home. The Faculty looks for students with superior academic ability and whose social and cultural vigour promises to make a significant contribution to the university and to the McGill liberal arts tradition.
Over the past decade the Faculty has added an unprecedented number of new professors. These include recent graduates of the world's best universities and established scholars with outstanding records of achievement. These new members of the Faculty have heightened the considerable level of intellectual energy and dynamism that already exists among the teachers and scholars they have joined.
- First-Year Seminars
- Arts Interdisciplinary Studies Office
- African Studies
- Bachelor of Arts & Science degree (BA & Sc)
- Canadian Studies
- Catholic Studies Minor
- Cognitive Science Minor
- Educational Psychology Minor
- Gender, Sexuality, Feminist and Social Justice Studies
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Indigenous Studies
- Industrial Relations
Centres
- Burney Centre
- Centre for East Asian Research
- Indian Ocean World Centre
- Centre for International Peace and Security Studies
- Jean Monnet Centre Montreal
- Le Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises(CRIEM)
- Centre on Population Dynamics
- Centre for Research on Children and Families
- Centre for Research on Religion
- Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
- Media@McGill
- Centre for Society, Technology and Development (STANDD)
- Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
Affiliated units
- Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO)
- Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ)
- Computer Science
- Education (Minor)
- European Studies, Institute for (IES)
- Geography
- Institute for Health and Social Policy
- Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
- Mathematics and Statistics
- McGill School of Environment
- Neotropical Environment Option
- Psychology
- Schulich School of Music
- Social Studies of Medicine
- Training and Retention of Health Professionals Project