The Faculty of Arts consists of fifteen departments offering graduate programs in either the humanities or social sciences. Highlights of departmental programs are listed here. Additional information can be obtained from the graduate program that interests you.
Graduate program chairs and office contact information are listed for each department:
| Anthropology | Linguistics |
| Classics | Native Studies |
| Economics | Philosophy |
| English | Political Studies |
| French, Spanish & Italian | Psychology |
| German & Slavic Studies | Religion |
| History | Sociology |
| Icelandic |
Specialized M.A. and Ph.D.study is available in:
Sociocultural Anthropology: Culture and political economy, cultural production, ecology, migration, global political economy, gender and development, symbolic anthropology, media, tourism, reproduction, kinship, adoption and fosterage, sexuality, and applied anthropology. Aboriginal Canada, Canada, Mesoamerica, South America, West Africa, China, and Bangladesh.
Archaeology: Theory, analytic methods, environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, lithics, settlement patterns, domestication, hunter/fisher/gatherers, fur trade archaeology. Western and Northern Canada, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Near East.
Biological Anthropology: Skeletal biology, medical anthropology, demography, palaeodemography, historical epidemiology, palaeopathology, growth and development, infectious disease, reproductive behaviour, 3D imaging, gender and health, colonialism and health.
Dr. S. Brooke Milne
Chair, Anthropology
438 Fletcher Argue Building
PH 204-474-6328
Brooke.Milne@ad.umanitoba.ca
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~milnes/
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/anthropology
Graduate Studies > Anthropology in calendar and registration guide
Specialized M.A. study in several areas related to the early and formative stages of Western Civilization. For the most part these areas are within the broad general categories of Greek or Latin literature and Greek or Roman history or archaeology. An individual student’s program of study can, however, be tailored towards interests that converge with such areas as philosophy, archaeology, art history, religion, medieval studies, modern literatures and linguistics.
Dr. Mark Joyal
Head and Chair, Classics Graduate Program
370 University College
(204) 474-9987
m_joyal@umanitoba.ca
Program: M.A.
umanitoba.ca/classics
Graduate Studies > Classics in calendar and registration guide
Specialized M.A. and Ph.D. training is available in the following areas: Agricultural Economics, Economic Development, Econometrics, History of Economic Thought, Labour Economics, International Economics, International Finance, Monetary Economics, Public Finance, Industrial Organization, Economic History, Resource Economics and Marxian Economics. Interdisciplinary work is possible through association with the Transport Institute, Natural Resources Institute, Centre on Aging, and Northern Studies Committee of the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Laura Brown
Chair, Economics Graduate Studies Committee
549 Fletcher Argue Building
(204) 474-9393
lbrown@cc.umanitoba.ca
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/arts/economics
Graduate Studies > Economics in calendar and registration guide
The Department of English invites applications for study leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in British, American, and Canadian Literature. The department offers graduate courses over a wide range of periods, genres, and critical approaches, and it also gives students the option of doing a creative writing thesis at the M.A. level. There is a good deal of interest among the faculty in interdisciplinary and cultural studies, and there are both theatre and film programs within the department. In addition, there is an active group of creative writers on the faculty, most of whom are particularly interested in Canadian studies.
Dr. Mark Libin
Chair, Graduate Studies in English
616 Fletcher Argue
Telephone: 204-474-8264
libin@cc.umanitoba.ca
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/arts/english
Graduate Studies > English in calendar and registration guide
The Department of French, Spanish and Italian offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in French studies. Specialized training is available in the literature of the Ancien Régime and Francophone literature of the last two centuries. Recent M.A. and Ph.D. thesis topics include Gabrielle Roy, Diderot, Simone de Beauvoir, early travel accounts of Western Canada, stylistic fraud, the aesthetics of the grotesque and literary translation.
Dr. Armelle St. Martin
Chair, Graduate Studies in French
427 Fletcher Argue Building
(204) 474-9206
stmartin@cc.umanitoba.ca
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/arts/french_spanish_and_ italian
Graduate Studies > French, Spanish & Italian in calendar and registration guide
The German M.A. program offers a wide variety of courses and thesis opportunities for German Studies since 1750, for example on Romanticism, Modernism, or Literature in the Third Reich. The program puts particular emphasis on representations of history and society in today's Germany and Austria in literature and film. This includes representations of the GDR and post-Wende experiences in contemporary texts and films, World War II, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in today's Austria and Germany, as well as theoretical questions of the relationship between history and literature, cultural memory, space in literature, and the relationship of power and language.
The Slavic M.A. provides courses in Ukrainian and Russian literature from the early 19th century to the present. Emphasis is placed on representations of history and society in the light of contemporary critical debates. The Department offers specialization in a number of areas, including modernism and postmodernism, the 1920s, the representation of revolution and war, the portrayal of Jews in Ukrainian and Russian literature, and Ukrainian-Canadian and Russian-Canadian writing. Students can learn about postcolonial theory, approaches to popular culture, and the relationship between history and literature.
Student exchange programs exist with Freiburg, Trier and Kyiv Universities.
Dr. Stephan Jaeger
Chair, German & Slavic Graduate Programs
326 Fletcher Argue
(204) 474-9930
Email: jaeger@umanitoba.ca
Program: M.A.
umanitoba.ca/arts/german_and_slavic
Graduate Studies > German & Slavic Studies in calendar and registration guide
The Joint Masters Program in History, offered in collaboration with history faculty at the University of Winnipeg, supports specialized work across 10 fields of historical study: the Americas, Britain and the Commonwealth, Canada, Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, Asia, Africa, History of Science, Modern World, and a programme in Archival Studies. Students may pursue the MA via the course and exam route, the course and thesis route, or the Archival Studies route.
Doctoral studies in History are normally pursued by those seeking a career as professional historians. The Department’s Ph.D. program offers instruction in seven fields: The Americas, Britain and the Commonwealth, Canada, Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, Modern World and Social History. Although we have particular strengths in Western Canadian history, Aboriginal History and World History, the diversity of faculty research and teaching expertise allows for supervision across a wide range of theoretical, chronological, national, or subject areas.
Sarah Elvins
Chair, Graduate Programs in History
411 Fletcher Argue Building
(204) 474-8860
Email: Sarah.Elvins@ad.umanitoba.ca
Dr. Mark Meuwese
Co-Chair, Joint Master's Program
Univesity of Winnipeg
(204) 786-9010
m.meuwese@uwinnipeg.ca
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/history/graduate/index.html
Graduate Studies > History in calendar and registration guide
The Department offers innovative and challenging courses in Modern and Old Icelandic language and literature as well as in Icelandic history and culture.
Requirements for the M.A. degree include a thesis and three graduate courses. The following courses are offered: Individual Modern Authors, Advanced Icelandic, Old Icelandic Prose, Old Icelandic Poetry, and Palaeography and Philology.
Dr. Birna Bjarnadottir
Chair, Graduate Studies in Icelandic
372 University College
(204) 474-9551
bjarnado@cc.umanitoba.ca
Program: M.A.
umanitoba.ca/icelandic
Graduate Studies > Icelandic in calendar and registration guide
For students who want to pursue in-depth and especially field-based research on linguistic structures, the University of Manitoba is an ideal setting. Our M.A. and Ph.D. programs are flexible, and offer a lot of individual attention. The interests of our faculty cover a broad range of research areas, and the area’s ethnic diversity provides a rich linguistic environment. Our students’ graduate programs most often involve original fieldwork, either in the local indigenous languages or in such places Papua New Guinea.
The department’s research strengths lie in both formal and functional/typological approaches to the core areas of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax), historical linguistics, language planning and policy, text-based analysis, and computational linguistics. Current research in the department focuses on languages as diverse as ASL (American Sign Language), Hebrew, Persian, Tauya and Cree and Comparative Algonquian.
Dr. Terry Janzen
Chair, Graduate Studies in Linguistics
537 Fletcher Argue Building
(204) 474-7081
janzent@cc.umanitoba.ca
Graduate Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/arts/linguistics
Graduate Studies > Linguistics in calendar and registration guide
The Native Studies Graduate Program provides opportunities for the M.A. in a variety of areas such as languages, women’s issues, culture, history, material culture, contemporary perspectives, self-government and land claims, policy, economic development, environmental studies, education, health and healing, management, resource management, and law. Close links are developed between this graduate program and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis organizations, as well as the Hudson Bay Archives, Manitoba Archives and other valuable resources located in Manitoba.
Dr. Renate Eigenbrod
Chair, Graduate Program in Native Studies
204D Isbister Bldg.
(204) 474-7026
mailto:eigenbro@cc.umanitoba.ca
Program: M.A.
umanitoba.ca/native_studies
Graduate Studies > Native Studies in calendar and registration guide
The Department of Philosophy can supervise graduate work in any area of analytic philosophy. Areas of greatest research strength are History of Philosophy, Ethics (including Applied Ethics), Social and Political Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and Aesthetics.
Dr. Rhonda Martens
Chair, M.A. Program in Philosophy
456 University College
(204) 474-9104
martensr@cc.umanitoba.ca
Program: M.A.
umanitoba.ca/arts/philosophy
Graduate Studies > Philosphy in calendar and registration guide
The Department offers both full-time and part-time M.A. degree programs in Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, Public Administration, and Strategic Studies. Students may choose from either thesis or comprehensive M.A. streams. In addition, pre-graduate training is available through individualized pre-Masters programs.
The Department also offers a separate Master of Public Administration degree program, in cooperation with the University of Winnipeg.
Dr. Andrea Rounce
Graduate Chair, MPA Program
Department of Political Studies
529 Fletcher Argue
(204) 474-8546
andrea_rounce@umanitoba.ca
Dr. Linda DeRiviere
Graduate Co-Chair, MPA Program
Politics Department, University of Winnipeg
6L18 Lockhart Hall
(204) 786 – 9444
l.deriviere@uwinnipeg.ca
Dr. Steeve Lecce
Graduate Chair, MA Program
Department of Political Studies
521 Fletcher Argue
(204) 474 – 7850
lecce@cc.umanitoba.ca
Program: M.A.
umanitoba.ca/arts/political_studies
Graduate Studies > Political Studies in calendar and registration guide
Graduate specializations include the areas of:
- Applied Behaviour Analysis - the systematic application of learning principles to help individuals improve their behaviour.
- Behavioural neuroscience - neural mechanisms involved in conditioning, learning, memory, development, sensory processes, perception, psychopharmacology, cardiovascular effects, and stress.
- Clinical Psychology - interventions for treating behavioural, cognitive, and other psychological problems.
- Cognitive Psychology - the central issues of modern cognitive study, including perception, memory, attention, problem solving, mental representation, and language.
- Developmental Psychology - psychological development throughout the entire life span.
- Experimental Psychology - a broad range of topics including psychological statistics and research design, quantitative methods in psychology, history and systems of psychology, learning, behaviour analysis, and animal behaviour.
- School Psychology - designed to meet the specific requirements for registration and licensing for school psychologists in Manitoba and facilitate licensing of our graduates in other juristictions. Training incorporates interpersonal relationships, intervention and consultation, research, ethics and standards, and supervision.
- Social and Personality - attitudes, attributions, stereotypes, social cognition, social bonds, belief systems, intergroup behaviour, body image, sexism, spousal abuse.
Dr. Dan Bailis
Chair, Graduate Program in Psychology
P515A Duff Roblin Building
(204) 474-8777
bailisds@cc.umanitoba.ca
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/psychology
Graduate Studies > Psychology in calendar and registration guide
The Department of Religion offers a joint M.A. program with the University of Winnipeg, with thesis and course options. It offers its own independent Ph.D. Program in the areas of specialization of its faculty. For details, consult the departmental brochure or contact individual faculty members.
Dr. David Drewes
Chair, Joint M.A. Program, Ph.D. Program in Religion
30 Fletcher Argue
(204) 474-9548
drewesd0@cc.umanitoba.ca
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/religion
Graduate Studies > Religion in calendar and registration guide
Sociology
The M.A. and Ph.D. programs are designed to provide students with sound training in the core areas of the discipline while giving ample opportunity for the pursuit of more specialized areas. The relatively low graduate student/faculty ratio creates an informal learning environment in which students receive considerable individual attention.
Areas of specialization include: criminology; gender, sexuality and family/intimate relations; health; inequality and social transition; research methods; and sociological theory.
Dr. Susan Prentice
Chair, Graduate Program in Sociology
329 Isbister Building
(204) 474-6726
Susan_Prentice@umanitoba.ca
Programs: M.A. and Ph.D.
umanitoba.ca/sociology
Graduate Studies > Sociology in calendar and registration guide
Graduate Degree Programs & Awards
UTS Graduate Student Association Teaching Awards
Faculty of Graduate StudiesArts Graduate Student Associations
Economics Graduate Students Association (EGSA)
History Graduate Student Association (HGSA)
Graduate Association of Students of Psychology (GASP)
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