Students

Understanding cybersecurity from multiple perspectives

Arts and Math team up to foster interdisciplinary graduate training

Professors Jennifer Whitson and Ian Goldberg developed an interdisciplinary course for graduate students to tackle the challenge of cybersecurity from humanities, social science and computer science perspectives.

Recent news and stories from Arts

From revealing the latest Franklin Expedition discovery to developing a sustainable future to making space for Indigenous leadership, the last few months have seen some important and exciting news from our faculty and students.

New initiative helps non-profits hire Arts talent

Introducing Co-op for Social Good

A new program makes it possible for non-profits to hire highly-qualified Arts co-op students to apply their learning for positive social impact.

The show must go on

Adapting live theatre to the pandemic

The Theatre and Performance program faces and embraces the pandemic challenge of staging their main production for livestream performance.

Why assisted dying matters for young people too

Three Minute Thesis-winning research

Kathryn Morrison won the 2019 Three Minute Thesis heat for the Faculty of Arts and advanced to present at the University 3MT finals. Watch her final presentation on the prospect of extending Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) eligibility to mature minors

Students experience global economics in action

Impact of giving

Students are given an outstanding opportunity to hear directly from global economic leaders and practitioners about the complexities of international political economies.

Arts First

New program enhances every student's first-year experience

With smaller class sizes, engaging topics and collaborative learning, the new Arts First program ensures every student begins their undergraduate career with strong core skills, and a sense of their own agency.

Students tackle populism and the future of democracy

With generous support from the Jarislowsky Foundation, the new the Global Engagement Seminar gives students from disciplines across UWaterloo the chance to collaboratively address global challenges of the 21st century.

Dispatch from Johannesburg

Poised to graduate with her MA in Global Governance, Amy Zavitz completed her grad studies with an internship in South Africa, where she found social disparity more than evident, but also where she was reminded of work to be done in our own country.

stARTup

Students reach out for alumni perspectives

Amy Zhou and fellow students in the ARBUS Society brought alumni and students together for an evening of insights and inspiration. The event gave a clear shout-out for Arts grads in the entrepreneurship equation.