Welcome to the Faculty of Arts, a dynamic community of students, faculty and staff working in and across the humanities, social sciences, and fine, performing and media arts.
Through diverse research, teaching, and learning, we effect social impact in a culturally complex and technologically driven world. Aligned with the University of Waterloo’s strengths in work-integrated learning, Arts prepares students for life and for work with skills and values that emphasize the welfare of individuals, communities, and the environments in which we live.
News
Boredom research mobilized in a popular French CBC documentary
Research findings on the meaning and purpose of boredom from Psychology's Danckert Lab are made accessible for broad audiences in a documentary film produced by Radio-Canada’s popular television program Découverte.
Randy Harris named University Professor for impacts across rhetoric, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and AI
Congratulations to Dr. Randy Allen Harris on being named University Professor, recognizing his excellence in research in the fields of Rhetoric of Science and Computational Rhetoric, and as a pioneer in the field of voice interaction design
Empowering the next generation of political scientists
Political Science recently hosted the Experiences in Political Science Poster Symposium, a vibrant showcase of undergraduate student research and experiential learning. The event served as the culmination of PSCI 424, a Student-Led Individually-Created Course (SLICC) designed to bridge the gap between abstract political theory and real-world application.
Events
The Gaza Doctrine: Implications for International Law and the future of the Middle East
Neve Gordon introduces the “Gaza Doctrine,” a concept he uses to describe a pattern of modern warfare characterized by mass civilian displacement, significant civilian casualties, and extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure.