Welcome to the Faculty of Arts, a dynamic community of students, faculty and staff working within and between fields in the humanities, social sciences, and fine, performing and media arts.
With the University of Waterloo’s strengths in work-integrated learning, Arts prepares students for life and work in the context of rapid technological, social and economic change. Across six schools, our programming and research provides what the world needs: knowledge, perspective and skills for understanding complexity and shaping a better future for humanity.
News
Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae named CRC in Race, Gender, and Performance
The Government of Canada announced the newest Canada Research Chairs (CRC) including Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae of the Department of Communication Arts. As CRC in Race, Gender, and Performance, she leads a research-creation program that examines existing art and scholarship and creates new artistic work that will contribute to Black studies and Black expressive culture in Canada and the world.
2023 Global Engagement Seminar tackles energy at the crossroads
Our insatiable appetite for energy is one of the most pressing and contentious challenges facing humanity today. With technological, environmental, medical, economic, and political factors, societies everywhere have difficult choices to make in the pursuit of creative solutions.
Project Figleaf awarded funding in AI partnership
Project Figleaf, co-led by Philosophy’s Jennifer Saul and the Stratford School’s Raymond Drainville, has been awarded funding in an international research partnership with artificial intelligence company Logically.