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Faculty of Arts

Our mission is to reflect on the world and our place in it through critical inquiry, creative practices and collaborative exploration.

Listening as Pain and Necessity

Listening as Pain and Necessity: Hyperacusis, Noise Pollution, and Auditory Accessibility

Department of English's Dr. Anna Veprinska examines what it means to both rely on and struggle with sound, shedding light on the health crisis of noise pollution

Thursday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m.
Gallery Hall, Taylor Family Digital Library

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Critical and creative research

Our research engages communities and fosters innovation, leadership and creative practice.

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Teaching excellence and expertise

We promote, celebrate and reward innovations in teaching practices. We prepare our students for a variety of academic and non-academic careers.

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Internationalize your degree

Study at a partner university or take part in an international field school organized by the University of Calgary. Work for a vetted international organization. Or take part in a research placement at a partner institution.

Discover the world as part of your Arts education

Embracing equity, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to understanding cultural and social differences both locally and globally, and to promoting equal rights and opportunities across our constituencies.

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Latest news

Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Dr. Shelley Alexander of the Department of Geography joins an esteemed group of distinguished Canadians

2024-25 Canadian Writer-in-Residence likes to ‘jump lanes’

Syrian Canadian author Danny Ramadan has published children’s lit, memoir and fiction

Class of 2024: First graduate of Computational Neuroscience program studies the ‘edge of chaos’

Taylor Kergan’s research aims to use machine-learned models for diagnosis and exploration in brain research

Class of 2024: Meet the fall 2024 President’s Award recipients

Tanille Butler and Nicole Schmidt recognized for academic achievement, leadership and contributions to community

Wrestling With Mindset: UCalgary Grad Erica Wiebe's Journey Beyond The Mat

Olympic Champion Erica Wiebe, BKin'12, BA'16, shares her evolution from UCalgary wrestling standout to global advocate for athlete mental health and well-being.

Dr. Penelope Farfan Elected to IFTR Executive Committee

School of Creative and Performing Arts professor joins the leadership of the world’s leading Theatre Studies organization

In the media

In the News Harjeet Singh Grewal, Classics and Religion, in The Guardian

Drive-by shootings, arson and murder: is the Indian government trying to silence Canada’s Sikh activists?

In the News Lisa Young, Political Science, in CTV News

Alberta UCP to vote on celebrating CO2, abandoning net-zero targets

In the News Kent Fellows, Economics, in Vancouver is Awesome

Has the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion helped wholesale gas prices?


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