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Arts fast facts

346

full-time faculty

7,312

undergraduate and graduate students
Registered in Fall 2023

15

Research chairs

15

Academic departments, schools and centres

Featured news

2024 Asian Law & Society Association Distinguished Article Award

Dr. Qian Liu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, receives the award for the article "Relational Legal Consciousness in the One-Child Nation."

Appointment: Associate Dean, Transdisciplinary Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Dr. Jenny Godley has been appointed as the new Associate Dean, Transdisciplinary Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Student-athlete’s slogan: ‘It’s 100% mental’

Master of Public Policy student Madison Kane-Rissling is a Dinos Academic All-Canadian for the third time

First full course in Indigenous dance forms at UCalgary makes Canadian history

Champion hoop dancer and award-winning educator brings embodied and land-based knowledge to UCalgary students

2024 Faculty of Arts holiday card unveiled

Kristina Penn's striking photograph of frazil ice in Tasààn Zhat Chù’ (Copper Joe Creek) selected as this year’s design

Featured events


Researcher Brian Kooyman behind a collection of bones

Energizing Research

Arts researchers are collaborators, bold innovators and creative practitioners.

Students study together

Preparing students

Arts students enjoy active inquiry, creative-based learning, and early research opportunities

People read reports in a boardroom

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Together, we will create and share vital knowledge.

Taking the stairs in the Social Sciences building? Read up on the tale of Leon the Frog