UNIVERSITé DU QUéBEC à MONTRéAL

The 'Université du Québec à Montréal' ('UQAM') is one of four universities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Contents

Basic facts

Organisation

List of Faculties

Schools and Institutes

Distance and online learning

Notable academics

See also

References

External links

Basic facts

The UQAM is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec, a public university system with other branches in Gatineau (an Ottawa suburb), Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, and Trois-Rivières. UQAM was founded on April 9 1969 by the government of Quebec, through the merger of the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, a fine arts school; the Collège Sainte-Marie, a classical college; and a number of smaller schools.
In 2004, UQAM had a student population of 42,257 in six faculties (Arts, Education, Literature, Language and Communications, Political Science and Law, Science, and Social science) and one school (Management). It offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees. It is one of Montreal's two French-language universities, along with the Université de Montréal, and only 1% of its student population is Anglophone. With the addition of the Télé-université in June 2005, UQAM, with a current student population of about 60,000, is the largest French-speaking university in the world.^[3]
UQAM's campus is located in downtown Montreal, with most of its buildings in the Quartier Latin neighbourhood around Berri-UQAM metro station, to which it is connected via the underground city. The University also leases buildings or classrooms in several towns outside Montreal (including Lanaudière, Laval, Montégérie and Ouest-De-L'Ilé regions), offering programs or parts of programs to local students.

Organisation

List of Faculties

★ Faculté des arts (Faculty of Arts)

★ Faculté des sciences de l'éducation (Faculty of Education)

★ Faculté des lettres, langues et communications (Faculty of Literature, Language, and Communications)

★ Faculté de science politique et de droit (Faculty of Political Science and Law)

★ Faculté des sciences (Faculty of Science)

★ École des sciences de la gestion (School of Management Sciences)

★ Faculté des sciences humaines (Faculty of Social Science)

Schools and Institutes

★ École supérieure de mode de Montréal (Montreal Graduate School of Fashion Design)

★ Institut de recherches et d'études féministes (Institute of Feminist Studies)

★ Institut des sciences cognitives (Institute of Cognitive Sciences)

★ Institut des sciences de l'environnement (Institute of Environmental Sciences)

★ Institut d'études internationales de Montréal (Montreal Institute of International Studies)

★ Institut Santé et société (Health and Society Institute)
The University is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the UQAM Citadins.

Distance and online learning

UQAM has a distance learning component called Télé-université (Teluq) offering courses and degrees in computer science, education, communication, environmental science, and management.

Notable academics

★ Louise Beaudoin, former Quebec minister of international relations

★ Pierre Bourgault, former leader of the RIN party and Quebec independence activist

★ Pierre Dansereau, pioneer of ecology

★ Michel Freitag, Sociologist

★ Stevan Harnad, Open Access activist

★ Bernard Landry, former Quebec premier

★ Léo-Paul Lauzon, left-wing activist and former NDP candidate

★ Gérald Larose, union leader

★ Gilbert Paquette, former Quebec minister of science and technology

★ Régine Robin, well-known novelist

★ Yves Séguin, former Quebec minister of finance

See also

★ List of universities in Quebec

★ Education in Montreal

References

1. See Téluq
2. http://www.uqam.ca/apropos/apropos.htm
3. ''Rencontre avec le recteur Roch Denis : Vers la plus grande université bimodale de la francophonie - Le Devoir, November 26-27, 2005. Retrieved, October 2006.''

External links

★ Université du Québec à Montréal – official website